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Mission of the Department
Women’s Studies is a discrete discipline that has its own herstory/history, bodies of knowledge, sets of theories, associated pedagogies, academic projects and curriculum challenges and strategies.
The Department offers a full range of interdisciplinary courses in Women’s Studies and specialized in women’s health and medicine, women’s science education and political economy; feminist theory/pedagogy/methodology, and feminist literary criticism. All of these areas are contextualized by global perspectives beyond gendered identities and womanhood in the United States. As such the Department takes a transnational/global approach to Women’s Studies. Our graduate and undergraduate students will be trained in signature areas qualifying them for competitive positions in the areas which require skills in critical thinking, inquiry and global perspectives: women’s health, science education, policy making and analysis in global issues, and advanced certificate training in women’s literature for high school teachers of literature.
Student Groups:
Iota Iota Iota (National Women’s Studies Honor Society)
Feminist Student Alliance
VOX (Voices for Planned Parenthood, Students for Choice)
Theta Nu Pi
Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc.