Program Description
A 21-credit minor is available in Gender Studies. It is coordinated and led by the Gender Studies Coordinator and by the Gender Studies Committee, a free-standing advisory committee made up of interested faculty and staff.
The Women's Studies undergraduate minor was approved in 1976. In 2013, the Women's Studies Committee refocused the minor and the program, which was renamed Gender Studies. The minor is interdisciplinary with courses offered by a number of academic departments and programs. Members of the Gender Studies Committee serve as faculty advisors for this minor. Students choosing this minor must take 21 semester credits from courses in the approved list in consultation with a Gender Studies faculty advisor.
The mission of the Gender Studies Program is to explore issues of gender and its relationship to structures of power and inequality, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender with multiple identities; to promote critical engagement in a diverse world; and to contribute to possibilities for transformation and change in the university and broader community.
Student Learning Goals
Students will demonstrate the ability to:
- Analyze identities and expressions of gender and sexuality both globally and historically.
- Analyze how social structures and institutions create and perpetuate inequalities.
- Analyze the intersection of gender with other relations of power, recognizing their interconnectivity.
- Conceptualize different manifestations of feminist actions based upon the context.
- Engage in informed feminist action.
Faculty
Stacey Amo, Teaching Associate Professor, English
Deborah Augsburger, Professor, Anthropology
Kenna Bolton Holz, Professor, Psychology
Meg Chrusciel, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies and Criminal Justice
Hilary Fezzey, Professor, English, Gender Studies Program Coordinator
Allison French, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Cheong Soon Gan, Associate Professor, History
Mollie Greenberg, Teaching Associate Professor, Sociology
Vanessa Hettinger, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Emilee Howland, Teaching Assistant Professor, English
Daniela Mansbach, Professor, Political Science
Christina Matzen, Teaching Assistant Professor, History
Chantal Norrgard, Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies
Jeanette Pucheu, Associate Professor, Spanish
Joel Sipress, Professor, History
Alisa Von Hagel, Professor, Political Science
Alison Wielgus, Professor, Communicating Arts
