BS in Women's Studies

Women s Studies examines the status, accomplishments, and perspectives of women in history, culture, and contemporary society. Women s Studies further seeks to delineate the richness and diversity of women s experiences and viewpoints by exploring the dynamics of gender, race, culture and class. The courses offer students new perspectives on human history and the human condition. Using gender as a category of analysis, these classes help students examine the systematic arrangements in society that have shaped the lives of women and men and reevaluate traditional gender based stereotypes. The courses foster critical analysis of assumed truths about society by examining paradigms based upon the feminist scholarship of the last three decades.