Gender and Women's Studies Courses

As a Gender and Women's Studies major, you'll take a set of core courses designed to lead you to a complex understanding of the ways in which gender shapes social experience and to give you the theory and methods by which that knowledge transforms you, our communities and our world.

Feminist pedagogies, or ways of learning, value this praxis, or what is learned from cycles of action and reflection. GWS students also have access to a broad array of interdisciplinary electives taught by our Associated Faculty from many other departments - courses like Postcolonial Literature (English), Gender in Communist and Post-Communist States (East Asian Studies and Slavic Studies), Gendered Bodies in Motion (Dance), or Psychology of Women (Psychology).

Through this set of courses and experiences, we examine the transnational processes through which men and women live out gender, the set of institutional practices that shape it, and the concrete political movements that transform inequities into more just and humane social arrangements.

"G-Wiz" attracts students who are already, or want to become, deeply engaged in the world contained by the campus and signified by the globe. We want students who are willing to interrogate how gender always interacts with other forces of identity and power in a process of "intersectionality" - of gender with race, class, sexuality, and nationality. We encourage you to understand your own social location within those structures.

Our students are eager both for theoretical knowledge and for practical skills in "training for transformation" (both service learning and community organizing) on campus and in the New London community, as a way to hone their abilities to put classroom concepts into action.

Last Modified: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 14:15