Women Studies Department Learning Goals

1. Learn how to identify and critically engage the scholarship and activism that constitute global studies of women and gender.


2. Synthesize, critique and extend current scholarship through effective written and spoken work.


3. Learn how to link the politics of knowledge production with critical analyses of different modes of inquiry and related standards of accountability.


4. Develop skills in active, student-centered learning related to social justice theories and movements.


5. Develop skills and knowledge for effective political engagement based on feminist critiques of the interlocking dimensions of sexism, racism, ableism, nationalism, capitalism, globalization, and heterosexism.


6. Critically reflect on relationships between students' lives and the skills, arguments and ideas developed in courses.