The central mission of the Women's and Gender Studies Program is to use gender, along with race and class, as a category of analysis, helping students investigate the role that gender plays in our history, art, politics, education, sports, health, and families. The program grew out of the limitations that instructors perceived in the liberal arts curriculum as it was traditionally structured, with its overwhelming concentration on the perspective of privileged men. The Program addresses issues of neglect, omission, and bias in curricula while honing those critical thinking skills vital to a liberal education. Women's and gender studies personalizes the curriculum, opening it up to critique and revealing the ways in which academic issues intersect with our deepest personal concerns and shape our responses to the world in which we live. With the assistance of the community-based Friends of Women's and Gender Studies, the program sponsors visiting scholars, lectures, films, and conferences devoted to the advancement of women's and gender studies. Students take courses in many departments across the University to complete a B.A., a minor, or a graduate certificate or an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies. For more information about the program, please contact the director, Dr. Katherine Jamieson, in room 200-D Foust Building or at 334-5673.
 

American Association of University Women

Amnesty International LGBT Network

Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Gender and Sexuality Studies

National Women’s Studies Association

National Organization for Women

Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro

University of Illinois Women & Gender Resources Library