Women and Gender Studies

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WGS Minor attends UN 53rd Commission on the Status of Women

WGS Minor attends UN 53rd Commission on the Status of Women

Anne Marie Carson, a GVSU senior majoring in International Relations and French with a minor in Women and Gender Studies... more

 

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Do you have any interesting stories about life after graduation?

Do you blog?

Would you like to let current students know what your Women and Gender Studies Degree has done for you and what it could do for them?

Please send Dr. Underwood your stories about life after graduation and you will be featured in our Alumni Adventures. If you blog, please send her a link and we will make sure to post it on the website.

You can email Dr. Underwood at underwok@gvsu.edu

 

Please visit our first Alumi's blog by Kirsten Zeiter and her Peace Corps adventures here.

         

 

Women and Gender Studies empowers students to challenge gender stereotypes, to understand feminist perspectives and to work actively for diverse gender justice.

WGS Program Overview:

 The study of women has been part of the GVSU curriculum since 1973 with courses both in the College of Arts and Sciences and in William James College. The minor in Women's Studies was approved in 1986 and the first Women's Studies Minor graduated in 1988. In 1997, the Program was significantly revised to include the study of "Gender." In winter 2009, the Board of Trustees approved the Major. Now more that 40 students are Majors and more thab 50 are Minors. Faculty from across the University teach in the WGS Program, which is housed in the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Vision:
The Women and Gender Studies Program will be a community of excellent faculty and students who share a vision of diverse gender justice, providing a theory-based and broadly engaged curriculum that focuses on transforming the campus and the larger community. We will foster a learning environment where students are liberated from the oppression of gender stereotypes and are prepared to re-envision their individual and social environments and where faculty and students engage in rigorous scholarship as a foundation for teaching, learning, vocation, and civic life. WGS will be recognized as a nexus for feminist and gender issues for the campus and the West Michigan region.