Women's Studies at Wooster

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Program Objectives

Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary area of study based on feminist scholarship both within traditional disciplines and in response to questions that cannot be answered within the framework of a single discipline. It attempts to examine previously unavailable information about the lives and contributions of women, and to understand the impact of cultural attitudes and social structures on women's experiences. Women's Studies recognizes the importance of gender as a category of analysis in the construction of knowledge, and it seeks to explore the diversity of women's experiences across race, culture and class. Each course in the program addresses these issues from a feminist perspective and emphasizes the connection between theoretical and experiential understanding.

A better understanding of what Women's Studies is all about comes from listening to comments from students who have taken Women's Studies courses at Wooster:

• "The course expected me to be intelligent, objective and broad-minded."
• "It was demanding, frustrating, aggravating and worth it."
• "It's nice to be exposed to different opinions and to be challenged to discuss them critically."
• "I felt that I can relate the material to other courses and to real life situations. It has made me think of things I would usually ignore."

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Last updated Jan. 11, 2007 by Heather Fitz Gibbon