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Women's Studies

Student Learning Outcomes List

In accordance with its mission, the specific goals of women’s studies are to provide its minors with the following:

  • knowledge of the main social, economic political, and psychological issues of contemporary women’s lives globally and locally;
  • knowledge of the main topics in theories and methodologies of feminisms;
  • knowledge of women’s class, sexual orientation and cultural (historically "racial") diversity;
  • in-depth knowledge of one aspect of women’s experience learned through (for example) a literary genre, a time period, a geographic region, or focus on a very narrow topic.

Acquisition of the following skills would also be part of the objectives:

  • the ability to connect ideas and concepts from various fields about oppression and patriarchy as these affect women to common themes or topics;
  • the ability to write a focused and coherent analytical essay based upon and sustained by evidence;
  • the ability to design and implement a project demonstrating studied topics.

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