Women's and Gender Studies

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Coordinator: Assistant Professor Melinda Mills

The Women's and Gender Studies program at Castleton offers a major by contract through the Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice Department (BA. SSC.SOC). It also offers a Minor in the discipline.

The courses in the program cut across several subject areas. The emphasis is on encouraging students to think critically and on re-examining history and disciplines cross-culturally using a feminist perspective. Drawing upon academic areas such as media studies, history, psychology, sociology, literary criticism, and anthropology, the program raises important questions regarding the way we have organized ourselves, our chief social and political institutions, and knowledge itself. As an area of academic study, Women's and Gender Studies provides new frameworks that are sensitive not only to issues of gender, but also to issues of race, class, and ethnicity. By analyzing the powerful and problematic impact of gender inequalities, Women's and Gender Studies revises the way we see ourselves and our world.

Programs

• Women’s and Gender Studies (BA.SSC.WGS)

• Women’s and Gender Studies Minor (WGS)

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