Women's Studies Online

Undergraduate Certificate Program

Program Objectives

• Understand the historical, social, and political contexts of women's movements and feminist thought
• Understand feminist theories and apply them in critiquing and transforming their world
• Connect the women's movements and feminist theory to other social justice movements and theories

WMS courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences teach students to:

• Identify and evaluate the social construction of gender and the ways gender intersects with other forms of identity
• Understand the gendering of our socioeconomic and political worlds and the individual and collective components of social change
• Identify, compare, and evaluate culturally and historically specific ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality
• Apply a critical feminist perspective to the study of literature and the arts

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