Women's Studies Major Online Degree Completion
WMS Core Major 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 the world
- Connect women's movements and feminist theory to other social justice movements and theories
WMS Concentration Specific Objectives
Gender Studies
- Identify and evaluate the social construction of gender and the ways gender intersects with other forms of identity
Politics, Justice and Policy
- Understand the gendering of our socioeconomic and political worlds and the individual and collective components of social change
Cross-Cultural Inquiry
- Identify, compare, and evaluate culturally and historically specific ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality
Arts and Letters
- Apply a critical feminist perspective to the study of literature and the arts
Program Highlights
- Students have an advisor from the time they start their studies until graduation.
- UMass Dartmouth Women's Studies faculty teach all courses, and can be reached by email, phone or in person.
- Students can complete the WMS degree completion program within two years. Students can also work with a UMass Dartmouth Women's Studies advisor to help earn their Bachelor's of Arts degree at their own pace.
Online programs and courses are offered by the Departments and Colleges of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in collaboration with the Division of Professional and Continuing Education and UMass Online.
