Women and Gender Studies -Goals and Objectives

Goal 1: To promote a fuller understanding of the multidimensional nature of personhood.
Objective 1: To examine the ways that gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality,
nationality, able-bodiedness, and other facets of embodiment intersect in the
construction of identity and experience.
Objective 2. To examine the implications that these categories have for
opportunities and life chances.

Goal 2: To support a curriculum that speaks to the experiences of those marked or
marginalized by gender or sexuality, or that acknowledges the socially
constructed character of gender.
Objective 1: To provide a series of courses which include critical examination
of the social, historical, psychological, literary, artistic, philosophic, and
biological roles of women and gender.
Objective 2: To evaluate course proposals for inclusion in the WGS minor on the
basis of their adherence to Goals 1, 2, and 3.

Goal 3: To promote critical thinking skills and an understanding of methodologies from a
variety of disciplines.
Objective 1: Include among those that count for the WGS minor courses from an
array of academic disciplines.
Objective 2: To privilege the inclusion in the WGS minor of courses that enact
feminist pedagogical strategies including active learning groups, collaboration,
applied learning (service learning), co-teaching, etc.

Goal 4: To promote and support research on women and gender.
Objective 1: Sponsor a brown bag lecture series in which faculty speakers present
research on women and gender, and through which faculty members and students
might gain valuable feedback on research in these areas.
Objective 2: Sponsor guest speakers on issues related to women and gender
studies.

Goal 5: To sponsor events related to women and gender.
Objective 1: Organize and carry out an annual lecture series and film series.
Objective 2: Participate in Women's Day.
Objective 3: Promote and support Take Back the Night