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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Women and Gender Studies Program


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Varner Hall, Room 217
371 Varner Drive
Rochester, MI 48309-4485

(248) 370-2154

Program Website

 

Director: Ami Harbin (Philosophy)

Assistant Director: Erin A. Meyers (Communication and Journalism)

Women and Gender Studies Executive Committee:  Amy DeBaets (OUWB Biomedical Sciences), Angineh Djavadghazaryans (Modern Languages and Literatures), Erin Dwyer (History), Rebecca Mercado Jones (Communication and Journalism), Sanela Martic (Chemistry), Michele Parkhill Purdie (Psychology)

Chief adviser: Ami Harbin (Philosophy)

 

Women and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of the dynamics of gender, sex and power. Particular attention is given to differences among women in various social and cultural contexts, the representation of women in literature, art and the media, and the conditions that promote and impede women’s progress. In addition, women and gender studies puts gender, what it means to be feminine or masculine, a man or a woman, at the center of the analysis. This includes questioning how gender shapes societal participation, privileges, statuses, and experiences. Women and gender studies uses feminist methodologies and theories to describe and analyze the impact of social movements, historical events, public policy and other social forces on women and men. Specific attention is given to how gender intersects with race-ethnicity, class, sex, sexual identity, national identity and religion.

Program honors

To be a candidate for honors in women and gender studies, students must be graduating seniors who have taken a minimum of 20 credits of their women and gender studies major course work at Oakland University and have earned a minimum GPA of 3.60 in that coursework with an overall minimum GPA of 3.0.

Additional information

PA 5500 and PA 6500 are graduate level courses open to undergraduate students with instructor, and women and gender studies director permission.

Programs

Courses

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