- The Gender Studies minor offers an interdisciplinary perspective on
the lives of women and men, especially on the nature of social and cultural
constructs that give meaning to the biological difference of sex. The fact
that persons are male and female takes on a complex of meaning that can
be explored through study of literature and the arts, religion, history,
society and social institutions, the professions, human psychology and
development, and life sciences. This program, by including courses that
study women in culture, society, and history, and that include the best
of a growing body of feminist theory and research, also intends to help
correct a tradition of scholarship and teaching that has ignored the contributions
and concerns of women. Overall, the program will give both men and women
a better sense of identity and possibility, and will foster greater understanding
of the complex ways in which we, for good and for ill, are influenced by
culture and society.
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