The introduction to Women's/Gender studies takes the word "woman" and investigates it within the languages of several academic disciplines: art, religion, psychology, literature, and law are among the units studied.

Course Descriptions will vary according to the topic. Courses prepare students to wrestle with the nature of truth by allowing for examination of the role of women's experience or gender within that exploration. They encourage gender-related questioning of canonical knowledge, and equip students to re-examine assumptions of the discipline or broader culture through such lenses as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and age.

This is a reading seminar that will investigate the writings of feminist theorists as well as the critical questions raised by feminism pertinent to the academic disciplines. "Sexes (gender), difference between the sexes, man, woman, race, black, white, nature are at the core of [the straight minds'] set of parameters. They have shaped our concepts, our laws, our institutions, our history, and our cultures. To reexamine the parameters on which universal thought is founded requires a reevaluation of all the basic tools of analysis, including dialectics. Not in order to discard it, but to make it more effective" (Monique Wittig). We will examine the feminist critique of culture as a way of examining our philosophical heritage and as a way of understanding the relationship of culture to academic inquiry.

The WOMG Capstone course is a two-credit experience, in which the students may choose to pursue any field related to issues addressed in any of the four previous courses and take the learning experience a step further. The student may choose to express this advances stage of learning in a variety of ways, including a research project, practicum, internships, or other method proposed by the student. Capstone projects will be arranged as independent studies or as scheduled courses, depending on demand.