妇女与性别研究

妇女与性别研究

探索性别在整个社会中的作用

妇女与性别研究 (WGS) is an interdisciplinary field that draws ideas, information, and methods from many traditional academic disciplines to explore the important role 整个社会的性别.

At Southern Miss, the 妇女与性别研究 (WGS) Program offers both an undergraduate 辅修研究生. In addition to courses specific to the program, we offer classes in a variety of academic areas, from sociology to literature, nursing to human performance, theatre and dance to speech communication, history, and political science. 具体的 courses are listed under the appropriate program.

妇女与性别研究 courses are for all students—men, women, genderqueer, cisgender, straight, and LGBTQIA—who are interested in gaining new insight into women, gender, 以及性问题.

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Women’s and Gender Studies seeks to expand students’ understanding of the contributions of women to human cultures while also taking a broader, far-reaching lens to consider 性别作为一种社会范畴所起的作用.

Through a variety of courses, students will learn how gender:

• Influences people’s everyday lives, often in ways that are unacknowledged and unrealized;
• Is embedded in our social institutions, including politics, economics, education, 宗教与家庭;
• Intersects with race, class, sexuality, and other identities;
• Organizes knowledge and people’s understanding of the world;
• Is viewed from different perspectives, including global feminisms and transnationalism.

 

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Do you have a question about the 妇女与性别研究 program? 点击上面的 get the contact information for the WGS Director.

 

教师关注的焦点

In Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, Dr. 丽贝卡Tuuri offers a sweeping view of the Council's behind-the-scenes efforts to fight racism, poverty, and sexism in the late twentieth century. 她的书探讨了 该组织是如何与美国合作的.S. presidents, foundations, and grassroots activists alike to implement a number of important domestic development and international aid projects.  阅读更多

 

学生关注的焦点

Mariam Atobiloye, 20年 Growing up in Nigeria as a young girl, society told me to aspire to be great, but not too great since that would hurt the man's ego. 我会看每日新闻，然后 see that despite how rich the country was, women were still dying from childbirth. Women were policy makers, yet they were treated like their opinions. 读玛丽亚姆的故事

 

职业生涯路径

A minor in Women’s and Gender Studies can be paired with any major, and in many cases, students can get a WGS minor without taking any more credit hours than they would 需要单独参加专业考试.

The WGS minor helps student better understand gender issues that are pertinent to almost every context of life where people of different genders and sexualities interact. In many career fields, understanding gendered issues is increasingly important, including in social services, counseling, human resources, education, healthcare, law, and politics. It is particularly useful for jobs that require managing equity issues such as the wage gap, equal employment opportunities, family leave, sex discrimination, gender or sexual harassment, violence against women, and Title IX.

Some majors that work well with this minor are:

• Social sciences: Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Psychology
• 应用社会科学: 社会工作，刑事司法，公共卫生
• 人文学科: 历史、英语、哲学
• Communication: Public Relations, Media, Communication Studies
• 商科:管理、工商管理
• 还有更多!

 

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