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.
我会学到什么??
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.
教师子公司
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
妇女与性别研究附属学院
Dr. 丽贝卡Tuuri
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
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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. |
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!
小的需求
辅修要求
The program offers both a master's-level minor and a doctoral minor. 《九游会国际》 minor in Women’s and Gender Studies is designed to develop the student’s proficiency in a variety of feminist theories and research methodologies at an advanced level. The courses approved for the minor must be listed on the student's official Plan of 研究. 因为新的课程可能会变成 available for Women’s and Gender Studies credit in any given semester, the candidate should be advised by the Director of Women’s and Gender Students as well as by the candidate’s major professor.
副修要求
The undergraduate WGS minor can be paired with any major at the University. Aside from the introductory 妇女与性别研究 course, WGS 301, students can choose from a variety of women and gender-related courses in different disciplines to complete 辅修的选修课. 这些课程包括:
- ANT 452:语言、性别和文化
- CJ 463 / WGS 427:家庭法
- CJ 464 / WGS 428: Family Violence, Investigation and Deterrence
- CMS 475: Gender Issues in Speech Communication
- ENG 468 / WGS 403:英国女作家
- WGS 402:美国女作家
- FAM 450:家庭系统中的性行为
- HIS 328 / WGS 310:古代和中世纪妇女
- HIS 329 / WGS 329: Women in Modern European History
- 他的420 / WGS 430:妇女和战争的历史
- HIS 423 / WGS 423:同性恋历史
- HIS 477 / WGS 410:美国社会中的妇女
- mcj355 / WGS 355:性别、种族和媒体
- PS 405 / WGS 420:妇女与政治
- PS 488 / WGS 421:妇女与法律
- PS 455 / WGS 455:妇女与人权
- SOC 415 / WGS 425:性别社会学
- WGS 401:非洲女作家
- WGS 450:妇女和性别研究研讨会
- WGS 490:妇女研究的指导研究
Students may also take special topics courses in various disciplines that have been approved by the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. 因为新的课程可能会变成 available for Women’s and Gender Studies credit in any given semester, the candidate should be advised by the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies.
可用性
小计划 | 可用性 |
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妇女与性别研究研究生辅修 | 哈蒂斯堡 |
妇女与性别研究 本科小 | 哈蒂斯堡 |