Welcome to the Women’s Studies Program

The university offers a minor and a certificate program in Women’s Studies. Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary area of study that uses material from several disciplines to explore women’s issues and experiences.

The minor offers four emphases: General Women’s Studies, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Literature, Media and the Arts, and Society and Social Justice.

A certificate in Women’s Studies may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students. It denotes the successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to (a) impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies; or (b) produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline); or (c) provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.

For course requirements for the minor or certificate, please click here.

For information regarding the program, contact the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Office at (909) 537-7500.