SUNY Oswego offers a major, a minor, and concentration for those teaching grades 1 to 6 in gender and women's studies. The core courses of the program introduce students to gender and women's issues and concerns in the contemporary United States; feminist theory; and women's history and issues in international perspectives.
Students complete a capstone experience, choosing a seminar, an individual research project or a supervised internship. As is consistent with an interdisciplinary area of study, core courses in the areas of feminist theory, international perspectives and the capstone experience will be offered in a number of disciplines. This is also consistent with the objectives of women's studies which is to shift to a frame of reference in which women's differing ideas and experiences are valid in their own right and become a basis for inquiry.
This interdisciplinary major is designed to develop a broad understanding of the study of gender and women, investigate women's contributions in all areas of academic scholarship, and explore the relationship between cultural definitions of feminine and masculine behaviors and the realities of women's and men's lives.
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