Go beyond pink and blue. Open your mind to new shades of meaning in a multidisciplinary exploration of the experiences of gender.

Women's Studies

Courses in women’s studies provide a focused opportunity to explore, in historical and contemporary perspective, the ways in which gender affects human identities and relationships. Women’s studies is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary approach to the study and analysis of women’s experiences, contributions, voices, and lives. Over 30 years of scholarship have produced a wide range of theories and research that challenge and invigorate every area of academic investigation.

Requirements for a Minor in Women's Studies

• IDS2113 Basic Issues in Women's Studies

Four additional courses from the following list, or from approved offerings at other Colleges of the Fenway, selected in consultation with faculty advisor:

• BIOL1102 Biology of Women and Men
• ENGL2305 Writing Women
• ENGL2321 Love and Gender in Film and Literature
• HIST2123 Topics in European Women's History
• HIST2205 Women in American History
• LANG3427 Contemporary Spanish- American Women Novelists
• PHIL3107 Women and Philosophy
• PSYCH2103 Relationships, Marriage, and the Family
• PSYCH3101 Psychology of Women
• PSYCH4178 Directed Study (on relevant topic)
• RELIG3129 Women in Christian Traditions
• SOC2115 Family and Gender Roles

Students may also elect to design an interdisciplinary major in women's studies, under the individualized major program by choosing relevant courses in various departments at Emmanuel and the Colleges of the Fenway.

Possible concentrations include

• cultural images of women, past and present
• women, politics and social change
• women's studies and feminist theory
• women, work and the family