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Welcome to the Eastern Illinois University Women's Studies Minor. Our aim is two-fold: to examine, stimulate and promote scholarship in the area of Women's Studies and to encourage traditional departments to broaden their fields of study to fully integrate women's issues. Our faculty come from across the university community. Historically, the attention paid to women's perspectives has altered our understanding of events and change, social, economic, and political life, as well as the arts and sciences. In addition, Women's Studies highlights the necessity of understanding important social divisions other than gender; those of age, race, economic status, sexuality, and nationality. It provides key conceptual tools that women and men can use in educating themselves and others while in college and can later employ in achieving a personally and professionally successful life. The Women's Studies minor is an 18-hour interdisciplinary program. Only two 3-credit courses are required while the other four 3-hour courses are taken from a variety of departments as electives. Many of the courses can be "double-counted" with many majors. For instance, WST 2309G is a required course but it also counts in the social/behavioral science category of the general education curriculum as well as being writing intensive (the only one in that category from which to draw an assignment for the EIU writing portfolio) and applies to the cultural diversity general education requirement. One of the elective courses can be a women's studies cross-listed senior seminar (EIU 4162G, EIU 4108G) to fulfill that general education requirement as well. Another could be a course which is cross-listed in one's major department, such as "Psychology of Gender Differences" or "Women, Literature, and Language." Thus many students find they are able to complete a minor in Women's Studies with as few as 3 courses beyond standard university and departmental requirements. |
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