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Women's Studies
The women's studies major is an interdisciplinary program appropriate as a complement to various majors. This major is particularly useful in acquiring perspectives that complement traditional studies for developing leadership roles or for pursuing careers that involve women's concerns. Women's studies offers an undergraduate major, minor and, with departmental approval, a graduate emphasis.
The Program
Women's studies is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on women
in society and aims at raising women's aspirations, at expanding awareness
of their capabilities and at widening the knowledge and development
of both female and male students.
Women's studies courses are framed by the following concerns:
- Enhance the marketability of students who are interested in how issues regarding women impact a variety of employment opportunities, including business, social work, education and public policy.
- Attract students who are keenly interested in women's studies who have not had a option to major in this discipline
- Provide an opportunity for Tri-College students to major in women's studies.
The teaching and learning approach tends to be interdisciplinary, emphasizing relationships and connections between traditional disciplines.
General Education
The introductory women's studies class, WS 110, provides an avenue for students to fulfill North Dakota State University's general requirements while earning the undergraduate major. All students are required to take 37 credits of general education course work from categories including but not limited to, communication, humanities and fine arts, social and behavioral sciences, wellness, cultural diversity and global perspectives and wellness.
Career Opportunities
A women's studies major will strengthen skills in writing, critical thinking, oral presentation, team work and leadership. These skills are important in today's evolving job market oriented by increased needs for communication skills, new technologies, rapid economic change and resourceful employees. Women's studies courses, which emphasize the value of diversity, relationships and coalition building, prepare graduates to listen, to communicate across differences in background and viewpoint, to analyze reports and to respond openly to change. These are all characteristics required to pursue successful careers in teaching and school administration; social services, law enforcement, counseling, and community organization; communication, business, marketing, human resources, and management; services and hospitality industries; and in healthcare fields such as nursing, medicine, pharmacy and administration.
The Program Organization
The Women's Studies Advisory Board consists of representatives from
each of seven colleges, the Deans of each of the sponsoring colleges,
and the University Office of Equity and Diversity. The Women's Studies
Director administers the program.
Ann Burnett Women’s Studies Director
Elizabeth Birmingham English
Virginia Clark Johnson
Human Development and Education
Erienne Fawcett
Student
Ineke Justitz History
Margaret Lee Pharmacy and Nursing
Catherine Logue Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences
Rhonda Magel Statistics
Thomas Riley, Dean Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Christina Weber Sociology
The Women's Studies Faculty include NDSU faculty members who teach
a women's studies course, or wish to be affiliated with the women's
studies program and identify with the women's studies program mission.
You cannot hope to build a better
world without improving the individuals.
To that end each of us must work
for his (her) own improvement, and at
the same time share a general responsibility
for all humanity, our particular
duty being to aid those to whom
we think we can be most useful.
Marie
Curie
Quote from Light One Candle. N.Y. Peter Pauper Press, 1991.
The Curriculum
The women’s studies major consists of a total of 36 approved semester credits. Students must take all five core courses, three electives, then 12 electives in their area of choice.
The women’s studies minor consists of a total of 18 approved semester credits. At least three credits must be taken in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and three credits in the College of Human Development and Education. The remaining credits may be obtained by taking four core courses. One core course, WS 110, must be taken by all students obtaining the minor. Students may choose three core courses from the elective list. Students should select courses from the core list or from the elective list to obtain the remaining credits. Appropriate courses not on these lists must be approved by the director of the women’s studies program.
Undergraduate Women's Studies Minor
- Soc. 412 - Sociology of Sex Roles*
- Soc. 424 - Feminist Theory and Discourse
- WS 110 - Introduction to Women's Studies
- WS 350 - Perspective in Women's Studies
- WS 489 - Internship/Capstone
- Electives: 9 hours (choose three of the classes below)
- Comm 412 - Gender and Communication
- Engl. 454 - Language and Bias
- Hist. 260 - Women in America
- Hum. 312 - Women and the Humanities**
- Hum. 395 - Topics in Women's Studies**
- Hum. 410 - Directed Reading in Women's Studies
- MC 420 - Gender and Media **
- MCS 372 - Dynamics of Prejudice and Oppression**
- MDS 232A/232B - Women's Roles and Socialization in 19th and
- 20th Century America**
- Phil. 314 - Introduction to Feminist Theory**
- Phil. 372 - Dynamics and Prejudice and Oppression
- Phil. 495 - Topics in Feminist Theory**
- Soc. 218 - Sociology of Sexual Behavior**
- Soc. 308 - Special Topics***
- Soc. 310 - Dominant-Subordinate Group Relations**
- WS 380 - Introduction to Gerontology**
- WS 390 - Cooperative Education***
- WS 412 - Seminar in Women's Studies**
- WS 491 - Women's Week of Awareness*
- WS 494 - Issues in Women's Studies
- Topic Elective: 12 hours (students must take classes
- in at least 3 topic areas
- Women and Liberal Arts
- Art 453 - Topics in Art History: Women in Art
- Anth. 303 - Cross Cultural Gender**
- Comm. 216 - Intercultural Communication
- Engl. 246 - Women in Literature**
- Engl. 248 - Introduction to American Ethnic Literature**
- Engl. 330 - British and American Women Writers
- Engl. 331 - Contemporary Women Writers
- Engl. 335 - Multicultural Writers
- Engl. 365 - Writing of Women***
- Fren. 223 - Race, Gender and Power in
- Francophone World***
- Germ. 440 - Women in German Film***
- Hist. 259 - Women in European History, 1400-1800
- Hist. 316 - U.S. Women's History***
- Hist. 344 - Women's History in Cross-Culture Perspective***
- Hist. 350 - Women in European History**
- Hist. 375 - Women in U.S. History**
- Hist. 401 - Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Pre-modern
- Europe**
- Relig. 300 - Women, Religion and Literature***
- Span. 325 - Hispanic Women Writers***
- Thea. 323 - Women and Theatre***
- Women and Families
- CDFS 230 - Life Span Development
- CDFS 242 - Marriage and the Family
- CDFS 353 - Children, Families, and Public Policy
- CDFS 462 - Family Crisis
- CDFS 475 - Children and Families Across Cultures
- Hist. 265 - Families in America
- Relig. 224 - Women in Religious History***
- Relig. 300 - Sister of Faith***
- Soc. 317 - Gender, Self and Society***
- Soc. 416 - Violence in the Family**
- Soc. 417 - Sociology of the Family
- Soc. 439 - Social Change
- Women and Health
- Biol. 300 - Biology of Women**
- Comm. 480 - Health Communication**
- Nurs. 240 - Women's Health Issues***
- PE 294 - Women and Sport**
- Phrm. 170 - Common Medicines and Diseases
- Psyc. 210 - Human Sexuality
- Psyc 250 - Developmental Psychology
- Psyc. 310 - Psychology of Women**
- Psyc. 370 - Psychology of Women ***
- Women and Work
- ADFH 382 - Women in Management
- Comm. 483 - Organizational Communication I
- CDFS 468 - Families and Work
- Hist. 260 - Women in America
- PolS. 350 - Gender Issues and the Law
- Women and Public Policy
- CDFS 353 - Children, Family and Public Policy
- PolS. 350 - Gender Issues and the Law
- PolS. 351 - Women and Politics
- Soc. 202 - Minorities and Race Relations
- Soc. 439 - Social Change
- Soc. 410 - Social Inequality
- Curriculum Total
* Offered once a year; student works 10 hours for one
credit, may take up to three times.
** Class offered through Tri-College program at Minnesota
State University - Moorhead
*** Class offered through Tri-College program at Concordia
College, Moorhead
This sample curriculum
is not intended to serve as a curriculum guide for current students,
but rather an example of course offerings for prospective students.
For the curriculum requirements in effect at the time of entrance into
a program, consult with an academic adviser or with the Office of Registration
and Records.
Contact Information
Ann Burnett
Director of Women's Studies
Women's Studies Office
North Dakota State University
Minard Hall 200
Fargo, ND 58105
Tel: (701) 231-7290
Fax: (701) 231-1047
Email: Ann.Burnett@ndsu.edu
Web: http://www.ndsu.edu/womens_studies
Office of Admission
North Dakota State University
124 Ceres Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
Tel: (701) 231-8643
Fax: (701) 231-8802
Email: NDSU.Admission@ndsu.edu
Web: http://www.ndsu.edu/prospective/students/
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