2009-2010 University Catalog

Women and Gender Studies

■ Women and Gender Studies

Phone: 703-993-2896
Web: wmst.gmu.edu

Faculty

Amireh, Baker, Beach, Bergoffen, Bernard, Best, Bullard, Burr, Carbonneau, Cattaneo, Censer, Cheldelin, Cherubin, Christensen, Cohen, Constantine, Copelman, Davidson, Davis, Deshmukh, Dunne, Eby, Fischer, Friedley, Fuchs, Fyfe, Gilbert, Gring-Pemble, Hamdani, Hanrahan (director), Harvey, Hodges, Hodzic, Jadallah, Johnsen-Neshati, Jordan, Kaplan, Karametou, King, Kirkland, Kirsch, Koch, Lont, Mann, Masters, Michals, Misencik, Muir, Palkovich, Pascarell, Pawloski, Rabin, Regan, Ricouart, Rosenblum, Samuelian, Sandole-Staroste, Scott, Seligmann, Snyder-Hall, Stearns, Tichy, Todd, Tolchin, Travis, Vivancos Perez, Yocom, Zawacki

Course Work

The Women and Gender Studies Department offers all course work designated WMST in the Courses chapter of this catalog.

About Women and Gender Studies at Mason

By choosing to pursue work in women and gender studies, students at all levels engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of gender roles in social, political, cultural, and economic life; gender roles in history; women and the media; feminist theory; the relationship between sex and gender; the impact of sex, race, class, disability, and sexual orientation on people’s lives; and the ways in which gender stereotypes influence the self in relationship to others. Students in many courses have the opportunity to investigate these issues in a cross-cultural and global perspective.

Undergraduate Programs

The Women and Gender Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary minor open to students from any major. Students have the opportunity to earn credit towards the minor while doing an internship that helps prepare them for the work place, a service learning course that combines work in a specific course with a service project, or research on gender issues on Mason’s campus. Students pursuing this minor can take advantage of the many activites and resources provided by the Women and Gender Studies Center.

Graduate Programs

The program sponsors the concentration in women and gender studies in the master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies (MAIS). This concentration promotes advanced scholarship that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. Students combine required courswork in women and gender studies with courses in a discipline of interest such as history, literature, sociology, anthropology, health, education, public policy, philosophy, social work, conflict analysis and resolution, environmental science, and the arts. See Interdisciplinary Studies, MAIS section of this chapter.

The program also offers a graduate certificate in women and gender studies. Students may take this as a stand-alone certificate or pursue it concurrently with any graduate degree program. A portion of the certificate course work may be able to be applied to the degree. Students must apply and be accepted to a graduate certificate program.