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SUBSTITUTION COURSE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES:
INVITING STUDENTS TO TAKE YOUR COURSE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES CREDIT


Faculty members who believe that they teach a course that students could substitute for women's studies credit given that

(a) the course has significant women's studies content (see course criteria below), and

(b) the student can complete a major project/assignment on a women's studies topic, may wish to indicate this substitution possibility on the course syllabus. A statement such as the following is suggested.

"Given the content of this course, and the required assignment(s), students in the Women's Studies Concentration may wish to request taking this course for women's studies credit (as well as for GE, cognate, minor, or major credit). Such a request needs the instructor's signature and must be made through the Women's Studies Committee."


Criteria for Women's Studies Courses:
Women's Studies courses:

(a) focus on women's experiences in history, society, and culture, and examine their reactions to such experiences;

(b) examine institutional structures/modes of authority/analyses of power, especially considering their implications for women; and

(c) incorporate one or more feminist analyses/scholarly work (recognizing that there are multiple, and even conflicting feminist perspectives.


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