The Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin- Superior is an undergraduate minor program located within the Department of Social Inquiry. The mission of the Women's and Gender Studies Program is to raise awareness of issues of gender and gender inequality and to transform the university and the community through teaching, learning, and social action.

Students studying Women's and Gender Studies will

• Analyze and challenge notions of femininity and masculinity in relation to people's experiences.
• Recognize the varieties of masculinities and femininities that exist across time, cultures, space, etc.
• Relate social structures and institutions to the creation and perpetuation of inequality.
• Understand other social differences intersecting with gender.
• Appreciate intersections of thought and action and engage in theoretically informed social and political action.
• Employ experience as evidence for developing an understanding of power, privilege, and disadvantaging.

We have offered a Women's Studies undergraduate minor since 1976. In 2007, the Women's Studies Committee revised the minor, and the program and minor became Women's and Gender Studies.

Students may earn a 21-credit minor in Women's and Gender Studies by selecting courses from diverse fields such as Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, American Indian Studies, English, Sociology, History, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Business Administration, Literature, Visual Art, Geography and Philosophy.

New Courses for 2007-2008

• Fall 2007: SOCI/WST 490 Gender and Globalization in Transnational Asia, More Info - Contact Dr. Eri Fujieda
  
• Spring 2008: ENGL/WST 255 Gender and Sexuality in Writing, More Info - Contact Dianna Hunter
  

The Association for Women Students (AWS)

The Association for Women Studies has identified three objectives:

1. To promote equal opportunity for women in all situations within the University
2. To collaborate with other local, state, and national women's organizations to assist in improving the status of women in the general social structure
3. To stimulate and encourage women studies at UW-Superior to become aware of their potential as women and to participate in activities designed to explore concerns, issues and interests of women as students
   

UWS Women's Resource Center

The Women's Resource Center is located in Rothwell Student Center 19 sponsors seminars and other programs focused on women's current interests and concerns. The center serves as a lounge for students to meet, talk, and study, as well as a helpful informational resource for classes.  

UWS Office of Women's and Gender Issues

Visit Website. Support, advocacy, education, and networking on women's issues, other gender issues and sexual identity issues.