The MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary
undergraduate program, providing an academic framework and broad-based
community for scholarly inquiry focusing on women, gender, and
sexuality.
Exploring gender with the tools of different, and often
multiple, disciplines, Women's and Gender Studies subjects strive to help MIT
students better understand how knowledge and value take different forms
depending on a variety of social variables. In the course of their
inquiry, students not only learn how to use gender as a category of
analysis, but also reflect on the manifestation of gender in their own
lives, leading to a range of personal and intellectual discoveries.
Although gender is a central component of every subject, the study of
gender requires attention to connections between gender, sexuality,
race, class, religion, nationality, and other social categories;
different subjects shed light on different aspects of such connections.
The Program is also an important resource for faculty with an
advanced knowledge of gender studies within particular disciplines who
are interested in learning more across disciplinary lines; it also
welcomes faculty who have an emerging interest in the field of Women's
Studies.
The Program in Women's and Gender Studies offers an undergraduate curriculum consisting of core classes and cross-listed subjects from several departments. Students may concentrate, minor, and petition for a major departure in WS. There are more than 30 faculty members who are
affiliated with the Program from fields as diverse as architecture,
history, comparative media studies, brain and cognitive sciences,
literature, and political science, for example. The Program in Women's
and Gender Studies offered 22 subjects during the academic year 2002-2003, with approximately 300 students enrolled.
Program in Women's and Gender Studies links
Visit the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies home page at:
http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/