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Graduate Guide to Women's and Gender Studies

Free resource for students considering graduate work in Women's/Gender Studies

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
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Member Directory

Institutional Directory

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The Program Administration and Development Committee (PA&D) is a standing committee in NWSA specifically designed to represent the interests and needs of administrators of women's studies programs and departments to the Governing Council of NWSA and to assist NWSA in meeting the needs of women's administrators and their departments and programs.

The PA&D webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

These include:
Administrators Hand Book
The latest edition of the Administrators handbook

Defining Women's Scholarship
A Statement of the National Women's Studies Association Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards.

What Programs Need
Essential Resources for Women's Studies Programs.

Shared Development Documents including course development, climate issues and surveys, service learning guides and evaluations and much more.

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Click here to visit the Women's Center pages and resources.

Women's Centers have representation on the NWSA Governing Council as a standing committee. This is more than a symbolic recognition of the important role that women's centers play in feminist education.

The Center webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

Administration Resources
Annual Reports,
Strategic Planning and Surveys
Constitutions and Advisory Boards
Contact Logs and Evaluation Forms
Mission Statements
Position Descriptions
Program Proposals
Student Staff Procedures and Handbooks

And More...

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NWSA has many initiatives in development and ongoing.
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Current initiatives include:

NWSA Data Collection Project

NWSA is partnering with the National Organization for Research (NORC) at the University of Chicago to collect data on the field of women’s studies nationally.

Women of Color Leadership

The WoCLP is designed to increase the number of women of color students and faculty within the field of women’s studies and, consequently, to have an impact on the levels of participation and power by women of color in the PA&D, NWSA, and in the field of women’s studies as a whole.

Governance

This section includes reports, recommendations, constitution, bylaws, elections, policies and so forth.

QUESTIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY:WOMEN’S STUDIES AND INTEGRATIVE LEARNING
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Table 3. Common features of Women’s Studies programs.

Women’s Studies minors and baccalaureate programs teach skills and content through certain common structures:

  • A required introductory class, which often counts for general education, including material on the experiences of women of color and lesbians.
  • Cross listed electives, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, education, and the arts, including one or more courses that focus exclusively on women of color or lesbians
  • A required feminist theory class
  • Research projects at different levels using a variety of kinds of sources
  • A required capstone course or activity
  • An internship, service learning or activism component
  • Feminist pedagogy: team work or collaborative learning, student-centered classes, active discussions, personal writing or journals, opportunities to apply knowledge to “real world” situations, and a variety of kinds of assignments appropriate to individual learning styles.

Women’s Studies graduate programs teach skills and content through certain common structures:

  • A required feminist theory class.
  • A required course in feminist research methods.
  • An extended research project, thesis, or dissertation.
  • Required courses on globalism, US women of color, or both.
  • Cross-listed or interdisciplinary electives, which most commonly include classes on women in literature, LGBT issues, feminist pedagogy, and violence against women.

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AUDIO CONFERENCE

NWSA Audio Conference <- Click to listen.
The audio conference included:

  • Beverly Guy Sheftall, Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper, Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College
  • Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President at the American Association for Colleges and Universities
  • Kristine Blair, Professor and Chair of English at Bowling Green State University
  • Amy Levin moderated.

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