Education That Matters: Make A Difference with WGSS!
APRIL 2008 :
CLS EXCELLENCE!Congrats to Alana Erickson, our College of Liberal Studies Student Excellence Award winner! Alana is thoughtfully vocal in class, a great student, active on campus as the leader of Students4Choice, and a great employee (she worked for WGSS!). We can't wait to see what she does next! Congratulations, Alana! |
| Activism Corner! |
| New! Activist Video of the Month: Violence against women of the Congo continues unabated for 10 years! Where is the international outcry? A panel discussion sponsored by Women's eNews. |
| Previous Activist Vid-o-the-Month selections here |
| Arts Activism: Andrea Gibson: poetry on art |
| Activist Research! Retaining Professional Women, by Jodi Vandenberg-Daves and Betsy Morgan |
| Two-Minute Activism: *FreeRice!*Fund Free Mammograms! *Click for Survivors of Domestic Violence! |
- Resources for High School Students! (will open in Microsoft Word)
- UW-L Violence Prevention Services: Ingrid Peterson, 608-785-5126, peterson.ingr@uwlax.edu, 306 Wimberly Hall.
The
Department of WGSS enacts
the Wisconsin Idea: that universities should produce knowledge
and educate students in ways that serve real people. We study and
teach on the lives of women, men, and sexual or gender identity
minorities. We examine the ways that race, social class, age, and
other socially constructed hierarchies connect to gender to
impact people's real lives. We study how social change works and
what social justice might look like. We use and
teach students to use academic skills to make social change. We maintain the connection between theory and practice, issues and advocacy, throughout our curricula and in all our programs.
Our programs include:
- our brand-new major in Women's Studies, designed to prepare you well either for graduate school or work in a range of fields, emphasizing collaborative leadership and problem-solving from the workplace and community level to international arenas
- our minor (opens in MS Word) in Women's Studies, emphasizing service-learning, internships, and involvement that puts learning into action
- on-campus events for students, faculty, staff, and the La Crosse community
- our student organizations, WSSA (wiss-ah), and Students for Choice, a member of NARAL's Pro-Choice Wisconsin
- the Self-Sufficiency Program that prepares low-income parents for college
- the Faculty Seminar on Teaching For Diversity
- the Colleges of La Crosse Opposing Violence through Education and outReach (CLOVER). See the UW-L Violence Prevention Services info above.
- and this website, with links to a variety of resources for women faculty at UW-L
In the tradition of Women’s Studies and its sister disciplines, our courses approach problems and issues from interdisciplinary perspectives. They enhance courses on women,
gender, and sexuality issues crosslisted in the traditional disciplines,
and provide students with numerous opportunities to integrate their
learning across their baccalaureate degree.
Dept. of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 423 Wimberly Hall, (608) 785-8357