Education That Matters: Make A Difference with WGSS!
WGSS
Celebration: The Ideas Box!
We asked for your ideas to
celebrate women and solve problems in exchange for a cool button!
Click on the link to see what you said!
What's offered for Spring 2010? Check here!
Dept. of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 423 Wimberly Hall, (608) 785-8357. Or email Deb Hoskins
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 (working with CATL's Inclusive Excellence)
- and this website, with links to a variety of resources for women
faculty at UW-L
Activism Corner! Activist Vid-o-the-Month! "A hope more powerful than hate" -- Obama addresses the Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner. It takes more than a president! 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!
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.
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!