Education That Matters:  Make A Difference with WGSS!

WGSS LogoWGSS 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

WGSS DepartmentThe 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:

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.

Alana EricksonAPRIL 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!