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Departmental Information
Undergraduate Director
Prof. Julie Crawford
763 Schermerhorn Extension
(212) 854-3277
Program Office
763 Schermerhorn Extension
(212) 854-3277
Fax (212) 854-7466
The degree in women’s and gender studies at Columbia College, taught in cooperation
with Barnard College’s Women’s Studies Department, provides students
with a culturally and historically situated, theoretically diverse understanding of
feminist scholarship and its contributions to the disciplines. The program is
intended to introduce students to the long arc of feminist discourse about the cultural
and historical representation of nature, power, and the social construction of
difference. It encourages students to engage in the debates regarding the ethical
and political issues of equality and justice that emerge in such discussion, and it
links the questions of gender and sexuality to those of racial, ethnic, and other
kinds of hierarchical difference.
Through sequentially organized courses in women’s and gender studies, as well
as required discipline-based courses in the humanities and social sciences, the
major provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary framework, methodological training,
and substantive guidance in specialized areas of research. Small classes and mentored
thesis-writing give students an education that is both comprehensive and tailored
to individual needs. The major culminates in a two-semester thesis-writing
class, in which students undertake original research and produce advanced scholarship.
Graduates leave the program well prepared for future scholarly work in
women’s and gender studies, but the major also prepares students for careers and
future training in law, public policy, social work, community organizing, journalism,
and all those professions in which there is a need for critical and creative
interdisciplinary thought.
The Women’s and Gender Studies Office is located, along with the Institute for
Research on Women and Gender, at 763 Schermerhorn Extension. All inquiries
should be addressed to the women’s and gender studies undergraduate director.
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