IUSB Women's Studies Program brochure, 1989 December

Title

IUSB Women's Studies Program brochure, 1989 December

Description

A brochure about the Women's Studies Program at IUSB. It discusses what women's studies is, who the faculty are, and what Women's Studies courses there are.

Creator

Kaufman, Gloria

Source

Women's Studies Program Collection, Indiana University South Bend Archives and Special Collections

Date

1989-12

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Identifier

WomensStudies_Box1_Folder26_WS025

Text

IUSB WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM
WHAT IS WOMEN'S STUDIES?
Women's Studies is a new academic discipline that analyzes human history and experience on the
bases of 1) sex and gender
2) race and ethnicity
3) class and economics
4) childhood and age
5) health and disability, and
6) nature and environment. Although no single course is expected to use all the foregoing categories of analysis, the program as a whole does cover those categories in a purpose­fully interdisciplinary way.
WHO ARE WOMEN'S STUDIES FACULTY?
There are two kinds of Women's Studies faculty-­those who teach the interdisciplinary core courses
(with "W" as a prefix) and who have some expertise in Women's Studies as a new discipline, and those who teach cross-listed courses.
Faculty teaching cross-listed courses are usually firmly located in their departmental discipline. Using its methods, they present subject-matters
important to Women's Studies. Courses are cross­listed only when the faculty member has the approval of the Director of Women's Studies.
Faculty teaching the core W-courses have done sig­nificant interdisciplinary work in Women's Studies-­by teaching or writing or presenting papers at Women's Studies conferences, and by reading the new Women's Studies journals and the latest scholarship.
The Women's Studies Program strongly encourages all its faculty to attend professional Women's Studies
meetings, especially the annual conference of the
National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). IUSB
is an institutional member of NWSA.

CORE COURSES
(All core courses are taught from an interdisciplinary perspective.)
WlOO Gender Studies W200 Women in Society B250 Interdisciplinary Analysis of Women.' s Role W302 Topics in Women's Studies W402 Feminist Theory W480 Practicum in Women's Studies W495 Readings and Research in Women's Studies A SAMPLING OF CROSS-LISTED COURSES
(Cross-listed courses vary each semester and are too numerous to list. Women's Studies students receive a letter with a menu of cross-listed courses and also courses labeled RECOMMENDED and STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. The courses listed below are a sample of those which have been taught or will be taught by spring of 1991.)
El05 Culture and Society N200 Biology of Women Al03 Human Origins and Prehistory A270 Women in the History of Art L207 Women and Literature P331 Psychology of Aging R364 Feminist Critique of Western Religion S316 Sociology of Family L350 Environmental Biology C340 Women in World Literature S336 Women-Professional Communication H260 History of Women in the United States S360 Political Economics of Women in Africa S420 Cultural Dimensions of Child Abuse F266 Women in French Literature
MINOR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
Required: B250 and either WlOO or W200
Three cross-listed courses for a total of 9 credits.
MAJOR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
The major program is currently being designed. Suggestions are warmly solicited from students and faculty, both in and out of the Program.
Direct all suggestions to Gloria Kaufman, N320, tel. 237-4308.
The Women's Studies Program encourages students
1) to do research (and to apply for IUSB student research grant$),2) to present papers at the annual spring Women's Studies student conference in the Indiana University system, and 3) to attend pro­fessional Women's Studies conferences around the country, for which scholarships are provided.
This statement has been prepared by Gloria Kaufman, Director of Women's Studies at IUSB. Division of Arts & Sciences. (12/89)

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Citation

Kaufman, Gloria, “IUSB Women's Studies Program brochure, 1989 December,” IU South Bend Archives Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/items/show/296.