Welcome to Women's Studies at Northeastern University 1981-2007
If you wonder why women's and men's historical roles are changing, how gender is expressed in the workplace and at home, or what kinds of challenges women around the world face today, consider taking courses offered by Northeastern University's Women's Studies Program.
The Women’s Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program, with an undergraduate minor, designed to critically re-examine the traditional body of knowledge about women and men’s roles from a feminist perspective. The goal of the program is to integrate this new knowledge about women and gender into the academic curriculum. We also offer a women’s studies certificate at the graduate level in cooperation with and participation in Boston’s Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies.
The Women's Studies Program provides women and men at Northeastern with an opportunity to examine the diversity of human experience through the perspectives of women. Both undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to work closely with faculty, learning by actively participating in gender research. Students examine gender roles in the United States and around the world; how they developed and why they are changing; as well as how ideas about gender shape the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences.
The Women's Studies Program has received an Atlantis Grant by means of TARGET. TARGET is a collaborative project of the Women's Studies programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northeastern University in the US and the QUING network of the European Union. In the US, it is supported by funds from UW's International Institute, the Division of International Studies and Global Studies Program, the Provost and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University, and the Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education (US Department of Education). Please visit http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/TARGET/ for more information.
Valerie Henderson, a visiting scholar to the Center of Interdisciplinary Studies and a member of the Women's Studies Advisory Board developed, researched, and created Scribbling Women, a project of The Public Media Foundation which dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. The projects website provies numerous classroom tools and resources for teaching about American women's literature. www.scribblingwomen.org
Jennifer Noveck, who graduated Northeastern in 2004, is now in China on a Fullbright Scholarship to study women in the workplace. Check out her blog, http://www.nurenxintan.com/ for more information about her research and her experinces in and impressions of China.