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  Spring 2009 Women's Studies Certificate Recipients

Three students received the UW Colleges Women's Studies Certificate. Congratulations!

Keely Sanderson, UW-Barron County

Sarah Dodge, UW-Barron County

Shelly van de Weerd, UW Marathon County

The UW Colleges offers a Women's Studies Certificate!

The Women’s Studies Certificate program in the University of Wisconsin Colleges explores women’s lives and experiences both historically and in contemporary societies.  This program combines an emphasis on intellectual development with practical knowledge that prepares you to use your education to lead an effective life in our global society.

The Women’s Studies Certificate program does the following:

• gives cohesion to your electives within the Associate’s degree,
• provides a sense of completion in at least one area of knowledge,
• prepares you for a major, minor, or more advanced work in Women’s Studies at your transfer campus,
• provides you with diverse ways to develop knowledge of how women have lived, worked, thought, resisted, created knowledge, and engaged in cultural activism, and

Why Choose Women's Studies?

The Women’s Studies certificate will give you a focus on issues concerning women and gender in a variety of academic areas. The courses analyze the contributions and importance of women in the development of human societies and bodies of knowledge, and they challenge the errors of omission in traditional academics.

Coursework in Women’s Studies provides you with important background preparation to work in counseling, business, communications, public and community service, advocacy work, law, public health and non-profit service. Careers may include domestic abuse or welfare rights advocacy, family counseling, sexual assault counseling, health care, human resources and public relations.

The Women’s Studies certificate program consists of a cluster of credit courses that are a part of the regular curriculum offered in the University of Wisconsin Colleges.