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Read the UW Colleges Women's Studies Program's
Criteria for Cross-listing as Women's Studies, as well as the
Goals and Mission of the Program

  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.

Certificate Requirements

a minimum of 15 credits
grades of C or better
up to three credits can be transferred from other colleges

Credits for the certificate must include the following:

WOM 101 An Introduction to Women’s Studies

Humanities (at least one course from this category)

WOM 202 Feminist Philosophy (PHI 202)
WOM 203 Women in Popular Culture
WOM 247 Latin American and Latina Women (SPA 247)
WOM 279 Women in Literature (ENG 279)

Social Sciences (at least one course from this category)

WOM 208 Psychology of Gender (PSY 208)
WOM 218 Women and Sport (PED 218)
WOM 231 Sex, Power and Public Policy (POL 231)
WOM 238 Sociological Persps on Gender Roles (SOC 238)
WOM 250 Women in Cross Cultural Perspective (ANT 250)
WOM 260 Women and Science
WOM 280 Women in American History (HIS 279)

Natural Sciences (credits may be taken from this category)

WOM 130 Biology of Women (Bio 130)

Fine Arts (credits may be taken from this category)

WOM 295 Women in the Arts (Art 290)

Additional Courses (credits may be taken from these categories)

WOM 291 Selected Topics in Women’s Studies

Other courses that could be substituted for WOM 291 might include

PED 291 Women’s Health
COM 298 Images of Women in Theater
WOM 299 Independent Study in Women’s Studies

Selected Courses (credits may be taken from this category)

Courses in any department offered on a one-time basis with the Women’s Studies designation, such as ART 187 offered with a focus on Feminist Art.

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