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Programs of Study, 1997-1999
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM
Director of Women's Studies: Sonya Michel
Assitant Director: Jacque Kahn
Correspondence and Information: Director, Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 911 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820; (217) 333-2990; Fax: (217) 333-0151.
URL: http://tortie.me.uiuc.edu/ws-home.html
Prospective students may contact: Jacque Kahn, assistant director, (217) 333-2990. E-mail: j-kahn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
The Women's Studies Program (WSP) is an interdisciplinary academic unit in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Many UIUC faculty, including the forty UIUC faculty members associated with the Women's Studies Program, offer undergraduate and graduate courses through the WSP or their home departments, with an emphasis on scholarship treating women and gender issues. Graduate students pursuing M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in participating departments may also complete a minor in women's studies. Students interested in the graduate women's studies minor should enroll in a degree program in one of the participating departments and then submit an application form to the Women's Studies Program. Contact the WSP office to obtain a list of participating departments or an application form.
GRADUATE MINOR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
In order to complete the graduate minor at the master's or doctoral level, students must take three units of course work in women's studies, as follows: 1) either Women's Studies 401: Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities: Theory and Method or Women's Studies 402: Feminist Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Theory and Method, 2) two additional 300- or 400-level women's studies, or women's studies cross-listed courses or concurrently listed courses (topics courses often initiated by other departments which are also listed under the WS rubric in the Timetable), at least one of which originates outside the student's home department. Women's Studies 401 or 402 (whichever did not count in 1 above) may serve as one of the additional courses. A practicum or independent study many also serve as one of the courses.
For the Doctoral Minor Only. The Women's Studies Program would like to support students in their doctoral research. Whenever possible, it is recommended that doctoral students receive guidance on their dissertation topic, resources, and methodology from their women's studies faculty adviser or other women's studies faculty. Special arrangements will be possible for doctoral students who come in with a master's degree and have completed women's studies course work elsewhere.
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