 |
Gender & Women's Studies (GWS) at Pomona College focuses
on the culturally and historically specific production of
sexual difference, on the wide-ranging impact of feminist
research both inside the academy and in the larger society,
and on the intersections of gender with other social forces
such as race, sexuality, class and colonialism. The program
fosters rigorous critical inquiry into these multiple forms
of difference, challenging conventional cultural assumptions
about women, sexuality and gender roles, and promotes the
development of new ideas and research in feminist
scholarship within an open, supportive environment.
Gender & Women's Studies offers two kinds of majors. One
stands alone and emphasizes the theoretical focus of recent
feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. The other is a joint
major that links feminist research and theory with a
discipline or other interdisciplinary program. Both forms of
the major prepare a student for a variety of careers and for
graduate study. The joint major enables students whose
career plans or plans for graduate study might not have a
direct link with gender studies to explore disciplinary and
interdisciplinary constructions of knowledge in ways richly
informed by feminist scholarship.
|