Women’s Studies Program

About Us

The following are program goals for the Women's Studies program at IPFW:

Analyze academic disciplines from a feminist and antiracist perspective.
Encourage original scholarship and research about women that takes into consideration gender, race, class, and sexual orientation.
Integrate self-exploration with academic skills.
Provide a nonauthoritarian learning environment which values students ideas and encourages an open exchange of information and opinion.
Promote an individual and critical approach to learning.
Promote knowledge of the diversity of women’s experiences.