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Mission Statement
The Women's Studies Program is based on the premise that women's experiences, concerns, social roles, and creativity are essential to our knowledge of human kind and society. Feminist scholarship and theory provide the knowledge and analytical tools necessary for a gender-balanced perspective on our world, both past and present. The Women's Studies Program affords students the opportunity to pursue feminist scholarship on women and gender through a variety of interdisciplinary courses.
Program Goals
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.
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