Women & Gender Studies

• Mission Statement

  WGS/QS Mission Statement
  
  The Women and Gender, and Queer Studies programs at Weber State University are committed to the expansion and transmission of knowledge concerning Women, Gender, and Queer matters. These programs are committed to offering quality undergraduate courses and encouraging intellectual excellence, research, and scholarship. Women and Gender and queer studies are minor courses of study and are offered as a Bachelor of Integrated studies area of Emphasis.
  
  The Women and Gender, and Queer Studies programs are committed to working for educational equity for a campus environment free from sexism, anti-queerism, racism, classism, ethnocentrism, and other forms of discriminatory treatment.
  
  Women and Gender, and Queer Studies programs work to develop students as critical thinkers and ready to use their skills in employment and/or further education through a variety of interdisciplinary courses and experiences.    
  
  

• Student Learning Outcomes
  • Minor

    Women & Gender Studies is devoted to the academic study of the roles, contributions, and scholarship of women. Women & Gender Studies explores issues of ethnicity (including what has been historically termed race), class, sexual preference and gender as they impact women's lives in a variety of cultural contexts. It promotes new areas of research, discovers lost contents of human history, identifies women's place in contemporary life, and encourages a sense of empowerment among students through analysis of their commonality of experience. The Women & Gender Studies minor prepares students to pursue graduate work or employment in professional and community organizations, with emphasis on critical self-reflection and responsible decision-making.

    1) Students will demonstrate knowledge of foundational and contemporary research and theoretical literature in the field of Women and Gender Studies.

    Read, understand, and evaluate feminist theories and scholarship. Identify, compare, and evaluate culturally and historically specific constructions of gender. Articulate the ways in which systems of power, privilege, and oppression shape our experiences as individuals and members of communities.

     

     

    2) Students will apply their knowledge of women and gender studies.

    Apply knowledge of women and gender studies by analyzing current social and political situations from those perspectives.
  • Associate Degree (Not Applicable)

     

  • Bachelor Degree (Not Applicable)

     

   

• Curriculum Grid

• Program and Contact Information

  Women & Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to exploring women’s experience through their roles, contributions, and scholarship. As such, the program studies the diverse representations of women within the contexts of ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and gender.

  In the Women and Gender Studies Program, students are encouraged to think critically about women’s place in contemporary society while discovering the lost contents of women’s contributions in the past. Women and Gender Studies prepares students for employment and for graduate work through a variety of interdisciplinary courses from the Colleges of Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Health Professions, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

   

  Contact Information:
  Dr. Melina Alexander
  Department of Teacher Education
  McKay Education Bldg, Rm 324
  1351 Edvalson Street
  Ogden, UT 84408
  (385) 240-1526

  Women & Gender Studies Department Website

• Assessment Plan

  WGS Learning Outcomes 1. WGS Learning Outcomes Students will demonstrate knowledge of foundational and contemporary research and theoretical literature in the field of Women and Gender Studies. a. Read, understand, and evaluate feminist theories and scholarship. b. Identify, compare, and evaluate culturally and historically specific constructions of gender. c. Articulate the ways in which systems of power, privilege, and oppression shape our experiences as individuals and members of communities. 2. Students will apply their knowledge of women and gender studies. Apply knowledge of women and gender studies by analyzing current social and political situations from those perspectives.
  	Evidence Collected*
  	1a	1b	1c	2
  WGS 1500	CA	CA	SA or CA	SA
  WGS 2500			CA	CA
  WGS 3050	E	CA	CA
  WGS 4150	E			E
  WGS 4250			R	E
  * Threshold = 80%
  SA=signature assignment, CA=course assignment FA=final assignment, R=reflections, E = final essay

• Assessment Report Submissions
  2023-24
  2021-22
  2019-20 - Conducted Program Review
  2017 - No Report Submitted 
  2016 - No Report Submitted
  2015

• Program Review

  2019-20

This information is part of the cyclical program review process. Details such as mission statements, learning outcomes, etc., are updated as part of the biennial assessment reporting process, an integral component of program review.