 Welcome
Women's Studies at Texas Woman's University is an exciting multicultural program that integrates diverse perspectives, and critically applies feminist/womanist scholarship. At the undergraduate level, the Women's Studies Program offers a minor with courses in a wide variety of fields. The minor is recommended for students--both men and women--wishing to explore issues related to gender, as it intersects with "race," ethnicity, class, culture, religion, sexuality, and disability. At the graduate level, the Women's Studies Program offers both a Master of Arts and a Graduate Certificate.
TWU is the nation's largest university primarily for women and offers the only graduate degree in Women's Studies in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. TWU provides high quality education in an empowering and affirming learning environment.
Our Goals
- To preserve, enhance, and expand feminist/womanist scholarship through teaching, research, performance, creative acts, and service to the community.
- To expose students to theories and methods for engagement in social, cultural, and intellectual critique; to analyze and uncover systems of inequity; and to identify social initiatives for changing the status and role of women.
- To understand how gender is constructed and functions in social, cultural, historical, political, and institutional contexts.
- To promote an understanding of the diversity of women's lives, particularly as they are intersected by race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, religion, and disability.
- To foster interdisciplinary study that transcends academic boundaries and seeks new paradigms for understanding women.
Opportunities in Women's Studies
TWU's Women's Studies Program offers many opportunities for unique learning experiences that enhance academic and personal development. Guest speakers have included Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Rita Liberti, Deborah A. Miranda, Cherry Muhanji, Aaronette M. White, Michael Kimmel, Kristal Brent Zook, Layli Phillips, Jehmu Greene, and
Gloria Steinem.
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