Mission/Vision Statement

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at IU Southeast is interdisciplinary and draws from diverse specializations. In the program, students learn and share knowledge about the way gender, sexuality, and culture shape the experiences, ideologies, individuals, and politics in the world.  Students explore issues of gender, sexuality, and culture in the context of history, literature, class studies, religion, art, philosophy, sociology, the natural sciences and other areas.  The Women’s and Gender Studies program is dedicated to working for intellectual excellence, educational equity and a campus free of sexism, racism, heterosexism and other forms of discriminatory treatment.

Student Learning Goals

• Students will analyze gender and sexuality as social constructions. 
• Students will reflect on variations in women’s and men’s experiences across nations, cultures, time, class, race, religion, etc.
• Students will learn to recognize the intersectional nature of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class.

Certificate Requirements

24 credit hours in women's and gender studies, including:

• WOST-W200 Women in Society – Introduction to Women’s Studies
• WOST-W400 Selected Topics in Women's Studies (Senior Seminar)
• 18 credit hours in other women's studies courses which must include:
  •  two humanities courses from approved list of electives
  •  two social science courses from approved list of electives
  •  at least 12 of these 18 credit hours must be in 300- to 400-level courses 

Electives

Capstone