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Skills Acquired through a Women's Studies Education

 

Information taken from the National Women's Studies Association Women's Studies Program Administrator's Handbook, 2006, and based on alumni reports posted online on various Women's Studies program web pages in the U.S. 

Students educated in Women's Studies are prepared to:

  1. Rethink academic disciplines from the perspective of women's experiences
  2. Understand differences between women and similarities among them
  3. Articulate differences between feminisms and similarities among them
  4. Creatively pursue a struggle for justice and equality
  5. Articulate the contributions of women to the arts, sciences, humanities, and politics
  6. Support liberation movements that oppose the exploitation of women
  7. Examine the causes and solutions to violence against women
  8. Eliminate forms of illegitimate discrimination between girls and boys
  9. Examine connections between personal issues and larger issues of social and political justice
  10. Address issues such as sexual harassment, flextime, parental leave, pay equity and equal employment opportunities
  11. Develop essential civic engagement skills
  12. Understand the multiple intersections among racism, sexism, heterosexism and homophobia, classism, and other forms of oppression
  13. Correct gender bias in academic literature and other cultural texts that have omitted, minimized or devalued the contributions of women
  14. Seize, promote and sustain opportunities for women's leadership
  15. Develop and refine both critical and abstract thinking
  16. Organize and synthesize material in new and effective ways
  17. Cultivate communication skills, oral speaking and presentation skills
  18. Write clearly and creatively
  19. Work collaboratively
  20. Become and engaged and active learner
  21. Learn new leadership skills
  22. Effectively analyze and articulate competing perspectives
  23. Practice creative problem solving
  24. Apply research to social and cultural issues and identify solutions
  25. Confront injustice and oppression
  26. Support diverse individual efforts and choices
  27. Analyze inequities and initiate change
  28. Promote equitable treatment of all members of society
  29. Imagine ways of transforming your world
  30. Understand and use knowledge about power relationships and injustice
  31. Engage in social activism and encourage others to be active
  32. Critique and evaluate social issues and problems
  33. Analyze cultural events and texts; articulate how they impact people's lives
  34. Develop new agendas for old problems
  35. Become a social change agent through discussion, written work, collaborative projects and real world involvement
  36. Critically analyze gender and the pursuit of knowledge about women
  37. Become politically active
  38. Critically examine you personal life and public roles
  39. Connect what you study with how you live and work
  40. Practice collective activism
  41. Shape thoughts and actions into a coherent vision of a better, more humane society
  42. Create strong families and social relationships
  43. Appreciate women, their ideas, their contributions and their resources
  44. Empower others to create change
  45. Understand language a manes of liberation of discrimination
  46. Use, and understand the function of, gender inclusive language in written and oral communication
  47. Prepare to face a professional environment where women are supervisors, colleagues and subordinates
  48. Question and challenge dominant ideologies by highlighting the importance of traditional women's spheres, such as nurturing, family and community
  49. Proficiently find and use information on contemporary social issues
  50. Question social boundaries and expectations
  51. Incorporate information technologies and community service learning experiences
  52. Develop links to the community, and business and professional sites
  53. Foster a deeper connection with community and political life
  54. Identify cutting edge issues facing women and articulate their impact
  55. Seek out hidden histories and the lessons we might still learn from them
  56. Listen to, and work to understand, others' thoughts and ideas
  57. Enter the workforce with open minds about the challenges of the work place
  58. Train the next generations with a better understanding and appreciation of our diverse and multicultural world
  59. Utilize knowledge to change the world in positive, life-affirming ways

 
 
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