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RESOURCES

Courses

Please click here for the Spring 2010 classes in GWS.

There are 3 electives we are highlighting for Spring 2010

GWS Chair

The Department Chair for Gender & Women's Studies is Dr. Sheena Malhotra

Please follow the link to Dr. Malhotra's webpage (below) for her office hours and contact information.

Advising

Dr. Dianne Bartlow will serve as the Advisor for Gender & Women's Studies in Fall 2009.

Please come in and see the GWS Advisor if you have any questions about your class scheduling or if you are considering Gender and Women's Studies as a major or minor.

For GWS Students...

Helpful Forms for GWS majors
GWS Student Scholarship

Every year the Gender and Women's Studies Department awards the Shannon L. Hamm Memorial Gender & Women's Studies scholarship to an outstanding GWS Junior. Click here for information on the Scholarship.

Links to GWS Clubs and Organizations

NEWS AND INFORMATION

Gender & Women's Studies Department

California State University, Northridge

18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8251

Phone: 818-677-3110
Fax: 818-677-7094

The Gender and Women's Studies Department is located in Jerome Richfield 340.

College of Humanities

 

Department Highlights

Phenomenal Woman Forum 2009

On September 23rd, 2009, the Gender and Women's Studies department invited women who had won the Phenomenal Woman Award in years past, to return to CSUN and talk to our students and community about Gender Issues in Health/Economic and Public Policy.

Seven previous awardees took up our invitation and graced the event. One of them, Dr. Elizabeth Berry served as the moderator. The rest of the speakers for the Phenomenal Woman Forum were: Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, Dr. Jane Bayes, Susan Burton, Wanda Coleman, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Graciela Limon.

The event was held at the USU Grand Salon, with an overflowing crowd of over 200 people. The evening was electric as students and the phenomenal speakers dialogued about issues ranging from the rising cost of tuition, to poetry, to health care reform and global gender issues in this time of possibility and change. Students reported feeling inspired and motivated by the examples of service and change each of the speakers provided.

Please click here for a link to more information on the event.

Click here to go directly to the pictures of the Phenomenal Woman Forum

 

 

Fall 2009 Event Highlights

Click here for a complete list of GWS EVENTS for this semester.

September

September 23. The Phenomenal Woman Forum On Women and the Global Impact of the Economy, Health and Public Policy. Featuring dialogue between seven Phenomenal Woman Awardees and the CSUN community. USU Grand Salon.

  • 4:00-5:00 p.m. Reception.
  • 5:00-6:30 p.m. Discussion Forum.

Free and open to the public.

November

November 2. 4th Annual College of Humanities International Film Festival: Race, Privilege and Exclusions. Armer Theater, Manzanita Hall. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Click here for event program.

November 5. Conversations with Hollywood Screenwriter, Barry Sandler. Manzanita Hall 130, 4-6 p.m. Mr. Sandler will show clips and speak about bringing gay images and romance to mainstream cinema. Click here for the flier for the event.

November 9. Honoring Esha Momeni. 4-6:30 p.m. USU, Northridge Center. Click here for the flier for the event.

Please click here to view Artist Credits for the art used throughout the GWS webpage.

 

Welcome to Gender & Women's Studies

As of Spring 2008, our department has a new name: Gender and Women’s Studies. This better reflects our department’s mission, curriculum learning objectives, and scope of our faculty members’ scholarship.

The Gender & Women’s Studies Department at CSUN emphasizes interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational studies with a focus on gender.

It includes course work in feminist theories, women and social movements, transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, postcolonial feminism, women’s economic conditions in the context of globalization and development, productions of women in the media and literature, queer studies, women’s health and masculinity studies.

The Gender and Women’s Studies Department teaches students to view the world with a critical analytical approach grounded in a social justice framework. The department adheres to a disciplinary practice that centers on an integrative, intersectional framing of issues concerning gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, age and the differently abled.

Students at a "Take Back the Night" rally

The Major and Minor

The major and minor provide a background for various careers such as law, counseling and healthcare or advanced graduate degrees in fields such as Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, education, communication, political, cultural and media studies.

Gender and Women's Studies Major

Gender and Women's Studies offers a 45 unit major.

Gender and Women's Studies Major Requirements.

Gender and Women's Studies Minor

Gender and Women's Studies offers a 21 unit minor.

Gender and Women's Studies Minor Requirements

Gender and Women's Studies Learning Outcomes

Phenomenal Woman Awards

Mural of Womens Studies

Phenomenal Woman Awards

The Gender and Women’s Studies Department at CSUN honors five outstanding women every two years with a Phenomenal Woman Award. The Phenomenal Woman Awards event celebrates women who have made important contributions to our community.

It also allows the Gender and Women’s Studies Department to raise funds to sponsor special programming, support student and faculty research, and finance scholarships for Women’s Studies majors. In addition, these contributions support the Women’s Resource & Research Center, the oldest continuing women’s center within the California State University system.

 

Phenomenal Woman Honorees 2008

Phenomenal Woman Honorees 2006

Phenomenal Woman Forum 2009