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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.

 

Department Announcements

Shannon L. Hamm Memorial Scholarship Applications - Due April 12, 2010

GWS majors who are Juniors and Seniors may apply for a Shannon L. Hamm Memorial Scholarship. This is an annual scholarship awarded by the Gender and Women's Studies Department in memory of Shannon L. Hamm to further feminist education.

Please CLICK HERE for more information on the scholarship

Please CLICK HERE for the application form

Part-Time Faculty Applications - Due April 16, 2010

Part-time faculty applications must be received by April 16, 2010 in order to be considered for available part-time teaching positions in GWS for the 2010-11 academic year. Of course, final determination of part-time teaching assignments is contingent upon student enrollment figures and funding.

CLICK HERE for the Application Form.

 

Department Highlights

March 16th - When Will The Punishment End?

Dr. Marta Lopez-Garza will screen her documentary on formerly incarcerated women. 4 p.m. Noski Auditorium.

Dr. Lopez-Garza is a faculty member in Gender and Women's Studies and the film represents her directorial debut. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with a panel of 4 of the women in the film.

 

Spring 2010 Event Highlights

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

March is HERSTORY month!

Click HERE for the Women's Herstory Month Calendar

March 15, 2010. Linda Sax. "The Gender Gap in College: Findings from a National Study and Implications for Campus Practice." 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Flintridge Room (In the USU, 2nd floor, above the Gym).

March 16, 2010. Screening of When Will The Punishment End, a documentary about formerly incarcerated women directed by Prof. Marta Lopez-Garza. 4-7 p.m. Noski Auditorium. The screening will be followed by a Q&A panel with some of the women in the film and the director.

March 19, 2010. Marie Cartier: Listening to the Narratives of Pre-Stonewall Gay Women. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Sierra Hall 451 (Whitsett Room).

March 30, 2010. Queer Studies Spring Lecture Series Featuring Writer John Rechy. Internationally celebrated writer John Rechy will be the featured speaker at this year’s QS Spring Lecture Series. Rechy, the author of 15 books, including the best-selling and widely acclaimed novel City of Night, is a pioneer of modern gay literature and a prominent Chicano writer. Sierra Hall 451 (Whitsett Room). Reception at 4 p.m. Lecture begins at 5 p.m., followed by a Q & A with the author. Event ends at 6:30 p.m. Event is open to the public.

April

April 27, 2010. Gender and Women's Studies Student Conference. Sierra Hall, Rm 451. Whitsett Room. Watch this space for further details.

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.

CLICK HERE for Gender and Women's Studies Major Requirements.

Gender and Women's Studies Minor

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

CLICK HERE for Gender and Women's Studies Minor Requirements

CLICK HERE for 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.

 

CLICK HERE for Phenomenal Woman Awards

Phenomenal Woman Honorees 2008

Phenomenal Woman Honorees 2006

Phenomenal Woman Forum 2009

Click here to go directly to the pictures of the 2009 Phenomenal Woman Forum