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How to Cross List Your Courses with Women's & Gender Studies

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How to have your course(s) cross-listed with Women's & Gender Studies:

Women's & Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that places women and gender issues at the center of inquiry. It examines women's roles in the family and the work place; the role of sexuality in human existence; cultural images of women, and the contributions that women have made in all areas of human endeavor.

At UNI, we have a 22 credit hour Women's & Gender Studies minor for undergraduates, and a Master's Degree in Women's & Gender Studies. If you teach an undergraduate and/or graduate course that focuses on women's and/or gender issues, consider having it cross listed as a Women's & Gender Studies elective.

Including your courses in Women’s & Gender Studies electives:

The Women's & Gender Studies Program has a list of core courses and electives in the undergraduate and graduate programs. These courses must fulfill criteria created by the Women's & Gender Studies Advisory Board. Curriculum review occurs every other year. At that time, we review our course list and add or drop courses as needed. Please feel free to send us this information at any time, but be aware that your added course will not appear in the catalog or in our brochure  until it has been officially approved by the University Curriculum Committee.

Criteria for elective courses taught in the Women’s & Gender Studies Program:

Women's & Gender Studies courses must meet three of the following criteria:

  1. One of the course's principal areas of focus must clearly be the roles, perspective, experiences, contributions or representation of women in a variety of contexts, i.e. regional, national, global.
  2. The course should equip students to identify systems of domination and subordination and analyze stereotyped assumptions and biases about gender and other intersecting identities like race, class, sexual orientation, etc. A Women's & Gender Studies course uncovers, rather than ignores or dismisses, these assumptions.
  3. The course draws from recent feminist theory and scholarship.
  4. Feminist pedagogy encourages active learning. When appropriate, the instructor should use teaching techniques that encourage student participation.
  5. The course teaches about gender and its place in culture and cultural formation in a manner designed to empower students to participate in activism.

We encourage all Women's & Gender Studies syllabi to state explicitly the ways in which the course approaches the topic from a Women's & Gender Studies perspective. Project-based courses should provide clear guidelines for how a student can receive Women's & Gender Studies credit for the course. "G" level courses should clearly state the expectations for graduate level work. 

These criteria have been formulated with the help of the Women's & Gender Studies programs at Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA) and Colby College (Waterville, ME).

Apply to have your regularly taught course listed as a Women's & Gender Studies elective:

To have your course become a permanent Women's & Gender Studies elective, send us a copy of your syllabus along with a completed "Criteria for Elective course in Women's & Gender Studies" form (see below) to Baker 170, 0509.

Apply to have your experimental or one-time-only course listed as a Women’s & Gender Studies elective in a given semester:

We understand that some courses are taught infrequently or on a  one-time-only basis.  Although these are not listed with our permanent elective courses, we do want to give our students an opportunity to use such courses to fulfill the requirements for their Women's & Gender Studies degree.

If you are planning to teach such a course, here is what you do:

Send us a brief description of your course, (no complete syllabus needed) along with a completed "Criteria for Elective Courses in Women's & Gender Studies" form (attached to end of this brochure) as soon as you know that you will be teaching the course.* We will add the course to our list of electives for that semester only. Send to Women's & Gender Studies, Baker 170, 0509.

*The deadline for the list of Women's & Gender Studies courses is the same deadline given to all academic departments each semester.

How we know what you are teaching:

Every semester at scheduling time, Women's & Gender Studies collects information about which courses faculty will be teaching in our program. With faculty in over 20 departments teaching Women's & Gender Studies courses, it is difficult to gather all of the pertinent information every semester. Our deadline for getting information to the Registrar's office is the same as your departmental deadline.  We gather information in the following ways:

  1. The Women's & Gender Studies secretary sends out requests for information to faculty in our Women's & Gender Studies Weekly Announcements. As soon as you know your schedule, please let us know! Here is an example of the information we need from you:
    Professor Jones will be teaching the following Women's & Gender Studies course in Spring/Fall 200X: 48C:123g, Rhetorical Theory , TTh 3:30-4:45
    Please also indicate if this course is a "g" or graduate level course.
  2. The Women's & Gender Studies secretary contacts the secretaries & schedulers from other departments requesting  information about courses being taught in Women's & Gender Studies. Since department secretaries & schedulers are not always privy to information about which courses are Women's & Gender Studies, it is best for you to respond to our request. 

A list of Women's & Gender Studies courses can be found toward the beginning  of each semester's schedule of classes. Students rely on this list so they know what courses they can take to fulfill the requirements.  Giving us your information will let students know about your courses!

Criteria for Elective courses in Women's and Gender Studies (revised 10/02)*

Women’s & Gender Studies courses must meet three of the following criteria:

  1. One of the course's principal areas of focus must clearly be the roles,   perspectives, experiences, contributions or representations of women in a variety of contexts, i.e. regional, national, global.
  2. The course should equip students to identify systems of domination and subordination and analyze stereotyped assumptions and biases about gender and other intersecting identities like race, class, sexual orientation, etc.  A Women's & Gender Studies course uncovers, rather than ignores or dismisses, these assumptions.
  3. The course draws from recent feminist theory and scholarship.
  4. Feminist pedagogy encourages active learning.  When appropriate, the instructor should use teaching techniques that encourage student participation.
  5. The course teaches about gender and its place in culture and cultural formation in a manner designed to empower students to participate in activism.

We encourage all Women's & Gender Studies syllabi to state explicitly the ways in which the course approaches the topic from a Women's & Gender Studies perspective.  Project-based courses should provide clear guidelines for how a student can receive Women's & Gender Studies credit for the course.  "G" level courses should clearly state the expectations for graduate level work.

 *These criteria have been formulated with the help of the Women's Studies programs at Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA) and Colby College (Waterville, ME).

Which of the above criteria does your course meet?

Briefly describe how and why your course meets these criteria.