This is an interdisciplinary minor designed to enhance any degree program. Women's Studies seeks to recognize the diversity of human experience and examine the interplay of gender, race, class, and sexuality by focusing on the experience of women, the concept of gender, and the cultural productions by and about women within different contexts and across various identities and academic disciplines.

• Required core course: CMST/ENGL 150.
• Electives: ART 412; CMST 220; CMST 466-H; ENGL 183, 393 (Wharton / Austen / Morrison); HIST 253; 282; HLTH 408; MSES 403; PHIL 260; POLS 243; PSY 292; RECR 241; SOC 325, 377.
• Required seminar: When the core course and 12 hours of Women's Studies electives have been completed, the student will enroll in CMST, ENGL, PSY, or SOC 498. At least 6 of the required 18 semester hours for the minor must be 300 or 400- level courses.
• An internship option (3 – 15 cr.) is an available as part of the Women's Studies minor. Students should contact the Women's Studies Coordinator and enroll in CMST 487. These credits are in addition to the required 18 credit hours indicated above.

• Year 1: CMST/ENGL 150 followed by a 100- or 200- level elective Women's Studies/ General Education course.
• Year 2: 6 credits of 100- or 200-level Women's Studies/General Education courses.
• Year 3: 3 credits of 300- or 400-level Women's Studies elective
• Year 4: CMST/ENGL/PSY/SOC 498

THE WOMEN'S CENTER

The Women's Center at ESU serves as a site for student learning, academic resources, and projects for social change. Located in Rosenkrans East, the Center is open 8:00 to 4:30 Monday through Friday. Women for Awareness, a Student Activities Association organization, operates out of the Women's Center to raise campus awareness about women's issues through programming and activism. The Women's Center is a forum for putting into practice the academic theories of Women's Studies.