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The Women's Studies certificate will enhance awareness of women's issues. Upon completion of this program, graduates may seek to transfer certificate courses to a women's studies degree program at a college or university. Students should choose electives based on educational/employment requirements and transfer of the course(s) to colleges and universities.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

1. Identify historical and current social, legal, economic, political and psychological issues in women's lives, locally and globally.
2. Describe women's contribution to and participation in culture, politics, society, economy and religion and how the methodologies and theories of feminism have changed these changed these institutions.
3. Connect concepts of power, privilege, oppression and patriarchy within various historical, economic, political and psychological areas.
4. Describe how gender (along with class, race, ethnicity, ability, physical and mental challenges and sexual orientation) combine to form identity.
5. Discuss forms of institutional discrimination and violence against women.

See the graduation checksheet for this program in printable PDF form.

Certificate Requirements

Minimum Credits to Graduate: 18

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