They may work in positions of responsibility in a variety of community service and other organizations that relate to the needs or concerns of women. Consult the coordinator of women's studies. Research Seminar Majors in women's studies are required to take a seminar or do advanced independent study to complete their work in the program. The seminar, determined by the other fields in which the women's studies majors concentrate, varies from year to year. Consult the women's studies coordinator early to plan either a senior research seminar or the independent study that may be substituted for it.
Examples are cross-cultural, contemporary, and historical.
Analyzes the various forms that gender inequality assumes in a number of Third World countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Women's political roles, especially in social movements, conventional politics. Effects of public policy on women. Roles that women have played as subjects and objects in war and peace. Topic varies from year to year.