Women Studies recently expanded to offer a major. Previously, students could only earn a minor in the program. The first women studies major graduated in the spring of 1999, and another finished in the fall of that year. Since then, four to five majors have graduated per semester and the number is increasing, Learn said. The Women Studies program is interdisciplinary, with the majority of the faculty in the department coming from other UNM departments ranging from anthropology to theatre and dance to political science.
Many classes are cross-referenced with other departments.
It's a really good undergrad preparation for someone who wants to work with women. Responding to a recent resurgence of interest nationwide, the UNM Women Studies program is working with a smaller women studies department at New Mexico State University to set up a consortium of students and faculty interested in women's issues class offerings at other New Mexico schools, she said. The department has been involved with many projects supporting the scholarship of women. The UNM Women Studies program housed a feminist scholarly journal, Frontiers. The journal, which moves to another school every five years, was edited by Elizabeth Cahn from January 1991 to December 1995, before moving to Yale University.