Detailed information about the minor is found in the description of undergraduate study for Course IX, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Students should ask the UROP coordinators for specific departments about projects currently available. The interdisciplinary HASS minor in Public Policy is intended to provide a single framework for students who are interested in the role of public policy in the field of their technical expertise. The description of undergraduate study for Course XI in Chapter 7 of this Bulletin contains a detailed description and list of requirements for this minor. The Russian Studies program allows undergraduates to focus on the literature, history, and culture of the constituent republics of the former Soviet Union, with particular attention to the Russian Republic.
Subjects are to be taken primarily in history, literature, political science, and Russian language.
See the section Additional Degree Programs later in this chapter. Program Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the significance of gender in American society and other social systems around the world. The experience of women in engineering, medicine, law, and other professions has often been ignored. Women's Studies examines the design of new, inclusive paradigms as well as the resistance to change. The questions that should be asked about the role of women in different social systems, the lives and histories of women who have been marginalized despite their shaping influence on society, the current international debates over women's bodies, reproduction, and sexuality, and the way in which different cultures exclude or include women in the political sphere are part of this interdisciplinary field.