Women's Studies Program Monmouth University's Women's Studies Minor Program offers the excitement of an interdisciplinary perspective to complement and enrich any major. The minor provides opportunity for students to analyze the world in a gendered framework, illuminating both what it is to be female and male, as well as aspects of how the world works in general. We offer a Women's Studies minor for completion of 15 credits in approved courses, which must include WS 225 Introduction to Gender and WS 370 Women's Studies Seminar. Several courses that also satisfy the Perspectives requirement can be credited towards the Women's Studies minor as well, such as Morality and the Community, Gender and Culture, and Witchcraft and Magic, and others.
Students earn credits towards the minor while pursuing their major.
In addition to our academic offerings, Women's Studies provides several programs each year that are open and free to all segments of the University as well as guests from surrounding communities. We also present a bi-annual award to an outstanding woman in the community for her service to women as well as her leadership on women's issues. Books, film and print catalogues, news and research reports, videotapes, journals and magazines are available on a wide variety of gender topics. The Women's Studies Committee solicits ideas from any student about desired courses or programs, and we encourage student attendance at our monthly meetings.