Assessment of Student Learning
 

The Women’s Studies Program has identified a set of learning outcomes for its undergraduate curriculum. Among an array of potentially valuable outcomes, the following three represent especially important areas of expertise for each student who graduates from the program.   
 

Learning Outcome 1:  Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct interdisciplinary feminist analysis.
 

Learning Outcome 2:  Students will examine and critique ideological assumptions underlying social institutions and systems of representation, including but not limited to assumptions regarding gender, race, class, nationality, disability, age, and sexual orientation.
 

Learning Outcome 3:  Students will demonstrate an understanding of women’s historical and contemporary agency, and how it has shaped women’s lives in various geographical settings.
 

The Women's Studies Program has identified a set of learning outcomes for its graduate minor curriculum.  Among an array of potentially valuable outcomes, the following four represent especially important areas of expertise for each student who graduates from the grad minor program.

Learning Outcome 1:  Students should demonstrate the ability to conduct interdisciplinary feminist analysis. 

Learning Outcome 2:  Students should demonstrate the ability to critique ideological assumptions underlying social institutions and systems of representation, including but not limited to assumptions regarding gender, race, class, nationality, disability, age and sexual orientation.

Learning Outcome 3:  Students should demonstrate an understanding of women's historical and contemporary contributions and how these have shaped women's lives in various geographic settings.

Learning Outcome 4:  Students should demonstrate the ability to design and conduct independent feminist analysis research, or creative work.