Women's Studies Program

About Women's Studies

We offer the opportunity to pursue a major or a minor in women's studies.

Our hope is that the insights we uncover as we explore the issues above can move us beyond exclusionary theories and practices.

At its core, our Women's Studies Program is interdisciplinary, integrating knowledge from many disciplines. We pursue critical engagement with all forms of experience, applying a feminist perspective along the way.

By emphasizing interdisciplinary study, we seek to help you acquire the tools you need to analyze critically the societal, cultural, global, and personal issues that shape your life. We will challenge you to look at these issues from multiple perspectives. We also encourage you to reflect on the ways in which knowledge is produced within different and oftentimes unrecognized systems of oppression, and to critically examine categories that are presented as natural and permanent in their cultural and historical context.

Finally, the program strives to help its students acquire the skills of critical analysis and imagine alternatives that challenge the naturalizing of inequalities.

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Success after Colgate

Colgate alumni who majored in women's studies are pursuing careers in a variety of fields. Check out what just a few of our alumni are up to now:

• Alumni spotlights
• Women's studies alumni over the years

Program Contacts

Director: Meika Loe
Program Assistant: Kimmie Garner
Administrative Assistant: Letta Palmer
Office: 107B East Hall
Phone: 315-228-7156 or 315-228-6868
Dept. Fax: 315-228-7507