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Integrating Women’s and Gender Studies
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Integrating Women's and Gender Studies
This research project seeks to integrate women’s and gender studies into the existing curriculum for BA students. Lead by Greta Olson and Nadyne Stritzke, the project is supported by many members of the department including Wiebke Beushausen, Nadia Butt, Birte Christ, Mirjam Horn, Magnus Nissel, Svetla Rogatcheva, and Katharina Zilles. While the project is now geared to the cultural studies module in Anglistik, it is intended to be a potential model for integrating women’s and gender studies into other disciplines as well.
The first phase of the project consists of an exploratory period in which students and faculty are questioned about their interests in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies respectively. Information is being gathered about their interests in these topics outside of the university, their sense of how much these areas of study are being covered in the existing curricula, and their wishes for the future. For instance, should a degree be offered in women’s and/or gender studies? What specific topics in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies should be covered in university courses? The second stage of the project concerns an evaluation period followed by the implementation of student and faculty wishes within the scope of the cultural studies module. This will be followed, in the third stage of the project, by a lecture series in which external experts will speak about implementing women’s/gender/sexuality studies in their own institutions and about the political implications of pursuing a more women’s or gender studies trajectory of scholarship. Want to know more about our work? Visit our blog!
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