Women's and Gender Studies

所需的核心

• WGST 101 Women in Society
• WGST 450 Independent Study

选修课程

Choose 12 or more credits from at least two groups (I, II, III, IV).

我:人文

• WGST 215 Framing Gender: Latin American Film
• WGST 216 Cuba Close Up: Film since the Revolution
• WGST 254女作家
• WGST 256 Multicultural American Literature
• WGST 324 Queer American 历史
• WGST 412 Gender and American Film
• WGST 465 Gender, Race, Class and Media
• WGST 481 International Women Writers

II:社会科学

• WGST 246 Sex and the Body Politic
• WGST 253 Social Welfare Institutions
• WGST 305 Gender and 组织
• WGST 320 Parenting Seminar
• WGST 346 Sociology of Sex and Gender
• WGST 348 Sociology of 家庭
• WGST 351 Human Sexuality
• WGST 372 Psychology of Gender

III: Fine and Performing 艺术

• WGST 211 Women in Theatre, Society & 政治
• WGST 382 Women/Art/历史

四:妇女研究

• WGST 201 Gender and 领导
• WGST 475 Women’s 领导 Academy Practicum

Special Topics courses in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST 200, 300, 400) also count as electives toward the minor. Recent topics include Queer Hollywood, Toni Morrison, Women in Music, and Modern European 历史.

The program aims to achieve these learning outcomes:

• 收购, synthesize and communicate knowledge about feminist and gender theories and scholarship, and apply feminist perspectives across multiple disciplines.
• Identify, compare, and evaluate culturally and historically specific constructions of gender.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct interdisciplinary feminist research and analysis.
• Engage in critical debates concerning women's and gender issues and understand the relationship between Women's and Gender Studies scholarship and social action.
• Understand the intersections of sex, 性, and gender with other culturally constructed identities, such as those based on race, 种族, class, 和年龄.

Each year, Alfred University hosts the Elizabeth Hallenbeck Riley and Charles P. Riley Lectureship in Women's Studies. Charles Riley and Elizabeth Hallenbeck Riley were AU graduates (Charles in 1935 and Elizabeth in 1936). Elizabeth was a local 积极分子 involved in women's rights issues. Their daughters, Pamela Riley Osborn ('62), Patricia A. Riley ('65), and Melissa Riley generously sponsored the lecture series in memory of their parents. The Riley sisters' gift is a completion of the memorial Charles Riley had planned for his wife but had not completed before his death.

At the inaugural lecture in April 1996, 凯伦·波特, former director of the Women's and Gender Studies program, noted that the lectureship "validates the work of women's studies. It reaffirms our sense of community, and it helps make that community visible."

Lectures From Recent Past

2024

Dr. 梅根P. Galloway, JD, PhD (AU 2010)
Senior Counsel, Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. 律政司
"The Stories We Tell Ourselves:  Using Narrative to Advance Policy Solutions to Our Most Pressing Social Problems"

2023

Dr. Cora Fernández Anderson, Associate 教授 of Comparative 政治 at Mount Holyoke College
"Fighting for Abortion Rights: Lessons from Latin America"
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Dr. 卡特里娜Kimport, 教授, ANSIRH (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive 健康), University of California – San Francisco
"No Real Choice: How Culture and 政治 Matter for Reproductive Autonomy"

2022 (Zoom讲座)

Dr. 莫娜Hanna-Attisha, 医生, 积极分子, and Associate 教授 in the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University.  的作者 What the Eyes Don’t See (2018) about the Flint water crisis.
"Dr. Mona in a Conversation with Dr. Michele Hluchy, 教授 of Environmental Studies and Geology, Alfred University"

2021 (Zoom讲座)

爱丽丝谢泼德
Dancer, Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, a leading disability arts ensemble
"Our World Runs Deep: Intersectional Disability Aesthetics and Culture"

2020

取消了

2019

珍珠迪克
Artist, educator, Activist
"Glassblowing and healing trauma: a queer woman of color’s feminist approach"

2018

Dr. 罗伯塔Cordano
President, Gallaudet University
"Creating a Sense of Belonging: Musings of a Deaf College President"

2017

夏洛特群
人权活动家
"The Dance of Feminism with Human Rights: Reflections from the Past 25 Years of Global Women's Human Rights"

2016

瓦莱丽Naranjo
音乐家
"Breaking Gender and Cultural Boundaries: A Conversation with World-Renowned Percussionist 瓦莱丽Naranjo"

2015

Nadine Strossen
教授 of Law, New York Law School; Former president, ACLU
"Sex, Gender, and Civil Liberties on American College Campuses"

2014

Kathleen Basile, PhD, '91
Lead Behavioral Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control
"Sexual Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control: Examining the Gendered Nature of Sexual Violence and the Importance of Public 健康"

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The Alfred University Women's and Gender Studies Program grew out of Alfred's historically liberal, progressive college environment and unique feminist history. 成立于1836年, AU was the second co-educational college in the United States and the first in New York State.

Alfred University has always encouraged not only women's education, but also the opportunity for women to work. 乔纳森•艾伦, the University's second president, 曾经说过, “我不明白为什么, 如果女人有头脑, it was given her to be cramped and dwarfed and starved." He refused to let the narrow visions of other institutions interfere with his goals for the young women of Alfred University. "Woman is knocking at college doors for admission," he said, "...Many colleges have slammed their doors in her face."

阿比盖尔·艾伦, Jonathan's wife and a professor at AU, shared her husband's vision of educational equality at Alfred. A revolutionary woman of her time, Abigail's contributions are still honored by university students and faculty today. 阿比盖尔·艾伦 believed that men and women alike must work to challenge the limits set by society and institution. "Any culture to be noblest .... must move on the high tide of human progress, keep abreast of the world's advance movements: in one word, 是激进的, 彻底激进."

Founded as a Women's Studies Program in 1983, the name was changed to Women's and Gender Studies in 2013 to better reflect the program's focus and curriculum. The program continues to offer students the opportunity to explore the interdisciplinary fields of women's and gender studies by combining courses from a variety of traditional disciplines with ones designed specifically for the program.

Our approach exposes students to a variety of conceptual frameworks, 经历, 个人风格, 的想法, 和问题. We encourage an exploration of the many ideological positions possible within as well as outside the body of work considered Women's and Gender Studies. 教师 from throughout the university participate in the program.

The 阿比盖尔·艾伦 Award: Honoring Those Who Improve the Quality of Women's Lives

The 阿比盖尔·艾伦 Award is given in memory of 阿比盖尔·艾伦, a founding mother of Alfred University, who dedicated her life's work to advancing the cause of coeducation and encouraging women to pursue higher education. 这样做的时候, she contributed immeasurably to improving the quality of women's lives on our campus and in the wider community.

The faculty/ staff award is presented to a faculty or staff member who has contributed to our campus and community by improving the quality of women's lives and whose exceptional efforts deserve recognition in this vein.

The student award is given to an outstanding senior Women's and Gender Studies minor whose academic performance and service to the university community, particularly to the Women's and Gender Studies community, exemplifies the standards established by 阿比盖尔·艾伦 herself.