The Women's and Gender Studies Program at UMF offers an interdisciplinary major and minor and elective women’s and gender studies courses across the curriculum.

What's New: Upcoming Events!

Courses: Alice Adams

Spring 2008 Course Materials: Ann Kennedy

Fall 2008 WGS Course Lisintgs

We've designed the program to facilitate connections between:

• culturally familiar and unfamiliar knowledge
• local lives and global realities
• course content and the critical faculties
  
• gender and other ways of determining identity, including race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion
• students and faculty
• life as a student and life as a citizen of the world
• theory and practice

 

EVENTS! In addition to its academic offerings and internships, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program supports events throughout the year that highlight issues of importance to women, including:

• The Nordica Celebration of Women in the Arts
• The Maine Women’s Studies Conference
• Women's History Banquet
• Ripple, a feminist magazine, designed written and published by Women’s Studies students

What Students Have to Say

"Most valuable to me about the program and courses was that I was shown a perspective different than I had been taught before. Actually, I learned that there exist many different perspectives, and that I was not forced to subscribe to any one of them."

"It has been an eye-opener to a world that I’ve never known before."

"While in the program, I felt that I was on the cutting edge of knowledge. I loved discussing current practices and issues affecting women right now."

"The courses I have taken have changed my life in fundamental ways. Coming to Farmington for this program has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have been able to study the written material with more focus than any other area I have ever been involved in and apply it not only in academia, but in life."

"I feel as if I am claiming my education instead of sitting back and receiving the minimals. I ask questions and feel more confident about myself and my education."

"Taking Women’s Studies courses has really helped me develop a direction in my education; where a plain History major left me not knowing what I was going to do after college, now I have tons of ideas."