Women in Curriculum/Women's Studies

Undergraduate & Graduate Program

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”

- June Jordan

The goals of the Women’s Studies Program are:

• To teach and learn about all women’s experiences, past and present
• To make women visible in their similarities and differences
• To value personal experience as a way of knowing
• To create new knowledge about women and apply it to personal, political, and institutional change
• To strengthen the links among women and among women’s programs in the community and on campus
• To empower women by increasing choices in all women’s lives

Women’s Studies Programs

• Minor in Women’s Studies
• International Affairs/Women’s Studies (WST)
• Graduate Specializations in Women’s Studies
• Women’s Studies Major Proposal (implemented in 1997, PDF File)

Women’s Studies Courses and Electives

• WST Undergraduate Courses
• WST Graduate Courses
• Approved Departmental Electives
• WST Courses that meet General Education Requirements

Faculty

• WST Undergraduate Faculty
• WST Graduate Faculty

Women’s Resources and Organizations at the University of Maine

• Research Collaborative on Violence Against Women

Maine Feminist Oral History Project:

• General Description
• Our script, “The ‘Somebody Else’ Was Us” (PDF)

Article from Voice: The Journal of the Battered Women’s Movement “Spruce Run and the Politics of Empowerment” (PDF)
by Mazie Hough, Ann Schonberger, and the Feminist Oral History Project