The Curriculum in Women's Studies
Chair, E. Jane Burns
207 Caldwell Hall
Campus Box # 3135
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Telephone: (919) 962-3908
Fax: (919) 962-5839
Email: wmst@unc.edu
http://metalab.unc.edu/wmst/




Mission Statement

The goal of the Curriculum in Women's Studies is to transform the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill into an institution that takes full account of the perspectives, needs, and interests of women in every dimension of its activities. As a discipline, Women's Studies critiques the traditional curriculum that reflects the biases of white, middle class men and ignores the experiences of other races, other classes, and of women. It offers a methodology that is interdisciplinary, multicultural, and feminist. The Curriculum in Women's Studies believes that the most effective way to achieve its aims is to provide a superior program for its undergraduate majors and to encourage the development of an innovative curriculum for graduate students. It seeks to accomplish this goal through a dual strategy: its small faculty teach cutting-edge, interdisciplinary courses at the same time that faculty in a wide variety of departments and curricula teach cross-listed courses on women and gender.

Women's Studies seeks to create an extracurricular environment that supports and fosters the intellectual achievement of faculty and students interested in women and gender and of all female faculty and students whatever their interests. The Curriculum sponsors monthly colloquia and many lectures, often in cooperation with other departments, curricula, and groups outside the University. It also cooperates with and supports graduate and undergraduate feminist organizations on campus, such as the Feminist Alliance, POWER, and Women's Issues Network. The Women's Studies Curriculum recognizes its responsibility to serve the larger Chapel Hill community. Through its popular and growing internship program, Women's Studies encourages students to give back to as well as to team from this community and to demonstrate the practical relevance of the issues with which the Curriculum is concerned.