What is Women's Studies/A Women's Studies Program?
...on, public and social policy. Women's Studies addresses the need for a fuller understanding of women and adopting new criteria and methods for assessing the status of women. Classes will vary in each school, but many of the requirements could focus on Women's History (both American and World), Women's Health, Women in Literature, Sociology of Women, Women in Politics, Sex and Gender, and Feminist Theory. Students who have specialized in women’s studies have gone on to successful careers in a variety of fields including public policy; health, social, and human services; education and the arts; media; mathematics; technology; law and government. Simon Fraser University polled their women’s studies graduates to see what they were doing with their degrees. More than half of those with an undergraduate major in women’s studies went on to take further education or p...