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Great Article regarding a Women's Studies

This article was posted in the local paper this week. What I can't believe is the person's comments after it was posted...


Professor wants Women's Studies program expanded

The University’s Women's Studies Program began in 1994 with an undergraduate minor. Four years later, the school approved the graduate minor as well.

English professor Dr. Harris would like to see the program's role on campus expand even further.
"I would want it to develop into a center for women's and gender studies and I would like to have the major established by then and have it to be a viable part of the university," Harris told the [newspaper] editorial board on Wednesday.

Harris has been the Women's Studies director for two years.
The program, which currently has 10 minors, does not have a university budget. Harris said she gets a course release from her English department load to teach Women's Studies courses.
But Harris said she does have the support of College of Arts and Letters Dean Dr. von Herrmann to grow the program.

One of the reasons for this support is that classes are quite popular. In a typical academic year, Harris said the program has expanded its menu from three to six courses as a response to student demand. Harris said that Women's Studies courses explore the roles of women globally across culture, race and class.
The program, for example, will host a movie Oct. 27 that highlights the role of black women in the struggle to get the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage) passed. The event, honoring the amendment's 90th anniversary, features a partnership with the Hattiesburg alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Harris said the film will fill in the gaps of texts - including the ones she uses in class - that focus solely on the role of white women in the suffrage.
"There's no mention of people like Ida B. Wells (black journalist) who was born right here in Mississippi," Harris said.
The program is also unique in the way that it incorporates student experiences into its classes.

"It's one of the classes where they (the students) get to speak of their own experiences as young adults, whether it's types of discrimination they've felt or any kinds of oppression. It's a program where the academic situation and personal experience match up with each other," Harris said. She explained that a Women's Studies major, if implemented, would be useful for students who desire teaching or policy-making jobs, as well as social service jobs with women's shelters or children's centers.


And this was one person’s response to this article in the local paper:

And [the university] can find time to offer this liberal propaganda? This is what is wrong with so-called higher education. The course is popular because it appeals to those with victimhood syndrome, plus it is a sop course where you can get credit by watching movies! Keep up the good work, and next time you have to cut the budget, try cutting this type of garbage.

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Post Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:35 pm 
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I'd be interested to know if the responder to the article was male or female. Sometimes it still feels like we are living in the 19th century but thank heavens the course doesn't make any mention of studies of famous gay women in history, imagine what the response would have been then???






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WAAAAAAYYYYYY back in the 70s when we were fighting to get these programs/course in the ciriculum (always have had trouble spelling that word) ... we received the same sort of "neg vibe" ....

good thing is, we DID get the courses established ... AND ... there is merit in them... yes, directly/particularly because it DOES get young women speaking and thinking independently AND comparing realities AND working through them

so ya know what little Ms. whoever responder? ... you live your life , and we'll live ours .......

it's that simple ...

don't get hung up on the small stuff ..
push through
find, define, be
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