Women's Studies Program
The Denison Women's Studies program offers approximately 26 courses throughout the college and provides both a major and a minor. A major requires completion of 32 hours in Women's Studies; a minor requires 24 credit hours. The program is unique for its breadth and depth at a college of Denison's size, and the University is recognized nationally for its educational leadership in requiring a Women's Studies or Minority Studies course of all its graduates.
Mission Statement
The Women's Studies Program at Denison University takes its mission to be three-fold. We intend to foster a critical awareness of and intellectual sensitivity to:
- Women's issues, the role of gender, and the relationship between gender and other politicized aspects of "identity," including race, class, age, religion, sexuality;
- Methods inflected by the interdisciplinary of women's studies;
- And real-life implications of the field-how the academic study of women's issues and gender is informed by and has the power to transform real lives, both others' and our own.
Contact Us
Knapp Hall, Room 210
Phone: 740-587-6297
Barbara Fultner, Program Chair
fultner@denison.edu
Melissa Feldner, Academic Administrative Assistant
feldnerm@denison.edu
Mailing Address:
Women's Studies Program
Denison University
P.O. Box 810
Granville, Ohio 43023
The portraits displayed on the Women’s Studies website and on display in the Women’s Studies program office in Knapp Hall were created by Harper Leich, '04, a studio art major with a concentration in painting and printmaking.
In the spring of 2003 the Women's Studies office asked Harper to paint a series of portraits to be displayed in their office. Harper worked on the project throughout her senior year completing more than forty 18" x 18" panels featuring familiar faces of women from Denison; faculty and students alike, along with prominent women from art, music, and literature, as well as a few friends of the artist.
The Women's Studies program wishes to thank Harper for lending her talents to this project.