Womens Studies

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.  

2007-2008 Laura C. Harris Symposium
Feminism and War, Feminism and Peace -click for speakers biographies

"Looking at the range of violence--from that in our homes to violence on a global sale--and critically inquiring into its complex causes and impact on women's lives"

Schedule of Events--Spring 2008

Francine D’Amico
January 28, 4:30PM
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall

Carol Cohn
Residency: February 4-8
Lecture: February 6 4:30PM
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall

Spike Peterson
February 13 4:30PM
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall

Cynthia Enloe: Spring Laura C. Harris Keynote Speaker
February 27 4:30PM
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall

Mervat Hatem
April 4 4:30PM
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall

All events are free and open to the public

Contact Us

Knapp Hall, Room 210

740-587-6297

Marlene Tromp, Chair
tromp@denison.edu

Beth Jeffries , Academic Secretary
jeffriesb@denison.edu

Mailing Address:
Women's Studies Program
Denison University
P.O. Box 810
Granville, Ohio 43023