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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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For more information contact:
Diane Price-Herndl
Director
345 Catt Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011

515.294.9733
dph@iastate.edu

Group

May 2008 Awards
Front Row: Alissa Stoehr, recipient of the Women's Studies Graduate Scholarship; Maggie Luttrell, recipient of the Linda Galyon Undergraduate Scholarship; Julia MacMillan, graduating senior; Diane Price Herndl, director.
Back Row: Julie Snyder-Yuly, assistant director; Robin  Gogerty, administrative assistant;  Laurel Tweed, graduating graduate student; Brenda Daly, affiliate faculty; Andrea Weare, graduating graduate student; Nikki Bado-Fralick, associate professor.

Women's Studies Program

The Women's Studies Program at Iowa State University offers an undergraduate major and minor in Women's Studies. Students who choose to do a major must declare either a second major or a minor. The Program also offers a graduate minor. Women's Studies may be defined as the critical and scholarly pursuit of knowledge about women from feminist, interdisciplinary perspectives.

The Women's Studies Program at Iowa State University has been in existence since 1977. From a few cross-listed courses offered by only four departments, and a handful of students and affiliated faculty, the program has grown to include twelve core and over twenty cross-listed courses, with hundreds of students enrolled each semester, an undergraduate major and a graduate minor, over sixty affiliated faculty, a full-time director, and an active Program Committee composed of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students.

Mission Statement

2008 Spring Courses (PDF File)

Professional Development Small Grants
Applications due March 7

Graduate Assistants
Applications due March 7

Current Activities and Projects

  • PAST EVENTS
    Susan Faludi
    Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
    Susan Faludi
    Monday, November 12

    Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She is also the author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Her new book, The Terror Dream examines the post-9/11 outpourings in the media and popular culture and how America's fear of home-soil terrorism has been the foundation of first one war and then another. The Women's Studies Program 30th Anniversary Keynote Address.
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Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication - History - Mathematics - Military Science - Music - Naval Science
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African American Studies - American Indian Studies - Biological/Premedical Illustration - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Classical Studies - Communication Studies - Criminal Justice Studies - Environmental Science - Environmental Studies - Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies - Liberal Studies - Linguistics - Software Engineering - Speech Communication - U.S. Latino/a Studies - Women's Studies