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Mission Statement The Women’s Studies Minor at Tennessee State University seeks to develop, enhance, and strengthen the University’s general education program by providing an organizational structure for the focused study of women as serious academic inquiry. An 18-hour undergraduate minor, the Women’s Studies Program brings together and integrates courses from across many departments of the University that explore issues of gender, sexuality, and inequality through examinations of the lives of women, the work of women, and the social representations of women, in contemporary and historic contexts, around the globe and within the U.S., and across differing races, ethnicities, classes, and social groups. The Women’s Studies Program is expressly multidisciplinary and interdepartmental, and its purpose is to provide a framework for new scholarship about women--multiculturally, multidimensionally, and multinationally. Within a University community richly diverse in gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, faith, economic structures, and sexual orientation, the proposed Women’s Studies program provides another forum for students to consider the social construction of difference through analysis of literature, the arts, the media, social theory, histories, and cultures. The Women’s Studies Program at TSU promotes integrative thinking, reevaluation, and new ideas about women, as a local contribution toward expanded global understanding and respect for women.
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