PROGRAMME: B.A. DEGREE COURSE

WOMEN’S STUDIES GENERAL

Program Specific Outcomes

The goal of Women’s Studies is to analyse complex systems of power that are structured by gender, race, ethnicity, and class. From an interdisciplinary perspective, students explore a sophisticated body of knowledge and academic discipline to develop the skills for critical thinking and civic engagement.

After graduation, our students are expected to be able to:

1. Describe how the effects of gender, sexuality, race, and class intersect in the construction of identity and institutional formations.

2. Demonstrate proficiency in writing and oral communication skills.

3. Understand and evaluate major theories and texts central to Women’s Studies.

4. Conduct research using feminist methodologies.

5. Use feminist frameworks to analyse the structure of women’s representations in media, language, and texts.

6. Demonstrate critical and analytic thinking skills.

7. Apply acquired knowledge toward academic, professional, and personal development.

8. Be equipped to work in different fields related to NGOs and different development sectors which deals with legal and ethico-politicial concept of gender and women’s issues.

9. Use their knowledge in academia.

10. Develop skills of leadership, advocacy, organization, and community building to bring about social change and to execute ideas related to Gender and public policy

11. To understand how the women’s movement had an impact on the practice of psychotherapy and developed and integrated feminist philosophy into therapeutic practice.