Department of History and Political Science
The Margaret Stevenson Center for Women's Studies

Point Loma's women's studies program seeks to examine gender issues, explore the struggle to overcome discrimination, and to identify the diversity that exists in society and culture with the Margaret Stevenson Center for Women’s Studies (located in Clara Colt Hall) and an interdisciplinary minor in women’s studies.

Overview

The women’s studies minor has a four-part mission. It seeks to affirm women’s calling in ministry, based in the Wesleyan tradition; it embodies a commitment to gender equality by addressing gender issues in the curriculum and on the campus; it provides a central place to gather and share resources and knowledge by and for women; and it aims to combine both theory and praxis regarding gender, while encouraging multicultural, cooperative, inclusive, and relational ways of learning that are in line with the mission of the university. Required courses for the minor include The Politics of Race, Class and Gender, and Development of Feminist Thought. Additional elective courses which can be taken focus on women’s roles in politics and Christianity, women’s nutrition, women’s literature, and women in the multicultural world.

Special Features:

• Opportunity to complete a two-unit internship supervised by the director of women’s studies.
• Access to Women’s Studies Center, which offers an extensive collection of videos, journals, and books about important women’s issues.
• Opportunity to participate in the annual speaker series, which in the past has featured writer Lauren Winner, historian Elaine Tyler May, theologians Rebecca Chopp and Paul Chilcote, Islam and gender expert Huma Ghosh, poet Mary Crow, and preacher Diane Leclerc.
• Opportunity to participate in various other conferences, seminars, and film forums.

• Limitless opportunities with a liberal arts degree.
• Social Work
• Public Health
• Graduate School and Education
• Women’s Historian