Women's Studies Is Personally Fulfilling

Our students say, Women's Studies —

• Inspires you to be empowered and to empower others

• Builds a strong sense of community that moves outside of the classroom; you carry the ideas and thoughts that you generate in the class to your life outside of class

• Emphasizes discussion, which creates a lot of space for multiple perspectives, and allows you to incorporate other people’s opinions into your own; at the same time, it leaves space for disagreement and difference

• Causes you to learn a lot about yourself, to see and understand yourself differently

• Teaches you to be more accepting of yourself and others

• Gives you language to discuss your own experiences

• Is validating for older students because it legitimizes the experiences you’ve had in the real world

• Helped me be more comfortable discussing my body, sexuality and sexual health with both partners and health care providers

• Gives you the courage to voice your opinion and to challenge people more openly when they exhibit things like homophobia