Senior Capstone

Catalog description

This course presents an opportunity for students to apply women's studies and gender theory to practice and synthesize their work as the final project in the GST minor. Students will arrange for an internship or volunteer placement at a nonprofit organization, business, or institution that incorporates a gender focus. This will be set up before the semester begins. A structured reflection forum to analyze experience and methods will meet on a weekly basis. Students will meet to think through relationships among empirical research, theory, activism, and practice in gender studies. Majors with diverse interests, perspectives, and expertise will have the opportunity to reflect on the significance of their gender studies education in relation to their current work, their academic studies as a whole, and their plans for the future.