Our Mission
The Women Studies program is committed to educating students about the relationships among identity, power and knowledge toward the ends of social justice and empowerment.  We are an interdisciplinary program that focuses on how gender intersects with race, sexuality, class, and nation.  We support the development and application of new theories of feminist studies throughout the university and the application of feminist methods in order to evaluate critically scholarship and research in the disciplines.  In addition, the program seeks to educate students in ways that enable them to respond to issues that affect the lives of women and men locally, regionally, and globally.

The Women Studies Program upholds the highest levels of academic excellence and integrity and supports its faculty's efforts to establish and maintain rigorous scholastic standards.

What is Women Studies? 
Women’s Studies is a discipline that utilizes approaches from the humanities and the social sciences in order better to understand the intersectional influences of gender, sexuality, race, class, region, and other factors of identity. In WMST courses at U.N.M., you will learn how to apply theory to analyses of how gender and other constructs inform individual lives and institutions (regionally, nationally, and transnationally).
What can I do with a degree in Women Studies?

Programs
The Women Studies Program offers a major (36 credit hours), a second major (24 credit hours; but currently in moratorium) and a minor (21 credit hours). All Women Studies courses are acceptable for elective credit in all colleges.
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Transcripted Graduate Certificate in Women Studies

Women Studies graduate courses are taught both by regular faculty in Women Studies and our affiliated faculty.  Students enrolled in graduate degree programs at U.N.M. can apply for admission to our graduate certificate program; for further information, please contact the program administrator Emmett Vinceti at elvjr@unm.edu.

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The Women Studies Program, part of the College of Arts & Sciences, will celebrate 40 years at U.N.M. in 2012. This makes our UNM Women Studies Program one of the oldest in the United States. In 1969, Women Studies was a collective of faculty, graduate students and community members. In addition to establishing the Women Studies Program in 1972 the original collective also contributed to the founding of the UNM Women’s Resource Center and the Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center.  Until 1999, the UNM Woman Studies Program offered only a minor and the program now offers a major, a second major and a minor. The Women Studies Program has graduated nearly 250 majors and minors since 1986. Currently around 500 students, generating some 1500 credit hours, take courses in the Women Studies Program. Women Studies regularly cross-lists courses with other programs, colleges and departments at UNM; some of these include: Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Communication & Journalism, English, European Studies, History, Native American Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, and the UNM Honors Program. Courses are also cross-listed with the Colleges of Education, Fine Arts, and the Anderson Schools of Management. A multidisciplinary Executive Committee advises the Women Studies Program. Over 100 affiliated faculty from disciplines throughout U.N.M. lend teaching support to the program. The Women Studies Program is a member of the National Women Studies Association (NWSA) and Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW).