Gustavus Adolphus College offers an inter-departmental major and minor in Women's Studies to demonstrate the usefulness of gender as a category of analysis. Through selected courses, students study interconnections among the fundamental questions raised by scholarship on women. Students also gain historical and cross-cultural perspectives on women's experience through the examination of other issues, such as race, class, and cultural difference, that are central to the study of gender. A critical awareness of methodology (in the organizing of knowledge and the framing of analyses) is also important within each course.
Dr. Brian Buckstead has performed extensively as an orchestral, chamber, and solo musician. In addition to performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Madison…