ABOUT GCWS
Founded in 1993, GCWS is a pioneering effort by faculty at eight degree-granting institutions in the Boston area. GCWS pursues its mission through an ongoing series of team-taught graduate seminars, interdisciplinary faculty development workshops, and other opportunities for scholarly and administrative collaboration. GCWS programs help to build intellectual community and offer a model for institutional change. As of July 1, 2005, the GCWS moved from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more information, please visit the GCWS website at GCWS
Participating Institutions:
Boston College
Brandeis University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northeastern University
Simmons College
Tufts University
University of Massachusetts, Boston
In keeping with the collaborative tradition of women’s studies, the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies (GCWS) offers interdisciplinary, team-taught seminars to students matriculated in graduate programs at our member schools. GCWS faculty explicitly integrate gender analyses with issues of class, race, culture, ethnicity, and sexualities, and the practical and public-policy implications of feminist theory and scholarship are considered. Courses are designed not only to examine existing feminist scholarship, but also to open paths to the creation of new knowledge. Graduate courses also provide crucial intellectual support for student pursuing feminist work within the framework of traditional disciplines. There is no fee for GCWS courses. Students are granted credit for participation by their home institutions.
For more information, visit http://web.mit.edu/gcws