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Board of Regents approves major in women’s studies
At its September meeting, the University System Board of Regents approved the establishment of a women’s studies major at UGA. Effective January 2000, the major will be incorporated into the existing bachelor of arts degree program in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary program incorporating topics concerning women, gender and difference in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It is anticipated that for the first three years of the program, student enrollment will be 10, 18 and 25 students, respectively.
Coursework includes scholarship by and about women of diverse backgrounds and identities in the arts, literature, science, history, society, popular culture, politics and law.
In addition to core requirements, the proposed 120-semester-hour major will consist of nine hours of foundation course-work at the 3000 and 4000 levels and 18 hours of major electives.
Juniors will be required to take both a theory and a methods course. Seniors will be required to take a seminar or course in which an integration of interdisciplinary content and methods will take place. Electives will include options for an international experience, a directed study or thesis experience and an internship.
The general electives comprise 33 hours of the overall program. All students will be required to select a minor in a single discipline to strengthen their expertise in the humanities and social sciences. Alternatively, students could double major in women’s studies and another discipline.
The Office of Academic Affairs will work with the campus to measure the success and continued effectiveness of the new major.
In 2003, the program will be evaluated by the institution and the regents’ office to determine the success of the program’s implementation and achievement of the enrollment, quality, centrality, viability and cost-effectiveness.
Georgia Perimeter College, UGA join forces to recycle
UGA and Georgia Perimeter College, which together will offer academic programming at the new University System Center-Gwinnett, are now collaborating on a project that is having an immediate positive environmental impact on the Atlanta metro area.
Since mid-May, the two institutions have participated in a recycling program at the current University System Center at Gwinnett, where both colleges offer courses.
With the assistance of the Georgia Building Authority, paper and aluminum are being recycled through the center’s program. Recycling containers are available in classrooms, hallways and offices.
Over the past four months, the center has recycled 4,800 pounds of paper, saving
42 trees, according to Nancy Negris of the Georgia Building Authority. In addition, the program has saved 17,500 gallons of water, 7.50 cubic yards of landfill space, 8,222 kilowatts of energy, and 150 pounds of air pollutants.
The institutions plan to continue the recycling program at the new University System Center-Gwinnett when it opens in 2002.
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