Article: U. Texas College of Liberal Arts now offers women's, gender studies major

Helen Song
University Wire
01-23-2006
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas College of Liberal Arts will launch women's and gender studies as a major next fall, transforming what was previously only available as a minor into a full course of study, according to faculty from the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

Graduate students could previously get a master's degree in the field, but the major was absent from the undergraduate curriculum. Undergraduates could minor in women's and gender studies or take it as a concentration to complement another major.

"It's exciting, because it's all for the students," said Alma Jackie Salcedo, graduate coordinator for the ...

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