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The Women's Studies Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues. The program provides a rigorous and integrated academic experience for students interested in feminist research and analysis, giving them a coherent program of study in contemporary scholarship in a Pacific-Asian context. With faculty trained in a dozen fields of study, the program investigates gender, race, class, colonialism, sexuality and other vectors of power and identity in shaping history, psychology, anthropology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, literature language, art, drama, education, law, medicine, and biology.
Women and men from all colleges at the Manoa campus take women's studies courses because of their intellectual Vigor, political insight, and interdisciplinary ties to other fields of study. Many courses are cross-listed with other departments. Women's Studies is a uniquely powerful avenue of self-understanding, as well as a means of connecting research on women and gender to other academic interests. Those who understand the workings of gender in personal lives and social orders can better pursue a variety of careers and life goals.
