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February 15, 2010

And This Degree Qualifies You to Do What, Exactly?

Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 15, 2010 5:05 AM

The Llama Butchers looked up what passes for higher education at Washington and Lee University.

Women's and Gender Studies Program

The Women's and Gender Studies program at Washington and Lee University offers students both the opportunity to complete a multi-disciplinary minor in feminist and gender studies and a stimulating co-curricular environment in which to develop as intellectual and community leaders. Founded in 2001, the WGS is a vibrant academic program that links the classroom with the world and offers the theoretical basis for activism and social change.

The flexible Women's and Gender Studies capstone requirement allows students to pursue their particular interests with the kind of intensity that turns classroom competence into an abiding passion.

Do you want to make audiences laugh with women's humor? Or challenge the ways in which media images invade our consciousness and control our bodies? Study women artists or find out how women changed history? Want to learn how we might get more diverse elected officials, and figure out why homophobia is still part of public policy? Or write a poem that moves its readers to action against sexist oppression? Join us. That's what we do.

And this qualifies you to do what in the real world? The job of Safe Schools Czar is already taken.

Tuition at Washington and Lee University, FWIW, is $38,877 per year. You can get a pretty nice pick-up truck for that. And you could use it to get a job working a trade and actually providing a benefit to society, instead of spending your life working the phones for Planned Parenthood and Emily's List and dying as an embittered spinster.

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