About the GRI Program |
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The Gender, Race and Identity Program (GRI) located within the College of Liberal Arts, brings together the undergraduate major and minor in Women’s Studies, the M.A. in Gender, Race and Identity, the Graduate Certificate in Gender, Race and Identity, and the minors in Ethnic Studies (ETS), Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies (HGPS), and Religious Studies(RST) to provide an academically effective and comprehensive program for diversity. The academic majors and minors integrated within Gender, Race and identity share a focus on people at the margins and analyze the experience of difference and oppression in its various forms on individuals and societies. Because the academic missions and curricular requirements, philosophies and historical and social perspectives of the programs included in GRI draw from the same impulse, their incorporation into a shared program provides an academically sound and philosophically coherent mission. Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies and HGPS are programs specifically dedicated to assuring that UNR students develop a deep understanding of the impact of race, class, ethnicity, and gender on their identities as well as their society. These programs contribute to the curriculum a substantial number of courses that meet diversity requirements, capstone courses, cross-listed courses, and courses that meet the Social Science Core requirements. In addition, they bring together a range of offerings to provide a coherent analysis of contemporary global and local diversity concerns. While the separate contributions of each of these programs are substantial, their combined synergy provides a significant opportunity for students to expand their diversity awareness and sophistication in the area of diversity studies. Students selecting to major or minor in the programs included within GRI may be interested in pursuing entrance into the MA in Gender, Race and Identity Studies, or, if they pursue another graduate degree at UNR, the proposed Certificate in Gender, Race and Identity. In addition, students planning to continue their graduate or professional education at other institutions will be well served by a program that provides theoretical and methodological tools for the understanding of diversity, global issues, and the intersections of race, class and gender. The Gender, Race and Identity Program has several core faculty and over thirty affiliate faculty drawn from other departments in the College of Liberal Arts as well as from other colleges who comprise the Affiliate Faculty of Gender, Race, and Identity. Students are directed to the program of interest to them: Women’s Studies, Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies, Ethnic Studies or Religious Studies under its heading in the catalog for information about requirements and course offerings. Click here for more information on the Certificate or M.A. in Gender, Race and Identity.
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Facebook: Find Friend from high schoool or, maybe, religion? "RST faculty member, Eleanor Nevins, in the Las Vegas Sun." Noted gender, race expert comes to campus.
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