If you are a student who would like to come to the University of Arizona (U of A) through the Women's Studies Program, we are pleased to provide you with information you need. Please follow the links on left menu to learn more about why you should attend the U of A, your estimated expenses, courses offered, and information you will need to apply to the U of A.
The University of Arizona’s Department of Women’s Studies is one of six institutions participating in a student exchange/study abroad program on “Women’s Human Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in a North American Context”.
These institutions include:
The University of Arizona
University of Cincinnati
Universidad de las Americas (UDLA)
Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF)
York University
Mount St. Vincent University
Students from these participating institutions have the opportunity to study at the U of A for a semester, taking advantage of the many classes offered here that relating to this topic.
Women’s increased cross-border migrations and organizing have raised a host of human rights issues since the rise of free trade agreements, first between the US and Canada and then among the US, Canada, and Mexico. This has alerted interdisciplinary Women’s Studies experts and disciplinary gender specialists to the need to generate greater cross-border understandings of women’s experiences, perspectives, and issues in a North American context. This exchange program represents a collaborative effort to develop student-centered programs of study that bring a greater North American Studies dimension to Women’s Studies programs in the US and Canada and a greater gender or Women’s Studies dimension to North American and Border Studies in Mexico. The program is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) through their Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education.
This exchange program focuses on three interconnected themes that will be integrated into the existing curricula of the participating institutions and will also constitute the subject matter of a three-week summer institutes held in Mexico and Canada. The first theme, women’s human rights, concentrates on how understandings of international human rights have been expanded through the work of women’s human rights scholars and activists. The second related theme, women’s citizenships, focuses on not only differences in women’s formal citizenship rights in our respective countries historically and currently, but also what citizenship rights are gained or lost as women cross borders in the region. The third theme, women’s identities, relates to the strong focus in Women’s Studies on sub-national identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, culture, age, class, religion, and so on and how these identities vary across nations.