It doesn’t really surprise me, but I now learn that MU is getting a new, full-fledged department in the College of Arts and Science. It is called the women’s and gender studies department. The director of undergraduate advising for the new department, Jessica Jennrich, said that they can “now offer new classes and more classes, and it gives us more visibility.”
New department shows splintering of education
Saturday, November 3, 2007 | 12:00 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:22 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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