Abstract
Women's studies courses and programs are a rapidly growing and innovative addition to college curricula. Partially an outgrowth of consciousness-raising groups, they attempt to bring the atmosphere of self-discovery and the excitement of the women's movement to the college campus. Two sets of goals are stressed by many teachers and students: (1) traditional academic goals of intellectual mastery of subject matter and the imparting of a substantial amount of information and (2) less traditional goals of personal change, analogous to those changes attempted by consciousness-raising groups.1 The courses try to challenge basic self-concepts and sex-role beliefs and to encourage
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