Women’s Studies

Study Abroad and Service Learning

Opportunities in Women’s Studies
University of Michigan-Affiliated Programs Offering Women’s Studies/Gender Studies Courses
Programs with a Specific Focus on Women and/or Gender Administered By Other US Colleges

The University of Michigan Women’s Studies Department encourages students to study abroad in order to enhance their education and gain international perspectives on gender issues and feminism. Students routinely look back on their time spent abroad as a valuable aspect of their undergraduate career. There are many excellent study abroad opportunities offering students a variety of possible experiences: among them cultural immersion, summer field work, intensive language learning, independent study, and participation in another educational system.

Planning early for study abroad is important, as is research into study abroad possibilities. The Office of International Programs (OIP) is committed to working with students to help them find the right study abroad program.

The Education Abroad Office is an information resource center within the University of Michigan’s International Center that provides information about options for study, work, and travel abroad.

The U-M Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates Program (GIEU) sends small groups of undergraduates and faculty members (normally in the summer) to exciting locations in the US and around the world for three to four weeks of engaging intercultural academic studies. Applications for that program are due in mid-fall.

Opportunities in Women’s Studies

Transitions in Reproductive Health and Maternity Care Project in Morazan, Honduras

Under the direction of Lisa Kane-Low, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Women’s Studies, and Joanne Motino Bailey, Service Director of the Nurse-Midwifery Service at the UM Hospital and a lecturer in Women’s Studies, students spend winter break in a rural Honduras community focused on providing reproductive and maternity health care education and services. Student participation grew from a research project focused on transitions in maternity care and the role of skilled birth attendants or midwives in the local community.

Students prepare for the service learning study abroad in WS 412 “Reproductive Health and Policy in a Global Context”, a course focused on global reproductive and maternity health policy and how it shapes the local provision of women’s health care services in developing countries emphasizing Latin America. Students develop an understanding of women’s reproductive health using a broader consideration of the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, class, culture, geography, economic status, nation, and other identities. This includes considerations of access to health care personnel, resources, and services as a background to opportunities to improve women’s health status locally.

 

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University of Michigan-Affiliated Programs Offering Women’s Studies/Gender Studies Courses

University of Michigan students attending one of the University’s own study abroad programs will earn in-residence credits and may use financial aid money (if eligible) to help defray program costs. In addition, they may apply for scholarships awarded by the Office of International Programs to program participants. For more information on these programs visit the Office of International Programs at 1712 Chemistry Building or see their website. For a list of U-M affiliated programs offering Women’s Studies/Gender Studies courses, please see the OIP’s Women’s Studies web page.

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Programs with a Specific Focus on Women and/or Gender Administered By Other US Colleges

Antioch College
Comparative Women's and Gender Studies in Europe

Augsburg College
Center for Global Education, semester and summer programs focusing on gender and social change

Michigan State University, Women’s Studies in London, England, summer program

School for International Training
Mali: Health, Gender, and Community Empowerment


Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender

 

 

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