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Women's and Gender Studies at Furman provides an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry that questions the limitations placed on women and men by traditional gender roles. As such it alerts us all to an important dimension of human experience often ignored in conventional curricula. While courses in women’s and gender studies may have disciplinary homes, they raise questions that inevitably cross disciplinary boundaries. Women’s and gender studies truly embodies the idea of “liberal arts;” it is interdisciplinary and unifying, teaches analytical skills, assumes a problem solving stance, and promotes socially useful ends by bringing a new perspective to existing questions.