Our Interpersonal, Interactive, and Interdisciplinary Approach

diagram of the integration of our courses

A special feature of our courses is that they are undertaken in collaboration with other women. You will never be alone or isolated in your learning experiences.

Furthermore, the courses use interactive and problem-solving methodologies that enable you to take charge of your own learning and to discover things for yourself. In so doing, women invariably find that they learn more easily, more enjoyably, and more deeply.

Most of our courses are also interdisciplinary and intercultural. As shown in the diagram at the left, Gender Studies borrow from and contribute to a number of associated disciplines.

Finally, our courses are crafted so as to build upon and enlarge what you already know and experience about yourself, your church, and your society. At the same time, all deep learning is transformative--offering you a new freedom, a new discernment, and a new responsibility for bringing your wisdom and your calling to bear upon the society around you.

For the details of our courses, select and click on one of these:

  1. foundation courses
  2. honours courses
  3. masters courses

To what need do we respond?

Our syllabi aim at making the best information available to our students. We do this by selecting the work of key scholars in various fields.

Relevant courses in all disciplines, such as literature, history, psychology, anthropology, theology and contemporary religion, will be given special attention.

Please, write to us if you have a course to offer.

These are some of the criteria of selection we use (all or some of which may apply to a specific course):
a. The course contributes significantly to research and patterns of action that advance the emancipation of women;
b. The course opens up windows of understanding and compassion directed toward women who hunger and thirst for a society and a church that favors all the legitimate aspirations of modern women;
c. The course enables participants better to grasp and effectively to respond to those societal expectations and official church teachings that either foster or impede the gifts women wish to bring to their society and to their churches today.


Our Virtual College aims at reaching out to these groups:

  1. Women university and college students, esp. those in developing countries, who have no access to solid feminist courses. By enrolling in our courses, they will benefit from the best international scholarship while receiving academic credit for such studies.
  2. Women training for leadership roles in Christian Churches, such as parish ministers, women religious, and women teachers, who would profit from studying the specifically female dimensions of belief and ministry.
  3. Women in their mature years who want to update themselves on the latest research and thinking on issues that deeply affect their sisters.
  4. Lecturers, teachers, seminarians, and other men who want to collaborate more effectively with women and to equip themselves for better service to their female parishioners and students.

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Last revised 23 July 07 by ar.