WGST Program at Harvard

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<p>Does anyone have any information about the Women, Gender, and Sexualuality Studies program at Harvard? I'm an incoming transfer and I was thinking of doing the WGST as a secondary field of a joint concentration. Is it a well liked program amongst the students there? How do students generally rate the courses and the professors? Thanks for any info.</p>

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<p>Do you have your HUID + PIN? If so, you can check out the WGS classes on the CUE guide: <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ecueguide/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cueguide/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I'm an incoming student too, so I have no idea about the program as a whole. You could post your question on the Harvard '09 Yahoo group: <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HarvardCollege09/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HarvardCollege09/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Yeah, I talked to the Dean of Transfers and I think I'll have to wait a few more weeks before I get the HUID and Pin. BTW, sorry about the multiple typos in my initial post!</p>

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<p>A department like women's studies is so small (they offered only twelve classes last year, not including tutorials) and interdisplinary that many (most?) of your concentration classes will probably be outside the department itself. See <a href="http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/Courses/StudiesofWomenGenderandSexuality.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/Courses/StudiesofWomenGenderandSexuality.html&lt;/a>.
I find that the library alone would probably be enough to keep me from the concentration (the main library of American women's studies, in addition to being very conservative about what they're willing to photocopy, has very limited hours and is non-circulating and closed-stacks, ***, how incredibly annoying is that) but if you're less lazy it's a very good resource and a lovely building.</p>

<p>To summarize, BTW, the classes in the CUE since you don't have your PIN: Profs. Coll and Park (Katherine) have nearly perfect ratings, Ruggie has a good rating, and Najmabadi a low/mediocre one. But also keep in mind that the prof rating for Coll is on a seminar, which artificially inflates professor ratings usually by about .5 on the 5-point CUE scale (dunno why). Not sure what the effect of a conference course is on CUE ratings.</p>

<p>Edit: *** is considered a swear word by the filter? Doubleu-tee-eff, mate?</p>