The Certificate Course in Women’s Studies  
Is an intensive research based programme where each student worked on an area of choice under one of the faculties
and submitted a research project on which they were graded..
An exciting interdisciplinary classroom environment was created. Instead of the traditional lecture method it was a
discussion oriented classroom with work being provided beforehand.
The Course consisted of 5 modules which have been briefly described

Core faculty  
Dr Rashmi Tikku, Reader Dept of English
Dr Shyamala Nair, Reader Dept of English
Dr. Geeta Hiranwar, HOD, Dept of Sociology
Guest Faculty  
Dr Devasia, Principal Matru Sewa Sangh College of Social Work
Dr Geetha Thetchil, Lecturer Matru Sewa Sangh College of Social Work
Dr Shoma Sen, HOD of English PWS College
Dr Ilena Sen, author of A Space Within the Struggle
Modules  
Women and Films  
Liberal Feminism
Marxist Feminism
Radical Feminism
Psychoanalytic Feminism
Existentialist Feminism
French Feminism
Postcolonial Feminism

The constitutional safeguards
The Status of Women report
The International Charters
Women and Vilolence
The Laws about Sexual Harassment and rape
The Vishakha Judgment
Feminist Theory & the Feminist Movement  
Status of Women in Contemporary India  
Social Scripting of women
Use of Stereotypes in Advertisements
Dismemberment
Objectification
The use of the ‘gaze’

The historical link between Activism and Academics
The Three Waves of Feminism in the West -First, Second
and Third
Feminism in India : The ‘mothers’ of the nation
Women and Media  
Feminist Theory & the Feminist Movement  
Social Scripting of women
Use of Stereotypes in Advertisements
Dismemberment
Objectification
The use of the ‘gaze’

The historical link between Activism and Academics
The Three Waves of Feminism in the West -First, Second
and Third
Feminism in India : The ‘mothers’ of the nation
Women in Literature  
Feminist Epistemology and Research  
Writing and Gender
Stereotypes
Gaze and Countergaze
Erasure
Decentralisation

Reverse Learning; the need for a new methodology
Qualitative Research over Quantitative
The Politics of Knowledge Construction and the need to
dismantle old ways of ‘knowing’
The Myth of Objectivity
Importance of Case Study and in-depth interviews
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