Women's Studies Committee Calls For More Courses

The Committee for Women's Studies met yesterday to discuss its plans for the spring semester and to acquaint new members with its current goals.

"It seems obvious that, at Harvard at least, our education doesn't look at women," Dena B. Groisser '77-4 said last night in an effort to define the purpose of women's studies within a traditional academic setting like Harvard.

The Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, created last October by the Faculty Council, has not yet devised a specific plan for introducing women's studies into the curriculum at the College.

The Faculty seems adamant about having no political courses on women," Elizabeth Tillinghast '79, a committee member, said at yesterday's meeting. "All the courses have to be purely academic," she added.

The women's studies committee's primary objective is to persuade the University to hire more faculty trained in women's studies and create more undergraduate courses which focus on women, members said last night.

The Faculty Council established a formal Faculty Committee on Women's Studies in response to a women's studies group letter to Dean Rosovsky signed by over 1100 students.

The letter also requested that the Faculty sponsor special concentrations in women's studies and hire a visiting scholar to teach a women's course this year. Neither of these demands has been met.