The senior seminar is an intensive study of a key issue, trend, or idea in the field of Gender Studies. Individual seminars will engage contemporary research in Gender Studies as related to the expertise of the instructor. Students will apply different dimensions of Gender Studies ? history, theory, and practice ? through study of the conceptual frameworks underpinning the semester?s topic. Seminars are discussion based and include independent research and writing of a twenty-five page senior thesis as well as oral presentations.