阿克伦大学的妇女研究计划让学生就美国和全球范围内对妇女的压迫，性别和性行为的社会建构性质，妇女的压迫与种族，种族的交集进行批判性探究。 ，阶级，性别和其他形式的不平等，以及重要的是女性主义抵抗的历史和模式。妇女研究通过各种课程鼓励学生辩论假设，探索不同观点以及调查影响世界各地妇女生活的社会，经济和文化习俗。
Interdisciplinary and specialized, the Women's Studies graduate program fosters a critical approach to knowledge about women. By focusing on cultural practices that have largely excluded and devalued differences in gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, and class, Women's Studies prepares students to appreciate and act in a pluralistic world. The Women's Studies graduate certificate integrates scholarship and research on women and gender from literature, psychology, history, sociology, and communication. Students are challenged to explore diverse viewpoints and discover the partial and often self-interested emphases of our society's most powerful institutions -- family, church, academia, business, and government.