{"id":447292,"date":"2026-09-25T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447292\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:30:09","slug":"ut-austin-cuts-womens-and-gender-studies-courses-from-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447292\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Austin Cuts Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Courses From Core"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some courses on race were also eliminated from UT Austin\u2019s core.<\/p>\n

The University of Texas at Austin will no longer count women\u2019s, gender and sexuality courses toward core curriculum requirements, the Austin-American Statesman reported <\/a>Thursday.<\/p>\n

Department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the newly consolidated Social and Cultural Analysis department, which now houses gender and ethnic studies, that the provost\u2019s office had rejected all such courses as part of the core, along with dozens of courses on race, including Slavery and its Legacies and Urban Unrest. <\/p>\n

The affected women\u2019s, gender and sexuality courses include Mexican American Women from 1940\u2013present, Women and the Holocaust, Intro to African American Women\u2019s History, LGBTQ Literature and Culture, and Native American Women\u2019s History, the Statesman reported. Students can now take those courses only as electives. <\/p>\n

The move follows last week\u2019s announcement that UT Austin was eliminating four majors<\/a>: African and African diaspora studies, Mexican American and Latina\/o studies, women\u2019s and gender studies, and race, indigeneity and migration.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all part of the university\u2019s shift to a new core curriculum, which will require all students to take courses in Western civilizations, humanities and artificial intelligence. Faculty who teach gender and ethnic studies had to get special permission from the provost\u2019s office to have their courses count toward the new core. The Social and Cultural Analysis department sought to gain core approval for 49 courses, but the provost only accepted 16\u2014none of them women\u2019s gender and sexuality courses. <\/p>\n

Lisa Moore, former chair of the women and gender studies department, called the cuts \u201cblatant\u201d viewpoint discrimination, arguing that the university was \u201csingling out\u201d her field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just seems like a very intentional starvation of our work,\u201d Moore told the Statesman. \u201cWe\u2019re being set up to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some courses on race were also eliminated from UT Austin\u2019s core. The University of Texas at Austin will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4144,163,64,8894,2184,223],"class_list":["post-447292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}