Blog 1: About Me

My name is Catrina Burks and I am a freshman majoring in Pre-dental hygiene with a minor in public relations. I am from Tulsa, OK and graduated from Victory Christian School. I decided to take this class because it was a western culture course that I needed for my pre-requisites and the class happened to fit perfectly in my schedule. Not only did I need this class but I had a friend who took this course last semester and he loved it, so I decided to give a try. I am also just curious about this course is actually all about. I had no idea that Women's Studies was a class. The class seems very interesting and I am pretty sure that I will learn a lot of things that I had no idea were even issues. The main five questions that I would like to have answered by end of this semester is 1) What exactly is the purpose for Women's Studies ? 2) What is the true definition of feminism? 3) Am I a feminist? 4) Where did feminism start becoming such a huge issue and Why? 5)What can you do with a Women's Studies degree? These are just a few questions that I have so far but I already know that I will probably have many more to be answered by the end of this semester.