Negotiation!

Negotiation!
While I was searching some other departments courses for the next semester, I realized that most of them in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have a course directly related to the women, feminism or gender studies.In addition, if you browse the profile of faculty members of other departments such as History, Humanities, Political Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology, Psychology, and Communication there are at least one faculty member who is specialized in gender/ women's studies.Generally speaking, it is promising and can spread the scholarships and research with the feminist perspectives in other departments and can be beneficial to Women’s Studies goals in the long-term period. As Robyn R. Warhol, in “Nice Work, If You Can Get It!” confirms it. But it seems that there is not appropriate cooperation between Women’s Studies department and other departments in the faculty of Social Sciences. I think why other departments students who are interested in women/ gender/ feminist studies would not like to take their courses in Women’s Studies department? Have not these courses been presented in our department? Why? We do not have enough instructors? We cannot request different faculty members from other majors to teach here? We are in the budget-crunch? We are not interested in other students participating in our department? Other departments do not agree to hold their courses in our department? What is the main problem?Do our department faculty members or –I don’t know- whoever is responsible for this kind of responsibilities, have efficient meetings with other departments faculty members to persuade them to agree to hold these courses in Women’s Studies department? Actually, it is not a simple and easy job but I definitely believe on the power of negotiation and also lobbying! Why not?! It is right that here is an academy not a political party and faculty members are educators and pedagogues not politicians to collecting the votes! But I think we can learn much more from political plays and trends. Lobbying has been one the most efficient solution in solving this kind of problems. Holding all courses related to women/ gender/ feminism from other majors in this department will solve the main concerns and problems which are mentioned in the Women’s Studies External Review Graduate Students’ Report.Inasmuch, struggling to survive will not be the Women’s Studies students and faculty members concerns but all other students and professors in the whole faculty of Social Sciences.