Hoover High Young Women's Studies Club
The YWSC in the Hoover High Homecoming Parade
The Young Women's Studies Club strives to improve the self-esteem and cultural competency of high school students.
We do this through meetings, learning opportunities, activities, projects, and speakers. Please look around the site to see some of the things we do.
We do this through meetings, learning opportunities, activities, projects, and speakers. Please look around the site to see some of the things we do.
The goals and objectives include:
- to learn life-altering lessons in tolerance and equality that will prove invaluable as they develop as adults and pursue their given careers
- to engage the Hoover High School and SDSU students, their families and teachers, administrators, and the SDSU campus in community-based events
- to provide SDSU Women's Studies Masters students the ability to link activism with academics
- to provide SDSU students with opportunities to research and learn about issues of concern to the high school students' lives: challenges facing female immigrants relationship violence, self-esteem, balancing school and familial duties, planning for college and the future and so on
- to promote Community Based Service Learning affiliations at SDSU
- to promote multicultural competence among Hoover High School and SDSU students
- to engage under-served families in the City Heights area with the collaborative work between the Club, SDSU's Department of Women's Studies, and the SDSU community
- to provide future educators the opportunity to experience actual classroom activities
- to foster the intellectual curiosity of both Hoover and SDSU students
- to foster the creative abilities of students
- to increase the students', families', and SDSU community's knowledge about gender issues and issues of ethnicity/race
