Like every good program, the Women’s Studies Program is not only growing, it is also changing. One of these changes involves the program’s name. We submitted a proposal to the Curriculum Committee asking for the College’s approval to change our name to “Women’sand Gender Studies.” The name change was approved on September 21, 2004. These are our reasons: when Women's Studies first was established as an academic field, the emphasis was on documenting and reversing the ways in which women's perspectives had been excluded from the traditional disciplines. Early Women’s Studies scholars tended to think of the differences between men and women as being innate and immutable. With the emergence of new gender theories in the late 80s and early 90s,such as Judith Butler’s influential work Gender Trouble (1991), gender is no longer understood as innate but rather as socially constructed. Moreover, gender constructions are seen as a result of intersecting historical, cultural and social factors at particular moments in a culture’s life. In both the social sciences and the humanities gender has been recognized as a central category of analysis that can be applied to evaluate and rethink human experience. Consequently, most of the courses offered in the WST program focus on the connection between women's issues and gender expectations. These courses articulate that inequality is related not only to women's condition in absolute terms but their status relative to men. Male behavior and notions of masculinity as well as sources of power are critical in understanding and changing conditions of inequality Thus, changing the name of the program from "Women's Studies" to "Women's and Gender Studies" reflects the direction our program has taken over the years. However, we still see it as our mission to continue the teaching of courses where women, their perspectives, experiences and contribution (e.g. women’s history, women’s literature, women’s work, etc.) are the primary focus. This is indicated by our choice to name the program “Women’s and Gender Studies” rather than just “Gender Studies.”  This name adequately reflects the broadening of our curriculum but still keeps the original mission of Women’s Studies Programs visible.