The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Major is designed for students who desire a thorough understanding of the history, theories, actions and issues constituting the interdisciplinary field of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. The major provides students with a knowledge of the history and evolution of feminist theory and practice. It imparts to students an understanding of the feminist debates that take place in a multitude of disciplines and the role that these play in broadening and restructuring other disciplines.
The program situates Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies within a cross-cultural context and enhances students’ awareness of issues affecting women in different cultural, religious, ethnic, economic, and class settings. Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies empowers students to participate in transforming repressive cultural and political practices and to use their knowledge to create a personal and communal agenda aimed at social change. Our major also works effectively with a second major without unnecessary duplication of courses, but with the added intellectual enhancements and skills that come from thinking about gender, race, culture, sexuality and globalization in relation to other disciplinary topics and methodologies.
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies empowers students to participate in transforming repressive cultural and political practices and to use their knowledge to create a personal and communal agenda aimed at social change.
The Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies major prepares students for postgraduate education in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and for careers in fields related to social services, education, psychology, communications and the media, the arts, law, health professions and community action work.