Women and Gender Studies

Abstract

The Department of Women and Gender Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts degree, a minor, an undergraduate certificate in global gender and sexuality studies, and a graduate certificate for students enrolled in another disciplinary master's or doctoral degree program. The interdisciplinary field of women and gender studies offers students rigorous and flexible programs of study that examine women, gender and sexuality in relation to race, class, ability, nation and empire, among other variables. Students explore how gender and sexuality intersect with structures of power in a range of cultural, historical, and geopolitical contexts. Areas of inquiry include but are not limited to: gender/ sex systems across cultures, historical periods and epistemological traditions; gender and sexuality in literature, the arts and popular and media culture; legal and public policy issues around gender and sexuality; women's participation in social and cultural production; transnational feminisms; feminist, queer and transgender theories; and LGBTQI politics and histories.