About this Program

• Take classes with accomplished faculty, who are experts in the humanities and social sciences, and committed to interdisciplinary, intersectional, global and decolonial feminist analyses.
• Examine the many ways that ideas and practices about gender shape the world.
• Explore global and intersectional approaches to feminist issues and struggles.
• Recognize, analyze and challenge issues of power, oppression, violence and injustice as they relate to culture, society, economy, ecology and knowledge.
• Develop key competencies for the workplace, including institutional and policy analysis, comparative analysis, DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility) frameworks, ethical reflection, critical thinking and analytic writing, among others.
• Gain skills sought after by employers and move onto a rewarding career in journalism, business, politics, law, advocacy, social services, education and more.
• Study abroad and study away, learning through women's and gender studies courses such as British Masculinity on Screen: James Bond and Sherlock Holmes (London); Gender, Power, and Vulnerability (London); Sexuality in Spain (Madrid); or the Paris Noir program.

B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies

Undergraduate Studies

Women’s and Gender Studies integrates theory and practice with the aim of transforming social relations, representations, knowledges, institutions and policies. Through interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, students engage in the study of gender intersectionally and transnationally as a means of understanding the complex ways that ideas and practices about gender, past and present, shape the world around us. Issues of justice, social and economic transformation, and women's agency are central and at each level of study the curriculum emphasizes race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age, sexuality and different abilities as categories of analysis.