Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is a flexible, interdisciplinary program that provides opportunities for feminist study, research, close collaborations with faculty, internships, and community involvement. Our classes interrogate power and privilege, and explore how gendered inequalities are perpetuated, maintained and subverted.  Students investigate how gender and sexuality are constructed and interact with other social categories, such as race, class and nationality.

We support intellectual projects and activities that foster community on our campus, and that contribute to the production of knowledge about women, gender and sexuality from an intersectional perspective.

• Our courses are highly participatory and student-centered; they feature transformative pedagogies and encourage nuanced, critical thinking about some of the most urgent and challenging questions of our times.
• Our faculty is committed to inclusivity, social justice, and the intellectual empowerment of each student.
• Our program provides ample opportunity for choice, as students select coursework from a great array of disciplines that, together, will acquaint them with the rich interdisciplinarity of the field.
• Students can explore psychology, sociology, politics, history, literature and art, among other disciplines, through the lens of feminist, critical race and queer studies.