Women and Gender Studies
Bachelor of Arts, Minor
About this program
The Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies explores how gender, race, sexuality, class, and power shape people’s lives and social systems. You’ll study feminist thought, activism, and global issues while building skills in writing, analysis, and critical thinking. This program prepares you for careers in advocacy, education, public policy, or community work, and it supports graduate study in the social sciences or humanities.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Scope
Women and Gender Studies examines the importance of gender and feminism in relation to issues such as race, class, sexuality, labor, colonialism, multiculturalism and globalization. Students study how bodies, families, communities and nations are gendered in specific cultural, political and historical locations, and investigate connections to their own lives, roles and contributions.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to define and describe contesting theories, methods, histories, and representations of women, gender, and feminism.
- Students will identify the politics of knowledge production across multiple disciplines in relation to Women and Gender Studies.
- Students will be able to compare and distinguish historical understandings of gender in relation to structural inequality, social movements, and labor struggles.
- Students will be able to explain and situate the ways citizenship is shaped through both the institutional foundations of governance and ideological mechanisms of politics.
- Students will be able to examine women and gender in relation of race, class, sexuality, colonialism, multiculturalism, and/or globalization.
- Students will be able to conceptualize and analyze gender and feminism in a transnational framework and from an interdisciplinary perspective, using a range of methodological tools while also demonstrating writing proficiency.
- Students will be able to integrate their academic studies in Women and Gender Studies into their professional goals and be able to formulate and implement theoretically informed political, cultural, and community action.
Minor in Women and Gender Studies
The Minor in Women and Gender Studies helps you explore how gender and power affect lives, communities, and institutions. You’ll study feminist theories, social movements, and global issues while developing strong skills in analysis and communication. This program pairs well with many majors and prepares you to think critically about identity, justice, and social change in any career or academic path.
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