Currently, we offer a Major, a Minor, an Honors Program, and a Graduate Certificate. Our undergraduates can select from six thematic concentrations within Women’s & Gender Studies. More than 90 faculty members across disciplines and schools are affiliated with our program. Most are involved with teaching, student advising, and social and intellectual events.

THEMATIC CONCENTRATIONS

WGS students are encouraged to choose to organize their studies along thematic concentrations, each of which also has a valuable pragmatic aspect in terms of future career goals. The concentrations include:

    • Feminisms: Global and Local
    • Gender, Activism, and Social Change
    • Gender, Bodies, and Health
    • Gender, Law, and Policy
    • Gender, Media, and the Arts
    • Intersections: Gender/ Race/ Ethnicity/ Class/ Sexuality

WGS students wishing to graduate with a concentration must take at least three courses in the selected area(s). A list of courses eligible for each concentration is available on our website and also in the WGS office.

A sampling of our recent classes…

    WGS-259: Reading and Writing Women’s Lives
    WGS-268: Gender, Race, Justice, and the Environment
    WGS-265: Cultural Politics of Reproduction
    WGS-267: Seminar on Gender and Violence
    WGS-240: Women’s Health
    WGS-261: Sex, Gender, and Law in Classical Antiquity
    WGS-212: LGBT Studies

Students can choose from among WGS classes or any other course on campus dual-listed with Women’s & Gender Studies. These include courses from sociology, anthropology, history, English, art history, psychology, Spanish and Portuguese, Germanic and Slavic Languages, classical studies, Jewish studies, French and Italian, art, music, political science, religious studies, and many more.