Bachelor of Arts in Womens and Gender Studies

Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and taught in cooperation with Barnard College's Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the program in women's and gender studies provides students with a culturally and historically situated, theoretically diverse understanding of feminist scholarship and its contributions to the disciplines. The program introduces students to feminist discourse on the cultural and historical representation of nature, power, and the social construction of difference. It encourages students to engage in the debates regarding the ethical and political issues of equality and justice that emerge in such discussion, and links the questions of gender and sexuality to those of racial, ethnic, and other kinds of hierarchical difference.

Through sequentially organized courses in women's, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as required discipline-based courses in the humanities and social sciences, the major provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary framework, methodological training, and substantive guidance in specialized areas of research. Small classes and mentored thesis-writing give students an education that is both comprehensive and tailored to individual needs. The major culminates in a thesis-writing class, in which students undertake original research and produce advanced scholarship.

Graduates leave the program well prepared for future scholarly work in women's, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as for careers and future training in law, public policy, social work, community organizing, journalism, and professions in which there is a need for critical and creative interdisciplinary thought.

High school transcripts, secondary school records, or GED/TASC test results are required from any student with less than 30 earned college course credits.
Applicants with a GED or TASC and two or more years of high school are required to submit their high school transcripts.

IELTS - overall score of 7.0.
TOEFL IBT - overall score of 100 on the internet-based.
TOEFL PBT - overall score of 600 or better.