Students in the Gender, Race, and Identity major with the specialization in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies study gender and sexuality in historical and contemporary contexts and global and local settings. The major is grounded in an intersectional perspective, attending to the interrelationship of gender and sexuality with other forms of identity, difference, and power that include race, class, Indigeneity, ethnicity, citizenship, nationality, religion, ability status, and other categories. Our course program critically analyzes the construction of gender and sexual identities and experiences in global and local contexts, examines sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and feminisms, and addresses key theories in studies of gender and sexuality. The Gender, Race, and Identity major with a specialization in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provides an expressly interdisciplinary environment for learning, drawing widely on academic traditions in the social sciences and the humanities. Students gain tools to critically analyze and engage our world and to enact change in their communities and professions.
Students will be able to:
define and describe issues of gender and sexuality, with attention to their intersections with other forms of identity, difference, and power including race, class, Indigeneity, ethnicity, citizenship, nationality, religion, ability status, and other categories.
critically compare and distinguish among historical and theoretical understandings of gender and sexuality and among experiences of women, LGBTQI people, and others in relation to structural inequality, social movements, and state power.
integrate and demonstrate comprehension of course content through oral presentations and critical, creative, and expository writing appropriate to audience.
analyze multiple dimensions of gender and sexuality from an interdisciplinary perspective, using a range of appropriate methodological tools.
integrate academic studies in the field of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies into personal and professional goals and be able to formulate and implement theoretically informed political, cultural, and community action.
