Bachelor of Arts in Women, Gender and Sexuality

Women, Gender & Sexuality (WGS) is an interdisciplinary program in which students study gender relations and sexualities. By examining social issues, literary, scientific, and historical materials, students develop a critical, socially engaged sense of how gender and/or sexualities shape and are shaped by the world around them. Topics range from women's political participation to body politics to lesbian/gay parenting and transgender concerns. Courses currently being offered focus on women's media, literature, and art, women in sports, queer theory, and gender politics. Students gain credit toward a major or minor by registering for WGS prefix courses as well as designated courses across departments, programs, and schools. Courses have been offered in association with African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Education, English, French, German, History, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Music, Nursing, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sociology, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and other units. A complete list is published in the Course Offerings section of the website every semester.

High School Transcripts.
Typically, the most important factor in the admission evaluation process is demonstrated academic achievement in a challenging secondary school program.
The admission committee looks for applicants who have completed the most rigorous academic courses available in their secondary schools and recommends that prospective students should exceed minimum high school graduation requirements. We require an official transcript. The secondary program should include no fewer than 16 academic courses and must include the following courses:

English 4 units
Mathematics 4 units
Foreign Language 2 units
Science (from among biology, chemistry, and physics) 2 units (*)
Social Studies 1 unit

A TOEFL or IELTS score should not be more than two years old. Depending on the school, most admitted graduate students attain a minimum total score of 90 on the internet-based (iBT) TOEFL (including sectional minimums of 22 in speaking, 22 in writing, 23 in reading and 23 in listening). The minimum paper-based TOEFL score requirement is usually 600, and the minimum IELTS score requirement is 7.0.