Bachelor's in Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality

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The undergraduate major, minor, and the graduate certificate program take an interdisciplinary approach in their exploration of women’s lives and histories and the role that ideas about sexual differences and sexual identities have played in human societies. Areas of inquiry include women’s participation in social and cultural production; the construction of heteronormative gender and sexuality as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities; the relationship between ideas about gender and concepts inherent in other social, political, and legal structures; and the implications of feminist and sexuality studies for philosophical and epistemological traditions. Students acquire an understanding of how adopting gender as a significant category of analysis challenges existing disciplines. They gain proficiency in the methods used to study and compare cultural constructions of gender and sexuality, and they become familiar with the ongoing fundamental debates in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.