Women's Studies Program

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The major in Women’s Studies examines the accomplishments and perspectives of women in history, culture, and contemporary society. The Women’s Studies major establishes gender and sexuality as fundamental categories of social and cultural analysis, drawing on history, literature, cultural studies, social science, and science. The major in Women’s Studies offers interdisciplinary perspectives from which to study the diversity of human experience. The courses provide critical tools for understanding the social meanings of the distinction between the sexes, and examine sexual identities, discourses, and institutions as they interact with class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and transnational movements.

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