Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Advisory Board
- Thomas Roach, Professor, English and Cultural Studies, Program Coordinator
- Kelly Boutin, Assistant Director, Center for Diversity & Inclusion, Hochberg Women's Center & Pride Center
- Jeffrey Cabusao, Professor, English and Cultural Studies
- Amber Day, Professor, English and Cultural Studies
- Mailee Kue, Executive Director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion
- Heather Pond Lacey, Associate Professor, Psychology
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Concentration is a liberal arts, interdisciplinary program that offers students the opportunity to apply a critical lens to fundamental structures of human interaction and cultural production. Students learn about current scholarship in women’s history and culture, gender studies, sexuality studies, and feminist theory. Questions motivating this scholarship include: How have gender and sexuality been used as systems of social control throughout history? How have they served as catalysts for social change? Are gender and sexuality biologically determined or socially constructed? What types of messages do mass media and popular culture give us about gender and sexuality, and how do these messages influence self-identity? Using a range of disciplinary methodologies and perspectives, students develop a deeper understanding of the structures of power that shape gender and sexual identity. Students concentrating in WGSS will:
- Undertake interdisciplinary analyses of women, gender, and sexuality and communicate findings and interpretations clearly and effectively
- Demonstrate how various systems (such as gender, race, class, and sexual orientation) operate in conjunction with each other
- Explain various conceptions of gender and sexuality and indicate how these conceptions might reinforce or disrupt social structures
Required Courses | ||
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | ||
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Seminar (capstone course) | ||
Electives | ||
Select four of the following: 1 | ||
The Sociological Imagination: What We See When We Watch T.V. | ||
Gender and Communication | ||
American Women's History | ||
Gender and World War II | ||
Gender and American Culture in the 1950s | ||
African American Studies ((When offered as Black Feminist Foundations & Futures) | ||
Sexuality and Culture | ||
Major Literary Figures | ||
Women and the Creative Imagination | ||
Friendship and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media | ||
Gender in Childhood | ||
Sociology of Gender, Illness, and Health | ||
Sociology of Family | ||
Sociology of Sport | ||
Special Topics in Sociology From Womb to Tomb A Sociological Perspective on Sexuality | ||
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Internship |
- 1
Only one at the 200 level.