专业详情

The Gender Studies department provides a quality education that emphasizes analytic and writing skills, qualitative research methods, and a historical and transnational understanding of social inequalities. Our faculty integrate feminist pedagogical approaches and their own research into their teaching. Our core courses address the concepts of gender and the body, gender and power, and gender and knowledge through a range of topics such as freedom and liberty, social movements, masculinities, work and leisure, politics of social justice, intersectionality, colonial and sexual violence, and visual culture and citizenship.  Gender Studies offers a major and a minor, and is open to all undergraduates in the College of Letters and Science, students in other Schools may petition.

Learning Outcomes

Students completing the Gender Studies B.A. will:

  • demonstrate a working knowledge of the field of gender studies
  • understand key theoretical approaches in the study of women, gender and sexuality
  • demonstrate the ability to construct well-written analytic essays and give an oral presentation for a seminar or other suitable venue
  • conduct a research project that involves the consultation of scholarly literatures and presentation of evidence to support an argument