Bachelor of Arts - Women's and Gender Studies

A Women’s and Gender Studies degree is relevant to navigating today’s world and provides a framework for students to apply the skills and knowledge to their academic, professional, and personal lives. Like a microscope that brings the world into focus, this framework allows us to see how our social and cultural lives are governed by gender relations. For example, have you considered how institutions, organizations, or the economy are gendered? Do you ever wonder why some images are more prevalent in popular culture than others? Looking at the world through a Women’s and Gender Studies lens allows us to more directly and effectively address issues of social justice and to bring about social change as it pertains to gender relations in the contemporary world.

By studying gender relations, students learn skills that work towards dismantling gender-based inequality and promoting gender equity in various arenas of social life. The Women's and Gender Studies major allows students to acquire the academic preparation to address the complexity of intersecting inequalities rooted in gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, class, ability, religion, and nationality in U.S. society.