Bachelor of Arts - Women's & Gender Studies

Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies offers students the skills to critically and actively engage with the world. In this interdisciplinary field, they will integrate theory and practice to transform social relations, representations, knowledges, institutions, and policies. It utilizes gender, along with race and class, as a category of analysis, helping investigate the role that gender and sexuality play in history, literature, art, politics, education, sports, health and family. The integrated BA degree program is comprised of courses from a broad array of disciplines in five different colleges, and provides a strong foundation in the humanities and social sciences.

Eastern Washington University courses offer deeper insight into issues of oppression and create awareness of sexism, racism, and other biases. The faculty teach students to expand their way of thinking, broaden their perspective, analyze difficult material, build convincing arguments and understand how gender interactions affect the business environment, as well as the cultural, emotional, familial, institutional and political impact.