Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (B.A.)

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Learning Outcomes

Next Steps

Contact

Highlights

Requirements

Careers

Courses

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The Bachelor of Arts in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) Studies is an interdisciplinary program with faculty from a variety of academic units on campus. Students who major in WGS are employed in law, education, business, social services, health services, and government at all levels. WGS is also an excellent second major or minor for students majoring in a wide variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, English, history, nursing, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology. Students can also major in International Affairs with a concentration in Global Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Issues.

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Program Learning Outcomes

Analyze the workings of sex, gender, and sexuality using a variety of disciplinary approaches
Articulate the contextually specific ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with other sites of social inequality, such as race, ethnicity, class, nationality, and dis/ability
Critique social institutions, organizations, and practices using appropriate lenses from feminist theory, gender theory, and queer theoretical traditions
Reconsider the categories of sex, gender, and culture from a transnational and historical lens
Develop and practice self-reflexivity, or the capacity to analyze one’s own prior assumptions and values and consider how they may shape the conclusions we draw about self, others, and society
Engage in experiences that apply theoretical frameworks and methods gained through the WGS curriculum to social action.

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Median Salary: $00,000

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Women’s, gender, and Sexuality

Degree Level

Undergraduate Major

Degree Earned

Bachelor of Arts in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Mode of Study

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time to Complete Degree

120 Credits

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Degree Level

Undergraduate Major

Degree Earned

Bachelor of Arts in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Mode of Study

In-Person

time to Complete Degree

120 Credits

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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality

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5742 Williams Hall, Rm 204

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207.581.3439

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