Welcome to WGS!

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program with contributions from faculty across campus and beyond. Our alumni are employed in social service work, health services occupations, business, law, education, and government at all levels.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is also an excellent second major or minor for students in a wide variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, biology, mathematics and statistics,  nursing, political science, psychology, political science, sociology, English, social work, and history.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies students gain a more complete understanding of how the social construction of gender has influenced the roles, contributions, and experiences of both women and men in many different cultures, now and in the past.  Such awareness can help them better understand our contemporary world with its changing roles for all.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies helps orient students to:

•   better understand our contemporary world with its changing roles for all;

•   appreciate the complexity of how gender interacts with race, social class, sexual orientation, and other forms of diversity;

•   draw connections between Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and other disciplines across the university;

•   appreciate how scholarship in WGS Studies informs activism and social change, historically and in the present;

•   develop the critical intellectual capacity and communication skills to work with, value, and improve the lives of others in whatever public or private spheres they choose.

 

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WGS Internship

WGS @ Work Series

Come see what Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program has to offer with our “WGS @ Work Series”

Spring 2025

The WGS at Work series presents


WGS @ Work Series Past Events/Discussions

Past WGS @ Work Series Events

Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, Graduation and Triota Induction

April 30th 3 PM – 4 PM

COE ROOM , MEMORIAL UNION

Upcoming non-WGS Work Series Events/Discussion


“Feminism is for everybody.” – bell hooks