FGSS-MIN - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Minor)

The interdepartmental Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provides students with the knowledge and skills to investigate the significance of gender and sexuality in all areas of human life. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies examines how societies structure gender roles, relations, and identities and how these intersect with other power hierarchies, such as class, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and age. The program coordinates courses across the university in feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies. Students learn to employ critical gender and sexuality studies methodologies to analyze the assumptions about gender and sexuality that inform the study of individuals, cultures, social institutions, policy, and areas of scholarly inquiry. The program prepares majors for graduate study in humanities and social sciences and professional schools.