Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines how ideologies regarding biological sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression have influenced and been influenced by institutions, political and cultural practices, scientific and technological advancements, artistic expressions, belief systems, and work and social environments.

Where can our Gender Studies programs take you? Possible career paths include: education and research, government policy and politics, the media, advertising, marketing, journalism, human resources, health care, non-profit administration, social work, criminology, law, and correctional services.

What you can do
Students develop critical thinking skills and obtain experience with oral and written communication, and are therefore prepared to play active roles in shaping their gendered environments.

• Society and Gender
• Women's and Feminist Activism
• Gender Theory
• Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East
• Gender and Sexuality in Literature
• Gender in United States History
• The African American Family
• Asian American Families
• Women's Spirituality
• Gender Communication

• To identify major historical and contemporary, social, economic, political, and psychological issues facing the sexesv
• To analyze strategies for transforming coercive and unequal gender systems and for enhancing individual choice and our common humanity
• To connect scholarly inquiry to practical applications