Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies

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Director: Professor Erika Nelson Mukherjee (Modern Languages & Literatures)
Faculty: Professors C. Batson (Modern Languages & Literatures), C. Bracken (English), A. Burkett (English), J. Cramsie (History), M. Ferry (Modern Languages & Literatures), W. Garcia (Modern Languages & Literatures), M. Goldner (Sociology),D. Hill Butler (Sociology), S. Leavitt (Anthropology), L. Marso (Political Science), J. Matsue (Music), Z. Oxley (Political Science), S. Raucci (Classics), M.F. Sener (Economics), G. Seri (Political Science), J. Smith (English), P. Wareh (English); Associate Professors K. Aslakson (History), L. Cox (Visual Arts), A. Foroughi (History), T. Gazzarri (Classics), J. Lewin (English), K. Lynes (English), S. McAuliffe (English), E. Nelson Mukherjee (Modern Languages & Literatures), L. Nemett (Visual Arts), D. Ogawa (Visual Arts), K. Scheiter (Philosophy), B.K. Tuon (English), S. Mueller (Modern Language and Literature) J. Troxell (English), D. Venning (Theater & Dance/English); Assistant Professors A. Dang (Economics), M. Cruz, D. Friedell (Philosophy), M. Guerrant (Psychology/GSWS), E. McGrath (History); Senior Lecturer M. Osuna (Modern Languages & Literatures)

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) is an interdisciplinary program that includes a wide variety of courses offered in arts and humanities and social sciences. Offering a critical perspective that places gender at the center of analysis, GSWS reexamines traditional beliefs, supports new research methods, explores feminist and queer theories, and enables students to better understand the societal positions and global processes affecting all genders throughout the world. GSWS courses probe the way cultures construct concepts of gender and sexuality, introducing students to differences of class, race, ethnicity, and life cycle in a range of societies. Students are encouraged to become aware of intersectionality and unexamined assumptions about sexual and gender differences.

Programs

• Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Approved Courses

• Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, B.A.

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

• Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Minor

Courses

• GSW 100 - Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
• GSW 101 - LGBTQ+ Studies
• GSW 200 - Beyond Woman/Body/Nature: Ecofeminism, Systems Theories, and Social Activism
• GSW 201 - Global Queerness
• GSW 213 - Sex and Power
• GSW 300 - Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms
• GSW 301 - Queer Science and Health
• GSW 311 - Queering Masculinities
• GSW 479 - Internship in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
• GSW 490 - Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Independent Study
• GSW 495 - Capstone Course on Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Women
• GSW 498 - Gender Sexuality & Women’s Studies Senior Thesis 1
• GSW 499 - Gender Sexuality & Women’s Senior Thesis 2

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