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The Gender Studies B.A. Program

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Note: The former women's studies curriculum has been revised and the major has been retitled as gender studies, effective Fall 2011.

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The Gender Studies Program, which offers a major leading to the B.A. degree as well as a minor, examines gender using an interdisciplinary approach. Consisting of a variety of courses drawn from across the College, the program offers students the opportunity to study gender in a variety of historical periods and geographical areas using different academic, political, and feminist perspectives. The program equips students with reading, writing, research, and analytical skills that enable them to:

• identify and analyze the links among gender, sexuality, identity, power, and social justice;
   
• identify and analyze intersections among gender and sexuality and other categories of difference, such as class, race, religion, nationality, and physical ability;
   
• situate gender and sexuality in broader historical and geopolitical contexts;
   
• write or otherwise present (depending on the field of study) analyses of gender and sexuality in specific visual, literary, and theoretical works; and
   
• design and execute a senior project that demonstrates these competencies within a theoretical framework of gender and sexuality.

Updated June 21, 2011