22 Women's Studies Course Programs

Overcome gender barriers and grow as a leader within your career and organisation. The online Oxford Women’s Leadership Development Programme offers a safe space to critically examine the role of a leader, and the challenges female leaders face within the workplace.

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The interdisciplinary Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) combines a variety of scholarly traditions to develop a culture of critical thinking about the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Drawing primarily on the humanities and the social sciences, courses in GSWS explore the social construction of identity and experience as well as how difference, marginalization, and resistance exist within and across cultures and historical periods. In its curriculum and its faculty research, GSWS explores the multiple directions that feminist and queer scholarship and activism take locally, nationally, and transnationally.

The Women’s and Gender Studies minor is an interdisciplinary minor that aims to inspire learning and service relevant to women’s and gender issues.

The field of Women's Studies (or Gender Studies) analyzes and interprets historical and contemporary understandings of gender in the social and political world, using feminist theory and methods.

A Women’s Studies minor complements many different majors, such as nursing, physician assistant, social work, education, political science, and psychology. A Women’s Studies minor can help to customize the undergraduate experience, preparing students for various careers involving issues of diversity and social/political difference.

The program is dedicated to exploring gender as a fundamental category of analysis within the realms of social sciences and humanities, serving as a focal point in both national and international discourse. Its objective is to familiarize students with key topics and methodologies in gender and women’s studies, empowering them with critical analytical abilities to dissect gender dynamics across various domains including everyday life, science, politics, economy, culture, and society.

Fresno City College is the only college in the San Joaquin Valley to offer an AA in Women's Studies. Women's Studies offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of women in society including their contrasting roles circumscribed by their culture and social institutions. It also provides an academic background helpful to those planning careers in law, business, education, and medicine.

Gender and sexuality studies trains you to examine gender relations and the construction of gender and sexual difference from a globally-informed perspective and to consider how gender and sexuality intersect with the social categories of race, class, ethnicity, disability, and age to produce our complex social identities.

Campbellsville University’s Women’s and Gender Studies minor will provide students with a broader understanding of the impact and experience of gender at both the individual and institutional levels. The minor’s interdisciplinary focus will incorporate courses from a variety of academic programs across campus, including but not limited to: Christian Studies, Criminal Justice, English, History, Human Performance, Mass Communications, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, and Theater. This minor will hone students’ research and writing skills, as well as their critical and analytical skills, and will equip them to engage in a 21st century world.

Students in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program, examine intersecting systems of social difference—gender, sexuality, race, nationality, class, caste, and ability. Throughout your studies, you’ll learn to think independently, analytically, and courageously about your own subjectivities and the world around you. Students tailor their academic program to their interests, selecting from courses in WGSS and from other disciplines, and they graduate experienced in a variety of feminist research methodologies.

The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department is administered by the chair and other members of the program's core faculty. Core faculty are those who are actively involved in the program, who teach FGSS courses, advise FGSS majors and senior theses, and may serve as program chair. The program sponsors an annual symposium, the FGSS Salon, and the Diane Weiss Memorial Lecture.

Women's and Gender Studies courses seek to make visible and interrogate power relations that result in the marginalization of women, people of color, and others affected by structural injustices. Students will learn about the historical and contemporary contributions of women from a global perspective, identify and analyze stereotypes and forms of discrimination related to women and gender, and inquire into the diversity of experiences among women and within the spectrum of gender.

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program at Washington and Lee University offer students both the opportunity to complete a multi-disciplinary minor in feminist and gender studies and a stimulating co-curricular environment in which to develop as intellectual and community leaders. Founded in 2001, the WGSS is a vibrant academic program that links the classroom with the world and offers the theoretical basis for activism and social change. A demanding introductory course and disciplinary distribution requirements give all students a sound theoretical orientation to defining and articulating concepts and practices in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, while diverse course offerings from professors in disciplines that range from psychology to English, from Romance languages to political science, philosophy to sociology and anthropology, make it easy for students to draw connections between their major fields of studies and the evolving work of gender scholars. Our faculty encourages students to see their studies as relevant to their everyday lives and important for understanding and responding to social justice issues. Students do just that--in a math student's investigation into why so few women study math in college, in a fraternity member's paper analyzing how his fraternity brothers' drinking habits shape male privilege, or in a missionary's daughter's attempt to better understand how a feminist might read the Bible. The flexible Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies capstone requirement allow students to pursue their particular interests with the kind of intensity that turns classroom competence into an abiding passion. Do you want to make audiences laugh with women's humor? Or challenge the ways in which media images invade our consciousness and control our bodies? Study women artists or find out how women changed history? Want to learn how we might get more diverse elected officials, and figure out why homophobia is still part of public policy? Or write a poem that moves its readers to action against sexist oppression? Join us. That's what we do.

This course critically examines issues facing women in Canadian society, such as gender inequality and discrimination, gender-based violence, reproductive health and reproductive rights, the construction of motherhood and work, and other aspects of female status in patriarchy. Students will explore the work of prominent feminist scholars, the role of feminist movements in social change, and recent social research on gender, sexuality, and intersectional theories of oppression. In this introductory course, we will also discuss gender-non-conforming identities, masculinity, and men’s issues.