19 Human Sexuality Degree Programs

The Master's Degree in Clinical Sexology and Couples Therapy starts from a solid scientific and multidisciplinary training on the different aspects of sexual dysfunctions that affect the human being and couple relationships from a biopsychosocial perspective.

Explore how gender and sexuality relate to race, class, disability, and other key aspects of society. Tackle real-world issues, while engaging with theory and research across humanities and social science. Get ready for careers in policy, media, heritage and working for NGOs. Work with leading researchers to gain the skills to communicate findings across sectors and to diverse audiences.

Study gender and sexuality from a social, cultural, political and historical perspective.

The Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of General Studies in Human Sexuality are designed to explore the complex aspects of human sexuality through an interdisciplinary lens. These programs aim to provide ...

Explore the diversity of human sexuality and examine how historical and contemporary attitudes have shaped our understanding of sexual orientation and difference.

An interdisciplinary exploration of gender and sexuality as central formations in human interactions, social institutions, creative endeavors, and scientific inquiry. The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program provides tools to unlearn systems power and address critical 21st-century sociopolitical and economic issues.

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an approach that places women at the center of inquiry. The primary mission of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is to analyze gender. Students acquire both a local and global perspective on gender. Attentiveness to diversity, privilege, and power, and women's unique creative contributions to human experience are central aspects of this training. More than simply a body of knowledge, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies encourage students to apply their learning to transform their lives and their communities. Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offer a vital perspective everywhere gender impacts our world.

The Graduate Diploma in Sexology offers a comprehensive program designed to equip students with knowledge about human sexuality, sexual health, and related psychological and societal factors. The cour...

The Graduate Certificate in Sexology is designed to give students a foundational understanding of human sexuality, exploring key topics like sexual health, relationships, diversity, and well-being. Th...

Gender and sexuality are basic organizing structures of society. These categories are embedded in law, politics, and culture. Gender and sexuality shape the distribution of life opportunities locally and globally, and they permeate some of our most fundamental ways of experiencing and thinking about the world. Gender, women’s, and sexuality studies (GWSS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the complexities of gender and sexuality across various cultures, historical periods, and political contexts. The GWSS program at Grinnell offers students a broad foundation in feminist, critical race, and queer scholarship and activism.

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies analyzes local and global entanglements of knowledge, power, pleasure, and resistance. Drawing on histories of antiracist, decolonial, feminist, queer, and trans work, courses examine shifting dynamics of privilege, exclusion, and marginalization. The program also cultivates action, practice, and reciprocal engagement with the many communities of which we are part. To study gender and sexuality in these ways is to refute simple assertions about identity in favor of richly detailed accounts of the specific conditions through which particular social positions are maintained and transgressed. Students may choose to either major or minor in gender and sexuality studies.

The Gender and Sexuality Studies certificate program allows students to examine how gender and sexuality as social constructs shape individual lives, groups, institutions, and social structures. Students will have the opportunity to examine individual development, couples, families, small groups, and organizations as well as the media, arts, and economic and political systems.

How have expressions of sexuality and gender in British literature been shaped by the social constraints of different periods? How have female authors navigated systems of patriarchy, and what has been the role of literature in confirming and subverting gender norms? And how are the rapid changes in approaches, attitudes, and practices around gender and sexuality since the 20th century reflected in contemporary British writing? This course offers a unique and exciting opportunity to explore these questions and more, examining a wide range of British literature from various genres and periods through the lens of gender and sexuality.

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.

Engage in feminist scholarship in a supportive program offering small classes and one-on-one work with faculty. In women, gender, sexuality studies (WGSS), we are committed to an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis in which the study of women and gender is multifaceted, diverse, and embedded in a network of power relations that includes race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity.