Bates College
Gender and Sexuality Studies

Lewiston, USA

DEGREE TYPE

DURATION

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About: The Gender and Sexuality Studies program explores critical concepts of gender, sexuality, and their intersections with race, class, and sexuality. This interdisciplinary approach combines academia with community engagement, offering students the opportunity to challenge societal norms and promote social justice.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in various fields, such as community organizing, advocacy, social work, education, or public policy. Opportunities may also exist in research, non-profits, and activism focused on gender and sexuality issues.

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.

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