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Binghamton University, State University of New York

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (BA, Minor)

Binghamton, USA

DURATION

4 Years

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

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EARLIEST START DATE

May 2025

TUITION FEES

USD 7,070 *

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

* for new York state residents | for out-of-state residents and international residents - $26,160

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Key Summary

About: The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies programme offers students an opportunity to explore critical issues related to gender, sexuality, and women's experiences. It emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach, encouraging an understanding of how these factors intersect with race, class, and culture. Students can choose to pursue a Bachelor of Arts (BA) or a Minor in this field.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue various career paths, including roles in advocacy, education, research, and policy-making. They may work in non-profit organizations, government agencies, or academic institutions, focusing on social justice, gender equality, and community outreach.

Introduction

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is a transdisciplinary program for students who wish to explore gender and its relation to other axes of power such as race, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and sexuality. WGSS covers a complex variety of theoretical and empirical scholarship both within traditional disciplines and in transdisciplinary frames in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as combinations of the three. The program is committed to critical perspectives and bodies of knowledge that contribute to possibilities for transformation and change. Toward this end, WGSS courses emphasize participatory education in which student involvement, critical thinking, and personal insight are encouraged and made relevant in the learning process. Faculty members from a variety of disciplines offer regular courses in WGSS. Each semester the WGSS program publishes a list of courses relevant to the program.

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Curriculum

Some courses to consider in your first year:

WGSS 200 - Intro to WomenGender&Sexuality

An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of women, gender, and sexuality studies that examines a variety of feminist and queer theoretical approaches to understanding gendered and sexual lives in historical contexts. The course will provide an understanding of how identities interact with other social phenomena such as politics popular culture, and scientific research. In doing so the course will highlight the complexities and variabilities of gender and sexuality in relation to race, class, ethnicity, and nation. 4 credits. Levels: Undergraduate

WGSS 300 - Exploring Queer Lives

The lives of LGBTQ people and others marginalized because of their sexuality and gender expression are explored through readings and discussions of theory and research across a range of disciplinary boundaries, and will include psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, literary and cultural studies literatures — as well as those more accurately described as interdisciplinary. We will discuss

(1) the ways that other identity categories and sites of stratification (such as race, class, age, ability, etc.) are integral to an understanding of sexuality and gender expression;
(2) the ways an interdisciplinary social science can help us analyze and influence the conflicts currently surrounding the lives of LGBTQ people (e.g., gay rights, marriage, parenting, sex, health, immigration, etc.);
(3) the histories of the LGBTQ movements in the U.S. and internationally and how the historical context of the LGBTQ movements continues to influence LGBTQ individuals, culture, and politics; and
(4) the personal, theoretical, and political differences of sexual liberation, gay liberation, radical feminism, LGBT civil rights, and “queer” movements, and the ways these various understandings of sexuality and gender differently impact self- and community-understanding of LGBTQ people. 4 credits. Levels: Undergraduate

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