Women & Gender (Minor)
The study of women and gender is an interdisciplinary program that addresses the dynamics of
gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and power. This minor aims to expand capacities for
critical reflection and analysis and to engage students with varied approaches to women’s and
gender research, uniting areas of knowledge such as philosophy, the humanities, the social
sciences, and history.
The minor emphasizes a critical, feminist, cross-cultural, multiracial, and transnational
understandings of the diversity of women’s experiences and life chances.
It also seeks to reach an understanding of how questions of gender are embedded in the
liberal arts and science tradition.
The minor in the Study of Women and Gender introduces diverse perspectives and understandings
concerning the reproduction of femininity and masculinity, inequality and poverty, violence and
crime, race and social class, culture and media, politics and the law, and sexuality and
reproductive rights in historical and contemporary contexts.
Career Opportunities
In today’s globalized and complex workplace employers seek job
applicants who are sensitive to social, cultural and ethnic diversity and difference. The skills
and perspective offered through the Study of Women and Gender Minor assist in the fields of social
services, non-profit, health care, business, education, law, and law enforcement among others.
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