Gender Studies
Offered as a minor
The minor in Gender Studies gives students the tools to analyze how social understandings of masculinity and femininity affect society, politics, economics, and identity. Recognizing the centrality of concepts of gender to many disciplines, the interdisciplinary minor requires work in multiple departments and encourages the application of classroom work to real life contexts through service learning and internships. Gender Studies aims to provide its students with a critical framework in which the analysis of gender and all it entails can be imaginatively and empathetically applied to students’ public and private lives.