Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor

The minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program brings together courses and faculty from several colleges of the university to provide an interdisciplinary experience. As an area of scholarship, the principal focus is on the contributions, perspectives, and experiences of women in all areas of human endeavor, including the status, portrayal, or achievements of women in areas such as art, history, literature, science, business, engineering, and medicine. It also promotes greater understanding of gender and of sexuality as fundamental categories of meaning, examining the pervasive and often unacknowledged ways that gender and/or sexuality shape and change social institutions, individual knowledge, and interpersonal relationships.