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Gender Studies

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School for Cultural and Social Transformation Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

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Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that emerged out of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s and which focuses on interactions of gender with socio-cultural, economic, and political phenomenon including but not limited to race, class, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and nationality. In addition to its focus on the history and achievements of women, gender scholarship has inspired research and curricula that address men's lives, masculinity, and the lives of people who identify as queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, asexual, agender, or genderqueer. While Gender Studies is often a discipline-based practice, it has evolved as an interdisciplinary field with its own set of theoretical investments, research questions, publication outlets, professional commitments, and community-oriented activism.

The overall mission of Gender Studies is to provide a quality education in gender scholarship, to promote an integration of this scholarship and research into the university curriculum, to encourage new pedagogies, and to foster the growth of an interdisciplinary community of scholars who are interested in gender as a category of analysis. Provide students with the tools of academic analysis so that they may explore the significance of gender as a crucial component in the organization of personal lives and social institutions. To this end, the courses offered by Gender Studies re-evaluate the assumptions at work in traditional disciplines as they study individuals, cultures, social institutions, policy and other areas of scholarly inquiry. In these ways, the program prepares students for graduate work and professional studies (e.g. Law or Medical School) and for employment in professional and community organizations.

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