Gender and Sexuality Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies students explore scholarship about gender across cultures and throughout history to examine intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality, ability, religion, and age. The multidisciplinary program encourages students to think critically as means to becoming active and ethical participants in career, family, social life, and community.

Graduates with a Gender and Sexuality Studies major or concentration are currently working in fields ranging from business to arts to social sciences. They have used their education to build careers in many arenas including law, accounting, management and computer science. They can be found in artistic careers such as graphic design, home-decorating, free-lance writing and editing.

In social science fields they are helping others as psychologists, psychotherapists, and clinical social workers. Many who combined a major or concentration with study in the health sciences are now drawing on their Gender and Sexuality Studies education as nurse midwives, labor and delivery nurses, and physicians.

Others have used their study of gender to become more well-rounded educators, working as professors of architecture and psychology, legal writing instructors, elementary school teachers, librarians, research assistants, and ESL instructors. Gender and Sexuality Studies majors and concentrators are thriving as mechanical engineers and guitar instructors, massage therapists and Russian interpreters.

In short, they are creating lives for themselves as wide-ranging as their dreams, building on the strong foundation of a liberal arts education in Gender and Sexuality Studies that emphasizes creative interdisciplinary connections and independent critical thinking.