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Gender Studies Program

Why Gender Studies?

  • You like

    Interacting with people, questioning social norms, understanding the roots & challenges of injustice

     

  • You'll learn

    About gender as diversity, relationships between politics & personal lives, ways to contribute daily to a more just world

  • You can be

    A person who uses personal and academic knowledge to improve lives of communities, in professions from education to law & healthcare 

     

     

Highlights

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    Why Gender Studies?
    Gender is a fundamental organizing principle of human lives
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    Gender Studies (BA)
    Gender Studies BA
    Study how gender norms & expectations shape our lives
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    Gender Studies Minor
    Every field of knowledge includes gender perspectives
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    Admissions

    Be a fierce advocate for justice!

    Be a fierce advocate for justice
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Resources

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    Gender Studies Advising
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    Meet our professors
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    Gender Studies Faculty & Staff

    Meet the professors and staff who work on issues of gender and sexuality!

    Faculty & Staff
    Find information on program faculty & staff
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    LGBTQ+ Resource Center
    LGBTQ+ Resource Center
    A safe environment for students across sexual orientations & gender identities
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