The study of women and gender major emphasizes critical, feminist, cross-cultural, multiracial, and transnational understandings of the diversity of women’s experiences. It also seeks to reach an understanding of how questions of gender are embedded in the liberal arts and sciences tradition. The major introduces diverse perspectives and understandings concerning the construction of femininity and masculinity, inequality and poverty, violence and crime, race and social class, culture and media, politics and the law, and sexuality and reproductive rights in historical and contemporary contexts.
Major Requirements:
A minimum of 34 semester hours, including: