Why Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Studies
WGSS Develops Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
Interdisciplinary Approach: WGSS draws from many fields and disciplines to offer a comprehensive critical perspective on the relationships between gender and sexuality with other identities of race, class, ethnicity, nationality, etc. providing an expansive framework for understanding complex issues.
Analyzing Diverse Perspectives: By looking more deeply into issues and the viewpoints of different groups and communities, students learn to evaluate how various dimensions of difference contribute to individual and societal experience and perspective.
Contextualized Analysis: Students learn to identify the social, political, historical roots and problems related to gender and sexuality, and to understand underlying contributing reasons and root causes. Students transfer the critical and analytical skills they develop in the study of gender, sexuality, and society to their other classes and beyond the classroom to activities on campus and in the broader community.
Courses and events sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provide valuable resources for all members of the university community. In the classroom, as in our research, we reach across divisions of historical, political, economic, representational, technological, and scientific analysis to offer students innovative methods and theories that enhance the broad reach of their studies as well as their everyday lives.
What Can I Do with a WGSS Minor?
Applications to Real-World Contexts:
WGSS minors can apply the skills that they learn through WGSS courses and utilize them in various professional fields, using their background to address challenges in areas such as Education, Law, Healthcare, Government, Business, the Arts, and Non-Profit Advocacy. Students will be better prepared to deal with diverse populations and communities, with solutions and strategies that are impactful in benefiting and accommodating to an array of circumstances, communities and locations.
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provide a thoughtful choice as a minor for careers in medicine, teaching, social work, Law, Healthcare, and other endeavors in which equity and social sensitivity is expected.
Through their developed competencies in cultural and gender dynamics, students find themselves well prepared to pursue advanced degrees and training in the professions, to gain employment in community service agencies, to engage in artistic expression in the creative arts, and to assume leadership roles and positions in both business and government.
Many of the courses offered in the WGSS curriculum promote the General Education objectives of the university among which include: Ethical Action & Citizenship, Problem Solving, Scientific Reasoning, Creative Explorations, Personal Wellness, and Information Literacies.