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The program offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in WGSS, a minor in Women's Studies and a minor in LGBT Studies.  The major involves five required courses generated by WGSS, and five approved, cross-listed electives. The minors involve Intro courses generated by WGSS, and minoring students then take 5 electives which may be drawn from WGSS, the humanities, fine arts, and social and health sciences (check with Advisors on distribution requirements). Typically fifteen to twenty-five undergraduate courses are offered each semester. Topics Include:  Gender, Society & Feminist Theory; Sexuality and Queer Theory; Gender in Transnational Perspective; Intersectionalities: Race, Class, Age, Disability, Sexuality & Gender; Health Aspects of Human Sexuality, Sociology of Gender, Psychology of Gender, Women in Politics, Sexuality and Society, US Women's History since 1840, Feminist Philosophy, Women Writers, Gender and Film, and Women in Latin America, Gay and Lesbian Literature, Sociology of Family, Gender and Media, etc. The undergraduate minors are open to all students regardless of major.

The program takes an intersectional, multidisciplinary and transnational approach to critically assess existing hierarchies, inequalities, and forms of privilege, in the past and present. We challenge students to understand how categories of gender, sexuality, race, class, dis/ability, and citizenship have shaped not only their own lives but also the lives of people in their communities and around the world.