Gender and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program that centers the social, political, and cultural construction of gender and sexuality. Courses in Gender and Sexuality Studies range widely in focus and content. However, what these courses share is a recognition, shaped by feminist and queer perspectives, of the ways in which gender and sexuality function as part of a dynamic system, one that shapes identity, structures knowledge, and determines the distribution of social and political power.
 

Program Committee
Sarah Ifft Decker, Department of History
Judith Haas, Department of English, chair of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Joel Parsons, Director, Clough Hanson Gallery
Leslie Petty, Department of English
Rebecca Tuvel, Department of Philosophy
Shatavia Wynn, Department of Religious Studies

Affiliated Faculty
Zachary Casey, Department of Education
Kathleen Doyle, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Stephanie Elsky, Department of English
Joy Brooke Fairfield, Media Studies Program 
Han Li, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Hadi Khoshneviss, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Laura Leisinger, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Jenn Lupu, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Jeanne Lopiparo, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
David McCarthy, Department of Art
Nina Mornais, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Evelyn Perry, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Amy Risley, Department of International Studies
Vanessa Rogers, Department of Music
Brooke Schedneck, Department of Religious Studies
Kate Shields, Environmental Studies Program
Be Stone, Department of Politics and Law
Jacob Sunshine, Department of Music

A total of twenty-four (24) credits as follows:

1. Gender and Sexuality Studies 200. Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies.
2. Gender and Sexuality Studies 400. Feminist Theory.
3. Four courses selected from the Gender and Sexuality Studies curriculum.

Two of these courses must come from fields outside of one’s major. A list of GSS electives is updated and circulated every semester. Students with questions are encouraged to contact the program chair.

For one of these four courses, students may elect to pursue an Internship through Gender and Sexuality Studies. All internship applications go through Career Services.  In order to receive academic credit for the Internship, students must consult with the chair of Gender and Sexuality Studies to devise a set of readings and reflection papers to accompany the internship.