Gender Studies Minor

The Gender Studies minor offers students a multi and interdisciplinary exploration of how gender shapes individuals and societies across historical and global contexts. It examines the intersection of gender with race, class, ethnicity, and other social inequalities, drawing on diverse academic fields such as arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Gender research embraces diverse academic disciplines, theories and methodologies, artistic production and practice, as well as different ways of knowledge production. It includes consideration of psychological and cultural forces, as well as broad historical, social, economic, and political forces, such as globalization, colonization, decolonization, revolutions entailing legal regime changes, and economic development. This minor reflects the burgeoning development and diversity in recent decades of scholarship on gender. Grounded in global and regional perspectives, particularly within the MENASA region, the minor embraces intellectual diversity, offering flexible course options while ensuring a broad, comprehensive education on gender dynamics.

Pursuing this minor helps students in fostering their intellectual skills to understand and critically engage with how societies are structured around gender and its various intersections, and how these complex relations structure past and contemporary conditions of humanity in local, regional, and international contexts.