The Women’s and Gender Studies major provides students with a solid foundation in women’s studies and gender analysis, introduces them to a range of disciplinary approaches to women and gender, and helps them to develop an area of specialization within the field. Courses stress the importance of social ideas and relationships such as those shaped by gender, ethnicity, race, and class to understand better individual and collective experiences, past and present. The major requires a minor in another field in order to reinforce connections with existing majors.

Related Careers:

Other areas to consider:  Law, Medicine, Human Services

Links:

National Women's Studies Association (http://www.nwsa.org/)

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (http://www.nfprha.org/)

American Sociological Association (http://www.asanet.org/)

American Association of Museums (http://www.aam-us.org/)

American Public Health Association (http://www.apha.org/)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (http://www.appam.org/)

New England Board of Education Directory of Public Policy Research Centers and Institutes (http://www.nebhe.org/pubpol.html)

American Anthropological Association (http://www.aaanet.org/)

Society for Applied Anthropology  (http://www.sfaa.net/)