GSWS Programs
The Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies program provides the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Major, a Secondary Discipline Minor, as well as a Certificate in Transgender Studies.
Undergraduate Degree
Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Major
Offered as a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Major
Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies (GSWS) is a dynamic, inter- and multi-disciplinary program drawing from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. Students cultivate a critical perspective addressing the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, disability, and embodiment. We provide students with the conceptual tools to explore and understand our world through an intersectional framework and encourage students to make connections between macro-social structures and individual lives.
Academic Minors
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Minor
Offered as a Secondary Discipline Minor
GSWS is a dynamic, inter- and multi-disciplinary program. The curriculum draws from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. Students cultivate a critical perspective which factors in gender, sex, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, (dis)ability, and embodiment that will add depth to any major field of study. Students minoring in GSWS actively engage in social justice activism by developing their skills with advocacy, community engagement, and theory-informed praxis.
Certificate Program
Certificate in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Offered as an Academic Certification
The Ethnic & Racial Studies Certificate is interdisciplinary and comparative. In each class, learners examine ways that ideas about race, Indigeneity, and ethnicity historically evolve, and explore relationships with power and intersections with sexuality, diaspora, class, gender, and religion. Students also become prepared to navigate diverse perspectives, obtain tools for communicating across differences, develop diplomacy, network with community partners, and integrate sustainable justice into all aspects of their lives.
*The Ethnic & Racial Studies Certificate is housed within the ERS program website.
Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies
Offered as an Academic Certification
GSWS is a dynamic, inter- and multi-disciplinary program. The curriculum draws from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. Students cultivate a critical perspective which factors in gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, class, (dis)ability, and embodiment that will add depth to any major field of study.
Certificate in Transgender Studies
Offered as an Academic Certification
This interdisciplinary and intersectional certificate explores the importance of transgender lives and communities in society. Trans voices are centered, and courses range from considering trans activism, trans histories, trans lives within social institutions, literary works by trans authors, decolonizing transgender experiences, and imagining trans futures. Using trans, feminist, and queer critical perspectives, we pay specific attention to the diversity of trans lives and experiences addressing gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, disability, and embodiment.
Micro-Credential
EDI: Gender, Indigeneity, & Sexuality
Offered as an Academic Micro-Credential
This EDI: Gender, Indigeneity, & Sexuality micro-credential prepares students to communicate effectively across difference, understand how structural and systemic barriers and inequitable processes and practices are created, and thrive in an increasingly diverse world. Courses for this badge address areas of social, cultural, and political difference including race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and nationality. Students will gain knowledge and skills to work toward building a more equitable world.
Contact the GSWS Program
SOU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6759
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