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<\/a>BACHELOR OF ARTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On this page: Major Description<\/a> | Learning Objectives<\/a> | Degree Planning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do courses like Rad Women of the Global South<\/em> and Economics of Gender<\/em> sound exciting to you?
Do you want to explore a career in Non-Profit Organizations, Education or Law?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustration by Julio Salgado, commissioned by the #Health4All campaign<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies<\/strong> (GWSS) major at the University of Washington Bothell offers students the opportunity to examine social and political realities shaped by gender, sexuality, and power. Students approach topics from transnational and intersectional perspectives, enabling students to analyze and address issues of gender, sexuality, and social difference at personal, historical, institutional, and structural levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GWSS Minor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

IAS also offers a minor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GWSS Social Media<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Find out about GWSS events and more on our Facebook page<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and Snapchat (@gwssuwb)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PURPOSE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies students are passionate about understanding gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, nation, ability, cisgender privilege and other forms of power. Students often ask, Whose voices and histories are we not hearing, and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PRACTICE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Courses in the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies major focus on the texts, histories, and experiences from across the globe. Visibility is brought to many kinds of feminist knowledge production such as women of color feminism, transfeminism, queer feminism, feminist science and technology studies, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PROFESSION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Graduates of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies major are prepared for careers in community-based non-profit organizations, law, education, social services, the arts, and a variety of other sectors including graduate schools. Employers highly value their ability to work with diverse communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Learning objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies curriculum advances the five core IAS learning objectives<\/a>. Students majoring or minoring in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Think critically about the operation of gender and sexuality at personal, institutional, and structural levels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Situate and analyze gender and sexuality at local, national, and transnational levels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Critically examine the intersection of gender and sexuality with other vectors of identity, power, and privilege such as race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age, and dis\/ability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Undertake critical interdisciplinary research that understands the role of cultural norms and assumptions especially, but not limited to, gender and sexuality in knowledge production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Collaborate with peers and off campus communities to engage in scholarly and creative activities that intervene in existing debates and create new ways of engaging issues of gender and sexuality.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Write and communicate clearly about feminist theories and manifestations of power and resistance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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