Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program that looks at the lives of women and men from a feminist perspective.
Our courses use feminist theory and gender analysis to examine literature, culture, social structures, and political power, and to understand how assumptions and beliefs about masculinities, femininities, and sexualities shape human institutions, organizations, and activities.
As one of the first in the nation, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington University has been encouraging the critical thinking and active participation of students in their education since 1972. The program emphasizes the importance of gender analysis to such disciplines as anthropology, philosophy, psychology, political 
science, history, education, law, architecture, art history and archeology, English, German, Romance, and Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures, and to such interdisciplinary programs as culture studies, international and area studies, religious studies, and performing arts.
Undergraduate students can obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a Bachelor's degree with a second major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, or a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Graduate students can complete a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
In addition, students can take Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses while completing majors in other subjects within Washington University's five undergraduate schools. Some courses in the program meet basic distribution requirements for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Program Newsletter:
Gender Spectrum: News from Washington University’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Fall 2008 l Spring 2008 l Fall 2007 l Spring 2010