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Gender & Sexuality Studies
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The academic minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary exploration of issues of gender and sexuality from various perspectives, with classes in English, African American Studies, Health & Human Services, and Social Science. It offers a critical lens for analyzing socially constructed expectations, assumptions, and biases around gender and sexuality in courses that focus on humanity, sexuality, gender, identity, public/private space, and representations of genders in literature, film, and media. A critically informed and historically situated understanding of gender and sexuality provides timely and valuable insights applicable to a variety of technological and professional disciplines. Because the academic minor is interdisciplinary, it highlights a variety of approaches and scholarly conversations on the topics of gender and sexuality, and equips graduates to become complex critical and analytical thinkers, skills that enhance post-graduate work, careers, and future communities and organizations. All courses hold an articulation agreement/memorandum of understanding with CUNY BA.
If you’re interested in declaring and earning an academic minor in Gender & Sexuality Studies, please consult the overview page for more information about minors and to download the appropriate forms. The coordinator for this academic minor is Professor Laura Westengard.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
Demonstrate a working knowledge of key concepts in gender and sexuality studies
Critically analyze, interpret, and communicate about one’s complex subject position and social location in relation to gender and sexuality norms
Identify expectations, assumptions, and effects of social constructions of gender and sexuality, including an awareness of how gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation intersect and how these intersections influence constructions of human identity in historical, cultural, and geographic contexts
Demonstrate the ability to connect scholarly inquiry about gender and sexuality to technological and professional contexts