Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Tineka Scalzo
WGSS Coordinator
GWSS Designation Mission
The Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies (GWSS ) Designation seeks to radically improve equity and social justice for all people by analyzing and interrogating ideology, power structures, and oppression through intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ lenses. The program applies an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and inclusive framework to its coursework, pedagogy, and praxis; values diverse modes of intellectual development and knowledge generation; and promotes community development through education, art, dialogue, service, activism, and engagement.
GWSS Designation Goals
The goals of the GWSS Designation are to:
Equip students with knowledge and skills from an intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ perspective to radically improve equity and social justice for all people
Foster a culture of regular, meaningful civic engagement grounded in an intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ research and theory
Provide active learning opportunities that are grounded in intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ pedagogies
Introduce academic intersectional feminist and queer discourses on the construction of sex, gender, and sexual orientation and the consequences of those constructions
Analyze and interrogate ideology, power structures, and oppression through intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ lenses
GWSS Program Learning Outcomes
Students earning the GWSS designation will be able to:
- Communicate intersectional feminist and queer concepts through writing, speech, and/or visual media
- Apply intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ ideas to diverse contexts
- Analyze systems of privilege and oppression using intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ lenses
- Connect intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ concepts across disciplines and historical periods
- Perform praxis grounded in intersectional feminist and LGBTQ+ frame