Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that investigates how gender and sexuality operate as organizing axes of social, cultural, economic and political institutions, as well as in the everyday lives and cultural products of people who must live within them. Emphasizing the importance of historical and cross-cultural perspectives, the Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies Department at UMBC critically examines the intersections of gender and sexuality with other differences, including, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, and ability to make visible structures of power that otherwise remain hidden.
Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies offers a major, undergraduate certificate, and two minors, Gender + Women’s Studies and Critical Sexuality Studies.
The major in gender and women’s studies consists of 36 credits, divided as follows: