Learning Aims

The gender and sexuality studies minor has four key Learning Aims for students taking courses and completing the minor.

• To understand how gender and sexuality operate in institutions, systems, organizations and the public sphere;
• To develop an understanding of genders and sexualities that emphasizes the histories, theorizing, and experiences of multiple communities, identities, and perspectives;
• To recognize the intersection of race, class, sexuality, gender, and the structural sources of privilege in the full range of human endeavors;
• To understand the diversity of women’s and sexual minority's lives in the past and present, in local, national and global contexts;