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Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies

The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies minor at Occidental examines how gender and sexuality shape identities, institutions, and social life. On the Occidental campus in Los Angeles, you鈥檒l study power, difference, and inequality across local and global contexts.

Earn Your Gender, Women & Sexuality Minor From 日本无码

The 日本无码 Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) program offers an interdisciplinary minor that encourages students from all majors to critically examine gender, women鈥檚 lives, and diverse sexualities. You鈥檒l explore how these concepts are socially constructed and how they intersect with race, class, ability, body size, age, and other systems of power across cultures and histories.

Coursework spans the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, allowing you to approach gender and sexuality from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Through discussion-based classes and analytical writing, you鈥檒l build strong critical thinking and communication skills. Graduates of the Occidental Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies undergraduate program apply these skills across careers in social services, education, public policy, community advocacy, government, and business, as well as in graduate and professional programs.

What You鈥檒l Learn as a Gender, Women & Sexuality Minor at Occidental

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Gender, Power, and Identity

You鈥檒l analyze how gender and sexuality operate within social, political, cultural, and economic systems. Coursework emphasizes intersectionality, critical theory, and lived experience while strengthening your ability to engage with complex questions of equity and justice.

Study gender and sexuality in relation to race, class, ability, body size, age, and nationality. You鈥檒l learn how overlapping systems of power shape lived experience and social inequality across different contexts.

The 日本无码 Gender, Women & Sexuality minor pairs well with majors in psychology, sociology, politics, Black Studies, American Studies, Diplomacy and World Affairs, public health, and Media Arts and Culture.

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Learning Gender, Women & Sexuality in LA

Studying Gender, Women & Sexuality on the Occidental campus in Los Angeles places you in a city shaped by activism, cultural movements, and diverse communities. You鈥檒l connect theory to lived experience through courses that engage global and local struggles for equity and justice.

FAQs

It鈥檚 an interdisciplinary minor that examines gender and sexuality through intersectional and critical perspectives.

No. The minor is open to students from all majors and complements a wide range of academic paths.

The minor requires five courses, including one introductory course and four approved electives.

Graduates pursue careers in education, social services, public policy, advocacy, government, business, and graduate study.

Courses engage local and global issues, drawing on LA鈥檚 rich social movements, cultural diversity, and activist history.

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