Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies | Gender & Sexuality Studies

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Certificate Program

Overview: The Gender and Sexuality Studies certificate program allows students to examine how gender and sexuality as social constructs shape individual lives, groups, institutions, and social structures. Students will have the opportunity to examine individual development, couples, families, small groups, and organizations as well as the media, arts, and economic and political systems. The courses explore how gender and sexuality intersect with race, culture, ethnicity, and social class in the interest of social justice.

The certificate requires 18 units from among the following classes.

GSS 1000 Introduction to Women's Studies
GSS 1010 Introduction to Masculinity Studies
GSS 1020 Introduction to Transgender Studies
GSS 1030 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
GSS 4200 Feminist Theory
GSS 4250 Women as Agents of Social Change
GSS 4500 Queer Theory
GSS 5933 Independent Study