In Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, we offer undergraduate students a vibrant and rigorous course of study that cultivates a critical understanding of the role that gender plays in the construction of identities and the social and political organization of culture.
Whether you're pursuing a BA or a minor, you'll explore the connections between and among the many meanings that gender—as well as race, sexuality, class and disability—has in our lives, our scholarship, our communities and our politics.
As a community, we believe that feminism and its political and scholarly traditions are necessary and vital to everyone's work at the University of Denver and in the communities beyond our campus.
Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Program
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Coursework
History
History is essential to understanding the varied and changing ways that societies have defined gender, as well as allocated roles, powers, expectations and resources based on their understanding of gender.
Institutions and Power
Institutions and power looks at how gender identity is constructed by social institutions such as education, the church, the family, public policy, law and the media.
Intersectionality
Intersectionality recognizes that gender cannot be studied or understood in isolation from other structures, such as social status, ethnic allegiance, religious conviction or access to forms of cultural capital.
Identity and Rhetoric
Identity and rhetoric recognizes that gender definitions and roles need to be understood in relation to the "linguistic turn" associated with political theorists as well as deconstructive thinkers. This portion of the curriculum explores linguistic structures (formed by the symbiosis of social and cultural constructions) and representation.
Major or Minor in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Go to the graduate admission application to submit your information. For information on admission requirements, visit the graduate academic programs page and locate your program of interest.