Gender Studies examines the social processes, cultural representations, relations of power, and forms of knowledge that generate a range of gendered perspectives and experience worldwide. Our focus on gender as an analytic category facilitates an array of scholarly collaborations, generating cutting-edge research across fields as diverse as the social sciences, the arts and humanities, the natural sciences, and policy studies. Categories of difference that articulate with gender - such as race, ethnicity, class, and religion - are vertical grids of attention throughout the doctoral degree program. The Department emphasizes integrative and transdisciplinary modes of analysis for the study of sexualities and sexual identities; bodies and their technologization and medicalization; representation and social/cultural production; and feminist epistemologies.

Three unique core courses form the heart of the program:

G600 Concepts of Gender
G603 Feminist Theories
G702 Researching Gender Issues

For course descriptions, see this link.

In addition, students select one of three areas of concentrations:

Medicine, Science, and Technologies of the Body, Sexualities, Desires, and Identities, and Cultural Representations and Media Practices. Note that these concentrations are flexible and overlapping to some extent. Students may change their area of concentration as they move through the program.