Welcome to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at ETSU!
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary field of study examining how women, gender, and sexuality are documented, conceptualized, and investigated by diverse disciplines in the humanities, behavioral and social sciences, biological sciences, and visual and performing arts. The WGSS Minor offers students the opportunity to explore women’s contributions to culture and history; to examine how gender and sexuality shape culture, the arts, literature, health, politics, the sciences, law, and education; and to analyze how race, ethnicity, nationality, class, disability, age, and religion intersect with other identities in relationship to structural, institutional, and ideological inequalities and oppression.
The WGSS minor is flexible enough to allow students to tailor it to their interests so that it can complement or augment their major. The knowledge and skills that WGSS minors develop prepare students to take on leadership roles, and can assist in finding employment in business, healthcare, education, government, criminal justice, communications, and the non-profit sector and/or prepare for future graduate studies.
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Companion Majors
Anthropology
Art & Art History
Communication Studies
Criminal Justice
Education
English
Foreign Language
Health Sciences
History
Human Services
International Affairs
Literature and Language
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Theatre