Bachelor of Women's and Gender Studies at Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University's Department of Women's and Gender Studies is open to people of all genders, with courses focusing on women, gender and sexuality across the curriculum of the humanities and social sciences and including professional schools such as nursing, law and social work.

Women's and gender studies is the study of the human experience that places women and gender at the center of the analysis. It is an interdisciplinary field that draws from knowledge and expertise in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It examines how gender inequality is built into social institutions and practices, envisions more egalitarian alternatives and studies strategies of social change.

Women's and gender studies looks at how gender norms vary across cultures and how they interact with other systems of inequality, such as those based on race and class. Courses range from "Gender and Popular Culture" to "Violence Against Women;" from "Feminist Theory" to "Feminism in Action" and from "Multicultural U.S. Feminisms" to "Global Feminisms." 

1. Graduates will be able to employ central concepts from women's and gender studies to analyze how culture and social institutions shape possibilities for justice in everyday life (introductory course; theory course).
2. Graduates will be able to demonstrate how contemporary feminist thought and movements can take different forms among diverse populations within the United States and/or around the globe (theory course; diversity and identity course).
3. Graduates will be able to articulate how the concept of intersectionality facilitates the analysis of individual and community experiences. This can be demonstrated in research papers and in approaches to community action and service (inquiry/research course; Praxis course; diversity and identity course).
4. Graduates will be able to apply research skills and methodologies shaped by the discipline of women's and gender studies in an original and substantial theoretical or empirical research project (inquiry/research course).
5. Graduates will be able to clearly explicate how their activist or service-learning project intervenes in a current social justice issue pertaining to gender, race or other forms of social inequality (introductory course; Praxis course).