Overview

We approach topics from transnational and intersectional perspectives, enabling students to analyze and address issues of gender, sexuality, and social difference at personal, historical, institutional, and structural levels. In our classes we study texts, histories, and experiences from the Global North and South, and examine gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, nation, ability, cisgender privilege and other forms of power.

The Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies program of the University of Washington Bothell is devoted to generating and bringing visibility to many kinds of feminist knowledge production such as women of color feminism, transfeminism, queer feminism, feminist science and technology studies, and more. GWSS scholars therefore represent a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, and conduct research in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and arts.

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Learning Objectives

The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies curriculum advances the four core IAS learning objectives: Critical and Creative Thinking; Interdisciplinary Research and Inquiry; Writing and Communication; Shared Leadership and Collaboration. Students majoring or minoring in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies will be able to:

Think critically about the operation of gender and sexuality at personal, institutional, and structural levels.

Situate and analyze gender and sexuality at local, national, and transnational levels.

Critically examine the intersection of gender and sexuality with other vectors of identity, power, and privilege such as race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age, and ability.

Undertake critical interdisciplinary research that understands the role of cultural norms and assumptions especially, but not limited to, gender and sexuality in knowledge production.

Collaborate with peers and off campus communities to engage in scholarly and creative activities that intervene in existing debates and create new ways of engaging issues of gender and sexuality.

Write and communicate clearly about feminist theories and manifestations of power and resistance.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Critical Gender and Sexualtity Studies

Histories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality

Approaches to Feminist Inquiry

Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-30 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Bothell, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

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General requirements

Minimum 2.0 GPA in Secondary-level Coursework (UW Grading System information)

College Academic Distribution Requirements (CADR)
Proof of English Proficiency Requirement(s)

Tuition Fees

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44706 USD / year

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13472 USD / year

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Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Learning Objectives

Programme Structure

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Duration

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Credits

Delivered

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