Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

The Boston University Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGS) Program fosters interdisciplinary research and teaching related to the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, citizenship status, disability, and other dimensions of social life that sustain and exacerbate systems of inequality. We seek to understand the ways in which our bodies, social and cultural experiences, and imaginative constructions affect what it means to be a gendered and sexual self across a diverse array of temporal, cultural, and geographic contexts.

The WGS program offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate. WGS faculty work in and across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences and are committed to innovative scholarship and pedagogy, including the interdisciplinary team-teaching that is the cornerstone of both the undergraduate and graduate programs. Graduate students from across Boston University can take courses not only in the graduate certificate program but also through the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS). Boston University faculty and students interested in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies participate in our lively intellectual community through our colloquia, workshops, public lectures, film screenings, discussions, and other events.