Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates are expected to meet the following benchmarks as Gender and Sexuality Studies Majors: maintain a 2.0 GPA or higher in their courses; acquire foundational knowledge of the issues in gender and sexuality studies; apply concepts and theories related to gender and sexuality studies to a disciplinary or interdisciplinary creative, scholarly, and/or activist project; and successfully complete a capstone project in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The following formalized learning goals govern the shape of the major and inform the practices of student assessment:

• familiarity and working knowledge of major concepts and vocabulary in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist, gender and sexuality, and queer studies
• understanding of historical and contemporary gender and LGBTQIA+ issues and their relationship to each other and to race, ethnicity, class, nationality, migration and other forms of local and global inequality
• appreciation for the potential of critical analysis of gender and sexuality to advance understandings of the historical and contemporary formations of white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and gender normativity
• ability to explain, verbally and in writing, how different categories of analysis, such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, global inequalities, and ability, interact with each other in the processes of identity, privilege, oppression, and resistance
• a commitment to social justice that positively transforms our communities in ways that value LGBTQIA+, women-identified, and BIPOC people
• application of concepts and theories related to gender and sexuality studies to a disciplinary or interdisciplinary creative, scholarly, and/or activist project