Gonzaga University
College of Arts and Sciences
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Degree: Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies
Students who complete a minor in WGST will:
- Understand the social construction of gender
- Analyze the intersections of gender, sex, race, ethnicity, sexuality and social class
- Understand the history of feminist thought and activism
- Critique the institutional structures that perpetuate power and privilege and thus create social inequalities on a local, national, and transnational level
- Synthesize myriad feminist/gender theories with their relationship to practice
- Advocate and act for social change