At a glance:
- Major
- 4-year-plan
- Minor
- Education Abroad
- Undergraduate Research
- Sexuality Studies Certificate
- UK Core [Note the following Fall 2024 GWS courses count for UK Core Credit: GWS 200 Sex & Power; GWS 201 Gender & Pop Culture; GWS 250 Social Movements; GWS 301 Black & Latina Women in US Politics; GWS 301 Girlhood Studies; GWS 302 Reproductive Justice; GWS 302 Global Gays in the Global Gaze; GWS 302 Transnational Sexualities; GWS 309 Health, History, and Human Diversity. See GWS Fall 2024 Courses below for more information.]
- AP/IB/Dual Credit
- A&S Major/Program Scholarships
- GWS Fall 2024 Courses
- GWS Undergraduate Brochure
Department Highlights
Recent Undergraduate Courses:
- Sex and Power
- Gender and Popular Culture
- Social Movements
- Black Women in U.S. History
- Psychology of Gender
- Gender Across The World: Transnational Bodies
- Gender Across The World: Masculinities
- LGBTQ History in the U.S.
- History of Sexuality
- Doing Feminist Research
- Gender, Power, and Violence
- Gender and Disability
- Gender Across The World: Global Gays In The Global Gaze
- Black Women Leaders
- Feminist Theory
- Health, History, and Human Diversity
- Intro to Queer Theory
- Gender and Film in Appalachia
- Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music
- Food, Culture, and Gender
- Gender and Activism
- Kate Black Award for Activism
- Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement
- Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award
- GWS Honors (for graduating seniors)
- Tomasky Student Leaders
- Space, Place, and Southern Grace for Feminist Studies
Recent Senior Capstone Projects:
- Challenges of the Legal System for Victims Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Let’s Talk About Reentry of Female Offenders: Oppression of Overlooked Population
- Sexual Fluidity: The Label-less Label
- Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Intergenerational and Gendered Comparisons
- Sexual Violence in Rural Appalachia: Risk Factors, Cultural Atmosphere, and Evaluation of Resources
- Intersection of Education and Class in Mexican Immigrant Families
- Vote for the Bitch (on the parallels between sexism in high school debate and political debates)
- A Study on the Role of Schools in the Experience of LGBTQ+ Youth
- Yes, I Am Still Interested: Sexualities, Aging, and Women
- African American Girlhood, Sexuality, and the Trope of the "Fast-Tailed Girl"
- Billions of Lighthouses: A Feminist Analysis of Trauma, Death, and Dying in Narrative Driven Video Games
- Women Serving as Foreign Ministers: A Preliminary Analysis
- The Psyche of Stay at Home Parenting
- Messages in Reality TV
- Queerness Within Christian, Academic Institutions
- The Relationship Between the Final Girl and Society's Gender Beliefs
- All Dolled Up (With Nowhere to Go)
- Reproductive Mistreatments Hit Home
- The Cost of Girlhood in the Name of Gold
- Queer Escape from Appalachia
- Let's Talk About Sex Work
- So, What's the Deal with Sorority Recruitment?
- Sex Education: A Queer Perspective
- Exploring Queer Transgressive Play Through Role-Playing Games
- Post-Feminism & Femcels: An Exploration of the Beliefs and Goals of Modern Social Media Femcels
- Potentials for Resistance and Care in Drug War America: An Inquiry into Gender-Variant Drug Use Framed Through Stigmatization, Surveillance, and Space
- SickTok: A Digital Ethnography of Microvideo as a Site of Disability Self-advocacy
- Cyborgs, Dolls, and Passing Narratives