Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is a multidisciplinary program that explores the many facets of gender and sexuality. We encourage our students to examine and challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, explore and honor marginalized experiences and perspectives, and question power at personal, interpersonal, social, structural levels.
Students in the program pursue critical questions from a range of academic disciplines and learn how activism can promote social change. We challenge students to consider how complex social identities such as race, social class, age, and ability intersect with gender and sexuality to shape the world in ways that are all at once personal, political, local, and global. Our concentration is an appropriate supplement to any academic major.
GSWS Statement on The Overturning of Roe v. Wade
June 27, 2022 - Read the full statement
Program Highlights
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15-20 classes offered per semester and in a range of disciplines
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Opportunities to work closely with faculty on groundbreaking research and activist projects
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Events on a wide range of topics throughout the year
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The capstone experience — an independent project that can take the form of a research paper, an art or performance piece, or an action campaign
Learn about the guiding intellectual principles and activist practices that inform our work.
Under the guidance of a faculty member, students conclude the concentration with a capstone experience in their fourth year.
From internships to study abroad to the DC and NY Semester programs, opportunities for hands-on learning abound.
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies News
Before the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross who were gathered for her spring address, Margaret Freije, provost and dean of the College, presented Mary Louise Marfuggi Faculty Awards ...
