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What WGSS Can Do For You

The Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies responds to a growing national demand for interdisciplinary scholars who use women, gender, and sexuality as analytic tools for understanding human behavior, society, literature, and the arts, globally, internationally, and cross-culturally. Students trained in this program will have employment opportunities in academic and governmental settings, in a growing nonprofit sector (Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs) that serves global and international human rights needs, and in the corporate world where facilitators are employed to improve the workforce climate. An understanding of women's and gender issues will help the student gain employment in business, journalism, marketing, government, public service, or social services. Many women's studies majors also continue their studies in graduate work leading to careers in law, social work, medicine, teaching, or research.

WGSS is consistent with KU's institutional mission and history. Women have played an importatnt role at the University of Kansas since its founding as both students and faculty; WGSS is an heir to this legacy. Over the past two decades, KU has made faculty appointments in many disciplines whose research and teaching focus on the topics of women's studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies; as an interdisciplinary program, WGSS taps into this great pool of talent, with both a core faculty and an affiliate faculty, to provide KU students with a wealth of courses and a variety of programs: a Women's Studies major and minor, a minor in Human Sexuality, and a Graduate Certificate Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

A degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will provide students with a solid liberal arts and social science background. Today's employers want to hire people who can deal with concepts and abstractions, who are imaginative, creative, and analytical, and who can write persuasively and articulate a position clearly. These are just the kinds of skills that students will develop working toward their degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.