Women & Gender Studies

Bachelor of Arts
Gender, race, and sexuality play integral roles in everyone's lives.

Learn to analyze gender as an organizing factor in social, political, and familial institutions and policy. Analyze historical and current gendered experiences, representations, and systems critically and comparatively across cultures and contexts. Continuing in the field's activist tradition, learn to challenge intersecting oppressions and address the systemic problems that create them, from local and global perspectives.

Course curriculum • Student outcomes • Cost of attendance

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Engage in community-based experiential education

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Choose among electives related to media, history, medicine, activism, music, justice, parenting, theatre, literature, and more

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Use feminist theoretical frameworks to understand complex intersecting power structures

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Address gender-specific social injustices and strive to initiate social change

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Career Paths

  • Health clinic coordinator
  • Human rights advocate
  • Human resources professional
  • Public policy advisor
  • Psychologist
  • Social worker
  • Lawyer
Internships
  • YWCA, Rochester, NY
  • Safe Journey, Fairport, NY
  • American Association of University Women, Rochester, NY
Study Abroad

Interested in traveling the globe and learning along the way? Explore the numerous overseas programs Nazareth offers.

99%

of new Nazareth grads are employed or in grad school within six months of graduation

1,631

high-impact experiential learning experiences completed by the undergraduate class of 2024

$4,000

Our SPARK Grant provides up to $4,000 for you to pursue internships, research, and study abroad. SPARK details »

Diversity & Inclusive Excellence

Nazareth's Office for Diversity & Inclusion provides and supports programs that encourage engagement with diversity.

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Alumni Spotlight

Kaitlin Legg '11

“What is most valuable about women and gender studies is its interdisciplinary nature. It connects to every field, from science to writing to health care to education. It involves both the way we approach our careers and duties as well as the way we handle others and imagine ourselves."