Jobs Prospects

What kind of jobs can you get with a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies degree? Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary program that allows students to focus on various fields in pursuit of an exciting career. The following are examples of WS courses that relate directly to particular lines of work:

Women and Health

  • WGSS 305: Women and Health
  • WGSS 306: Indigenous Women's Health
  • WGSS 350: Sex Differences in the Life Cycle
  • WGSS 465: Science, Sex, and Reproduction

Women and Anti-Violence

  • WGSS 202: Psychology of Gender
  • WGSS 436: Gender, Justice and Law
  • WGSS 437: Gender and Violence
  • WGSS 446: Gender Violence Over the Lifecycle

Women Filmmaker/Feminist Blogger/Writer/Cultural Critic

  • WGSS 375: Women and the Media
  • WGSS 381: Gender, Sexuality and Literature
  • WGSS 424: Gender, Sexuality, and Cyberspace
  • WGSS 445: U.S. Women’s Literature and Culture
  • WGSS 454: Gender, Sexuality, and Global Popular Culture
  • WGSS 481: Women and Film
  • WGSS 466: Gender in Action Cinema

LGBTQ+ Advocate

  • WGSS 141: Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
  • WGSS 392: Sexualities
  • WGSS 426: The Anthropology of Sexuality
  • WGSS 441: Queer Theory
  • WGSS 493: Trans* Studies:
    Trans(feminine/masculine/gender/nonconforming/sexual)