Bachelor of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies [Combined Honours]

University of Windsor

Explore how gender, race and sexualities shape your daily life and the relationships you foster. You’ll learn from world-renowned leaders in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion, and sexual assault resistance education. Women's and Gender Studies provides students with a lens to explore how power works through various intersecting systems of oppression such as ability, class, gender, nation, race, sexuality and spirituality work to organize our society. The program questions traditional academic notions of what counts as knowledge and encourages students to apply concepts and theories to their own lives and to be change agents in the world. We teach students to see the connections between local, global and transnational sociopolitical forces in shaping lived embodied experiences of gender and sexuality. The program is geared towards community capacity building to empower students to find their own meanings and develop their engagement in their sociopolitical environment.Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Work at University of Windsor offers a program that gives students an opportunity to critically engage with feminist scholarship. The Women and Gender Studies program offers courses discussing a range of topics, such as the history of the women’s movement, the analysis of pop culture through a feminist lens, and the study of different forms of oppression. Students are given the chance to explore the intersectionality and diversity of identity, such as race, class, sexuality, class, age, and ability. WGST provides tools for students to develop critical awareness and connect their learning to social structures and human experience.Career Tracks: Human rights advocate, women’s counsellor, gender and sexuality educator, women’s substance abuse support worker, community development coordinator