Overview
SUNY Oneonta’s Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) Department offers an interdisciplinary program that examines how gender shapes social, cultural, political and economic systems. You’ll explore gender through an intersectional lens that includes race, class, sexuality and nationality while connecting theory, history and lived experience to real-world issues and social justice.
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WGS explores how gender shapes social, economic, cultural and political systems.
Choose from Women’s and Gender Studies or Queer and Trans Studies.
What is WGS?
We live it and breathe it: every day, our lives are informed by gender. Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that takes gender as its central category of analysis, just as gender has served as a constitutive category for making meaning in human history.
Women’s and Gender Studies works to reframe the place of gender as foundational to the workings of social, cultural, political, economic and aesthetic systems. As such, it has opened new fields of inquiry, from the recovery of long-forgotten 18th-century women writers to the remapping of conventional theories about human nature. Crucial to this task is the work of exploring how gender is also always informed by multiple, complex categories of identity, including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class and nationality.
Student Opportunities
You’ll explore real world learning through research, internships and advocacy, present your work at the Student Symposium, join the WGS Club and earn recognition through the TRIOTA honor society.
Gender and Sexuality Resource Center
The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center supports students and staff with resources, education and advocacy for gender and sexuality equity. We offer a safe space, a resource library and programs that encourage learning, discussion and engagement while promoting social justice, inclusion and community at SUNY Oneonta.
Key Links
Contact the Women's and Gender Studies Department
Schumacher Hall 210
108 Ravine Parkway
Oneonta, NY 13820
United States