Gender Studies Minor
The Gender Studies minor is designed to help students understand the ways in which sexual politics shape social experience. Students pursuing this minor will be able to explore the multiple ways in which our gender identities are constituted, compelled, and constrained by cultural dynamics, and how those identities are modified and contested. Students will also discover how gender intersects issues of nation, culture, religion, sexuality, class, and race. As scholarship has grown over the last thirty years, theoretical explorations of gender have developed into powerful tools that offer solutions to fundamental inequalities in cultures around the world. Gender Studies students will benefit from an interdisciplinary, critical-thinking approach to issues, from the personal to the global. The program is committed to multicultural perspectives, to participatory, collaborative pedagogies, and to creative thought.
For more information or questions, please contact Dr. Sanders in the History Program at sanders.n@lynchburg.edu