The Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provides students with the knowledge and skills to investigate the significance of gender and sexuality in all areas of human life.
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies examines understandings of and experiences of gender and sex and how these intersect with factors such as race, nationality, religion and belief, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, medicine and health, technology, and age. Additionally, the program coordinates courses offered across the University into a curriculum of LGBTQ+ studies. Students learn and employ critical gender and sexuality studies methodologies to analyze varied ideas about gender and sexuality that inform the study of individuals, cultures, social institutions, policy, and other areas of scholarly inquiry.
The program offers an undergraduate major, secondary major, and minor. Each Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies student builds an individual program of study around a self-defined thematic focus that integrates courses from multiple departments. Majors may declare Humanities and the Arts; Technology, Medicine, and Science, Law and Social Sciences; LGBTQ+ Studies as their subplan or students may design their own thematic focus. The program also offers an interdisciplinary honors program that is open to undergraduates in all majors. For the honors program, students can elect to pursue a thesis based on research or an arts-based and creative honors theses.
In addition, the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offers a PhD minor to students enrolled in a doctorate program at Stanford. Please see our Graduate Students page for more information.
Email inquiries can be directed to hkazem [at] stanford.edu (hkazem[at]stanford[dot]edu).
