Gender Studies

Gender Studies investigates how gender and sexuality functions and shapes our lives and experiences. Through discussion, reading, research and co-curricular programming, you’ll explore how gender and sexuality are constructed across cultures and over time.

As you learn and explore, you will work to raise awareness and transform the university and the community through informed action.

What You’ll Learn

Through a minor in gender studies at UW-Superior, you will:

• Analyze and examine identities and expression of gender and sexuality, cross-culturally and historically
• Examine how social structures and institutions perpetuate systems of inequality
• Understand the intersection of gender with other relations of power, such as race, sexual orientation, class, nationality, ethnicity, age and religion
• Understand and evaluate different types of feminist action
• Engage in feminist action to effect social change

Career Opportunities

In our global, multicultural world, employers seek people who understand current issues of gender and sexual diversity.

Use your gender studies minor in careers such as: