Program Learning Outcomes

  • Identify how gender is a social construct impacted by different social, political, and economic forces.
  • Articulate intersectionality as a fundamental mode of feminist analysis and apply this analysis to understand how societal institutions and power structures shape different social identities and categories, including gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, ability, etc.
  • Synthesize foundational and contemporary feminist theories from a variety of textual, media, and information sources, using discipline-specific methodologies in the creation of original papers, projects, oral presentations, and creative works.
  • Evaluate the history of feminist movements and contemporary feminist praxis to develop critically-informed solutions to structural and institutionalized oppression. 
  • Employ feminist methodologies to engage in critical self-reflection in order to demonstrate an understanding of agency and social responsibility in personal, professional, and community settings.
  • Understand foundational and contemporary queer theories and apply an intersectional framework to articulate how heteronormativiity, homophobia, and transphobia impact marginalized individuals and communities.