Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines the diversity of women’s experiences as they are informed by gender, class, race/ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, social location, and cultural and national identity. The program is shaped by the theoretical and methodological insights of feminist thought and gender scholarship in many fields. The program curriculum explores women’s involvement in and contributions to such areas as history, society, art, science, culture, and politics. The program offers a major and a minor.

Our majors have gotten great résumé experience through projects such as helping refine the curriculum of Prepare, a New York—based organization that offers self-defense training. Our students, of course, take the training themselves in order to experience and understand it. Being profoundly interdisciplinary means our majors can go on to a wide variety of careers based on their interests—from graduate school in history or social sciences, to the arts to nonprofit activist and social service organizations. Students have benefited from combining our major with language studies. We’ve run a number of language-based Drew International Seminar programs and summer programs in places such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Morocco and France that deal with issues of gender, race and identity.