Program Overview Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies B.A.

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Why Earn Your Certificate in Critical Sexuality Studies?

The certificate provides students with a robust understanding of the institutional and ideological grounds of social policy and public discourse about sexuality in all its forms. It empowers students to imagine a more just future and equips them with the tools to enact it collectively.

This interdisciplinary certificate is designed for students in all majors who want to study sexuality and LGBTQ+ issues in a systematic way. Particular attention is paid to how sexuality intersects with other social differences, including gender, race, class, religion, nationality, disability, and age, and how power, resistance, and life chances are unevenly distributed at these intersections.

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What Are My Career Options Studying Critical Sexuality Studies?

The Certificate in Critical Sexuality Studies investigates the historical precedents and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand sexuality and its effects on social, economic, political, and personal life.

The Certificate in Critical Sexuality Studies consists of 21 credits covering topics like:
Indigenous and Decolonial Feminisms, Historical and contemporary debates about identity, representation, and politics, Black, Queer, and Feminist Film, Sexuality and Queer Theories, Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspectives, Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective, The Psychology of Sex and Gender, Introduction to Transgender Studies

For more information, please contact the Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies Office at 410-455-2001 or e-mail gwstudies@umbc.edu.

Tuition, Scholarships & Financial Aid

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You’ll be required to submit your official transcript and international transcript (if applicable). You may also choose to submit standardized test scores and/or letters of recommendation.

Complete Scholars Programs and Visual and Performing Arts Majors Requirements (optional)

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Contact Information

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Mailing Address

Office of Undergraduate Admissions
and Orientation
1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250

OFFICE LOCATION

Albin O. Kuhn Library
on the lower level next to Library Pond

Admissions Staff

410-455-2292

Available Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Programs