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Aug 25, 2025
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2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Major
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Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program offering a major and a minor in which students study how social constructions of gender and sexuality shape both academic discourses and lived experiences. In their coursework and independent research, students learn to apply feminist theories, queer theory and other critical theories to reflect on gendered experiences within a variety of contexts: historical, economic and cross-cultural. The courses in the program help students to analyze critically the ways gendered perspectives inform fundamental concepts like race, class or ethnicity. The major and minor augment more traditional approaches to studying women and gender by having students engage with current scholarly inquiry into sexuality and into the diversity of global perspectives on gender and sexuality.
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Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Faculty
Professor Alison Kibler, Chair
Members of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Committee M. Alison Kibler
Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Maria Mitchell
Professor of History Caroline Faulkner
Associate Professor of Sociology Nicole Jones Young
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior Elena Cuffari
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Scientific Philosophical Studies of Mind Cristina Pérez
Assistant Professor of American Studies Meagan Tripp
Assistant Professor of German Additional faculty not on the program committee also contribute to this program. Major Requirements:
A major in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies consists of 10 courses.The following courses are required:
One course that focuses on feminist theory.
Please consult with the program chair about the updated list of courses fulfilling this requirement. One course that focuses on sexuality within a women’s and gender studies framework
Chosen from the following group, or in consultation with the program chair. One world perspectives course in WGS
which emphasizes non-Western cultures and societies, including indigenous, colonial and post-colonial contexts or that offers a substantial cross-cultural or transnational framework. Chosen from the following group, or in consultation with the program chair. Five courses in the major must be at or above the 300 level.
A full list of regularly offered WGS courses can be found on the Course Offerings page. Off-Campus Study:
Majors and minors in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program have studied abroad in the following programs in recent years: Advanced Studies in England Program in Bath, England; DIS, in Copenhagen or Stockholm (“Prostitution and the Sex Trade Program” and “Gender, Equality and Sexuality in Scandinavia”); IFSA-Butler in Buenos Aires, Argentina (“Human Rights: Diversity, Minority and Gender Studies”); and SIT-Netherlands (“International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender”). The program also encourages students to consider IFSA Argentina: Advanced Argentine Universities Program (Concentration in Diversity, Minority and Gender Studies), and BCA Study Abroad in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. See the International and Off-Campus Study section of the Catalog for further information. |
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