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The Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s offers an interdisciplinary approach to studies of gender. We draw on human experiences, feminisms, histories, cultures, economies, and politics to analyze power, knowledge, difference, and inequalities. You can even spend a term in Norway at the University of Oslo on a Gender Studies exchange or take a community-based practicum course.

What can I learn studying Gender Studies at Queen’s?

• Understanding of difference and of the intersections between forms of oppression.
• Analytical skills – form and defend positions with clarity and accuracy in a range of formats.
• Ability to analyze the connections between gender, race, nation, ability, with the aim of understanding structural building blocks in society.
• Critical thinking – analyze assumptions underlying arguments.
• Ability to develop active rather than passive responses to popular culture, exploring resistance as well as consumption.
• Comparison and combination of methodologies from the arts, social sciences, and health sciences.
• Oral and written communication – write research papers, make presentations individually and in groups.

Major in Gender Studies

A major is an intensive course of study in one discipline, with approximately half of your courses within the discipline with room for an optional minor in any other Arts and Science discipline.

Medial in Gender Studies

A dual course of study in Gender Studies and any other Arts discipline.

Minor in Gender Studies

A minor is a less intensive course of study in the discipline that must be combined with a major in another discipline.

Job and Career Opportunities

Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program combining the arts and social sciences and working with both historical and contemporary materials. The field is attentive to the sex-gender spectrum, to anti-racism, and to decolonization, as well as to critical thinking, and to creative and professional self-expression.

Where could Genders students go after graduation?

• Activism (including anti-racist, trans-inclusive and feminist)
• Advertising
• Arts administration
• Arts and theatre
• Communications and media
• Community organizing
• Counselling
• Cultural affairs
• Editing
• Education
• Ethics
• Events and festival management
• Health and medicine
• Human resources
• Human rights
• Immigration services
• International development
• Labour and industrial relations
• Law
• Marketing and promotions
• Media and film
• Museum studies and curation
• NGOs
• Patient Advocacy
• Planning
• Politics
• Public health
• Public relations
• Public service and public policy
• Social work
• Student affairs