Bachelor's in Gender and Feminist Studies

Gender and Feminist Studies is a Bachelor program taught at Pitzer College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

Gender and Feminist Studies at Pitzer College is an interdisciplinary major focused on the relations of power that produce inequalities among genders. Students study the lives and contributions of women and other historically marginalized genders, how gender works within theories of society and being, and how intersections of race, class, ethno-national origin, and sexuality shape theories and identities.

The major is structured around core courses and three tracks. The program requires a minimum of ten courses, distributed among core courses and three tracks. Students complete required core options and choose courses from tracks that focus on gender and empowerment across Global, National and Local Communities; Creativity: Art, Literature, Spirituality, Identity; and Sciences, Medicine and Technologies. Honors includes both a senior seminar and a senior project or thesis, plus GPA and recommendation requirements.

Modules

• GFS 026 PZ -Introduction to Gender Studies
• GWS 026 PO -Intro Gender and Women’s Studies
• GFS 036 PZ -Introduction to Queer Studies
• ID 076 JT ID 076 JT -Intersectn:Gender/Race/Sexuality
• CHLT 166 CH -Chicana Feminist Epistemology
• GFS 170 PZ -Queer of Color Critique
• GWS 180 PO GWS 180 PO -Queer Feminist Theories
• FGSS 184 SC FGSS 184 SC -Intersectional Feminist Theories
• CHLT 115 CH -Gender, Race & Class
• ENGL 140 PO -Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land
• GWS 190 PO -Senior Seminar
• GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project

The minimum requirements for admission in Gender and Feminist Studies at Pitzer College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Pitzer College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Pitzer College as pre-requiste for admission in Gender and Feminist Studies.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Admission and course participation are based solely on academic interest, performance, and declared major.

Students are required to have a cumulative and GFS GPA of 3.5 and the recommendation of the field group based on the quality (A or A-) of the senior project or thesis. Candidates for honors must complete both the Sr. Seminar and Sr. Project/Thesis.

Two advisers are required for the Sr. Thesis/Sr. Project and one must be from the Pitzer GFS field group. The final version of the honors thesis or project to be reviewed by the field group is due two weeks before the end of classes.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/programs/gender-and-feminist-studies

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.