Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst offers a robust interdisciplinary set of options including an undergraduate major, an undergraduate minor, and a graduate certificate in Feminist Studies. Our classes are primarily small, and we pride ourselves on excellent teaching and innovative pedagogy. Each undergraduate major works one-on-one with a faculty advisor.

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We are committed to interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis in which the study of women and gender is multi-faceted, diverse, and embedded in a network of power relations including race, class, sexuality, and nation. Check out the books our faculty are publishing! To see more faculty books, click here.

Check out the WGSS Session 2 online course offerings!  Click here!

WGSS 295M - Making Monsters: Gender, Race and Monstrosity From Mary Shelley to the Walking Dead
WGSS 292S - The Cultural Politics of Pandemics
WGSS 187 - Gender, Sexuality and Culture (Gen. Ed. I, DU)