Welcome to the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of California, Davis.

Women and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program founded on the understanding that the social production of gender is inseparable from that of race, sexuality, class, nationality, ability and other categories of difference.  Our curriculum places feminist concerns within a transnational context, while respecting the need for geographic and historical specificity. These frameworks inform our teaching, our research, our institutional and community practices, and the principals we bring to our classrooms.

Women and Gender Studies offers a wide range of classes that use the lens of gender to examine issues such as colonialism and post-colonialism, globalization, history, queer theory, literature, popular culture, feminist video production, area studies, film, fashion and food.   We also offer students the opportunity to earn internship credits, conduct independent research, and write an Honors Thesis.

The Women and Gender Studies Program at Davis offers both an undergraduate Major and Minor.  We also work collaboratively with other units on campus to sponsor two undergraduate minors, Sexuality Studies and Social and Ethnic Relations, and an undergraduate concentration in transnational production and consumption.  On the graduate level, we are affiliated with the Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research and work very closely with the Cultural Studies Graduate Group.  Women and Gender Studies is also home to the Gender and Global Issues Program, a program that allows students to do internships abroad.

We invite you to read more about our program and explore the many options that Women and Gender Studies has to offer.