At a glance:

• Major
• 4-year-plan
• Minor
• Education Abroad
• Undergraduate Research
• Sexuality Studies Certificate
• UK Core [Note the following Fall 2024 GWS courses count for UK Core Credit: GWS 200 Sex & Power; GWS 201 Gender & Pop Culture; GWS 250 Social Movements; GWS 301 Black & Latina Women in US Politics; GWS 301 Girlhood Studies; GWS 302 Reproductive Justice; GWS 302 Global Gays in the Global Gaze; GWS 302 Transnational Sexualities; GWS 309 Health, History, and Human Diversity. See GWS Fall 2024 Courses below for more information.]
• AP/IB/Dual Credit
• A&S Major/Program Scholarships
• GWS Fall 2024 Courses
• GWS Undergraduate Brochure

Department Highlights

• Sex and Power
• Gender and Popular Culture
• Social Movements
• Black Women in U.S. History
• Psychology of Gender
• Gender Across The World: Transnational Bodies
• Gender Across The World: Masculinities
• LGBTQ History in the U.S.
• History of Sexuality
• Doing Feminist Research
• Gender, Power, and Violence
• Gender and Disability
• Gender Across The World: Global Gays In The Global Gaze
• Black Women Leaders
• Feminist Theory
• Health, History, and Human Diversity
• Intro to Queer Theory
• Gender and Film in Appalachia
• Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music
• Food, Culture, and Gender
• Gender and Activism

• Kate Black Award for Activism
• Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement
• Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award
• GWS Honors (for graduating seniors)
• Tomasky Student Leaders
• Space, Place, and Southern Grace for Feminist Studies

• Challenges of the Legal System for Victims Domestic and Sexual Violence
• Let’s Talk About Reentry of Female Offenders: Oppression of Overlooked Population
• Sexual Fluidity: The Label-less Label
• Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Intergenerational and Gendered Comparisons
• Sexual Violence in Rural Appalachia: Risk Factors, Cultural Atmosphere, and Evaluation of Resources
• Intersection of Education and Class in Mexican Immigrant Families
• Vote for the Bitch (on the parallels between sexism in high school debate and political debates)
• A Study on the Role of Schools in the Experience of LGBTQ+ Youth
• Yes, I Am Still Interested: Sexualities, Aging, and Women
• African American Girlhood, Sexuality, and the Trope of the "Fast-Tailed Girl"
• Billions of Lighthouses: A Feminist Analysis of Trauma, Death, and Dying in Narrative Driven Video Games
• Women Serving as Foreign Ministers: A Preliminary Analysis
• The Psyche of Stay at Home Parenting
• Messages in Reality TV
• Queerness Within Christian, Academic Institutions
• The Relationship Between the Final Girl and Society's Gender Beliefs
• All Dolled Up (With Nowhere to Go)
• Reproductive Mistreatments Hit Home
• The Cost of Girlhood in the Name of Gold
• Queer Escape from Appalachia
• Let's Talk About Sex Work
• So, What's the Deal with Sorority Recruitment?
• Sex Education:  A Queer Perspective
• Exploring Queer Transgressive Play Through Role-Playing Games
• Post-Feminism & Femcels: An Exploration of the Beliefs and Goals of Modern Social Media Femcels
• Potentials for Resistance and Care in Drug War America: An Inquiry into Gender-Variant Drug Use Framed Through Stigmatization, Surveillance, and Space
• SickTok: A Digital Ethnography of Microvideo as a Site of Disability Self-advocacy
• Cyborgs, Dolls, and Passing Narratives