Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
To ensure the health and safety of our faculty, students, staff, and surrounding community, UMass Boston will continue to operate in hybrid fashion, with some courses lodged on campus and others—the majority—continuing in remote modality during the Spring 2021 semester. Many answers about the campus's response to the coronavirus can be found in our special section.
In addition, please check Healey Library’s Support for Teaching, Learning, and Research Continuity for continued updates on library resources and services.
For matters relating to the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Human Rights Minor, or the Sexuality Studies Minor, please contact Womens.Studies@umb.edu. We will make every attempt to answer your message as soon as possible between the hours of 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday.
For access to WGS Course Schedules and other information, please click here.
Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies endorse the statement that our sister Department, American Studies, have created and want to ensure our community that WGS will similarly recommit to this work, as AMST wrote “now and into the future”.
Pass/Fail Policy
Our Department policy has been, in previous years, that students were allowed 2 P/F classes for a WGS Major and 1 P/F for a WGS Minor. However, during these COVID semesters, we are allowing students to take all classes Pass/Fail at the discretion of themselves and their advisors.
To declare a Major or Minor in WGS, a Minor in Human Rights, or a Minor in Sexuality Studies, please click here.
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field that produces and disseminates knowledge through research, teaching, and activism. The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UMass Boston is inspired by feminist movements for social justice locally, nationally, and globally.
Our faculty members strive to provide undergraduate students with the tools to analyze and articulate relationships among systems of structural inequality, including those based on sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, and nation. We encourage and mentor students to achieve their academic and career goals. We aim to stimulate students' personal and intellectual growth, political engagement, and social action. We also work to facilitate intellectual, curricular, and programmatic exchanges and innovations on campus and beyond.
Centers & Institutes
Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights
The National Women’s Studies Association Statement on Combating the Climate of Fear, Division and Xenophobia in the Wake of the U.S. Presidential Election
Announcements
- We have agreed to permit the P/F for ALL of our students – Majors, Minors, and others – for all of their courses this semester WITHOUT P/Fs counting toward any limit in place for these various concentrations.
Upcoming Events
Giving to UMass Boston
Support the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department with a gift to the UMass Boston Fund.