Our 30-hour major was approved in April 2006. If you are interested in the new major, email WGS Director Chris Pierce or visit Registration and Records and study the guidelines and degree key.

Established in 1989, the Women's and Gender Studies Program at North Carolina State University provides students with interdisciplinary perspectives on women's and gender issues from a wide variety of cultures, backgrounds, and historical eras. In addition, it familiarizes students with the often unacknowledged contributions made by women in various fields of endeavor.

Through course offerings in twelve departments, the undergraduate major and minor and graduate minor in women's and gender studies leads students to examine critically and to reinterpret existing data and common assumptions about gender and gender identity, as well as becoming acquainted with feminist theory and the methodologies of feminist scholarship across the disciplines.

Course work in women's and gender studies enables students:

• to examine women's and men's lives as they are affected by gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, race, class, ethnicity, and religious and national differences.

• to understand that what are commonly referred to as "women's issues" are societal in scope and effect and are therefore of concern to everyone, regardless of gender.

• to examine academic disciplines and public policies from a feminist perspective, using research and analytic methods that encourage the translation of research into committed and responsible social involvement.