{"id":338,"date":"2009-06-26T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T23:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:18:09","slug":"womens-studies-minor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/","title":{"rendered":"WGS Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Women&#8217;s, Gender, &amp; Sexuality Studies Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"bu-slideshow-container cover-page autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-7727\" data-slideshow-name=\"cover-page\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-7727\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-7727_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_5840-768x505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-title\">Boston University Women&#039;s, Gender, &amp; Sexuality Program<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-7727_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_5848-768x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-7727_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_5845-768x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-7727_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_5843-768x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-7727_4\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2019\/05\/SJD-award_Chow-e1557929742609-768x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-7727\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>The Boston University Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) Program<\/b>\u00a0fosters interdisciplinary research and teaching related to the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and other categories of identity that organize and disorganize our lives.\u00a0The program offers an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/minor\/#July\">undergraduate minor<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/graduate-certificate\/#July\">graduate certificate<\/a>,\u00a0and also sponsors public lectures, film screenings, discussions, and other\u00a0events.<\/p>\n<p>WGS faculty work in and across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences and are committed to innovative scholarship and pedagogy, including the interdisciplinary team-teaching that is the cornerstone of both the undergraduate and graduate programs. \u00a0Boston University faculty interested in women\u2019s, gender, and sexuality studies participate in a lively intellectual community as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/networks\/wgs-faculty-network\/\">Faculty Network<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wgs-events\/wgs-seminar-series\/\">annual Seminar Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate students from across Boston University take courses not only in the graduate certificate program but also through the Boston-area\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/networks\/gcws\/\">Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wgs-events\/methods-workshop\/\">Graduate Pedagogical Workshop<\/a>, held twice a year, offers graduate students resources for teaching WGS content across disciplines.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2019-2020 Programming Theme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please note that Boston University has closed for the Spring 2020 Semester due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Our offices are closed until further notice. Thank you for your patience and understanding!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2019\/10\/Copy-of-facebook-cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7625 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2019\/10\/Copy-of-facebook-cover.png 820w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2019\/10\/Copy-of-facebook-cover-650x247.png 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2019\/10\/Copy-of-facebook-cover-768x292.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Important Links:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/bu.edu_lp5bf8p1nd40i68c086vsolhdc%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\">WGS Events Calendar<\/a> (Add to Google Cal)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wgs-events\/\">Upcoming Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/contact-us-2\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/graduate-certificate\/enrollment\/\">Graduate Certificate Enrollment Form<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/bu.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=c43e78bac0b13074a62f935db&amp;id=9a2d422fc3\">Register for the Digest<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s, Gender, &amp; Sexuality Studies Program About Us The Boston University Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) Program\u00a0fosters interdisciplinary research and teaching related to the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and other categories of identity that organize and disorganize our lives.\u00a0The program offers an undergraduate minor, a graduate certificate,\u00a0and also sponsors public lectures, film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/home.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}