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Women's and Gender Studies B.A.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to identify and analyze gender as a central organizing principle of human experience, from local to global scales.

2. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to examine how sex, gender, and sexuality are socially constructed through scientific, medical, legal, moral, political, economic, and cultural discourses and institutions.

3. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to compare how societies have defined gender roles and identities differently across time and space, and explain how gender intersects with racial, ethnic, sexual, abled, classed and national identities.

4. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to summarize the history of feminism as a social movement and body of critical thought.

5. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to utilize key concepts and debates within contemporary feminist thought, to critique the social construction of gender, sex, and sexuality and their relation to other systems of privilege and inequality.

6. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to employ intersectional, interdisciplinary, and transnational feminist approaches and methods to study and account for gender differences and inequalities.

7. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to express skills in critical and analytical thinking, argumentation, writing, interdisciplinary and collaborative research design, and in the public presentation of research.

SUCCESS RATES

100.0%

6-year graduation rate

4.43

Avg. years to degree

MEDIAN EARNINGS

$67,731

10 years after graduation

$52,188

5 years after graduation

$28,609

1 year after graduation

PLACEMENT2 years after graduation

80.0%

Working in New York

55.0%

Continuing Education

Notes

Graduation rates: the percent of students entering in the selected major as first-time, full-time students in a fall term and graduating by August 31 six years later. Average of three most recent reporting years (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24) Years to degree: the average number of years it takes a student to complete the selected major if they entered as a freshman. Average of the three most recent completion years (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23) Earnings: the median annual earnings of graduates in the selected major based on the 4-digit CIP code at 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation. U.S. Census, Postsecondary Enrollment Outcomes Explorer. Degree completers from 2001-2018 in 2020 dollars.  Working in NY State: the percent of graduates working in New York State one year after graduation. Most recent available data from SUNY as of January 31, 2024 Continuing education: the percent of students enrolled in a U.S. postsecondary institution, 2 years following graduation. National Student Clearinghouse, includes graduates from 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-2022)