
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
FEATURED COURSES
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Undergraduate Major and Minors
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Graduate Certificate
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WGSS 3350 (13569) & ENGL 4340 (15344)
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Houston's Women in Peril
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WITNESS to Misogyny: Public Art & Gender panel discussion
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Congratulations to WGSS Associate Professor Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn!
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Learn to Navigate our Changing World & Build a Fair Future
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Video: About WGSS
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Living Archives Series featuring Tina Knowles
Table Talk Webpage » Join the Friends of WGSS » Course Offered »
The Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program at the University of Houston is more than an academic program—it’s a catalyst.
Since its inception as Women’s Studies in 1991, WGSS has become a space for intersectional, multidisciplinary, and transnational inquiry, urging students to critically examine power, privilege, inequality in all their forms. We offer a WGSS major, minor, and graduate certificate, as well as an LGBT Studies/Queer Studies minor. Our program draws its vibrancy from the dynamic global energy of Houston, one of the most diverse cities in the world. We celebrate the brilliance of Houston’s diverse communities while challenging students to explore the ways that their intersectional identities—shaped by gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, dis/ability, citizenship and more—inform their realities and the lives of those around them.
With global feminism at its core, WGSS thrives on the diversity of thought brought in by a range of faculty across 14 disciplines, as well as connections with local and transnational communities and organizations in Houston. Our program also brings gender studies to the community through the Friends of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FWGSS), the Carey Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection, and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality (IRWGS), connecting theory with practice. WGSS students and faculty at the University of Houston immerse themselves in critical thought through attending WGSS lectures, workshops, conferences, and cultural events.
WGSS connects research and activism in gender and sexuality studies, promoting community engagement and preparing students to be active citizens in a deeply interconnected world--ready to make their work matter and ready to foster positive change in Houston and beyond!
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies offers and undergraduate major in WGSS, leading to a BA, and two undergraduate minors (Women's Studies and GLBT Studies) and a graduate certificate (in Women's Studies). Doublemajoring is also an option.
University of Houston
Agnes Arnold Hall Room 624
Houston, TX 77204
Phone: 713.743.3214
Fax: 713.743.0931
WGSS@uh.edu
Academic Advisor:
Sue Schindler
WGSS Advising Hours:
Appointments will be held remotely.
For appointments, please email bschindler@uh.edu, or
Chisolm ’72 Unbought & Unbossed: Filmmaker Discussion
Adela Sloss-Vento: Texas Mexican American Woman Suffragist—A conversation with Cynthia Orozco, Ph.D.
A Panel Discussion on Anti-Asian Racism & Sexism
Start Smart Salary Negotiation Workshop
Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
Harnessing Digital Accountability for Human Rights Justice
NSM Movie Night: “Radioactive,” Film on Marie Curie
"Intersectionalizing #MeToo" with Linda Martin Alcoff
A Year of Anti-Violence Conversations: Houston's Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse Then & Now
Start Smart Salary Negotiation Workshop
IRWGS 2023 Domestic Violence Report Presentation & Panel Discussions