Bachelor of Arts, Women's and Gender Studies Major - Learning outcomes

As a result of completing this program, students should be able to:

• Critically analyze the diversity of gendered experience as it intersects with Indigeneity, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and beyond.
• Analyze prejudice, discrimination, inequity, marginalization, and oppression through historical, cultural, and political lenses.
• Use gender theories to deepen understandings of diverse ways of knowing and ways of living.
• Apply feminist insights, resistances, and interventions that foster solidarity and social justice.
• Apply appropriate intersectional feminist methods to research, creative, and community-based projects.
• Be prepared to employ women’s and gender studies perspectives in a broad range of academic disciplines.
• Apply the university-level feminist skills of critical thinking, applied social justice, and creative problem solving to bring positive change to communities, workplaces, and everyday lives.

Possible career options:

• advocate and community organizer
• author/writer
• counsellor
• crisis intervention worker
• diversity specialist
• editor
• educator
• fundraising consultant
• government administrator
• journalist
• legislative aid
• media correspondent
• mediator
• non-profit leadership and management
• non-profit program coordinator
• policy researcher
• public policy analyst
• researcher
• social service worker