Bachelor of Arts in Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies (CRGS) Department is a welcoming community of students, faculty and staff who collaborate to critique structures of power and to create a more just world. By combining Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies and Multicultural Queer Studies into one department, CRGS offers a unique program of study focusing on the observation that “no form of subordination ever stands alone” (Matsuda), but instead, systems of subordination are intertwined and support each other.Our new major option in CRGS focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, nation, class and physical ability. At the heart of our major is an examination of relationships of privilege and oppression, the workings of power and forms of resistance. We study urgent social issues at multiple levels, reading personal identity alongside analysis of communities, social institutions, and national and transnational political economies.CRGS also offers minors in Ethnic Studies, Multicultural Queer Studies and Women’s Studies, as well as a certificate in Women’s Studies. Our general education classes and weekend workshops offer additional opportunities for students to analyze systems of inequality and strategies for resistance.