The Department offers academic programs, grants graduate and undergraduate degrees, and advances research in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Faculty in the Department successfully compete for national fellowships and grants, win research and teaching awards, and produce rigorous and transformative research.
At the undergraduate level, the Department offers the BA in Women’s Studies along with options to concentrate in (a) Health Equity and Social Justice, (b) International Perspectives on Gender, (c) Race, Power, and Social Justice, and (d) Theories and Politics of Sexuality. The Department also offers undergraduate minors in (a) Health Disparities in Society, (b) Theories and Politics of Sexuality, and (c) Women’s Studies. At the graduate level, the Department offers the Master’s degree, accelerated BA/MA, joint MA/JD, concurrent degrees (e.g., MA/MPH), MA/PHD (e.g., MA in Women’s Studies, with PhD in another field), as well as Graduate Certificates in (a) Gender and Development and (b) Women’s Studies.
The Department has a robust experiential learning program, placing 200+ students in 30+ internship and practicum sites per year. Students are campus leaders and go on to rich and diverse careers in industry, public service, policy, as well as to graduate and professional study. Over three-fourths of women’s studies majors gain work experience and participate in internships during their education at UF. Majors have a strong post-graduation employment rate and graduate school acceptance rate.