SocialResearchAdmit@newschool.edu
Admission Liaison
GSSLiaison@newschool.edu
Gender and Sexuality Studies
6 East 16th Street, room 1019
New York, NY 10003
Mailing Address
79 Fifth Avenue, room 1019
New York, NY 10003
Director
Rachel Schreiber
Advisor
Uttamasha Dutta
The Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies is a university-wide program that brings together faculty and students from across The New School. This advanced program is designed to foster intellectual collaboration on the study of gender and sexuality in a community of teachers and learners representing a variety of disciplines.
Learn to recognize and respond to questions such as: What is gender? How is sexuality culturally constructed? How do attitudes toward gender affect individual experience, artifact design, artistic production, and modes of social organization? How do we respond to gender-based claims of injustice? What does social justice look like in a gendered (or post-gendered) world?
Your study of gender and sexuality will be shaped by unparalleled access to the renowned research resources, experts, and institutions of New York City, including:
Enroll in this certificate program as a one-year stand-alone program or as part of studies toward a graduate degree. Admission is open to students who have completed an undergraduate degree. Choose courses from a range of disciplines, including:
Visit Gender and Its Discontents, the blog of the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute, to see work by faculty and students in the eponymous graduate core course as well as faculty and student opinion pieces, material on past and forthcoming events, and writings by external contributors.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.