Gender and Sexuality Studies

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:

• The Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School
• The Lesbian Herstory Archives
• The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Center Library of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
• Bluestockings bookstore
• The gay and lesbian and HIV/AIDS archival collections at the New York Public Library

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:

• Anthropology
• Economics
• International Affairs
• Liberal Studies
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Media Studies
• Creative Writing
• Fashion Studies
• Visual Studies
• Art and Design History

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.