Women and Gender Studies Program

Welcome USM Students, Faculty, and Friends,

Women and Gender Studies (WGS) at USM is the longest standing feminist studies program in northern New England and it continues to be one of the most vibrant.  With a faculty drawn from across the university WGS engages in transformative teaching, scholarship, and social change on campus and in the community. WGS not only contributes many courses to the university’s general education curriculum, it also offers a socially-engaged and academically rigorous major and minor.  This semester, in addition to courses such as “Contemporary Feminist Theories” required for the major, the program is also offering eight advanced electives including “Gender and Crime,” “European Women’s History,” “Oscar Wilde and the Fin de Siecle Culture”.