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 a minor.  This semester, the program is offering ten advanced electives on subjects as diverse as “Gender, Race, Class and the City,” “Joan of Arc,” “Gender and Aging,” “David Bowie,” and “Africa, Social Justice and Exile.”  Women and Gender Studies students are also interning with community partners including Equality Maine, Learning Works, Spurwink Services, Meg Perry Center, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and the Maine Women's Policy Center.