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 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 surrounding 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, WGS faculty are teaching such courses as Arab Women Writers; Gender, Race, Class and the City; and Species, Sex, Gender and Science Fiction.  In addition,WGS students are completing capstone experience internships at such community partners as Learning Works, Safe Space Shelter, and Spiral Arts. Over the summer, WGS will offer two sections of Introduction to Women and Gender Studies as well as three online electives: Gender in African Literature and Film; Gender and Aging; and Cinema and Women.