Women and Gender Studies

An Interdisciplinary B.A. Program

 

What One Does with a Degree in Women and Gender Studies:

Our alumni work for organizations like:

  • The Abused Women's Advocacy Project
  • People's Regional Opportunity Program
  • Volunteers of America
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Maine Department of Health and Human Services
  • York County Shelter Programs
  • Healthy Maine Partnership
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • Goodwill Industries
  • Maine Women's Lobby & Policy Center

and enter graduate school in the fields of:

  • American and New England Studies
  • Digital Arts
  • Law
  • Literacy
  • Media Studies
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Teaching

Click here to find out what USM Women & Gender Studies Alumni are doing!

Click here to read Alice Ginsberg, BA CAS '86 reflect upon her decision to pursue a degree in what many advised was a "useless discipline."