Bachelor of Arts, Women's and Gender Studies Major - Learning outcomes
As a result of completing this program, students should be able to:
- Critically analyze the diversity of gendered experience and its intersections with Indigeneity, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and beyond.
- Use insights gained from intersectional feminist and gender theories to analyze, discrimination, inequity, marginalization, and oppression.
- Apply critically-derived insights to inform advocacy and contribute to creative problem -solving that fosters solidarity and social justice.
- Communicate effectively in writing, verbally, and or visually, a cohesive connection between theory-derived insights, advocacy, and real-world applications.
- Assess and/or apply theory-informed methodologies and methods in the design of intersectional research, creative, and community-based projects.
Possible career options:
- advocate and community organizer
- author/writer
- counsellor
- crisis intervention worker
- diversity specialist
- editor
- educator
- fundraising consultant
- government administrator
- journalist
- legislative aid
- media correspondent
- mediator
- non-profit leadership and management
- non-profit program coordinator
- policy researcher
- public policy analyst
- researcher
- social service worker
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