Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program investigating the significance of gender, sexuality, and power in all areas of human life. Feminist analysis is based on the assumption that gender is a crucial factor in the organization of our personal lives and our social institutions. It focuses on how gender differences and gender inequality are created and perpetuated.

The courses offered by the program use feminist perspectives to expand and reevaluate the assumptions at work in traditional disciplines in the study of individuals, cultures, social institutions, policy, and other areas of scholarly inquiry.

Queer Studies grew out of, and is an integral part of, Feminist Studies. It provides a multi-disciplinary approach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer life, political movements, identities, theories, and cultures. Queer Studies seeks to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender.