Women, gender, and sexuality studies (WGSS) informs any academic field and life experience. Whatever career you pursue, you can make a difference with your understanding of gender and sexuality as social and cultural systems that inform science, media, history, and global economic relationships.
Co-curricular opportunities include:
You also will have opportunities to be active on campus and in the community, promoting issues such as health education, LGBTQ+ awareness, violence prevention and global equality.
Ruth Woldegabriel ’20 is a project designer, product developer and researcher at Elebat Management and Technology Solutions in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Alexa Pedersen ’20 is a partnerships specialist with Too Good To Go in Chicago.
Kayli Ahuja ’19 is a child life assistant at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City, Iowa.
Natalie Trujillo ’18 is the resident services coordinator at Holsten Human Capital Development, NFP in Chicago.
Rachael Meadors ’18 is an education and program associate at Holden Village in Chelan, Wash., and is pursuing a master's of divinity degree.
Keila Anali Saucedo ’17 is the executive productions assistant at Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis, Minn.
Elena Leith '17 is a an archivist at the British Film Institute, London.
Ryan Silvola ’16 is the marketing and communications coordinator at Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials in Madison, Wis.
Hanna Anderson '15 works in member operations for Gusto small-business services, and is pursuing a master's degree in industrial-organizational psychology.
Madison Renee '15 is a licensed social worker in rural Iowa.
“I used my Augie Choice for my internship with Family Resources. We offered support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and sex trafficking.”Read More
“Thanks to the interdisciplinary nature of the WGSS department, I was able to take a lot of different types of classes and develop academic interests that I never anticipated.”Read More
“My professors in the sociology, psychology and WGSS departments pushed me outside my comfort zone to speak my mind and stand up for what I believed in.”Read More