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Why study Global Gender Studies BA at UB?

Global Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary degree-granting program that offers courses in three areas: Cultures and Identities, Women and Global Citizenship, and Gender and Public Policy. The courses within each area recognize developing trends in studies of gender in many countries. Our objectives include challenging our students to integrate local and global knowledge and to link theory and practice across a wide range of issues. Our courses analyze the many ways in which gender is affected by the intersectionality of race, class, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, geography, history and religion.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of all requirements, the student will have knowledge of:

• Broad thematic periodizations and chronology (from the perspectives of identity; oppression and resistance; and democracy and social justice) of the socio-economic, political, and cultural history of women in the Americas, and their role in the broader history of the Americas up to the present.
• Major descriptive and analytical themes in the current socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of the women and men in the Americas.
• The major literary and audiovisual texts — both fiction and non-fiction — that document aspects of past and/or present socio-economic, political and cultural circumstances of women and men in the Americas, from the perspective of gender.
• Major descriptive and analytical themes, from the perspective of gender, in the current socio-economic, political and cultural circumstances of women and men elsewhere in the world.
• Major descriptive and analytical themes, from the perspective of gender, in the sociology of knowledge.
• The role of women in the evolution of U.S. constitutional democracy through their struggles for democratic participation and inclusion.

Career Outlook

Global Gender Studies is valuable for any career choice, because it provides an atmosphere in which intellectual inquiry and high vocational goals are encouraged; it acknowledges and promotes confidence and competence; and it prepares individuals directly for jobs in affirmative action, public policy, and professional and community organizations and social service agencies. It is also excellent preparation for graduate school and other forms of continuing education.

Graduates have pursued some of the following careers:

Admissions counselor
Affirmative action worker
Biographer
Business manager
Career counselor
Community service agency director
Financial planner
Health policy planner
Hospital administrator
Human service worker
Investment counselor
Job developer
Journalist
Lawyer
Legal advocate
Local policy makers
Market research analyst
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) worker
Planned parenthood counselor
Psychologist
Public relations specialist
Social worker
Women's rights advocate

Work Settings include but are not limited to:

Advertising agencies
Book publishers
Childcare/adoption agencies
College alumnae associations
Community organizations
Economic development councils
Economic research foundations
Educational institutions
Government organizations
Health organizations
Judicial system
Labor unions
Management consulting firms
Market research firms
Nongovernmental organization
Policy institutes
Newspapers/magazines
Public relations firms
Scouting organizations
Social service agencies
Television and radio stations
Women's rights organizations