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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University offers the following degree programs:
If you are an undergraduate student wishing to declare a major or minor in our programs, please contact:
Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Associate Professor and and Queer Studies Advisor
Michael Floyd, Instructor and Queer Studies Advisor for E-Campus
Kryn Freehling-Burton, Senior Instructor, E-Campus Coordinator and Advisor
If you are a prospective graduate student wishing to apply for our programs, please contact:
Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies.
Application Information for the Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Application Information for the M.A. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality major and minor and the minor in Queer Studies are both completely available through Extended Campus at Oregon State University.
Students can join others around the state, nation, and world in online discussions and projects.
In recent years, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies online students have participated from Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Georgia, France, Germany, and Japan. Online instructors are outstanding campus and community scholars who teach students in this unique learning environment. Many Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies online courses meet university Baccalaureate Core requirements. All can be applied to a liberal studies major, a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major, or a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor.
Current Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses currently being offered online are listed below.
In addition to all the required courses being offered at least once every year, we offer a variety of electives each term, some of which are exclusively taught online. A few courses are offered each summer term in 4 and 10-week options. Additional online courses are in development.
WGSS Major Requirements:
WGSS Electives:
Please contact the WGSS Online Advisor if you have questions about adding the major or minor or would like more information.
Kryn Freehling-Burton
Senior Instructor, E-Campus Coordinator and Advisor
kryn.freehling-burton@oregonstate.edu
Waldo 268
541-737-9528
Michael Floyd
Instructor, E-Campus Advisor for Queer Studies
Even as its counterparts in the Pacific Northwest allowed their students to achieve a degree in Indigenous studies, Oregon State University for years did not.
OpEd Dr. Susan Shaw, Professor in WGSS at Oregon State University.
"The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever." Dr. Susan Shaw's most recent editorial in Baptist News Global. Dr. Shaw is a Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. She is also ordained Baptist minister and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her most recent book is Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide, co-authored with Grace Ji-Sun Kim.
Dr. Luhui Whitebear on OPB's Think Out Loud
More and more organizations, companies and institutions are incorporating land acknowledgments into their work. These statements are intended to acknowledge and show respect to the Indigenous people who have lived on the land for millennia.
Luhui Whitebear, assistant professor in the Oregon State University School of Language, Culture, & Society, says land acknowledgments should be the beginning of an organization’s work with tribes, not the end. Whitebear helped to craft OSU’s land acknowledgment. We hear from her and Rachel Black Elk, junior instructor for the Indigenous Nations Studies program at Portland State University.
Every year thousands of students from the United States study abroad. Research tells us students experience profound personal growth, significant development of intercultural skills.