Welcome

The Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin fosters academic research, teaching, advocacy, and community partnerships in support of ending gender discrimination. With over 250 affiliate faculty, CWGS offers a Bachelor’s of Arts; an undergraduate minor; a Master’s of Arts, including dual degree options with either Information Studies or Public Affairs; a Graduate Portfolio; and courses related to every discipline.

We recognize that ending gender discrimination requires ending the related discriminations against disability, ethnicity, gender identity, race, sexuality, and socioeconomic class. In support of our vision, we generate interdisciplinary educational spaces for faculty, students, and community members to create alliances across difference and together to imagine new possibilities. Four core projects enact this practice:

Faculty Development Program supports and showcases the work of newly hired faculty working in the interdisciplinary field of Women’s & Gender Studies;

Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative develops a culture of teaching for women’s human rights as gender and racial justice;

Inspire: Young Women’s Leadership Program supports small cohorts of undergraduate women in various fields who are first-generation college students;

NEW Leadership™ Program -- we are the only Texas site of this national program to prepare undergraduate women to participate in politics; and

Research Clusters gather interdisciplinary groups of faculty and students to explore and discuss research related to a specific area of inquiry.

• Updated: Summer & Fall 2012 Pink Book (717 KB) PDF  lists courses of interest to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing LGBTQ studies for recent and upcoming semesters.

• Applications for our Master's Programs must be postmarked by December 15th

• Learn about our Dual Degree graduate programs!