Gender & Sexuality Studies

Website: www.marietta.edu/program/gender-studies

Program Director: Dawn Carusi (carusid@marietta.edu)

The Gender & Sexuality Studies program provides opportunities for the student to investigate and analyze the significance of gender, biological sex, and sexual orientation on the human experience. Gender Studies students will use a variety of perspectives to examine the relationship between an individual’s biological sex, gender, and sexual orientation and society, culture, thought and behavior. In particular, opportunities will be given to

apply how concepts of gender influence social and relational behavior
recognize how gender and sexuality can influence social and personal decisions
identify how social constructs (legal, educational, political, religious systems) attempt to regulate human sexuality
examine various men’s, women’s, and orientation’s movements and groups to gain an understanding of what people seek from membership in these groups, and the consequences of in-group, out-group behavior
investigate representations of gender, sex, and orientation in texts such as dramatic literature, film, prose, and art
explore one’s own gender role, sex role and identity
practice empathy toward the various and, often differing, individual perspectives on “womanhood” and “manhood”
examine the impact of gender and sexual identity on human relations historically and cross culturally