Gender & Sexuality Studies
Website: www.marietta.edu/program/gender-studies
Program Director: Dawn Carusi (carusid@marietta.edu)
Administrative Assistant: Chelsea Yerex (crs007@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