The Women's & Gender Studies program at Virginia Tech presents students new ways of thinking about how race, class, and sexuality shape our society and our experiences in it.
Samanta, winner of the 2012 Sporn Teaching Award, pictured with (WGS director) Katy Powell and Barbara Ellen Smith
Award-winning faculty members teach courses to over 800 Virginia Tech students each year.
Students can major in Women's & Gender Studies with a degree option currently in IDST and available soon in Sociology for 2013 grads.
Many students choose to minor in Women's & Gender Studies because our programs complement so many other majors.
We also offer a 9-hour Graduate Certificate--an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural study of gender in social structure, history, culture, and technology.
Our biannual conference on Gender, Bodies, and Technology
Central to the mission of Women's & Gender Studies at Virginia Tech is the empowerment of women, in both the academy and our larger society.
