SUNY Oswego offers a Gender and Women's Studies major, minor, and a concentration for those teaching grades 1 to 6. The core courses of the program introduce students to gender and women's issues in the contemporary United States as well as international perspectives, feminist theory, and gender history.
Students complete a capstone experience, choosing a seminar, an individual research project, or a supervised internship. As is consistent with an interdisciplinary area of study, core courses in the areas of feminist theory, international perspectives, and the capstone experience will be offered in a number of disciplines. This is also consistent with the objectives of gender and women's studies which is to shift to a frame of reference in which the knowledges and experiences of marginalized genders are valid in their own right and become a basis for inquiry.
