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The Sexuality Studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary framework for examining how sexuality is shaped, expressed, and understood across cultural, historical, political, and social contexts. The program emphasizes the intersection of sexuality with structures of power such as gender, race, class, nation, and globalization, highlighting how identities, practices, and discourses around sexuality are socially constructed and contested. Students gain critical tools to analyze the ways sexuality both reflects and influences systems of inequality and social change, while also strengthening skills in critical thinking, writing, and cross-cultural analysis that can enhance a wide range of academic and professional pathways.