The Women’s Studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary framework for examining the lives, experiences, and contributions of women across historical, cultural, political, and social contexts. The program emphasizes the intersections of women’s lives with structures of power such as gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, nation, and globalization, highlighting how women’s identities, roles, and opportunities are socially constructed, contested, and transformed. Students gain critical tools to analyze both the challenges women face and the ways women have shaped movements for justice and social change, while strengthening skills in critical thinking, research, writing, and cross-cultural analysis that enhance a wide range of academic and professional pathways.