Gender & Sexuality Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies at City Tech is an interdisciplinary minor exploring issues of gender and sexuality from various perspectives, with classes in English, African American Studies, Health & Human Services, Humanities, and Social Science. The minor offers students a critical lens for analyzing socially constructed expectations, assumptions, and biases around gender and sexuality in courses that focus on humanity, sexuality, gender, identity, public/private space, and representations of genders in literature, film, and media. The courses in the minor offer knowledge of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, and ability in various social and historical contexts.

A critically informed and historically situated understanding of gender and sexuality provides timely and valuable insights applicable to a variety of  technological and professional disciplines, including communication design, architectural technology, professional and technical writing, nursing, law and paralegal studies, education, hospitality management, human services, business and technology of fashion, entertainment technology, emerging media, dental hygiene, construction management, and biomedical informatics. Information around issues of gender and sexuality provides students with valuable skills and knowledge to apply to their career fields.

Because the minor is interdisciplinary, students are exposed to a variety of approaches and scholarly conversations on the topics of gender and sexuality, and students who complete the minor learn to become complex critical and analytical thinkers, skills that will enhance their undergraduate education, post-graduate work, careers, and the communities and organizations with which they are involved. A minor in gender and sexuality studies directly supports the college’s mission to provide multidisciplinary education to a diverse urban population while nurturing an atmosphere of inclusion, respect, and open-mindedness in which all members can flourish.

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of key concepts in gender and sexuality studies

• Critically analyze, interpret, and communicate about one’s complex subject position and social location in relation to gender and sexuality norms

• Identify expectations, assumptions, and effects of social constructions of gender and sexuality, including an awareness of how gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation intersect and how these intersections influence constructions of human identity in historical, cultural, and geographic contexts

• Demonstrate the ability to connect scholarly inquiry about gender and sexuality to technological and professional contexts

Progression and Graduation Requirements

• All courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher.

Advisement Information

Students enrolled in the Minor will be advised by the Gender & Sexuality Studies Minor coordinators in conjunction with their advisor in their academic major.

If you’re interested in declaring and earning an academic minor in Gender & Sexuality Studies, please consult the Academic Minors page for more information about minors and to download the appropriate forms. The interim coordinator for this academic minor is Megan Behrent, mbehrent@citytech.cuny.edu