性别研究研究社会过程，文化代表，权力关系和知识形式，这些知识在世界范围内产生了一系列性别观点和经验。将性别作为分析类别的关注促进了一系列学术合作，反映了社会科学，艺术和人文科学，自然科学和政策研究等不同领域的新理论和方法学发展。与性别有关的差异类别，例如种族，种族，阶级和宗教信仰，是整个博士学位课程的垂直关注点。该部门强调综合和跨学科的分析模式，用于研究性和性身份，身体及其技术，医学化，代表性和社会/文化生产以及女权主义认识论。
Gender Studies examines the social processes, cultural repre­sentation, relations of power, and forms of knowledge that generate an array of gendered perspectives and experiences worldwide. A focus on gender as an analytic category facilitates an array of scholarly collaborations, reflecting new theoretical and methodological developments in diverse fields such as the social sciences, the arts and humanities, the natural sciences, and policy studies. Categories of difference that articulate with gender-such as race, ethnicity, class, and religion-are vertical grids of attention throughout the doctoral degree program. The Department emphasizes integrative and transdisciplinary modes of analysis for the study of sexualities and sexual identi­ties, bodies and their technologization and medicalization, representation and social/cultural production, and feminist epistemologies.