UCI的性别与性研究系致力于研究与其他社会类别（例如种族，种族，阶级，宗教和国籍）复杂的性别和性。该系的目标是促进对构成女性，性别和性行为作为研究对象的各种学科观点（历史，政治，经济，代表，技术和科学）进行批判性和创造性的分析。通过在教学和研究中强调严格的跨学科视角，性别与性研究学院力求产生有关性别，种族，阶级和性的社会意义的新知识，并为学生提供一系列的分析和方法论技能。
UCI's Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is dedicated to the study of gender and sexuality in their complex articulation with other social categories such as race, ethnicity, class, religion, and nationality. The Department's goal is to foster critical and creative analysis of the various disciplinary perspectiveshistorical, political, economic, representational, technological, and scientificthat have constituted women, gender, and sexuality as objects of study. By emphasizing a rigorous interdisciplinary perspective in their teaching and research, the Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty seek to produce new knowledge about the social meanings of gender, race, class, and sexuality, and to equip students with a range of analytical and methodological skills.