妇女与性别研究课程位于妇女，性别与性研究研究所内，并与巴纳德学院妇女，性别与性研究系合作授课，该课程为学生提供了具有文化和历史背景的课程，对女权主义奖学金及其对学科的贡献在理论上有多种理解。该计划向学生介绍有关自然，权力和差异的社会建构的文化和历史表征的女权主义话语。它鼓励学生参与有关此类讨论中出现的有关平等与正义的道德和政治问题的辩论，并将性别和性问题与种族，族裔和其他类型的等级差异联系起来。
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and taught in cooperation with Barnard College's Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the program in women's and gender studies provides students with a culturally and historically situated, theoretically diverse understanding of feminist scholarship and its contributions to the disciplines. The program introduces students to feminist discourse on the cultural and historical representation of nature, power, and the social construction of difference. It encourages students to engage in the debates regarding the ethical and political issues of equality and justice that emerge in such discussion, and links the questions of gender and sexuality to those of racial, ethnic, and other kinds of hierarchical difference.<br><br>Through sequentially organized courses in women's, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as required discipline-based courses in the humanities and social sciences, the major provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary framework, methodological training, and substantive guidance in specialized areas of research. Small classes and mentored thesis-writing give students an education that is both comprehensive and tailored to individual needs. The major culminates in a thesis-writing class, in which students undertake original research and produce advanced scholarship.<br><br>Graduates leave the program well prepared for future scholarly work in women's, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as for careers and future training in law, public policy, social work, community organizing, journalism, and professions in which there is a need for critical and creative interdisciplinary thought.