The MA in Women's Studies and Gender Studies (WSGS) program at Loyola University Chicago is designed for students interested in the intersectionality and social justice issues centered on gender, and who strive to bring positive change on those fronts. The program will offer you an interdisciplinary exploration of how knowledge is shaped by power, bridging insights gained from the humanities, social sciences, business, and law. You will be empowered to develop thoughtful, innovative solutions and to create pathways for promoting social justice. The WSGS community at Loyola is culturally and intellectually diverse, tightly knit and supportive, politically and socially engaged, and committed to open-ended critique, inquiry, and invention.<br>Upon graduating, Graduate Women's Studies and Gender Studies students will be able to: Identify major influences within key historic feminist/gender studies movements. These influences may include activists, authors and/or writings, or legislation both in and outside the US, Articulate and understand how women's and gender studies is a distinct and fundamental field of study intimately connected to other interdisciplinary academic disciplines, Evaluate, compare, and analyze gender and feminist theories and methodologies from both an intersectional and social justice lens.