The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and the Department of History have complementary interests in gender, sexuality, and women's issues. This joint major is for those who share these interests. Students are encouraged to plan their program in consultation with advisors in both departments.<br> Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies is committed to cultivating innovation, intellectual freedom, social justice activism, diversity, and transformative resistance to inequality.<br> We are a community of faculty, staff, sessional instructors, graduate students, and undergraduates dedicated to understanding and explaining how and why things change. We study the history of places from British Columbia to Africa, China, and beyond, we analyze events from thousands of years ago through the present day.