Women's Studies at Tulane is an interdisciplinary   program that explores the experiences, perspectives, and concerns of women, and analyzes gender, sex, and sexuality as social and cultural phenomena. The program offers a Major and a Minor, in addition to a Graduate Certificate Program. Students may choose from over forty courses taught by faculty from fourteen academic departments, four other LAS programs, and four Tulane University Schools.

   The Women’s Studies Program encourages students to engage fully in the activities of a liberal arts education—reading, writing, thinking, discussing, and imagining—in order to consider how women's lives are influenced and lived depending upon their race, class, sexual orientation, age, religion, region, historical period, and cultural context. The coursework exposes students to recent gender scholarship, classic feminism, feminist theory and critiques of feminism. While a Women’s Studies major or minor is valuable preparation for training in the professions, such as law, medicine, education, policy studies, or business, it also provides an excellent foundation for postgraduate work in the social sciences and humanities.

   In addition, Women’s Studies now offers a Graduate Certificate Program. Students earning certificates in the interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies develop understanding of the historical and contemporary experiences of women. They similarly gain practice in analyzing representations of and by women, develop in depth knowledge of feminist and gender theory, and expand their understanding of the role of feminist activism in a global context.

   The intellectual project of the Major, Minor, and Graduate Certificate Program in Women's Studies is informed and supported by lectures, readings, films, performances, forums, and other programs organized and funded through the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute, the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, the resources available at the Nadine R. Vorhoff (Women's Studies) Library and the Newcomb Archives.  All of these resources are housed around the Newcomb College quad of the Uptown Campus.

Students interested in women's studies as an academic major or major should consult with the Director.

   Questions about Tulane University's Women's Studies Program should be directed to Professor Supriya Nair, Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of English.