MA in Women’s Studies

Are you interested in forging lasting working relationships with the larger San Antonio community, particularly on issues relating to the development of women’s leadership in the 21st Century? If you’re looking to learn about feminist methodologies, foster dialogue on issues concerning working class women and nurture female leadership, then you may want to major in Women’s Studies.

UTSA’s Women’s Studies degree provides the opportunity to examine the social, historical, political and cultural experiences of women from an interdisciplinary perspective. There’s an emphasis on cross-disciplinary research to encourage an informed understanding of women and issues of gender and sexuality across local and global cultures. The curriculum contains feminist theories, gender and cities, themes of social history in the U.S., the biology of human reproduction, gender and crime, society and social issues, women in politics and much more. The program is centered on research, curriculum and community engagement in exciting, important and engaging ways.

The University of Texas at San Antonio is a multicultural discovery enterprise institution with more than 34,000 students. It is the largest university in the San Antonio metropolitan region with four campuses across the city.

The University of Texas at San Antonio is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. As an institution of access and excellence, University of Texas at San Antonio embraces multicultural traditions and serves as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development and the commercialization of intellectual property – for Texas, the nation and the world.

The University of Texas at San Antonio, a Hispanic Serving Institution situated in a global city that has been a crossroads of peoples and cultures for centuries, values diversity and inclusion in all aspects of university life. As an institution expressly founded to advance the education of Mexican Americans and other underserved communities, our university is committed to ending generations of discrimination and inequity. University of Texas at San Antonio, a premier public research university, fosters academic excellence through a community of dialogue, discovery and innovation that embraces the uniqueness of each voice.