The Gender Studies program offers an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Arts and Sciences at UMass Lowell. Gender Studies may also be taken as a concentration in the Bachelor of Liberal Arts major. The program explores the many ways that ideas about gender increase our knowledge of the world and our experience of everyday life. Read more...
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I see students enter our master’s program with the same passions I had to address issues of social injustice. more > Meg Bond
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