A Gender Studies Concentration offers students the opportunity to explore traditional disciplines through an interdisciplinary perspective that focuses on the significance of sex as a social construct.

Students study the unique contributions of women and men to society, science, humanities, and the arts; the importance of gender and gender roles in a variety of social and historical contexts; and new scholarly methods and theories arising from interdisciplinary study. The concentration encourages students to examine historical and contemporary representations of women and men in religion, in the arts and literature, in social and political theory, and in the sciences. It fosters scholarly investigation that recognizes gender as an empirical reality.

While the immediate goal of Gender Studies is to stimulate intellectual curiosity and to provide new strategies for investigation, the long term goal is to help Davidson men and women function freely and fairly in the world.