MA in Religion - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in New Haven United States | Yale University

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies concentration equips students with essential analytical tools for examining gender and sexuality through various lenses, including textual analysis, historical perspectives, and visual culture studies - all within a religious framework (interpreted broadly). Learners are empowered to craft individualized research paths that may explore thematic, historical, theological, or theoretical dimensions, drawing from interdisciplinary resources across departments like American Studies, WGSS, LGBT Studies, and Race, Ethnicity, and Migration programs. The curriculum typically prepares graduates for advanced academic or professional pursuits, supported by the WGSS MAR degree's adaptable requirements. Through close faculty mentorship, students design focused academic trajectories that might investigate areas such as queer artistic expression, feminist biblical hermeneutics, gendered liturgical practices, queer theological discourse, or religion's impact on gender, sexuality, and health - reflecting recent student projects. Faculty expertise spans biblical exegesis, theological ethics, homiletics and pastoral ministry, visual culture studies, and worship traditions. The program mandates six credit hours in biblical or sacred text studies (with advisor approval) plus six hours in historical/theological coursework, supplementing the eighteen-hour WGSS core requirements.