The Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota promotes scholarship that pushes established boundaries while providing a rich and rigorous undergraduate and graduate education that asks students to view the worlds around them with a curious yet critical lens.

The breadth and depth of the department's research and teaching interests - science, health, and environmental ethics; migration, race and citizenship; collaboration, community and feminist politics; race, class, and social inequities; sexuality, gender and representation; globalisation, culture and power - are at the centre of the University of Minnesota's mission