Student Opportunities

The Women's and Gender Studies Program is one of the most active programs. It offers a diverse internship program, an array of guest speakers and events, and a rich sense of community among its students, alumni and faculty.

Experiential Learning/Internship Program

We incorporate experiential learning into our curriculum. You can do this through internships or meaningful work with organizations in the area.

Recent internships include:

  • WGS podcast, What IFF?: Exploring Intersectional Feminist Futures with Women's and Gender Studies at CofC
  • WGS newsletter, WGS Connect
  • We Are Family
  • Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA)
  • YWCA
  • EMPOWERR
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Equity Center (GSEC)
  • Tri-County Cradle to Career Initiative
  • Tri-County Human Trafficking Taskforce
  • Charleston Pro Bono

Study Abroad

Faculty from across campus offer study abroad programs that include women's and gender studies coursework. You'll have diverse opportunities to study abroad. Examples of recent study abroad locations include:

  • Trujillo, Spain
  • London, UK
  • Rwanda
  • Uganda
  • Ireland
  • Vietnam
  • Cambodia
  • Florence, Italy

In addition to these faculty-led experiences, the Center for International Education offers exchange and affiliate study abroad programs.

Student Advisory Committee (SAC)

Build significant leadership skills that you can actually put on your resume. Student Advisory Committee members meet regularly with the program director and serve in an advisory role to the program and all of its efforts.

Scholarships

The Woman's and Gender Studies Program offers funding support options. This includes the following scholarships:

  • Alison Piepmeier Scholarship
  • Skirt. Magazine Endowed Scholarship
  • Ketner Emerging Leaders Scholarship
  • Ketner-Crunelle LGBTQ+ Endowed Scholarship

In Spring of 2019, we launched the WGS Student Opportunities Fund so that students may apply for funding to support engagement in study abroad, internships, community-based learning projects, and research/scholarly activities. Funding for these opportunities is made possible because of our generous sponsors in the community and on campus.

Events

We host many informative, fun and meaningful events throughout the year. Our main events include:

Land, Body, History: Vectors of Knowledge from Global Black Feminist Perspectives
A new academic series featuring a scholar-in-residence and week-long events focused on local-to-global experiences.

Feminism in Motion
This day-long celebrations focuses on student-scholars and their work on gender-related projects.

Yes! I'm a Feminist
Party like a feminist. It's an annual fundraiser to benefit the WGS Student Opportunities Fund and the Alison Piepmeier Scholarship.

View our calendar.

Marissa Haynes '22

Profile photo of WGS major Marissa Haynes

Marissa Haynes '22, a women's and gender studies major, received the Ketner Emerging Leaders Scholarship for all four years of her academic studies and is the original producer of the women's and gender studies podcast What IFF?: Exploring Intersectional Feminist Futures with Women's and Gender Studies at C of C.

It has been an absolute honor to be named a Ketner scholar. This scholarship has simultaneously fostered my passion for activism and provided me with the space and resources to step outside of my comfort zone to advance my potential for changemaking. It has meant the world to me to receive the support that this scholarship has offered me, and it will act as a jumping off point for all of my future activism and professional endeavors.

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