Wondering whether a degree in the ethnic, gender, and queer studies department might be right for you? Contact our office to ask questions or set up a conversation with one of our advisors.
Location: Behavioral and Social Sciences Building 208
Phone: 530-898-4774
Email: egqs@csuchico.edu
The Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Queer Studies (EGQS) is committed to transformative education and social justice. Our interdisciplinary programs examine race, gender, sexuality, and power through a critical and liberatory frameworks. Students learn how race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, ability intersect and shape lived experiences, histories, and dominant institutions.
Through course work, community action, and community, students will develop an understanding of historical and ongoing struggles for justice, freedom, and inclusion. Our courses prepare students to think critically, act ethically, and lead boldly in the pursuit of justice, liberation, and equity. We believe that knowledge production, research, and the classroom are inseparable from social change.
In our classrooms and beyond, we cultivate spaces of inquiry, solidarity, and imagination. Our commitment is to cultivate an academic environment that not only elevates the voices, histories, cultures, and experiences that are otherwise marginalized, but to actively work toward the creation of a more just and equitable society.
As you study the cultures and languages of Chicanx/Latinx peoples, as well as the unique historical and contemporary issues faced by these groups, you will uncover the critical contributions they have made to our community, state, nation, and world.
The Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic, Gender, and Queer Studies examines how race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and nation intersect, and how these issues shape communities, cultures, and institutions in the US and across borders. Students explore the experiences, cultural productions, histories, and communal formation of marginalized communities.
The Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic, Gender, and Queer Studies examines how race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and nation intersect, and how these issues shape communities, cultures, and institutions in the US and across borders. Students explore the experiences, cultural productions, histories, and communal formation of marginalized communities.
Meet the dedicated faculty and staff who guide students in exploring culture, identity, equity, and transformative change.
The Affiliate Program for Faculty Members of the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Queer Studies (EGQS) supports interdisciplinary collaboration and community-building across campus.
The Gender and Sexuality Equity Coalition (GSEC) is a student-led group that creates inclusive spaces, offers peer support, and advocates for equity.
EGQS degrees open doors to careers in education, advocacy, public service, law, and other fields where equity and social justice matter.
Wondering whether a degree in the ethnic, gender, and queer studies department might be right for you? Contact our office to ask questions or set up a conversation with one of our advisors.
Location: Behavioral and Social Sciences Building 208
Phone: 530-898-4774
Email: egqs@csuchico.edu
