![Goodwin Copenhagen House Row](/images/Goodwin_Copenhagen_8_1.jpg")
The Nyhavn district of Copenhagen, Denmark, is popular with tourists and scholars alike.
The Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies strongly encourages our majors and minors to study abroad, whether for a semester or a full year. Not only will you experience the pleasures and challenges of immersing yourself in another culture, but you will also gain new perspectives on how structures of opportunity in varying national contexts operate around interlocking systems of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and other social categories. This exposure deepens your understanding of the diverse global and local forces shaping feminist social justice organizing and intersectional inequities worldwide, enriching your critical thinking and writing.
Our students take full advantage of our 15 Dickinson-run abroad programs—in such locations as Copenhagen, Denmark (as seen above); Norwich or Oxford, England; Mendoza, Argentina; Toulouse, France; Malaga, Spain; Bremen, Germany; Dunedin, New Zealand—as well as dozens of around the world. WGSS-focused study abroad courses typically earn Dickinson WGSS elective credit. A searchable class list across programs and majors is available in the Center for Global Study and Engagement’s growing , (the list is inexhaustive and additional courses will be individually considered and approved).
Contact your advisor or the WGSS chair to discuss how your study abroad plans compliment completing your WGSS core requirements, which are typically taken on-campus. The core requirements of WGSS 200 and/or WGSS 300 are offered only in the fall and majors studying abroad for both semesters of their junior year benefit from early planning. (Both courses can be taken the fall of the senior year.)