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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 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 partner programs around the world.

WGSS core requirements (WGSS 100, WGSS 200, WGSS 300, and WGSS 400) are typically taken on-campus. WGSS 200 and WGSS 300 are offered only in the fall, so majors studying abroad for both semesters of their junior year benefit from early planning (both courses can be taken concurrently in the fall of the senior year; WGSS 100 is a prerequisite to both). Contact your advisor or the WGSS chair to discuss how your study abroad plans can complement your on-campus courses.

WGSS-focused study abroad courses typically earn Dickinson WGSS elective credit, and some may earn specific thematic designations. A searchable class list across programs and majors is available in the Center for Global Study and Engagement’s growing course equivalency database, (the list is not exhaustive and courses not appearing on the list will be individually considered).

Courses regularly offered at DIS Copenhagen are listed below; these courses are pre-approved to transfer in as WGSS credit and will have the associated thematic designation. If the courses you are taking are on this preapproved list, you do not need to do anything further. Your courses will be automatically categorized per the preapproved list. You do not need to complete an Enrollment in Another Institution form for them.

For WGSS courses at all other programs, it is important that you obtain conditional WGSS preapproval for each course before enrolling in that course. Email the chair of the department with information about the course, including the institution, the course title, and a complete course description. You should attach as much supporting documentation as possible to that email: a syllabus (if available), a document that includes the number and types of class sessions per week (e.g., lecture, seminar, tutorial, lab), course level, and any prerequisites for the course. After returning from abroad, be sure to fill out the Enrollment in Another Institution form on CLIQ, then email the chair with copies of emails (or other documentation) showing conditional preapproval, the course syllabus, and copies of papers and other assignments your completed.

DIS Course Thematic Designations 

Families Without Borders: From Adoptions to Transnational Desires 

• Transnational and Global Perspectives 
• Intersectionalities, Institutions and Power 

Gender and Sexuality in Scandinavia 

• Sexual and gendered pluralities 

Gender Perspectives on Human Rights 

• Institutions, Intersectionalities and Power 

History of Sexuality in Europe 

• Sexual and gendered pluralities 
• Histories, theories and representations 

Human Trafficking in a Global Context 

• Transnational and global perspectives 
• Intersectionalities, institutions and power  

LGBTQIA In Europe: Theories, Communities and Spaces 

• Sexual and gendered pluralities 
• Histories, Theories and Representations  
• QLGBT Perspectives 

Masculinities in Scandinavia 

• Sexual and gendered pluralities 

Meaning of Style 

• Histories, theories and representations 

Muslims in the West 

• Histories, Theories, Representations 
• Institutions, Intersectionality and Power 

Philosophy of Gender 

• Histories, Theories and Representations 

Pornography in Scandinavia 

• Sexual and gendered pluralities 
• Histories, theories and representations 

Prostitution and the Sex Trade 

• Transnational and global perspectives 
• Sexual and gendered pluralities â€¯ 

Psychology of Human Sexuality (transfers in as WGSS 102) 

• Sexual and gendered pluralities 

Queer and Subversive Writers in European Cities 

• Histories, Theories, Representations 
• Sexual and Gendered Pluralities 
• QLGBT Perspectives 

Sociology of the Family

• Institutions, Intersectionalities and Power 

Women and Leadership 

• Intersectionalities, Institutions and Power 

Women, Art and Identity

• Histories, theories and representations