Goal 1: To promote a fuller understanding of the multidimensional nature of personhood.
• Objective 1: To examine the ways that gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, able-bodiedness, and other facets of embodiment intersect in the construction of identity and experience.
• Objective 2: To examine the implications that these categories have for opportunities and life chances.

Goal 2: To support a curriculum that speaks to the experiences of those marked or marginalized by gender or sexuality, or that acknowledges the socially constructed character of gender.
• Objective 1: To provide a series of courses which include critical examination of the social, historical, psychological, literary, artistic, philosophic, and biological roles of women and gender.
• Objective 2: To evaluate course proposals for inclusion in the WGS minor on the basis of their adherence to Goals 1, 2, and 3.

Goal 3: To promote critical thinking skills and an understanding of methodologies from a variety of disciplines.
• Objective 1: Include among those that count for the WGS minor courses from an array of academic disciplines.
• Objective 2: To privilege the inclusion in the WGS minor of courses that enact feminist pedagogical strategies including active learning groups, collaboration, applied learning (service learning), co-teaching, etc.

Goal 4: To promote and support research on women and gender.
• Objective 1: Sponsor a brown bag lecture series in which faculty speakers present research on women and gender, and through which faculty members and students might gain valuable feedback on research in these areas.
• Objective 2: Sponsor guest speakers on issues related to women and gender studies.

Goal 5: To sponsor events related to women and gender.
• Objective 1: Organize and carry out an annual lecture series and film series.
• Objective 2: Participate in Women's Day.
• Objective 3: Promote and support Take Back the Night