Smith Precollege Summer Programs – Women, Gender and Representation Recently Updated

Explore your interests in women in politics and history, intersectional feminism and race in literature and beyond. All of the courses in this program give attention to historical context and use an intersectional analytical framework. Live on-campus for two weeks at Smith College with fellow high schoolers from around the world.

In the Women, Gender & Representation (WGR) program, students from across the country and world take transformative courses that tackle gender justice issues that matter to them! Courses include sexual health and rights, queer and trans lives, race and ethnic studies, gender in music and literature, gender minority histories, and practices of inclusive social change.

Morning Sessions (choose 1)

Movement as Medicine and Active-ism

Global Reproductive Justice

Queer Sexual Ethics

Afternoon Sessions (choose 1)

Women of Rock

Rest as Resistance: Black Feminism and Radical Interiority

Global Ecofeminisn & Art

Course Spotlight: Reproductive Justice

What does it mean to live in a Post-Roe world? A world where many are actively curtailing reproductive rights and denying gender-inclusive education? A world that includes long histories of resistance, mutual aid, and organizing? This course will examine histories of sexual and reproductive health movements. We will explore how the reproductive justice framework can offer us a space to hold conversations about gender, race, equity, community belonging, and human rights.