Gender Studies allows undergraduates the opportunity to shape a disciplinary or interdisciplinary plan of study focused on gender and sexuality. The plan of study, designed with the assistance of a Gender Studies adviser, can take the form of a gender track in a traditional academic discipline, interdisciplinary work on a gender-related topic, or a combination thereof. After completing the required introductory sequence, Problems in Gender Studies, students can then create a cluster of courses linked by their attention to gender as an object of study or by their use of gender categories to investigate topics in sexuality, social life, science, politics and culture, literature and the arts, or systems of thought. The program is housed in the Center for Gender Studies, established in 1996. It now consolidates work on gender and sexuality, and in feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer studies. Along with fostering teaching, research, and discussion at the University, the Center seeks to reach out into public areas where gender and sexuality come together with other political, artistic, and intellectual concerns.