Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to studying the historical, cultural, literary, and societal role of women and gender. University of Northern British Columbia's program has strengths in areas such as women's and gender history; gender, literature, and literary theory; gender, colonialism, and postcolonialism; gender and globalization; feminism, justice, and ethics; gender and health; and gender and international studies.

The Women's Studies program offers majors and minors in Women's Studies and, in cooperation with other programs, four joint majors.  At the graduate level, the program offers a Master's degree in Gender Studies.