Beatrice M. Bain Research Group (BBRG)
The Beatrice M. Bain Research Group on Gender was established at U.C. Berkeley to foster and coordinate scholarship on women and gender across the disciplines. On March 15, 1985, the Chancellor's Joint Committee on the Status of Women's Programs submitted a report stating the desirability of three separate programs or branches designed to meet the needs of three largely distinct constituencies of women on this campus: an academic unit concerned chiefly with undergraduate teaching (the Gender and Women's Studies Department), a service unit concerned with the academic and personal challenges faced by undergraduate women (previously the Women's Resource Center, now the Gender Equity Resource Center), and a research unit, described in the report as an Institute for Research on Women, aimed first and foremost at serving the research interests and activities of faculty and graduate students.

Center for Race and Gender (CRG)
The Center for Race and Gender is an interdisciplinary research and community outreach center at the University of California Berkeley dedicated to fostering explorations of race and gender and their intersections. It is virtually unique within the academic community in its focus on both race and gender. Its aim is to foster collegial support and exchange among faculty and students throughout the university and between the university and nearby communities of color. Among other activities, the Center will develop research projects and organize working groups, conferences, colloquia, and workshops on topics relevant to issues of race and gender. It will seek to form links with community groups and research centers at other universities. It will support development of outside funding for research projects and FOR publication and dissemination of research findings. The Center aspires to making a meaningful contribution to discussions of issues and policies affecting women and men of color at the national and international levels.

Center for the Study of Sexual Culture (CSSC)
Founded in Spring 2001, the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley brings together researchers with a common interest in the ways sexuality takes on different meanings in different cultural contexts. The Center fosters scholarly work approaching the study of sexual culture along two separate but interrelated avenues: research that investigates the centrality of sexuality to large cultural formations of various kinds, and also research that examines the workings of specific sexual cultures.

The Designated Emphasis Program on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (DEWGS)
Designed to enhance interdisciplinary graduate studies at UC Berkeley, the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality (DEWGS) provides curricular, research resources and opportunities to students who are already admitted to graduate degree programs on campus. The DEWGS was developed to accommodate some of the many students who conduct graduate level research in related topics across numerous fields, and admitted its first students in the fall of 1996. Administered by the Graduate Group in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the DEWGS provides its students with certification as well as with a unique context for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and development research.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Undergraduate Minor (LGBTM)

Gender and Women's Studies (GWS)