Women's Studies

Graduate Certificate

Overview

A Certificate in Women’s Studies is available on the M.A., M. Ed., Ed. D., and Ph.D. degrees in Art History, Biblical Interpretation, English, History, Pastoral Theology, Pastoral Care, and Education. The Certificate recognizes a student’s intensive investigation of issues in Women’s Studies in the context of her or his regular disciplinary graduate work.

Admission Requirements

A student must be enrolled in a Master’s or Doctoral program in the above disciplines to participate. Application for admission to the Certificate program should be made in writing to the Director of Women’s Studies.

Requirements

Completion of the Certificate requires 12 hours (4 courses), including WOST 60003 [alternatively listed as BRIT 90003 / ENGL 80123] Graduate Colloquium in Feminist Theories and Methodologies. The other 9 hours may be taken in one of the following ways:

Through pre-approved WOST-designated graduate courses in the student’s field of study or in another department (with approval from the Director of Graduate Studies in the student’s major field). See list below.

Through an independent study, which is submitted to and approved by the Director of Women’s Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies in the student’s major field. Up to 3 hours of thesis or dissertation hours may count as an independent study. A letter from the thesis or dissertation director, explaining the feminist or gender components in this project, must be submitted to and approved by the Director of Women’s Studies. No more than three hours in independent study / thesis / dissertation writing may be applied to the certificate.

Interdisciplinary work is encouraged in the Certificate program.

Course of Instruction

WOST 60003 Colloquium on Feminist Theory. This is the required course in the Women's Studies Certificate program. It is open to Ph.D. and Th.M. students and others on a case-by-case basis. This course aims to provide graduate students with a thorough grounding in the basics of feminist theory since the early modern period. We will cover the major themes of education, biological determinism vs. social constructivism, feminist analysis, psychoanalysis, and language theory, as well as other approaches specific to disciplinary background (visual, historical, literary analysis).

Elective Courses for the Graduate Certificate

ENGL 50970 Victorian Poetry and Erotic Love

ENGL 70483 Victorian Women Writers

ENGL 80463 Seminar in Modern British Literature: Postcolonial Literature

ENGL 80463 Seminar in Modern British Literature: Poetics of the Irish News

ENGL 80503 Seminar in American Literature before 1900: Race and Gender

ENGL 80703 Seminar in Rhetoric: Women’s Rhetoric

HIST 70203 Seminar in Women’s History

HIST 80203 Research Seminar in Women's History

NETE 70970/90970/70133 Women in the Early Church

PTCP 70133/80133/90133 Gender Issues in Pastoral Care

PRTH 80970 Special Problems in Christian Thought: Ministry in the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay Community

Texas Christian University