Women's Studies Overview
Admission Requirements
Courses of Instruction

Overview

A certificate in Women's Studies is available on the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English, History, Art History, Biblical Interpretation and Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Care. 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 an M.A. or Ph.D. 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 Graduate Colloquium in Feminist Theories and Methodologies. The other 9 hours may be taken in one or more of the following ways:

-- Selected from 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)

-- As independent study, with approval from the Director of Women's Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies in the student's major field

-- Through a course that is not WOST-designated, but that includes a substantial feminist/gender component. The student's individual research in such a course will be directed towards these issues. By approval of the Director of Women's Studies Interdisciplinary work is encouraged in the Certificate program.

Courses of Instruction

WOST 60003 Colloquium on Feminist Theory. 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).

WOST 90003 Graduate Colloquium on Feminist Methodology and 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. It aims to give graduate students from a variety of disciplines a thorough grounding in the basics of feminist theory and methodology since the early modern period.

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