Women's Studies Certificate

A Certificate in Women's Studies is available on the MA and PhD degrees in English, history, art history, biblical interpretation, education, 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/his regular disciplinary graduate work.

Admission Requirements

A student must be enrolled in an MA or PhD 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.

Certificate Requirements

Completion of the certificate requires 12 hours (four courses), including 60003 Graduate Colloquium in Feminist Theories and Methodologies. The other nine hours may be taken in one or more 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);
  • Through an independent study, with approval from the director of women's studies and the director of graduate studies in the student's major field. A memo from the instructor explaining the feminist or gender components in this project must be submitted to and approved by the director of women's studies; and
  • 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.

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.

An approved list of courses is maintained by the director of Women's Studies. For more information, contact the director of Women's Studies.





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