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WGST Program Requirements

 

Credit Requirements

The graduate certificate program requires the completion of twelve credits.

  • Three credits must be met by satisfactory completion of the core course requirement. Core course options appear below.
  • Nine remaining credits will be selected in consultation with the Women’s and Gender Studies Director prior to enrolling in a class to assure the course includes material relevant to the WGST program. Please note that content for some of the courses below may vary depending on the instructor and will not always be pertinent to the study of women and gender.
    • One course must be selected from the humanities group and one course from the social science group.
    • No course may be counted twice to fulfill a course or program requirement. For example, the core course cannot also fulfill the social science elective course requirement. A student must take the core course and a social science elective.
    • Other graduate courses not listed below that incorporate women, gender, sexuality, and/or the family will be considered for inclusion in the program as approved electives. Students should contact the WGST Director for approval.

Additional Course Requirements and Restrictions

  • No more than two courses at the 6000-level may count towards the WGST certificate.
  • Because the program is interdisciplinary, at least one class of WGST certificate coursework must be taken outside of the major department. 

GPA Requirement

In order to continue in the program, students must maintain at least a 3.0 GPA.
 

Core Course Options

(Take one course from the list below)

SOCI 7/8410 - Sociology of Gender 
SOCI 7/8411 - Social Stratification 
SOCI 7421 - Racial & Social Inequality 
SOCI 8422 - Race/Class/Gender 

Note 

The core course is required and does not satisfy the social science course requirement below. In the event that a core course option is not offered in a particular semester, please see WGST Director for an approved substitution.

 

Humanities Course Options

(Take one course from the list below)

COMM 6364 - Gender and Public Discourse 
COMM 6856 - Gender and Film 
ENGL 7/8329 - African American Literature, Beginnings to 1850 
ENGL 7/8330 – African American Lit 1850-1900 
ENGL 7/8332 - Literature of the African Diaspora 
ENGL 7/8335 - African American Literature, 1989-Present 
ENGL 7/8336 - African American Literary Theory 
ENGL 7/8338 - Baraka and the Black Arts Movement 
ENGL 7/8392 - American Poetry 
ENGL 7/8451 - Women And Literature 
ENGL 7/8469 - African American Women Writers 
ENGL 7/8510 - Gender and Language 
HIST 6213 - Women/Gender/Latin America 
HIST 6289 - African Women’s History 
HIST 6831 - History American Family 
HIST 6851 – History of Women in America 
HIST 6853 - African American Women 
HIST 6863 - History Childhood/America 
HIST 7/8060 - Women/Gender Historiography 
HIST 7/8061 - Studies Women/Gender Hist 
HIAD 7444 - Multiculturalism Coll Camp 
MUHL 6013 - Women and Music 
PHIL 6441 - Recent Continental Phil 
PHIL 7020 - Seminar Major Figures (approval based on focus)
WMST 7320 – Women & Multi-Cultural Experience 
 

Social Science Course Options

(Take one course from the list below)

ANTH 6551 - Culture/Sex/Childbirth 
CJUS 6010-6019 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice 
COUN 7723 - Hum Sexuality Coun/Psyc
COUN 7751 - Gender Issues in Counseling 
COUN 7752 - Counseling Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual 
PSYC 7219 - Soc/Personality Development 
PSYC 7900 - Psychology of Gender 
SOCI 7212 - Multicultural Racial Feminist Theory 
SOCI 7/8410 - Sociology of Gender 
SOCI 7/8411 - Social Stratification 
SOCI 7421 - Racial and Social Inequality 
SOCI 7460 - Sociology of Sexualities 
SOCI 7853 - Gender and Health 
SOCI 8422 - Race/Class/Gender 


Alternate Course Options

Other appropriate graduate courses may be approved by contacting the WGST Director