Why Get a WS Grad Certificate?

*Be part of an intellectual community of interdisciplinary feminist scholars at ASU.

*Learn the epistemological and pedagogical bases for studies that take gender, sexuality, and inequality as centrally constitutive analytic categories.

*Be recognized for the graduate training in women's studies you've sought.

*Gain valuable experience preparing to teach, designing an outreach project, and collaborating in an interdisciplinary environment.

 

Requirements

Students complete 12 semester hours of work selected from the list below. The two core graduate seminars foreground the epistemological and pedagogical bases for studies that take gender, sexuality, and inequality as centrally constitutive analytic categories, and offer students the opportunity to learn from one another in an interdisciplinary environment.

*Feminist Perspectives on Pedagogy and Academe (IDS 5600)
*Feminist Theories (IDS 5650)

**Choose two of the following 3-credit courses:

AS 5530 Selected Topics (when the topic is gender)
ENG 5650 Gender Studies
ENG 5200 Issues in Teaching English (when taught by WS faculty)
FRE 5003 French Women Writers
GEOG 5130 Seminar in Cultural Geography (when topic is gender)
HIS 5206 Studies in American History (when topic is gender)
HIS 5106 Topics in European History (when topic is gender)
HIS 5531 Selected Topics in History (when topic is gender)
HPC 5130 Women's Issues in Counseling
IDS 5530 IDS Special Topics (when topic is gender)
SOC 5660 Women in the Justice System
SOC 5800 Sociology of the Family

As additional topics are designed, other courses on the topic of women and gender in various departments can be taken as electives when taught by a member of the WS faculty (see bottom of page for a list). Check our course listings each semester to see what's offered!

 

Eligibility

*ASU graduate students pursuing, or planning to pursue, research with a focus on gender; or

*A Certificate-only student must be a NC resident, hold a bachelor's degree, and be pursuing work related to women's issues or gender.

 

To Enroll:

*Those interested in the Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies are welcome to confer with the Director of the Women's Studies Program prior to submitting an application to the Graduate School. Download an application (Major Code 130A, Women's Studies, IDS Department)

*Those seeking admission must write a brief essay outlining their interests and work goals, explaining how the WS Graduate Certificate will help them meet these goals.

*Those seeking the women's studies certification can enroll year round. Eligibility for certification will be considered by a committee of the women's studies faculty.

 

Women's Studies Faculty also on the Graduate Faculty