Women's Studies Certificate Program
Since 1977, the Center for the Study of Women and Society has promoted interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. The focus of the Center's research agenda is the study of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and nation in relationship to the experiences of women and men in societies around the world. The Center co-sponsors with the Women's Studies Certificate Program intellectual exchange symposia and lectures--- among scholars within CUNY as well as with visiting scholars. The Center also seeks to collaborate with grassroots and professional organizations. CONTACT Center
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The Women's Studies Certificate Program is an optional course of study for students already enrolled in a Ph.D. program at The Graduate Center. It is designed to complement existing doctoral programs and to accept as electives those courses that the student uses to fulfill degree requirements elsewhere in The Graduate Center. The certificate is awarded when the graduate degree is conferred. Women’s Studies courses also may be taken to fulfill requirements for the Women’s Studies concentration in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center. All students are welcome to register for courses in Women’s Studies, regardless of their intention to pursue the Certificate. To qualify for the Certificate, students must take one prerequisite course (unless similar course work has been done at another institution), two required courses, and a minimum of two electives. Click here to see the electives and required courses offered for the current semester. Five Courses
are now required to earn a certificate of completion: Note: WSCP course
requirements were revised in 2008. For those students who have
completed the older versions of the prerequisites courses- including
Feminist Texts and Contexts, Contemporary Feminist Theories, and the
required course Workshop (Research Methodologies)- those courses
WILL COUNT towards your certificate. WSCP has
lowered the course requirements from six courses to five courses.
Specific changes include: Students
will receive a Certificate of Completion upon finishing all the
required coursework. ** Students will receive the actual
Certificiate in Women's
Studies upon graduation from their doctoral program.
Special Course: Dissertation Workshop in Women and Gender Studies (0 credits):: This course is open to students
in all Programs, but especially students at the dissertation level,
who are working on projects that involve women and/or gender. The
class will be conducted as a workshop; participants will have
an opportunity to share their work with other students doing
work on women and gender issues--prospectuses, dissertations,
long seminar papers, papers for publication--and receive feedback.
The class meets once a week; students post pieces that they would
like to have the class respond to and the class is devoted to
response and discussion.
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