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Completing a Gender and Women's Studies Certificate

To earn the certificate in Gender and Women's Studies, students must complete 24 credits of Gender and Women's Studies coursework, including the following four required courses:

  • GWST 100 - Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (GEP/GFR meets SS)
  • GWST 200 - Studies in Feminist Activism (GEP/GFR meets SS)
  • GWST 300 - Methodologies of Gender and Women's Studies
  • GWST 480 - Theories of Feminism

One of the following women's history courses:

  • GWST 325/HIST 325 - History of Women in America to 1870 (GEP/GFR meets SS)
  • GWST 326/HIST 326 - History of Women in America Since 1870 (GEP/GFR meets SS)
  • GWST 327/AFST 354 - African-American Women's History (RoE) (GEP/GFR meets SS)
  • GWST 330/ANCS 320 - Women and Gender in the Classical World (GEP meets AH or C, GFR meets AH)
  • GWST 374/HIST 374 - European Women's History 1200-1750 (GEP/GFR meets SS or C)
  • GWST 375/HIST 375 - European Women's History 1750-1914 (GEP/GFR meets SS or C)
  • GWST 376/HIST 376 - European Women's History 1914 - Present (GEP/GFR meets SS or C)
  • GWST 380/HIST 380 - Women and Gender in East Asia (RoE) (GEP/GFR meets C)

And nine credits of elective Gender and Women's Studies courses, including at least two courses that specifically address the range of women's experiences (RoE), for example through a focus on international women, ethnicity, sexual orientation and/or class.

Students who wish to pursue Gender and Women's Studies in even more depth than the certificate permits should consider pursuing the B.A.