The University of Georgia Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies provides a feminist interdisciplinary perspective on women and gender. Administratively a program in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Women’s and Gender Studies cooperates with departments of all schools and colleges of the University in developing its curriculum and programming. Traditional academic disciplines have devoted little systematic attention to issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality. In the past 30 years, feminist scholars have contributed to the reinterpretation of existing data and to the presentation of new knowledge about the diversity of women’s experiences. Through course work and outreach, the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies offers students an opportunity to explore women’s lives in global and multicultural contexts.
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program offers a 18-hour graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. The certificate is available to students who are currently pursuing a graduate degree or who already have a graduate degree. The purpose of the certificate is to expose students to the rapidly expanding interdisciplinary scholarship on women that might otherwise be neglected in their traditional curricula. Interested graduate students must first contact the program advisor to submit an application and to select an interdisciplinary program of study.
Kelly Happe khappe@uga.edu
18 hours
Choose 6 to 9 credit hours from the following:
WMST 6000-level or higher courses
Choose a maximum of 3 credit hour(s) from the following:
| AFAM(PSYC) 4500/6500 | Psychology of Prejudice | 3 |
| AFAM(ROML) 4860/6860 | Topics in Afro-Hispanic Identity | 3 |
| ARHI(WMST) 4940/6940 | Gender Issues and Art History | 3 |
| COMM 4370/6370 | Women and United States Public Discourse | 1-4 |
| COMM 8360 | Feminist Theory and Criticism | 3 |
| EDUC 7100 | Gender and Education | 3 |
| EDUC 8190 | Introduction to Social Justice Frameworks: Foundations in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | 3 |
| ENGL 6600 | Issues in Feminist Theory and Criticism | 3 |
| ENGL 6840 * | Folklore Studies | 3 |
| ENGL 6850 * | Topics in Multicultural Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 8590 * | Seminar in 19th-Century British Literature | 3 |
| ETAP(QUAL) 8565 | Theoretical Frameworks for Doctoral Studies in the Human Sciences | 3 |
| FILM 4600/6600 | Women and Film | 3 |
| GEOG 4680/6680 | Gender and Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 8680 | Seminar in Feminist Geography | 3 |
| HIST 8027 | United States Women, Politics, and History | 3 |
| HIST 8710 | Colloquium on Gender in History | 3 |
| LEGL 4500/6500 | Employment Law | 3 |
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LING(CMLT)(WMST) 4870/6870
Critical Thinking
Social Awareness & Responsibility
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Language, Gender, and Sexuality | 3 |
| LLED 8065 | Queer Theories and Education | 3 |
| LLED 8310 | Race, Class, and Gender in Literature for Young People | 3 |
| LLOD 8140 | Equity and Inclusion in Organizations | 3 |
| MUSI 4250/6250 | Women and Music | 3 |
| PHIL 4700/6700 | Philosophy and Race | 3 |
| PORT 8010 * | Topics in Literature and Culture of the Portuguese-Speaking World | 3 |
| PSYC(WMST) 4600/6600 | Psychology of Women | 3 |
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RELI 4104/6104
Analytical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Social Awareness & Responsibility
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Christian Sexual Ethics | 3 |
| RELI 4105/6105 | Women in Christian History | 3 |
| RELI 4106/6106 | Women in Early Christian Literature | 3 |
| RELI 4108/6108 | Christian Feminist Theology | 3 |
| ROML 8000 * | Topics in Romance Languages | 3 |
| SOCI 6280 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
| SOCI 8200 * | Seminar in Sociological Theory and Research | 1-3 |
| SOCI 8280 | Seminar in Gender Stratification | 3 |
| SOCI 8840 | Gender, Crime, and Justice | 3 |
| SPAN 8500 | Issues of Race, Class, and Gender | 3 |
| THEA 4280/6280 | Women in Performance | 3 |
| THEA 4300/6300 | Queer Theatre and Film | 3 |
ENGL 6840 - "Women in Folklore" ENGL 6850 - "Multicultural American Feminism" ENGL 8590 - "Jane Austen, the Brontes, and Virginia Woolf" PORT 8010 - "Contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian Women Writers" ROML 8000 - "Contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian Women Writers" SOCI 8200 - "Social Psychology in Gender" or "Interaction and Inequality"
Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.