Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
This interdisciplinary certificate program offers the opportunity to develop a thorough grounding in Women's Studies scholarship while pursuing graduate training in another field or discipline. All graduate students in an MA or PhD program at UF are eligible to enroll in this program. The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research invites graduate students from all colleges to participate.
To participate, please fill out the Graduate Certificate Plan-of-Study. Please note: Graduate students finishing their Certificates should complete the Graduate Certificate Final Approval form.
CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS:
Candidates pursuing a Certificate in Women's Studies must complete a total of 12 credit hours at the 5000 level or above and complete a paper or project with a gender focus. Six credits must be taken through the Center and may be chosen from two of the following:
- WST 5933 Proseminar in Women's Studies
- WST 6508 Contemporary Feminist Theory
- WST 6935 Special Interdisciplinary Topics in Women's Studies (WST 6935 should generally be taken only once to meet this requirement)
The other six credits may be chosen from offerings under WST 6935 and thelist of outside courses which count toward Women's Studies. Graduate courses taken in the student's major department that are also Women's Studies courses may count for the Certificate as well. In addition, students may take up to three hours of approved Independent Study (WST 6905) or may count up to three Masters or PhD research hours in their major department if the thesis or dissertation has a prominent gender focus.
Certificate work must be approved by the Center Graduate Coordinator and the Center Director.
Approved Outside Courses
Up to six credit hours from this list may be applied to the Graduate Certificate .
- AEB 6651 Agriculture's role in Latin America and Africa
- AFS 6905 Individual Study: African Women
- ANT 5303 Women and Development
- ANT 5546 The Biology of Women
- ANT 6933 Special Topics in Anthropology*
- ARH 6917 Women in Art
- EDF 7117 Affective Development and Education
- EDG 6931 Gender Equity Issues in I & C
- ENG 6016 Feminism and Psychoanalysis
- ENL 6236 Studies in Restoration and 18th Century
- ENL 6256 Victorian Literature
- EUH 5612 Gender and Power in the West
- GEW 6755 Contributions of Women
- HOE 5555 Women in Agricultural Development
- HSC 5138 Human Sexuality Education
- LAS 6938 Women in Latin America
- LAW 6710 Family Law
- LAW 6930 Variable Topics in Law*
- LIN 5657 Gender and Language
- LIT 6855 Women's Poetry and the Canon
- LIT 6934 Variable Topics in Literature*
- MHS 6481 Sexuality and Mental Health
- NGR 5610 Family Systems Theory
- NGR 5921 Sexuality in Health/Illness
- PHI 5934 Topics in Feminism
- PHI 6934 Philosophy of Culture
- POS 6933 Race, Gender, and Politics
- PSY 6930 Gender and Knowledge
- REL 5937 Variable Topics in Religion*
- SDS 6938 Women's Issues in Counceling
- SPW 6902 Special Study in Spanish or Spanish-American Literature*
- SYA 7933 Special Study in Sociology*
- SYO 6107 American Families