DIRECTOR: Claudia Nelson LOCATION: 306 Academic, TAMU MAIL STOP: 4355, TAMU
PHONE: 845 7994 E-MAIL: claudia_nelson@tamu.edu
This interdisciplinary program offers students the opportunity to develop a thorough grounding in the discipline of Women’s Studies. Students will become familiar with a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives as they focus their attention on gender and women’s issues. Since Women’s Studies often brings a different set of questions to the study of traditional disciplines, the student’s understanding of the major discipline should be enhanced through the work on the Certificate. In addition to the gender focus, Women’s Studies also incorporates other issues of diversity--race, age, ethnicity, class, nationality--employing a multicultural and pluralistic approach to knowledge. Increasingly, some understanding of issues relating to gender and diversity within the various traditional disciplines is expected in today’s employment context.
Any Texas A&M graduate student enrolled in a Masters or Doctoral Program may apply for a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Certificate eligibility is based on academic standing and approval of a plan of study and research agenda.
Certificate candidates must complete 12 hours of course work approved for this purpose by the Women’s Studies Program, including, as of fall 2007, either WMST 401, Feminist Theory, or WMST 680, Theories of Gender. The other courses must include at least 3 hours of Humanities credits and at least 3 hours of Social Science credits. The remaining 3 hours are free electives, except that they must be approved by the Program Director as counting toward the Graduate Certificate. All courses in the certificate program must be passed with a grade of at least a B.
Students enrolled in a Masters or Doctoral Program at Texas A&M who wish to earn a Certificate in Women’s Studies should speak to the Women’s Studies Director and the departmental graduate advisor as early as possible in their program. A plan of study is worked out with the advice of the Director. Once the required 12 hours are completed, the Graduate Certificate will be awarded, usually at a Spring Women’s Studies event.
Courses counting toward this certificate include some senior-level undergraduate courses (400-level). For Ph.D. students, no more than three hours of such undergraduate courses may be taken for credit toward the certificate; for Masters students, the limit is six hours. Up to three hours of WMST 685 (Independent Study or Readings) may be taken as one part of the program; alternatively, up to three hours of approved gender-focused independent study within the student’s major department may be taken. If the student’s thesis or dissertation involves a substantial gender focus, up to three hours of the thesis or dissertation research hours may be counted toward the certificate. Course credit hours counted toward the certificate may also count toward the major degree requirements. The decision to approve courses for credit toward the certificate is made by the Women’s Studies Director, in consultation with the student.
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