Ph.D. Minor in Gender Studies

Gender Studies builds on decades of feminist work to examine the social processes, cultural representations, relations of power, and forms of knowledge that generate a range of gendered perspectives and experience world-wide. Our focus on gender as an analytic category generates cutting-edge research across fields as diverse as the social sciences, the arts and humanities, the natural sciences, and policy studies. The department emphasizes integrative and transdisciplinary modes of analysis for the study of sexualities and sexual identities, bodies and their technologization and medicalization, representation and social/cultural production, and feminist epistemologies.

Course Requirements

Note: The Department has recently changed its requirements for the Ph.D. Minor. Requirements listed here are effective fall 2005. Ph.D. Minor students who began the minor prior to this date have the option of completing the requirements that were effective prior to fall 2005.

A Ph.D. Minor in Gender Studies requires at least 12 credit hours, which includes courses that are joint-listed with other departments. At least 1 of these courses must be chosen from the following:

G600 Concepts of Gender, G603 Feminist Theories; and G702 Researching Gender Issues.

Students may petition for no more than 1 non-GNDR course to count towards the minor; the director of graduate studies must deem such a course to have significant Gender Studies content. A maximum of 3 credits may be transferred from graduate work completed at another university, provided the director of graduate studies approves the course content.

Plans for the minor must be made in consultation with the director of graduate studies.

Grades

Only grades of B (3.0) and above will count for credit.

Exams

None required. A Gender Studies faculty member may be invited to attend the student's oral qualifying examination.

For more information, please contact our Graduate Advisor.