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.

Our growing department includes 7 full-time faculty members, numerous joint appointments, over 15 affiliates, and more than 120 scholars from around the university who are allied with Gender Studies. Our faculty's specialty areas include gender identity and sexuality studies; embodiment and scientific practice; cross-cultural, transnational, and historical perspectives on sex and gender; queer theory; social, institutional, and legal discourses of gender; mass media and popular culture; sexed bodies and health; literary and artistic constructions of gender and sex; the state, national identity, and citizenship; and gendered knowledge formation.

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 3 GNDR courses (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

Alex Doty
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Gender Studies &
Communication and Culture
alexdoty@indiana.edu

Dr. Doty meets with students during his regular office hours. The Gender Studies Department currently offers a PhD major and a minor in Gender Studies. For more in-depth or formal counseling about the major or minor, contact Dr. Doty for an appointment.