Womens Studies

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

Fall 2007 Courses : Spring 2008 Courses : Graduate Consortium on Women's Studies Courses

Designed for students already enrolled in a graduate degree program at Northeastern University, the Certificate in Women's Studies consists of four graduate courses. The certificate, which can be combined with either a master’s or a doctoral degree, aims to provide a competency by:

Analyzing contemporary theoretical frameworks, methodologies, issues and topics and their relation to established disciplines
Focusing on issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation
Broadening and enriching analytical skills in one or more disciplines while drawing on the interdisciplinary perspectives of Women's Studies
Challenging the traditional separation of academic theory from political and professional practice, by encouraging participation in the varied activities within the Women's Studies Program
Certificate students will work with an advisor in their own or a closely related discipline. Together they work out a plan for completing the certificate. The advisory relationship is intended to be facilitative; students are free to request a different advisor at any time.

Required Courses

Either SOC G202 Feminist Theory or SOC G212 Feminist Methodologies.

SOC G202: Feminist Theory
Considers major developments in feminist theory since the rise of the contemporary women's movement. First looks at early socialist feminist and radical feminist theory and their critics, psychoanalytical feminist theory, postmodern feminism and its critics, and theories about exclusion and difference among women of color. Gender, sexuality, and power are central categories of analysis.

SOC G212: Feminist Methodologies
Feminist scholarship has challenged and reworked basic assumptions about the social world and the research that describes it. This requires three basic approaches: Rethinking, Reflecting, and Rewriting. To do this we need to examine the ways of knowing common to the social sciences and the ways in which new paradigms have or have not been integrated into the canon.

Electives

While selecting electives one must fall outside of the student's primary discipline. The following list is not exhaustive. Certificate students may ask their advisors count other courses if most of their course work was relevant to Women's Studies. Among approved electives are
(Choose Three):

NOTE: Courses change every semester, be sure to contact Women's Studies for details

Graduate Consortium on Women's Studies Courses also available

(see courses below)

Admission

Any student with a bachelor's degree who has been admitted to or is currently enrolled in a graduate program at Northeastern is eligible to apply for a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. Applicants should have at least a "B" average in their graduate course work (or undergraduate for entering students).

Fall 2007 Courses

Key #	Course #	Course Title	Instructor	Day/Time
78347	BHS G120	Race, Ethnicity, and Health in the US	Amaro	Tu 4:45-7:45PM
87374	CAP G203	Culture and Diversity	Vazquez-Nuttall	Th 4:00-6:30PM
90894	CAP G203	Culture and Diversity	Robinson	Tu 4:00-6:30PM
76460	CAP G203	Culture and Diversity	Li	M 4:00-6:30PM
81019	CAP G222	Human Sexuality	Kates	Th 4:00-6:30PM
87652	CAP G390	History and Systems of Psychology	Ballou	Tu 1:00-3:30PM
74689	ENG G284	Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature	Howlett	Thu 3:30-6:00PM
88072	NUR G088	Nursing with Women and Families	Mayville	M 11:45-2:45PM
52311	SOC G202	Feminist Theory	Staff	W 4:30-6:30PM

Spring 2008 Courses

Key #	Course #	Course Title	Instructor	Day/Time
28191	CAP G203	Culture and Diversity	Robinson	W 4:00-6:30PM
28549	CAP G380	Seminar in Feminist Psychology	Ballou	Tu 1:30-4:00PM
22551	CJ G210	Gender, Crime, and Justice	Frost	M 5:45-8:15PM
23410	ENG G286	Topics in Victorian Literature	Green	Tu 6:00-8:30PM
27307	SOA G280	Seminar: Sexuality	Hindman	Th 4:30-6:30PM
24540	SOC G212	Feminist Methodologies	Kaufman	W 4:30-6:30PM

Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies 2007-2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Course Title	Instructors	Day/Time	Dates of Class
Interrogating Marriage	Renee Bergland, Simmons Leonard Buckle, Northeastern Suzann Thomas-Buckle, Northeastern	Tu 6:00-9:00PM	September 4, 2007 - December 11, 2007
Representing Gender: Global Perspectives of Art, Media and Popular Culture	Pamela Allara, Brandeis Lisa Cuklanz, Boston College	Th 6:00-9:00PM	September 6, 2007 - December 13, 2007
Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies	Erica Harth, Brandeis	W 4:00-7:00PM	TBA- Fall & Spring Semesters
Transsexuality, Transgenderism, and the Rest...	Claudia Castañeda, Boston Consortium Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard Jyoti Puri, Boston Consortium	Th 4:00-7:00PM	January 31, 2008 - May 8, 2008
Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship	Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons Frinde Maher, Wheaton Jyoti Puri, Boston Consortium	Th 6:00-9:00PM	January 31, 2008 - May 8, 2008

NOTE: Fall Application deadline is August 27, 2007
Spring Application deadline is January 11, 2008

To apply for a GCWS course fill out this Student Application. Mail or e-mail form to:

Graduate Consortium in Women?s Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 16-287
77 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge , MA 02139

Tel:(617) 324-2085
Email: gcws@mit.edu

After submitting the online form, email the GCWS to confirm the receipt of your application.

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GCWS Classes held on MIT campus, building and room TBA

Graduates