Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
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Graduate Certificate
The Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies allows students from across the University an opportunity to pursue feminist scholarship within a structured, interdisciplinary curriculum. It will provide the student with theoretical and methodological frameworks in which research may be pursued, assessed and evaluated. Pursuit of the certificate will enable students to incorporate into their major field of study an understanding of the theoretical issues, methods and insights of Women’s Studies.
The graduate certificate program in Women’s Studies requires completion of twelve credit hours as described below. The program is interdisciplinary in scope, requiring students to take courses within two or more areas, including Humanities, Fine Arts, Social Sciences and other units with approved electives. Certification is officially awarded upon completion of a master’s or doctoral degree program.
Students must be admitted into a degree program at the graduate level at Indiana State University in order to be considered for admission to the Graduate Certificate program in Women’s Studies. Students may apply for admission to the Graduate Concentration Program at any point in their graduate program. Although previous undergraduate course work in Women’s Studies is preferred, it is not a prerequisite.
In addition to the satisfactory completion of the graduate degree requirements in their own graduate degree program, the graduate certificate in Women’s Studies will require completion of 12 credit hours.
Requirements: Women’s Studies Core Course: WS 600: Feminist Theories and Methodologies--3 hrs.; WS 675: Fieldwork in Women’s Studies--3 hrs.
Electives: Six credit hours of directed electives in Women’s Studies or approved electives in other departments. The electives must come from two different departments including: Education; Fine Arts; Humanities; Sciences; Social Sciences; Women’s Studies; and Other (as approved).
WS 600 Feminist Theories and Methodologies -- 3 hours. A comprehensive and critical survey of the major theoretical traditions in feminist thought which stresses the diversity and multiplicity of feminist theories and analyzes the relationship between theory and methodology. It will examine the challenges which feminist methodologies pose to traditional research methods and explore the ways in which feminist methodologies open up different possibilities for undertaking research.
WS 601 Special Topics in Women’s Studies -- 3 hours. Critical reading in and analysis of a selected topic in Women’s Studies. Topics will vary depending on the Instructor.
WS 603 Independent Study -- 3 hours. An individual study of a particular area or topic in Women’s Studies as decided upon by the student and the instructor. An outline of the proposed study must be submitted to the instructor for approval prior to enrollment in the course. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.
WS 675 Fieldwork in Women’s Studies -- 3 hours. Supervised experience in an area dealing with issues integral to Women’s Studies and appropriate to the student’s interest and background. Prerequisite: WS 600 and the approval of the director of Women’s Studies.
COMM 583 Gender Communication
COMM 603 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Popular Culture
CRIM 516 Symposium on Criminology: Women in Crime and
Criminal Justice
ENG 635 Literary Theory and Criticism
ENG 649I African American Narrative
HIST 539 Women in the United States
PE 540 Women in Sports
PSY 590 Seminar in Psychology: Women and Gender
SOC 543 Sociology of Sex Roles
SOC 563 Social Classes
GRADUATE FACULTY AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
VEANNE N. ANDERSON; Ph.D., McMaster University, Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, 1987. Psychology of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
KEITH E. BYERMAN; Ph.D., Purdue University, Professor of English and Women’s Studies, 1987. African American Literature, American Studies.
JENNIFER DRAKE; Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies, 1996. Multicultural American Literature, Women’s Literature.
DARLENE M. HANTZIS; Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies, 1990. Performance Studies/Oral Interpretation, Feminist Theories, Performance Ethnography.
JAKE JAKAITIS; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies, 1988. Multicultural American Literature, Literary Theory.
SUSAN KRAY; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Assistant Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies, 1995. Media Theory and Criticism.
SUSAN R. MACKE; Ed.D., University of Cincinnati, Associate Professor of Education and Women’s Studies, 1993. History and Foundations of Education.
LINDA MAULE; Ph.D., Washington State University, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies and Prelaw Director, 1996. Constitutional Law, Judicial Recruitment and Process, Gender Politics.
SHARON A. RUSSELL; Ph.D., Northwestern University, Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies, 1976. Film Production, Theory, and Criticism.
THOMAS STEIGER; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, 1987. Complex Organization, Gender Stratification, Labor, Political Economy.
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