Graduate Certificate Program
The Women's Studies Program at URI has developed a genuinely interdisciplinary curriculum informed by the most advanced scholarship and by feminist pedagogical principles. Having offered an undergraduate degree program for over 25 years, the Women's Studies Program now offers a graduate certificate program that will allow students to pursue interdisciplinary study in this flourishing field and thereby enhance their educational background and career opportunities.
Objectives:
The graduate certificate will:
- Develop expertise in women's studies theory and methodology.
- Offer focused study of the relatively new scholarship on gender in its intersections with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
- Systematically add interdisciplinary breadth to the student's program.
- Provide a professional credential to supplement other training.
The Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies is an elective option for matriculated graduate students or non-matriculated students.
The Certificate Program requires 9 credits of graduate work in any field and 5 credits of WMS courses. (These courses may count toward a graduate degree in a field such as psychology, history, or English. Check with an advisor.)
Matriculated graduate students will take 9 credits of graduate study in their program that focuses on women or gender. The 9 credits may take the form of:
- A course such as Women's History or a woman writer or Psychology of Women.
- Substantial research focused on women or gender for a course such as Social Psychology, or Special Readings in American History.
Non-matriculated students may take 9 credits of graduate study in any relevant graduate program or combination of programs (such as Communication Studies, English, History, Human Development and Family Studies, Nursing, or Psychology), subject to approval by the WMS program Director.
Both matriculated and non-matriculated students will take two WMS graduate level courses to complete the certificate.
Course Offerings (as of 9/4/09): (400-level classes can be for credit for Masters students)
Fall 2009: WMS 501 Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery; HIS 507 The History of Gender; ENG 660 Toni Morrison, and related graduate courses in student's field.
Spring 2010: WMS 490.01 Women and the Environment; WMS 490.02 Latin American Women: Autobiography, Biography, Testimony, and Memoir; WMS 500 Graduate Colloquium: Feminist Theory and its Ramifications; WMS 502 Campaigns and Services for Victims of Trafficking and Slavery
For further information, contact the Director of the Women's Studies Program:
wmsdir@etal.uri.edu
401.874.4620
