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Graduate Certificate Program in Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
at the University of Kansas
(updated 01/16/08)
The Graduate Certificate Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is designed to provide students with a focused program of study of women and gender, and to provide certification of the completion of the program on a graduate transcript. Students may enroll in the Program either as a stand alone program or in combination with a graduate degree program in another department. A graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies may be particularly appealing to students in the humanities, social sciences, or science who seek academic employment in interdisciplinary women’s studies programs, perhaps in addition to a main appointment in their home discipline. It would also be useful for those who currently work with or hope to work with women’s organizations or in supervisory capacities in business or government.
The KU Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate requires 12 hours of coursework including: WS 801: Women and Gender Studies: Theory and methods (3 hours); two three-hour electives chosen from the list at the end of this document, from two different disciplines; and WS 898: Research Colloquium (3 hours). All students in the Graduate Certificate program will be assigned an advisor to assist the student in selecting from among the electives and to serve as an outside reader of the capstone paper required in WS 898. Below is a brief description of the required Women’s Studies courses.
WS 801: Women and Gender Studies: Theory and methods (3 hours)
This course will be an intensive interdisciplinary overview of the major theories and research approaches in literature on women and gender. The topics covered will include the following: 1. An overview of feminist theories; 2. An overview of how feminist theories can be integrated with research methods in various disciplines; 3. Examples of applications of feminist theories and methods to specific content areas. The course will be taught every Fall semester beginning in 2002, and will be open only to graduate students.
WS 898: Research colloquium (3 hours)
This course is the capstone to the Graduate Certificate program. In this colloquium the members of the seminar will produce a major paper and will share their research. During the first part of the term a small number of visitors (Professors at KU and/or visiting speakers from other universities) will be invited to assign readings and subsequently present their work on women and gender. This course will be coordinated by a member of the Women’s Studies faculty. Students will be expected to attend the Gender Seminar of the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the instructor of WS 898 will coordinate with the Director of the Gender Seminar to make optimal use of the Gender Seminar.
Prerequisite: WS 801 and at least 3 hours of other graduate work in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies graduate certificate program, or by special permission.
Admissions Procedure
Current KU graduate students wishing to be admitted to the Graduate Certificate Program will write a letter stating their interests in women’s studies and a current ARTS form. A graduate GPA of 3.0 or higher is required. Admissions materials should be sent to the Graduate Director:
Prof. Ann E. Cudd
Director of Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
213E Bailey Hall
1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-2310
acudd@ku.edu
Students applying for admission to another graduate program at KU will send a letter of application stating their interests in women’s studies and request a letter stating that they have been admitted from the other department or school upon admission
thereto. They will be admitted to the Graduate Certificate Program on condition that they are admitted by the other program in regular status. If they are not admitted to the other program in regular status, they may use the following procedure for admission to the Graduate Certificate program.
Non-KU graduate students will complete an application (for non-degree C status) to the Graduate School and send an application fee of $30, two copies of official transcripts from all previous post-secondary educational institutions, a personal statement of the student’s interest in women’s studies, and two letters of recommendation from persons familiar with their academic work or potential for graduate school. Minimum requirements will be a bachelor’s degree with 3.0 or higher GPA in undergraduate work is normally required for admission, but the GPA requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Graduate Director.
Faculty contributing to Certificate Program
Currently there are eight .5 FTE permanent faculty, each with a joint
appointment in another department of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Their names, ranks, and other departments are as follows:
Omofolabo, Ajayi-Soyinka, Associate Professor, Theatre and Film
Hannah Britton, Associate Professor, Political Science
Ann Cudd, Professor and Director, Philosophy
Tanya Hart, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Charlene Muehlenhard, Professor, Psychology
Ann Schofield, Professor, American Studies
Akiko Takeyama, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Marta Vicente, Assistant Professor, History
Additionally, there is a Graduate Faculty composed of faculty members from related disciplines. A list of these faculty is available upon request. These faculty teach the courses that carry graduate credit toward the Graduate Certificate, and may serve as advisors to students in the Program.
Elective Courses:
Course # Course Title Instructor
WS 510/AMS 510/ History of American Women: Tanya Hart
HIST 530 Colonial Times to 1870 Ann Schofield
WS 511/AMS511 History of American Women Tanya Hart
HIST 531 1870-Present Ann Schofield
Kim Warren
WS 512/AMS 512/ History of Women and Work in Marta Vicente
HIST 532 Comparative Perspective
WS 520 Women and Violence Charlene Muehlenhard
WS 549/HIST 649 History of Feminist Theory Marta Vicente
WS 560/AAAS 560 Race, Gender, & Post-Colonial Discourse Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
WS 562/POLS 562 Women and Politics Hannah Britton
WS 580/ANTH 580 Feminism & Anthropology Akiko Takeyama
WS 600/POLS 600 Contemporary Feminist Political Theory Hannah Britton
WS 646/HIST 646 Witches in European History and Leslie Tuttle
Historiography
WS 651/POLS 651 Women and Politics in Latin America
WS 653/POLS 653 Gender, War, and Peace
WS 660/ANTH 660 Human Reproductions: Culture, Power,
& Politics
WS 665/ANTH 665 Women, Health & Healing in Latin
LAAS 665 America
WS 696 Studies In: (WS Core Faculty)
WS 696 Conceptual Issues in Human Sexuality Charlene Muehlenhard
WS 701 Seminar in_____________ (WS Core Faculty)
WS 789/ANTH 789 Anthropology of Gender: Advanced
Seminar in the Four Fields
WS 797 Directed Readings (WS Core Faculty)
WS 801 Women and Gender: Theory & Methods (WS Core Faculty)
WS 837 Comparative Colloquium in Women’s History Kim Warren
WS 873 Research Seminar in U.S Women’s History Ann Schofield
WS 898 Research Colloquium (WS Core Faculty)
AAAS 520 Women & Islam Beverly Mack
AAAS 520 Muslim Women’s Autobiography Beverly Mack
AAAS 520 Studies in: African Women Writers Beverly Mack
AAAS 520 Studies in: Popular African Fiction Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka Gender, Sex, and Romance
AAAS 545 Unveiling the Veil Naima Omar
AAAS 598 Sexuality and Gender in African History Elizabeth MacGonagle
AAAS 657 Gender in Islam and Society Margaret Rausch
AMS 696 Studies in: American Women During Sherrie Tucker
World War II
COMS 552 Rhetoric of Women’s Rights Beth Manolescu
COMS 559 Women as Political Communicators Diana Carlin
COMS 930 Seminar in Speech: Gender Issues in Joann Keyton
Organization
COMS 930 Seminar in Speech: Women as Political Diana Carlin
Communicators
EALC 575 Love, Sexuality & Gender in Japanese Lit. Maggie Childs
ENGL 572 Women and Literature various
ENGL 572 Women and Literature: Feminist Criticism/ Janet Sharistanian
Women’s Texts
ENGL 572 Women’s Autobiography & Bildungsroman Kathryn Conrad
ENGL 620 Queen Elizabeth I Marjorie Swam
ENGL 709 Feminist Theory/Women’s Texts Janet Sharistanian
ENGL 970 Seminar in Comp. Theory, Feminism Comp. Frank Farmer
Studies
ENGL 970 Seminar in American Literature- Janet Sharistanian
Edith Wharton & Willa Cather
ENGL 970 Seminar in American Lit. 19th Cen. Women Susan Harris
Writers
H A 505 Special Study: Women/Modern Art Susan Earle
H A 533 Europe 1789-1848: Gender and Revolution Marni Kessler
HIST 510 Women in Latin America various
HIST 532/AMS 512 History of Women and Work in Marta Vicente
Comparative Perspective
HIST 533 History of Women & Family in Leslie Tuttle
Europe: 1500 to Present
HIST 598 Sexuality & Gender in African History Elizabeth MacGonagle
HIST 608 History of Sexuality Jeffrey Moran
HIST 609 History of Women and Reform in the U.S. Kim Warren
HIST 896 Colloquium in U.S. Women’s History Ann Schofield
HIST 973 Seminar in U.S. Women’s History Ann Schofield
HPM 850 Women and Health Care Mary Zimmerman
HSCA 620 Issues in Women’s Health Care & Health Care Mary Zimmerman
PHIL 504 Philosophy of Sex and Love Don Marquis
PHIL 671 Feminist Theories in Ethics Ann Cudd
PSYC 690 Studies in: Human Sexuality, Scientific Charlene Muehlenhard
and Cultural Perspectives
PSYC 993 Intergroup Relations Nyla Branscombe
REL 602 Special Topics in Religion: Women Margaret Rausch
in Islam
REL 602 Special Topics in Religion: Sex and Paul Zimdars-Swartz
Gender Roman Catholic Tradition
REL 672 Mother as Religious Metaphor Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
REL 677 Women in Christianity Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
REL 777 Seminar in Religion and Gender Robert Minor
REL 875 Women & Religion Margaret Rausch
REL 877 Seminar on Women and Religion Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
SOC 535 Gender in the Global Context Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
SOC 601 Introduction to Feminist Social Thought? Joey Sprague
or Theory?
SOC 617 Women & Health Care Mary Zimmerman
SOC 623 Women & Work Sandra Albrecht
SOC 682 Sociology of Family
SOC 722 Sociology of Gender Sandra Albrecht
SOC 780 Women of the Third World Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
SOC 780 Adv. Topics: Gender and Social Policy Mary Zimmerman
SOC 808 Feminist Theories Joey Sprague
SOC 826 Gender and Social Policy Mary Zimmerman
SOC 970 Ethnicity and Sexuality Joane Nagel
S W 874 Social Work Practice with Women Forest Newheart
Th & F 702 Representation of Race, Class, & Catherine L. Preston
Gender in Visual Culture
Th & F 702 As She Sees It:An Interdisciplinary Study Catherine L. Preston
Study of Women Filmmakers Since WWII
TH & F 702 International Women Filmmakers Catherine L. Preston
and other courses as approved by the Graduate Director.
Graduate Certificate Program in Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
at the University of Kansas
(updated 01/16/08)
The Graduate Certificate Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is designed to provide students with a focused program of study of women and gender, and to provide certification of the completion of the program on a graduate transcript. Students may enroll in the Program either as a stand alone program or in combination with a graduate degree program in another department. A graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies may be particularly appealing to students in the humanities, social sciences, or science who seek academic employment in interdisciplinary women’s studies programs, perhaps in addition to a main appointment in their home discipline. It would also be useful for those who currently work with or hope to work with women’s organizations or in supervisory capacities in business or government.
The KU Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate requires 12 hours of coursework including: WS 801: Women and Gender Studies: Theory and methods (3 hours); two three-hour electives chosen from the list at the end of this document, from two different disciplines; and WS 898: Research Colloquium (3 hours). All students in the Graduate Certificate program will be assigned an advisor to assist the student in selecting from among the electives and to serve as an outside reader of the capstone paper required in WS 898. Below is a brief description of the required Women’s Studies courses.
WS 801: Women and Gender Studies: Theory and methods (3 hours)
This course will be an intensive interdisciplinary overview of the major theories and research approaches in literature on women and gender. The topics covered will include the following: 1. An overview of feminist theories; 2. An overview of how feminist theories can be integrated with research methods in various disciplines; 3. Examples of applications of feminist theories and methods to specific content areas. The course will be taught every Fall semester beginning in 2002, and will be open only to graduate students.
WS 898: Research colloquium (3 hours)
This course is the capstone to the Graduate Certificate program. In this colloquium the members of the seminar will produce a major paper and will share their research. During the first part of the term a small number of visitors (Professors at KU and/or visiting speakers from other universities) will be invited to assign readings and subsequently present their work on women and gender. This course will be coordinated by a member of the Women’s Studies faculty. Students will be expected to attend the Gender Seminar of the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the instructor of WS 898 will coordinate with the Director of the Gender Seminar to make optimal use of the Gender Seminar.
Prerequisite: WS 801 and at least 3 hours of other graduate work in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies graduate certificate program, or by special permission.
Admissions Procedure
Current KU graduate students wishing to be admitted to the Graduate Certificate Program will write a letter stating their interests in women’s studies and a current ARTS form. A graduate GPA of 3.0 or higher is required. Admissions materials should be sent to the Graduate Director:
Prof. Ann E. Cudd
Director of Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
213E Bailey Hall
1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-2310
acudd@ku.edu
Students applying for admission to another graduate program at KU will send a letter of application stating their interests in women’s studies and request a letter stating that they have been admitted from the other department or school upon admission
thereto. They will be admitted to the Graduate Certificate Program on condition that they are admitted by the other program in regular status. If they are not admitted to the other program in regular status, they may use the following procedure for admission to the Graduate Certificate program.
Non-KU graduate students will complete an application (for non-degree C status) to the Graduate School and send an application fee of $30, two copies of official transcripts from all previous post-secondary educational institutions, a personal statement of the student’s interest in women’s studies, and two letters of recommendation from persons familiar with their academic work or potential for graduate school. Minimum requirements will be a bachelor’s degree with 3.0 or higher GPA in undergraduate work is normally required for admission, but the GPA requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Graduate Director.
Faculty contributing to Certificate Program
Currently there are eight .5 FTE permanent faculty, each with a joint
appointment in another department of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Their names, ranks, and other departments are as follows:
Omofolabo, Ajayi-Soyinka, Associate Professor, Theatre and Film
Hannah Britton, Associate Professor, Political Science
Ann Cudd, Professor and Director, Philosophy
Tanya Hart, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Charlene Muehlenhard, Professor, Psychology
Ann Schofield, Professor, American Studies
Akiko Takeyama, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Marta Vicente, Assistant Professor, History
Additionally, there is a Graduate Faculty composed of faculty members from related disciplines. A list of these faculty is available upon request. These faculty teach the courses that carry graduate credit toward the Graduate Certificate, and may serve as advisors to students in the Program.
Elective Courses:
Course # Course Title Instructor
WS 510/AMS 510/ History of American Women: Tanya Hart
HIST 530 Colonial Times to 1870 Ann Schofield
WS 511/AMS511 History of American Women Tanya Hart
HIST 531 1870-Present Ann Schofield
Kim Warren
WS 512/AMS 512/ History of Women and Work in Marta Vicente
HIST 532 Comparative Perspective
WS 520 Women and Violence Charlene Muehlenhard
WS 549/HIST 649 History of Feminist Theory Marta Vicente
WS 560/AAAS 560 Race, Gender, & Post-Colonial Discourse Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
WS 562/POLS 562 Women and Politics Hannah Britton
WS 580/ANTH 580 Feminism & Anthropology Akiko Takeyama
WS 600/POLS 600 Contemporary Feminist Political Theory Hannah Britton
WS 646/HIST 646 Witches in European History and Leslie Tuttle
Historiography
WS 651/POLS 651 Women and Politics in Latin America
WS 653/POLS 653 Gender, War, and Peace
WS 660/ANTH 660 Human Reproductions: Culture, Power,
& Politics
WS 665/ANTH 665 Women, Health & Healing in Latin
LAAS 665 America
WS 696 Studies In: (WS Core Faculty)
WS 696 Conceptual Issues in Human Sexuality Charlene Muehlenhard
WS 701 Seminar in_____________ (WS Core Faculty)
WS 789/ANTH 789 Anthropology of Gender: Advanced
Seminar in the Four Fields
WS 797 Directed Readings (WS Core Faculty)
WS 801 Women and Gender: Theory & Methods (WS Core Faculty)
WS 837 Comparative Colloquium in Women’s History Kim Warren
WS 873 Research Seminar in U.S Women’s History Ann Schofield
WS 898 Research Colloquium (WS Core Faculty)
AAAS 520 Women & Islam Beverly Mack
AAAS 520 Muslim Women’s Autobiography Beverly Mack
AAAS 520 Studies in: African Women Writers Beverly Mack
AAAS 520 Studies in: Popular African Fiction Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka Gender, Sex, and Romance
AAAS 545 Unveiling the Veil Naima Omar
AAAS 598 Sexuality and Gender in African History Elizabeth MacGonagle
AAAS 657 Gender in Islam and Society Margaret Rausch
AMS 696 Studies in: American Women During Sherrie Tucker
World War II
COMS 552 Rhetoric of Women’s Rights Beth Manolescu
COMS 559 Women as Political Communicators Diana Carlin
COMS 930 Seminar in Speech: Gender Issues in Joann Keyton
Organization
COMS 930 Seminar in Speech: Women as Political Diana Carlin
Communicators
EALC 575 Love, Sexuality & Gender in Japanese Lit. Maggie Childs
ENGL 572 Women and Literature various
ENGL 572 Women and Literature: Feminist Criticism/ Janet Sharistanian
Women’s Texts
ENGL 572 Women’s Autobiography & Bildungsroman Kathryn Conrad
ENGL 620 Queen Elizabeth I Marjorie Swam
ENGL 709 Feminist Theory/Women’s Texts Janet Sharistanian
ENGL 970 Seminar in Comp. Theory, Feminism Comp. Frank Farmer
Studies
ENGL 970 Seminar in American Literature- Janet Sharistanian
Edith Wharton & Willa Cather
ENGL 970 Seminar in American Lit. 19th Cen. Women Susan Harris
Writers
H A 505 Special Study: Women/Modern Art Susan Earle
H A 533 Europe 1789-1848: Gender and Revolution Marni Kessler
HIST 510 Women in Latin America various
HIST 532/AMS 512 History of Women and Work in Marta Vicente
Comparative Perspective
HIST 533 History of Women & Family in Leslie Tuttle
Europe: 1500 to Present
HIST 598 Sexuality & Gender in African History Elizabeth MacGonagle
HIST 608 History of Sexuality Jeffrey Moran
HIST 609 History of Women and Reform in the U.S. Kim Warren
HIST 896 Colloquium in U.S. Women’s History Ann Schofield
HIST 973 Seminar in U.S. Women’s History Ann Schofield
HPM 850 Women and Health Care Mary Zimmerman
HSCA 620 Issues in Women’s Health Care & Health Care Mary Zimmerman
PHIL 504 Philosophy of Sex and Love Don Marquis
PHIL 671 Feminist Theories in Ethics Ann Cudd
PSYC 690 Studies in: Human Sexuality, Scientific Charlene Muehlenhard
and Cultural Perspectives
PSYC 993 Intergroup Relations Nyla Branscombe
REL 602 Special Topics in Religion: Women Margaret Rausch
in Islam
REL 602 Special Topics in Religion: Sex and Paul Zimdars-Swartz
Gender Roman Catholic Tradition
REL 672 Mother as Religious Metaphor Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
REL 677 Women in Christianity Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
REL 777 Seminar in Religion and Gender Robert Minor
REL 875 Women & Religion Margaret Rausch
REL 877 Seminar on Women and Religion Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
SOC 535 Gender in the Global Context Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
SOC 601 Introduction to Feminist Social Thought? Joey Sprague
or Theory?
SOC 617 Women & Health Care Mary Zimmerman
SOC 623 Women & Work Sandra Albrecht
SOC 682 Sociology of Family
SOC 722 Sociology of Gender Sandra Albrecht
SOC 780 Women of the Third World Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
SOC 780 Adv. Topics: Gender and Social Policy Mary Zimmerman
SOC 808 Feminist Theories Joey Sprague
SOC 826 Gender and Social Policy Mary Zimmerman
SOC 970 Ethnicity and Sexuality Joane Nagel
S W 874 Social Work Practice with Women Forest Newheart
Th & F 702 Representation of Race, Class, & Catherine L. Preston
Gender in Visual Culture
Th & F 702 As She Sees It:An Interdisciplinary Study Catherine L. Preston
Study of Women Filmmakers Since WWII
TH & F 702 International Women Filmmakers Catherine L. Preston
and other courses as approved by the Graduate Director.
