Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate (50-992)

Effective September, 2017, this program was placed in abeyance status and is no longer admitting students.

A student with a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality will be able to:

• Articulate a complex understanding of gender and sexuality, historically and cross-culturally.
• Critically utilize understandings of gender and sexuality in professional, work or civic settings.
• Apply leadership skills to civic and community decisions affecting issues of equality.

To be accepted into the program, a student must have a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum overall GPA of 2.75 (based on 4.0). The program is designed to provide further knowledge and credentials for those already in their careers to allow for advancement or to supplement a Master’s degree to demonstrate a secondary area of expertise. A final Civic Engagement project is required. Students who are co-enrolled in the Graduate Certificate and a Master’s Degree program, may use the final product in the major program as the final project for the certificate as long as it is addressing aspects of gender or sexuality. We would ask that the student do a public presentation, hosted by WGS. If there is no final product or if the Graduate Certificate is taken as a stand-alone degree, each student will negotiate an independent final project that has a civic engagement component.