Required Courses

• GWSS 810 - Key Concepts in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Credits: 3

Elective Courses

Courses followed by a subtitle in parentheses vary and count toward the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate only when offered with the indicated subtitle. Choose 9 hours from the following list of courses:

• GWSS 605 - Social Change Field-Experience Credits: 3
• GWSS 610 - Capstone Seminar in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Credits: 3
• GWSS 700 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Credits: 1-3
• GWSS 784 - Internship in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Credits: 1-12
• GWSS 799 - Independent Study for Graduate Students or Advanced Undergraduate Students Credits: 1-3
• ANTH 710 - Writing Cultures: Ethnographic Methods Credits: 3
• CFT 865 - Human Sexuality Credits: 3
• CFT 869 - Systematic Treatment of Trauma Violence and Substance Abuse Credits: 3
• COMM 630 - Special Topics in Rhetoric and Communication Credits: 3 (Gender and Communication)
• CRIM 665 - Women and Crime Credits: 3
• EDACE 750 - Women, Education, Leadership, and Work Credits: 3
• EDACE 816 - Foundations of Social Justice Education: Research, Theory, and Practice Credits: 3
• EDCEP 830 - Diversity in Higher Education. Credits: 3
• EDCI 735 - Gender Implications for Education Credits: 3
• EDCI 886 - Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction Credits: 1-18 (Women, Education, and Leadership)
• EDLEA 838 - Qualitative Research in Education Credits: 3
• ENGL 605 - Readings in Medieval Literature Credits: 3 (Medieval Others: Dragons, Damsels, & Death, The Idea of Work in the Middle Ages)
• ENGL 625 - Readings in Eighteenth-Century British Literature Credits: 3

• (Austen, Readings in 18th Century Women, Restoration Drama, or Ghosts and Goths)

• ENGL 630 - Readings in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Credits: 3 (Victorian Childhoods)
• ENGL 635 - Readings in Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century British Literature Credits: 3 (Bloomsbury Group)
• ENGL 650 - Readings in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Literature Credits: 3 (Queer Native Literatures or Dream Acts)
• ENGL 655 - Readings in American Ethnic Literature Credits: 3

• (What is African American Literature? or Dream Acts: Immigration in Ethnic Literature)

• ENGL 660 - Readings in Major Authors Credits: 3

• (The Brontes, Gender and Performance, George Eliot, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, Shakespeare, Austen and Her Legacy, Whitman and Dickinson, American Indian Literatures, American Gothic, or Louise Erdrich)

• ENGL 670 - Topics in British Literature Credits: 3 (18th Century British Women Writers, Downton Abbey in Context)
• ENGL 680 - Topics in American Literature Credits: 3

• (In the Shadows of American Literature, Latino/a Literature, or Asian American Literature, or Two-Spirit Literature)

• ENGL 695 - Topics in Literature Credits: 3

• (African American Children’s Literature, Innocence and Experience, or Postcolonial Literature)

• ENGL 705 - Theories of Cultural Studies Credits: 3
• ENGL 710 - Studies in a Literary Genre Credits: 3

• (Back to the Future) (Gender and Sexuality in American Indian Literature, Romances and Saints’ Lives)

• ENGL 720 - Studies in a Major Author Credits: 3

• (The Brontes, Drama, Shakespeare, or Extreme Shakespeare)

• ENGL 725 - Studies in Children’s/Young Adult Literature Credits: 3

• (African American Children’s Literature)

• ENGL 730 - Studies in a Literary Period Credits: 3

• (Alcott and Twain or Global Middle Ages)

• ENGL 740 - Studies in Literary Theory Credits: 3

• (African American Literary Theory)

• ENGL 745 - Cultural Studies Credits: 3 (Queer Cinema in Context)
• ENGL 745 - Cultural Studies  Credits: 3 (Welcome to Apocalypse)
• ENGL 755 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric Credits: 3

• (Power and Persuasion)

• ENGL 825 - Seminar in Literature Credits: 3

• (Golden Age of Children’s Literature, Medieval Endings, Harry Potter and Literary History, Econ/Vict. Lit)

• ENGL 830 - Seminar in Cultural Studies Credits: 3

• (Affect Theory, Queer Native Literature, American Feminisms, US Latino Studies, Victorian Women Writers, or Literature of Mad Men)

• ENGL 840 - Seminar in Composition and Rhetoric Credits: 3

• (Maverick Rhetorics)

• FREN 716 - Topics in Contemporary French Literature Credits: 3 (Colette)
• GRMN 701 - Topics in Eighteenth Century German Literature and Culture Credits: 3

• (Judaism in Germany)

• GRMN 705 - Topics in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Literature and Culture Credits: 3 (The Graphic Novel and Postmemory)
• HIST 984 - Topics in American History Credits: 1-3

• (Gender in American History, or Gender and Sexuality in the United States)

• MC 612 - Diversity in Media Credits: 3
• POLSC 606 - Gender and Politics Credits: 3
• POLSC 799 - Pro-Seminar in Political Science Credits: 3

• (Women and Law)

• SOCIO 633 - Gender, Power, and Development Credits: 3
• SOCIO 635 - Sociology of Human Trafficking Credits: 3
• SOCIO 670 - Diversity and Social Interaction in the Workplace Credits: 3
• SOCIO 833 - Gender Differentiation and Inequality Credits: 3
• SOCIO 933 - Gender and Society Credits: 3
• THTRE 782 - Women in Theatre Credits: 3