Required Core Course (3 credits)
- GWSS 810 - Key Concepts in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (3 credits)
Elective Courses (choose 9 credits)
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.
- GWSS 605 - Social Change Field-Experience (3 credits)
- GWSS 610 - Capstone Seminar in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (3 credits)
- GWSS 700 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (1-3 credits)
- GWSS 784 - Internship in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (1-12 credits)
- GWSS 799 - Independent Study for Graduate Students or Advanced Undergraduate Students (1-3 credits)
- ANTH 710 - Writing Cultures: Ethnographic Methods (3 credits)
- CFT 865 - Human Sexuality (3 credits)
- CFT 869 - Systematic Treatment of Trauma Violence and Substance Abuse (3 credits)
- COMM 630 - Special Topics in Rhetoric and Communication (Gender and Communication) (3 credits)
- CRIM 665 - Women and Crime (3 credits)
- EDACE 750 - Women, Education, Leadership, and Work (3 credits)
- EDACE 816 - Foundations of Social Justice Education: Research, Theory, and Practice (3 credits)
- EDCEP 830 - Diversity in Higher Education (3 credits)
- EDCI 735 - Gender Implications for Education (3 credits)
- EDCI 886 - Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction (Women, Education, and Leadership) (1-18 credits)
- EDLEA 838 - Qualitative Research in Education (3 credits)
- ENGL 605 - Readings in Medieval Literature (Medieval Others: Dragons, Damsels, & Death, The Idea of Work in the Middle Ages) (3 credits)
- ENGL 625 - Readings in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (Austen, Readings in 18th Century Women, Restoration Drama, or Ghosts and Goths) (3 credits)
- ENGL 630 - Readings in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Victorian Childhoods) (3 credits)
- ENGL 635 - Readings in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British Literature (Bloomsbury Group) (3 credits)
- ENGL 650 - Readings in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature (Queer Native Literatures or Dream Acts) (3 credits)
- ENGL 655 - Readings in American Ethnic Literature (What is African American Literature? or Dream Acts: Immigration in Ethnic Literature) (3 credits)
- ENGL 660 - Readings in Major Authors (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) (3 credits)
- ENGL 670 - Topics in British Literature (18th Century British Women Writers, Downton Abbey in Context) (3 credits)
- ENGL 680 - Topics in American Literature (In the Shadows of American Literature, Latino/a Literature, or Asian American Literature, or Two-Spirit Literature) (3 credits)
- ENGL 695 - Topics in Literature (African American Children’s Literature, Innocence and Experience, or Postcolonial Literature) (3 credits)
- ENGL 705 - Theories of Cultural Studies (3 credits)
- ENGL 710 - Studies in a Literary Genre (Back to the Future, Gender and Sexuality in American Indian Literature, Romances and Saints’ Lives) (3 credits)
- ENGL 720 - Studies in a Major Author (The Brontes, Drama, Shakespeare, or Extreme Shakespeare) (3 credits)
- ENGL 725 - Studies in Children’s/Young Adult Literature (African American Children’s Literature) (3 credits)
- ENGL 730 - Studies in a Literary Period (Alcott and Twain) (3 credits)
- ENGL 740 - Studies in Literary Theory (African American Literary Theory) (3 credits)
- ENGL 745 - Cultural Studies (Queer Cinema in Context, or Welcome to Apocalypse) (3 credits)
- ENGL 755 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric (Power and Persuasion) (3 credits)
- ENGL 825 - Seminar in Literature (Golden Age of Children’s Literature, Medieval Endings, Harry Potter and Literary History, Econ/Vict. Lit) (3 credits)
- ENGL 830 - Seminar in Cultural Studies (Affect Theory, Queer Native Literature, American Feminisms, US Latino Studies, Victorian Women Writers, or Literature of Mad Men) (3 credits)
- ENGL 840 - Seminar in Composition and Rhetoric (Maverick Rhetorics) (3 credits)
- FREN 716 - Topics in Contemporary French Literature (Colette) (3 credits)
- GRMN 701 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Culture (Judaism in Germany) (3 credits)
- GRMN 705 - Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century German Literature and Culture (The Graphic Novel and Postmemory) (3 credits)
- HIST 984 - Topics in American History (Gender in American History, or Gender and Sexuality in the United States) (1-3 credits)
- MC 612 - Diversity in Media (3 credits)
- POLSC 606 - Gender and Politics (3 credits)
- POLSC 799 - Pro-Seminar in Political Science (Women and Law) (3 credits)
- SOCIO 633 - Gender, Power, and Development (3 credits)
- SOCIO 635 - Sociology of Human Trafficking (3 credits)
- SOCIO 670 - Diversity and Social Interaction in the Workplace (3 credits)
- SOCIO 833 - Gender Differentiation and Inequality (3 credits)
- SOCIO 933 - Gender and Society (3 credits)
- THTRE 782 - Women in Theatre (3 credits)
Other appropriate graduate-level courses are offered every year in a variety of disciplines. Thus, students have a large selection of classes to choose from each year.