Womens Studies

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

Fall 2008 Courses : Graduate Consortium on Women's Studies Courses

Designed for students already enrolled in a graduate degree program at Northeastern University, the Certificate in Women's Studies consists of four graduate courses. The certificate, which can be combined with either a master’s or a doctoral degree, aims to provide a competency by:

Analyzing contemporary theoretical frameworks, methodologies, issues and topics and their relation to established disciplines
Focusing on issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation
Broadening and enriching analytical skills in one or more disciplines while drawing on the interdisciplinary perspectives of Women's Studies
Challenging the traditional separation of academic theory from political and professional practice, by encouraging participation in the varied activities within the Women's Studies Program
Certificate students will work with an advisor in their own or a closely related discipline. Together they work out a plan for completing the certificate. The advisory relationship is intended to be facilitative; students are free to request a different advisor at any time.

Required Courses

Either SOC G202 Feminist Theory or SOC G212 Feminist Methodologies.

SOC G202: Feminist Theory
Considers major developments in feminist theory since the rise of the contemporary women's movement. First looks at early socialist feminist and radical feminist theory and their critics, psychoanalytical feminist theory, postmodern feminism and its critics, and theories about exclusion and difference among women of color. Gender, sexuality, and power are central categories of analysis.

SOC G212: Feminist Methodologies
Feminist scholarship has challenged and reworked basic assumptions about the social world and the research that describes it. This requires three basic approaches: Rethinking, Reflecting, and Rewriting. To do this we need to examine the ways of knowing common to the social sciences and the ways in which new paradigms have or have not been integrated into the canon.

Electives

While selecting electives one must fall outside of the student's primary discipline. The following list is not exhaustive. Certificate students may ask their advisors count other courses if most of their course work was relevant to Women's Studies. Among approved electives are
(Choose Three):

NOTE: Courses change every semester, be sure to contact Women's Studies for details

Graduate Consortium on Women's Studies Courses also available

(see courses below)

Admission

Any student with a bachelor's degree who has been admitted to or is currently enrolled in a graduate program at Northeastern is eligible to apply for a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. Applicants should have at least a "B" average in their graduate course work (or undergraduate for entering students).

Fall 2008 Courses

Key #	Course #	Course Title	Instructor	Day/Time
42081	BHS G120	Race, Ethnicity, and Health in the US	Staff	TuF 9:50 -11:30 AM
37095	CAP G200	Introduction to Counseling	Ballou	Tue 4:00-6:30 PM
33946	CAP G230	Understanding Culture and Diversity	Robinson	Thu 6:45-9:15 PM
45928	CAP G230	Understanding Culture and Diversity	Li	Wed 4:00-6:30 PM
36995	CAP G218	Infant, Child, and Adolescent Development	Lifter	Mon 4:00-6:30 PM
33215	CAP G218	Infant, Child, and Adolescent Development	Feinstein	Mon 7:00-9:30 PM
43122	CAP G222	Human Sexuality	Kates	Thu 4:00-6:30 PM
28229	HST G227	Twentieth-Century China: Revolutionary Change in a Global Context	Gilmartin	Thu 4:35-7:35 PM
27487	HST G304	Research Seminar in Gender and Society in the Modern World	Frader	Tue 4:35-7:35 PM
36404	NUR G088	Nursing with Women and Families	Kiladis	Tue 8:00 -11:30 AM
45244	SOA G280	Ethnographies of Globalization	Hindman	Mon 4:30-6:30 PM
29525	SOC G237	Women, Men, and Social Change	Kaufman	Wed 4:30 -6:30 PM
31461	SOC G256	Contemporary Issues in Sociology	Dominguez	Tue 4:30 -7:30 PM
30811	SOC G263	Social Psychology of Stratification	Hindman	Tue 4:30 -6:30 PM

Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies 2008-2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Course Title	Instructors	Day/Time	Dates of Class
Women’s Activism: Gender, Literacy and Human Rights	Lorna Rivera, U-Mass Boston Kathleen Weiler, Tufts Loretta J. Williams, Simmons	Wed 5:30-8:30PM	September 10, 2008 - December 10, 2008
Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies	Susan Staves, Brandeis	Tu 1:00-4:00PM	TBA- Fall & Spring Semesters
Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment	Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown Peter Taylor, U-Mass Boston	Th 5:00-8:00PM	January 29, 2009 – May 19, 2009
Gender, Armed Conflict, and Peacemaking	Gordana Rabrenovic, Northeastern Lisa Rivera, U-Mass Boston Carol Cohn, Boston Consortium	Wed 6:00-9:00PM	January 28, 2009 - May 13, 2009
Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship	Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons Frinde Maher, Wheaton Jyoti Puri, Boston Consortium	TBA	Fall and Spring

NOTE: Fall Application deadline is August 29, 2008
Spring Application deadline is January 9, 2009

To apply for a GCWS course fill out this Student Application. Mail or e-mail form to:

Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 16-287
77 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge , MA 02139

Tel:(617) 324-2085
Email: gcws@mit.edu

After submitting the online form, email the GCWS to confirm the receipt of your application.

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GCWS Classes held on MIT campus, building and room TBA

Graduates