The Graduate Certificate Program (GCP) was approved in 2006 by the Texas Tech University Graduate School, TTU Academic Council, and the State of Texas Coordinating Board. Students may pursue this certificate in Women’s Studies as either a graduate minor field or a supplemental post-baccalaureate credential.
The Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate Program offers a specialist inter-disciplinary sub-field in women’s, gender, and identity studies for doctoral and master’s degree candidates. It also functions as a stand-alone credential useful for professionals in nursing, social work, law, healthcare management, and the military, as well as in faith-based organizations and the field of education. To be awarded the Graduate Certificate, students must maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA across all courses required for completion of the Certificate.
The Program
Requirements for the Graduate Certificate include these courses:
WS 5360 Foundations of Women's thought
WS 5310 Feminist Thought and Theories
*WS 5320 Feminist Research Methodologies
Requirements also include 9 hours of electives approved by the Director of Women's Studies. These electives may include but are not limited to:
*WS 5000 Practicum in Women's Studies
*WS 5300 Directed Studies
*WS 5340 Special Topics in Women's Studies
Approved courses from other departments.
*With approval by the Director of the Women's Studies Program, these courses may be taken for credit more than once.
Update on Women's Studies-related Graduate Courses offered Spring 2010
EDCI 6306.001 (CRN # 40229) Queer Issues in Education | R 6:00pm - 8:50pm
In this course you will:
Problematize queer issues in educational contexts. Acquire an understanding of a body of knowledge related to queer studies and the supporting research evidence, including its strengths and limitations. Develop an awareness of how heterosexual privilege has had an effect on your own life. Acquire an understanding of how knowledge from queer studies theories and research can be applied to improve instruction, student motivation, and student learning and the lives of teachers. Develop the ability to articulate relationships between societal views and queer issues and student learning. Contact WS Affiliated Faculty Dr. Paul Reece-Miller for more information.
ENGL 5343 (CRN # 34301) Studies in Literary Criticism | W 9:00am - 11:50am
Course Title: Redistribution and Recognition in Global Times:Transnational Feminism
Course Description:
Chandra Mohanty’s conceptualization of feminism without borders is premised on intersections between women’s movements, activism, and analysis on a global scale. As a method of enquiry encompassing biological, kinship, and work-related categories that span cultures and continents -- women as unwaged, white, blue, or pink collar workers performing corporate, academic, manual, domestic, or sexual labor -- transnational feminist studies has emerged as an important branch of globalization theory. Following Nancy Fraser, we can identify struggles for recognition of new identity categories and redistribution of economic, social, and political power as the major strands in transnational feminist analysis.
‘Redistribution’ and ‘recognition’ are keywords in the feminist philosophical, anthropological, and historical accounts we will read in this course. Some of the issues the course will address are: emergence of new categories of work such as ‘higglers’ and ‘migrant sex workers’ in the Caribbean; transnationalization of labor practices such as those in the export processing zones all over the world; women’s responses to their changing public and private roles including an increase in domestic and social violence; new forms of affective intimacy in late capitalism including the adoption of a global vocabulary of identity politics such as ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’ or ‘queer’ in places which prohibit expression of erotic autonomy outside the heterosexual matrix. While we will examine these issues in a transnational framework, the course includes a special focus on the political, social, and cultural economies of the global South as manifested in gender studies scholarship and curricula in the Euro-American academy.
Ccontact WS Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Kanika Batra, Asst Professor, English for more information.
Italian 5301 - Topics in Italian Literature | T 3:00pm - 5:50pm
Course Title: Women and Gender in Italian Literature and Cinema
Course Description: The Italian novel and cinema have reflected the changing roles of women in Italian society. Beginning with central figures in Italian women writing of the 19th century and continuing in the 20th century, we will read Matilde Serao, Marchesa Colombi, Neera, Contessa Lara, and Sibilla Aleramo. We will then transition to iconic and influential figures in contemporary Italian cinema with Wertmüller, Cavani, Archibugi,Comencini, and Della Torre. Contact WS Affiliated Facuty, Dr. Victoria Surliuga for more information.
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