GRADUATE
CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS
As of 2006, the Program in the Study of Women and Gender includes a
course of graduate study culminating in the receipt of a graduate certificate.
At the graduate level, the program will henceforth recognize work done
by graduate students in the departments of their graduate specializations
on the topics of gender, sexuality and women’s studies.
Students shall declare their intention to acquire a graduate certificate
in the study of women, gender and/or sexuality either when they accept
their offers to come to their departments at Princeton, at the end of
their first year as graduate students, or at the start of the semester
in which they intend to take their Ph.D. qualifying exams. At that
time, they will contract to meet the following requirements in order
to receive certification in the Program.
The requirements will be WOM 400 (Contemporary Feminist Theory), or a
similar course to be reviewed by the director of the Program; two other courses
in the Humanities or Social Sciences: (a) whose contents are judged to be devoted
primarily to women, gender, and/or sexuality; (b) for which they write research
papers devoted to the topics of women, gender, and/or sexuality; or (c) which
are independent study topics tailored to the student’s interests in those
items. The suitability of these courses and/or course work shall be judged
by the director of the Program and members of the Program Committee.
If the student is a Ph.D. candidate, he or she shall enroll in a dissertation
colloquium in the Program after the completion of his or her Ph.D. qualifying
exam. A Ph.D. thesis on a topic devoted to women, gender and/or
sexuality issues will be determined and accepted by the director and
members of the Program Committee.
The certificate will be awarded upon
completion of all of these requirements, and at the time of the receipt
of a Ph.D. diploma in his or her discipline, the Director shall award
the student a letter of certification in the Program.
