OVERVIEW
PROGRAM OF STUDY
Undergraduates certificate requirements
The certificate in Women and Gender Studies represents an area
of concentration that supplements the undergraduate departmental major.
Students interested in pursuing the certificate generally apply to the
program in their sophomore year after completing the introductory course,
Women's Studies 201, which provides a background for advanced study and
suggests the rich variety of feminist scholarship being conducted today.
To qualify for the certificate, students must also take Women's Studies
302 and four additional courses chosen from among gender-related departmental
offerings. Among
these five courses, at least one must be taken in each of three broad
disciplinary areas: social sciences, humanities, and science. In addition,
the students' independent work—the senior thesis and at least one
junior paper—must incorporate issues related to Women and Gender
Studies; other arrangements for hard science majors and engineers may
be made. Courses offered by the program are open to all Princeton students.
Graduate certificate requirements
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:
1. WOM 400 (Contemporary Feminist Theory), or a similar course, to be
reviewed by the Director of the Program.
2.
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.
3.
If the student is a Ph.D. student he or she shall enroll in a dissertation
colloquium in the Program, after the completion of his or her Ph.D. qualifying
exams.
4.
A Ph.D thesis on a topic devoted to women, gender, and, sexuality issues,
to be determined and accepted by the director and members of the Program
Committee.
Upon completion of all of these requirements, and at the time of the
receipt of an M.A. or Ph.D. diploma in his or her discipline, the Director
shall award the student a letter of certification in the Study of Women
and Gender.
