Gender and Women's Studies

www.gws.uiuc.edu
911 South Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-2990
Fax: (217) 333-0151

The Gender and Women's Studies Program (GWS) is an interdisciplinary academic unit in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Many Urbana-Champaign faculty, including the 60 associated with the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, offer undergraduate and graduate courses through the GWS or their home departments, with an emphasis on scholarship treating women and gender issues. Graduate students pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees in participating departments may also complete a minor in women’s studies. Students interested in the graduate minor should enroll in a degree program in one of the participating departments and then submit an application form to the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Contact the GWS office to obtain a list of participating departments or an application form.

Graduate Minor in Gender and Women's Studies

In order to complete the graduate minor at the master’s or doctoral level, students must take 12 gh of coursework in women’s studies, as follows: (1) either GWS 550–Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities: Theory and Research or GWS 570–Feminist Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Theory and Method; and (2) two additional 400- or 500-level women’s studies, or women’s studies cross-listed or concurrently listed, courses (topics courses often initiated by other departments which are also listed under the W S rubric in the Timetable), at least one of which originates outside the student’s home department. GWS 550 or 570 (whichever did not count in 1 above) may serve as one of the additional courses. A practicum or independent study may also serve as one of the courses.

For the Doctoral Minor Only

The Gender and Women’s Studies Program would like to support students in their doctoral research. Whenever possible, it is recommended that doctoral students receive guidance on their dissertation topics, resources, and methodologies from their gender and women’s studies faculty advisers or other gender and women’s studies faculty. Special arrangements will be possible for doctoral students who have earned a master’s degree and have completed gender and women’s studies coursework elsewhere.