Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Graduate Certificate (Boston)
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Foundational Requirement
From the catalog
All students, regardless of disciplinary background, must complete one of the following:
- One of:
Electives
8 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete two courses according to the instructions from the electives list (below the MPH option). At least one should come from outside the student's home department.
Electives (2)
8 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours according to the instructions from the electives list. One course may be the capstone, if the topic selected focuses on gender and/or sexuality in connection to the selected urban health issue and the student enrolls in a 1-semester-hour directed study with the WGSS faculty member who will sit on the capstone committee.
Electives List
From the catalog
At least one course must come from outside the student's home discipline. Any foundational course not taken to complete the required foundational coursework may be taken as an elective but may not count as both the foundational requirement and an elective. Electives outside this list, particularly special topics courses not listed here, may be chosen in consultation with program director. Students may also consider courses at the Graduate Consortium for Studies of Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (located at MIT). MPH students, in conversation with their advisors, may substitute PHTH 6910 for one elective.
- One of:
- ECON 5292 — Gender and Development Economics
- JRNL 5250 — Gender in the Newsroom
- PHTH 6910 — Public Health Capstone
- SOCL 7100 — Queer Theory: Sexualities, Genders, Politics
- SOCL 7231 — Sociology of Prejudice and Violence
- One of:
- WMNS 6100 — Theorizing Gender and Sexuality
- One of:
- WMNS 7900 — Special Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- WMNS 7976 — Directed Study
GPA requirements
- 12 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required
Substitutions
Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:
- HIST 5240 ↔ SOCL 5240 (tier B)
- HIST 5240 ↔ WMNS 5240 (tier B)
- SOCL 5240 ↔ WMNS 5240 (tier B)
- SOCL 7100 ↔ WMNS 7100 (tier B)
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