Certificate Name and Number: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - CTWSTG

Department/Unit: College of Arts and Sciences

Delivery Mode: Athens Campus

Certificate Overview: The interdisciplinary graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies introduces students to a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives on gender and sexuality and provides an excellent complement to the wide array of graduate degrees offered at Ohio University. 

Link to Certificate: https://www.ohio.edu/womenstudies/gradcert.cfm

Graduation Requirements: The graduate certificate requires four courses, including:

• WGSS 5890: Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory
• Three graduate-level courses from our core graduate and cross-listed course offerings. Two of these courses must be outside your major field.
  • AH 5111 The Representation and Theorization of Gender in the History of Art
  • ANTH 5450 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • ANTH 5490 Life History: The Individual and Culture
  • CFS 5600 Children, Family, Diversity
  • CLWR 5450 Women in Buddhism
  • COMS 6230 Gender and Communication
  • COMS 6240 Communication in the Family
  • COMS 8330 Feminist Rhetorical Theory
  • ECON 5220 Economics of Human Resources
  • GEOG 5270 Social Geographies
  • GEOG 5450 Gender, Environment, and Development
  • GEOG 6430 Gender and Development
  • HIST 5200 Women in American History Before 1877
  • HIST 5201 Women in American History Since 1877
  • HIST 5202 Women’s Health and Medicine in U.S. History
  • HIST 5390 Women in African History
  • HIST 5540 History of Early Christianity
  • HIST 5555 Women in Medieval Europe
  • HIST 5600 Women in Early Modern European History, 1400-1800
  • HIST 5601 Women in Modern European History, 1800-present
  • HIST 5715 Sex, Crime and Deviance in Europe, 1200-1800
  • IART 7502 Performance Studies:The Body
  • JOUR 5130: Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media
  • MDIA 5175 Media and Sexual Representation
  • POLS 5067 Women and Politics
  • POLS 5190 Gay and Lesbian Politics
  • POLS 5210 The Politics of Law and Sexuality
  • POLS 5740 Sexuality and Queer Theories
  • POLS 5752 The Politics of Intersectionality
  • POLS 5780 Feminist Political Theories and Movements
  • SASM 5000 Women in Sports
  • SOC 5220 The American Family System
  • SOC 5670 Violence Against Women
  • SOC 5700 Sociology of Gender
  • SOC 5710 Gender and Justice
  • WGSS 5100 Global Feminisms
  • WGSS 5110 Women and Globalization
  • WGSS 5500 Advanced Feminist Theory
  • WGSS 5600 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
  • WGSS 5610 Queer Theory
  • WGSS 5900 Special Topics
  • WGSS 5930 Independent Reading (offered at instructor’s discretion)

Admission Requirements: Certificate students must be enrolled in any M.A. or Ph.D. program at the university.