The graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies offers CU Boulder graduate students a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary education in gender and sexuality studies. It provides a thorough grounding in feminist theories, queer theories, and/or feminist methodology, as well as the opportunity to explore diverse special topics in gender and sexuality studies. The graduate certificate is designed to train graduate students from a wide range of CU Boulder departments and programs to conduct interdisciplinary research in gender and sexuality studies. On a practical level, the certificate has proven especially useful to graduate students seeking to demonstrate their expertise in gender and sexuality studies to prospective employers in academia, government and the private sector.

Course code for this program is WGST.

Faculty

While many faculty teach both undergraduate and graduate students, some instruct students at the undergraduate level only. For more information, contact the faculty member's home department.

Bayard de Volo, Lorraine M.
Professor; PhD, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Buffington, Robert Marshall
Professor Emeritus; PhD, University of Arizona

David, Emmanuel A.
Associate Professor, Associate Chair; PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Gómez, Leila Gabriela
Professor; PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Jacobs, Janet L.
Professor; PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Mehta, Samira
Associate Professor; PhD, Emory University; MDiv, Harvard University

Misri, Deepti
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Montoya, Celeste
Associate Professor; PhD, Washington University

Moore, A. Nathan
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Pois, Anne Marie
Senior Instructor Emerita

Potter, Hillary A.
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Ranjbar, A. Marie
Assistant Professor; PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Soares, Kristie
Assistant Professor; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

Wyrod, Robert
Associate Professor; PhD, University of Chicago

Courses

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WGST 5001 (3) Advanced Topics in Gender ad Sexuality Studies (AH)

Provides and advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific issue in the social sciences relating to gender and sexuality.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: WGST 4001
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Recommended: Prerequisite WGST 2000 or WGST 2600.

WGST 5002 (3) Advanced Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (SS)

Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific issue in the arts and humanities relating to gender and sexuality.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: WGST 5002
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Recommended: Prerequisite WGST 2000 or WGST 2600.

WGST 5200 (3) Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States

Focuses primarily on how Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish conversations about sexuality and reproduction have shaped access and attitudes towards reproductive health in the US over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: WGST 4200, JWST 4200, JWST 5200

WGST 5400 (3) Critical Inquiries in Transgender Studies

Examines theories, methods and debates in the emerging field of transgender studies. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, examines transgender identities, communities and political movements in different historical and cultural contexts. Focuses on crosscutting issues that shape transgender subjectivities, with special attention given to how transgender movements negotiate race, class, sexuality, labor, culture and nation.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: WGST 4400 and LGBT 4400 and LGBT 5400
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Additional Information: Departmental Category: LGBT Studies

WGST 6090 (3) Feminist Theories

Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

WGST 6190 (3) Feminist Methodology

Explores feminist methodology across a range of disciplines. Themes include experience and interpretation, the social position of the researcher, language and argument structure, knowledge and power, bias and objectivity, and the ethics and politics of research. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

WGST 6290 (3) Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Offers interdisciplinary feminist perspectives on different special topics such as gender and war, gender and globalization, women's social movements, gender and citizenship, gender and collective memory, and cultural representations of gender and sexuality. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

WGST 6796 (3) Queer Theories

Explores key concepts and debates in the field of queer theory with an interdisciplinary focus on crosscutting issues (aesthetic, cultural, legal, medical, political and social) that shape queer subjectivities, practices and relations.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

WGST 6840 (1-3) Independent Study in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Provides course credit for an independent directed research project or advanced reading program on an area of concentration within gender and sexuality studies. Requires an independent study agreement form completed by the student in collaboration with a WGST faculty advisor and signed by the faculty advisor. Requires approval by WGST graduate studies director.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

WGST 6949 (1) Master's Candidate for Degree

Registration intended for students preparing for a thesis defense, final examination, culminating activity, or completion of degree.

Requisites: Restricted to Master of Arts in Gender and Sexuality Studies graduate students only. (GSXS-MA)

WGST 6959 (1-6) Master's Thesis in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Registration intended for students conducting a project of original research that culminates in a master¿s level thesis and oral defense. Required of every master¿s degree candidate under the thesis plan of study option.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
Requisites: Restricted to Master of Arts in Gender and Sexuality Studies graduate students only. (GSXS-MA)