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Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate and Minor

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Appalachian State University’s Graduate Certificate (12 hours) and Graduate Minor (9 hours) in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies are designed for students who seek training at the graduate level in gender, women’s, and/or sexuality studies and formal recognition for completing this training successfully. Both programs of study take an interdisciplinary approach to questions of power, knowledge and social justice. They are generally pursued in addition to a master’s degree in another area to provide evidence of additional specialization.

Whether a student chooses a career in education, policy, health care, counseling, social work, government, law, journalism, human resources or advocacy, the graduate certificate or minor offers a space for critical reflection on how feminist theorizing might transform scholarship.

Both the graduate certificate and minor enhance a student’s main graduate program of study and provides a competitive edge for those wanting to continue graduate work in the gender, women, and sexuality field at the PhD level or pursue a career that addresses issues pertaining to women, gender diversity, sexuality or social justice more broadly. The 9-hour minor is ideal for students whose main graduate program of study offers fewer elective hours.

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Courses

  • Graduate Bulletin and Course Catalog
    • Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate

Application Essentials

Required Entrance Exam: None

Required number of references to specify in the online form: None

Supplemental Information: Resume (Required upload for application submission); letter explaining your education background and academic and career interests and plans, with an emphasis on how GWS coursework will enhance, complement or advance your current education and/or career plans (upload on the Additional Information page in the online application).

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Application Deadlines

  • Spring: 11/1
  • Summer Session 1: x
  • Summer Session 2: x
  • Fall: 7/1

Why Appalachian?

  • You will participate in a critical, engaged interdisciplinary learning environment and study cutting-edge work in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWS).
  • The program offers a foundation of 6 core hours of GWS courses and 6 hours of graduate courses in other disciplines. This enables a student to work with the GWS program director and the graduate director in their home department to tailor their specialization in GWS in accordance with their chosen M.A. program and their professional goals.
  • You will be able to choose graduate courses (including a GWS graduate feminist theory course and a GWS graduate seminar) that provide a foundation of knowledge about feminist theory, gender, and sexuality in national and transnational contexts, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to questions about power and inequality and gender, race, sexuality, and other categories of identity.
  • You will have an opportunity to consider how the interdisciplinary field of GWS has transformed scholarship in traditional fields.
  • You will have an opportunity to apply concepts and theories in GWS to social justice issues.

Location

On campus

Careers

Graduates apply the GWS credentials to a number of fields, including:

  • Education
  • Policy
  • Health Care
  • Counseling
  • Social Work
  • Government
  • Law
  • Journalism
  • Human Resources
  • Advocacy
  • Social Justice Work

Graduates also are accepted into Ph.D. programs.

Contacts

Dr. Dylan McCarthy Blackston
Program Director
blackstondm@appstate.edu

Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

    The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies offers degrees in three program areas: global studies; gender, women’s and sexuality studies; and interdisciplinary studies. The department is also home to Watauga Residential College, an interdisciplinary, alternative general education program. The department promotes creative and imaginative engagement through a cross-disciplinary investigation of complex systems and problems.

  • College of Arts and Sciences

    Appalachian’s Largest College

    The College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University is home to 17 academic departments, two centers and one residential college spanning the humanities and the social, mathematical and natural sciences. The college is dedicated to providing instruction and research essential to the university's mission and seeks to cultivate the habits of inquiry, learning and service among all its constituents.

    By the Numbers

    • 1/3 of the degrees awarded at Appalachian
    • More than 70% of general education courses are taught in the college
    • 93 majors offered
    • 53 minors offered
    • 6,411 undergraduate majors
    • More than 460 full-time faculty members
    • 41,203 living alumni
    • $8,754,800 awarded to the college in external grants during the 2020–21 academic year
    • $236,914 awarded to students through 6 collegewide scholarships and 98 departmental scholarships for the 2020–21 academic year

    Graduate Programs

    Accelerated Master’s program opportunities are available in pursuing a master's degree in 12 selected areas: Appalachian Studies, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering Physics, English, Geography and Planning, History, Mathematics, Romance Languages (French/Spanish), Political Science, Psychology (Experimental Science) and Public Administration. Other master’s degrees, graduate certificates and specialist degrees are listed on Appalachian’s School of Graduate Studies website.

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