Application to the Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies

If you are a graduate student at CU Boulder interested in joining our WGST Graduate Certificate Program, please fill out this form to get started. Once your application is received by our office, we will send you more details about our program, and setting up a meeting with the WGST graduate director to discuss the course requirements and answer any questions you may have. The graduate director will sign the final approval form once all the requirements have been met, and the certificate completion will be placed on your transcript only after you have completed your primary degree program.

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To receive the WGST Graduate Certificate, you must complete 12 total credit hours, including 3 of the following 4 courses:

WGST 6090 Feminist Theories
WGST 6190 Feminist Methodologies
WGST 6796 Queer Theories
WGST 6290 Topics in Women and Gender Studies

The fourth required course should focus on issues related to women, gender, and/or sexuality, and it should take an interdisciplinary approach. It is advisable that the course be taken either outside the student’s home department or as an additional course in WGST. However, students may—with approval of the WGST graduate advisor—take it within their home departments. Independent study courses taken with faculty not affiliated with WGST will not count for the Graduate Certificate. Independent study courses taken with WGST faculty members may count only in exceptional circumstances as determined by the Graduate Committee.

If known, please include the course number and name of this fourth course you have taken or plan to take toward this requirement:

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Please submit this form to be added as a student in the Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies. We will review your information and contact you with further information once you have been enrolled. If you have any questions, please email us at wgst@colorado.edu.

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Please see https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/graduates for more information on the Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies.

The Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies (WGST) is designed to complement a CU graduate disciplinary degree program—providing graduate students the opportunity to engage a variety of scholarly and methodological approaches to the study of gender and sexuality. Students are encouraged to apply for the WGST Graduate Certificate early in their course of graduate studies; students enrolled in the program will get priority if placed on a waitlist for a graduate-level WGST course.

Contact WGST@colorado.edu with any questions or problems with this form.

WGST Graduate Certificate Requirements

To complete this program and receive the WGST Graduate Certificate, you must complete twelve (12) total credit hours which satisfy all the following requirements:

At least three of the following four courses (nine semester hours):

WGST 6090: Feminist Theories
WGST 6190: Feminist Methodologies
WGST 6796: Queer Theories
WGST 6290: Topics in Women and Gender Studies*

(*WGST 6290 topic varies by semester; only 3 credit hours will count towards this 3 credit certificate requirement.)

One additional course approved by the WGST graduate advisor (of at least three credit hours):

This course should focus on issues related to women, gender, and/or sexuality, and it should take an interdisciplinary approach. It is advisable that the course be taken either outside the student’s home department or as an additional course in WGST. However, students may—with approval of the WGST graduate advisor—take it within their home departments. Independent study courses taken with faculty not affiliated with WGST will not count for the Graduate Certificate. Independent study courses taken with WGST faculty members may count only in exceptional circumstances as determined by the Graduate Committee.

Note:

The minimum acceptable grade for courses submitted for the WGST Graduate Certificate is a B.
Minimum GPA for all courses submitted for the WGST Graduate Certificate is a cumulative 3.5.
None of the three required WGST courses may be taken as independent study.

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