Graduate Minor
Why Consider a Graduate Minor?
The graduate minor in gender & women's studies offers sophisticated training in feminist theory and methodology to graduate students who want to incorporate gender & women's studies into their degree work. Because gender has become a central category of analysis in many disciplines and fields, the graduate minor strengthens students' formal credentials and offers a versatile area of specialization.
Eligibility
The following University of Illinois Departments or Colleges have approved a Graduate Minor in Gender & Women's Studies at the M.S. and Ph.D. levels:
- Anthropology
- Communications Research
- Community Health
- Comparative Literature
- Consumer Sciences
- East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Economics
- Educational Policy Studies
- Educational Psychology
- English
- French
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- History
- Human and Community Development
- Kinesiology
- Labor and Industrial Relations
- Law
- Leisure Studies
- Library and Information Science
- Medicine
- Music
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
- Speech Communication
Requirements
The course requirements for the Graduate Minor in Gender & Women's Studies are as follows:
- GWS 550, "Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities: Theory and Method" or GWS 570, "Feminist Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Theory and Research."
- Two additional 400 or 500-level Gender & Women's Studies courses, at least one of which must originate outside the student's home department. GWS 550 or 570, whichever is not counted as the core course above, may serve as one of the additional courses.
Applications for the Graduate Minor in Gender & Women's Studies require prior approval by the appropriate administration officer from the student's home department. For more information on educational programs, contact the GWS office (333-2990).
Students completing the graduate minor must submit a petition to the Graduate College prior to graduation. For more information, see instructions for filing a graduate petition on the Graduate Student Academic Services website: http://www.grad.illinois.edu/gsas/petition_instruct.cfm#2