Women’s Studies Advanced Certificate

(SIMS Code: 119503)

The Department of Women’s Studies offers an advanced certificate to provide an opportunity for students to increase their understanding of women in the humanities and social sciences. The certificate program addresses diverse ways for students to develop knowledge of how women lived, thought, resisted, created knowledge, and engaged in cultural activism.

For further information, contact the graduate adviser in the Department of Women’s Studies at 619-594-6524 or visit http://womensstudies.sdsu.edu/.

Required Courses

The advanced certificate requires 12 units, to include

WMNST 590 - Feminist Thought Units: 3

Six Units Selected from

A minimum of six units selected from:

WMNST 601 - Foundations of Feminist Scholarship Units: 3
WMNST 602 - Seminar: Methods of Inquiry in Women’s Studies Units: 3
WMNST 603 - Seminar: Topics in Advanced Feminist Theory Units: 3
WMNST 604 - Seminar: Gender, Culture, and Representation Units: 3
WMNST 605 - Seminar: Women and Social Policy Units: 3
WMNST 606 - Seminar: Narrating Women’s Lives Units: 3
WMNST 607 - Seminar: Privilege and Oppression Units: 3
WMNST 608 - Seminar: Body Politics Units: 3
WMNST 609 - Seminar: Topics in Transnational Issues and Gender Units: 3
WMNST 610 - Seminar in Sexuality Units: 3
WMNST 611 - Seminar: Gender and Diaspora Units: 3
WMNST 612 - Seminar: Feminist Pedagogies Units: 3

Three Units Selected from

Three units to be selected from the following list:

WMNST 512 - Latinas in the Americas Units: 3
WMNST 515 - Women: Myth, Ritual, and the Sacred Units: 3
WMNST 520 - Reproductive Rights and Justice Units: 3
WMNST 522 - Women: Madness and Sanity Units: 3
WMNST 530 - Women’s Movements and Activism Units: 3
WMNST 533 - Trans Feminisms Units: 3
WMNST 535 - Lesbian Lives and Cultures Units: 3
WMNST 536 - Gender, Race, and Class Units: 3
WMNST 544 - Queer Theory Units: 3
WMNST 545 - Women and Sports Units: 3
WMNST 552 - Feminist Approaches to Film Units: 3
WMNST 560 - Women in Muslim Societies Units: 3
WMNST 565 - Women: Health, Healing, and Medicine Units: 3
WMNST 570 - Gender, War, and Peace Units: 3
WMNST 572 - Women and Violence Units: 3
WMNST 575 - Digital and Networked Feminisms Units: 3
WMNST 580 - Women, Development, and the Global Economy Units: 3
WMNST 581 - Women’s Experiences of Migration Units: 3
WMNST 582 - Feminist Science and Activism Units: 3
WMNST 585 - Local Feminist Activism and Organizations Units: 3