Women's Studies offers a graduate minor which requires students to take fifteen credit hours in crosslisted courses at the 700 or 899 level. (The Chair will consider substitution of 400-699 level courses where appropriate). Courses must be distributed as follows:
Nine credit hours in crosslisted courses in two different disciplines outside the student's major. These courses may include theory courses beyond the three-credit requirement.
Three credit hours in feminist theory; this course may be taken in any department, including the student's major department.
Three credit hours in a Women's Studies seminar for graduate minors (WMST 790).
Graduate students minoring in Women's Studies must include on their doctoral committee a faculty member who teaches Women's Studies courses.
Graduate Study Resources
Graduate and professional students enrolled at UNC are encouraged to participate in Women's Studies in a number of ways. Those not wishing to complete a Graduate Minor in Women's Studies might wish to enroll in graduate-level courses in Women's Studies, conduct research and write theses and dissertations on gender-related topics, and attend lectures and seminars sponsored by Women's Studies. Employment opportunities are available in the form of teaching assistantships in the introductory undergraduate Women's Studies course and as graduate assistant in the Women's Studies Office.
Graduate Level Coursework in Women's Studies:
Courses numbered 400-699 are designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Contact the professor teaching the course to see if additional work can be provided in order to obtain graduate credit.Courses numbered 700-899 are for graduate students only. Please click on “Courses” for more information.
Graduate students enrolled at UNC-CH may also take courses at Duke University at no additional cost.
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Graduate courses are offered at UNC-CH in the following areas:
African Studies/African-American Studies
Anthropology
Art
Classics
Communication Studies
Comparative Literature
Economics
Education
English
French
German
Health Behavior & Health Education
Health Sciences
History
Leisure Studies
Maternal and Child
Health
Music
Nutrition
Philosophy
Physical Education
Political Science
Psychology
Public Policy Analysis
Religion
Russian
Social Work
Sociology
Spanish
In addition to the core faculty in Women's Studies, a large number of faculty members at UNC-CH who have teaching and research interests in Women's Studies and gender issues offer ample opportunity for students to undertake theses and dissertations in a variety of disciplines. (Please see Faculty Listing on our website.)
LIBRARY RESOURCES
UNC-CH has the most extensive holdings of library materials on women's studies in the South. The libraries of the University maintain major acquisitions programs for current and retrospective materials on women and related topics. Although resources on women in nearly all areas of the humanities and social sciences are collected to some extent, library holdings are particularly strong in history, politics, and socioeconomic conditions and for Southern women, Afro-American women, feminism/women's rights, and labor. In addition to printed resources, UNC-CH libraries possess significant collections of research materials on women in the form of sound and video recordings, photographs, oral history, transcripts, manuscripts, and computer-readable files. Many of these are housed in the Southern Historical Collection. Further information on these resources can be found in Resources for Women's Studies in the University of North Carolina Libraries.
Additionally, students at UNC-CH have access to the library resources at Duke University which also has extensive holdings for research on women and gender.
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