315 William L. Harkness Hall, 203.432.0845
http://wgss.yale.edu

Chair
Scott Herring

Director of Graduate Studies
Dara Strolovitch

Faculty
For faculty listings, see Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies under Degree-Granting Departments and Programs in this bulletin.

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

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary program that critically interrogates gender and sexuality as categories of inequality, difference, subjectivity, and identification. Gender (the social and historical meanings of distinctions across sexes) and sexuality (the domain of sexual practices, identities, discourses, and institutions) are studied as they intersect with class, race, nationality, citizenship, religion, ability, and other axes of power, difference, and zones of experience. The introduction of these perspectives into all fields of knowledge necessitates new research paradigms, organizing concepts and analytics, and critique.

The Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is open to doctoral students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Yale whose research engages the foregoing questions and approaches. Interested students are encouraged to (1) complete the Certificate Declaration Request form on the YaleHub and (2) complete the certificate completion record form on the WGSS website upon finishing all requirements. The DGS in WGSS is available to answer any questions. 

Students who wish to receive the certificate must fulfill the following requirements:

1. complete WGSS 6600, Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies;
2. complete two WGSS-titled or substantively themed electives;
3. enroll in and attend WGSS 9900, the WGSS Working Group and Colloquium, for two sequential semesters (preferably in the same academic year); and
4. present a research paper at a meeting of the WGSS Colloquium or a similar venue.

These requirements should be met in consultation with the DGS.

Courses