Graduate Concentrations in Women's Studies
The Interdisciplinary Graduate Concentrations in Women’s
Studies are designed to enhance the masters and doctoral programs
at the University which prepare students for careers in education
at all levels, social service work, health services, business,
public policy, government and nongovernmental organizations,
and research.
Students will gain a more complete understanding of how the
social construction of gender has influenced the roles, contributions,
and experience of women in many different cultures, now and in
the past. Such awareness can help them better understand our
contemporary world with its changing roles for women and men
alike.
To the gender analysis of any situation, they will bring knowledge
of the complex ways in which gender interacts with race, social
class, sexual orientation, and other forms of diversity. They
will understand the connection between Women’s Studies
scholarship and the scholarship of other disciplines.
Graduate work in Women’s Studies is offered through the
Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program. Students
can use the interdisciplinary graduate concentrations to enhance
masters and doctoral degrees offered by other departments. (Cooperating
units include Communication and Journalism, Education and Human
Development, English, History, Nursing, Psychology, and Social Work.)
It can also provide a focus for the interdisciplinary Ph.D.
degree program or for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies.
A Women’s Studies advisor, who is a member of the graduate
faculty, will assist each student in designing a program of study
appropriate to her or his goals and will be part of the evaluation
process. Students and advisors will be matched according to the
students’ areas of interest.
Requirements
1. Candidates for any masters degree and the certificate of
advanced study in Education are required to take at least 9 credits
including WST 510 and another WST course. The additional course(s)
can be chosen, with the approval of the student’s Women’s
Studies advisor, from WST courses or departmental Women’s
Studies electives at the 400-level or above. At least 2 courses
must be at the 500-level or above. If the student’s degree
program has no thesis or comprehensive exam, there will be some
type of written evaluation of the work in Women’s Studies.
2. Candidates for the Ph.D. or Ed.D. are required to take at
least 12 credits, including WST 510 and WST 520. WST 580 and
WST 610 are highly recommended. The additional course(s) can
be chosen, with the approval of the student’s Women’s
Studies advisor, from WST courses or Women’s Studies departmental
electives at the 400-level or above.
Students who are taking thesis credits in their departments
and writing Women’s Studies theses or dissertations can
use up to 2 thesis credits toward their Women’s Studies
concentrations if they take WST 610 to make up 3 credits.
Questions can be answered by the WST
graduate faculty or by
contacting the program director, Ann Schonberger, at 207-581-1229
or
e-mail Ann.Schonberger@umit.maine.edu.
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