The Program

Bowling Green State University now offers a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field offering a unified approach to the study of fundamental issues in sex and gender. It examines how these concepts have been reflected in culture across time; how they shape institutions as well as personal experience; how they interact with issues such as race, ethnicity and socioeconomic class; and how new ways of thinking about gender challenge the processes by which knowledge about human beings and our behavior is acquired, interpreted, and transmitted.
   
The Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies brings together scholars and graduate students across the University actively engaged in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Such a program offers the possibility of cross-disciplinary influence and collaboration; extra-departmental collegiality and support; and professional certification in the rich field of study that is contemporary Women's Studies.

The Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies is intended to supplement the
individual's professional training, whatever it may be. The Certificate acknowledges formal training and expertise in issues of cultural diversity, gender inequity, feminist theory, feminist methodology and the infusion of gender into all psychological, social and mediated relationships. The Graduate Certificate may be pursued as a major or minor area of concentration within established graduate degree programs at BGSU (consult with individual graduate coordinators in doing so).

PREREQUISITES FOR GRADUATE WORK:
   
Students who wish to be admitted to the Graduate Certificate Program in Women's Studies must meet at least one of the following requirements: • Be enrolled in a graduate program at BGSU. -or- for the stand-alone certificate:

• Hold a bachelor degree with a 3.0 minimum grade point average.
• Have completed a graduate degree in any area. How do I Apply?
• Students must apply to the Graduate College at BGSU for general admission.
• Two letters of recommendation from recent instructors, employers, or other individuals qualified to evaluate probable success in the program.
• A brief statement of intent delineating the purpose for enrolling in the program (no more than 1 page).
• A brief personal statement outlining career goals (no more than 1 page). Careful attention is given to these materials.

Contact Information:

Vikki Krane, Director
Room: 246 Shatzel Hall
Phone: 419-372-7133
Email: vkrane@bgnet.bgsu.edu

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