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Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies

The Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (WST) is an excellent opportunity for UF graduate or professional students who wish gain expertise in theory and research related to gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. Students enrolled in any UF graduate program (e.g., MA, PhD, MFA) or professional program (e.g., MPH, JD) are eligible to enroll.

CERTIFICATE APPLICATION

To enroll in this Certificate program, students must complete the following two steps. Students are encouraged to complete these steps early and simultaneously, as soon as they become interested in pursuing the certificate:

  1. Apply at https://my.admissions.ufl.edu/register/CertCEApp; select College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the name of the certificate is “Women’s Studies (LAS-GCT20).”
  2. Submit the Women’s Studies Certificate Form delineating the planned coursework; email this form to the Graduate Coordinator listed here. In that email, also confirm that you have submitted the application to admissions (step 1 above).

CERTIFICATE COMPLETION

During the term the student is graduating, the student must be enrolled at UF. To obtain the certificate, students must complete the following steps by the mid-point of the semester of graduation:

  1. Submit the graduate school degree application for the certificate by the graduate school deadline (this is separate from the degree application for other degrees being obtained): https://registrar.ufl.edu/services/degree-application
  2. Submit the Women’s Studies Certificate Form delineating the completed coursework; email this form to the Graduate Coordinator listed here.
  3. Submit the final Women’s Studies Certificate Learning Outcomes Assessment. Students should have their Graduate Supervisory Committee Chair review and sign this form, then submit the form to the GSWS Graduate Coordinator listed here.
    1. Note:We recommend that the student’s committee include one Core or Affiliate faculty member from the GSWS Department.

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS

For this Certificate, students are required to earn 12 credits as follows:

  • 3 credit hours of graduate level courses with the WST prefix offered in the GSWS Department.
  • 9 additional credit hours of graduate level courses with the WST prefix offered in the GSWS Department or courses from other departments pre-approved as counting toward the degree. Each semester a list of courses in the GSWS department and approved course in other departments are posted on the department’s courses page. Students are encouraged to prioritize taking WST courses in the GSWS Department:

 

On rare occasion, courses not on these lists may be petitioned to count by submitting a request for consideration Course Petition.