The Women's Studies Program (WOST) at the University of
Massachusetts at
Amherst offers a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. This
interdisciplinary program is designed for students enrolled in a disciplinary
master's or doctoral degree granting program. The purpose of the Certificate is
to enable students interested in feminist scholarship to pursue a coherent,
integrated curriculum in the field and to credential them as knowledgeable in
Feminist Studies, thus qualifying them for positions requiring such expertise.
Further, students completing the certificate will have the opportunity to bring a
feminist perspective to bear on the practices and ideas of their own discipline,
thereby increasing the body of feminist theory and research.
As a nationally recognized undergraduate major and
minor program, Women's Studies
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is in its 30th year of operation. We
have developed an undergraduate curriculum that has become a model for many across
the country. The program is grounded in a sequential series of historical and
theoretical courses developed by our Womens Studies faculty and recently revised
to reflect an integrative approach to the interconnection between gender, race,
class, sexuality and transnational issues. The program has also encouraged and
supported courses offered by some traditional departments that have, in turn,
restructured their own undergraduate curricula in response to feminist scholarship.
The success of the undergraduate major and minor, coupled with the dramatic
achievements in feminist research itself, has created a demand for more advanced
curricular and research-oriented interdisciplinary work.
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