Susan B. Anthony Institute

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN
GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES

1. Courses
   Students must successfully complete 4 graduate level courses in gender and women's studies. The courses must be drawn from at least 2 departments or programs at the University of Rochester and must include at least two courses from each of the two categories listed below ("Methodological and Theoretical Approaches" and "Applied Courses"). Successful completion of the courses is determined by the departments or programs through which the courses are offered.
2. Portfolio
   Students compile a portfolio that includes work completed in these courses, a curriculum vitae, and a statement about how this interdisciplinary work in gender and women's studies has affected their writing, research, and teaching. The portfolio is submitted to and evaluated by the Curriculum Committee of the Susan B. Anthony Institute.
   
   
3. Letter of Recommendation
   A letter of recommendation from the student's departmental advisor.

Appropriate programs of study are developed in consultation with the Graduate Advisor. The Graduate Advisor mentors, or arranges mentorship for each graduate student to make sure that her/his program of study is coherent.

Women's Studies Graduate Certificate Advisor
Professor Jeffrey Runner, Department of Linguistics
538 Lattimore Hall
(585) 275-8318
Email: jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
Office hours are by appointment

COURSES

A. Methodological and Theoretical Approaches:
Courses on General Debates within a Field (400- and 500-level)

• Art and Art History
  AH 403: Feminism, Critical Theory, and the New Art History
  AH 404: Memoir, Social History, Cultural Theory
  AH 407: Ethnocentrism, Imperialism and Gender
  AH 410: Woman as Image and Text
  AH 415: History of the History of Art

   

• English
  ENG 425: African-American Feminists
  ENG 428: Rise of the Woman Novelist
  ENG 454: Film History: Feminism and Film History
  ENG 457: Media Studies: Technology, Health and Gender
  ENG 470: Black Males and Culture
  ENG 551: Feminism and Postcolonial Conditions
  ENG 553: Writing Home: Issues in Feminism and Contemporary Literature

   

• History
  HIS 403: Women and the Body in Christian Thought
  HIS 415: Topics in the History of Women
  HIS 441: Topics in American Women's History
  HIS 445: Women and History in Africa
  HIS 514: Readings in European Women's History
  HIS 591: Russian Women's History: Monographs and Memoirs

   

• Modern Languages and Cultures
  CLT 418: Introduction to Feminist Theory
  CLT 419: Contemporary Popular Film: Race and Gender
  CLT 441: Other Erotics
  CLT 451: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies
  CLT 455: Pornography, Censorship and Speech
  CLT 480: Feminist Film Theory

  FR 434/CLT 434: Bodies Politic: Queer Theories and Literature of the Body

  GER 488/CLT 474: German Cinema

  SP 430/CLT 458: Third World Women
  SP 431/CLT 431: Confessional Modes in Literature

   

• School of Nursing
  NUR 451: Health Promotion for Women
  NUR 454: Nurse Midwifery I

   

• Political Science
  PSC 482: Debates in Feminist Political Theory
  PSC 585: Theories of Rights
  PSC 587: Classics of Social Theory

   

• Warner School of Graduate Education
  ED 412: Sociology of Education
  ED 417: Education of American Women
  ED 424: Professions in American Culture
  ED 442: Race, Class, and Gender

   

• Art and Art History
  AH 402: The Stranger in Modern Culture
  AH 408: Modernism, Modernity and Gender
  AH 480: Representing AIDS
  AH 485: Topics in Visual and Cultural Studies
  AH 488: Intellectuals, Academies and Cultural Criticism
  AH 489: The 1950s: Art, Culture and Gender in the US

   

• English
  ENG 407: Woman and Medieval Man
  ENG 418: Victorian Literature: Women and the Professions
  ENG 423: American Moderns: Women Writing in Exile
  ENG 425: African-American Women Writers
  ENG 425: Sisters of the Spirit, Trying to Exhale: African-American Women of the New Negro Renaissance (1900-1937)
  ENG 429: Major Women Novelists
  ENG 454: Documentary and US Culture
  ENG 484: Alien Sex
  ENG 506: Chaucer
  ENG 514: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing
  ENG 530: Other Victorians/Victorian Others
  ENG 541: Women Writers in Ante-Bellum America

   

• History
  HIS 404: Women in Early Modern Europe
  HIS 440: The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom
  HIS 445: Men, Women and War in the Twentieth Century

   

• Modern Languages and Cultures
  CLT 448: Culture of Urban Japan, 1600-1868
  CLT 451: Contemporary Japanese Culture
  CLT 452: Sex and Gender: 18th Century Representation
  CLT 462: Superfluous Men, Superior Women
  CLT 470: Feminist Writing in Japan
  CLT 473: Japanese Women Writers
  CLT 490: Women in Japanese Film
  CLT 493: Women in Contemporary Japanese Film

  FR 440: Eighteenth-Century Novel
  FR 481/CLT 487: History of French Cinema

  GER 405: Modern German Identities
  GER 454: Sex and Gender in German History: Twentieth Century
  GER 484/CLT 484: Germany Today
  GER 485: Reading Women Writers: East Germany
  SP 415: Topics in Afro-Hispanic Literature
  SP 480: Twentieth-Century Spanish Prose
  SP 485: Contemporary Spanish American Fiction
  SP 490/CLT 490: Women in Hispanic Film

   

• School of Nursing
  NUR 452: Women at Risk
  NUR 453: Women in Health Systems
  NUR 455: Nurse Midwifery II
  NUR 456: Nurse Midwifery (P)
  NUR 457: Complications of Women's Health
  NUR 458: History and Issues in Nurse Midwifery

   

• Warner School of Graduate Education
  EDU 410: History of American Education
  EDU 412: Women in Educational Leadership
  EDU 488: Women and the Professions
  EDU 478: Professional Education Past and Present
  EDU 479: Historical and Recent Models of Educational Leadership
  EDU 484: Curriculum in Higher Education
  EDU 488: Students and Colleges

• Arts, Sciences, Engineering