Concentration Requirements

Mailing Address:
Gender and Women’s Studies Program (MC 360)
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607

Campus Location: 1802 UH
Telephone: (312) 996-2441
E-mail: gjames@uic.edu
Web Site: http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/WSweb.html
Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program: Barbara Ransby
Director of Graduate Studies: Elena Gutiérrez

The Gender and Women’s Studies Program offers work leading to a graduate Interdepartmental Concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies. Students in the following graduate programs may be eligible to complete the Interdepartmental Concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies:

Graduate Program	Level
Anthropology	MA, PhD
Art History	MA, PhD
Communication	MA, PhD
Criminology, Law, and Justice	MA, PhD
Curriculum and Instruction	PhD
Disability and Human Development	MS
Disability Studies	PhD
Economics	MA, PhD
Educational Psychology	PhD
English	MA, PhD
French	MA
Germanic Studies	MA, PhD
Health Professions Education	MHPE
Hispanic Studies	MA, PhD
History	MA, PhD
Instructional Leadership	MEd
Linguistics	MA
Nursing	PhD
Philosophy	MA, PhD
Policy Studies in Urban Education	PhD
Political Science	MA, PhD
Psychology	MA, PhD
Public Administration	MPA
Public Health-Community Health Sciences	MS, PhD
Slavic Languages and Literatures	PhD
Slavic Studies	MA
Social Work	MSW, PhD
Sociology	MA, PhD
Special Education	MEd, PhD
Urban Education Leadership	EdD
Urban Planning and Policy	MUPP, PhD

Concentration Requirements

Students earning graduate degrees in the programs listed above may complement their courses by enrolling for a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies after consulting with their graduate advisor. Students pursuing this concentration must apply to the director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and obtain approval from a Gender and Women’s Studies graduate faculty member, preferably from within the department of the degree, who becomes the student’s Gender and Women’s Studies advisor.

Students should enroll in a total of 16 hours of graduate course work for the concentration, including GWS 501 and 502, plus eight additional hours of Gender and Women’s Studies or cross-listed courses at the graduate level or the equivalent. Up to four of these hours can be directed study or thesis research on an appropriate topic approved by the student’s Gender and Women’s Studies advisor.

Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Women’s Health

Students with an interest in Gender and Women’s Studies who are pursuing a graduate degree in the College of Nursing or School of Public Health may complement their courses by enrolling for a concentration in Women’s Health after consulting with their advisor. See Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Women’s Health in the College of Nursing section for more information.