Patrick Grzanka, Psychology, Chair

The add-on Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) offers graduate students the opportunity to study from an interdisciplinary perspective how gender and sexuality shape the past, present, and future of human cultures and societies. This interdisciplinary curriculum trains students in critical studies of the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, and other dimensions of difference.

The WGS program is dedicated to welcoming all members of our academic community and to studying issues pertinent to individuals of all gender and sexual identities. Our courses provide students with intersectional perspectives and a wide variety of methodological skills with which to conduct their own research, creative activity, and activism.

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Graduate Certificate Type

Add-On

Admissions Standards/Procedures

• Application to the WGS graduate certificate program must be made through the Office of Graduate Admissions.
• The WGS certificate is intended as additional study for graduate students who are concurrently enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program in another discipline at the University of Tennessee.

Academic Standards

• Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average throughout the program.

Credit Hours Required

12 graduate credit hours

Required Courses

• Six (6) credit hours chosen from:
  • ENGL 422  / WGS 422   
  • FREN 433   
  • MUCO 412  / WGS 412   
  • MUCO 586   
  • PSYC 434   
  • SOCI 453   
  • WGS 484  / AFST 484   
  • Or special topics courses as approved by the WGS chair
• An additional 3 credit hours chosen from:
  • AFST 413  / MUCO 413   
  • ENGL 422  / WGS 422   
  • FREN 433   
  • GERM 416   
  • HIST 517   
  • MFLL 584   
  • MUCO 412  / WGS 412   
  • MUCO 586   
  • PSYC 434   
  • PSYC 435   
  • PSYC 675   
  • SOCI 453   
  • SOCI 621   
  • SOCI 640   
  • SOCI 656   
  • WGS 484  / AFST 484   
  • Or special topics courses as approved by the WGS chair
• Three (3) credit hours of WGS 593 , to be completed under the supervision of a member of the WGS Steering Committee, or another faculty member approved by the WGS Chair.
  • Normally this will involve a capstone experience that consists of a thoughtful creation of a course syllabus, a teaching philosophy, and a public presentation pertaining to WGS and the student’s home discipline.