Graduate Program

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BA/MA TRACK

Students will complete criteria for both a BA in WGSS, as well as for the WGSS MA degree with a Track in Feminist Practices for Social Change.

First, students will complete all core and elective courses required of the BA and toward their major in WGSS. In the final semesters of their undergraduate degree, students will initiate coursework for the WGSS Masters degree: sophomores accepted into the WGSS BA/MA Program will begin graduate work in the spring of their junior year, and juniors accepted into the WGSS MA Program will begin work in the fall of their senior year.

After students are awarded their BA in WGSS, they will be enrolled as full-time graduate students in the WGSS MA Program. They will then complete coursework as well as a Practicum toward the WGSS Masters degree.

All students enrolled in the MA track must complete 30 credits total, as follows:

• Three Core Courses (12 credits): Feminism Theory and Practices (515), Social Justice Movements (516), and Advocacy Tactics and Techniques (517).
• Five Electives (15 credits) from a range of WGSS graduate courses, including: Gender and Human Rights, Gender and Development, Feminist Knowledge Production, Feminist Genealogies, Feminist Advocacy at the UN
• 6 credits applied toward Practicum Research work (at the time when the student is completing Practicum work)
  
  

Students completing the BA/M.A. track must complete 9 credits of core coursework and an additional 15 credits of elective coursework.

REQUIRED CORE COURSEWORK (9 CREDITS)

Feminism: Theory and Practice (988:515)
This course aims to illuminate the interconnections of theory and practice by exploring particular modes of feminist activism and the complex theoretical issues that feminist praxis raises. The course seeks to foster an understanding of the multiple ways that feminist theory opens imaginations to the possibilities for inclusive democratic practices, and expands the repertoire of strategies for realizing social change.

Social Justice Movements (988:516)
When excluded by law from official institutions of governance and subjected to multiple modes of discrimination and injustice, many people turn their energies to the politics of transformation. This course examines collective mobilization across multiple scales (grassroots, ethnic, local, regional, national, transnational, international and virtual) to create a different world—more attuned to more equitable distributions of social, economic, and political resources. Using both historical and contemporary examples, the class explores how these transformative efforts are influenced by regimes in power and influences beyond the nation-state and analyzes the conditions for social movement success and failure.

Advocacy: Tactics and Techniques (988:517)
Certain skills are essential for advocacy, regardless of the cause one seeks to promote. This course will assist students in developing basic capacities such a public speaking, agenda-setting, issue identification, event planning, publicity campaigns, harnessing free media, group facilitation, social media mobilization, fundraising, grant writing, networking, coalition building, petitioning, lobbying, organizational planning and budgeting, consensus-building, and participatory decision-making. Drawing ON examples from feminist activism and organizations across the Global North and South, the class will prepare students for the demands of social change activism and advocacy. 

Students must complete 15 credits of elective coursework to be counted towardS the MA Degree. No more than 9 elective credits may be taken at the 400 level. Students must complete additional work, to qualify the course as reflective of graduate-level work, stipulated by the instructor for any 400-level course.

TENTATIVE ELECTIVES COURSEWORK (15 CREDITS)

WGS ELECTIVES:

Agency, Subjectivity, and Social Change (988:520)
This course investigates women’s mobilizations to transform social and political institutions, which also transform women activists themselves. Examining global feminist movements in the past as well as in the contemporary world, this class seeks to explicate how women’s activism and agency continue to challenge dominant discourses on agency, subjectivity, culture, politics, authority, religion, and society.

Gender and Human Rights (988:535)
The history and discourse of women's human rights. United Nations instruments; reframing of human rights as women's rights; gender-based violence; health; sexuality.

Gender and Development (988:536)
This course analyzes women’s location in economic development processes within theoretical frameworks; reflects upon linkages between the global economy and gendered processes of development; and examines a rights-based approach to gender justice.

Poverty, Inequality, and Gender (988:537) 
This course examines the intersection of poverty, inequality and gender by exploring feminist approaches to theorizing, measuring, and experiencing the relationship between capitalist development and gender and race/ethnic inequality and poverty.

Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Rights Through the United Nations (988:445)
The course aims to bridge feminist theory and praxis through readings, discussions and concrete experiences at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and dialogue with feminist activists from around the world. A priority of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work, including the challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls and an emerging issue being the empowerment of indigenous women. The course explores four broad themes: global strategies for women’s economic empowerment; strategies for the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development; human rights and macroeconomic policies; empowerment of indigenous women and the contributions and insights of feminist perspectives on women’s economic rights and development in general and the possibilities and liabilities of the United Nations as a venue for feminist advocacy. The course will encourage the use of an intersectional lens to explore these themes.

The Color of Aids: The Politics of Race during the AIDS Crisis (988:396)
In recent years, the visibility of people of color (particularly women) infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in the United States has sparked discussions about the influences of individual and structural factors in how people negotiate risk,
protection, mobilization and access to care and medications. This course focuses on AIDS and the way it is represented in scholarly, popular and community discussions. One of our key concerns will be to discuss the role that race thinking has in shaping the representations of communities, the problems, and the solutions identifies. The course explores cultural narratives of the spread of HIV among women and men from different racial/ethnic backgrounds, in addition to debating recent controversies caused by phenomena within the framework of contested social meanings of illness and deviance, or what Paula Treichler has aptly called “an epidemic of signification.” The course also explores linkages between how we imagine and represent illness and already existing notions of racial/ethnic/sexual difference. Discussions of selected moments throughout the crisis will help us understand debates about the meanings of race, from the designation of Haitians as a risk group in the earliest stages of the epidemic to current debates about African Americans makes as AIDS carriers and women of color in the epidemic. Discussions of gender, sexuality and the status of AIDS among African Americans, Latinas/os, Asian Americans and Native Americans will foreground the problematic nature of “culture” and “visibility” in health policy, research and care provision.

Women’s Global Health Movements (988: 407)
Informed by the history of the International Women and Health Meetings (IWHMs), this course investigates the political vision and organizational structure for women’s health movements around the world. It contrasts early strategies driven by coalitions of activists from the North, which focused on reproductive rights, self-help, and a definition of health-based largely in the physiology of women’s bodies with approaches advanced by activists from the global South, which attend to the social, cultural, and economic factors that affect women’s access to the most basic healthcare. This course examines how and why contemporary feminist conceptions of health are grounded in a comprehensive framework attentive to international power dynamics, globalization, macroeconomic policy, national and global poverty, conflict and war, and debt crises in various countries. Beginning with an overview of women’s contemporary health challenges, the class then analyzes the political tactics and strategies women have devised to secure access to healthcare for themselves, their families, households and communities. Introducing students to the global institutions, organizations, and policies that impact health, course material also traces how women’s non-governmental organizations have attempted to transform existing institutions and policies of global health governance to enable women in all regions of the world to lead physiologically, psychologically, and emotionally healthier, more dignified lives.

Impacts of Economic Inequality on Women’s Health (988: 408)
Domestic and global economic inequality places significant numbers of people at high risk for health crises even as they are denied access to care. This course investigates the “pathogenic” aspects of economic inequality. It examines how systems of unequal resource distribution grounded in class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality contribute to wide disparities of health risk, access to health care, and clinical outcomes. It explores how global trade and transnational migration affect health costs, health care delivery systems, and the availability of health care professionals. By tracing links between macro-economic policies and access to health care, the course analyzes pathologies suffered by individual women in the context of structural violence, which is exacerbated by the intersections of gender, class, race, national belonging, and geopolitical power.

Gendered Professions and the Transnational Care Economy (988: 414)
Nursing and teaching—two women-dominated professions—lie at the heart of the “care economy.” Involving work that requires intensive physical labor, person-to-person communication, and spatial proximity, the intimate nature of care work resists mechanization. In contrast to the production of commodities, the highly personalized labor of care is driven by human need rather than profit maximization. This course provides an overview of distinctive gendered professions whose object of labor is the human subject. In nursing and teaching, skill entails the effective exercise of professional judgment. Focused on the cultivation and preservation of human capacities, this professional labor resists routinization and automation. In addition to examining the distinctive nature of these caring professions, the course explores recent efforts to heighten the profit-making potential of the care economy, and it considers the long-term implications of efforts to deskill and outsource care work.

Electives in Related Disciplines:

Anthropology
Anthropology of Gender, 070: 511
Sexualities in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 070: 516
Anthropology of Violence, 070: 517
Power, State, Nation, 070: 518
Inequality: Race, Class, and Ethnicity, 070:527
Racialization, Immigration, and the Politics of Citizenship, 070:529
Anthropology of Human Rights, 070:537

History
Colloquium on Women and Gender History, 539:510
Protest and Consciousness: African Labor History in Comparative Global Context, 539:518
Seminar in the History of Women, 539:549-550

Political Science
Human Rights and the United Nations, 790:515
Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and the UN, 790:5
Women and Public Policy, 790:591
Gender and Comparative Politics, 790:593

Social Work
Women, Work and Single Parent Families, 910:542
Poverty, Inequality, Discrimination and Public Policy, 910:544
LGBTQ Issues, 910:559

Sociology
Sociology of Environmental Health, 920: 507
Domination and Resistance, 920:570
Space, Place, and Inequality, 920: 571
Sociology of Sexualities, 920:572
Race, Ethnicity, Inequality, 920:614

SEQUENCING OF COURSES AND TRANSITIONING FROM BA MAJOR IN WGS TO MA DEGREE

THIS IS A SAMPLE SEQUENCING FOR STUDENTS ADMITTED INTO THE BA/MA DURING THEIR SOPHOMORE YEAR. PLEASE CONTACT EITHER ILEANA NACHESCU OR JULIE RAJAN TO DISCUSS POTENTIAL SEQUENCING OF COURSES FOR THOSE ADMITTED IN THEIR JUNIOR YEAR.

During the first 2.5 years of their undergraduate education, students will complete most of their core curriculum and major requirements for the WGS major in their Bachelor’s Degree.

The specific path highlighting how students will transition from a BA majoring in WGS to an MA in Feminist Practices for Social Change is outlined in detail below:

• Students majoring in WGS who are accepted into the accelerated BA/MA Program will initiate Master’s work in the spring semester of the junior (third) year of their undergraduate degree.
• At the end of their senior (fourth) year of their undergraduate degree, students will have completed all undergraduate requirements to receive their Bachelor’s degree; they will also have completed nine credits toward the Master’s degree.
• In the summer between their fourth and fifth years, students will complete a Practicum experience in a feminist organization and, in doing so, will earn an additional six graduate credits toward their Mast’s Degree.
• During their fifth year, students complete an additional 15 credits of graduate work.
• Students will also write their Practicum Reports in the fall and spring of their fifth year.
• Students will defend their Practicum Reports in the spring semester of their fifth year.
• The M.A. degree is awarded in May of their fifth academic year.

Please find below the sequencing of courses for the five-year BA/MA Degree schedule:

THIS IS A SAMPLE SEQUENCING FOR STUDENTS ADMITTED INTO THE BA/MA DURING THEIR SOPHOMORE YEAR. PLEASE CONTACT EITHER ILEANA NACHESCU OR JULIE RAJAN TO DISCUSS POTENTIAL SEQUENCING OF COURSES FOR THOSE ADMITTED IN THEIR JUNIOR YEAR.

 FAQs FOR BA/MA TRACK IN FEMINIST PRACTICES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

When is the application deadline? Is there an ‘Early Decision’ Deadline?

WGSS is offering an early decision deadline of February 1, 2020, for students interested in applying early decision to the BA/MA Track. Students who apply by this deadline are required to enroll in the BA/MA Track if accepted. Applications that are submitted by February 1, 2020, date but that are incomplete will be evaluated with applications submitted by the final application deadline of April 1, 2020.

The general application deadline is April 1, 2020.

When applying to the BA/MA Track, students should complete the application for the WGSS Master’s degree. On the application itself, they should select the option for the “BA/MA Track in Feminist Practices for Social Change.” They should also indicate the year in which they plan to enroll in the MA Program by consulting with either Ileana Nachescu, Assistant to the WGSS Undergraduate Director, or with Julie Rajan, WGSS Master’s Program Director.

What does the application process require?

When applying to the BA/MA Track, students should complete the application for the WGSS Master’s Program. For application information and to apply on-online, please go to http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu/

On the application itself, students should select the option noted as “BA/MA Track in Feminist Practices for Social Change.”
**STUDENTS SHOULD BE CAREFUL NOT TO SELECT THE OPTION FOR EITHER THE WGSS MA TRACK BY THE SAME NAME OR THE WGSS MA DEGREE WITH THESIS.

On the application, students should also indicate the month and year in which they plan to enroll in the MA Program. Students should consult with Ileana Nachescu, Assistant to the WGSS Undergraduate Director, or with Julie Rajan, Master’s Program Director, to determine that year of matriculation.

In order to be considered for entrance into the Track, applicants should submit the following:

• A non-refundable application fee, the amount set by the Graduate School of New Brunswick.
• Three recommendations: Ideally the letters are from professors and scholars who can speak to the applicant's abilities and suitability for graduate study in WGSS. Letters from an academic in another discipline or from professionals would also be acceptable.
• CV listing academic background and achievements, work or volunteer experience, honors or awards, affiliations with campus or other organizations, study abroad experience, classes taken related to the focus of the MA Track, language ability, etc.
• Copy of official undergraduate transcript
• If applicable, official documentation of credits earned in graduate courses taken at the undergraduate level
• Personal Statement: Applicants should stress their interest in activism in social justice/human rights as related to women, sexuality, and gender in the Personal Statement. They should address the following questions:
  • Why are you interested in completing this Track specifically?
  • What skills and experience do you bring to this Track?
  • How will completing this Track assist you in your future endeavors?
  • What are some of your goals in completing this Track?
• Writing sample of 5-8 pages: Typically, the writing sample will be from an undergraduate class, perhaps a final paper. It should demonstrate strong analytical abilities.
• GPA of at least 3.2
• No GRE is required

Students who successfully pass the first phase of the selection process will be interviewed. These interviews must be conducted in person.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

What is the timeline to complete the BA/MA Program?

All Rutgers students who are completing their sophomore or junior year of undergraduate work may apply for the BA/MA Track.

Students who were sophomores when they were accepted into the BA/MA Program will complete all graduate work toward the MA by their fifth year in the Program (four years for the BA + 1 additional year to complete the MA). They will be awarded the MA degree in the spring of that fifth year.

Students who were juniors when they were accepted into the WGSS MA Program may complete all graduate work toward the MA by their fifth or sixth year in the BA/MA Program (four years for the BA + 2-4 semesters to complete the MA). They will be awarded the WGSS MA degree when they have completed all of the required coursework as well as the Practicum.

Who can apply for this Track?

All Rutgers students who are completing their sophomore or junior year of undergraduate work may apply for the BA/MA Track.

May I apply for entrance into the BA/MA Track in my Freshman Year if I know that I want to major in WGSS and complete an MA in WGSS?

Rutgers students only in their sophomore and junior years and who declare themselves as WGSS majors may apply for entrance into the BA/MA Track. However, all students are free to meet with Ileana Nachescu, the WGSS Undergrad Director, or with Julie Rajan, MA Program Director, to inquire about the BA/MA track at any time.  

May students outside of the University apply?

Only students of Rutgers University who are majoring in WGSS may apply to this Track. Students who are transferring into the University and who have declared their major in WGSS may apply. We welcome such applicants. 

Can transfer students apply?

BA/MA applications are currently available only to students who have already matriculated into Rutgers University and are majoring in WGS.  Students who have transferred into Rutgers University, who have declared their major in WGS, and who will apply during either their sophomore or junior year at Rutgers University may apply for acceptance into the BA/MA Track.

Transfer students wishing to transfer undergraduate courses toward their BA in WGSS must consult with the WGSS Undergraduate Director.

Transfer students seeking to transfer graduate credit they earned as an undergraduate student at another university toward the graduate work in the BA/MA degree must consult with the WGSS Master’s Program Director. 

May International students apply for the BA/MA track?

BA/MA applications are currently available to students who have already matriculated into Rutgers University and are majoring in WGSS.  International students may apply for the BA/MA Track as long as they are already officially Rutgers students, are majoring in WGS, and apply either in the sophomore or junior year of their undergraduate work at Rutgers University.  

Can students majoring in both WGSS and another degree apply?

All students who are completing their sophomore or junior year of undergraduate work may apply for the BA/MA Track even if they are also majoring in another discipline, as long as they are already Rutgers students and are majoring in WGSS. They may matriculate into the MA portion of the track only when they have completed all degree requirements toward the BA WGSS major.

What are the requirements of the BA/MA Track?

Students will complete criteria for both a BA in WGSS, as well as for the WGSS MA degree with a Track in Feminist Practices for Social Change.

First, students will complete all core and elective courses required of the BA and toward their major in WGSS. In the final semesters of their undergraduate degree, students will initiate coursework for the WGSS Masters degree: sophomores accepted into the WGSS BA/MA Program will begin graduate work in the spring of their junior year; and juniors accepted into the WGSS MA Program will begin work in the fall of their senior year.

After students are awarded their BA in WGSS, they will be enrolled as full-time graduate students in the WGSS MA Program. They will then complete coursework as well as a Practicum toward the WGSS Masters degree.

All students enrolled in the MA track must complete 30 credits total, as follows:

• Three Core Courses (12 credits): Feminism Theory and Practices (515), Social Justice Movements (516), and Advocacy Tactics and Techniques (517).
• Five Electives (15 credits) from a range of WGSS graduate courses, including: Gender and Human Rights, Gender and Development, Feminist Knowledge Production, Feminist Genealogies, Feminist Advocacy at the UN
• 6 credits applied toward Practicum Research work (at the time when the student is completing Practicum work)

What is a Practicum?

In keeping with the professional orientation of the BA/MA Track, the Practicum will be the capstone experience for students as they complete their coursework. A Practicum provides students with the opportunity to experience the phenomenon of praxis: applying what they have learned in the classroom to actual experience in activist work. Students will complete Practicum work in an organization of their choice and focused on work related to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

Over the past 25 years, WGSS has developed strong working relations with a host of feminist NGOs, INGOs, and research centers and institutes, where we have placed students in the past on the east coast from New York City to Washington, D.C. Some students who possess requisite linguistic fluency have chosen to complete Practicum placements in Ghana, India, Lebanon, Spain, and Vietnam. Others have done important work with the constitutive units of Rutgers Institute for Women’s Leadership, most notably with the Center for American Women and Politics, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, the IWL, the Center for Women and Work, and the Center on Violence against Women and Children.

During the time period in which students are initiating progress toward starting their Practicum work, completing the Practicum, and writing and defending their Practicum Report, students should register a total of six credits: 988:884 and 988:585. Students cannot graduate without registering for all six of these credits. 

What kind of opportunities are available to students completing the BA/MA Track in Feminist Practices for Social Change?

Students completing the BA/MA track have multiple opportunities for advancing themselves through academic and activist work. Some opportunities include:

Undergraduate students may, for example:

• Complete their undergraduate degree with honors through the WGSS Honors Program: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/honors
• Apply for matriculation into the IWL Leadership Scholars Program. This is a two-year selective, interdisciplinary certificate program administered by the Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) that prepares Rutgers undergraduates to be informed, innovative, and socially responsible leaders: https://iwl.rutgers.edu/leadership-scholars-certificate-program/
• Apply for induction into the Triota Honors Society, a national honors society recognizing academic excellence in students completing degrees in women’s and gender studies: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/national-honor-society-iota-iota-iota
• Complete a WGSS minor in Social Justice, Critical Sexualities Studies, and/or Gender and Media: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/minors
• Apply to study abroad for six weeks during a summer term in Kassel, Germany, through the European Institute (please direct inquiries to Ileana Nachescu, Assistant Undergraduate Director or Julie Rajan, Director of the MA Program)

Once BA/MA students have been awarded their BA degree, they will be officially recognized as graduate students. At that point, BA/MA students may:

• Apply to be a teaching assistant for classes related to the WGSS Social Justice Minor for undergraduate students
• Participate in the bi-annual WGSS graduate student conference
• Apply for travel funding to present at or attend conferences related to activist work or academic research
• Apply to study abroad in Europe for one semester through the GEMMA Program
• Apply to study abroad for 6 weeks during summer in Kassel, Germany, through the European Institute
• Complete a variety of certificates in various units and departments through Rutgers, including through The Center for Violence against Women and Children (https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/node/675) or Africana Studies (https://africanastudies.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate-certificate)
• Apply for graduate fellowships, such as to The Eagleton Institute for Politics Graduate Fellowship Program (https://eagleton.rutgers.edu/grad-fellowships/);

May I change my mind to complete a Thesis instead of a Practicum for this Track?

Students who apply to the BA/MA Track in Feminist Practices for Social Change must complete the requirements of the Track and must complete the Practicum. Students matriculating into this Track can neither complete a thesis nor transfer into the WGSS Master’s Program with Thesis at any point while completing the five-year BA/MA Track.

May I complete an MA Thesis later?

Students interested in completing a Master’s Thesis should apply directly and specifically to the traditional Master’s Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Students who have already matriculated into the BA/MA Track and who then decide they want to complete a Thesis must withdraw from the Track and apply separately for the Masters in WGSS with Thesis.

How many graduate classes may I take at undergraduate rates while completing undergraduate work toward the BA portion of the BA/MA Track?

As a rule, the GSNB allows undergraduate students to complete no more than 12 credits (3 classes) at the graduate level at undergraduate tuition rates. These should all be completed while students are technically considered undergraduate students.

Is there any funding available for students completing the BA/MA Track?

Currently, WGSS does not offer funding for any students matriculating into the BA/MA track. Students, however, may check for job openings throughout Rutgers as well as among units of the IWL Consortium: https://iwl.rutgers.edu/consortium/ (see the navigation bar on right-hand side) for job opportunities.

Can I count any BA credits toward the MA degree?

Rutgers SGS allows Rutgers BA students to apply 3 advanced undergraduate credits (or one course) at the 400 level or higher toward the MA portion of their BA/MA degree. These credits must be categorized as WGSS classes (988).

Ultimately, whether these credits will be applied toward the MA is at the discretion of the WGSS MA Director.

May I transfer any graduate credits I have earned as a BA student towards completing the MA portion of the BA/MA track?

WGSS will certainly consider inquiries regarding whether graduate courses taken by students who are undergraduates can be applied toward the MA portion of the degree. Please keep in mind that transfer courses cannot be counted toward core courses in the Track, only toward electives.

As a rule, however, WGSS will only consider for transfer graduate courses up to a limit of three that are officially recorded as WGSS courses and in which a student has earned an ‘A.’ This rule applies also to transfer students seeking to transfer graduate credit from another university toward the graduate work in the BA/MA Track.

Consult the current Graduate Handbook for detailed requirements.

30 Credits total:

• 24 course credits (8 courses)
• 6 credits for Practicum or Thesis

Required courses:

• 988:515 Feminism: Theory and Practice
• 988:520 Agency, Subjectivity and Social Change
• One course in Feminist Theory. Usually either 988:582 Feminist Genealogies or 988:583 Contemporary Feminist Theories. Other courses in feminist theory may also be designated as fulfilling this requirement.
• One course in Feminist Methodology
  • This requirement may be filled by 988:602 Feminist Methodologies or 988:603 Feminist Knowledge Production. Other courses in feminist methodology may also be designated as fulfilling this requirement.
• Four additional courses selected in consultation with the advisor to form an area of concentration related to the interests of the student.

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GEMMA European Exchange Program:

The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Rutgers University has established collaboration with Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA), coordinated by the University of Granada and in cooperation with the GEMMA Consortium.

WGSS is able to send one MA student per year through the duration of the Gemma Program to participate in the GEMMA exchange at European universities associated with the Program. During the exchange, students may either: (1) take graduate-level courses to count toward elective coursework; or (2) carrying out research for their MA practicum or thesis. Such credits or research would then be counted toward the MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. MA students from partner universities in Europe, in turn, would be able to complete research overseen by Rutgers WGS faculty in their fourth semester only.

Faculty at participating institutions may also apply through Gemma to take part in the exchange for research in partner institutions.

The participating European universities are Lodz, Poland; Oviedo, Spain; Granada, Spain; Utrecht, Netherlands; and Bologna, Italy.

Department Contact: Julie Rajan, Director, M.A. Program.

ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTER IN WOMEN´S AND GENDER STUDIES (GEMMA) STUDENT APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

INTER UNIVERSITY CENTER - DUBROVNIK, CROATIA

The Center for Gender and Politics of the Belgrade University - Faculty of Political, the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis host an annual Postgraduate course in Feminist Critical Analysis.

The courses are held at Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik in late May early June. This collaboration encourages active participation and debates that will bring together disciplines from across the humanities, social sciences, art, political theory, cultural studies, and philosophy, etc.

Eligibility: The course is open to candidates with a graduate degree and/or current postgraduate students interested in the topic.
Application: Once an official call has been made interested candidates must send their CV and a short narrative (up to 250 words) explaining their interest in the topic by email.

For more information on Inter University Centre Dubrovnik visit http://www.iuc.hr/index.php

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