Requirements for the M.A. Degree

Effective Fall 2009

OVERVIEW 

Coursework:  A total of 32 credits are required for the M.A. degree in the Department of Global Gender Studies, out of which at least 21 credits should be taken from the department. It includes a minimum of seven courses, of which five core courses are required: one theory course (Readings in Feminist Theory), one methods course (Quantitative Research Methods) or (Ethnographic Methods) and three other courses within one of the two Global Gender Studies major concentrations. A minimum of seven intensive seminars, elective courses, a maximum of two independent studies courses (optional), comprise the required course work toward the M.A. degree completion.

Major concentration:  The M.A. program requires a student to design, in consultation with his/her academic advisor(s), a coherent interdisciplinary program of study in one of two concentrations: Feminist Studies or Global Gender Studies.

  • Feminist Studies with academic content in literary studies, feminist theory, and cultural identity formation and transfer.
  • Global Gender Studies with academic content in the construction of gender, gender relationship, and social and institutional structures of gender in society.

Supervised Research (WS 620), M.A. Thesis Supervision (WS 700) and Directed Reading (WS 520): The department encourages each M.A. graduate student to fulfill his/her credit requirements primarily through taking graduate seminars. As a student approaches the completion of his/her degree, it may be appropriate for the student to register for supervised research, M.A. thesis supervision, or directed reading courses with his/her  major tenure/tenured-track faculty, or other University at Buffalo (UB) tenure/tenured-track faculty, with expertise in his/her area(s) of interest for the purposed of independent research. A student who chooses the creative project as his/her M.A. degree requirement may also need to enroll in a Supervised Research (WS 620) course with his/her major tenure/tenured-track faculty, or other UB tenure/tenured-track faculty, with expertise in his/her area(s) of interest.

Please click here to review the process for completion of the M.A. Degree.