OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Although no graduate degrees are offered in Women's Studies, graduate and professional students enrolled at UNC are encouraged to participate in the Curriculum in Women's Studies in a number of ways. Those wishing to complete a Graduate Minor in Women's Studies should consult the requirements listed below. Others might wish to enroll in graduate-level courses in Women's Studies, conduct research and write theses and dissertations on gender-related topics, and attend the lectures and seminars sponsored by the Curriculum in Women's Studies. Employment opportunities are available in the form of teaching assistantships in the introductory undergraduate Women's Studies course and as graduate assistant in the Women's Studies Office. Students interested in graduate degrees may also wish to contact the UNC-CH Department of History for information regarding the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Women's History.



GRADUATE MINOR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

The Curriculum in Women's Studies offers a graduate minor which requires Ph.D. students to take 15 credit hours in crosslisted courses at the 200 or 300 level. Courses must be distributed as follows:

9 credit hours in crosslisted courses in two different disciplines outside the student's major. These courses may include theory courses beyond the three-credit requirement.

3 credit hours in feminist theory; this course may be taken in any department, including the student's major department.

3 credit hours in a Women's Studies seminar for graduate minors. (WMST 299)

Graduate students minoring in Women's Studies must include on their doctoral committee a faculty member who teaches Women's Studies courses.



GRADUATE LEVEL COURSEWORK IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

Courses numbered 100-199 are designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Contact the professor teaching the course to see if additional work can be provided in order to obtain graduate credit. Courses numbered 200-399 are for graduate students only. Please consult the Curriculum Course Listing. These courses may not all be offered every year. Contact the Women's Studies Office for a current Course Promotion Packet.

Graduate students enrolled at UNC-CH may also take courses at Duke University at no additional cost. A list of courses at Duke is available through the UNC Women's Studies Office. New courses are continually added to the curriculum and one-time course offerings on special topics are often featured. Please consult the Women's Studies Office for an updated listing.



WOMEN'S STUDIES FACULTY

The large number of faculty members at UNC-CH who have teaching and research interests in Women's Studies and gender issues offer ample opportunity for students to undertake theses and dissertations in a variety of disciplines. (Please see the Guide to Research on Women's Issues at UNC-CH for a detailed listing of faculty and their research interests.)



LIBRARY RESOURCES

UNC-CH has the most extensive holdings of library materials on women's studies in the South. The libraries of the University maintain major acquisitions programs for current and retrospective materials on women and related topics. Although resources on women in nearly all areas of the humanities and social sciences are collected to some extent, library holdings are particularly strong in history, politics, and socioeconomic conditions and for Southern women, Afro-American women, feminism/women's rights, and labor. In addition to printed resources, UNC-CH libraries possess significant collections of research materials on women in the form of sound and video recordings, photographs, oral history, transcripts, manuscripts, and computer-readable files. Many of these are housed in the Southern Historical Collection. Further information on these resources can be found in Resources for Women's Studies in the University of North Carolina Libraries. (published in 1984 and available at various campus libraries). A guide to women's interviews in the Southern Oral History Program was published in 1992.

Additionally, students at UNC-CH have access to the library resources at Duke University which also has extensive holdings for research on women.