Current MA Students

Master of Arts in Women and Gender Studies

Department Chair: Jillian Sandell
sandell@sfsu.edu

Graduate Coordinator: Nan Alamilla Boyd
alamilla@sfsu.edu

Suggested Timeline for Completion of MA

(Based on Full-time schedule of 9 Units per Semester)

Fall (First Year)

WGS 700: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
Elective
Elective

Spring (First Year)

WGS 712 Queer Theories (formerly Feminist Approaches to Sexual Identities and Cultures)
WGS 713 Intellectual Genealogies (formerly Issues in Feminist Theories)
Elective

By end of Spring semester, begin conceptualizing thesis project and meet with faculty advisor.

Fall (Second Year)

WGS 710 Feminist Social Movements (formerly Women’s Consciousness and Resistance in Cross-Cultural Perspectives)
WGS 820 Feminist Research Methods
Elective
Select 1st and 2nd Thesis Readers
File ATC, Culminating Experience Form, Human and/or Animal Subjects Protocol Form (if applicable) and other related forms (early October)

Spring (Second Year)

Culminating Experience (WGS 894,895,898)
Elective
Elective
Mid-Feb.: File application for Award of Degree/Graduation Form
April 1: Complete a draft of thesis to committee (suggested)
Mid-May:Thesis due to University
Semester End: Fill out Exit Survey

Graduation!!!!

Graduation

On the afternoon of the University Commencement Ceremony (usually from about 2-­5pm), the Department of Women and Gender Studies hosts a party to recognize all graduating WGS BA (major and minor) and MA students and to celebrate with them and their friends and family. The party includes a brief program where each graduating student’s name is read. Students who are graduating in the Fall semester may decide whether or not they would like to be recognized either the semester before or after (not both). The party is free and open to all who would like to join the celebration. In the interests of space, however, we require that students RSVP with the number of their guests by two weeks before the party.