Students in the Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies complete one of the following four core courses designed to provide students with broad theoretical and methodological training in gender and sexuality studies:

• Advanced Feminist Theory
• Social-Science Approaches to Gender and Sexuality
• Queer Theory
• Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Students also complete the following requirements:

• Two additional graduate courses taught by the faculty (courses in Gender Studies, or cross-listed courses in other graduate programs approved by the Director of Graduate Studies in Gender Studies).   These course may include courses from the above core, or others in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies in Gender Studies.
• One-year of enrollment (in the fourth or fifth years of their program of study, and optionally both) in the Gender Studies Doctoral Colloquium, a forum for the circulation and discussion of scholarship and work in progress by advanced graduate students, faculty in the program, and distinguished visitors.

Students will be encouraged to apply for membership in the faculty-graduate student colloquium in Gender Studies during years in which it is offered.