This program is available at the following location:

• Corvallis

Major Code: 8008

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

MA

• Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
• Apply intersectional feminist theories, methodologies, and methods to advance effective and ethical tactics for social change through scholarship, creative work, community, and/or institutional transformations.
• Prepare for careers in social justice and social change agencies, higher education and/or doctoral-level study as demonstrated through professional and scholarly activities. 
• Demonstrate substantive knowledge in an area of multiracial, transnational, and queer feminist studies through an original significant contribution to scholarship.

PhD

• Produce and defend an original significant contribution to knowledge.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly activities in an ethical manner.
• Apply intersectional feminist theories, methodologies, and methods to advance effective and ethical tactics for social change through scholarship, creative work, community activism, and institutional transformations.
• Create, participate in, and maintain local, national, and transnational communities of WGSS scholars, educators, and activists through community-minded practices contextualized within historical and current intersecting movements for social justice, both inside and outside of academic spaces.
• Prepare for social justice-focused careers in social change agencies and higher education through professional and scholarly activities conducted in an ethical manner.
• Demonstrate doctoral-level knowledge in an area of multiracial, transnational, and queer feminist studies through an original significant contribution to, and implications for, the discipline of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Master of Arts (MA)

MA students will take 45 credits of coursework, including 21 credits of required courses. In addition, students select two courses from cluster area one, one course from each of cluster areas two and three, and elective credits chosen from any of the cluster areas and/or other WGSS/QS courses. Cluster areas include:

1. Women of Color Feminisms/Queer of Color Feminisms
2. Global/Transnational Feminisms
3. Feminist Praxis

MA students must also demonstrate second-year proficiency in a second language.

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WGSS 586, WGSS 587 and WGSS 588 together constitute the equivalent of one 3-credit course within the Feminist Praxis cluster

Second-year proficiency in a second language as demonstrated by:

1. Two years of a college language sequence on the transcript.
2. Scoring at second-year proficiency on a language placement test.
3. Completing the 213 course of a language sequence while enrolled in the MA program.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

PhD students will take 27-28 credits of required courses, as well as 36 dissertation credits, and electives in an area of focus, for a total of 108 credits. No more than two "slash" courses will be accepted toward the degree.

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Students who have already taken WGSS 518 and WGSS 555 at OSU may take WGSS 619 or another approved methods course

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Students who have already taken WGSS 521 at OSU will take WGSS 610

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Students must take 4 terms of colloquium and must present dissertation research once

Major Code: 8008