2013–2014 The Bulletin - USS at Tufts - Tufts University

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Experience (IPE)—is required of WSSS students
choosing Track P. The goal is for students to work
in an area related to their WSSS research topics and
thereby to further integrate training, practice, and
research. Students and their faculty mentors,
however, may select other IPE placements tailored
to the student’s interests. Through the IPE—which
often takes the form of an internship—students
gain professional-level experience and may develop
opportunities for future research and subsequent
employment. Students may secure their own IPE or
seek the advice of WSSS faculty with similar
interests. Indeed, WSSS faculty offer an impressive
array of potential opportunities in a wide range of
international and domestic organizations.
WSSS students conduct interdisciplinary research
in the areas where Tufts has well-established
research programs:
1. Water, Climate and Environmental Change
2. Water and Public Health
3. Water Pollution and Remediation Science
4. Watershed Management
5. Water, Food and Livelihood Security
6. Water Diplomacy
The WSSS graduate certificate requirements are
completed in addition to the student’s degree
requirements, but through the use of electives
and co-listed courses, the WSSS program usually
will not add additional time to a graduate degree
program. Upon completion of these activities,
students receive a certificate and transcript notation
for Water: Systems, Science, and Society as well as
their graduate degree.
Note: There occasionally may be modifications to the
requirements over time; therefore, please confirm with
school coordinators or program co-chairs at time of
application.
For more information, please contact
John.Durant@tufts.edu, 617-627-5489, or
Emily.Geosling@tufts.edu, 617-627-5522.
For more detailed information, such as the WSSS
handbook, meeting agendas, student and alumni
information and many other resources, please visit
the website http://www.tufts.edu/water/.
Women’s, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies
DIRECTOR:
Associate Professor Sonia Hofkosh, English/WGSS
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR:
Andrea Carlino
AFFILIATED FACULTY:
More than fifty faculty members across Arts & Sciences are
affiliated with WGSS as teaching faculty and/or mentors for
senior projects. For an updated list and information about
affiliated faculty please see the Program website:
http://ase.tufts.edu/wgss.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an
interdisciplinary program that focuses on research
and teaching in three overlapping fields of inquiry.
Scholarship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies integrates knowledge and methodologies
from many disciplines to analyze the various
historical and political circumstances, social and
economic forces, and cultural representations that
shape gendered lives. It emphasizes the fundamental
intersection of gender and sexuality with
other crucial categories of human identity and
experience, including race, ethnicity, and class. It
explores the connections between the individual
and institutional systems of power in local, national,
and transnational contexts. It draws on the insights
of feminist theory and practice and develops new
modes of critical thought and new models for
activism. The Program offers a number of interdisciplinary
courses, including introductory courses
and special topics courses open to all undergraduates;
in addition, it brings together a wide range
of courses taught in different departments and
programs, each contributing a unique approach to
specific topics and materials within the broad and
diverse study of women, gender, and sexuality.
Undergraduate Major Requirements
The major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies gives students the opportunity to pursue
their own intellectual interests within the multifaceted
study of women, gender, and sexuality. All
majors take three interdisciplinary courses offered
by the Program (72: Intro to WGSS, 190: Doing
Feminist Research, and 193: Senior Project); two
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