Acceptance into the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory program requires admission to a Binghamton University graduate program and approval of the student's application by the Women's Studies Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory committee. 

Undergraduate level work in Women's or Feminist Studies is not required for admission. 
The Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory can be earned at both the masters and at the doctoral level.

The Certificate webpage:  http://gradschool.binghamton.edu/ps/certificates.html 

Requirements at the master's level: The masters level graduate certificate in Feminist Theory consists of three graduate courses in feminist theory.

Of these:

1. No more than one can be generated by the student's home department or program, and

 
2. One must specifically address feminist theory in its relationship to women's social movements. The master's level certificate is available only to students who are not continuing on to earn a doctoral degree at Binghamton University. 

1. complete at least one graduate course in an area that is relevant to Women's Studies and

 
2. Write a doctoral thesis in which some aspect of Feminist Theory is applied and/or developed. Doctoral students who come to Binghamton with a masters degree can use some of the appropriate courses that they took in their masters programs to meet the four course requirement. 

Although it is not a condition for the successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory, students in the program are strongly encouraged to attend its colloquia and workshops. 

1. A course in feminist theory can originate in any discipline or be interdisciplinary in its orientation.

 
2. The requirement for a course that addresses feminist theory in the context of movements can be satisfied only by courses that place theoretical material contextually using historical, sociological, and political analyses and original as well as secondary sources. For a course of this kind it is important to bring out the situational circumstances of theoretical developments and the relationship of theory and practice.

 
3. Of the three course requirements at the master's level or four at the doctoral level one course can address theoretically issues or questions important to feminism not necessarily from a feminist perspective. Issues and questions of this kind are those addressed, for example, by Marxist/socialist theorists, critical race theorists, queer theorists, or postcolonial theorists. Students should add an explanatory note to their application in case they want to include such a course. 

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