Program: Global Gender Studies MA - University at Buffalo

Apr 09, 2025

WORKING 2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

The Master’s in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies requires a student to design, in consultation with their academic advisor(s), a coherent interdisciplinary program of study in one of two concentrations: Feminist Studies or Global Gender and Sexuality Studies.
•Feminist Studies concentrates on developing perspectives in literary studies, feminist, queer, and trans theory, and cultural studies.
•Global Gender and Sexuality Studies concentrates on developing transnational perspectives on the construction of gender, gender relations, and the social and institutional structures of gender in society.

Required Core (6 credits)

Feminist Theory (3 credits)

GGS 518SEM - Readgs in Feminist Theory Credits: 3

Methods Course (3 credits)

Select 1 from:

GGS 540SEM - New Ethnographic Methods Credits: 3
GGS 709SEM - Quantitative Met Soc Res Credits: 3
APY 508SEM - Qualitative Research Methods Credits: 3

Feminist Studies or Global Gender Seminars (15 credits)

Select 5 from:

GGS 518SEM - Readgs in Feminist Theory Credits: 3
GGS 521SEM - Democracy & Gender Credits: 3
GGS 525SEM - Women’s Movements Credits: 3
GGS 560SEM - Special Topics Credits: 1 - 3
GGS 561SEM - Special Topics Credits: 3
GGS 570SEM - International Organizations, Gender and Sustainability Credits: 3
GGS 590SEM - Feminism and Body Politic Credits: 3
GGS 601SEM - Globalization & Gender Credits: 3
GGS 660SEM - Special Topics Credits: 3
GGS 661SEM - Special Topics Credits: 3
GGS 662SEM - Whiteness, Blackness, and the Construction of Race Credits: 3

Electives & Culminating Experience (11 credits)

Electives

Number of elective credits may vary depending on choice made to complete the culminating experience. Be sure to complete enough elective credit to reach 32 minimum total credit hours.

Select from all GGS graduate level courses.

Culminating Experience: Thesis or Project

GGS 620TUT - Supervised Research Credits: 1 - 6 (Project only)
GGS 700TUT - M.A. Thesis Supervision Credits: 1 - 6 (Thesis only)
GGS 520TUT - Directed Reading Credits: 1 - 3 (project or thesis, as deemed appropirate by major advisor)

Total Credit Hours: 32

3.0 Degree GPA required

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

1) Critically analyze the social construction of gender, especially how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, locality, class, and sexuality.

2) Evaluate gendered societal practices, including the conceptualization of difference, the production and recreation of femininity and masculinity, the division of labor, and the creation and maintenance of social institutions. 3) Explain the varieties of feminist theories, including an analysis of the debates that have shaped the development of feminist scholarship.

4) Develop effective written communication skills to be able to effectively, clearly and coherently communicate intellectual thought. All MA Students assessed at end of first semester in graduate program through scoring rhetoric

5) Read documents closely and critically in order to explain and evaluate the central arguments of academic scholarship.

6) Apply feminist methods, including critical selfreflection and ethical practices, to plan and conduct original research.

7) Imagine a world that reflects feminist principles of liberation, social justice, respect and care

SED Statement

This program is officially registered with the New York State Education Department (SED).