Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies

The University of Texas at Austin is in the unique position of having a university-wide interdisciplinary graduate program in Women's and Gender Studies. The program's large and diverse faculty is drawn from the university's 18 colleges and schools. The wide array of graduate courses offered provides exposure to cutting-edge scholarship from multiple perspectives and thus offers students an unusual opportunity for cross-disciplinary inquiry at the graduate level. Particular strengths of the faculty include African-American studies, cultural studies, diaspora studies, ethnic studies, feminist theories, health and social welfare, international and post-colonial feminisms, masculinities, media studies, performance studies, popular culture, and public policy.The Center for Women's & Gender Studies offers the Master of Arts degree, two dual degree master's programs with the university's School of Information and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a graduate portfolio program.The Center for Women's & Gender Studies offers a master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies. The master's degree is a two-year program that prepares graduates to pursue Ph.D work in Women's and Gender Studies at another institution or in another discipline. The master's degree also provides good intellectual grounding for further training and professional development in the arts, business, community and non-profit organizations, education, health care, public policy, social work, and technology.