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  1. helenjohn

    helenjohn New Member

    I would really appreciate it if anyone shares information on Gender/ women studies PhD distance education or low-residency program at a fully accredited university. Cost is not a problem.

    Helen
     
  2. GeeBee

    GeeBee Member

  3. helenjohn

    helenjohn New Member

    Sorry for not mentioning it earlier, but I was looking for a doctoral program. Thanks anyways.
     
  4. bazonkers

    bazonkers New Member

  5. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

  6. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    Saybrook University has some options through Human Sciences, Psychology, or Organizational Systems that should be conducive. Saybrook is a long-established, non-profit nontraditional school and a leading school in the niche of humanistic psychology. I'd recommend them highly.

    Northcentral University has a Gender Diversity specialization within their Ph.D. in Psychology, and a post-master's Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Gender Diversity made up of courses from the former. Northcentral was established in the 90s and accredited in the 00s and is for-profit.

    If you could pursue your interests within a program in education, psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, public policy, or management, you'd have all sorts of further options in the U.S.

    Or there are foreign options, with some exceptions, uncharted waters. This isn't meant to be a discouragement, just a caution that the process is different. For most of these programs you'd start working on a research proposal now, and try to make a match with a supervisor, an individual professor on faculty, where that supervisor and their school would be willing to shepherd through your doctoral work at a distance. You could often expect one or more short periods face-to-face, as you could with many distance doctorates in the U.S.

    Tell us more about your interests within women's and gender studies, and what you'd like to do with the doctorate?
     
  7. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    For the benefit of anyone searching for distance learning women's studies programs below the doctoral level who hits this thread, a few more:

    Oregon State University
    B.A. or B.S. in Women's Studies
    They seem to advertise heavily - their banner may be on every page - at the Ms. Magazine blog site.

    Fort Hays State University
    Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies
    Based on undergraduate and potentially one or several graduate courses. No women's and gender studies concentration yet in their very popular Master of Liberal Studies, but perhaps you could push something topical through one of the concentrations they do offer.

    Athabasca University
    B.A. concentration, major or minor in Women's and Gender Studies
    University Certificate in Counseling Women
    Master of Arts in Integrated Studies, with specializations available including Equity Studies
    Athabasca is Canada's great distance learning university, and it also holds U.S. regional accreditation.

    University of Illinois Springfield
    B.A. with minor in Women and Gender Studies
    M.A. in Liberal and Integrative Studies with flexible curriculum

    Goddard College
    Flexible B.A., B.F.A., M.A. and M.F.A. programs
    Shows students who have integrated Women's Studies in their work here, and has lots of relevant background in their faculty. Also note the prepackaged Concentration in Sexual Orientation option for their M.A. in Psychology and Counseling.
     
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  9. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    UNISA, the University of South Africa, (not to be confused with the University of South Australia, generally abbreviated UniSA), is often one of the first places people look for a nontraditional doctoral program internationally. Advantages include a strong reputation, low cost, and an institution-wide mandate to teach by a distance. Disadvantages include a tendency to long response times and red tape. Their Institute for Gender Studies would probably be a good first place to contact about UNISA's capacities to supervise a gender studies-themed research degree, through one of the other available subject titles like sociology, psychology or education.
     
  10. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    Oh, and if you want to study women's and gender studies in a religious context through a religious school and program, there are a number of doctorate programs that might work.

    Most of these are Christian, and they do tend to be religiously and often socially conservative. If this would work for any interested party, great! If not, there are also some interesting exceptions, like the doctorates in Jewish Studies from the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies.
     
  11. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    I paged Tom Head, a veteran of the distance learning consumer advocacy scene and this year president of the Jackson Area NOW in Jackson, MS. He writes:

     
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