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Undergraduate students at Tulane can earn a certificate in Gender-Based Violence through the School of Liberal Arts.
Many students already dedicate time to working on the issue outside of class through service as members of Sexual Aggression Peer Hotline and Education (SAPHE) or as Peer Health Educators (TUPHEs), as members of the All In student coalition, or as interns in the Title IX office, or at The Well. This certificate offers a curricular complement to that work.
Those in human resources, law, counseling, and medical professions (nurses, doctors, physical therapists, dentists) all engage with victims/survivors of gender-based violence and could benefit from this certificate program.
Speak to your academic advisor about declaring your intent to pursue the certificate.
To receive a certificate in gender-based violence, students must complete 12 credits from an established list of eligible courses. Students must take:
1. either GESS 1900: Sex, Power, and Culture, or SOCI 1010: Sexualities and Society;
and,
2. either SPHU 3500-01: Public Health Approach to Sexual Violence or POLS 4200: The Politics of Rape. (Prerequisites for these courses can be waived for non-Public Health or non-Political Science majors.)
View the Certificate Requirements Checklist.
Other courses may be approved for elective credit on a case-by-case basis by submitting a Degree Audit Substitution request form to Program Administrator, Laura Wolford, lwolford@tulane.edu.
We recommend, where appropriate, that students also complete an honors thesis, independent study research paper, internship, and/or Center for Public Service (CPS) service-learning project on gender-based violence to strengthen their portfolio.
Program Goals:
Learning Outcomes:
Lisa Wade, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Newcomb Institute
Gretchen Clum, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Sally J. Kenney, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science
Karissa Haugeberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Sally J. Kenney, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science
Laura Rosanne Adderley, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History
Aaron Armelie, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Angela Breidenstine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Amy Chaffee, MFA, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Claudia Chavez Arguelles, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Krystal Cleary, Professor of Practice, Communication and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Gretchen Clum, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Julia Fleckman, Ph.D., Research Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Samantha Francois, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Catherine Hancock, JD, Geoffrey C. Bible & Murray H. Bring Professor of Constitutional Law
Karissa Haugeberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Z'étoile Imma, Ph.D., Michael S. Field Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies
Mike Kuczynski, Ph.D., Professor of English
Nghana Lewis, Ph.D., Professor of English and Africana Studies
Jana Lipman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Laura Helen Marks, Ph.D., Professor of the Practice, English
Adeline Masquilier, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
Kathy Oquelí McGraw, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-BACS, LAC, LPP, Director of Field Education & Clinical Assistant Professor
Catherine McKinley, Ph.D., LMSW, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Jenny Mercein, MFA, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Ebony Perro, Ph.D., Professor of the Practice, English
Denese Shervington, MD, Ph.D., School of Medicine
Selamawit D. Terrefe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English
Red Tremmel, Senior Professor of Practice, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Lisa Wade, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Newcomb Institute
Maeve Wallace, Ph.D. MPH, Assistant Professor, Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Director, Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research
Ashley Weir, LCSW-BACS, ACSW, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Forensic Sexual Behavior Program, School of Medicine
For more information:
Program Administrator: Laura Wolford, lwolford@tulane.edu
Faculty Directors:
Lisa Wade, Ph.D., lwade3@tulane.edu
Gretchen Clum, gclum@tulane.edu