Beginning in Fall 2021, undergraduate students can earn a certificate in Gender-Based Violence through the School of Liberal Arts.
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.
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.
Speak to your academic advisor about declaring your intent to pursue the certificate.
To receive a certificate in gender-based violence, students would complete 12 credits of work from an established list of eligible courses. Students must take:
1. either GESS 1900: Sex, Power, and Culture, or SOCI 2100: Intro to Sexuality;
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.
Courses offered Fall 2021:
Other courses may be approved for elective credit on a case-by-case basis by submitting a Degree Audit Substitution request form to Program Director, Sally J. Kenney, skenney@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:
Sally J. Kenney, PhD, Professor, Political Science; Newcomb Endowed Chair and Executive Director, Newcomb Institute
Gretchen Clum, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Karissa Haugeberg, PhD, Associate Professor of History
Lisa Wade, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Newcomb Institute
Sally J. Kenney, PhD, Professor, Political Science; Newcomb Endowed Chair and Executive Director, Newcomb Institute
Laura Rosanne Adderley, PhD, Associate Professor, History
Aaron Armelie, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Angela Breidenstine, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Amy Chaffee, MFA, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Claudia Chavez Arguelles, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Gretchen Clum, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Julia Fleckman, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Samantha Francois, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Maurya Glaude, PhD, MSW, LCSW-BACS, Associate Director of Field Education & Professor of the Practice, Social Work
Catherine Hancock, JD, Geoffrey C. Bible & Murray H. Bring Professor of Constitutional Law
Karissa Haugeberg, PhD, Associate Professor of History
Mike Kuczynski, PhD, Professor of English
Nghana Lewis, PhD, Professor of English and Africana Studies
Jana Lipman, PhD, Associate Professor of History
Laura Helen Marks, PhD, Professor of the Practice, English
Adeline Masquilier, PhD, Professor of Anthropology
Kathy Oqueli McGraw, PhD, MPH, LCSW, LPP, Undergraduate Course Coordinator, Adjunct Faculty, School of Social Work
Catherine McKinley, PhD, LMSW, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Jenny Mercein, MFA, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Ebony Perro, PhD, Professor of the Practice, English
Denese Shervington, MD, PhD, School of Medicine
Izabela Steflja, PhD, Professor of the Practice, International Development
Nubian Sun, PhD, LCSW-BACS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Social Work
Sally Terrefe, PhD, Assistant Professor, English
Lisa Wade, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Newcomb Institute
Maeve Wallace, PhD 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 Director: Sally J. Kenney, skenney@tulane.edu
Program Administrator: Laura Wolford, lwolford@tulane.edu