Gender-Based Violence 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.

• HISU 2400: Women & Gender in the U.S. to 1864
• HISU 2410: Women & Gender in the U.S. since 1861
• HISU 2500: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law
• HISU 6260: New Directions in Women’s History
• HISU 6350: History of Gender Violence in the U.S.
• MUSC 2164: Women Die in Opera 
• PSDV 4330: Post-Conflict Development: Transitional Justice
• PSDV 4200: Women and Development in Africa
• POLI 4510: Women and War
• SOWK 1000: Trauma! A Survey Course
• SOWK 2100: Family Trauma: A Survey Course
• SOWK 2510: Making Meaning of Trauma
• THEA 4420: Theatre as Preventative to Address Toxicity and Promote Social Change on Campus 

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:

1. To provide the intellectual foundations for students who want to end gender-based violence, challenge rape culture, and serve as activists in the anti-violence movement.
2. To ground students in the academic literature on gender-based violence.
3. To appreciate how the study of gender-based violence is illuminated by an interdisciplinary approach.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will be able to analyze theories of gender-based violence and apply them to public health and public policy issues and prevention/intervention programs.
2. Students will be able to identify the scope, causes, risk factors, and consequences of gender-based violence.
3. Students will be able to develop evidence-based strategies for the prevention and intervention of sexual violence from a public health and public policy perspective.
4. Students will demonstrate a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed approach to issues of gender-based violence globally.
5. Students will be able to identify and articulate the significant writers on gender-based violence and how they have framed gender-based violence as a social problem.

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