DEWGS Program
The Designated Emphasis program was developed to accommodate some of the many students who conduct
graduate-level research in related topics across numerous fields. Administered by the Department of
Gender & Women's Studies and the Graduate Group in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the DEWGS provides its students with certification as well as with a context for the
interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and development of research.
Applicants will be selected according to their academic qualifications, the appropriateness of
their interests to the program's teaching resources, and the enrollment capacity of its graduate
seminars. To be admitted to the program, applicants must already be accepted into an existing
Ph.D. program at Berkeley (master’s students and students at other institutions are not eligible).
Graduate students should apply in their third semester for admission to the program in their
fourth semester. Students must apply before completing their qualifying examinations.
Students admitted to the Designated Emphasis program will be enrolled in the required introductory
seminar (GWS 200) offered each spring. Students must fulfill the following requirements before
completion of the degree: The introductory seminar (GWS 200), an elective seminar (GWS 210),
and a dissertation research seminar (GWS 220). A member of the Graduate Group in Women, Gender,
and Sexuality must be on the qualifying examination committee; a topic on women, gender, and
sexuality must on the qualifying examination, and a member of the graduate group must be on
the dissertation committee.
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Director
Juana Maria Rodriguez
Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies
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