Overview
The Educational Studies - Gender and Women's Studies program at the McGill University has been designed to ensure flexibility, and students experience both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific research opportunities. The program begins with a set of common courses and proceeds to specialization through advanced course work and dissertation topics focused on areas of expertise that are supported by the research interests of current faculty members.
The programme
Graduates find work as researchers, teachers, consultants, curriculum developers, and administrators in a wide range of settings, including universities, school boards, government agencies, and international NGOs.
The graduate option in Gender and Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary program for students who meet the degree requirements in a participating unit who wish to earn 6 credits of approved course work focusing on gender and women’s studies, and issues in feminist research and methods. In the graduate option in Gender and Women’s Studies, the Ph.D. thesis must be on a topic centrally relating to issues of gender and/or women’s studies.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Thesis
- Proseminar in Education
- Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination
- Proseminar in Education
- Ph.D. Colloquium
- Feminist Theories and Methods
- Feminist Research Symposium
- Advanced Research Designs
- Textual Approaches to Research
- Advanced Research Designs
- Textual Approaches to Research
- Interpretive Inquiry
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Education Gender & Sexuality Studies View 9 other PhDs in Education in CanadaAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- Online application and application fee
- Transcripts
- Letters of recommendation
- Personal statement
- Writing sample/portfolio
- A research supervisor
- Study permits/student visas
Tuition Fee
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International
20972 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 10486 CAD per semester during 36 months. -
National
5604 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2802 CAD per semester during 36 months.
Funding
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