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Certificate Requirements

The certificate program will be administered in conjunction with the Divinity School’s Women’s Center. The faculty advisor to the Women’s Center will serve as the primary contact person for the certificate program.

Requirements: 

To receive the certificate in Gender, Theology, and Ministry, students must meet the following requirements:
  1. MDiv students must declare their intent to participate in the certificate program no later than the spring semester of their middler year. MTS students must declare intent no later than the spring semester of their first year. Both the Women’s Center advisor and the student’s faculty advisor should receive the declaration of intent.
  2. Students must complete three courses in gender studies: WS205, Debates in Women’s Studies (in Duke University’s Women’s Studies Department), or its equivalent; and two courses within the Divinity School or religion department with a clear focus on gender studies.
  3. Students must complete a service learning or research project in the area of gender, theology, and ministry. The project may be conducted in one of four ways:
    1. within a course (but not within any of the three courses that fulfill the previous requirement),
    2. within a directed study,
    3. as an independent community service project, or
    4. within the context of a field education placement (N.B. The field education office is not responsible for facilitating or evaluating this project in any way).
    Ideally the project will take place during the senior year or during the summer prior to the senior year.
  4. During the spring semester of the senior year, students will participate in a monthly colloquy to discuss their service learning projects and/or to share the results of their research. Affiliated faculty members will be responsible for directing the colloquy.