British Isles
Undergraduates
We recommend the use of the UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service) website to find details of courses related to the study of women and gender studies located at British universities. UCAS is responsible for managing applications to higher education courses in the UK:
Postgraduates
UKPASS aims to aide postgraduate researchers to find up to date course information and can similarly be used to find courses teaching women and gender studies in the UK. The organisation is affiliated with UCAS.
Further/Adult/College education
Hot Courses enables researchers to find available educational courses in the UK from Higher education to local college courses:
Please be aware that when searching for courses the sites ask for Keywords which allows for a greater variety of results to be located, covering different terms. Therefore rather than just searching for the term 'women', it may also be useful to search for 'gender' or 'feminist', 'sexism' and so on. Similarly 'sexuality', 'gender', 'identity', and 'queer' could also be used as alternatives depending on the research interest of the user.
International
Artemis Guide to Women's Studies in the USA
Alphabetical directory of over 400 programs for women's studies, arranged by state.
Canadian Women's Studies
Established in the early 1970s the University of Toronto's Women and Gender Studies Institute serves as an institutional base for research, teaching, intellectual exchange and collaboration in feminist and gender studies. WGSI brings together the many distinguished scholars and students doing work in this significant field, located in a variety of faculties and departments across the University
The centre for Womens and Gender Studies, in Turin, Italy was establisehd in 1991 by a group of women teachers and researchers form Turin University to promote research among scholars of gender and women's studies. IN 2000-2001, CIRSDe launched on-line courses about gender issues and a quartely review.
Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women (USA)
Established at Brandeis University, Massachusetts in 1997, the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women is the world's first university-based research institute devoted to the study of Jewish women. The HIRIJW supports interdisciplinary research on Jewish women's historical and contemporary experiences. The Institute works to increase knowledge about Jewish women around the world, carrying out activities in partnership with other universities and organizations. It aims to develop international networks of Jewish women scholars and community leaders.
KVINFO - Danish Center for Information on Women and Gender
KVINFO's main purpose is to promote the results of women and gender research to the general public in Denmark.
KVINNFORSK - Senter for kvinneforskning og kvinner i forskning = Center for Women's Studies and Women in Research, Norway
Website of the centre for women's studies at the University of Tromsø, Norway
Loyola University Chicago (USA):Centre for Women and Leadership
As part of its continuing commitment to women's higher education, Loyola University Chicago established the Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, Center for Women and Leadership. Designed to honor an outstanding past president of the original Mundelein College, a former women's college that joined with Loyola in 1991, the Gannon Center promotes women's studies programs and progress and provides archives documenting women in leadership and education.
Minerva Centre (USA)
A nonprofit educational foundation based in Pasedena Maryland, supporting study of women in war and women and the military.
National Women's Education Center of Japan (NWEC)
NWEC aims to promote women's education and contribute to realising a gender-equal society. Affiliated with the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology it offers training programmes and conducts research on women's education.
Netherlands Research School for Women's Studies
The Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies (NOV) is established on a collaborative basis in the field of women's studies. The Researchers of eight major research groups participate in the NOV. Thus the majority of top research in women's studies in the Netherlands is conducted under the auspices of the NOV. The research groups share responsibility for planning the research programme and for training Ph.D. students. The options in the International Training programme vary from doing a Full Ph.D in Women's Studies to joining the short intensive programme or receiving coaching on a specific subject.
Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research
NIKK - the Nordic Institute for Women' Studies and Gender Research is an interdisciplinary Nordic research institution financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. NIKK is a forum for feminist, women's and men's studies, gender research and activities in the Nordic countries. NIKK's aim is to advance, initiate, co-ordinate and inform about Women's Studies and Gender Research both within and outside of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden)."
Simmons Women's College (USA): Centre for Gender in Organizations
Simmons provided several women centred courses. The Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) at Simmons School of management is an international resource committed to improving organizational effectiveness by strengthening gender equity for those at work. It understands that gender operates simultaneously with race, class, ethnicity, age, and sexual identity in shaping organizational systems and practices as well as individuals' identities and experiences at work. Its focus is at the intersection of research, and it pursues its mission through action research, consultations, education, convening, and information dissemination.
University of California at Berkeley: Gender & Women's Studies
The Berkeley Women's Studies Program was founded in 1976 to expand the existing curriculum by introducing the subject of women into serious academic inquiry. Women's studies considers the position of women throughout history, across the world, and in different economic, ethnic and racial groups. It engages the question of gender itself: although all societies make gender distinctions, how do they differ from one culture to another, how have definitions of male and female roles evolved, how are they perpetuated, and how might they be redefined? It examines the sexual inequality and conflict created by gendered roles and the rapid transformation of those roles today.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA): Gender and Women's Studies
UMBC offers a range of courses in Gender and Women's Studies
University of Melbourne: Gender Studies
The Gender Studies program centres on an interdisciplinary study of recent developments in feminist theory and on feminist critiques of existing disciplines, with an emphasis on a critical feminist engagement with Eurocentrism in gender studies.
University of Queensland: Gender Studies
Providing undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities for research into women's lives, their status in society, and the dilemmas and contradictions in gender relations and sexualities.
Wellesley Centers for Women (USA)
For more than a quarter century, the Wellesley Centers for Women, part of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has been a driving force, both behind the scenes and in the spotlight, promoting positive change for women and girls. America's largest women's research center, WCW is the powerful alliance of the Stone Center and the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College.
Women's Studies Programs, Departments and Research Centres
This site (maintained by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) provides links to more than 650 women's studies (including gender studies) programs, departments, and research centers around the world that have web sites.