Apply to WGS Portfolio Program

To go back and read even more detailed information on the WGS Portfolio Program, please click here.

How does this work again?

• MA Students: 3 courses (WGS or cross-listed), two of them in TWO different departments outside your home department
• PhD Students: 4 courses (WGS or cross-listed), two of them in TWO different departments outside your home department
• Send in your application, join the WGS-grad listserve, consider yourself accepted into the program, notify our office when you have completed your requirements or are graduating.  We will send a call for "Graduating Portfolios" at the end of every semester to the WGS-grads list serve.
• Don't forget to present at the WGS Student Conference in the spring semester.  We will send conference submission notices via the WGS-grads list serve.
• WGS Portfolio Students are eligible to apply for the WGS Annual (scholarships) Awards.
• Once all requirements are completed and your graduate degree is awarded, your official UT transcript will read "Portfolio in Women’s & Gender Studies."  In house paper certificates are available upon request.

Application is below.  Be sure to follow directions!

DO NOT send file attachments.  Copy and paste the following into an email, in the subject line please put "CWGS Portfolio Registration: (your UT EID)," and send it to Alma Jackie Salcedo

1 - Application 

If you are new to the program and have not completed any requirements, please fill out the information as best you can. You may resubmit this email to update your portfolio registration requirements at any time.  Please do not include "planned" courses.

Fields with asterisks are required:

*Date Submitted (today's date in MM/DD/YYYY format):

*First Name: 

*Last Name: 

*Email address: 

*UT EID: 

*Estimated Graduation Date:

Address : 

City: 

State: 

Postal Code: 

*Home Department: 

*Program: Master's or Doctoral (choose one) 

Courses Fulfilling Portfolio Requirements

List 4 courses if you are a PhD student. List 3 courses if you are a Master's student. For each class please list - 

Semester and Year:   Unique Number:     Course Number and Title:      Professor:      

This is an interdisciplinary program. At least TWO courses must be taken in TWO different departments outside of the student's home department.

For more information, please review the requirements.

2 - Additional Requirements

WGS Student Conference

List titles of papers and dates of attendance presented at UT WGS student conferences:
This conference is usually in the spring semester.  Our next conference will be scheduled for April 8th 2011.

The CFR deadline is February 11th. Please visit the Conference Website for details.

Statement of Interest

Submit a short paragraph on how WGS fits into your academic experience.

3 - Join the ListServe

WGS Portfolio Students are required to be subscribed to the Women's and Gender Studies Graduate listserve.  Subscribe to the listserve. Please visit: https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/wgs-grads

Students are responsible for keeping in touch with the WGS office.

Please notify the office when you have completed all requirements, so that we may award your portfolio.

Students enrolled in the WGS Portfolio program may apply for the WGS Annual Awards.  When the program is completed, the student's official UT transcript will read, "Portfolio in Women's & Gender Studies." A printed certificate from the Center is also available upon request.  WGS Portfolio students might also be eligilble for travel funds if presenting at a conference.  Contact CWGS for details.