Women's Studies

Students graduating from the MSt are eligible to progress to DPhil programmes in the contributing faculties (English, History, Modern Languages, Classics, and Philosophy).

MSt in Women’s Studies

Course Code | 001280 

This interdisciplinary degree equips students with the critical and research tools needed for women’s studies in the humanities. It provides a systematic introduction to feminist theory, and enables students to gain the skills necessary to engage in original research into topics in the humanities relating to women and to gender, in a university with unrivalled facilities for both traditional and computer-age research. Teaching is delivered through close individual supervision, as well as a carefully designed programme of lectures and classes led by specialists from a wide variety of disciplines.

• Length of programme: Nine months
  
• Core and optional courses and programme specification: see the departmental website

English Faculty Library
History Faculty Library
Philosophy Library
Classics Faculty Library
Modern Languages Faculty Library

Information on Academic Staff Profiles

Many of our taught-course students proceed to doctoral degrees both at Oxford or at other universities. Other graduate destinations include teaching, journalism, NGO work, and the civil service.