History
In 1878, the Fathers of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and the Immaculate Heart of Mary established a College of Arts and Letters, which was incorporated in 1882 as Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost with authority to great degrees in the arts and sciences. In 1911, the College and University Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania extended the charter to university status and approved the amendment in favor of the corporate title, Duquesne University. Since that time, the Graduate School in the College has grown significantly, now encompassing nine departments, several Centers and Institutes, and offering over two dozen graduate degrees and certificates.
Mission and Philosophy
College Mission Statement: "The College prepares students for productive and creative lives of service in a rapidly changing world. We teach students to think, write, and speak clearly and critically, so they can seek truth about God, themselves, and society, and contribute to their families, communities, businesses, and professions."
Centers and Facilities
The lab has state-of-the-art hardware and cutting edge software that students and
faculty are utilizing for course projects and community outreach. The lab features
five Mac and Dell computer stations. Four of these double as oral history transcription
stations, and two are designed to handle special projects.
The labs can be accessed on a 24-hour basis (except during posted class times) by
using your ID card to swipe into the rooms. Cards are activated at the beginning of
each semester. It usually takes two weeks for your card to become activated.
The 205 lab makes use of a Media Site recording system, allowing users to view class
sessions live or later.
Duquesne University has established a reputation as a locus for interpretive and qualitative
research in the humanities, with phenomenological, hermeneutic, post-structural, critical
theory and feminist research in departments such as philosophy, communications and
English literature.
Several social science departments nourish qualitative approaches in their graduate
programs. The psychology department has a long history of developing phenomenological,
psychoanalytic and post-structural methods. The sociology department has developed
visual and traditional ethnographic methods as well as social action research.
Departments outside the liberal arts have attracted faculty whose work advances qualitative
research in fields where quantitative research has traditionally been required. Faculty
members in the nursing school utilize ethnomethodology or grounded theory. Others
in the health sciences adopt phenomenological approaches. Faculty in the school of
education engage in semiotic and social justice research.
CIQR brings together a diverse group of faculty and graduate students interested in
qualitative and interpretive methodology.
For the Concentration, a total of 9 graduate credit-hours (3 courses) of WSGS courses
officially cross-listed with courses offered by the various graduate programs.
For the Certificate, a total of 15 graduate credit-hours (5 courses) of WSGS courses
officially cross-listed with courses offered by the various graduate programs.
All requirements listed below are for both the Concentration and the Certificate:
Course Modifications
In addition to the above courses, students may also submit a proposal to substitute
a non-WGS course to fulfill a requirement for the WGS Graduate Certificate or Concentration.
Consult the specifications prior to submitting a proposal.
Registration
Students register for the Graduate Certificate or Concentration Program by completing
the enrollment form and scheduling a meeting with the Director of the Center for Women's
and Gender Studies. It is best for graduate students to enroll as early as possible
in their graduate program to discuss their program of study for the Certificate or
Concentration. Students are then to meet with the Director each term before registering
for courses to seek the Director's approval of courses they take for the Certificate
or Concentration.
Course Completion
At the end of each semester, students in the Certificate/Concentration Programs should
submit a Course Completion form for all WGS courses taken that term.
Graduation
Graduate students should meet with the director to complete the Women's and Gender
Studies Certificate or Concentration graduation steps.
Conference Funding
A limited amount of conference funding is available each year for WSGS graduate students
presenting work related to women's, gender, and/or sexuality studies. Contact the
Center for Women's and Gender Studies for more information, or email us your application
for WGS Graduate Conference Funding and all relevant forms.
The goal of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center is to promote and facilitate
original phenomenological research, and thereby add to the corpus of literature in
all disciplines, especially in continental philosophy, psychology as a human science,
the philosophy and ethics of communication and rhetoric, and theology.
Located on the first floor of Duquesne's Gumberg Library, the Phenomenology Center's
Collections form part of the Library's special collections. The Center acquires materials
in all fields, wherever a phenomenological approach is used or criticized. These holdings
include purchased and donated works in phenomenological philosophy and psychology,
as well as geography, music, ophthalmology, pedagogy, law, nursing, psychology, theology,
and communications. The Center also holds the entire personal libraries of Erwin Straus,
Stephan Strasser, Aron Gurwitsch, Amedeo Giorgi, and Adriaan Peperzak, as well as
books from the collections of Jan Bouman, Charles Maes, Rolf von Eckartsberg, André
Schuwer, O.F.M., and Edward L. Murray.
Administration and Program Directors
Dean
blairk2@duq.edu
John Kern, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
kernj@duq.edu
Linda Rendulic
Assistant to the Dean
rendulic@duq.edu
irwinm@duq.edu
hookd@duq.edu
wachsa@duq.edu
Erik Garrett, Ph.D.
garrette@duq.edu
wrights3@duq.edu
gielenj@duq.edu
stelzelp@duq.edu
kernj@duq.edu
tanesz@duq.edu
rodemeyer@duq.edu
bordeianur@duq.edu
Graduate Degrees