Law students are eligible to earn a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the Women’s Studies Department in the UNLV College of Liberal Arts. The Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate Program provides acredential and theory, knowledge, and skills that can be useful in a variety of professions, including law.

The Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate requires a fifteen-unit program of coursework. The classes include required graduate courses in Feminist Theory, Principles of Feminist Inquiry, and Directed Readings and Research, and six units of elective courses on women or gender. The law school will accept six credit hours of Women’s Studies graduate coursework to be applied to the J.D. degree requirements, and the Women’s Studies Department will accept three credit hours of relevant J.D. course work, and three credits from another department.

A variety of law school courses, including, for example, Feminist Jurisprudence, Employment Discrimination, Family Law, and Domestic Violence and the Law, qualify for the certificate program. For a full-time law student, women’s studies course work begins after completion of required first-year course work. Once enrolled in the Boyd School of Law, students apply for admission to this certificate program by submitting a letter of interest to the Women’s Studies Department.