Central European University (CEU)
Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA)
Vienna, Austria
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 12,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* application deadline for applicants for master’s programs who wish to be considered for CEU financial aid (where available).
** payable in one or two installments, non-refundable initial tuition fee installment (€500 EUR) is paid to confirm your acceptance of our offer of admission and is credited towards the 1st tuition fee installment in year 1
Key Summary
What is GEMMA?
GEMMA (Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women's and Gender Studies) is a two-year Postgraduate interdisciplinary study programme that provides high-quality education and professional competencies for personnel working or intending to work in the areas of Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities across Europe and beyond. Students benefit from international mobility as they study at two different European universities and obtain a double diploma from the Home and Mobility institutions. They can also conduct research outside Europe and participate in internships. The GEMMA Master has 41 associated partners, including 45 prestigious partners such as the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Universidad Estatal de Campinas in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Universidad de Chile (Chile), Florida International University (USA), Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico), Rutgers University (USA), University of Columbia (USA), University of New York (USA), University of Redlands (USA), Cátedra UNESCO de Cultura y Educación para la Paz Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador), Cátedra de la Mujer at Universidad de la Habana, Cuba, and the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb (Croatia). From 2019, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the United Nations Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme of the University of Iceland have joined them also as associate partners.
Why Study GEMMA?
GEMMA is the first Erasmus Mundus Master´s Degree in Women's and Gender Studies in Europe. It was originally selected by the European Commission in 2006, again in 2011 and 2017, and a fourth time in 2019. It is, therefore, a programme of excellence distinguished from amongst 150 submitted project proposals as “a pilot project and model in the field of Women´s Studies and Gender Studies from a European and global perspective”.
At the end of their studies, GEMMA students obtain a double degree, issued by the two institutions where they have conducted their studies.
Program Accreditation/Registration
- The program was approved and registered by the New York State Education Department
- Program accredited by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (AQ-Austria)
To master’s candidates, we award financial aid based on academic merit. You can apply for financial support for master’s studies in the Funding section of the Online Application Form.
Prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarships under the framework of Erasmus + are offered to European Students*. The scholarships cover tuition fees, health insurance, and travel and installation costs and include a monthly allowance.
In addition, there are scholarships for Scholars who wish to complete a 2 to 4-week research and teaching visit of at one of the GEMMA Consortium partner universities.
The duration of the program is twenty-four months (120 ECTS), starting from September 2023. The languages used by the consortium universities are English, Italian, and Spanish, depending on the university. At CEU language of instruction is English. While studying at CEU, GEMMA students are strongly encouraged to use the advice and help of the Center for Academic Writing. In case they need more substantial help with English, they should consult with the Head of the Department and with the GEMMA coordinator.
The program is structured as follows
Core Component: (30 ECTS/15 CEU credits), to be taken at the home university during the first year of studies.
The Core Component is organized around the courses in the three main areas, the same at all consortium universities: (Feminist History; Feminist Theory; Feminist Methodology).
Electives/practice/specialization: (60 ECTS/30 CEU credits).
Divided into:
- Electives cluster A: 30 ECTS (to be taken at the home university in the first year of
studies) - Electives cluster B (mobility semester): 3rd Semester. 30 ECTS (to be taken at the host
university)
Master’s thesis: 4th semester (30 ECTS credits, can be defended either at the home or at the host
university)
Mobility Semester
It is obligatory for GEMMA students to spend 3rd semester as a mobility semester at one of the partner universities from the GEMMA consortium, here referred to as the host university. During the third semester, at the latest by the end of October in the second year of their studies, students have to decide where they want to spend their fourth semester and to defend their thesis, at home or at a host university, and to inform both universities about their decision. All eligible GEMMA students can apply in the first year of their studies for an Erasmus exchange grant to fund their mobility semester. You will receive the call for applications with detailed guidelines from the Erasmus Office in due course. Please be aware that the application process requires some time, so you need to start it earlier to respect the deadline.
Graduates of the GEMMA program are conversant with
- The major fields and themes of interdisciplinary gender studies and knowledge and scholarly debate on related elements like race, class, global inequality, etc.;
- The conceptual framework of Gender Studies, as well as the theories and methods of interdisciplinary thinking applied in its study;
- A range of methods in use in social sciences and humanities and how they have been applied in gender studies when analyzing texts and social, political, and cultural phenomena;
- How gender concepts, theories, and methods have been deployed in other areas of the social sciences and humanities;
- The principle of professional ethics and how to put them into use in gender studies;
- In-depth knowledge from a cross-national perspective in a chosen area of study across the wide area of women’s and gender studies.