This fall we launched the Certificate Program in Public Scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center.
It joins a suite of new academic programs which include the Certificate Program in LGBTQ Studies, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies.
Students are required to take to two core courses:
- Introduction to Public Scholarship (3 credits) offered in Fall only, and
- Social Justice and Public Scholarship (3 credits) offered in Spring only
in addition to two electives taken from a rich range of our existing courses and programs that represent the GC’s longstanding tradition of justice-forward, interdisciplinary, non-extractive models of inquiry, knowledge production, and collaboration.
While not an exhaustive list, here’s some of our recommended electives for Spring 2026 for the Public Scholarship Certificate Program:
