INTELLECTUAL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE (up to three pages double spaced) that explains why the applicant wants to pursue a graduate degree in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. This statement should emphasize the applicant's scholarly interests, future career plans, and explain how a graduate degree in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department is the logical next step in the applicant's professional and intellectual development. Applicants to the master's degree program should discuss the FIELDS OF STUDY within women's studies as a discipline that currently interest you. What themes within these fields strike you as compelling for further intensive study? Applicants to the doctoral degree program should have clearly delineated FIELDS OF STUDY, as well as a relatively good idea of what type of dissertation topic you might pursue.