女权主义理论和研究的指定重点为附属计划的研究生提供了扩大其博士学位的机会。在给定学科的女性主义理论和研究专业。通常，信誉良好的研究生可以报读女性主义理论和研究课程的“指定重点”课程。那些在附属博士学位的学生。完成指定重点要求的课程将在成绩单和博士学位中予以注明。文凭将表明博士 在DE中的培训是女性主义理论和研究的特别重点。
The Native American Studies Graduate Group's interdisciplinary and hemispheric approach includes attention to the increasing diaspora of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, and calls upon the authority of native intelligence to address the issues that concern native peoples. Topics of study include history, religion, philosophy, government, politics, society, and language and linguistics, as well as indigenous community development for autonomy and sovereignty, colonialism, racism, and self-determination, and ethnohistory. At both the M.A. and Ph.D. levels, students have opportunities to develop their teaching skills through teaching assistant and instructor positions.<br><br>The Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Resesarch affords graduate students in affiliated programs the opportunity to augment their Ph.D. in a given discipline with a specialization in Feminist Theory and Research. Typically a graduate student in good standing can enroll in Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research Courses. Those students in affiliated Ph.D. programs who complete the requirements of the Designated Emphasis will have this noted in their transcripts and their Ph.D. diplomas will indicate the Ph.D. training in the DE as Special Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research.