Program Requirements
The Joint Honours program offers a significant degree of analysis and depth of study into contemporary and historical critical issues centered on gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice beyond the Major through required and complementary course work, intensive research, and seminars. The program enables students to explore the meanings and intersections of such categories as gender, race, class, sexual identification, age, ability, citizenship, and national identity, for example, and to examine how such categories might inform and reproduce power relationships. The Joint Honours program culminates in the completion of an Honours thesis, supervised by a faculty member whose approval is sought the year prior. The Colloquium requires supplemental reading and writing assignments, training in research and thesis writing methods, presentation to the group of theses in progress, and response to the work of others. Joint Honours students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 and a CGPA of 3.00.
Students are advised to take GSFS 200 and GSFS 250 in their first year in the program, and GSFS 300 in their second year of the program. Students must take GSFS 495D1/D2 and GSFS 497D1/D2 in their last full year of the program.
Students must see and adviser in Women's Studies at a minimum upon registering in GSFS and prior to selecting courses for the final year of study.
Required Courses (15 credits)
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GSFS 200 Feminist and Social Justice Studies (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Hwang, Maria (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
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GSFS 250 Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Benedicto, Roberto (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
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GSFS 300 Research Inquiry in GSFS (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Ketchum, Alex (Winter)
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GSFS 495D1 Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium (1.5 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ketchum, Alex (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 495D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
Note: GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium must be completed concurrently with either Honours Thesis or Joint Honours Thesis course in the students鈥� final year of study.
Students must register for both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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GSFS 495D2 Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium (1.5 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Ketchum, Alex (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 495D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
Note: GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium must be completed concurrently with either Honours Thesis or Joint Honours Thesis course in the students鈥� final year of study.
Students must register for both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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GSFS 497D1 Joint Honours Thesis (1.5 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Supervised reading and preparation of a Joint Honours thesis under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 497D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
Note: GSFS Honours Thesis course must be completed concurrently with GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium in students鈥� final year of study.
Students must register for both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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GSFS 497D2 Joint Honours Thesis (1.5 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Supervised reading and preparation of a Joint Honours thesis under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 497D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
Note: GSFS Honours Thesis course must be completed concurrently with GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium in students鈥� final year of study.
Students must register for both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Complementary Courses (21 credits)
9 credits selected from the GSFS Course List, 3 credits of which must be at the 400 or 500 level.
12 credits selected from the Complementary Course List. Three credits minimum must be at the 400 or 500 level and 9 credits maximum may be at the 200 level.
Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines.
Maximum of 12 transfer credits may be accepted by approved exchange programs, subject to University approval.
Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS)
9 credits from the following:
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GSFS 301 Current Topics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 302 Current Topics 2 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 303 Gender and Disability (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Munoz, Yolanda (Fall)
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GSFS 304 Postcolonial Feminist Theories (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 305 Critical Race and Social Justice Theories (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hwang, Maria (Fall)
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GSFS 306 Queer Theory (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Greenwood, Steven (Winter)
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GSFS 307 Indigenous Feminisms (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Shah Hoque, Anna (Winter)
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GSFS 308 Sex and Gender Minority Cultures (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 401 Special Topics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Benedicto, Roberto (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 402 Special Topics 2 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Al-Saji, Alia (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 403 Feminisms and the Law (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Singh, Twisha (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was 鈥淔eminist Legal Theory鈥�.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 404 Politics of Identity (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 405 Social Justice and Activism (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭he Women鈥檚 Movement in Canada鈥�.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 406 Trans*Feminisms (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-脿-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 407 Sexuality and Gender: New Directions (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was 鈥淎dvanced Theories of Sexuality鈥�.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
Credits may count towards only one program requirement.
12 credits from the following:
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ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Meyers, Todd (Fall)
Fall
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ANTH 327 Anthropology of South Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Rathee, Vineet (Fall)
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ANTH 381 Special Topic 2 (3 credits) *
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in special topics under the direction of a member of the staff.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall and/or Winter terms.
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ANTH 407 Anthropology of the Body (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hyde, Sandra (Fall)
Winter
Prerequisites: ANTH 227 and (1) 300-level anthropology course, and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Social Studies of Medicine, or permission of instructor.
Restriction: U3 status or permission of instructor
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ANTH 413 Gender in Archaeology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Relationship between the structure of the archaeological discipline and construction of gender roles in past human societies; division of tasks between men and women in subsistence activities, organization of the household and kin groups; and creation of power and prestige in a larger community.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Couture, Nicole (Fall)
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ANTH 480 Special Topic 5 (3 credits) *
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Collu, Samuele (Fall) Guinard, S茅gol猫ne (Winter)
Prerequisite: Completion of all available courses relevant to the topic and consent of the instructor
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ANTH 555 Advanced Topics in Ethnology (3 credits) *
Overview
Anthropology : Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in ethnology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
Restriction: Honours students at the U3 level in the Anthropology Department or with permission of instructor
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ARCH 533 New Approaches to Architectural History (3 credits) *
Overview
Architecture : An exploration of the aims, tools, and methods of architectural history as a discipline.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 251 or permission of instructor
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ARTH 205 Introduction to Modern Art (3 credits) *
Overview
Art History : The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Makarova, Evgeniya (Fall)
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ARTH 353 Selected Topics in Art History 1 (3 credits) *
Overview
Art History : Study of a special field in the History of Art and Architecture taught by a visiting scholar.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Praepipatmongkol, Chanon Kenji (Fall)
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ARTH 354 Selected Topics Art History 2 (3 credits) *
Overview
Art History : Study of a special field in the History of Art and Communications.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ARTH 421 Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 2 (3 credits) *
Overview
Art History : Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Hunter, Mary (Fall) Hong, Jeehee (Winter)
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ARTH 440 The Body and Visual Culture (3 credits) *
Overview
Art History : An examination of modern and contemporary redefinitions of corporeality in art, theory and visual culture. The course focuses on the dissemination of the body in the context of late capitalism and ongoing developments of image, information and biotechnologies. Interdisciplinary perspective establishing a dialogue between art and science.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ARTH 510.
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CANS 405 Canadian Studies Seminar 5 (3 credits) *
Overview
Canadian Studies : An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: CANS 200 or permission of instructor
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CLAS 308 Gender in the Ancient World (3 credits)
Overview
Classics : An exploration of gender roles in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kaloudis, Naomi (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 370.
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COMS 310 Media and Feminist Studies (3 credits)
Overview
Communication Studies : Introduction to feminist studies of the media. Impact of feminist and queer theory on media studies; current issues about gender in the media. Emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of media representations of gender in relation to other social differences, such as race, class and sexuality.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hawson, Kirsten (Fall)
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COMS 400 Critical Theory Seminar (3 credits) *
Overview
Communication Studies : This course builds on the foundations of critical social thought to engage students in intensive study of emerging and contemporary themes in social and cultural theory related to media and communication studies. Focus will be on current texts and debates of significance in the field, and will include prominent work in areas including political economy, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial and critical race theory, radical democracy, environmentalism, and media and cultural studies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Barney, Darin (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): COMS 301
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COMS 411 Disability, Technology and Communication (3 credits)
Overview
Communication Studies : Explores communication, technology and culture from the perspective of disability. Topics may included identity, stigma, representation and art; design, access and accessibility; normalization and classification; contrasting models of disability; interfaces between bodies and technologies; the disabling dimensions of environments and technologies; disability policy and activism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level course in Communication Studies (COMS 2xx for 3 credits) AND any 300-level course in Communication Studies (COMS 3xx for 3 credits), or by the permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken COMS 492 in 201109 or 201209.
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COMS 490 Special Topics in History and Theory of Media (3 credits) *
Overview
Communication Studies : Emergent themes in media history and media theory, and their application to current issues in communications studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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COMS 492 Power, Difference and Justice (3 credits)
Overview
Communication Studies : Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Lloyd, Mark (Fall)
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COMS 541 Cultural Industries (3 credits) *
Overview
Communication Studies : The convergence of computerized technologies and cultural industries and how these have produced entire new forms of cultural expression in film, TV, and the Internet.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 313 Current Topics: Korean Studies 1 (3 credits) *
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: Departmental approval required.
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EAST 350 Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Wang, Guojun (Winter)
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
Note: Readings in English translation.
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EAST 351 Women Writers of China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Core course for the Women's Studies program
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
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EAST 369 Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 370 History of Sexuality in Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EAST 453 Topics: Chinese Literature (3 credits) *
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
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EDPC 503 Intersectional Relationships and Sexualities (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : Situated in sexuality studies and education this course explores intra and interpersonal relationships through examining the intersections of sexuality with a diversity of identities, expressions and communities. The course addresses the ways in which current and emerging technologies influence and inform understandings of sexuality and the resulting effect on how people negotiate sexual relationships.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Sinacore, Ada L (Fall)
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EDPE 515 Gender Identity Development (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical models and empirical findings relevant to the development of gender identity. Special attention is given to the influence of peers in school settings. Psychological, physiological, parental, peer and cultural influences on gender identity.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Fall)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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ENGL 275 Introduction to Cultural Studies (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: So, Richard; Marceau, Cath; Ningthoujam, Sainico (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Required of all U1 Cultural Studies students
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ENGL 290 Postcolonial and World Literatures in English (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : A critical introduction to the field of postcolonial and world literature studies, drawing on a selection texts from South and East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Banerjee, Sandeep; Bari, Tazreen; Saadi, Yusuf (Fall)
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ENGL 320 Postcolonial Literature (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : A study of postcolonial literature.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Banerjee, Moinak (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
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ENGL 371 Theatre History: 19th to 21st Centuries (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : History of predominantly Western theatre practices from circa 1830 to the present.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Zien, Katherine (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
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ENGL 388 Studies in Popular Culture (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : History and development of important forms of popular culture. Topics may include traditional ballads; fairs; carnivals and popular festivity; material culture; popular fiction; mainstream television.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
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ENGL 413 Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Canadian drama and/or theatre history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Prerequisite: Students not registered in English programs require permission of instructor.
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ENGL 418 A Major Modernist Writer (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Hepburn, Allan (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
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ENGL 440 First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ENGL 443 Contemporary Women's Fiction (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
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ENGL 444 Studies in Women Authors (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Chan, Antje (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date topics of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Topics vary year to year.
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ENGL 489 Culture and Critical Theory 1 (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
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ENGL 516 Shakespeare (3 credits) *
Overview
English (Arts) : A seminar on the works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Folkerth, Wes (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
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GEOG 331 Urban Social Geography (3 credits) *
Overview
Geography : Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Scott, Darius (Fall)
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GEOG 507 Advanced Social Geography (3 credits) *
Overview
Geography : Current theories and themes in social geography, such as relations between society and space, social and spatial relations of inequality, difference and diversity, situated and embodied identities, social issues and problems, connections between society and nature, all within a spatial framework.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Scott, Darius (Winter)
Prerequisite: GEOG 331 or equivalent, and permission of instructor.
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GERM 364 Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
German (Arts) : In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 200 Feminist and Social Justice Studies (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Hwang, Maria (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
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GSFS 250 Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Benedicto, Roberto (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
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GSFS 300 Research Inquiry in GSFS (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Ketchum, Alex (Winter)
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GSFS 301 Current Topics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 302 Current Topics 2 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 303 Gender and Disability (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Munoz, Yolanda (Fall)
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GSFS 304 Postcolonial Feminist Theories (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 305 Critical Race and Social Justice Theories (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hwang, Maria (Fall)
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GSFS 306 Queer Theory (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Greenwood, Steven (Winter)
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GSFS 307 Indigenous Feminisms (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Shah Hoque, Anna (Winter)
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GSFS 308 Sex and Gender Minority Cultures (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 400 Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the current state and debates within the interdisciplinary fields of Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies. Emphasis will be placed on how students can situate their knowledge and scholarship within and beyond these fields.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ketchum, Alex (Fall)
Restriction(s); Open only to students in the GSFS Major Concentration, Honours, or Joint Honours.
This course is only open to students in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) Major Concentration, Joint Honours Component, and Honours. It is required for Major Concentration students in their final year of study, and optional but recommended for Joint Honours Component and Honours.
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GSFS 401 Special Topics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Benedicto, Roberto (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 402 Special Topics 2 (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Al-Saji, Alia (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 403 Feminisms and the Law (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Singh, Twisha (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was 鈥淔eminist Legal Theory鈥�.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 404 Politics of Identity (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 405 Social Justice and Activism (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭he Women鈥檚 Movement in Canada鈥�.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 406 Trans*Feminisms (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-脿-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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GSFS 407 Sexuality and Gender: New Directions (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was 鈥淎dvanced Theories of Sexuality鈥�.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
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GSFS 450 Independent Reading and Research (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Open only to students registered in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies programs. Chair and adviser approval required.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level. Students can consult the IGSF Internships page at for current internship opportunities.
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GSFS 499 GSFS Internship (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Open only to students registered in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies programs. Chair and adviser approval required.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level. Students can consult the IGSF Internships page at
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HISP 340 Latin American Cinema (3 credits) *
Overview
Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A study of representative films, directors and movements of the region. Topic specified by instructor.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HISP 358 Gender and Textualities (3 credits)
Overview
Hispanic Studies (Arts) : Historical development and literary tendencies regarding gender and sexuality in Hispanic literature, film, and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 201 Modern African History (3 credits) *
Overview
History : While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Monaville, Pedro (Winter)
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HIST 323 History and Sexuality 1 (3 credits)
Overview
History : Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. The cultural meanings and social institutions that create the historical context for sexual behaviours. Possible topics include: Greek homosocial and homosexual culture; sex and citizenship; wives and concubines in the ancient world; Christianity and aestheticism; misogyny and gender in Medieval Europe; adultery and lineage.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 343 Women in Post-Confederation Canada (3 credits)
Overview
History : This course examines women's contribution to the economic and social development of Canada as well as the changes in the image and status of women. Special emphasis will be on the relationship between women's roles in the private sphere and the public domain.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203 recommended.
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HIST 344 The Chinese Family in History (3 credits)
Overview
History : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 347 History and Sexuality 2 (3 credits)
Overview
History : 1700 to the present, with a particular focus on Europe and North America. Possible topics include: patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology; gay liberation movements; queer politics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 354 Women in Europe 1700-2000 (3 credits)
Overview
History : An overview of the history of women in modern continental Europe, focusing on women's changing roles in the family and society at large, in the context of work, family life, education, and culture, and the changing notions of citizenship, femininity, and masculinity.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Cornett, Natalie (Fall)
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HIST 380 The Medieval
Mediterranean
(3 credits)
Overview
History : Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 382 History of South Africa (3 credits) *
Overview
History : History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 408 Selected Topics in Indigenous History
(3 credits)
Overview
History : Selected topics in Indigenous history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 223
Topics will vary from year to year.
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HIST 412 Women and Gender in Modern Britain (3 credits)
Overview
History : Women and gender in modern Britain (1850 on). Topics include early feminist political agitation, including the suffrage movement; working-class women; changing notions of gender, sexuality and women's role; women and empire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 or a course in British history or permission of instructor
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HIST 420 Gender and Sexuality in Modern China (3 credits)
Overview
History : The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in the History of China or Gender/Sexuality or permission of instructor.
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HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality and Medicine (3 credits)
Overview
History : Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Tone, Andrea (Fall)
Prerequisite: A 300-level History course in gender, sexuality or medicine or permission of instructor.
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HIST 429 Topics: Gender/Feminist Histories (3 credits)
Overview
History : An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of gender, feminism, and sexuality.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Shaw, Melissa (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): A 200-level course in History or permission of instructor.
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HIST 433 British Queer History (3 credits)
Overview
History : An investigation of the changing historical construction of "deviant" and "normal" sexualities in Britain since 1700, and how queer women and men discovered ways of surviving and perhaps even flourishing in the face of persecution and hostility from the state, the churches and the medical profession.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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HIST 525 Women, Work and Family in Global History (3 credits)
Overview
History : The shifting historical context of female labour and family in selected western and non-western countries; the interaction between labour and gender relations with special focus on women's experiences on the shop floor and in the family.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Abisaab, Malek (Winter)
Prerequisite: A 300 or 400-level course in women's history or labour history or permission of instructor
Restriction: Restricted to students in History and Women's Studies
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HIST 526 Women and War (3 credits)
Overview
History : Examines the impact of war on individuals, families and societies. Studies the experiences of women and children in exile, mass persecutions, and punishments associated with social unrest, revolution or wars during twentieth century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): A 300 or 400-levelcourse in women's history or permission of instructor
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HSEL 308 Issues in Women's Health (3 credits)
Overview
Health Science Electives : Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Armistead, Cheryl (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
Complementary course for the Women's Studies Concentration
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HSEL 309 Women's Reproductive Health (3 credits)
Overview
Health Science Electives : Concepts of health and medicalization. Canadian and international perspectives. Topics include contraception, abortion, infertility, menstruation, menopause, new reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbirth. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Armistead, Cheryl (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
Restriction: not open for credit to students who have taken HSEL 308 prior to September 1997
Complementary course for the Women's Studies and Social Studies of Medicine Concentrations
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INDG 401 Interdisciplinary Seminar in Indigenous Studies (3 credits) *
Overview
INDG : The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches.Capstone seminar course offering an in-depth focus on one or more issues in Indigenous Studies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Reid, Christopher (Winter)
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ISLA 310 Women in Islam (3 credits)
Overview
Islamic Studies : The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ISLA 585 Arab Women's Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Islamic Studies : Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: ISLA 392 or permission of instructor.
Note: Readings in English translation.
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ITAL 375 Cinema and Society in Modern Italy (3 credits) *
Overview
Italian (Arts) : A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Given in English
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ITAL 383 Women's Writing since 1880 (3 credits)
Overview
Italian (Arts) : A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: any 300 level course given in Italian or permission of the Department
Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
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ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video (3 credits) *
Overview
Italian (Arts) : Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Carnemolla, Cristina (Winter)
Winter
Given in English
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 377
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MUAR 250 Women Making Music (3 credits)
Overview
Music-Arts Faculty : Repertoire composed and/or performed by women since 1920, with a focus on North America and women's participation in music in a variety of roles. Special attention will be paid to the different challenges faced by women of different races and classes, in both avant-garde and popular music traditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MUAR 399 Music and Queer Identity (3 credits)
Overview
Music-Arts Faculty : A survey of notable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer composers and musicians in both art music and popular music, and an exploration of musical meaning from queer perspectives, covering topics such as coded expression, subcultural music-making, the value of mainstream visibility, and minority versus 'universal' aesthetics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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PHIL 242 Introduction to Feminist Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Deslauriers, Marguerite (Fall)
Note: Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014.
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PHIL 442 Topics in Feminist Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Al-Saji, Alia (Fall)
Prerequisite: PHIL 242 and one intermediate course in philosophy
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PHIL 446 Current Issues in Political Philosophy (3 credits) *
Overview
Philosophy : Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Maclure, Jocelyn (Fall) Voigt, Kristin (Winter)
Prerequisite: at least one course in political philosophy
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POLI 366 Topics in Political Theory 1 (3 credits) *
Overview
Political Science : A specific problem area in Political Theory.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: A 200- or 300-level course in political theory
Note: The field is Political Theory.
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POLI 422 Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1 (3 credits) *
Overview
Political Science : A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Douek, Daniel (Winter)
Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism (3 credits) *
Overview
Political Science : Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Davydov, Andrey (Fall)
Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics.
Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 432 Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 2 (3 credits) *
Overview
Political Science : Topics in comparative politics.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Islas Weinstein, Tania (Fall)
Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 444 Topics in International Politics 2 (3 credits) *
Overview
Political Science : A specific problem area in International Politics.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Baccini, Leonardo; Katul, Mounir (Fall) Katul, Mounir (Winter)
Prerequisite: An upper level course in International Politics or written permission of the instructor
Note: The field is International Politics.
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PSYC 436 Human Sexuality and Its Problems (3 credits)
Overview
Psychology : This course will deal with typical sexual behavior and its variations. Topics will include the history of sex research, the sexual response cycle, sexual dysfunction, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc. Current research and theory will be emphasized.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: either PSYC 337 or permission of the instructor
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RELG 313 Topics in Biblical Studies 1 (3 credits) *
Overview
Religious Studies : Topics in biblical studies. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Winter
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RELG 336 Contemporary Theological Issues (3 credits) *
Overview
Religious Studies : A study of contemporary theological issues. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Zink, Jesse (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Christianity or permission of instructor
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RELG 338 Women and the Christian Tradition (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Survey of women's involvement in the Christian tradition. Topics include feminist interpretation of scripture, ideas of virginity, marriage and motherhood, mysticism, asceticisms, European witchhunts, contemporary women's liberation theories.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kirkpatrick, Patricia; Rosini, Amanda (Winter)
Fall
Core course for the Women's Studies Minor program
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RELG 372 Hindu Goddesses (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : The mythology, theology, soteriology, history, ritual, and texts of the goddess-centred (Sakta) branches of Hinduism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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RELG 399 Christian Spirituality (3 credits) *
Overview
Religious Studies : Seminar exploring the phenomena of internal religious experience in their relation to received formularies of Christian thought and practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Summer
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SOCI 247 Family and Modern Society (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Weiner, Elaine (Fall)
Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
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SOCI 270 Sociology of Gender (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Haines, Rebecca (Winter)
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SOCI 321 Gender and Work (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on men's and women's work in North American societies, historically and contemporarily, in order to understand the dynamisms of gender (in)equality in and outside of the home. Topics explored include: housework; the relationship(s) between gender, organizations and bureaucracy; emotional labour; occupational segregation and stratification; sexual harassment; and work-family policy.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Weiner, Elaine (Winter)
Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
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SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender and Development (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Pike, Isabel (Fall)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210
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SOCI 386 Contemporary Social Movements (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course will focus on contemporary social movements in Canada, the U.S., and Western Europe, such as the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the environmental movement. Empirical studies of movements will be used to explore such general issues as how social movements emerge, grow, and decline.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 390 Gender and Health (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Key conceptual and substantive issues in gender and health since c1950: stratified medicalization of women's and men's health; social movements in health including the women's health movement; gender inequality in morbidity and mortality; gender, power and control in patient/physician interactions; embodied experience; politics and policies of gender and health.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 489 Gender, Deviance and Social Control (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar examines how the definition of deviance, reactions to deviance and explanations of deviance are gendered. Specific topics vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Course for Women's Studies Concentrations
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Restriction: open to U3 students concentrating on social problems.
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SOCI 513 Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Weiner, Elaine (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 270 or permission of instructor.
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SOCI 530 Sex and Gender (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar critically reviews theoretical perspectives and research on sex and gender in various domains of social life. It gives special emphasis to work which considers the meaning of gender and how it differs across time and place.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Open to Honours Sociology students and to Sociology Majors with the permission of the instructor
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SOCI 535 Sociology of the Family (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar reviews literature on major research areas in family. The course examines families in the past, the study of family using a life course approach, and considers selective areas which may have had significant influences on contemporary family such as work and family, family violence, and cultural variation in families.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
Note: Courses marked with and asterisk (*) are acceptable ONLY when the course centrally engages with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice.
