Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies Major Concentration (B.A.) (36 credits)
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 36
Program Description
The Major Concentration in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, & Social Justice Studies (GSFS) is an interdisciplinary program that centrally engages contemporary and historical issues centered on gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. The program provides students with opportunities to explore the meaning 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 Major Concentration consists of required GSFS courses that allow for an immersion into this area of study, and complementary courses from a range of departments, disciplines, and faculties. Students must see and adviser in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies at a minimum upon declaring the GSFS Major Concentration and prior to selecting courses for the final year of study.
Students are advised to take GSFS 200 Feminist and Social Justice Studies. and GSFS 250 Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. in their first year in the program, GSFS 300 Research Inquiry in GSFS. in their second year of the program, and GSFS 400 Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS. in their final year of the program.
Students must see an adviser in Women's Studies at a minimum upon registering in GSFS and prior to selecting courses for the final year of study.
Degree Requirements — B.A. students
To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in Degree Requirements for the Faculty of Arts.
We recommend that students consult an Arts OASIS advisor for degree planning.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (12 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GSFS 200 | Feminist and Social Justice Studies. | 3 |
Feminist and Social Justice Studies. Terms offered: Summer 2025 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. | ||
| GSFS 250 | Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. | 3 |
Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 300 | Research Inquiry in GSFS. | 3 |
Research Inquiry in GSFS. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 400 | Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS. | 3 |
Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Complementary Courses (24 credits)
9 credits selected from the GSFS Course List, 3 credits of which must be at the 400 or 500 level.
15 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:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GSFS 301 | Current Topics 1. | 3 |
Current Topics 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year. | ||
| GSFS 302 | Current Topics 2. | 3 |
Current Topics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year. | ||
| GSFS 303 | Gender and Disability. | 3 |
Gender and Disability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives. | ||
| GSFS 304 | Postcolonial Feminist Theories. | 3 |
Postcolonial Feminist Theories. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives. | ||
| GSFS 305 | Critical Race and Social Justice Theories. | 3 |
Critical Race and Social Justice Theories. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 306 | Queer Theory. | 3 |
Queer Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 307 | Indigenous Feminisms. | 3 |
Indigenous Feminisms. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 308 | Sex and Gender Minority Cultures. | 3 |
Sex and Gender Minority Cultures. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 401 | Special Topics 1. | 3 |
Special Topics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 402 | Special Topics 2. | 3 |
Special Topics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 403 | Feminisms and the Law. | 3 |
Feminisms and the Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 404 | Politics of Identity. | 3 |
Politics of Identity. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 405 | Social Justice and Activism. | 3 |
Social Justice and Activism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 406 | Trans*Feminisms. | 3 |
Trans*Feminisms. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice. | ||
| GSFS 407 | Sexuality and Gender: New Directions. | 3 |
Sexuality and Gender: New Directions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies. | ||
Credits may count towards only one program requirement.
15 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 227 | Medical Anthropology. | 3 |
Medical Anthropology. Terms offered: Summer 2025 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. | ||
| ANTH 327 | Anthropology of South Asia. | 3 |
Anthropology of South Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization. | ||
| ANTH 381 | Special Topic 2. 1 | 3 |
Special Topic 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Supervised reading in special topics under the direction of a member of the staff. | ||
| ANTH 407 | Anthropology of the Body. | 3 |
Anthropology of the Body. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ANTH 413 | Gender in Archaeology. | 3 |
Gender in Archaeology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ANTH 480 | Special Topic 5. 1 | 3 |
Special Topic 5. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff. | ||
| ANTH 555 | Advanced Topics in Ethnology. 1 | 3 |
Advanced Topics in Ethnology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in ethnology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term. | ||
| ARCH 533 | New Approaches to Architectural History. 1 | 3 |
New Approaches to Architectural History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An exploration of the aims, tools, and methods of architectural history as a discipline. | ||
| ARTH 205 | Introduction to Modern Art. 1 | 3 |
Introduction to Modern Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ARTH 353 | Selected Topics in Art History 1. 1 | 3 |
Selected Topics in Art History 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Study of a special field in the History of Art and Architecture taught by a visiting scholar. | ||
| ARTH 354 | Selected Topics Art History 2. 1 | 3 |
Selected Topics Art History 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Study of a special field in the History of Art and Communications. | ||
| ARTH 421 | Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 2. 1 | 3 |
Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year. | ||
| ARTH 440 | The Body and Visual Culture. 1 | 3 |
The Body and Visual Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CANS 405 | Canadian Studies Seminar 5. 1 | 3 |
Canadian Studies Seminar 5. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic. | ||
| CLAS 308 | Gender in the Ancient World. | 3 |
Gender in the Ancient World. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An exploration of gender roles in the Ancient Mediterranean world. | ||
| COMS 310 | Media and Feminist Studies. | 3 |
Media and Feminist Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| COMS 400 | Critical Theory Seminar. 1 | 3 |
Critical Theory Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| COMS 411 | Disability, Technology and Communication. | 3 |
Disability, Technology and Communication. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| COMS 490 | Special Topics in History and Theory of Media. 1 | 3 |
Special Topics in History and Theory of Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Emergent themes in media history and media theory, and their application to current issues in communications studies. | ||
| COMS 492 | Power, Difference and Justice. | 3 |
Power, Difference and Justice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices. | ||
| COMS 541 | Cultural Industries. 1 | 3 |
Cultural Industries. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EAST 313 | Current Topics: Korean Studies 1. 1 | 3 |
Current Topics: Korean Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year. | ||
| EAST 350 | Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature. | 3 |
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EAST 351 | Women Writers of China. | 3 |
Women Writers of China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China. | ||
| EAST 369 | Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media. | 3 |
Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EAST 370 | History of Sexuality in Japan. | 3 |
History of Sexuality in Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EAST 390 | The Chinese Family in History. | 3 |
The Chinese Family in History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality. | ||
| EAST 453 | Topics: Chinese Literature. 1 | 3 |
Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature. | ||
| EDPC 503 | Intersectional Relationships and Sexualities. | 3 |
Intersectional Relationships and Sexualities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| EDPE 515 | Gender Identity Development. | 3 |
Gender Identity Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ENGL 275 | Introduction to Cultural Studies. | 3 |
Introduction to Cultural Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ENGL 290 | Postcolonial and World Literatures in English. | 3 |
Postcolonial and World Literatures in English. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ENGL 320 | Postcolonial Literature. | 3 |
Postcolonial Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of postcolonial literature. | ||
| ENGL 371 | Theatre History: 19th to 21st Centuries. 1 | 3 |
Theatre History: 19th to 21st Centuries. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. History of predominantly Western theatre practices from circa 1830 to the present. | ||
| ENGL 388 | Studies in Popular Culture. 1 | 3 |
Studies in Popular Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ENGL 413 | Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre. 1 | 3 |
Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Canadian drama and/or theatre history. | ||
| ENGL 418 | A Major Modernist Writer. 1 | 3 |
A Major Modernist Writer. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein. | ||
| ENGL 440 | First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media. 1 | 3 |
First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film. | ||
| ENGL 443 | Contemporary Women's Fiction. | 3 |
Contemporary Women's Fiction. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction. | ||
| ENGL 444 | Studies in Women Authors. | 3 |
Studies in Women Authors. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors. | ||
| ENGL 489 | Culture and Critical Theory 1. 1 | 3 |
Culture and Critical Theory 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture. | ||
| ENGL 516 | Shakespeare. 1 | 3 |
Shakespeare. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A seminar on the works of Shakespeare. | ||
| GEOG 331 | Urban Social Geography. 1 | 3 |
Urban Social Geography. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GEOG 507 | Advanced Social Geography. 1 | 3 |
Advanced Social Geography. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GERM 364 | Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture. | 3 |
Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 200 | Feminist and Social Justice Studies. | 3 |
Feminist and Social Justice Studies. Terms offered: Summer 2025 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. | ||
| GSFS 250 | Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. | 3 |
Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 300 | Research Inquiry in GSFS. | 3 |
Research Inquiry in GSFS. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 301 | Current Topics 1. | 3 |
Current Topics 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year. | ||
| GSFS 302 | Current Topics 2. | 3 |
Current Topics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year. | ||
| GSFS 303 | Gender and Disability. | 3 |
Gender and Disability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives. | ||
| GSFS 304 | Postcolonial Feminist Theories. | 3 |
Postcolonial Feminist Theories. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives. | ||
| GSFS 305 | Critical Race and Social Justice Theories. | 3 |
Critical Race and Social Justice Theories. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 306 | Queer Theory. | 3 |
Queer Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 307 | Indigenous Feminisms. | 3 |
Indigenous Feminisms. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 308 | Sex and Gender Minority Cultures. | 3 |
Sex and Gender Minority Cultures. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 400 | Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS. | 3 |
Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 401 | Special Topics 1. | 3 |
Special Topics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 402 | Special Topics 2. | 3 |
Special Topics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 403 | Feminisms and the Law. | 3 |
Feminisms and the Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 404 | Politics of Identity. | 3 |
Politics of Identity. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 405 | Social Justice and Activism. | 3 |
Social Justice and Activism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| GSFS 406 | Trans*Feminisms. | 3 |
Trans*Feminisms. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice. | ||
| GSFS 407 | Sexuality and Gender: New Directions. | 3 |
Sexuality and Gender: New Directions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies. | ||
| GSFS 450 | Independent Reading and Research. | 3 |
Independent Reading and Research. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. | ||
| GSFS 499 | GSFS Internship. | 3 |
GSFS Internship. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Internship with an approved host institution or organization. | ||
| HISP 340 | Latin American Cinema. 1 | 3 |
Latin American Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of representative films, directors and movements of the region. Topic specified by instructor. | ||
| HISP 358 | Gender and Textualities. | 3 |
Gender and Textualities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Historical development and literary tendencies regarding gender and sexuality in Hispanic literature, film, and culture. | ||
| HIST 201 | Modern African History. 1 | 3 |
Modern African History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 323 | History and Sexuality 1. | 3 |
History and Sexuality 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 343 | Women in Post-Confederation Canada. | 3 |
Women in Post-Confederation Canada. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 344 | The Chinese Family in History. | 3 |
The Chinese Family in History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality. | ||
| HIST 347 | History and Sexuality 2. | 3 |
History and Sexuality 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 354 | Women in Europe 1700-2000. | 3 |
Women in Europe 1700-2000. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 380 | The Medieval Mediterranean . | 3 |
The Medieval Mediterranean . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions. | ||
| HIST 382 | History of South Africa. 1 | 3 |
History of South Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 408 | Selected Topics in Indigenous History . | 3 |
Selected Topics in Indigenous History . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in Indigenous history. | ||
| HIST 412 | Women and Gender in Modern Britain. | 3 |
Women and Gender in Modern Britain. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 420 | Gender and Sexuality in Modern China. | 3 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 424 | Gender, Sexuality and Medicine. | 3 |
Gender, Sexuality and Medicine. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 429 | Topics: Gender/Feminist Histories. | 3 |
Topics: Gender/Feminist Histories. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of gender, feminism, and sexuality. | ||
| HIST 433 | British Queer History. | 3 |
British Queer History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 525 | Women, Work and Family in Global History. | 3 |
Women, Work and Family in Global History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HIST 526 | Women and War. | 3 |
Women and War. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HSEL 308 | Issues in Women's Health. | 3 |
Issues in Women's Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| HSEL 309 | Women's Reproductive Health. | 3 |
Women's Reproductive Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| INDG 401 | Interdisciplinary Seminar in Indigenous Studies. 1 | 3 |
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Indigenous Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ISLA 310 | Women in Islam. | 0-3 |
Women in Islam. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ISLA 585 | Arab Women's Literature. | 3 |
Arab Women's Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ITAL 375 | Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. 1 | 3 |
Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| ITAL 383 | Women's Writing since 1880. | 3 |
Women's Writing since 1880. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity. | ||
| ITAL 477 | Italian Cinema and Video. 1 | 3 |
Italian Cinema and Video. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| MUHL 250 | Women Making Music. | 3 |
Women Making Music. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| MUHL 299 | Music and Queer Identity. | 3 |
Music and Queer Identity. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| PHIL 242 | Introduction to Feminist Theory. | 3 |
Introduction to Feminist Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| PHIL 442 | Topics in Feminist Theory. | 3 |
Topics in Feminist Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory. | ||
| PHIL 446 | Current Issues in Political Philosophy. 1 | 3 |
Current Issues in Political Philosophy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy. | ||
| POLI 366 | Topics in Political Theory 1. 1 | 3 |
Topics in Political Theory 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A specific problem area in Political Theory. | ||
| POLI 422 | Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1. 1 | 3 |
Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A specific problem area in comparative politics. | ||
| POLI 423 | Politics of Ethno-Nationalism. 1 | 3 |
Politics of Ethno-Nationalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| POLI 432 | Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 2. 1 | 3 |
Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in comparative politics. | ||
| POLI 444 | Topics in International Politics 2. 1 | 3 |
Topics in International Politics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A specific problem area in International Politics. | ||
| PSYC 436 | Human Sexuality and Its Problems. | 3 |
Human Sexuality and Its Problems. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| RELG 313 | Topics in Biblical Studies 1. 1 | 3 |
Topics in Biblical Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in biblical studies. Topic varies by year. | ||
| RELG 336 | Contemporary Theological Issues. 1 | 3 |
Contemporary Theological Issues. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of contemporary theological issues. Topic varies by year. | ||
| RELG 338 | Women and the Christian Tradition. | 3 |
Women and the Christian Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| RELG 372 | Hindu Goddesses. | 3 |
Hindu Goddesses. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The mythology, theology, soteriology, history, ritual, and texts of the goddess-centred (Sakta) branches of Hinduism. | ||
| RELG 399 | Christian Spirituality. 1 | 3 |
Christian Spirituality. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Seminar exploring the phenomena of internal religious experience in their relation to received formularies of Christian thought and practice. | ||
| SOCI 247 | Family and Modern Society. | 3 |
Family and Modern Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 270 | Sociology of Gender. | 3 |
Sociology of Gender. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 321 | Gender and Work. | 3 |
Gender and Work. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 370 | Sociology: Gender and Development. | 3 |
Sociology: Gender and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 386 | Contemporary Social Movements. | 3 |
Contemporary Social Movements. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 390 | Gender and Health. | 3 |
Gender and Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 489 | Gender, Deviance and Social Control. | 3 |
Gender, Deviance and Social Control. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar examines how the definition of deviance, reactions to deviance and explanations of deviance are gendered. Specific topics vary from year to year. | ||
| SOCI 513 | Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa. | 3 |
Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 519 | Gender and Globalization. | 3 |
Gender and Globalization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 530 | Sex and Gender. | 3 |
Sex and Gender. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| SOCI 535 | Sociology of the Family. | 3 |
Sociology of the Family. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
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Note: Course counts toward Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies when the course centrally engages with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice.