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Gender & Women�s Studies

Think! Critique! Act! Create! Transform! These are skills and practices that we encourage in our challenging, interdisciplinary courses on women and gender. Our dedicated, award-winning professors provide excellent learning environments at all levels of study. Courses explore relations of power in the lives of individuals, groups and cultures in multiple settings and sites locally and transnationally.

They analyze constructions and intersections of gender, race, class, age, ability and sexuality in daily life, popular culture, the fine arts, sciences, politics, society and the economy. They encourage students to develop the practical, theoretical, communications and organization skills to think, research, write, and act critically and creatively.
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The critical research, writing, thinking and listening skills taught in our classes will help you develop skills that you can use in life and apply to any future career you may choose.

Why choose this program?

We have been a leader in Canada in Women�s Studies for three decades.
We provide students with excellent learning environments at all levels of study whether they are majors, minors or taking courses as electives. These include offering academic Bridging Courses for women who want to upgrade their writing and speaking skills and explore the possibility of university study.

Program Requirements

Get detailed information on degree and program requirements to enter and graduate from this program.

(This information is to be used in conjunction with the University undergraduate calendar, which in all cases is the final authority).

Degree Options

BA (Bachelor of Arts) BA Honours (Bachelor of Arts) BA Specialized Honours (Bachelor of Arts) BA Honours Double Major (Bachelor of Arts) BA Honours Double Major (linked)(Bachelor of Arts) BA Honours Major/Minor (Bachelor of Arts) BA Honours Minor (Bachelor of Arts)

Additional Information:

Fast Fact:

You can also pursue an MA or PhD. York has the largest graduate program in Women�s Studies in Canada. Our graduates now teach in universities across the country.

Careers:

Our students apply their understandings of women�s issues and gender analyses in a wide range of fields. These include the arts, education, law, social work, public service, NGOs, business, government and media.

Sample Courses:

Sex, Gender and Popular Culture; Self and Identity - Contemporary Feminist and Anti-Racist Perspectives; Gender and the City; Mothering and Motherhood; Gender, Globalization and Militarization; Women and Work; Violence Against Women

Offered by:

School of Gender, Sexuality and Women�s Studies

Program Web site

Contact:

For more information, contact the School of Women's Studies at 416-736-8144.

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