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4000 Level Courses

WMST 4502 6.00A VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Friday, 8:30-11:30am

This course examines gender-based violence in its many forms, such as domestic violence, state violence, legal violence (punishment) and cultural violence (rituals) and analyzes the global context in which gender and power are constructed and violence against women is perpetuated and tolerated.

Course Director: TBA
Evaluation: TBA
Course Texts: TBA
Projected Enrolment: 25

Note: All spaces are reserved 4th year students in CRIM, SXST & WMST


WMST 4503 3.00M (Winter) POLITICS OF THE CANADIAN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Wednesday, 11:30-2:30pm

This course examines the politics of the Canadian women's movement, emphasizing its historical and contemporary development. We examine the suffrage movement, the inter-war years and the development of second wave feminism in light of Canada's unique political structures and current challenges to feminism.

Course Director: TBA

Evaluation: TBA
Course Texts: TBA
Cross-listed-to: AP/POLS 4155 3.00 & GL/POLS 4503 3.00


WMST 4506 3.00A (Fall) COLONIALISMS AND WOMEN'S HISTORY

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Tuesday, 8:30-11:30am

This course draws on recent feminist studies to examine the history of the relations of race, gender and sexuality forged in selected contexts of European occupation and conquest and on the related reshapings of Western understandings of race, class and gender.

Course Director: TBA
Evaluation: TBA
Course Texts:
Projected Enrolment: 25
Cross-listed to: GL/HIST 4606 3.00

WMST 4507 3.00A (Winter) WRITING WOMEN’S HISTORY

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Tuesday, 8:30am-11:30am

This course examines how feminist issues and theories have influenced the ways women's history has been written, the questions asked and the themes studied. Students are encouraged to develop the conceptual and methodological skills to undertake their own historical research.

Course Director: TBA
Evaluation: TBA
Course Texts: TBA
Cross-listed to: GL/HIST/SOSC 4607 3.00
Projected Enrolment: 25


WMST 4512 6.00A GENDER AND THE LAW

Place: Glendon Campus
Time: Wednesday,12:00-3:00pm

This course takes a comparative look at gender within the context of legal systems. We begin with a look at the constitutions from a series of countries. Then topics such as marriage, divorce, reproduction freedom, sexual assault and harassment, pay equality, pornography and pornography are examined from and international/comparative perspective. The comparative approach used in the course not only helps students understand gender inequity issues in Canada, but will provide an opportunity to explore alternative solutions to the social issues facing Canadians. It is also an chance for students from other countries, or with specific ethnic or cultural backgrounds or interests, to explore these in their own research projects.

Course Director: P. McDermott
(S731 Ross, x77828)
Evaluation:
Country Profile Assignment - 25%
Research Proposal - 10%
Major Research Project - 45%
Seminar Participation & Attendance, Participation, Presentation 15%
Presentation - 5%

Course Texts:
A course kit of readings will be available.
Projected Enrolment: 25
Cross-listed-to: GL/ILST 3600 6.0
Course Credit Exclusion: AK/AS/GL WMST 3512 6.0

Note: Most spaces are reserved for 3rd & 4th year students in WMST


WMST 4519 3.00M (Winter) WOMEN AND POST-WWII MEMOIRS, TRANSLATED

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Thursday, 11:30am-2:30pm

This course analyzes select women's memoirs written in European languages other than English in the period following WWII, texts that are translated for contemporary readers. It also analyzes limitations of genre, taking into account primary contradictions, literary and historical. Students will investigates extreme contexts in which first-person knowledge is embedded. The historical focus is the Holocaust, the Porrajmos and the events of World War II. Thus, the course examines alternatives to memoir when generic prejudice inhibits representations of difficult memory. In addition, students ask about the jurisdictional advantages of the limit-case, the testimonial value of irregular life writing texts.

Course Director: M. Kadar
(311 Founders, x66926)

Evaluation:
Oral Presentation - 25%
Four Short Reading Response Papers - 20%
Research Paper - 25%
Translation Round Table - 10%
Attendance/Participation - 10%
Final In-Class Test on Critical Terms -10%

Course Texts:
Krause, Johanna with Carolyn Gammon and Christiane Hemker. Twice Persecuted: Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany. Trans. Carolyn Gammon. Life Writing Series. Waterloo: WLUP, 2007. "Oshwitsate," Trans. Ronald Lee in Marlene Kadar, "The Devouring," Tracing the Autobiographical. Eds. Marlene Kadar et al. Waterloo: WLUP, 2005: p. 242 and 246.
Reinhartz, Henia. Bits and Pieces. The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs. Series 1. Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2007.
Schiff, Vera. A Theresienstadt Diary: Letters to Veruska. 2005.
Taylor, Kressman. Address Unknown. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1966.

Texts: Theory and Criticism:
Selected essays by Leigh Gilmore, Sidonie Smith, James Young, etc.

WMST 4555 6.00A FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Wednesday, 2:30-5:30pm

This course examines a range of methodologies and methods in feminist and anti-oppressive research. Students will identify an area that they want to investigate and engage in an individually designed research project that requires the application of research methods and strategies of inquiry relevant to feminist scholarship. The course will offer hands-on experience in doing research and will broaden students' knowledge of various feminist and other anti-oppressive approaches in the social sciences and humanities.

Course Director: E. Karpinski
(313 Founders, x20490)

Evaluation:
Research Proposal - 20%
Two Special Assignments - 20%
Final Research Paper - 30%
Two Class Presentations - 20%
Attendance and Participation - 10%

Course Texts: TBA

Prerequisites: AP/WMST 2500 6.00 or AP/WMST 2510 9.00; and AP/WMST 3555 6.00 or AP/WMST 3556 6.00

SXST 4600 6.00A ADVANCED SEMINAR IN SEXUALITIES

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Thursday, 7:00pm-10:00pm

This advanced seminar delves deeply into historical, contemporary and newly burgeoning theories that are central to critical sexuality studies. It examines psychoanalytic, existential, post-structural, postcolonial, transgender, and critical disability theories of sexuality from a feminist and intersectional philosophical perspective. It focuses on questions of epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, and subjectivity as each relates to sexuality or sexualities as historical, social, and political events. Topics this course explores can vary from year to year and may include sexual shame and pride, desire, sexual love, hate and ambivalence, sexual or erotic racism and classism, sexual power, ability, knowledge and experience, sexual pain and pleasure, sexual abjection, and sexual resistances. Students in this course must be prepared to actively participate in class, work cooperatively, think and write critically, and lead seminars on course texts. They will also have an introductory background in critical sexuality studies (i.e., SXST/WMST 2600).

Prerequisite: AP/GL/SXST & WMST2600 6.00.
Course Director: F. Latchford (206A Founders, 20460)
Evaluation:
Fall Seminar - 20%
Six Reader Responses-2 pages each 15%
Winter Seminar Presentation 20%
Final Essay 9-10 Pages 25%
Participation & Attendance 20%

Course Texts: (All books are available at the Bob Miller Book Room, 180 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7, (416) 922-3557, bobmillerbookroom.com )/ Plays @ Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, M4Y 1B4, (416)-975-8555:
Projected Enrolment: 25

Note: Additional readings may be assigned or recommended during the course

Note: All spaces are reserved for 3rd & 4th year students in SXST & WMST

SXST 4601 6.00A RESEARCH METHODS IN SEXUALITY STUDIES

Place: Keele Campus
Time: Monday, 2:30pm-5:30pm

Provides an advanced introduction to research methods in sexuality studies, with emphasis on critical perspectives. Students learn about research methods used by scholars in the humanities, social sciences, professional studies and the fine arts. The course also introduces students to research ethics. Students may complete a major research project on local, transnational or global topics.

Prerequisite: AP/GL/SXST & WMST2600 6.00.
Course Director:TBA
Evaluation: TBA
Course Texts: TBA
Projected Enrolment: 25

Note: All spaces are reserved for 3rd & 4th year students in SXST & WMST