Welcome

In November 2004, York University Senate approved the creation of a new undergraduate program in Sexuality Studies. The program is housed in York's School of Women's Studies and draws upon faculty members from across the university who teach and research on a wide range of topics relating to sexuality. Students may pursue a Major, Minor, or Cross-Disciplinary Certificate in Sexuality Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies or at Glendon College.

Sexuality Studies is a field that examines sexual desires and pleasures, acts and behaviours, identities and subjectivities, communities and cultures, movements and organizing. The field explores artistic, cultural, economic, geographic, historical, literary, political, and psychological dimensions of sexuality, while also investigating sexual dimensions of arts, economies, geographies, histories, literatures, politics, and psychologies. A central mission of Sexuality Studies is to examine "intersectionality" - an intersectional approach focuses on existent and emergent intersections of sexuality with ability, age, class, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, health, nationality, race, religion, and sexual identity.

The field is concerned in part with the dynamics of sexual hierarchy, resistance, and diversity in a variety of Canadian contexts (past and present). It simultaneously works to understand the operations of sexual dynamics in African, Asian and Pacific, Caribbean, North and South American, European and Oceanic contexts (past and present) as well as sexual migrations and diasporas in transcontinental contexts. Committed to examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, intersexed, heterosexual, and heteronormative identities and cultures, the field also studies alternative ways of organizing sexualities and, indeed, alternatives to sexuality, in the past, present, and future.

This exciting program reflects York University's ongoing commitment to providing innovative and challenging interdisciplinary programs and to serving the intellectual and academic needs of our diverse student body.

• Fall/Winter Courses (2012/13)
• Summmer 2012 Sexuality Studies Courses
• Assistant Professor Opportunity (Tenure-stream) Gender & Sexuality -- commencing July 1, 2012
• Unisex bathrooms: Quit stalling and get on with it? Prof Sheila Cavangh interviewed on CBC Radio"
• York one of only two Canadian universities offering an undergrad major in sexuality - XTRA
• New book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination examines archaic attitudes associated with bathrooms - Y-File
• Our relationships with the john: private, public, sexual, gender-policed bathrooms - XTRA
• New Grade Reappraisal Policy

  Please note that the policy regarding grade reappraisal for undergraduate students in Sexuality Studies will change effective Summer 2010 (summer academic session) to conform to the Faculty of LA&PS rules. Under this policy, sexuality studies students requesting a grade reappraisal may have their grade lowered, raised or confirmed. Previously, sexuality studies students requesting a grade reappraisal were not subject to a drop in their grade. The regulations and guidelines now read:

  1. Students may with sufficient academic grounds, request that a final grade in a course be reappraised (which may mean the review of specific pieces of tangible work). Non-academic grounds are not relevant for grade reappraisals.
  2. Students need to be aware that a request for a grade reappraisal may result in the original grade being raised, lowered or confirmed.

  For more information: www.registrar.yorku.ca/services/grades/policy/htm

Fall Term Office Hours: (September 7 through December 6, 2011)

• Mondays, 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
• Tuesdays, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
• Wednesdays, 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
• Thursdays, 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
• Fridays, 8:30 am - 4 :30 pm