Primary Courses

Fall/Winter 2012/13

Course descriptions are available below or in the attached pdf document.

AP/ANTH 2170 6.00A SEX, LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Time: (2 sections of this course will be offered)
Sec. A – Thursday, 2:30-4:30pm (plus 6 tutorials)
Sec. M – Thursday, 2:30-4:30pm (plus 6 tutorials)

Course Director: TBA

This course critically examines popular explanations of what is considered natural (and what is not) about sex, gender, emotions and the family. Through a cross-cultural approach, biological models of natural gender roles, as well as sexual and familial relations, are explored and questioned.

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AS/ANTH 2170 6.00

AP/ANTH 3240 6.00A SEXUALITY FROM A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Time: Friday, 8:30am-11:30am

Course Director:TBA

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions AS/ANTH 3000M 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004) and AS/ANTH 3240 6.00

This course examines sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective in order to better understand how sexual practices, moralities and identities are constructed, contested and transformed in relation to cultural, political and economic forces.

AP/EN 2010 6.00A GENDER STUDIES

Time: Thursday, 12:30-2::30pm (plus 6 tutorials)
Course Director: TBA

Course Credit Exclusions: AP/EN 2011 3.00, AP/EN 2012 3.00
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AS/EN 2850 6.00

An examination of how gender mediates the creation, reception and interpretation of literary/cultural texts. It provides students with critical tools for understanding gender in contemporary theory, and reading and writing about gender in literary texts.

AP/EN 2011 3.00 (Fall) GENDER STUDIES I

Time: Monday, 7:00-10:00pm

Course Director: TBA

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/EN 2010 6.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AS/EN 2850 6.00

What is gender? Is it something biologically determined or socially constructed? Could it be both? Why is it something we can take for granted? And how does sexuality fit in? Issues of race, ethnicity and belonging will be placed alongside discussions of queerness, masculinity and power. We will examine the possibilityof gender resistance and revolution through language and identity while bearing in mind the lived, material experience of being gendered.

AP/EN 2012 3.00M (Winter) GENDER STUDIES II

Time: Monday, 7:00-10:00pm

Course Director: TBA

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/EN 2010 6.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AS/EN 2850 6.00

We will survey major theoretical approaches to contemporary gender studies, including what Judith Butler has called new gender studies: bodies marked by various crossings (chromosomal sex, gender, sexuality, race, nation) as well as post-queer heterosexual bodies. We will explore competing and often contradictory theories about gender through films, fiction, and gender theory as they articulate trans-sexed, trans-nationalized, and intersexed hybrid bodies. In short, we will explore theory and cultural production that attempts to answer the question: what does gender studies want?

AP/EN 4192 6.00A GAY MALE LITERATURE

Time: Tuesday, 4:00-7:00pm

Course Director: TBA

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions AS/EN 4150E 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4333 6.00

This course examines literature which is by or about gay males. Please consult the English departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.

AP/HREQ 1900 6.00M (Winter) SEXUALITY, GENDER AND SOCIETY

Time: Monday & Wednesday, 10:30am-12:30pm (plus 4 tutorials)

Course Director: TBA

Note I: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

Note II: This course will not count for major credit in HREQ.

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AK/SOSC 1900 6.00

This course examines how the meaning and significance of sexuality, family, work and public life have varied historically for men and women. It is particularly concerned with analyzing the social definition and control of women and homosexuality, which has largely taken place in the interests of the dominant class of heterosexual "masculine" males.

AP/HREQ 1920 6.00A MALE-FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS

Time: Tuesday, 10:30am-12:30pm (plus 6 tutorials)

Course Director: TBA

Note I: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

Note II: This course will not count for major credit in HREQ.

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AK/SOSC 1920 6.00

This course explores some of the basic issues which influence male-female relationships and experience in Western society. Property, sexuality, socialization and culture are considered with attention to the social science literature in these areas as well as contemporary expressions in male-female relationships.

AP/HUMA 1950 6.00A CONCEPTS OF “MALE” AND “FEMALE” IN THE WEST

Time: Thursday, 4:30-6:30pm (plus 8 tutorials)

Course Director: TBA

Course Credit Exclusion:AP/HUMA 1830 6.00, AP/HUMA 1950 6.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AK/HUMA 1830 6.00, AS/HUMA 1950 6.00 and AS/HUMA 1950 9.00

Please Note: For purposes of meeting program requirements, all nine-credit General Education courses willcount as six credits towards the certificate, major or minor.

In this course various concepts of "male" and "female" are investigated as these are manifested in the arts and literature of a variety of cultures, past and present.

AP/HUMA 1950 9.00A CONCEPTS OF "MALE" AND "FEMALE" IN THE WEST

Time: Monday 8:30-10:30am (plus 6 tutorials)
Course Director: TBA
Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 1950 6.00

Please Note: For purposes of meeting program requirements, all nine-credit General Education courses will count as six credits towards the certificate, major or minor.

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AK/HUMA 1830 6.00, AS/HUMA 1950 6.00 and AS/HUMA 1950 9.00

An examination of the origins of, and the interrelationships among, gender, male and female concepts and roles through myth, literature, art and artifacts from various Western cultures, past and present.

AP/HUMA 3814 3.00M (Winter) GENDERING ISLAM

Time: Monday, 11:30am-2:30pm
Course Director: TBA

This course examines the representation and the construction of the gendered roles of "Muslim Woman" and "Muslim Man" in different Islamic societies.

AP/HUMA 3890 3.00A (Fall) OUTSIDERS INSIDE RELIGION

Time: Friday, 11:30am-2:30pm
Course Director: TBA
Course Credit Exclusion: AP/GL/WMST 3518 6.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AS/AK/GL/WMST 3518 6.00, AS/HUMA 3819 3.00

This course examines the strategies employed by members of marginalized groups to resist and to manoeuvre within patriarchal stereotypes, norms and values from within their religious tradition.

HH/KINE 3360 3.00A (Fall) GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN SPORT AND HEALTH

Time: Monday & Wednesday, 11:30am-1:00pm
Course Director: TBA
Prerequisite: HH/KINE 1000 6.00
Course Credit Exclusions: HH/KINE 4350 3.00; HH/KINE 4360 3.00

The course introduces students to the social production of gender (including femininity and masculinity) and sexuality and how it impacts the worlds of sport and health. The course introduces students to feminist and queer theory approaches within the discipline.

AP/PHIL 2250 3.00M (Winter) PHILOSOPHY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:30am

Course Director:TBA

An examination of some conceptual and normative questions about gender and the nature, forms and regulation of human sexuality.

AP/POLS 3011 3.00A (Fall) POLITICS OF SEXUALITY/SEXUAL POLITICS

Time: Friday, 11:30am-2:30pm
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AS/POLS 3011 3.00, AS/POLS 3000A 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004)

Since the 1980s research has challenged popular conceptions of sex as a natural and biological force. This course explores the socio-political construction of sexualities through the fields of psychoanalysis, law, education, sexology and popular culture.

AP/SOCI 4070 6.00A SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY

(2 sections of this course will be offered)
Sec. A – Tuesday, 8:30-11:30am
Sec. B – Internet
Course Directors: TBA

Prerequisite: Students must have successfully completed 84 credits. However, third-year Honours students with 78 completed credits who are also taking summer courses may enrol.

The course examines a variety of sign systems which code the body's behaviour (e.g. dressing, eating, dieting, fitness)as the vehicle for larger institutions (political, economic, religious) which require the body's inscription and conscription.

AP/SOCI 4075 3.00 (Fall) SEXUALITY, SOCIAL PRACTICES & MODERNITY

Time: (2 sections of this course will be offered)
Sec. A – Monday, 11:30am-2:30pm (Fall)
Sec. M – Thursday, 11:30am-2:30pm (Winter)
Course Director: TBA
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AK/SOCI 3820 6.00, AS/SOCI 4075 3.00

This course places sexuality in the context of societal processes and practices, and critically examines a number of major contemporary social theories concerning sexuality.

Course credit exclusions: None.

AP/SOCI 4470 3.00M BODIES, GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES

(2 sections of this course will be offered)
Sec. A – Wednesday, 2:30-5:30pm (Fall)
Sec. M – Tuesday, 8:30-11:30am (Winter)

Course Director TBA

This course considers a variety of theories concerning the relation between sex, sexuality and gender identity. Theories to be covered are those of Freud, Michel Foucault on the history of sexuality, and those of a number of psychoanalytic feminist theorists.

AP/GL/SXST 3601 3.00M (Winter) HETEROSEXUALITIES

Time: Thursday, 8:30—11:30am

Course Director: M. Stein

Prerequisite: 6 credits in SXST core or primary courses.

This interdisciplinary course examines the past, present, and future of heterosexualities, including heteronormative sexualities and heterosexualities that are dissident, resistant, transgressive, nonnormative, and queer. Cross-sex sexualities are explored in relation to masculine, feminine, and other genders, and in relation to class, race, age, and ability. Heterosexualities are analyzed as political institutions, social formations, and cultural performances that are constructed, reproduced, regulated, enforced, celebrated, and critiqued, and they are examined in relation to kinship, family, marriage, reproduction, the economy, and the state.

AP/GL/SXST 3901 3.00/6.00 (Fall, Full Year & Winter) DIRECTED READINGS/TRAVAUX INDIVIDUELS

Prerequisite: 12 SXST credits.

This course enables students to pursue independent work on a specialized topic. Proposals are developed in consultation with a faculty member affiliated with the Sexuality Studies Program.

AP/GL/SXST 4901 3.00/6.00 (Fall, Full Year & Winter) DIRECTED READINGS/TRAVAUX INDIVIDUELS

Prerequisite: 12 SXST credits.

This course enables students to pursue independent work on a specialized topic. Proposals are developed in consultation with a faculty member affiliated with the Sexuality Studies Program.

AP/SXST 4601 6.00A QUEER METHODS AND SEX RESEARCH

Time Monday, 2:30-5:30pm

Course Director: TBA

Prerequisite AP/SXST 2600 6.00

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.

AP/GL/WMST 1510 6.00A SEX, GENDER AND POPULAR CULTURE

Time: Thursday, 2:30-4:30pm (plus 8 tutorials)

Course Director: A. Mitchell

This course examines the construction of "race", gender - both femininity and masculinity - and sexuality in popular culture with a consideration of how social, political and historical forces influence media practices as well as audience consumption preferences. This is an interdisciplinary introduction to sex, gender, "race" and popular culture that works with feminist, anti-racist and anti-homophobia methods.

AP/GL/WMST 3511 3.00A (automne) FEMMES, SEXUALITÉS, POUVOIR

Heure mercredi, 15h00-18h00

Directrice du cours: J. Michaud

Identique à GL/SOSC 3625 3.00

Ce cours examine les différents débats féministes actuels qui encadrent, et, à la fois, définissent la sexualité des femmes dans le milieu canadien d'aujourd'hui. Les lectures proposent d'analyser les structures socio-politique et économique qui influencent l'idéologie étatique à propos de la sexualité féminine.

AP/GL/WMST 3525 6.00A FEMALE BODIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Time: Tuesday, 7:00-10:00pm

Course Director: TBA

Popular understandings of female and feminine are grounded in the certainty that women's bodies are central to female identities. This course interrogates such normative understandings and explores how the female body is constructed as a site of regulation and resistance.

AP/GL WMST 3542 3.00M (Winter) TRANSGENDER AND TRANSFEMINISM

Time: Thursday, 8:30-11:30am
Coure Director: TBA

Emerging trans (transgender/transsexual) theory and activism enter into dialogue and debate with feminist work. This course explores points of intersection, collaboration, and conflict between them. It takes up the question of "transfeminism" and "gendered social justice".

AP/GL WMST 3544 3.00A (Fall) DISCERNING MASCULINITIES

Time: Wednesday, 11:30am-2:30pm
Coure Director: B. Noble
Prerequisite: AP/GL/WMST 2510 6.00 or AP/GL/WMST 2600 6.00

This course surveys major approaches in contemporary masculinity studies. Students explore intersectional and often-contradictory ideas about masculinity as they articulate differently raced, sexed, classed, nationalized and sexualized bodies. In short, we query the question: what does masculinity want?

Important Note:

Please note that Sexuality Studies students are not guaranteed spaces in the primary and secondary courses offered by other units. Courses offered by Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies generally reserve spaces for Sexuality Studies students, but courses offered by other units do not typically do so. Prerequisites may apply to some of these courses; students should consult with the sponsoring unit to find out what those prerequisites are. Based on past experience, access to 4000 level courses may be most restricted. Students experiencing enrollment difficulties may want to contact the relevant course director and/or program coordinator, but it is generally counterproductive to act as though Sexuality Studies students have special rights of access to these courses.