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Secondary Courses

Fall/Winter 2012/13

AP/ADMS 4444 3.00A (Fall) IDENTITY & INCLUSIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS

Time: Tuesday, 8:30am-11:30am
Course Director: TBA

Prerequisites: 1) For students in a BAS/BHRM Honours program, 78 credits including AP/ADMS 1000 3.00, AP/ADMS 2400 3.00, and AP/ADMS 2600 3.00, or 2) for other students, a grade of B or better in AP/ADMS 2400 3.00 or HH/PSYC 3570, or 3) with instructor’s permission.

Cross-listed to: AP/HRM 4444 3.00

Develops awareness and understanding of workplace diversity from various stakeholders’ perspectives. Explores issues of individual identity, including, but not limited to, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ability, religion and social status. Examines the value of inclusive diversity practices in organizations and their managerial implications.

AP/ANTH 3230 6.00A WOMEN, CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Time:  Tuesday, 8:30am-11:30am

Course Director:  TBA

This course examines the contribution of anthropology to women’s studies, including the relationship between biology and culture, the evolution and learning of sex roles, and the roles and status of women in comparative perspective.

AP/EN 3150 6.00A WOMEN IN LITERATURE:  A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Time:
Monday, 11:30am-12:30pm (plus 2 tutorials -2 hours in length

Course Director:  TBA

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusion: AS/EN 2860 6.00

The course examines the changing social and familial roles of women as they have been reflected by popularised fiction from the 18th century to the present.  The approach is comparative and historical, drawing on documents to complement the fiction.

AP/GEOG 4090 3.00M (Fall) URBAN IDENTITIES

Time:  Wednesday, 7:0010:00pm

Course Director:  TBA

Prerequisite: AS/GEOG 3120 6.00 or AS/GEOG 4040 6.00 or AS/GEOG 4170 3.00 or AS/HIST 1000A 6.00 or AS/SOSC 2710 9.00 or AS/SOSC 3760 6.00 or AS/SOSC 3790A 3.00 or AS/SOCI 3830 6.00 or AS/SOCI 4055 6.00 or AS/SOCI 4120 6.00 or AK/AS/GL/WMST 3505 3.00 or written permission of the course director.

Course Credit Exclusions: AS/HIST 4050F 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/HIST 4083 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2005-2006)

This course considers the historical and spatial construction of racial, ethnic, gender and class identities in the broader context of urban development in Canada and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.

AP/HIST 3533 6.00A THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN CANADA

Time:  Thursday, 8:30-10:30am (plus 4 tutorials)

Course Director:  TBA

Course Credit Exclusions: AK/HIST 2220 6.00, AK/HIST 3200 6.00, GL/HIST 3690 6.00, GL/SOSC 3690 6.00 & GL/WMST 3690 6.00

The political, economic and social history of women in Canada, from 1600 to the present. A thematic approach investigates commonalities and differences of women's experience.

AP/HIST 3234 3.00M (Winter) WOMEN AND GENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Time: Monday, Monday & Wednesday, 11:30am-1:00pm
Course Director: TBA

Explores gender ideologies and their lived social and cultural meanings for women -- and men -- during modern Europe's foundational centuries, 1500-1800. Examines intersections between evolving cultural norms, familial roles, and women's varied activities in spaces outside the domestic household. Also considers gender in relation to major developments of the era -- statebuilding, capitalism, overseas expansion, religion and the literacy revolution.

AP/HIST 3645 3.00A (Fall) POST-WWII US POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:30am
Course Director: TBA
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AS/HIST 3645 3.00, AS/HIST 4620 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 1999-2000)

This course analyzes major political movements that have transformed the United States. The course focuses on African American, women's, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movements.

AP/HIST 4752 6.00A GENDER, SEX AND FAMILY IN LATIN AMERICA

Time: Thursday, 7:00-10:00pm
Course Director: TBA

Note: This course is restricted to History or Latin American and Caribbean Studies Honours majors and minors who have successfully completed at least 84 credits.

Prerequisites: AP/HIST 2720 6.00 or AP/HIST 2730 6.00 or AP/HIST 3710 6.00 or AP/HIST 3730 6.00 or AP/HIST 3731 6.00 or AP/HIST 3732 3.00 or AP/HIST 3733 3.00 or AP/HIST 3734 3.00/6.00 or AP/HIST 3735 3.00 or AP/HIST 3736 6.00 or AP/HUMA 2310 9.00 or AP/SOSC 2460 9.00 or departmental permission.

This course examines the intersections between daily interactions (especially those involving kinship, race, ethnicity, and class) and politics on the national and imperial scale. It covers the period 1350-2000 in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the Americas.

AP/HUMA 3970 3.00M (Winter) SCIENCE & GENDER IN MOD. WESTERN CULTURE

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

This course analyzes the gendered nature of modern Western scientific culture. It draws on literary, historical and philosophical sources, films and contemporary feminist writings.

AP/HUMA 4421 6.00A FEMININE IN CHINESE CULTURE

Time: Monday, 11:30am-2:30pm
Course Director: TBA
Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 3940 6.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AS/HUMA 3940 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2000-2001), AS/HUMA 3940 6.00 and AS/HUMA 4421 6.00

This course explores the feminine idea in modern Chinese culture through such topics as love, sexuality, feminism and the women's liberation movement of the 20th century. The experience of Chinese women in Hong Kong, Taiwan and North America are also explored through contemporary literature.

AP/POLS 4125 3.00M (Winter) WOMEN AND CURRENT POLICY ISSUES

Time:  Thursday, 8:30-11:30am

Course Director:   TBA

The course begins by evaluating selected feminist theories in the light of their ability to explain policy developments. Policy issues of the past decade are then examined, including prostitution, pornography, homosexual rights, sexual assault, abortion and reproductive technology.

HH/PSYC 3480 3.00 PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN

((4 sections of this course will be offered)
Sec. A – Friday, 8:30-11:30am (Fall)
Sec. B – Tuesday, 8:30-11:30am (Fall)
Sec. M – Monday, 2:30-5:30pm (Winter)
Sec. N – Thursday, 2:30-5:30pm (Winter)

Prerequisite:  HH/SC/PSYC 1010  6.00 or AK/PSYC 2410 6.0 with a minimum grade of C.

Cross-listed-to:  AK/HH/SC/ PSYC 3480 & AK/SOCI 3880 3.00

Course Credit Exclusions: AK/PSYC 3700E 3.00, AK/SOCI 3390V 3.00, AK/SOCI 3880A 3.00

This course explores factors associated with the psychology of women, including gender-role stereotypes, socialization practices, male-female differences, and the family.  At all times, the interpretation offered is made with reference to the broader social context.

AP/SOCI 3660 6.00M (Winter) FAMILIES IN SOCIAL CHANGE

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

Course Director:  TBA

Course Credit Exclusion: AS/SOSC 3150 6.00, AS/SOCI 3660 6.00 (before FW01/02)

Course Access Features: 100 reserved spaces for AP/GL Sociology majors/minors, Canadian Studies, Women's Studies and Education Studies majors

Course Credit Exclusions: GL/SOCI 2685 3.00, GL/SOSC 2685 3.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AK/SOCI 3450 6.00, AS/SOCI 3660 6.00, AK/SOSC 3601 6.00, GL/SOCI 2685 3.00, GL/SOSC 2685 3.00

The course provides a wide-ranging and provocative analysis of the social forces and individual responses contributing to diversity in family life, emphasizing how social, economic and political changes in Canadian society have reshaped family forms and social policy.

AP/SOCI 3690 6.00A SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

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

Course Director:  TBA

This course analyzes economic, social, cultural and political aspects of gender formation in a comparative context and in Canada. Emphasis is on the different ways in which femininity and masculinity are constituted in interaction with race, class and other factors. 

AP/SOCI 4615 6.00A (Fall)FEMINIST THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES

Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30am-2:30pm
Course Director: TBA
Course Credit Exclusions: AP/SOSC 4160 6.00, AP/GL/WMST 4500 6.00, GL/SOSC 4685 6.00, GL/SOCI 4685 6.00

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course Credit Exclusions: AS/SOCI 4600 6.00, AS/SOSC 3501 6.00, AS/SOSC 4160 6.00, AK/AS/GL/WMST 3501 6.00, AK/AS/GL/WMST 4500 6.00, AK/AS/GL/WMST 4501 6.00, GL/SOSC 3604 6.00, GL/SOSC 3900 6.00, GL/SOSC 4685 6.00, GL/SOCI 4685 6.00

This course provides a critical analysis of varieties of feminist theories and methodologies as they have been derived from women's examination of social relations and practices. Theories arise from and organize perspectives of the world that generate and legitimate particular understandings. In questioning the process of theorizing, issues of difference in race, class, able-bodied and sexual orientation will be examined.

AP/SOSC 1185 9.00A WOMEN AND SOCIETY

Time: Wednesday, 4:30-6:30pm (plus 10 tutorials)
Course Director: TBA
Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HREQ/SOSC 1700 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/SOSC 1700 6.00, AS/SOSC 1185 9.00

This course examines images of women and explores women's experiences in the family, in school, at the workplace, and in relation to the issues of poverty, violence, health and sexuality.

AP/SOSC 1210 9.00A HUMAN RIGHTS AND CANADIAN MINORITIES

Time: Wednesday, 12:30-2:30pm (plus 11 tutorials)
Course Director: TBA

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.

This interdisciplinary course examines Canadian attitudes, institutional practices, and government policies affecting opportunities for full participation in Canadian society for various Canadian minorities, ethnic and religious groups, homosexuals, women, the aged, disabled and poor. Strategies for change are critically analyzed.

AP/SOSC 1350 9.00A WOMEN AND THE LAW

Time: Wednesday, 2:30-4:30pm (plus 12 tutorials)
Course Director: TBA

This course explores the role of gender within the context of the legal system. Current issues that highlight the relationship between gender and law are examined by analyzing both legislation and case law. Topics include: divorce, rape and equal pay.

AP/GL/WMST 2500 6.00 INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES

( 2 sections of this course will be offered)

Sec. A - Wednesday, 7:00-10:00pm (Keele Campus)
Sec. B – Tuesday, 9:00am-12:00pm (Glendon Campus)/p>

Course Directors: TBA

Cross-listed-to:  GL/SOSC 2950 6.00

Course Credit Exclusions: AP/HUMA 2930 9.00, AP/GL/WMST 2510 9.00 and AP/SOSC 2180 9.00

This course explores the social, political and economic institutions which shape women's lives, and introduces key theoretical approaches within feminist scholarship to investigate specific feminist issues in areas such as women's writing, visual representations, family, race, sexuality, women and work.

AP/GL/WMST 2500 6.00C ÉTUDES DES FEMMES ET DE GENRE

Heure: lundi, 12h00-15h00
Directrice du cours: TBA

Cours incompatibles: AP/GL/WMST 2510 9.00, AP/HUMA 2930 9.00 et AP/SOSC 2180 9.00

Dans une démarche multidisciplinaire, ce cours d'introduction aux études des femmes porte sur l'étude de la situation des femmes en prenant en compte les structures, socio-économiques politiques et culturelles. Il fait l'apprentissage des concepts élémentaires en Études des femmes à travers les grandes oeuvres féministes qui ont marqué ce champ.

AP/GL/WMST 2510 9.00 ON WOMEN: INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES/ FOUNDATIONS VERSION

(2 sections of this course will be offered)

Sec. A – Monday, 4:30-6:30pm (plus 9 tutorials)
Sec. B – Friday, 8:30-10:30am (plus 9 tutorials)

Course Directors:  Sec. A - E. Kapinski, Sec. B - TBA

Cross-listed to:  AP/HUMA 2930 9.0 & AP/SOSC 2180 9.0

Course Credit Exclusions: AK/WMST 2000 6.00, GL/WMST 2950E 6.00, GL/WMST 2950F 6.00 & WMST 2500 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.

This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to Women's Studies.  It considers historical and contemporary arguments to develop understandings of how social, political and economic relations variously shape women's lives. It introduces diverse theoretical approaches within feminist scholarship to outline broad terms of debate, and works with these to investigate specific feminist arguments in regard to written and visual representations and a range of socio-political issues. In addition, the course helps students to develop critical reading and analysis skills.

AP/GL/WMST 3504 6.00A WOMEN AND AGING

Time: Wednesday, 2:30-5:30pm
Course Director: R. Newman
Cross-listed-to: AP/HUMA 3604 6.00

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/SOCI 4680 3.00

This course analyzes the experience of women as they move into old age. We analyze myths that surround the concept of old woman using story, biography, poetry and film. Topics include: sexuality beyond menopause; isolation and poverty; relationships between women; anger and creative energy; patterns of language and the effects of self-imposed silencing; the re-evaluation of the crone.

AP/GL/WMST 3505 3.00A (Fall) GENDER AND THE CITY

Time:  Monday, 7:00-10:00pm

Course Director:  TBA

Cross-listed-to:  AP/SOSC 3791/GL/3617 3.00

This course examines the relationship between socially constructed gender relations and the changing nature and form of contemporary urban areas.

AP/GL WMST 3507 6.00A LES FEMMES ET LA SANTÉ

Heure: jeudi, 13h00-15h00
Directrice du cours: J. Michaud

Sous une perspective historique et sociologique, ce cours aborde ces sujets: la santé physique et mentale des femmes, les traitements qu'elles reçoivent au sein de la profession médicale, leurs rôles en tant que guérisseuses au sein de cette profession.

AP/GL WMST 3547 3.00M (Winter) REFRAMING FAT

Time: Friday, 11:30-2:30pm
Course Director: TBA
Prerequisite: AP/GL 2500 6.00 or AP/GL 2510 9.00.

In this course, students become familiar with feminist and post-colonialist theories of embodiment, and use them to explore how the fat body and fat phobia have been and are produced through history, through policy, and through popular culture. Note: A knowledge of feminist theory is required. A knowledge of feminist theories of the body is an asset.

AP/GL WMST 3555 6.00A GENEALOGIES OF FEMINIST THEORIZING

Time: Monday, 11:30-2:30pm
Course Directors: TBA
Prerequisite: AP/WMST 2500 6.00 or AP/WMST 2510 9.00.
Course Credit Exclusions: GL/AP/WMST 4500 6.00, AS/WMST 4501 6.00 (prior to S2007)

Examines major feminist theoretical approaches, both historical and contemporary, in women's and gender studies. Students will develop their analytic skills by engaging in rigorous critique and debate of feminist theorizing. Students will write detailed assessments of specific theoretical feminist approaches that take into consideration difference and intersectionality.

AP/GL WMST 3557 6.00A SUPERSTITION, RELIGION AND SEXUALITY

Time: Wednesday, 9:00am-12:00pm (Glendon Campus)
Course Director: R. Newman
Note: An introductory course in Women's Studies is recommended.

Explores the intersection of religion and superstition from ancient times to the present. Analyzes issues of gender, power and sexuality through the study of goddesses, witches and the current fascination with vampires in popular culture.

AP/GL WMST 4502 6.00A VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Time:  Friday, 8:30-11:30am

Course Director:  TBA

Cross-listed-to:  GL/SOSC 4602 6.00

Course Credit Exclusions: AK/POLS 3562 6.00, AK/SOCI 3850 6.00, AK/SOSC 3620 6.00

Please Note:  Most spaces are reserved for 4th year students in CRIM, SXST & WMST

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.

AP/GL WMST 4555 6.00A FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES

Time: Wednesday, 2:30-5:30pm
Course Director: E. Karpinski
Prerequisites: AP/WMST 2500 6.00 or AP/WMST 2510 9.00; and AP/WMST 3555 6.00 or AP/WMST 3556 6.00.

Investigates a range of methodologies and methods in feminist research. Students will engage in a 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 approaches in the social sciences and humanities.