Browse through the database below to explore courses that will fulfill certain degree requirements in the Gender & Women's Studies program.
When registering for classes on the Course Timetable website, be sure to carefully read through the "Notes/Additional Fees" section of each course you select. This section contains important details on delivery methods for each course during the Fall/Winter 2021-2022 term. Remember that REMT & ONLN are completely online courses and LECT, TUT, BLEN and SEMR could have in-person components.
AP/SOSC 1185 9.00
Women and Society
Examines images of women and explores women's experiences in the family, at school and at work. It considers issues of violence and sexuality, and theories ...
Read moreAP/SOSC 1350 9.00
Gender and the Law
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 ...
Read moreAP/GWST 1501 9.00
Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores how many aspects of our lives are gendered, racialized, embodied, sexualized, and classed, and the consequences of these ...
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Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores how many aspects of our lives are gendered, racialized, embodied, sexualized, and classed, and the consequences of these ...
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Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
Crosslisted: GL/SOSC 1502 Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores how many aspects of our lives are gendered, racialized, embodied, sexualized, and classed, and the ...
Read moreGL/GWST 1502 6.00
Introduction aux etudes des femmes et de genre / Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
Crosslisted: GL/SOSC 1502 Ce cours explore comment l'expérience des individus est marquée par le genre, la race, la sexualité et la classe en référence notamment ...
Read moreAP/SXST 1600 9.00
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Uses interdisciplinary, transnational and intersectional perspectives to introduce the field of sexuality studies in contemporary culture. Analyses and theoretical frameworks explore various axes of power, ...
Read moreGL/SXST 1601 6.00
Introduction to Sexuality Studies / Introduction à l`étude de la sexualité
Crosslisted: GL/HUMA 1601 Uses interdisciplinary, transnational and intersectional perspectives to introduce the field of sexuality studies in contemporary culture. Analyses and theoretical frameworks explore various ...
Read moreAP/SXST 1601 6.00
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Crosslisted: GL/HUMA 1601 Uses interdisciplinary, transnational and intersectional perspectives to introduce the field of sexuality studies in contemporary culture. Analyses and theoretical frameworks explore various ...
Read moreAP/HREQ 1900 6.00
Sexuality, Gender and Society
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 1900 Examines how the meaning and significance of sexuality, family, work and public life have varied historically for men and women. It is ...
Read moreAP/HREQ 1920 6.00
Male-Female Relationships
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 1920 Explores some of the basic issues which influence male-female relationships and experience in Western society. Property, sexuality, socialization and culture are considered ...
Read moreAP/HUMA 1950 6.00
Concepts of Male and Female in the West
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 ...
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Concepts of Male and Female in the West
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 ...
Read moreAP/EN 2010 6.00
Gender Studies
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 ...
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Gender Studies I
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 ...
Read moreAP/ANTH 2170 6.00
Sex, Gender and the Body
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 ...
Read moreAP/SOSC 2351 6.00
Human Rights in a Social-Legal Context
This course analyses issues and policies associated with minority status in Canada from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using International Human Rights principles as a framework, the ...
Read moreAP/GWST 2511 6.00
Sex, Gender and Popular and Culture
Examines the construction of gender - both femininity and masculinity - and sexuality in popular culture with a consideration of how social, political and historical ...
Read moreAP/GWST 2512 6.00
Race, Gender & Sexuality
Explores the social and historical construction of race, gender and sexuality through a critical and intersectional approach. It draws on a range of theoretical perspectives ...
Read moreAP/GWST 2513 6.00
Mothering and Motherhood
CROSSLISTED COURSE: GL SOSC 2513 Examines motherhood as it is theorized and analyzed in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and as it is portrayed in women's fictional ...
Read moreAP/GWST 2515 6.00
Thinking Whiteness
This course surveys key texts and concepts in the field of critical, anti-racist North American whiteness studies. Approaches are intersectional and read for historical and ...
Read moreGL/SXST 2600 6.00
Critiques a foundation à l’étude de la sexualité
Ce cours propose aux étudiant.e.s une approche interdisciplinaire introduisant les théories, les méthodologies et enjeux et problématiques dans le champ des Études sur la sexualité. ...
Read moreAP/SXST 2600 6.00
Critical Foundations in Sexuality Studies Critiques a foundation à l’étude de la sexualité
This course is an interdisciplinary and transnational introduction to theories, methods, themes, debates and issues that constitute the field of critical sexuality studies. The course ...
Read moreGL/SOCI 2680 3.00
Relations sexe/genre
Crosslisted: GL/SOSC 2680 Analyse de la signification des distinctions de genre dans la structure sociale. En particulier étude de la socialisation et de la stratification ...
Read moreGL/SOCI 2685 3.00
La Famille
Crosslisted: GL/GWST 2685 and GL/SOSC 2680 Étude de la famille en tant qu'unité du système social et domaine d'interaction sociale. Étude, en particulier, des variations ...
Read moreAP/POLS 3011 3.00
Politics of Sexuality/Sexual Politics
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 ...
Read moreAP/ADMS 3120 3.00
Gender Issues in Management
Uses feminist principles and pedagogy to examine gender issues relevant to managing career and life, including for example pay equity, harassment, stereotyping, power and assertiveness, ...
Read moreEU/ENVS 3160 3.00
Race/Racism and Environmental Justice
Examines the intersection of "race"/racism and environmentalism. It begins from the premise that environmental issues are always already racialized. Issues as diverse as toxic facility ...
Read moreAP/ANTH 3230 6.00
Women, Culture and Society
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 ...
Read moreFA/THEA 3235 3.00
The Body in Performance
Crosslisted: FA/FASC 3500 Focuses on ideas and issues surrounding embodiment and the body in performance. Through critical inquiry, it will explore various theoretical perspectives on ...
Read moreAP/ANTH 3330 6.00
Health & Illness
This course explores health, illness and medical systems from the viewpoint of social anthropology. It emphasizes medicine and health as culturally significant systems of knowledge ...
Read moreHH/KINE 3360 3.00
Gender and Sexuality in Sport and Health
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 ...
Read moreEU/GEOG 3400 3.00
Geographies of Genders and Sexualities
This course considers the construction, reproduction, and representation of gender and sexual identities as they intersect with other social differences in space. It introduces students ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 3450 6.00
The Sociology of Race and Racism
Offers a sociological critique of race and racism by examining both the concept and practices in terms of social organization, discourse and history. Biogenetic and ...
Read moreHH/PSYC 3480 3.00
Psychology of Women
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 ...
Read moreGL/GWST 3503 6.00
Femmes et mondialisation
CROSSLISTED COURSE: GL ILST/SOCI/SOSC 3665 Ce cours porte sur la situation des femmes dans un contexte de mondialisation. Il traite de l'impact de la mondialisation ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3504 6.00
Women and Aging
Crosslisted: GL/HUMA 3604 This course analyzes the experience of women as they move into old age. We analyze myths that surround the concept of old ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3509 6.00
Women Organizing
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3125 Women have a long tradition of organizing to expand their rights, resist oppression, challenge and defend traditional values and to change their ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3510 6.00
Women and Work: Production and Reproduction
CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP SOSC 3130 & GL WKST 3610 Explores the conditions of women's work, paid and unpaid. The historical development of a sexual division ...
Read moreAP/HUMA 3518 6.00
Feminist Approaches to Religion
This course foregrounds women's voices/stories and examines a wide range of feminist approaches to religion, including feminists who identify as practitioners of a tradition as ...
Read moreGL/GWST 3524 3.00
Colonialisme et genre en Afrique noire
Crosslisted: GL/HIST/ILST/SOCI 3658 La colonisation par sa mission civilisatrice a contribué entre autres à forger des rapports de genre dans les sociétés africaines. Dans ce ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3540 6.00
Across Borders: Globalization and Women's Health
Across Borders: Globalization and Women's Globalization and the spread of Western free market economies have significantly impacted women's health around the world. This course examines ...
Read moreAP/SOSC 3543 6.00
Introduction to Gender and Development
Introduces students to the history, theory and practice of gender and development as an aspect both of the enterprise of Third World development, and of ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3547 3.00
Reframing Fat
Students will become familiar with feminist and post-colonialist theories of embodiment, and use them to explore how the fat body and fat phobia have been ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3555 6.00
Genealogies of Feminist Theorizing
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 ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3557 3.00
Superstition, Religion and Sexuality
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, ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3560 3.00
Bad Girls in the Bible Part 1: Hebrew
The Bible offers archetypal figures for Western art, music and film as well as literature. This course will analyze women in the Hebrew Bible in ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3567 6.00
Feminist Life Writing
Introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of life writing in multiple genres and media. Itforegrounds the important role of autobiographical and biographical representations, both ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3568 6.00
Indigenous Feminisms: Connections and Contradictions
This course introduces students to the study of Indigenous feminisms. It provides a critique of the colonial construction of exclusionary categories, including gender and sexuality, ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3569 3.00
Colonialism, Gender, and Sexuality
This course provides a thematic overview of colonialism, specifically through the categories of sexuality and gender. It emphasizes a critical, historical, interdisciplinary and intersectional mode ...
Read moreAP/GWST 3570 3.00
Gender and Islamophobia
This course investigates current debates and issues related to gender and Islamophobia in Canadian and international contexts. The course takes an intersectional analytic approach that ...
Read moreAP/COMN 3590 3.00
Feminist Perspectives on Media
Examines gender in relation to various media. Diverse media including film, television, magazines, and romantic fiction are analyzed through a feminist perspective and held within ...
Read moreAP/COMN 3591 3.00
Feminist Perspectives on Technology
Examines communication technologies from a feminist perspective. Various technologies from the telephone, television, cinema, computers, and the Internet are analyzed within historical relationships of gender. ...
Read moreGL/SXST 3602 3.00
Transnational Sexualities
This interdisciplinary course examines transnational and diasporic sexualities, with special emphasis on African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and indigenous contexts. Prerequisite: six credits ...
Read moreAP/SXST 3603 3.00
Sexual Activism, Movements and Politics
Examines 20th and 21st century sexual activism, movements, and politics, focusing on everyday resistance, organized protest, and mobilizations for reform and revolution. Prerequisite: six credits ...
Read moreGL/FRAN 3608 3.00
Roman fém des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe s
CROSSLISTED COURSE: GL HUMA 3608 & GL GWST 3608 Analyse de 4 ou 5 romans féminins des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles choisis pour la ...
Read moreGL/SOCI 3609 3.00
Women and Religion
Crosslisted: Gl/GWST 3609 and GL/HUMA 3609 This course uses sociological theories on religion to study the main issues, gains and struggles faced by women in ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 3660 6.00
Families and Social Change
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 ...
Read moreAP/ECON 3709 3.00
Economics of Gender (Writing)
Introduces students to gender gaps and discrimination, especially in connection with labour markets, policy towards gender equality, and features of family economics such as issues ...
Read moreAP/CH 3711 3.00
Women Writers in Contemporary China
This course studies fiction by major women writers from the literary revolution of the 1920s to the present; themes, forms and styles are explored in ...
Read moreFA/FILM 3810 3.00
Women and Film I
Examines the feminist perspective of the ways in which women have been represented in mainstream Hollywood and classical film traditions. Discussion of formative texts of ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 3820 6.00
Sociology of Health and Health Care
Social factors related to health and physical and mental illness will be discussed, including comparative examinations of the healing process. The social organization of systems ...
Read moreAP/HREQ 3830 6.00
Women's Health & Equity
Using women's health research, this course will use a Critical Multicultural and Anti Racist Feminist approach to examine women health and the social determinants that ...
Read moreAP/HUMA 3856 3.00
Women and the Holocaust
Although the Nazi genocide targeted both men and women, writing by victims and survivors along with contemporary depictions of the Holocaust, indicates significant gender-specific differences ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 3860 6.00
Women, Work and Family
Women's challenges in the home and in waged work, including historical and cross-cultural analyses. Areas of discussion may include: household, the labour market, racism and ...
Read moreAP/HREQ 3890 6.00
Social Justice: Theory & Practice
This course addresses inequality and domination, resistance and collective empowerment, in Canada and beyond, and examines the historical importance and the contemporary relevance of struggles ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 4060 3.00
Sociology of Parent/Child Relationships
Examines the parent-child relationship as interactive process within social structure. This relationship is explored in terms of reciprocity, multiple levels, the dynamic lifespan model, and ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 4070 6.00
Sociology of the Body
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) ...
Read moreAP/POLS 4125 3.00
Gender and Current Policy Issues
This course begins by evaluating selected feminist theories in the light of their ability to explain policy developments. The course examines the implications of public ...
Read moreAP/SOSC 4140 6.00
Health and Society Seminar
This research seminar examines theoretical and applied problems in health and society. It introduces students to a variety of research methods and evaluative skills, which ...
Read moreAP/SOSC 4141 3.00
Women and Health
The goal of this course is to research the area of women and health with a particular emphasis on the relationship between biological and socio-cultural ...
Read moreAP/POLS 4296 3.00
Gender and Participatory Budgeting
This course examines the theory and practice of government budgets from the perspective of social justice, focusing on gender-responsive and participatory budgeting.
Read moreAP/SOCI 4345 3.00
Family and Intimate Relations
Discussion of major issues in family composition, functioning and relationships such as: authority and decision making; migration and kin support; alternatives to contemporary marriage; separation ...
Read moreAP/SOSC 4355 6.00
Gender, Sex and the Supreme Court
Prerequisites: the completion of at least 84 credits, including AP/SOSC 2110 6.00 or AP/SOSC 2150 9.00, or written permission of the instructor.
Read moreAP/GWST 4502 6.00
Violence Against Women
Crosslisted: GL/SOSC 4602 Examines gender-based violence in its many forms, such as domestic violence, state violence, legal violence (punishment) and cultural violence (rituals) and analyzes ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4503 3.00
Politics of Canadian Women's Movement
Crosslisted: AP POLS 4155 & GL POLS 4603 Examines the politics of the Canadian women's movement, emphasizing its historical and contemporary development. We examine the ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4507 3.00
Writing Women's History
Crosslisted: GL HIST/SOSC 4670 Examines how feminist issues and theories have influenced the ways women's history has been written, the questions asked and the themes ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4516 6.00
Gender, Globalization and Militarization
This course uses a feminist anti-racist lens to explore the increasing intersection of processes of globalization and militarization in what many refer to as 'the ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4518 6.00
Women, Ethnicity, Race and Migration
Examines migration from a global, feminist perspective. It pays particular attention to government policies and to the ways women in immigrant and racialized communities shape ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4522 3.00
Cancer Biopower: Bodies, Environments, and Creativity
This course exposes students to a wide range of theoretical, creative, and activist responses to encounters with cancer. Foucault’s concept of biopower is applied to ...
Read moreGL/GWST 4523 6.00
Femmes, genre, migation internationale
Crosslisted: GL/ILST/SOCI 4523 Dans une perspective féministe intersectionnelle, ce séminaire s'articule autour des débats sur la division internationale du travail selon le genre. Une réflexion ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4524 6.00
Feminist Graphic Narratives
This course introduces students to the genre of graphic narratives that tell stories about a diverse range of bodies and histories. It explores the conventions ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4555 6.00
Feminist Methodologies and Methods
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 ...
Read moreAP/SXST 4600 6.00
Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies
This seminar reviews and synthesizes theories, methods and practices in sexuality studies. Students explore the intersections and tensions within and between disciplines involved in sexuality ...
Read moreHH/NURS 4620 3.00
Women's Health & Women's Health Movement
Through a collaborative learning environment, students will critically analyze issues affecting women's health/health care including pathologization, medicalization, women healers, women's mental health, body image, environmental ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 4685 6.00
Feminist Perspectives on Families
This course focuses on four major theoretical feminist perspectives on families, gender and the state. Exploring issues such as regulation of sexuality, division of labour ...
Read moreAP/HIST 4765 6.00
Gender in East Asian History
Examines gender roles in pre-modern and modern China, Korea and Japan. It focuses on women: their places in the family and society, their relationships with ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4801 3.00
Directed Reading
This course is designed to enable Honours students to undertake a detailed independent study of their own choosing. The student will undertake intensive reading and ...
Read moreAP/GWST 4801 6.00
Directed Reading
This course is designed to enable Honours students to undertake a detailed independent study of their own choosing. The student will undertake intensive reading and ...
Read moreAP/SOCI 4810 6.00
Women and the Criminal Justice System
This course analyzes theory and research on the incidence and treatment of child, adolescent and adult women who are offenders (e.g. theft, homicide), victims (e.g. ...
Read moreAP/HUMA 4816 6.00
Women in Islamic Literatures
The course focuses on the representation of Muslim women in modern Islamic literatures (novel and short stories) and other forms of Islamic cultural production, such ...
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