Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
A survey of selected topics in the study of gender structures and the status of women in historical and cross-cultural perspective. These will include consideration of social and psychological processes by which gender identity is established in the individual, its institutional manifestations, and its articulation with class and race structures.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours, limited enrolment (King's)
Course Weight: 1.00
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A survey of selected topics in the study of gender structures and the status of women in historical and cross-cultural perspective. These will include consideration of social and psychological processes by which gender identity is established in the individual, its institutional manifestations, and its articulation with class and race structures.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours, limited enrolment (King's)
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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We introduce students to current social and political issues in sexuality studies, with a focus on contemporary issues around sexuality, including formation of sexual identities, sexual practices and politics, policing of sexuality, questions of sexual diversity, and the historical and global nature of ideas and controversies around sexuality.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in matters of education, health, poverty, globalization, the environment, etc.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 1023F/G GAY LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BEYOND ADAM AND STEVE
Judging by the media, you would think the only issue in gay life today is same-sex marriage. This course will examine many of the other issues affecting gay men, such as sexual politics and practices, body image, health, consumer culture, social media, television and film, and intersections with race and class.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights as they are taken up in institutional domains such as social work, education, and law and in schools of thought such as critical race studies, feminism and gender studies, sexuality studies, and disability studies.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Black Studies that examines its foundations and debates, focusing on resilience and resistance in Black life. Students will examine practices used within this Black intellectual-activist tradition through various disciplinary approaches and by situating contemporary topics (identity, fashion, sexuality) within historical frameworks.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience through biography.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2140 WOMEN IN CANADIAN HISTORY: CHANGING ROLES AND DIVERSE SOCIAL REALITIES
A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience as recorded through biography.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A course on selected topics on Women and the Creative Arts. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Intimate Relations focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, philosophy, health, society and popular culture.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How we understand the body, whether through scientific investigation or through its representation in media, literature or art, has material effects on how people's lives and experiences are shaped. We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2163A/B SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the world of fashion from a critical feminist perspective. Topics covered may include fashion's role in gender and sexuality identity; the relationship between women's fashions and women's liberation; the history, sociology, aesthetics of fashion; the mass production of fashion; and feminist concerns about exploitation and sweatshop labour.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 online hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Climate change is a major challenge for the planet’s future; population migration will increase, causing social, political and environmental effects while leaving some people with few options. This course will examine both present and future in a world where climate change is increasingly inevitable and its results are felt intersectionally.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Today we are starting to see official recognition, in some places, of trans and non-binary people, while social recognition of proliferating gender identities has become increasingly the norm. This course interrogates changes in the way genders are understood, from social to scientific recognition, and questions rhetorics of “choice,” “biology,” etc.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How are Queer individuals represented in popular culture? Images of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in media, including news, film, and television, produce particular ideas of queer identity. This course examines the historical and contemporary presence of queer individuals within popular culture and popular culture produced for and by 2SLGBTQ+ people.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Black popular culture is concerned with pleasure, enjoyment, and amusement and is expressed through aesthetic codes and genres. Drawing on literature, film, music, visual art, and television, this course examines examples of popular culture created by and for Black individuals to consider Black cultural values, beliefs, experiences, and social institutions.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Coined in 1994 by Mark Dery, the term Afrofuturism refers to a Black aesthetic centred around imagining futures for Black people. Students will encounter Black writers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers, from Octavia Butler to Sun Ra to Janelle Monae to Jordan Peele, whose work envisages Black futures.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines sport from a critical feminist perspective. We will examine commonly held assumptions about the human body, while considering how gender, race, sexuality, and culture, among other topics, influence our understanding of sports as well as how athletes are positioned as celebrities and their impact on popular culture.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cannot be used towards completion of any Kinesiology module.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course is divided into sections on the image of women in literature, film and art; psycho- social development; the effects of social structure on women; and differences among women. These topics are addressed from the perspective of literature, psychology, theology, sociology, etc.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E or completion of first year university.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Beginning with cutting edge contemporary practices, from sex reassignment surgery to virtual reality, this course will look at the ways in which we imagine the future of gender and sexuality. The focus will be primarily on science fiction texts that provide interesting alternatives to present-day ideas about sex and sexuality.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines how historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity have shaped our understanding of what it means to act and be male in our society. It draws on critical gender theory to interrogate how issues associated with maleness and masculinity interact with questions of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2208E WOMEN IN CANADIAN HISTORY: CHANGING ROLES AND DIVERSE SOCIAL REALITIES
A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience as recorded through biography.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's writing. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course mobilizes intersectional, decolonial, feminist, and anti-capitalist scholarship to understand transformative changes to paid and unpaid work, caused by multiple factors such as technology, demographics, climate change, pandemics, and globalization, and their effects upon gender equality and social justice.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 2261F/G.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2257E.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This interdisciplinary course brings a critical lens to the study of disability, sexuality and gender. Employing critical disability studies and feminist, critical sexuality and queer theories, students will explore and question issues affecting the sexual lives, gender expressions, and subjectivities of people with disabilities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines social and cultural constructions of girlhood. Topics may include the commercialization of girlhood, popular culture and girls, negotiating identities, violence, sexualities, agency and activism in a globalizing world, and categories of difference. We will consider how feminism and Women's and Gender Studies have contributed to Girlhood Studies.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course is a historical and thematic examination of Black life across the diaspora. Students will examine the cultural practices of African communities’ pre-colonial contact as well as the ongoing impact of Atlantic enslavement on Black diasporic communities today. Specific content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2231F/G BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: PRINCIPLES, DEBATES, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Focusing on ‘theory as liberatory practice,’ Black feminist thought has re-shaped knowledge production across numerous academic disciplines, intellectual traditions, and social justice movements. With an emphasis on intersectionality and visionary pragmatism, this course introduces students to the foundational principles, debates, and concepts in Black feminist thought in the African diaspora.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists' calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges.
Antirequisite(s): The former Women's Studies 2250E.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an overview of historical, social, economic, political and biological influences on women's health. Using a feminist perspective, both experiential and theoretically based knowledge will be explored through the process of critical reflection.
Antirequisite(s): The former Women's Studies 2154.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's paid and unpaid labour in Canada and globally. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Antirequisite(s): Management and Organizational Studies 3355F/G.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course will examine alternative expressions of female sexuality (queer, lesbian, bisexual, female masculinity, transgendered, intersexed, etc.) through a selection of historical, literary, visual and theoretical texts. Primarily, the aim will be to explore questions of subjectivity and representation through discussions of social regulation, class, ethnicity and historical context.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics in Gender and Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An examination of the implications of gender analysis for theory and practice in the social sciences. Includes discussion of both empirical and theoretical treatment of questions about "sex-gender" systems in social-economic, cultural, political, and legal contexts. Also addresses methodological and epistemological questions raised by feminist research.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Limited enrollment.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How does the law affect women? What important legal changes have women fought for and achieved? What is the relationship between law and social change? Topics in a national or global context may include citizenship and discrimination, reproduction, health care, violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornography, prostitution, divorce, and marriage.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2270A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course investigates the implicit and explicit connections among sexuality, gender identity, race and class. It uses feminist and queer theoretical approaches to examine the historical relationships between these intersecting factors and explore their legacy in the way that "othered" sexual bodies are perceived and treated.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How does the law affect women? What important legal changes have women fought for and achieved? What is the relationship between law and social change? Topics in a national or global context may include citizenship and discrimination, reproduction, health care, violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornography, prostitution, divorce, and marriage.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2260.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; the former Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is interested in the interdisciplinary study of heterosexualities. Topics covered will include: social and historical productions of (hetero)sexualities; cultural performances of (hetero)sexualities; heterosexual pleasures and dangers; heterosexed pornographies and sexwork; erotic (hetero)sexual power play; and heterosexualities that cross the boundaries of (cis)gender, race, age, ability, class and nation.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses feminist, queer and trans theory to interrogate how female sexuality and desire can be understood, both historically and within a variety of contemporary cultures. It will consider the impact that representation, socialization and medicalization have had on the way female sexual subjectivity is experienced and expressed.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2290F/G INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS: POLITICS, RESISTANCE, AND CULTURAL RESURGENCE
Students explore Indigenous feminist frameworks and epistemologies to understand the participation of Indigenous women in social, political, and environmental movements. This course examines issues relating to the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous women feminists nationally and internationally. This course also considers Indigenous feminist analyses and Indigenous women’s issues.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2807F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 1020E or GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G or GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from the Program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2807F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2291F/G INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE ARTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, SURVIVAL, AND COLONIAL RESISTANCE
This course examines traditional and contemporary artforms created and performed by Indigenous women. Art as an expression of Indigenous women’s social, political, and spiritual realities is studied through readings, lectures, and artistic assignments. This course also considers Indigenous analyses, varied artistic styles, forms, and mediums, from Indigenous women across Canada.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2682F/G, Art History 2634F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 1020E, GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or 1.0 from Art History 1640 or the former VAH 1040 or two of Art History 1641A/B – 1649A/B or the former VAH 1041A/B – VAH 1045A/B, or 1.0 course or special permission from Program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2682F/G and Art History 2634F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural approach, this course examines reproductive justice. Topics may include abortion, birth control, sex education, choice rhetoric, human rights, bodily autonomy, forced sterilization, reproductive racism, reproduction and disability, eugenics, war and reproduction, and infertility. Specific content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from Program
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Despite the idea that love conquers all, marriage was historically about property, money, and power, not love. This course examines marriage, primarily in the west. Topics may include the transition from arranged to companionate marriage; feminism and marriage; capitalism and weddings; child marriage; marriage equality; and queer perspectives on marriage.
Antirequisite(s): Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2233F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Studies the history of North Americans who claim identities, create social worlds, and build movements based on the fact that they desire members of the same sex, or challenge gender boundaries of male/female. Students will learn when, why, and how sexuality became a mode of human social and political identity.
Antirequisite(s): History 2817F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What does it mean to be a lesbian today? This course will relate contemporary forms of lesbianism to their historical antecedents and examine lesbian culture since the early 20th century. Attention will be paid to a variety of aspects of lesbian life, including intersectionality, activism, community-building, sex, art and politics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines our fascination with the figure of the 'bad girl' in popular culture. We will concentrate on theoretical work which informs the relationship between popular culture and dissident sexuality in order to look more closely at how adolescent and young adult female bodies are created, controlled and contested.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Note: This course may include an optional service learning component.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course investigates topics in contemporary queer life, including same-sex marriage, gay and queer radicalism and the fight for sexual liberation, the growth of assimilatory politics and its consequences, homonationalism and pink-washing, homophobia and bullying, the role of religion, and the globalization of LGBT human rights rhetoric and politics.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 3345F/G if taught in Winter 2010, Fall 2011, or Fall 2014.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory and investigate its current applications.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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While popular culture operates to naturalize and distribute dominant discourses about gender and sexuality, it is also a fertile space through which resistance can be enacted. This course examines 'common sense' representations of gender and sexuality within Western popular culture and the ways these representations have been confronted and contested.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's writing. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the relationship between gender and the environment, including the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on women and children, gender and agricultural practices and policies, land tenure and access to and control of resources, and the role of gender in environmental activism at both local and global levels.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to gender studies and feminist research methodologies from a variety of disciplinary traditions and theoretical perspectives. Students will learn about and begin to apply specific methodological issues, including ethics, archival work, researcher positionality, and the practices and politics of data collection, interpretation, and reporting.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 3321F/G and GSWS 3322F/G.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3321F/G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE: ARTS AND HUMANITIES
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or the former Women's Studies 2256E or GSWS 2257E or permission of the Department.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3322F/G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE: SOCIAL SCIENCE
An advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or the former Women's Studies 2256E or GSWS 2257E or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the changing meanings of race and racism in the twenty-first century, this course discusses and analyzes conceptual frameworks for understanding the multi-faceted and intersectional dimensions of race and racism, and examines how these inform social justice movements and other initiatives that seek to challenge institutional racism and racial violence.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 3331F/G if taught in Fall 2015.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3325F/G SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEORY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Topics of current interest in Theory and Theoretical Perspectives. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies for current offerings
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3326F/G SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEORY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Topics of current interest in Theory and Theoretical Perspectives. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3340F/G READING BLACK LIVES: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN BLACK NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
This course examines the histories of people of African descent in the United States and Canada from the earliest days of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present, through biographies and autobiographies. It explores such themes as agency, resistance, intersectionality, identity, freedom, and creativity.
Antirequisite(s): History 3340F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with History 3340F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global feminism.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar or reading course on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3401F/G ACTIVISM AND SOLIDARITY: #BLM AND THE INDIGENOUS AND QUEER COMMUNITIES
In 2013, #BlackLivesMatter was founded following the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer. In Canada, #BLM chapters have built close ties with Indigenous and queer activists to work together to confront and challenge bigotry and colonization. This course will consider how Black, Indigenous, and queer activists create solidarity and pursue change.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3402F/G HAUNTED BY HISTORY: RECONCILING PAST AND PRESENT IN BLACK CANADIAN HISTORY
This course focuses on how Black Canadians actively shaped their history and Canada’s history. In addition to enslavement, segregation and white supremacy, gender and sexuality, the long civil rights movement, and the rise of the prison-industrial complex, the course considers how the past continues to affect Black Canadians today.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines intellectual movements that have been developed by Black peoples, who are ethnically diverse and call a variety of locations home. The course may consider the Black Atlantic Tradition, Black internationalism, Black Feminist Thought, African American Secularism, and/or Black Power. Content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course draws on Black feminist and queer theories to explore the lives of Black queer and trans folx. Students will engage primary sources such as letters, autobiographies, and films to trouble narratives that obscure the contributions of Black queer and trans people within Black liberation and LGBT+ rights movements.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course considers menstruation and menstrual equity movements through interdisciplinary, intersectional, and cross-cultural perspectives, particularly work to de-stigmatize periods. Students will deconstruct essentialist narratives and include gender non-binary menstruators. Topics may include menstrual leave, environmental impact of disposable products, period-tracking apps and menstrual management technologies, and reduction in period poverty.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from the Program.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Drawing on Black feminism, queer theories, and Black Studies, this course examines questions of health, risk, and care. Students consider how Black people have been depicted as non-human and vectors of disease. Topics may include politics of blood donation, Blackness and fatphobia, anti-Black racism and pandemics, sexual risk and pleasure.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on issues connected to Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on issues connected to Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar focusing on an intellectual movement that has been developed by Black peoples. The course may consider the Black Atlantic Tradition, Black internationalism, Black Feminist Thought, African American Secularism, Black Power, or the Black Arts movement, among other topics. Content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Individual instruction in the selection of a topic, the preparation of materials, and the writing of a thesis in Women's Studies.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or permission of the Department. Restricted to fourth-year Honours Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies students.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Limited enrolment.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics on issues connected to feminist theory and practice. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to feminist theory and practice. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to Sexuality Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to Sexuality Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Advanced topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a fourth year Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies module and either GSWS 2220E or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4496A/B/Y PRACTICUM IN GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
Practicum in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is an experiential learning course offering upper-year students’ opportunities to obtain University credit for volunteer employment working with qualified professionals in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies fields. The course supplements the Practicum to discuss specific professional practices and career paths.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Practicum in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is an experiential learning course offering upper-year students’ opportunities to obtain University credit for volunteer employment working with qualified professionals in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies fields. This full-year course supplements the full-year Practicum to discuss specific professional practices and career paths.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 6 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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In the past African women were powerful leaders, strong economic contributors, and respected members of their extended families. This course will examine these historical roles as well as factors that undermined African women's status and changed gender relations, such as slavery, economic forces and colonialism.
Antirequisite(s): History 4607F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History or Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, taken at the 2200 level or above if they are History courses or at the 2000 level or above if they are Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies courses.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
A survey of selected topics in the study of gender structures and the status of women in historical and cross-cultural perspective. These will include consideration of social and psychological processes by which gender identity is established in the individual, its institutional manifestations, and its articulation with class and race structures.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours, limited enrolment (King's)
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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A survey of selected topics in the study of gender structures and the status of women in historical and cross-cultural perspective. These will include consideration of social and psychological processes by which gender identity is established in the individual, its institutional manifestations, and its articulation with class and race structures.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour (Main); 3 hours, limited enrolment (King's)
Course Weight: 1.00
This course is also offered at:
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We introduce students to current social and political issues in sexuality studies, with a focus on contemporary issues around sexuality, including formation of sexual identities, sexual practices and politics, policing of sexuality, questions of sexual diversity, and the historical and global nature of ideas and controversies around sexuality.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in matters of education, health, poverty, globalization, the environment, etc.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 1023F/G GAY LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BEYOND ADAM AND STEVE
Judging by the media, you would think the only issue in gay life today is same-sex marriage. This course will examine many of the other issues affecting gay men, such as sexual politics and practices, body image, health, consumer culture, social media, television and film, and intersections with race and class.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights as they are taken up in institutional domains such as social work, education, and law and in schools of thought such as critical race studies, feminism and gender studies, sexuality studies, and disability studies.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Black Studies that examines its foundations and debates, focusing on resilience and resistance in Black life. Students will examine practices used within this Black intellectual-activist tradition through various disciplinary approaches and by situating contemporary topics (identity, fashion, sexuality) within historical frameworks.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience through biography.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2140 WOMEN IN CANADIAN HISTORY: CHANGING ROLES AND DIVERSE SOCIAL REALITIES
A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience as recorded through biography.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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A course on selected topics on Women and the Creative Arts. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Intimate Relations focuses on how expectations of intimacy and relationships rely on particular understandings of love, sex, sexuality and bodies to shape how we experience ourselves as gendered and sexual beings. The course considers how intimacy (sexual, maternal, familial, affectionate) is understood in relation to history, philosophy, health, society and popular culture.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How are women represented in popular culture? Women's images in the media, from newspaper and magazines to television, film and music videos produce particular notions of what it means to be a woman, be feminine, etc. We will examine both the historical and contemporary roles of women in popular culture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How we understand the body, whether through scientific investigation or through its representation in media, literature or art, has material effects on how people's lives and experiences are shaped. We will examine social and scientific constructions of the body, including concepts of beauty, health, fitness, sexuality, and questions of representation.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2163A/B SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the world of fashion from a critical feminist perspective. Topics covered may include fashion's role in gender and sexuality identity; the relationship between women's fashions and women's liberation; the history, sociology, aesthetics of fashion; the mass production of fashion; and feminist concerns about exploitation and sweatshop labour.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 online hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Climate change is a major challenge for the planet’s future; population migration will increase, causing social, political and environmental effects while leaving some people with few options. This course will examine both present and future in a world where climate change is increasingly inevitable and its results are felt intersectionally.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Today we are starting to see official recognition, in some places, of trans and non-binary people, while social recognition of proliferating gender identities has become increasingly the norm. This course interrogates changes in the way genders are understood, from social to scientific recognition, and questions rhetorics of “choice,” “biology,” etc.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How are Queer individuals represented in popular culture? Images of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in media, including news, film, and television, produce particular ideas of queer identity. This course examines the historical and contemporary presence of queer individuals within popular culture and popular culture produced for and by 2SLGBTQ+ people.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Black popular culture is concerned with pleasure, enjoyment, and amusement and is expressed through aesthetic codes and genres. Drawing on literature, film, music, visual art, and television, this course examines examples of popular culture created by and for Black individuals to consider Black cultural values, beliefs, experiences, and social institutions.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Coined in 1994 by Mark Dery, the term Afrofuturism refers to a Black aesthetic centred around imagining futures for Black people. Students will encounter Black writers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers, from Octavia Butler to Sun Ra to Janelle Monae to Jordan Peele, whose work envisages Black futures.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines sport from a critical feminist perspective. We will examine commonly held assumptions about the human body, while considering how gender, race, sexuality, and culture, among other topics, influence our understanding of sports as well as how athletes are positioned as celebrities and their impact on popular culture.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cannot be used towards completion of any Kinesiology module.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The course is divided into sections on the image of women in literature, film and art; psycho- social development; the effects of social structure on women; and differences among women. These topics are addressed from the perspective of literature, psychology, theology, sociology, etc.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E or completion of first year university.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Beginning with cutting edge contemporary practices, from sex reassignment surgery to virtual reality, this course will look at the ways in which we imagine the future of gender and sexuality. The focus will be primarily on science fiction texts that provide interesting alternatives to present-day ideas about sex and sexuality.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines how historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity have shaped our understanding of what it means to act and be male in our society. It draws on critical gender theory to interrogate how issues associated with maleness and masculinity interact with questions of race, class, gender and sexuality.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2208E WOMEN IN CANADIAN HISTORY: CHANGING ROLES AND DIVERSE SOCIAL REALITIES
A survey of Canadian women's history from first European contact to the 1960s, with a focus on the realities of women's lived experience as recorded through biography.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's writing. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course mobilizes intersectional, decolonial, feminist, and anti-capitalist scholarship to understand transformative changes to paid and unpaid work, caused by multiple factors such as technology, demographics, climate change, pandemics, and globalization, and their effects upon gender equality and social justice.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 2261F/G.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of the implications of feminist theories and practices at work in many different disciplines, including arts, media, social sciences, health sciences, science, law. We introduce students to theoretical concepts and ask questions about the ways sex, gender and sexuality are understood and researched from a range of perspectives.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2257E.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This interdisciplinary course brings a critical lens to the study of disability, sexuality and gender. Employing critical disability studies and feminist, critical sexuality and queer theories, students will explore and question issues affecting the sexual lives, gender expressions, and subjectivities of people with disabilities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines social and cultural constructions of girlhood. Topics may include the commercialization of girlhood, popular culture and girls, negotiating identities, violence, sexualities, agency and activism in a globalizing world, and categories of difference. We will consider how feminism and Women's and Gender Studies have contributed to Girlhood Studies.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course is a historical and thematic examination of Black life across the diaspora. Students will examine the cultural practices of African communities’ pre-colonial contact as well as the ongoing impact of Atlantic enslavement on Black diasporic communities today. Specific content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2231F/G BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT: PRINCIPLES, DEBATES, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Focusing on ‘theory as liberatory practice,’ Black feminist thought has re-shaped knowledge production across numerous academic disciplines, intellectual traditions, and social justice movements. With an emphasis on intersectionality and visionary pragmatism, this course introduces students to the foundational principles, debates, and concepts in Black feminist thought in the African diaspora.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course takes up foundational readings in the history of feminist thought from early feminists' calls for women's equality and rights to postmodern understandings of gender. The course will consider how feminist thought has emerged, developed and evolved in response to various historical, intellectual, social, political and cultural challenges.
Antirequisite(s): The former Women's Studies 2250E.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an overview of historical, social, economic, political and biological influences on women's health. Using a feminist perspective, both experiential and theoretically based knowledge will be explored through the process of critical reflection.
Antirequisite(s): The former Women's Studies 2154.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's paid and unpaid labour in Canada and globally. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Antirequisite(s): Management and Organizational Studies 3355F/G.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course will examine alternative expressions of female sexuality (queer, lesbian, bisexual, female masculinity, transgendered, intersexed, etc.) through a selection of historical, literary, visual and theoretical texts. Primarily, the aim will be to explore questions of subjectivity and representation through discussions of social regulation, class, ethnicity and historical context.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics in Gender and Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An examination of the implications of gender analysis for theory and practice in the social sciences. Includes discussion of both empirical and theoretical treatment of questions about "sex-gender" systems in social-economic, cultural, political, and legal contexts. Also addresses methodological and epistemological questions raised by feminist research.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Limited enrollment.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How does the law affect women? What important legal changes have women fought for and achieved? What is the relationship between law and social change? Topics in a national or global context may include citizenship and discrimination, reproduction, health care, violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornography, prostitution, divorce, and marriage.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2270A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course investigates the implicit and explicit connections among sexuality, gender identity, race and class. It uses feminist and queer theoretical approaches to examine the historical relationships between these intersecting factors and explore their legacy in the way that "othered" sexual bodies are perceived and treated.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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How does the law affect women? What important legal changes have women fought for and achieved? What is the relationship between law and social change? Topics in a national or global context may include citizenship and discrimination, reproduction, health care, violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornography, prostitution, divorce, and marriage.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 2260.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This interdisciplinary course focuses on sexuality as a subject of study and considers how sexuality defines individual and social subjectivity. The course will explore sexual subjects within a theoretical context and might include sexology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, the history of sexual identity, and its representation in cultural production.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course will focus on trans identities, history, theory and politics from the perspectives of feminist, queer, and emerging trans theory. Topics may include transphobia and oppression of trans people, sex and gender change, transvestism, gender passing, transgender children and their families, and intersectionalities with sexuality, race, class, ability, etc.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 4460F/G if taught in Winter 2013; the former Women's Studies 3343F/G if taught in Fall 2015.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is interested in the interdisciplinary study of heterosexualities. Topics covered will include: social and historical productions of (hetero)sexualities; cultural performances of (hetero)sexualities; heterosexual pleasures and dangers; heterosexed pornographies and sexwork; erotic (hetero)sexual power play; and heterosexualities that cross the boundaries of (cis)gender, race, age, ability, class and nation.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses feminist, queer and trans theory to interrogate how female sexuality and desire can be understood, both historically and within a variety of contemporary cultures. It will consider the impact that representation, socialization and medicalization have had on the way female sexual subjectivity is experienced and expressed.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2290F/G INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS: POLITICS, RESISTANCE, AND CULTURAL RESURGENCE
Students explore Indigenous feminist frameworks and epistemologies to understand the participation of Indigenous women in social, political, and environmental movements. This course examines issues relating to the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous women feminists nationally and internationally. This course also considers Indigenous feminist analyses and Indigenous women’s issues.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2807F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 1020E or GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G or GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from the Program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2807F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2291F/G INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE ARTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, SURVIVAL, AND COLONIAL RESISTANCE
This course examines traditional and contemporary artforms created and performed by Indigenous women. Art as an expression of Indigenous women’s social, political, and spiritual realities is studied through readings, lectures, and artistic assignments. This course also considers Indigenous analyses, varied artistic styles, forms, and mediums, from Indigenous women across Canada.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2682F/G, Art History 2634F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 1020E, GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or 1.0 from Art History 1640 or the former VAH 1040 or two of Art History 1641A/B – 1649A/B or the former VAH 1041A/B – VAH 1045A/B, or 1.0 course or special permission from Program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2682F/G and Art History 2634F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural approach, this course examines reproductive justice. Topics may include abortion, birth control, sex education, choice rhetoric, human rights, bodily autonomy, forced sterilization, reproductive racism, reproduction and disability, eugenics, war and reproduction, and infertility. Specific content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from Program
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Despite the idea that love conquers all, marriage was historically about property, money, and power, not love. This course examines marriage, primarily in the west. Topics may include the transition from arranged to companionate marriage; feminism and marriage; capitalism and weddings; child marriage; marriage equality; and queer perspectives on marriage.
Antirequisite(s): Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 2233F/G if taken in 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Studies the history of North Americans who claim identities, create social worlds, and build movements based on the fact that they desire members of the same sex, or challenge gender boundaries of male/female. Students will learn when, why, and how sexuality became a mode of human social and political identity.
Antirequisite(s): History 2817F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What does it mean to be a lesbian today? This course will relate contemporary forms of lesbianism to their historical antecedents and examine lesbian culture since the early 20th century. Attention will be paid to a variety of aspects of lesbian life, including intersectionality, activism, community-building, sex, art and politics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines our fascination with the figure of the 'bad girl' in popular culture. We will concentrate on theoretical work which informs the relationship between popular culture and dissident sexuality in order to look more closely at how adolescent and young adult female bodies are created, controlled and contested.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Note: This course may include an optional service learning component.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course investigates topics in contemporary queer life, including same-sex marriage, gay and queer radicalism and the fight for sexual liberation, the growth of assimilatory politics and its consequences, homonationalism and pink-washing, homophobia and bullying, the role of religion, and the globalization of LGBT human rights rhetoric and politics.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 3345F/G if taught in Winter 2010, Fall 2011, or Fall 2014.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory and investigate its current applications.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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While popular culture operates to naturalize and distribute dominant discourses about gender and sexuality, it is also a fertile space through which resistance can be enacted. This course examines 'common sense' representations of gender and sexuality within Western popular culture and the ways these representations have been confronted and contested.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to women's writing. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the relationship between gender and the environment, including the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on women and children, gender and agricultural practices and policies, land tenure and access to and control of resources, and the role of gender in environmental activism at both local and global levels.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to gender studies and feminist research methodologies from a variety of disciplinary traditions and theoretical perspectives. Students will learn about and begin to apply specific methodological issues, including ethics, archival work, researcher positionality, and the practices and politics of data collection, interpretation, and reporting.
Antirequisite(s): GSWS 3321F/G and GSWS 3322F/G.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3321F/G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE: ARTS AND HUMANITIES
This course applies a wide range of feminist theories and critical practices, including queer theories, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies, to a diverse array of artistic practices, including literature, film, and the performing and visual arts.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or the former Women's Studies 2256E or GSWS 2257E or permission of the Department.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3322F/G ADVANCED TOPICS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE: SOCIAL SCIENCE
An advanced examination of the application of feminist theories and practices to topics in the social sciences. Focus will include epistemological and methodological questions raised in feminist engagement across the various social science disciplines. Topics addressed may include a range of social-economic, cultural, political, and policy issues.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or the former Women's Studies 2256E or GSWS 2257E or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the changing meanings of race and racism in the twenty-first century, this course discusses and analyzes conceptual frameworks for understanding the multi-faceted and intersectional dimensions of race and racism, and examines how these inform social justice movements and other initiatives that seek to challenge institutional racism and racial violence.
Antirequisite(s): the former Women's Studies 3331F/G if taught in Fall 2015.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3325F/G SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEORY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Topics of current interest in Theory and Theoretical Perspectives. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies for current offerings
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3326F/G SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEORY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Topics of current interest in Theory and Theoretical Perspectives. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3340F/G READING BLACK LIVES: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN BLACK NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
This course examines the histories of people of African descent in the United States and Canada from the earliest days of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present, through biographies and autobiographies. It explores such themes as agency, resistance, intersectionality, identity, freedom, and creativity.
Antirequisite(s): History 3340F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with History 3340F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Is an inclusive feminism possible? Is a feminism that transcends borders and embraces a broader, more global spectrum of feminist voices than ever before feasible? Reading feminist authors from a diversity of backgrounds, we examine the attractions and challenges of a global feminism.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar or reading course on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the history and construction of human sexualities and gender identities. Areas of investigation may include anthropology, art, health care, law, literature, popular culture, psychology, sociology, and theatre. While specific topics will vary, the course will present various feminist perspectives on human sexualities.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3401F/G ACTIVISM AND SOLIDARITY: #BLM AND THE INDIGENOUS AND QUEER COMMUNITIES
In 2013, #BlackLivesMatter was founded following the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer. In Canada, #BLM chapters have built close ties with Indigenous and queer activists to work together to confront and challenge bigotry and colonization. This course will consider how Black, Indigenous, and queer activists create solidarity and pursue change.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 3402F/G HAUNTED BY HISTORY: RECONCILING PAST AND PRESENT IN BLACK CANADIAN HISTORY
This course focuses on how Black Canadians actively shaped their history and Canada’s history. In addition to enslavement, segregation and white supremacy, gender and sexuality, the long civil rights movement, and the rise of the prison-industrial complex, the course considers how the past continues to affect Black Canadians today.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines intellectual movements that have been developed by Black peoples, who are ethnically diverse and call a variety of locations home. The course may consider the Black Atlantic Tradition, Black internationalism, Black Feminist Thought, African American Secularism, and/or Black Power. Content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course draws on Black feminist and queer theories to explore the lives of Black queer and trans folx. Students will engage primary sources such as letters, autobiographies, and films to trouble narratives that obscure the contributions of Black queer and trans people within Black liberation and LGBT+ rights movements.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course considers menstruation and menstrual equity movements through interdisciplinary, intersectional, and cross-cultural perspectives, particularly work to de-stigmatize periods. Students will deconstruct essentialist narratives and include gender non-binary menstruators. Topics may include menstrual leave, environmental impact of disposable products, period-tracking apps and menstrual management technologies, and reduction in period poverty.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from the Program.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An advanced seminar in topics of current interest in Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Drawing on Black feminism, queer theories, and Black Studies, this course examines questions of health, risk, and care. Students consider how Black people have been depicted as non-human and vectors of disease. Topics may include politics of blood donation, Blackness and fatphobia, anti-Black racism and pandemics, sexual risk and pleasure.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 1030F/G and 0.50 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or 0.50 of any first-year essay course in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, or Media, Information, and Technoculture.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on issues connected to Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar on issues connected to Black Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced seminar focusing on an intellectual movement that has been developed by Black peoples. The course may consider the Black Atlantic Tradition, Black internationalism, Black Feminist Thought, African American Secularism, Black Power, or the Black Arts movement, among other topics. Content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): GSWS 2230F/G or GSWS 2231F/G or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Individual instruction in the selection of a topic, the preparation of materials, and the writing of a thesis in Women's Studies.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or permission of the Department. Restricted to fourth-year Honours Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies students.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Limited enrolment.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Selected topics on issues connected to feminist theory and practice. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to feminist theory and practice. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to Sexuality Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Selected topics on issues connected to Sexuality Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current seminar topics.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Advanced topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a fourth year Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies module and either GSWS 2220E or permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Topics of current interest in Women's Studies. Consult the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2273E, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies 4496A/B/Y PRACTICUM IN GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
Practicum in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is an experiential learning course offering upper-year students’ opportunities to obtain University credit for volunteer employment working with qualified professionals in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies fields. The course supplements the Practicum to discuss specific professional practices and career paths.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Practicum in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is an experiential learning course offering upper-year students’ opportunities to obtain University credit for volunteer employment working with qualified professionals in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies fields. This full-year course supplements the full-year Practicum to discuss specific professional practices and career paths.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department.
Extra Information: 6 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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In the past African women were powerful leaders, strong economic contributors, and respected members of their extended families. This course will examine these historical roles as well as factors that undermined African women's status and changed gender relations, such as slavery, economic forces and colonialism.
Antirequisite(s): History 4607F/G.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 courses in History or Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, taken at the 2200 level or above if they are History courses or at the 2000 level or above if they are Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies courses.
Extra Information: 3 hours.