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Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A critical feminist examination of women's embodied lives in differing social locations. The course challenges the traditional dichotomies of mind/body, culture/nature, and public/private in the treatment of such topics as the feminization of poverty; sexualities, reproduction, and family life; violence against women; women and religion; and culture and body image.
Lib Ed Req: Social Science
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
A history of the development of feminist theoretical perspectives from the 18th Century to the present using a multidisciplinary perspective.
Recommended Background: Women and Gender Studies 1000
Lib Ed Req: Social Science
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course explores the critical link between feminist theoretical perspectives and practice. Through various historical periods and global settings, students evaluate ways in which feminist consciousness shapes women's local, national, and transnational activism. Utilizing experiential learning, students gain first-hand knowledge of viable forms of advocacy for social justice and equality.
Recommended Background: Women and Gender Studies 1000
Lib Ed Req: Social Science
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This series investigates the relationships of women and their bodies to the physical, cultural, and social domains in which they move. Individual offerings will focus on or include areas such as health; sexualities; physical activity and well-being; cultural production; media; paid and unpaid labour; and migration and coerced removal.
Prerequisite(s): Women and Gender Studies 1000 or a previous course in Women and Gender Studies AND second-year standing (a minimum of 30.0 credit hours)
Note: Gender-based courses in other disciplines may be appropriate background preparation for this course. Please contact the Department of Women & Gender Studies for more information.
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Relationships between various state formations and women's lives. Offerings start from the understanding that the state plays a central role in organizing gender, racial, sexual, and national relations of power. Focus on specific areas such as reproductive rights, paid/unpaid labour, citizenship and immigration, indigenous sovereignty, sexual rights, social security, marriage, and war/militarism.
Prerequisite(s): Women and Gender Studies 1000 or a previous course in Women and Gender Studies AND second-year standing (a minimum of 30.0 credit hours)
Note: Gender-based courses in other disciplines may be appropriate background preparation for this course. Please contact the Department of Women & Gender Studies for more information.
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: Variable
This is a research-oriented course in which students will conduct empirical research, submit a report in the form of an Undergraduate Thesis which will be made publicly available, and report orally on the work. In consultation with their Thesis Supervisor, students will define a research problem and formulate a research plan.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing (a minimum of 90.0 credit hours) AND a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher AND one of Women and Gender Studies 3700 or [Women and Gender Studies 2700 and one Independent Study (3.0 credit hours) in Women and Gender Studies at the 3000 or 4000 level]
Note: Contact hours will vary. Students should be aware that this course involves regular contact with the Thesis Supervisor as well as considerable independent work.