100-Series Courses
During the first round of enrolment, WGS160Y1 is subject to certain enrolment
restructions. Please refer to the 2006-2007 Registration Handbook & Timetable.
WGS160Y1
Introduction to Women and Gender Studies (formerly NEW260Y1) 52L,
26T An integrated and historical approach to social relations of gender, race, class, sexuality and disability, particularly as they relate to women’s lives and struggles across different locales, including Canada.
Exclusion: NEW260Y1/WGS260Y1
200-Series Courses
During the first round of enrolment, WGS262Y1 is
subject to certain enrolment restrictions. Please refer to the 2006-2007
Registration Handbook & Timetable.
WGS261Y1
Scientific Constructions of Sex and Gender 52L,
26T Critically examines how the scientific construction of sex and gender in the context of race, class and nation have both reinforced and challenged racial hierarchies, colonialism and the formation of academic disciplines such as psychology, anthropology and biology.
This is a Social Science course
WGS262Y1
Texts, Theories, Histories 52L, 26T
Examines modes of theories that shaped feminist thought and situates them historically and transnationally so as to emphasize the social conditions and conflicts in which ideas and politics arise, change and circulate.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1
WGS271Y1
Gender, Race and Class in Contemporary Popular Culture (formerly NEW371H1) 26L A critical examination of institutions, representations and practices associated with contemporary popular culture, mass-produced, local and alternative.
Exclusion: NEW371H1
300-Series Courses
During the first round of enrolment, 300-Series Courses are subject
to certain enrolment restrictions. Please refer to the 2006-2007 Registration
Handbook & Timetable.
Note:
Courses numbered WGS330H1 -
339H1 are reserved for Special Topics in Women and Gender Studies
offered each year by visiting scholars. Topics will change according to the
interests of the instructor.
WGS330H1/334H1/335H1
Special Topic in Women and Gender Studies 26L
An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year.
Recommended preparation: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
WGS336H1
Selected Topics in Cultural Studies 26L
An upper level course. Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
WGS362H1
Selected Topics in Gender and History 26S An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
WGS363H1
Selected Topics in Gender and Theory 26S An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
WGS365H1
Gender Issues in the Law 26L
Examines the operation of the law as it affects women, the construction and representation of women within the legal system, and the scope for feminist and intersectional analyses of law.
Recommended preparation: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
WGS366H1
Gender and Disability 26L
A critical interdisciplinary investigation of how gender impacts on central topics in disability studies: ableism as a political ideology; the normalized body and cultural representations; sexuality, violence and nurturance relations; the cognitive and social roles of medicine; transnational perspectives on disability, disability rights and issues of social justice.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1/NEW271Y1/WGS271Y1/NEW367H1/WGS367H1
Recommended preparation: WGS240Y1/WGS372H1/WGS374H1/PHL384H1/POL315H1/POL344Y1/ SOC373H1/SOC374H1/UNI255H1/UNI355H1
WGS367H1
The Politics of Gender and Health 26L,
13T Explores critical and transnational debates on biomedical and indigenous health traditions. Topics explored may include the politics of social suffering and trauma, spirit possession, disabilities, environmental health, organ donation, homelessness and reproduction.
Recommended preparation: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
WGS368H1
Gender and Cultural Difference:Transnational Perspectives (formerly NEW368Y1) 26L Explores the ways in which gendered constructions of cultural identity and difference are implicated in local and transnational political projects, including feminism. Challenges colonialist stereotypes of women as exotic or “victims of culture”.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1/permission of the instructor
Exclusion: NEW368Y1
 WGS369H1
Studies in Post-Colonialism (formerly NEW369Y1) 52L
Gendered representations of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and disability in a variety of colonial, neo-colonial, and “post”-colonial contexts. Topics may include the emergence of racialist, feminist, liberatory and neoconservative discourses as inscribed in literary texts, historical documents, cultural artifacts and mass media.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1/permission of the instructor
Exclusion: NEW369Y1
WGS372H1
Women and Psychology/Psychoanalysis 26L An interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship of women to a variety of psychological and psychoanalytical theories and practices. Topics may include women and the psychological establishment; women’s mental health issues; feminist approaches to psychoanalysis.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1/permission of the instructor
WGS373H1
Gender and Violence 26L
Gendered violence in both historical and contemporary contexts including topics such as textual and visual representations of violence against women; victimhood and agency; legal and theoretical analyses; resistance and community mobilization.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1/permission of the instructor
WGS374H1
Feminist Studies in Sexuality 26L
Sexual agency as understood and enacted by women in diverse cultural and historical contexts. An exploration of the ways in which women have theorized and experienced sexual expectations, practices and identities.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1
WGS375H1
Colonialism, Sexuality, Spirituality and the Law 26L This course examines the challenge indigenous knowledges posed to colonialism by analyzing Spanish and British legal codes. Focusing on the links between sexuality and spirituality, we explore how gender shaped the social dynamics of conquest and resistance and draw out the implications for contemporary colonialisms.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
JNV 300H1
Gender, History and Literature 26L
The study of a selected group of creative writers from at least two
national literatures whose texts raise issues regarding gender as either
an historically
or culturally variable construct. Texts will be chosen on the basis of a
shared historical era, a literary genre, experience, institutional categorization,
or project.
Prerequisite: One course in Literary Studies or one course in Women and Gender Studies
400-Series Courses
Students wishing to enrol in 400-Series courses must fill out a ballot
form available from the Women and Gender Studies Program Office, Room
2036, Wilson Hall, New College, 20 Willcocks St. This form must be signed
and
approved by both the course instructor and the Undergraduate Coordinator
for the Women and Gender Studies Program. Students cannot enrol in 400-Series
courses on ROSI.
WGS425Y1
Women and Issues of International Development 52S Provides a gender analysis of the political economy of development and globalization, and a critical overview of related feminist theoretical, policy, and strategy debates. Issues explored include feminisation of labour, gender mainstreaming, trafficking in women, poverty-alleviation strategies, and transnational feminist organizing.
Recommended Preparation: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1, POL201Y1 or another course addressing development issues, and a half course at the 300+ level in Women and Gender Studies.
This is a Social Science course
WGS434H1/ 435H1
Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies 26S
An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor.
Recommended preparation: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in Women and Gender Studies
WGS440H1
Gender and the Sacred 26S
This course examines how gender illuminates the sacred by focusing upon the forces of nature within the Vodou and Yoruba cosmological systems. We will explore how these sacred knowledges disturb the secular parameters of feminism through close attention to the conceptual and ceremonial practices among practitioners in the diaspora.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1/NEW261Y1/WGS261Y1
Exclusion: NEW435H1/WGS435H1, winter session 2005.
WGS451H1
Independent Study in Women and Gender Studies Issues TBA Under supervision, students pursue topics in Women and Gender Studies not currently part of the curriculum.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Undergraduate Coordinator, Women and Gender Studies Program
WGS460Y1
Advanced Research Seminar in Women and Gender Studies TBA Supervised individual research project undertaken in Third or Fourth year. Students attend a seminar to discuss research methods and findings. A required course for Specialist students.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Undergraduate Coordinator, Women and Gender Studies Program
Recommended Preparation: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1 and one full Women and Gender Studies 300+/400+ level course.
WGS461Y1
Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies 52S An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1 and a half course at the 300+ level in Women and Gender Studies
WGS462H1
Advanced Topics in Gender and History 26S
An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in Women and Gender Studies
WGS463H1
Advanced Topics in Gender Theory 26S
Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in Women and Gender Studies
WGS465H1
Special Topics in Gender and the Law 26S Senior students may pursue advanced study in gender and law. Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1, NEW365H1/WGS365H1, or permission of the instructor
WGS470Y1
Women and Gender Studies Practicum 52S The application of theoretical study to practical community experience. Advanced Women and Gender Studies students have the opportunity to apply knowledge acquired in the Women and Gender Studies curriculum through a practicum placement within a community organization.
Prerequisite: NEW160Y1/WGS160Y1 and at least one full Women and Gender Studies 300+/400+ level course
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