Women and Gender Studies Courses
For Distribution Requirement purposes all WGS courses are classified as Humanities courses except WGS261Y1 and 425Y1, which are Social Science courses. |
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100-Series Courses
WGS160Y1 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.
During the course enrolment period, WGS262Y1 is
subject to certain enrolment restrictions. Please refer to the 2007-2008
Registration Handbook & Timetable. WGS261Y1 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. WGS262Y1 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. WGS271Y1 A critical examination of institutions, representations and practices associated with contemporary popular culture, mass-produced, local and alternative.
During the first round of enrolment, 300-Series Courses are subject to certain enrolment restrictions. Please refer to the 2007-2008 Registration Handbook & Timetable.
WGS330H1/334H1/335H1 An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. WGS336H1 An upper level course. Topics vary from year to year. WGS362H1 An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. WGS363H1 An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. WGS365H1 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. WGS366H1 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. WGS367H1 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. WGS368H1 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”. WGS369H1 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. WGS372H1 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. WGS373H1 An interdisciplinary study of gendered violence in both historical and contemporary contexts including topics such as textual and visual representations; legal and theoretical analyses; structural violence; war and militarization; sexual violence; and resistance and community mobilization. WGS374H1 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. WGS375H1 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. WGS380H1 Examines the gendered effects of white settler colonization on/in 21st Century Canada and traces the formation of multiple settlements by examining black and immigrant populations. The course poses a challenge to contemporary formulations of diaspora and multiculturalism. It examines solidarity movements within and across these three communities.
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.
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, 40 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 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. WGS434H1/435H1 An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. WGS440H1 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. WGS445H1 Considers the gendered impact of migration on women’s indigenous spiritual practices, taking globalization as a political economic starting point. The course focuses on the lives of women whose experiences emblematize displacement and examines how women’s agency interrupts and transforms normative meanings of ‘tradition’ and “modernity.’ WGS451H1 Under supervision, students pursue topics in Women and Gender Studies not currently part of the curriculum. WGS460Y1 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. WGS461Y1 An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor. WGS462H1 An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. WGS463H1 Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. WGS465H1 Senior students may pursue advanced study in gender and law. Topics vary from year to year. WGS470Y1 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. |