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Women's Studies 1100 Madonna to Madonna: Women's and Gender Studies View Details
An interdisciplinary introduction, the course explores intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, age and other socially/historically shaped dimensions of identity. Discussions will include such topics as media, health, work, poverty, body and sexuality, violence, law and creativity, in local and global contexts.
Credit Weight: 1.0
Offering: 3-0; 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2011 Special Topics, Women's Studies non-Core View Details
The content of this single term course will vary from year to year, and is a course cross-listed with Women's Studies, taught from another academic Unit. The course contents will be announced by the Women's Studies Department when the course is offered.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or permission from the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Special Topic: Yes
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 or Women's Studies Group 2.
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences
  • Type D: Health and Behavioral Sciences

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Women's Studies 2012 Body Politics: Booties, Breasts, and Babies View Details
The body is situated as a site of political, ethical, and feminist potential, while also addressing the history of patriarchal control over (women’s) bodies. Through practices of modification, bodies can be made and remade to suit individual and/or social needs or desires. Feminist theories of the body are analyzed and critiqued as practices that produce, alter, and transform individual bodies. Particular attention will be paid to practices of regulation and forms of resistance. Investigate the body as a site of personal power, and explore methods of body modification including (but not limited to) tattooing, cosmetic surgery, gender transitions, and birth control.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2031 Gender and Crime View Details
See Department of Criminology, Criminology Courses, Criminology 2030, for full course description
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Criminology 2030
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2035 Horror Films and Feminism View Details
A study of horror films as cultural narratives that support and/or challenge hierarchies of gender as it intersects with race, class, sexuality, age, and other identity positions. A study of feminist film theories such as cultural, psychoanalytic, audience response, and queer feminist film studies to analyze the films. Emphasis will be placed on developing the ability to read, interpret, and analyze the role that horror, as a genre, plays in the cultural reproduction of gender-linked hierarchies, and how feminist-linked horror films challenge traditional cultural tropes that define women, mothers, and the feminized as uncanny, unnatural, or just plain evil.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or Permission from the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): English 2035
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course. Students who have previously taken Women's Studies 2111 Horror Films and Feminism cannot take Women's Studies 2035 for credit.
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2111 Special Topics View Details
The content of this single term course will vary from year to year to suit student needs and faculty expertise. The topic will be announced in advance by the Department of Women's Studies and may be offered as a double-listed course with another department.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Special Topic: Yes
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: The course may be taken more than once, provided that each section covers a different topic. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2113 Women, Popular Culture and Counter Culture View Details
An interdisciplinary exploration of women, popular culture and resistance, this course examines the relationship between feminism, femininity and historical and contemporary cultural texts such as films, television, pulp fiction, magazines, advertising, music, blogs and zines. Group work and on-line assignments are integral to the course.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100; or Media, Film, and Communications 1010 and 1030; or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 2113
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2114 Ecofeminism View Details
Using an interdisciplinary approach and a foundation in feminist theory, students will explore the connections between women and "nature" in North America and transnationally. Opportunities are presented for pursuing more specialized and/or applied topics of interest. Format includes critical analysis of the scholarly literature, class discussion, presentation, and writing assignments, including reflexive work.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Students who have previous credit in Women's Studies 3110 may not take Women's Studies 2114 for credit. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2116 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective View Details
See Department of Anthropology, Anthropology Courses, Anthropology 2116, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Anthropology 2116
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 2119 Indigenous Feminisms View Details
Indigenous feminisms respond to women’s shared experiences under the combined effects of colonization and patriarchy to address issues particular to Aboriginal, Métis, First Nations, and Indigenous women’s lives in settler-colony countries.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences
  • Type E: Indigenous Content

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Women's Studies 2501 Family Sociology View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 2501, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 1.0
Cross-List(s): Sociology 2501/Gerontology 2501
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 2711 Women's Action for Social Change View Details
An historical overview of women's involvement in the key international social movements from the 19th century to the present. Discussion topics include passivism, civil rights, Aboriginal sovereignty, sexual liberation, food security and anti-globalization. This course includes a community service component.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 2810 Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Literature and Culture View Details
See Department of English, English Courses, English 2810, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): English 2810
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 3011 Special Topics, Women's Studies Non-Core View Details
The content of this single term course will vary from year to year, and is a course cross-listed with Women's Studies, taught from another academic unit. The course contents will be announced by the Women's Studies Department when the course is offered.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one-half FCE at the second-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies.

Special Topic: Yes
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 or Women's Studies Group 2. This course may be taken more than once, provided that each section covers a different topic.
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences
  • Type D: Health and Behavioral Sciences

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Women's Studies 3030 Housewives, Radicals and Gender-Blenders: Theorizing Equality View Details
An introductory examination of the questions, tensions and debates within contemporary feminist theory from the late 20th Century to the present. This course considers multiple feminisms' arguments, strategies and politics to understand how contemporary theoretical positions account for material inequalities and lived experiences of marginalization, and how they work towards social justice in gender.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3033 Transnational Masculinities View Details
Feminist studies of masculinity are integrative, interdisciplinary, and transnational. An in-depth examination of the relational nature of masculinity and how hegemonic masculinity is produced through institutions like sports, media, military, family, religion, and nationhood. Central to analysis will be how a web of masculinities produces different outcomes for men based on their race, age, class, sexuality, ability, and positioning within transnational politics and economies.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE's in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department in Women's Studies in consultation with the instructor. 

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course .
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3053 Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality View Details
See Department of English, English Courses, English 3053, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): English 3053
Special Topic: Yes
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 3055 Global Reproductive Justice View Details
A transnational feminist examination of reproductive practices, issues, and policies using a reproductive justice framework. Under this framework, there are three areas of focus: (1) the right not to have a child; (2) the right to have a child; (3) the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments. With a focus on cross cultural reproductive practices, topics will include prenatal care and birthing; use and regulation of reproductive technologies; child welfare and state intervention; neoliberalism, globalization, and the reproductive body.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE's in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level, or permission of  the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies in consultation with the instructor.

Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course.
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3107 Sociology of Women View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 3107, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 1.0
Cross-List(s): Sociology 3107
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 3111 Special Topics View Details
The content of this course will vary from year to year to suit student needs and faculty expertise. The topic will be announced in advance by the Women's Studies Department.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Special Topic: Yes
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: The course may be taken more than once, provided that each section covers a different topic. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3114 Gender and Health View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 3114, for full course description.
Cross-List(s): Sociology 3114
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course. Students who have previous credit in Women's Studies 3111 with the topic title "Gender, and Health" may not take Women's Studies 3115 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3115 Food, Gender, and Health View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 3115, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Open to students at 3rd year or above
Cross-List(s): Sociology 3115
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course. Students who have previous credit in Women's Studies 3111 with the topic title "Food, Gender, and Health" may not take Women's Studies 3115 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3133 Women, Technology and Cyberculture View Details
An interdisciplinary examination of gender and technology, past and present, this course considers cyborgs, posthumanism, cyber-performance, avatars, and the gendering and gendered effects of technology in a gendered world.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies and/or Media, Film, and Communications, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 3133
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Students who have previous credit in Women's Studies 2111 with topic title Technofeminism may not take Women's Studies 3133 for credit. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course.
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3213 Gender, Bodies and Sexuality View Details
An introduction to feminist theorizing on gender, body and sexuality through writings from Women's Studies and cognate fields. Instructor and students together will explore such themes as the effects of power and control on individual, social and political bodies, agency and resistance, the performative body and trans/gressive and trans/formative bodies in a global context.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3214 Queer Studies View Details
An overview of queer challenges to binary definitions of gender and sexuality. Queer theory will be explored and applied to popular culture.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies and/or Media, Film, and Communications, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 3214
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3215 Gender, Bodies, and Technology View Details
An intersectional examination of the technological production of gendered bodies in contexts such as classrooms, workplaces, and the internet. We will explore feminist understandings of technology, embodiment, and representation. Topics may include production and control of bodies based on sex, gender, race, class, and ability; embodiment, ability and the built environment; medicalization, bio-politics, and reproductive justice; surveillance, containment, and militarization.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCEs in Women's Studies, including at least one-half FCE at the second-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies.
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3310 Science Fiction, Gender and Social Change View Details
This interdisciplinary examination of gender inequality in and through science fiction interrogates short stories alongside popular science fiction film and television to understand how science fiction as a genre opens up possibilities to theorize gender equality at particular moments in time and how it resists the gendered, racialized, heteronormative, classist, and ableiest hegemony that shapes women's and men's lives.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Women's Studies 1100, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Students who have taken Women's Studies 2310 cannot take 3310 for credit. Women's Studies Core Course or Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 3355 Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice View Details
Students will explore historical and contemporary theories of women's criminality. What crimes do women commit and why? How have society, police and judicial and correctional systems responded?
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies and/or Criminology, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 or Women's Studies Core Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3356 Feminist Engagement with the Law View Details
The course content provides a critical analysis of the current Canadian legal system and problematizes legal categories such as 'woman', 'spouse', 'parent', 'refugee' and 'Indian', with particular attention to the ways in which legal categories render invisible intersecting aspects of women's identities. The course also examines the ways in which women's daily lives are regulated and constrained by law, and how feminists have challenged and resisted legal categories and restrictions. Students are expected to read case law, legislation, legislative debates and jurisprudence.
Credit Weight: .5 FCE
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies and/or Criminology, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Students who have previous credit in Women's Studies 3360/Political Science 3360, may not take Women's Studies 3356 for credit. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3357 Law and Women's Lives View Details
The course content provides an historical and sociological overview of the development of the law with regard to issues of particular relevance to women and explores the extent to which law has limited women's lives. Course reading include case law, statutes and jurisprudence. Students are not expected to have knowledge of these issues prior to taking this course.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies and/or Criminology, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Students who have previous credit in Women's Studies 2317/History 2317/Political Science 2317 may not take Women's Studies 3357 for credit. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3410 Sexuality in Media View Details
See Media, Film, and Communications courses, Media, Film, and Communications 3410, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 3410
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 3517 Francophone Women's Writing View Details
See Department of Languages, French Courses, French 3517, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): French 3517
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 3550 Gender in Contemporary Social Life View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 3550, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Sociology 3550
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 3612 Indigenous Women and Health View Details
See Department of Indigenous Learning, Indigenous Learning Courses, Indigenous Learning 3612, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Indigenous Learning 3612
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type E: Indigenous Content

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Women's Studies 3613 Indigenous Women and Their Changing Roles View Details
See Department of Indigenous Learning, Indigenous Learning Courses, Indigenous Learning 3613, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Indigenous Learning 3613
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type E: Indigenous Content

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Women's Studies 3701 Women in Classical Antiquity View Details
See Department of Languages, Language Courses, Classics Courses, Classics 3701, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 1.0
Cross-List(s): Classics 3701
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 3810 Special Topics in Women's Writing View Details
See Department of English, English Course, English 3810, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): English 3810
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 3850 Queer Texts View Details
See Department of English, English Courses, English 3850, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): English 3850
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 3870 Critical Studies in Feminist Art History View Details
See Department of Visual Arts, Visual Arts courses, for full description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Visual Arts 3870
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 3871 Critical Studies in Feminist Visual Culture View Details
See Department of Visual Arts, Visual Arts courses, for course description
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Visual Arts 3871
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 4010 Women, Gender, and Social Justice View Details
Advanced colloquium for fourth-year Women's Studies students. Contemporary issues in the field of women's studies will be explored. The specific thematic focus of the course will be negotiated annually in relation to student interests.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including one half-course at the third-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): Social Justice 5010
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 4011 Special Topics, Women's Studies Non-Core View Details
The content of this single term course will vary from year to year, and is a course cross-listed with Women's Studies, taught from another academic Unit. The course contents will be announced by the Women's Studies Department when the course is offered.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCEs in Women's Studies, including at least one-half FCE at the third-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies.
Special Topic: Yes
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 or Women's Studies Group 2.
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences
  • Type D: Health and Behavioral Sciences

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Women's Studies 4014 Women, Health, and Medicine View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 4014, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Sociology 4014
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 4016 Honours Seminar in Gender and Sexuality View Details
See Department of English, English Courses, English 4016, for a full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): English 4016
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

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Women's Studies 4105 Women and Sociological Theory View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 4105, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 1.0
Cross-List(s): Sociology 4105
Offering: 3-0; 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 4110 Special Topics View Details
This senior seminar examines selected topics in Women's Studies at an advanced level.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the third-year level, or permission of the instructor and Chair of the Department
Special Topic: Yes
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 4113 Women and Legal Narratives View Details
A feminist analysis of legal themes in contemporary and canonical popular literary texts. This course explores the relationship between literature and law, and examines how both structure women's legal identities as they intersect with race, class, ability, age and sexuality from the early-modern period to the present day.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies or Criminology, including at least one half-course at the third-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): English 4113 and Social Justice 5113
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 4212 Gender and Mental Health View Details
See Department of Psychology, Psychology Courses, Psychology 4212, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Psychology 4212
Notes: Women's Studies Group 2 Course

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Women's Studies 4213 Violence and Social Work Practice View Details
See School of Social Work, Social Work Courses, Social Work 4213, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Social Work 4213
Notes: Women's Studies Group 2 Course

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Women's Studies 4214 Regulating Reproduction and Families View Details
Students are provided with an overview of the regulation of reproduction and family formation and dissolution, and of law and public policy impacting women's autonomy in these domains. Resistances will also be discussed. Students are not expected to have a developed knowledge of law prior to taking this course.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one half-course at the third-year level, or permission of the Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Cross-List(s): Social Justice 5214
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type B: Social Sciences
  • Type D: Health and Behavioral Sciences

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Women's Studies 4350 Feminist Approaches to Media and Technology View Details
See Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Media, Film, and Communications, Media, Film, and Communications 4350, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 4350
Notes: Women's Studies Group 1 Course

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Women's Studies 4355 Mother Culture: Constructions of Motherhood in Contemporary Society View Details
An examination of emergent feminist scholarship on motherhood, with particular attention paid to the distinction between motherhood as a social imperative, or patriarchal institution, and the agential practice of mothering as defined by feminist scholars. From this theoretical grounding, the following will be explored: constructions of the good vs. bad mother, conceptual and legal definitions of personhood, childless/child-free women, nationalism, neoliberalism, technology, and the future of mothering. Particular attention is paid to intersectionality and the ways in which race, class, sexuality, ability, and ethnicity come to bear on the practice of mothering.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Offering: 3-0; or 3-0
Notes: Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course.
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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Women's Studies 4511 Sociology of Disability View Details
See Department of Sociology, Sociology Courses, Sociology 4511, for full course description.
Credit Weight: 0.5
Cross-List(s): Social Work 4511/Sociology 4511/Gerontology 4511
Notes: Women's Studies Group 2 Course

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Women's Studies 4901 Honours Thesis View Details
Women's Studies Majors may apply to substitute a fourth-year Honour's Thesis for one FCE Women's Studies Group 1 or Group 2 course(s) at the fourth-year level. Requirements are a minimum 80% in the Women's Studies major, and approval from a supervisor within the Women's Studies Department at the supervisor's discretion. Students must present a written preliminary plan of study and obtain written permission from the Women's Studies supervisor before registering for this option.
Credit Weight: 1.0
Prerequisite(s):

Two FCE in Women's Studies, including at least one-half FCE at the third-year level, or permission of Supervisor and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies
Offering: 3-0; 3-0
Notes: Restricted to students in an honours program in Women's Studies. Women's Studies Core Course or Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications:
  • Type A: Humanities
  • Type B: Social Sciences

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