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Women's Studies : An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Women's Studies from historical and contemporary perspectives, this course will explore key concepts, issues and modes of analysis based on the intersection of gender with factors such as race, ethnicity, class, religion, and sexuality.
Terms: Fall 2011, Summer 2012
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Fall) Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Summer)
Women's Studies : This course explores contemporary feminist theories and critiques of approaches to knowledge developed in the humanities, social, natural, and applied sciences. Feminist contributions to research and critical practices will be examined in relation to course projects.
Terms: Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Winter) Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Summer)
Prerequisite: WMST 200
Restriction: Open to Women's Studies students only
Women's Studies : Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Fall)
Prerequisite: WMST 303
Corequisite: WMST 497D1
Restriction: Honours/Joint Honours students in Women's Studies
Students must register for both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Women's Studies : See WMST 495D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 495D1
Corequisite: WMST 497D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Women's Studies : Supervised reading and preparation of a Joint Honours thesis under the direction of a member of faculty.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : See WMST 497D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Overview of the specifications for the 45 complementary credits:
6 credits from a list of Women's Studies (WMST) courses and
12 credits selected from Group A courses and
27 credits selected from Group B courses
Over the entire 45 credits,
9 credits minimum must be at the 400 or 500 level and
18 credits maximum may be at the 200 level.
Maximum 18 transfer credits will be accepted from approved exchange programs by arrangement with the Chair of WSAC and subject to University approval.
6 credits from:
Women's Studies : Consideration of contemporary issues in Women's Studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Fall)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Consideration of contemporary issues in Women's Studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Tembeck, Tamar (Fall) Seedat, Fatima (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Women's Studies.Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Narain, Vrinda (Fall) Rebick, Judy (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Women's Studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Advanced topics in theory and methodology related to Women's Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : Advanced topics in theory and methodology related to Women's Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : This course is a philosophical exploration of the nature of science concerning sex, gender, race and racial stereotypes, and the construction of "womanhood". The social history/biography of women and minorities in science will be studied to develop a critique of biological determinism and explore the meaning and possibility of a "feminist science".
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
12 credits from Group A
Group A courses are divided into eight sub-groups. Students may take only one course from any particular grouping. Any additional credits taken above the 12 credits from Complementary Course Group A may count as credits toward Complementary Course Group B.
Sociology (Arts) : This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Fallon, Kathleen (Fall)
Philosophy : An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Sharp, Hasana (Fall)
Communication Studies : Introduction to feminist studies of the media. Impact of feminist and queer theory on media studies; current issues about gender in the media. Emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of media representations of gender in relation to other social differences, such as race, class and sexuality.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Thrift, Samantha (Winter)
Sociology (Arts) : Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Le Bourdais, Céline (Winter)
Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on men's and women's work in North American societies, historically and contemporarily, in order to understand the dynamisms of gender (in)equality in and outside of the home. Topics explored include: housework; the relationship(s) between gender, organizations and bureaucracy; emotional labour; occupational segregation and stratification; sexual harassment; and work-family policy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sociology (Arts) : Key conceptual and substantive issues in gender and health since c1950: stratified medicalization of women's and men's health; social movements in health including the women's health movement; gender inequality in morbidity and mortality; gender, power and control in patient/physician interactions; embodied experience; politics and policies of gender and health.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Fishman, Jennifer (Fall)
Asian Language & Literature : Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. The cultural meanings and social institutions that create the historical context for sexual behaviours. Possible topics include: Greek homosocial and homosexual culture; sex and citizenship; wives and concubines in the ancient world; Christianity and aestheticism; misogyny and gender in Medieval Europe; adultery and lineage.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Partner, Nancy F (Fall)
History : 1700 to the present, with a particular focus on Europe and North America. Possible topics include: patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology; gay liberation movements; queer politics.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Winter)
Asian Language & Literature : Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Asian Language & Literature : A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Doran, Rebecca Esther (Winter)
Core course for the Women's Studies program
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of a particular topic in the area of women's writing and/or feminist literary theory.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Religious Studies : The role of women in Judaism and Islam from the point of view of institutionalized religious traditions and of women's religious subjectivity; how women's spiritual and social roles within their religious traditions are shaped by Revealed Law, Holy Text and the Authority of Interpretation. Comparative sociology of religion approach.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Religious Studies : Survey of women's involvement in the Christian tradition. Topics include feminist interpretation of scripture, ideas of virginity, marriage and motherhood, mysticism, asceticisms, European witchhunts, contemporary women's liberation theories.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Marr, Lucille (Fall)
Fall
Core course for the Women's Studies Minor program
Religious Studies : Religious perspectives on the body, gender and sexual activity in Hindu cultures. Topics include: dharma and sexual practice; female sexuality; Bhakti and Tantra; same-sex relations; hijras; eroticism in the literary, visual, and performing arts; colonialism, Hindu nationalism, and the politics of gender.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Health Science Electives : Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Daniel, Kimani; Chlala, Lynne Violette (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
Complementary course for the Women's Studies and Social Studies of Medicine Concentrations
Health Science Electives : Concepts of health and medicalization. Canadian and international perspectives. Topics include contraception, abortion, infertility, menstruation, menopause, new reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbirth. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Lanctot, Anne Marie; Sabbagh, Melanie; Ciofani, Luisa (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
Restriction: not open for credit to students who have taken HSEL 308 prior to September 1997
Complementary course for the Women's Studies and Social Studies of Medicine Concentrations
27 credits from Group B
Students select 27 credits from the Group B lists in consultation with an adviser and identify an individual focus of study comprised of 15 credits.
Reminder: A minimum of 9 credits at the 400 or 500 level must be taken in the 45 credits of Complementary Courses. Students will find more possible choices to meet this requirement in Group B.
Group B includes courses that are centrally focused on women and/or gender and/or feminism. They are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines. Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the central focus of the course. For final updates, see .
Please note that not all courses are offered every year.
Anthropology : A wide range of anthropological studies are examined and compared, along with theoretical models regarding changes in women's positions. The impact of colonialism, women and social change, and problems of women in developing societies are examined.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Anthropology : Comparative studies of gender in stratified societies: Asia, the Mid-East, Latin and North America. Economic, political and social manifestations of gender inequality. Oppressive and egalitarian ideologies. State and institutional policies on gender, and male-female strategies. Sexual apartheid and integration.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Anthropology : Relationship between the structure of the archaeological discipline and construction of gender roles in past human societies; division of tasks between men and women in subsistence activities, organization of the household and kin groups; and creation of power and prestige in a larger community.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Art History : A consideration of the impact of feminism on recent art history, focusing on the examination of gender constructions in art and theory.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Tembeck, Tamar (Fall)
Classics : Each of four Greek tragedies (e.g. Oedipus, Antigone, Bacchae, Medea) analyzed along with its modern interpretations. The heroines of fiction as related to real Greek women by comparing myth transformation in tragedy with documentary material.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Comparative Law : Feminist theory and its relevance and application to law, including feminist methodologies in law, the public versus private dichotomy, and changing conceptions of equality.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Communication Studies : Introduction to feminist studies of the media. Impact of feminist and queer theory on media studies; current issues about gender in the media. Emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of media representations of gender in relation to other social differences, such as race, class and sexuality.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Thrift, Samantha (Winter)
Asian Language & Literature : Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Asian Language & Literature : A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Doran, Rebecca Esther (Winter)
Core course for the Women's Studies program
Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
Asian Language & Literature : Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Asian Language & Literature : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Ng, Wee-Siang (Winter)
Asian Language & Literature : Seminar dealing with issues relating to gender, the feminine, especially in the context of Japan. The course will draw on a range of theoretical frameworks, and may include the analysis of literature, film, art and popular culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical models and empirical findings relevant to the development of gender identity. Special attention is given to the influence of peers in school settings. Psychological, physiological, parental, peer and cultural influences on gender identity.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Pasto, Luigi (Fall)
English (Arts) : An examination of women as makers of cinematic and other media representations and/or as they are represented within such media.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Primarily European and North American feminist cultural theories and their application to the study of different textual and cultural practices; feminist critiques which investigate questions of voice, authorship, discourse, power, language, and the media.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of a particular topic in the area of women's writing and/or feminist literary theory.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
German (Arts) : In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
German (Arts) : This course places at its centre the life-worlds, biographies, and forms of self-expression by German women of the Romantic Era.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Hispanic Studies (Arts) : Social movements and literary tendencies, as reflected in the novels and short stories of representative authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Gómez de Avellaneda, Matto de Turner, Brunet, Bombal, Levinson, and others.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Holmes, Amanda (Fall)
History : This course examines the life choices available to women and men of the Middle Ages: how opportunities and restrictions of medieval society affected personal autonomy, careers, and relations between the sexes. Topics include: sexuality, religious life, marriage, work. Emphasis on learning techniques for reading and writing about primary sources (in translation).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. The cultural meanings and social institutions that create the historical context for sexual behaviours. Possible topics include: Greek homosocial and homosexual culture; sex and citizenship; wives and concubines in the ancient world; Christianity and aestheticism; misogyny and gender in Medieval Europe; adultery and lineage.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Partner, Nancy F (Fall)
History : An introduction to concepts of women and the realities of women's lives in western Europe from the Black Death to ca. 1700. Topics will include marriage and the family, female education and literacy, varieties of spirituality and the emergence of a proto-feminism during the Renaissance.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : This course examines women's contribution to the economic and social development of Canada as well as the changes in the image and status of women. Special emphasis will be on the relationship between women's roles in the private sphere and the public domain.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : 1700 to the present, with a particular focus on Europe and North America. Possible topics include: patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology; gay liberation movements; queer politics.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Winter)
History : An overview of the history of women in modern continental Europe, focusing on women's changing roles in the family and society at large, in the context of work, family life, education, and culture, and the changing notions of citizenship, femininity, and masculinity.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Szapor, Judith (Fall)
Prerequisites: One course in European history or permission of Instructor
History : Women and gender in modern Britain (1850 on). Topics include early feminist political agitation, including the suffrage movement; working-class women; changing notions of gender, sexuality and women's role; women and empire.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Tone, Andrea (Winter)
Prerequisite: A 300-level History course in gender, sexuality or medicine or permission of instructor.
History : An investigation of the changing historical construction of "deviant" and "normal" sexualities in Britain since 1700, and how queer women and men discovered ways of surviving and perhaps even flourishing in the face of persecution and hostility from the state, the churches and the medical profession.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Lewis, Brian D A (Winter)
History : This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Yates, Robin (Winter)
Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history
History : A focus on women in the history of the late-19th- and 20th-Century Middle East, and on the ways in which gender analysis and sexuality illuminate the history of national and religious communities. Topics such as: education, masculinity, sexuality, Western representations of Middle Eastern women, and gender and the nation.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Parsons, Laila (Fall)
Prerequisite: A course on women, gender or sexuality or permission of instructor.
History : A research seminar on the history of women in Canada since Confederation. Students will get familiar with primary sources and are expected to produce a major research paper in the second term.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : See HIST 463D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : The shifting historical context of female labour and family in selected western and non-western countries; the interaction between labour and gender relations with special focus on women's experiences on the shop floor and in the family.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : Examines the impact of war on individuals, families and societies. Studies the experiences of women and children in exile, mass persecutions, and punishments associated with social unrest, revolution or wars during twentieth century.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Abisaab, Malek (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): A 300 or 400-levelcourse in women's history or permission of instructor
Health Science Electives : Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Daniel, Kimani; Chlala, Lynne Violette (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
Complementary course for the Women's Studies and Social Studies of Medicine Concentrations
Health Science Electives : Concepts of health and medicalization. Canadian and international perspectives. Topics include contraception, abortion, infertility, menstruation, menopause, new reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbirth. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Lanctot, Anne Marie; Sabbagh, Melanie; Ciofani, Luisa (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
Restriction: not open for credit to students who have taken HSEL 308 prior to September 1997
Complementary course for the Women's Studies and Social Studies of Medicine Concentrations
Italian (Arts) : Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Italian (Arts) : A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Music-Arts Faculty : Repertoire composed and/or performed by women since 1920, with a focus on North America and women's participation in music in a variety of roles. Special attention will be paid to the different challenges faced by women of different races and classes, in both avant-garde and popular music traditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Philosophy : An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Sharp, Hasana (Fall)
Philosophy : Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Deslauriers, Marguerite (Winter)
Prerequisite: PHIL 242 and one intermediate course in philosophy
Philosophy : An advanced course devoted to a specific topic in feminist theory: e.g., a major figure; or theme, such as sex/gender, embodiment, race, subjectivity, agency, representation, politics, nature/culture, discourse and power; or a feminist approach to the history of philosophy, ethics, social/political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, phenomenology, or metaphysics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Religious Studies : The role of women in Judaism and Islam from the point of view of institutionalized religious traditions and of women's religious subjectivity; how women's spiritual and social roles within their religious traditions are shaped by Revealed Law, Holy Text and the Authority of Interpretation. Comparative sociology of religion approach.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Religious Studies : Survey of women's involvement in the Christian tradition. Topics include feminist interpretation of scripture, ideas of virginity, marriage and motherhood, mysticism, asceticisms, European witchhunts, contemporary women's liberation theories.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Marr, Lucille (Fall)
Fall
Core course for the Women's Studies Minor program
Religious Studies : Religious perspectives on the body, gender and sexual activity in Buddhist cultures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Religious Studies : Religious perspectives on the body, gender and sexual activity in Hindu cultures. Topics include: dharma and sexual practice; female sexuality; Bhakti and Tantra; same-sex relations; hijras; eroticism in the literary, visual, and performing arts; colonialism, Hindu nationalism, and the politics of gender.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Religious Studies : The mythology, theology, soteriology, history, ritual, and texts of the goddess-centred (Sakta) branches of Hinduism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sexual Diversity Studies : A general introduction to the study of sexual and gender diversity and sexuality from a range of perspectives and across a variety of disciplines.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Koloszyc, David Jacob (Fall)
Sociology (Arts) : Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Le Bourdais, Céline (Winter)
Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
Sociology (Arts) : This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Fallon, Kathleen (Fall)
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on men's and women's work in North American societies, historically and contemporarily, in order to understand the dynamisms of gender (in)equality in and outside of the home. Topics explored include: housework; the relationship(s) between gender, organizations and bureaucracy; emotional labour; occupational segregation and stratification; sexual harassment; and work-family policy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sociology (Arts) : Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Fallon, Kathleen (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210
Sociology (Arts) : Key conceptual and substantive issues in gender and health since c1950: stratified medicalization of women's and men's health; social movements in health including the women's health movement; gender inequality in morbidity and mortality; gender, power and control in patient/physician interactions; embodied experience; politics and policies of gender and health.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Fishman, Jennifer (Fall)
Sociology (Arts) : Sociological examination of the human body as a cultural phenomenon that intersects with identity, health, illness, disability and medicine. Exploration of meanings attributed to human bodies as well as the body as a site of social interaction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar examines how the definition of deviance, reactions to deviance and explanations of deviance are gendered. Specific topics vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar critically reviews theoretical perspectives and research on sex and gender in various domains of social life. It gives special emphasis to work which considers the meaning of gender and how it differs across time and place.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Fallon, Kathleen (Fall)
Restriction: Open to Honours Sociology students and to Sociology Majors with the permission of the instructor
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar reviews literature on major research areas in family. The course examines families in the past, the study of family using a life course approach, and considers selective areas which may have had significant influences on contemporary family such as work and family, family violence, and cultural variation in families.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Le Bourdais, Céline (Fall)
Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
Social Work : Social work practice with women based on recent advances in understanding women's relationships to the structures and institutions of society. Issues which arise in the provision of social services: women and the family, mental and physical health, poverty and the welfare system, feminist counselling.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : Consideration of contemporary issues in Women's Studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Fall)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Consideration of contemporary issues in Women's Studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Tembeck, Tamar (Fall) Seedat, Fatima (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Women's Studies.Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Narain, Vrinda (Fall) Rebick, Judy (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Women's Studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Groeneveld, Elizabeth (Winter)
Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Women's Studies : Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of Women's Studies.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of Women's Studies.
Terms: Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Jones, Amelia (Summer)
Prerequisite: WMST 303 and permission of instructor
Restriction: Majors, Honours and Joint Honours students in Women's Studies.
Women's Studies : Advanced topics in theory and methodology related to Women's Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : Advanced topics in theory and methodology related to Women's Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Women's Studies : This course is a philosophical exploration of the nature of science concerning sex, gender, race and racial stereotypes, and the construction of "womanhood". The social history/biography of women and minorities in science will be studied to develop a critique of biological determinism and explore the meaning and possibility of a "feminist science".
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
The courses below are acceptable ONLY when the topic is appropriate for Women's Studies (centrally focused on women and/or gender and/or feminism) and there is documentation on file for the given year. Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the topic of the courses. For final updates, see .
Please note that not all courses are offered every year.
Anthropology : Supervised reading in special topics under the direction of a member of the staff.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Architecture : An exploration of the aims, tools, and methods of Architectural History as a discipline; the use of primary sources from the Canadian Centre for Architecture and other archives.
Terms: Summer 2012
Instructors: Adams, Annmarie (Summer)
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 251 or permission of instructor
Restriction: Departmental permission required
Canadian Studies : An interdisciplinary course on a Canadian Studies topic.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Maioni, Antonia (Fall)
Prerequisite: CANS 200 or permission of instructor
Canadian Studies : An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Communication Studies : Emergent themes in media history and media theory, and their application to current issues in communications studies.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Thrift, Samantha (Winter)
Communication Studies : Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Sterne, Jonathan (Fall)
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Fan, Ho Lok Victor (Winter)
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
English (Arts) : The Novel from the last years of the 19th century to World War II.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : An examination of issues relating to literature and its social contexts, such as implications of gender, race, ethnicity.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Cooke, Nathalie M (Fall)
English (Arts) : Topics on representations of sexuality with reference to its cultural contexts.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Thain, Alanna Michael (Fall)
Fall
Priority will be given to English Major/Honours students in second year of program
English (Arts) : A critical survey of contemporary British and North American poetry, c. 1930 - 1980.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Current issues in cultural studies. Topics will include contemporary debates on high culture and the literary canon, and the question of aesthetic value and aesthetic judgment.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Schantz, Edward (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Advanced study of works of Canadian fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Ritchie, Fiona (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of a specific literary form.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Theatre history.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Salter, Denis (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: Students not registered in English programs require permission of instructor
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
English (Arts) : Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Kaite, Berkeley (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Geography : In-depth review of a current topic in human geography.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Ford, James (Winter)
German (Arts) : Introduction to selected topics and genres in twentieth century literature and culture.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Mehdizadeh, Hossein (Fall)
Fall
Given in German
Prerequisite: GERM 325 or equivalent
German (Arts) : The course is a study of postwar German literature and film, focusing on the cinematic representation of literary texts. The emphasis is on the representation of German history in both media, on historical memory and gender relations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : Selected topics in intellectual and cultural history of Britain and Ireland, focusing on discussion of primary texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : This course will examine themes in the history of the Canadian family from 1850. Historical study reveals the family as a diverse, changing, social institution. Marriage, childhood, sexuality, and the state will come under examination and the Canadian experience will be compared to that of the U.S.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Szapor, Judith (Fall)
Students must register for both HIST 470D1 and HIST 470D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 470D1 and HIST 470D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 470D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Szapor, Judith (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 470D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 470D1 and HIST 470D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
History : See HIST 493D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A survey of Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism in North America. Emphasis is placed on the ideology forwarded by the movements since their inception.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Caplan, Eric (Fall)
Jewish Studies
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Philosophy
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Sharp, Hasana (Winter)
Restriction: Seminars are open only to graduate students and final year Philosophy Majors, Honours and Joint Honours students, except by written permission of the Department
Political Science : A specific problem area in the Comparative Politics of Developing Areas.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Narain, Vrinda (Fall) Wang, Juan; Balan, Manuel (Winter)
Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
Note: The field is Comparative Politics in Developing Areas.
Political Science : This course will deal with a specific problem area in Political theory.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.