Gender and Social Justice Courses

Core Courses

All M.A. students must take the following courses:

• GENDR ST 700 / Theorizing Gender and Social Justice
• GENDR ST 701 / Doing Anti-Oppressive Research
• GENDR ST 707 / Knowledge in Action

Elective Courses

• GENDR ST 6G03 / Language, Sex and Gender
• GENDR ST 6QA3 / Queerness in the Archives: Lesbian and Gay Writing, Art and Activism in Canada, 1969-1989
• GENDR ST 6RI3 / Colonialism and Resistance in Representations of Indigenous Womanhood
• GENDR ST 6Z03 / Gender and the Textile Arts
• GENDR ST 703 / Topics in Gender and Social Justice
• GENDR ST 704 / Independent Study in Gender and Social Justice
• GENDR ST 705 / Disability, Subjectivity, and Visual Representation
• GENDR ST 706 / From There to Here: Refugee Women in the World and in Our Community
• GENDR ST 708 / Creating and Embodying Theory

Approved Electives from Outside Departments

These courses have been pre-approved to count toward the Gender and Social Justice electives requirements. Note: Not all of these courses will be offered every year and some require special permissions.

In some courses, seats have been reserved for GSJ students; in others, seats will be granted based on availability after students in their home department have registered. Please consult the GSJ program website for specific enrollment instructions.

• ANTHROP 706 / Bodies, Politics, Data
• ANTHROP/  GLOBALST 786 / Global Futures: Theory, Practice and Possibility
• ANTHROP 788 / Topics in Anthropological Approaches to Islam
• CMST&MM 714 / Feminism, Technology and Science
• CMST&MM 720 / Data Cultures
• CMST&MM 722 / Beyoncé Studies: Creativity, Celebrity, and Activism
• CLASSICS 716 / Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece
• ENGLISH/  CULTR ST 708 / Selfie/Culture
• ENGLISH/  CULTR ST 757 / Gender, Civility, and Courtliness in Early Modern Europe
• ENGLISH/  CULTR ST 758 / Literature as Witness
• ENGLISH/  CULTR ST 781 / Public Mourning in Canada: What Makes a Life Grievable?
• ENGLISH/  CULTR ST 785 / Migratory Routes: Indian Diasporic Fiction and Film
• FRENCH 729 / Écrits de femmes québécois et franco-canadiens contemporains
• HISTORY 766 / Comparative Perspectives on Health and Medicine in the Colonial World
• HISTORY 776 / History of Sexualities in the Western World, 1750 to the present
• HISTORY 779 / History of Indigenous Manifestos
• HISTORY 780 / Historical Perspectives on Women and Biography
• LABRST 791 / Contemporary Issues in Labour Studies
• LABRST 793 / Advanced Labour Studies Theory
• LABRST 740 / Selected Topics in Labour Studies
• LABRST 780 / Bodies at Work: Politics, Science, Law & Occupational Health
• PHILOS 764 / Social & Political Philosophy
• PHILOS 759 / Selected Topics in Applied Ethics
• RELIG ST 777 / Topics in Philosophy and Jewish Thought
• RELIG ST 781 /  ANTHROP 704 / Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion
• RELIG ST 789 / Topics in Gender and Feminist Theory and Religious Studies
• SOCSCI 708 / Critical Approaches to Community Based Research
• SOC WORK 721 / Changing Communities: Tensions and Possibility for Citizenship and Social Justice
• SOCIOL 758 / Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• SOCIOL 759 / Sociology of Gender and Sexuality