Gender Equality

ADMN 435AP - Managing a Diverse Workforce

This course concerns the increasing diversity of the work force and the major challenges and opportunities faced by organizations and their managers in this regard. Topics will include: maintaining fairness and justice, making effective decisions for performance improvement, allowing flexibility, and managing in the global environment. The course also examines the legal frameworks in place that value and protect employee and employer rights related to gender, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ability, and other dimensions of diversity.
*** Prerequisite: ADMN 250 ***

ANTH 100 - Introduction to Anthropology

An introduction to the anthropological concept of culture, its uses in the explanation of human behaviour, and its impact on our understanding of human nature, language, and society. The course will explore cultural diversity through the comparative perspective that makes anthropology unique within the humanities and social sciences. It will also show how anthropologists analyse the connections between politics, economics, gender, kinship, and religion within particular cultures.

ANTH 202 - Anthropology of Language

An introduction to the anthropological study of language. This course examines a variety of theories and methods for the study of the variable relations between language use and aspects of social life and of personhood, among them social organization, hierarchy, power, gender, sexuality, and subjectivity.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 203 - Social Organization

An analysis of the political, economic, and ideological aspects of social organization, with particular emphasis on kinship, gender, and social stratification in non-industrialized societies.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 237 - Ethnography of Europe

This introductory course offers an overview of the ethnographic study of Europe since the 1950s. Different regions of the continent are examined through close reading of ethnographic writings concerned with gender, morality, social class, ethnic affiliation, and nationalist ideology.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 304 - Anthropology of Gender

How different cultures make distinctions between female, male and other gender categories; cross-cultural variation in gender definitions and roles; how gender shapes and is shaped by other aspects of culture and society.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 890AL - Advanced Anthropology of Gender

This reading course is an enriched, graduate level course. The student will study the relationship between gendered forms of political and economic empowerment and textile weaving cooperatives in Latin America.

ARTH 320 - Feminist Art History

How has women’s art production been marginalized in the history of art? This course approaches art through an intersectional lens, exploring how feminist theory, from the 1970s to today, has driven the global recovery of women’s artistic production and challenged the evaluation of art based on race, gender, and sexuality.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

BUS 355 - Issues in Labour Relations

This course concerns the employment relationship and the practice of labour relations. Issues related to the "gig" economy, collective bargaining, labour legislation, power, conflict resolution, gender inequity, Indigenous employment, race, technological innovation, migrant labour, negotiations, strikes, unions and unionization are explored in this course.
***Prerequisite: BUS 250 or ADMN 250.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 355 and ADMN 355.*

CATH 290AO - Spirituality and Christian Life in Early Catholicism

The New Testament presents a vision of a transformed world and humanity. The course will explore the various currents of New Testament spirituality and their relationship with culture, society, and experience. This will include apocalyptic spirituality, ecstatic experience, prayer, violence, sexuality, gender, the sacred, and group identity.
***Prerequisite is 15 credit hours or permission of Instructor.***

CLAS 220 - Women in Greece and Rome

A survey of the different lives, roles and representations of women in Greece and Rome within the context of changing historical circumstances. The course examines the subject through such categories as myth, class and sexuality and draws on evidence from a wide range of cultural production.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours ***

CLAS 390AC - Studies in Classical Women

Advanced studies in the lives and receptions of women from Classical Greece and Rome.
***Prerequisite: Four 200-level CLAS courses or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 390AC, CLAS 220, and WGST 280AN.*

EC&I 822 - Anti-oppressive Education and Teacher Activism

A history of school and community activism ranges from words of non-cooperation to political organizing. This course examines the politics of protest and activism that accompany theories of justice for social change with respect to race, class, gender and sexual orientation. Students will examine their own knowledge and commitment to social justice for the community and workplace.

EC&I 871AX - Creating School Climates of Gender Justice

Recognizing that sexism, heterosexism and cissexism negatively impact and limit all members of school communities, this course explores the work of changing school climates to create greater inclusion and welcome. While individual accommodations continue to matter, the focuses on the systemic changes needed to impact the overall school climate.

EC&I 890BG - Exploring Feminism and Gender Politics through Narrative Inquiry in Curr. Devel

This course explores feminist perspectives on gender/sexual difference in curriculum development. Students enquire into the political context in which gender and feminism have become fused, seek connections for narrative enquiry regarding postmodern voices, and challenge the notion that the gender systems frame alone addresses feminist issues in curriculum development.

EC&I 890DI - Women in Educational Leadership

The course focuses on the literature of Motherhood studies in the context of women’s career trajectory and leadership in the field of Education. The readings include feminist theory and women’s narratives, which will be examined in relation to the course topics.

EC&I 890ED - L’accompagnement et le leadership des femmes en éducation

This course will engage the student in an exploration of 1) strategies educational leaders can use to accompany in a socio constructive manner those who they supervise; and 2) models and styles of leadership, used principally by women in education, with a particular focus on women principals

ECON 396AX - Family Economics

A study of the allocation of labour and resources within households. Using microeconomic models and their applications, this course examines the household economic decisions regarding investment in human capital, gender roles, labour supply, marriage, divorce, and fertility.
***Prerequisite: 45 credit hours or three ECON courses, or other prerequisites depending on the topic.***

ED 890CZ - What is a Man: The Social Construction of Masculinity

Focus in the field of gender studies, and focus on comparing and contrasting the essentialist and constructivist views of "manhood" and masculinity as it is experienced, as it is "performed" and as it has been historically understood.

ED 890EN - Theory & Practice of Gender Issues in a Crosscultural Context

This course will be taught from a critical and post-structural approach, which examines intersections of gendered identity production, inlcuding race, class, educations standing, and sexual orientation. This is a survey course, examining classical feminist texts as well as more recent issues in feminist philosophy practice.

ED 890GI - Theories of gender in post-colonial discourses

Set in theories of post-structural and post-colonial feminism, this course examines the positioning of Indigenous women as subjects of discourse in colonial power relations. Post-colonial relations situate women historically and in the present day through various subjectivies with respect to race, class and gender.

ED 890GK - The Pedagogy of Gender and Sexual Diversity

Understanding theoretical and actual constructs of gender and sexuality always takes place in a context. One such context is the university classroom. This course will provide an opportunity for action research, self-reflection, and immersion in a classroom experience to research issues of minority sexuality and gender variance.

ED 890GP - Post-structuralist Theories of Discourse and Subjectivity

Participants engage basic theories of language, subjectivity, and knowledge from post-structuralist frames. Contemporary cultural phenomena will be considered from a range of distinct historical and political moments including gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. Questions posed will pertain to students' research interests.

EFDN 306 - Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Education

This course will provide some rationale and background for developing an understanding of gender and sexual diversity in the context of schooling. The course will explore pedagogical and instructional implications for people working with 2SLGBTQIAP+ students and teachers. Additionally, the course will ask students to engage with theoretical and personal narratives of gendered and sexual positionalities.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AL - Indigenous Feminism and Women's Writings

During this seminar class, students will engage in critical discussions involving justice and power for/by Indigenous women, gendered violence, Indigenous feminism, intergenerational trauma, women’s residential school narratives and literary writings as restorative justice. Through lectures, readings, and screenings, students will develop critical and interdisciplinary tools for analyzing Indigenous literary discourses.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours***

ENGL 318AD - Sexual Politics in American Women's Literature

Nineteenth-century America was a period of transition in marriage, family life, and sex roles - a period striklingly similar to our own. By exploring the representation of gender in the fiction of Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Fanny Fern, Chopin, and Glaspell, we will explore the sexual politics in such a society.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 331AC - 18th C. Sexualities

This course will investigate the treatment of gender and sexuality during the long eighteenth century. Students will read short fiction, novels, poetry, and critical materials which pertain to the development of sexuality during the period, and we will also discuss artwork and pamphlet literature.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AL - Gender & Genius: The Genesis of Romanticism

This course will explore the Romantic period and the concept of genius from its origins in copyright law to the gender issues arising from the Latin word, ingenium. We will study Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley, and the paradoxically unconscious state of genius as both a sign of mastery and yet an unmasterable gift.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 367 - Gender and Language

A study of issues related to gender and language, including stylistic variation between genders, differing strategies for dealing with gendered interactions in a social context, the history of sexist language, and debates about political correctness and inclusive language usage.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110, or LING 220.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for one of ENGL 367 or WGST 367. *

ENGL 386AC - Adventure & the Masculine Idea

Linking gender and genre, this course examines the construction of masculine heroism through a range of texts, from the romance to the classic adventure tale to its re-invention in the hands of seminal contemporary writers.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 394AC - Early Modern Play of Gender

The course examines the ways in which early modern English drama interrogates gender categories, particularly through its practice of casting boys in women's roles. We study how the one-sex model in early modern England relates to cross-dressing, as well as queer performances and criticism, in five or six selected plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 395AD - Queer Theories: Gender, Sexuality and Ideology

This course will use an interdisciplinary framework to trace the deployment of 'queer' as a political, theoretical, legal and ideological space for living and thinking. We will both analyze and challenge the evolution of queer theory as an academic investment by tracking appearances within literature, cinema, artwork, and critical writing from approximately 1969-present.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 415AF - The Body in 17th Century Literature

Using a number of theoretical approaches, we will examine representations of the body and its functions in literary and medical texts from the 17th century. We will consider how these representations reflect cultural values and perpetuate gender, economic, naturalist, and colonialist ideology.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AF or ENGL 803AF.*

ENGL 415AG - Gender and Shrew-Taming Plays

We will explore literary depictions of gender relations and other hierarchies of power by focusing on four shrew-taming plays of the late 16th and 17th centuries: The Taming of A Shrew, The Taming of The Shrew, The Woman's Prize, and Sauny the Scot.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 420AF - Melancholy/Madness 18-Century

This course explores the under-belly of the so-called "Age of Reason" by examining a range of literary and medical representations of melancholy and madness. We will supplement our investigations with a series of critical texts, and topics of discussion will centre around the relationship between 18th-century mental illness and gender, genius, culture, and creativity.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AF or ENGL 804AF.*

ENGL 420AP - Eighteenth Century Sexualities

This seminar will explore issues of gender and sexuality in Eighteenth Century culture, including literature, artwork, music, and fashion.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AP or ENGL 820AP.*

ENGL 430AC - Transition to Modernity

This course examines the changes in the relation between the individual and society, in available epistemological frameworks, in gender identities, and in the representation of desire through the study of texts written in England between 1860 and 1920.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 430AC or ENGL 806AC.*

ENGL 440AL - Indigenous Feminism and Women's Writings

During this seminar class, students will engage in critical discussions involving justice and power for/by Indigenous women, gendered violence, Indigenous feminism, intergenerational trauma, women’s residential school narratives and literary writings as restorative justice. Through lectures, readings, and screenings, students will develop critical and interdisciplinary tools for analyzing Indigenous literary discourses.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AF - Utopian Literature

Study of a number of works significant in the Utopian tradition, with attention to: Historical and cultural contexts; themes such as politics, education, the arts, and gender roles; literary features of the genre; and related issues such as the intentional community and city planning.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475AF or ENGL 815AF.*

ENGL 475AQ - Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while gaining practice in the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475CQ - CW: Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while practicing and workshopping the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485BA - The History of Medicine in/as Literature

This course explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britons understood and imagined health, pathology and medicine. In poetry, novels, essays, medical journals, travelogues and other accounts, we will ask questions about contagion and difference; the emergence of so-called race science; the gendering of conditions such as hysteria and apoplexy, and more.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
**Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. **Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 342AE or ENGL 485BA.*

ENGL 803AF - The Body in 17th Century Literature

Using a number of theoretical approaches, we will examine representations of the body and its functions in literary and medical texts from the 17th century. We will consider how these representations reflect cultural values and perpetuate gender, economic, nationalist, and colonialist ideology.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 803AF or ENGL 415AF.*

ENGL 803AG - Gender and Shrew-Taming Plays

We will explore literary depictions of gender relations and other hierarchies of power by focusing on four shrew-taming plays of the late 16th and 17th centuries: The Taming of A Shrew, The Taming of The Shrew, The Woman's Prize, and Sauny the Scot.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 803AG or ENGL 415AG.*

ENGL 804AF - Melancholy & Madness in the 18th-Century

This course explores the under-belly of the so-called "Age of Reason" by examining a range of literary and medical representations of melancholy and madness. We will supplement our investigations with a series of critical texts, and topics of discussion will center around the relationship between eighteenth-century mental illness and gender, genius, culture, and creativity.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 804AF or ENGL 420AF.*

ENGL 808AM - Indigenous Feminism and Women's Writings

During this seminar class, students will engage in critical discussions involving justice and power for/by Indigenous women, gendered violence, Indigenous feminism, intergenerational trauma, women’s residential school narratives and literary writings as restorative justice. Through lectures, readings, and screenings, students will develop critical and interdisciplinary tools for analyzing Indigenous literary discourses.

ENGL 815AF - Utopian Literature

Study of a number of works significant in the utopian tradition, with attention to Historical and cultural context; themes such as politics, education, the arts, and gender roles; literary features of the genre; and related issues such as the intentional community and city planning.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AF or ENGL 475AF.*

ENGL 815AQ - Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while gaining practice in the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.

ENGL 815CQ - CW: Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while practicing and workshopping the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.

ENGL 820AP - Eighteenth Century Sexualities

This seminar will explore issues of gender and sexuality in Eighteenth Century culture, including literature, artwork, music, and fashion.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AP or ENGL 420AP.*

EPSY 830 - Counselling: Girls and Women

An overview of the unique concerns of girls and women as they relate to the helping professions, especially counselling. Current theory and practice are used to examine the roll of personal experience and social context in developing a nonstereotypic framework for counselling.

FILM 390AN - Women in Film

This course will investigate contemporary women filmmakers, focusing on authorship and gender through a feminist lens.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FILM 390AN or FILM 286AB.*

GBUS 875 - Women in Leadership

This course is designed to enhance understanding of issues relevant to women in leadership and the implications for organizations (e.g., opportunities, exclusion). Topics include leadership styles, women on boards, strategies for change, learning to become a leader, media representation, intra-gender relations between women, cross-cultural considerations, and entrepreneurship. The course will combine both scholarly and practitioner-based considerations and challenge students to surface and unsettle taken for granted assumptions about women in leadership. Guest speakers from industry and academia will be invited to share their views on specific topics to enhance the learning experience.

GES 338 - Geography of Identities and Power

An examination and comparison of the fe/male use and perception of space and place by time-period, and culture, age, gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality: in homes, neighbourhoods, cities, rural areas, recreation, travel, environment, and politics, race, education and ethnicity.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours, including GES 100 or 9 credit hours in GES, including GES 120, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 338, GEOG 338, GEOG 396AA, and WGST 362.*

HIST 272 - Gender and the Body in Early Modern Europe

This course examines the social history of Europe from the 15th to the 18th centuries through a focus on issues related to gender, sexuality and the body. It includes topics such as: gender definitions, marriage and family, sexuality and morality, and clothing and fashion.
*** Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 322 - Sex and the City: the Pursuit of Pleasure in Britain since 1500

Topics include early modern erotica, libertines, the royal mistresses of Charles II, the city and sexual danger, prostitution, Victorian repression, abortion and birth control, twentieth-century liberal attitudes toward sexuality, the impact of sex manuals and sex education, the sexual revolution, and the articulation of a gay and lesbian identity
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or 30 credit hours ***

HIST 330 - Women in Canadian History

Explores the lives of women in Canada's past. We look at some of this country’s most famous women, including Pauline Johnson and Nellie McClung, but we also study the experiences of those who did not become famous, and in fact lived on the margins for most of their lives.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours***

HIST 420 - Doing Women's and Gender History

In this senior level course, students learn how to “do” women’s and gender history. Through discussions about interpreting sources and disseminating historical knowledge, they acquire deep familiarity with women’s and gender historiography. As well, by applying advanced historical methods and sharing their findings, they themselves become practising historians.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 480AJ or HIST 420.*

HIST 820 - Doing Women's and Gender History

In this graduate course, students learn how to "do" women's and gender history. Emphasis is placed on feminist theories of history, as well as on the role of gender in historiography. In addition, by applying advanced methods and sharing their findings, students in this course become practising historians.

HIST 890AM - Gender, Body & Spirit Med Euro

This course will examine the theme of "the body" in late medieval Christianity, through a study of the writings and ideas of selected theologians, saints and mystics.

HIST 890BR - The Chinese Immigrant Experience

This advanced directed reading course will explore themes within the history of the Chinese immigrant experience. Specific topics include immigration policy, public attitudes, economic factors and considerations of family, gender and race. While the focus is on western Canada, relevant examples from the global context will also be examined.

HIST 890BT - Gender and US Politics

This course analyzes how ideas about gender shape US politics. We will consider men's and women's participation in both electoral politics and reform activism in an effort to understand how notions of masculinity and femininity shape ideologies that become attached to policy decisions and partisan politics.

INDG 258 - Gender Issues and Indigenous Societies

This course examines the concepts of gender both within and among Indigenous societies. The holism of Indigenous perspectives will be demonstrated.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 390AD - Aboriginal Women and Gender Inequality

This course examines the rational surrounding inequalities faced by Aboriginal women and how Aboriginal women are reclaiming their positions within the context of Aboriginal life in North America.

INDG 890AP - Race, Space, Gender and Identity

his course will explore the relationship in society between race, space, and gender and how they shape our social identities, with emphasis on how these factors affect Aboriginal peoples in western Canadian society.

JSGS 819 - Gender and Public Policy

The course will do a compare neo-classical and feminist approaches to the analysis of public policy. Sutdents will examine the labour market and gender-based inequality; the family, with a particular focus on intrahousehold resource allocation; and will consider macro-economic issues and provide gender-based analysis in relation to public policy in Canada

KHS 867AG - Gender, Sport and Physical Activity - A Sociological Perspective

The purpose of this independent study is to develop an in-depth understanding of sociological perspectives of gender and involvement in sport and physical activity.

KHS 867AH - Gender, Physical Education and Exercise

The purpose of this independent study is to develop an in-depth understanding of issues related to women's motivation to exercise and their impact as role models of healthy active living.

KHS 867AP - Women & Coaching in Sport

This course will develop an in-depth understanding of the literature related to women and coaching in sport. The student will search for, review, synthesize and analyze peer-reviewed literature related to women and coaching, and gender and coaching. As well the student will examine the concepts in a real-world setting.

MAP 890AR - Performance: Queer Spectators

This course will investigate issues in contemporary performance, with a focus on specific areas of interest (such as performer-spectator relations, performance and celebrity, queer performance, gender and performance, performance art and its critical/theoretical contexts, etc.)

MAP 890AZ - Queer Identity in Performance

This course will require student(s) to undertake various activities (research, writing, dramaturging, and performing) a performance piece that situates (and performs) sexual/gender identity within a larger popular culture framework. Critical readings/analysis of contemporary queer(ed) performances will also be required.

MAP 890CA - Exploring Two Spirit Identity through Woodland Cree Art

This class will explore Two-Spirit gender identity through traditional Woodland Cree art practices. It will draw on both the emerging scholarship related to Two-Spirit identity and traditional beliefs related to the role of Two-Spirit individuals in a Cree world view. In part, the course will explore the connection between beadwork done in the Nehithawak style using a variety of techniques and the idea of Two-Spirit people bringing balance to their communities. Through beadwork "story" works, personal narratives of fully reclaiming identity, including exploring barriers will be visually narrated.

PHIL 281 - Philosophy of Sexuality and Love

An examination of philosophical approaches to love, friendship, marriage and sexuality. Topics include: the nature of sexuality; theories of perversion; sexual ethics and pornography, prostitution, promiscuity and adultery; varieties/forms of love, sexuality, and friendship; the significance of gender within the philosophy of sex and love.
***Prerequisite: PHIL 100, or completion of 15 credit hours.***

PHIL 890AX - Gender/Technol/Cyborgs

In this course, we will focus on the use and emergence of technologies in relation to sex-gender, with a particular focus on trans* embodiments, practices, and lives, by considering readings in New Materialism, cyborg theory, and trans*-attuned philosophy.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

PSCI 337 - Gender in Canadian Politics

An introduction to the role that gender has played in the evolution of Canadian political life including the rise of feminist political movements, gender’s role in partisan politics and how expansive notions of gender diversity continue to reshape aspects of Canadian political life.
***Prerequisite: Any 200-level PSCI course or the completion of 30 credit hours.***

PSCI 416 - Feminist Political Thought

This course offers a survey of both historical and contemporary feminist texts that examine debates in feminist thought including debates around patriarchy, equality, intersectionality, sexuality, gender identity, colonialism, Indigeneity, race, and reproductive rights.
***Prerequisite: One of PSCI 210, PSCI 310, PSCI 311, PSCI 312, PSCI 352, PSCI 357, or permission of the Department Head.***

PSCI 490BJ - Political Theories of Labour and Work

This course examines both canonical theories (eg. Smith, Locke, Marx, Weber) and critical scholarship on the politics of work and labour (eg. Arendt, Marcuse, Federici, Graeber, Weeks). Themes include the relationship between labour and property, waged labour, work as a vocation, gendered and racialized work, and labour migration.
***Prerequisite: Two PSCI courses at the 200 or 300 level or completion of 60 credit hours.***

RLST 290BA - Religion and Gender, Sex and Sexualities in Historical and Contemporary South Asia

Religion contributes to the construction and understanding of gender and sex/ualities. This course examines how this happens in both historical and contemporary South Asia, for example, how Hinduism informs gender and sex/ualities in India, Islam the same in Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 290BA or WGST 280AO.*

RLST 373 - Gender: Theories and Practices

This course begins by examining gender/sex theories (feminist, masculinity and queer studies) arising from a variety of academic locations. Thereafter, we analyze gender/sex ideologies shaped by and in religio-cultural practices across a spectrum of historical locations (e.g., ancient Greece, early modern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East).
***Prerequisite: RLST 100 or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 373 or WGST 372.*

RLST 378 - Gender in Ancient Christianity

The course will explore the elaboration of images of "masculinity" and "femininity", "male" and "female", focusing on the relationship of these discursive entities to ancient Christian practices, goals, and notions of salvation, with a view to recovering how such constructs were used to fabricate a distinctive "Christian" identity.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 480AI - Adv. Gender: Theories and Practices

This course begins by examining gender/sex theories (feminist, masculinity and queer studies) arising from a variety of academic locations. Thereafter, we analyze gender/sex ideologies shaped by and in religio-cultural practices across a spectrum of historical locations (e.g., ancient Greece, early modern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East).
***Prerequisites: RLST 100 or WGST 100***

RLST 490CO - Directed Readings in Sex and Sexualities

Course material will evaluate religious and secular discourse on sex, gender, sexualities, and sexual orientations culminating in a major student project.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.***

RLST 890BI - Advanced Gender: Theories and Practices

This course begins by examining gender/sex theories (feminist, masculinity and queer studies) arising from a variety of academic locations. Thereafter, we analyze gender/sex ideologies shaped by and in religio-cultural practices across a spectrum of historical locations (e.g., ancient Greece, early modern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East).
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 890BI or WGST 372.*

SOC 211 - Sociology of Diversity and Intersectionality in Canada

This course introduces sociological approaches to diversity, equity and inclusion. It explores social policy and practices focusing on the complex intersections of race, gender, glass, age, disability, citizenship, and other factors. Course discussion topics include: Indigenous communities, human rights, inequality, newcomer experiences, active citizenship, and complex identity issues.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.
* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology *

SOC 212 - Gender and Sexuality

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on gender and sexuality in contemporary society. Key topics include: gender and sexual identity, gender inequality, and changing definitions of masculinity and femininity. Students will be introduced to various theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality, including feminist theories, LGBT studies, and queer theory.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology*

SOC 850 - Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

This course analyses social justice issues in gender, race and ethnicity. It provides an advanced perspective on such topics as construction of difference, discrimination, racialization, assimilation, and the interplay of gender, ethnicity, race, and other social factors.

SOST 890AH - Applied Social Research in Gender and Food Security

This course is an exploration of the intersection of food (in)security and gender. Operating at three levels of inquiry (macro, meso, micro), the course examines international trade and other policy determinants of food (in)security with links to gender dimensions at the household level. The course involves an applied research component focused on food and gender issues in the province of Saskatchewan.

SOST 890AI - Gender, Media, and Representation

This course examines issues of gender and representation in contemporary media. The course begins with an overview of major theoretical approaches to gender/sex in the context of social inequality. Content analysis and discourse analysis methods will be used to examine gendered representation in contemporary media.

SOST 890AJ - Social Dimensions of Climate Change

This course examines the social dimensions of climate change vulnerability and adaptation from a sociological perspective. Key topics include: conceptual frameworks for understanding social dimensions of climate change; social differentiation (e.g., gender, race, class, geopolitical location) and climate vulnerability; vulnerability assessment methods; and policies for sustainable adaptation.

SOST 890AL - Gender, Culture, and Intersectionality

This course will examine the origins and development of intersectionality as a theoretical framework for feminist research. With particular attention to the intersection of gender and culture, the course will explore both the theoretical implications and methodological applications of the intersectionality framework. Course readings will focus on two connected questions: how has intersectionality been applied in empirical research to date, and what methodological possibilities does it hold for future research?

WGST 100 - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

This course will examine the historical emergence of feminisms and women’s and gender studies. This course interrogates gender at the intersection of race, sexuality, colonialism, ability, class, and among others. This course will include a range of topics that may draw on experiential learning, community engagement, and visual culture from a decolonizing and social justice framework.

WGST 200 - Feminisms: Feminist Theories and Knowledge

An examination of theoretical and epistemological issues related to feminist and indigenous systems of knowledge. Course materials will bring diverse theorists into dialogue with such topics as gender, identity, sexuality, the body, work, the family, language, violence, representation.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***

WGST 201 - Women, the Environment and Change

This course is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exploration of issues revolving around women, the environment and change. Some topics explored will be a feminist view of the social, historical and cultural roots of the environmental crisis, environmental rights and ethics, and women's participation in environmental movements to name a few.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***

WGST 202 - Women and Reproductive Technologies: Ancient and Modern

This course is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical exploration of women and reproduction through a feminist lens. Topics will range over a broad spectrum of social, cultural and scientific issues. These may include: women's reproductive knowledge and midwifery and/or rituals and taboos surrounding conception among others.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 202 or WGST 380AP.*

WGST 206 - Feminism & Activism

How do feminist principles translate into political action, public policy, organizational structures, artistic or religious movements? Why have some movements been successful where others failed? We will examine this "dance" through the context and biographies of suffragette leaders, feminist global movements, and engage in service learning at successful feminist agencies.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 206 or WGST 280AG.*

WGST 207 - Indigenous Feminisms

This class focuses on Canadian Indigenous women and feminist analysis, identity, activism and the interplay of gender, colonialism, racism and sexism on Indigenous women today. Students will come away with a strong understanding of Canadian Indigenous feminist work, located within the larger global context of Indigenous scholarly and activist work.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one WGST 207 or WGST 280AH.*

WGST 280AJ - Mother Nature, Natural Mothers and the Nature of Mothering

This course provides a critical interdisciplinary exploration of biological and evolutionary as well as social, historical, and cultural influences on women's mothering practises and lived experiences. Concepts considered include control of female reproduction, survival and sacrifice, cooperative breeding, allomothering, infanticide, and shared nursing in mothers across several cultures and species.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***

WGST 280AK - Sex and Sexualities in Religion

Religious teachings on sexual practices, desires and orientations have regulated social norms and notions of morality. Examining a number of religious traditions, historical moments and current religious, feminist and queer movements, this course invites students to discern tropes and potentiality within the larger discourse of personal agency and social power.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 280AK, WGST 490AC, RLST 290AP, or RLST 390BL.*

WGST 280AM - Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) Masculinities in Canada

This course examines how historical and contemporary constructions of Indigenous masculinity have shaped our understanding of what it means to act and be an ‘Indigenous male’ in Canadian society. It draws on critical gender theory to interrogate how issues associated with maleness interact with questions of race, class, and sexuality.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***

WGST 280AO - Religion and Gender, Sex and Sexualities in Historical and Contemporary South Asia

Religion contributes to the construction and understanding of gender and sex/ualities. This course examines how this happens in both historical and contemporary South Asia, for example, how Hinduism informs gender and sex/ualities in India, Islam the same in Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 280AO or RLST 290BA.*

WGST 300 - Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous Peoples

Why are Indigenous women throughout the world more likely to "go missing"? This class will examine systems that intersect and perpetuate racism and colonialism, sexism and poverty, and the effects of globalization on the breakdown of family structures. Expertise and voices from community activists will be integral to this class.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 300 or WGST 390AF.*

WGST 301 - Women and Health: Local and Global

This course examines a wide range of issues in women's health and wellness from a critical feminist perspective. It will cover a range of topics such as the ramifications of the biomedical model for women's health, disparities in women's health, AIDS, mental health, violence against women, aging, disabilities, and reproduction.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***

WGST 320 - Queer Studies in Popular Culture

Utilizing an interdisciplinary queer feminist approach, this course interrogates social relations of power embedded within Western popular culture. We will examine a range of cultural texts from television and film, to artistic representations and performances, to social media posts and podcasts.
The course will provide an intersectional theoretical framing to queer studies in popular culture. Central to the course are constructions of identity and processes of subjectivity and embodiment; popular culture is all around us and informs our everyday lives.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 320 or WGST 380AM.*

WGST 361 - Gender, Race, and the History of Art

Seminar on the impact of feminist post-colonial critiques on the discipline of art history. Readings, discussions, and papers will focus on topics such as body imagery, the gaze, sexuality, primitivism, orientalism, the canon, and the culture wars, the studying of non-Western cultures, etc.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***

WGST 380AI - History of Illness in Visual Culture

What does it mean to represent the diseased body? What are the relations between health, illness, other-ness, and deviance in representation? Through a series of multidisciplinary investigations of the body in crisis this course will explore how gender and illness have been represented from the sixteenth century to the present.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***

WGST 380AO - Theory of Feminisms & Activism

A variety of theoretical locations of feminisms in relationship to activist styles, methods and issues will be examined through readings, films, advanced individual research and service learning in the community.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 380AO or WGST 280AG.*

WGST 380AP - Women & Reproductive Technologies: Ancient & Modern - Advanced

An advanced, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical exploration of women and reproduction through a feminist lens. Topics range over a broad spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific issues. Students will produce a major research paper and present an oral report of their research.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200-level WGST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 380AP or WGST 202.*

WGST 380AW - Gender in Modern America

This course will examine the ways in which race, ethnicity, class, region, and sexuality have shaped ideas about gender and gender ideals in the United States since the Civil War, as well as how these beliefs changed over time and were contested throughout modern U.S. history.
***Prerequisite: WGST 100 and permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 380AW or HIST 334.*

WGST 390AQ - Stories We Tell

Examining the stories of women from select religious time periods as told through their own words, artistry, music and the subsequent legends that followed, we ask what influenced the way they told their stories, and what influence, if any, do they have on storytellers today? Students engage in storytelling!
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 390AV - Queer Indigenous Studies

This course examines literature and studies that examine queer Indigenous systems.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 420 - Queer Theory and Trans Studies: Embodiment and Representation of Gender and Sexuality

This course provides critical overview and engagement with the field of Trans Studies and Queer Theory. Central to the course is the examination and disruption that dominant notions of sex, gender, and sexuality are biological and natural as well as the assumed correlation between sex, gender, and sexuality. As part of this process, we examine the colonial, historical, and social construction of gender and sexuality, including historical interpretation of sexual acts, development of identity rights movements, impact of space and borders on gender and sexuality, and contemporary debates and activism. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course brings together queer, trans, and feminist theory, anti-racist and postcolonial theory, and Indigenous and cultural studies.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 421 - Feminism, Women, and Globalization

An examination of the conditions of women's lives in a global context. Engaging feminist theoretics within postcolonialism, anti-racism and civil rights locations, this course examines women's issues such as poverty, environmental degradation, labour, power, and so forth and subsequent feminist responses generated from a variety of geo-political locations.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 480AG - Women and Reproductive Knowledge Advanced

This course is an advanced version of WGST 202 and is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical exploration of women and reproduction through a feminist lens. Topics will range over a broad spectrum of social, cultural and scientific issues. These may include: women's reproductive knowledge and midwifery and/or rituals and taboos surrounding conception among others.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 480AH - Racialized Policing

This class will explore the complexity of radicalized policing practices by looking at the history of policing, its roots in white supremacy, and settler colonialism in North America. The class will be organized through an intersectional lens to analyze many movements including Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Lives Matter within broader discussions of justice reform including an exploration of the abolitionist movement.
*This class will be offered at the 400-level with options for 800-level modifications for graduate level instruction.*
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 480AJ - Doing Women's and Gender History

In this senior level course, students learn how to “do” women’s and gender history. Through discussions about interpreting sources and disseminating historical knowledge, they acquire deep familiarity with women’s and gender historiography. As well, by applying advanced historical methods and sharing their findings, they themselves become practising historians.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 480AJ or HIST 420.*

WGST 490AB - Advanced Missing Women: Decolonization, Third Wave Feminisms and Indigenous Peoples

Why are indigenous women throughout the world more likely to "go missing"? This class will examine systems that intersect and perpetuate racism and colonialism, sexism and poverty, and the effects of globalization on the breakdown of family structures. Upper level research required.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 490AC - Directed Readings in Sex and Sexualities in Religion

Course material will evaluate religious and secular discourse on sex, gender, sexualities, and sexual orientations culminating in a major student project.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 490AC, WGST 280AK, RLST 290AP, or RLST 390BL.*

WGST 490AE - Advanced Feminisms and Activism

This course explores the myriad of ways that activism becomes a way of life. With feminist analyses applied to community organizations, literature, governmental policies and more, this course allows students to develop their own methodological approach to both feminism and activism.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 490AF - Advanced Studies in Multiculturalism and Feminism

What shape does the discourse of multiculturalism take when examined through feminist theories? What models of dialogue amongst religions and between the religious and the secular arise within our Canadian context?
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 490AG - Trans Theory and Media

This course explores key texts and media related to recent Trans theory.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. WGST 100 is recommended.***

WGST 498AA - Honours Seminar

Honours seminar.
***Prerequisite: Admission to the Honours program.***
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

WGST 499AA - Honours Essay

Honours essay.
***Prerequisite: Admission to the Honours program.***
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

WGST 800 - Feminist Theory

This course is an examination of feminist theory from 1980s until present. Our intention is to examine in detail different epistemological positions and theoretical orientations (with some attention to methodology) such as standpoint, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer, and antiracist feminist theories.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 800 or WGST 880AG.*

WGST 801 - Queer Theory and Trans Studies: Embodiment and Representation of Gender and Sexuality

This course examines sexualities cross-culturally and historically. Subjects such as heterosexuality, homosexuality, heterosexism, transsexuality, so-called sexual deviancy, and gay and lesbian culture are investigated. Included will be an elucidation of sexualities via recourse to social, cultural, and ritual practices.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

WGST 802 - Women, Feminism and Globalization--Advanced

This course will be an examination of the conditions of women's lives in a global context. Engaging feminist theoretics within postcolonialism, anti-racism and civil rights locations, this course will examine women's issues, poverty, environment, labour, power, etc. and subsequent feminist responses generated from a variety of geo-political locations.

WGST 803 - Gender: Theories and Practices

This graduate level course is a comparative investigation of gender/sex ideology. Our endeavor is to isolate and examine gender/sex as a category of analysis and then analyze its deployment through sign-symbol, myth and ritual in varying geographical, historical and cultural location, e.g., modern Eurowest, ancient Greece and Rome, and Africa.

WGST 880AB - Masculinity and Gendered Violence

This course is an exploration of theories of masculinity and how masculinity is related to gender-based violence. Topics will include: construction of male identity, male hegemony, social representations of masculinities, and racialized masculinities. An in-depth literature review and theoretical paper on existing research in the area will be included.

WGST 880AI - Violence and Indigenous Women

This course will engage postcolonial, feminist, Indigenous and poststructuralist theory to examine the discourse on missing and murdered Indigenous Women. Working from our national context and moving to a global perspective, students will identify patterns of violence and resistance and become skilled at historical, political, gendered, economic and cultural analyses.

WGST 880AJ - Women, Motherhood and Mothering - Advanced

This course is a feminist exploration of the many issues revolving around women as mothers. Motherhood as a patriarchal institution has often oppressed women while women's experiences of mothering have often been empowering. Mother roles, expectations, stereotypes, and experiences will be examined from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical perspective.

WGST 880AK - Indigenous Feminist Storytelling

This course examines intersecting methods of Indigenous storytelling and feminist methodology as intersecting and decolonizing processes.

WGST 880AL - Feminist Theories and Islamic Scholars

This course addresses contemporary social justice issues in feminist Islamic scholarship with specific attention paid to historical, socio-cultural, legal, geographical and religious discourses. Leading scholars specific to student concerns will be analyzed, and postcolonial and poststructural methodologies employed.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 880AL or RLST 390AM.*

WGST 880AM - Advance Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Popular Culture

This course interrogates social relations of power embedded within Western popular culture from a feminist perspective. It examines a range of cultural texts from television and film, to artistic represenatations and performaces, to blogs and podcasts. The course is organized around three themes of critique: representaton, consumption, and production.

WGST 880AN - Feminist Interrogations of Violence

This course provides students with an opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of violence as it is enacted in social bodies around the globe. Subjects examined by students can be intimate partner violence, sexual violence, racial violence, violence enacted in civil conflict and war, bullying, and so forth.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 880AN or WGST 490AD.*

WGST 880AO - Racialized Policing

This class explores racialised policing practices by looking at the history of policing, its roots in white supremacy, and settler colonialism. The class is organized through an intersectional lens to analyze movements including Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Lives Matter within broader discussions of justice reform and the abolitionist movement.

WGST 880AP - Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while gaining practice in the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.

WGST 880AQ - Research Methodologies

Students will develop research methods to support their graduate projects.

WGST 880AR - Reproductive Justice

This course is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historical exploration of women and reproduction through a feminist lens. Topics will range over a broad spectrum of social, cultural and scientific issues. These may include: women's reproductive knowledge and midwifery and/or rituals and taboos surrounding conception among others.

WGST 880AS - Feminist and Social Justice Research Methodolgies

This course examines the research process through feminist lenses engaging with questions about power, inequality, and positionality inherent in doing research. Considerations of how power relations inform the various steps in the research process are examined from the selection of topics to the presentation of findings.

WGST 901 - Thesis Research

Thesis Research