Minor in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice (18 credits)
The minor in GSFS consists of a minimum of 18 credits. Ideally, students will take GSFS 200 or 250 before registering in 300-level听courses. Students are encouraged to meet with the IGSF student advisor upon declaring a minor in GSFS or prior to听entering their final year of study.
Please use the following advising form to plan your GSFS minor: 
GSFS Minor Advising Form
Required course (3 credits)
3 credits from the following:
GSFS 200
Feminist and Social Justice St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
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GSFS 250
Sexual and Gender Diversity St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
Additional GSFS courses (3 credits)
Three credits selected from the following list. Any GSFS course taken in addition to the required 3 credits can be counted as a complementary course (see below):
GSFS 301
Current Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 302
Current Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 303
Gender and Disability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was 鈥淕ender and Disability鈥�.
GSFS 304
Postcolonial Feminist Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was 鈥淲omen and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 305
Crit'l Race&Soc Just Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was 鈥淎nti-Racism and Activism in Canada鈥�, or WMST 301 when topic was 鈥淲omen of Colour in Canada鈥�.
GSFS 306
Queer Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 307
Indigenous Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was 鈥淚ndigenous Women of the North鈥�.
GSFS 308
Sex & Gender Minority Cultures
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was 鈥淨ueer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 401
Special Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 402
Special Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 403
Feminisms and the Law
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was 鈥淔eminist Legal Theory鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 404
Politics of Identity
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 405
Social Justice and Activism
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
- Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭he Women鈥檚 Movement in Canada鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 406
Trans*Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-脿-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭rans*Feminisms鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 407
Sex and Gender: New Directions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
- Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was 鈥淎dvanced Theories of Sexuality鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
12 credits selected from the听approved complementary course list. Minimum of 6 credits must be at the 300 level or higher. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines.听Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the central focus of the courses.
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Major in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (36 credits)
The Major in GSFS consists of a minimum of 36 credits. Ideally, students will complete GSFS 200 and 250 in their first year of study or before registering in 300-level GSFS courses. GSFS 200, 250 and 300 must be completed prior to registering for GSFS 400 in your final year of study.听Students are encouraged to meet with the IGSF student advisor upon declaring a major听in GSFS and听prior听entering their final year of study.
Please use the following advising form to plan your GSFS major: GSFS Major Advising Form
Required Courses (12 credits)
GSFS 200
Feminist and Social Justice St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
GSFS 250
Sexual and Gender Diversity St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
GSFS 300
Research Inquiry in GSFS
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 400
Capstone:Engag'gFields of GSFS
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the current state and debates within the interdisciplinary fields of Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies. Emphasis will be placed on how students can situate their knowledge and scholarship within and beyond these fields.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250 and GSFS 300
- Restriction(s); Open only to students in the GSFS Major Concentration, Honours, or Joint Honours.
- This course is only open to students in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) Major Concentration, Joint Honours Component, and Honours. It is required for Major Concentration students in their final year of study, and optional but recommended for Joint Honours Component and Honours.
Additional GSFS courses (9 credits)
9 credits selected from the following list. Minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level or higher:
GSFS 301
Current Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 302
Current Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 303
Gender and Disability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was 鈥淕ender and Disability鈥�.
GSFS 304
Postcolonial Feminist Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was 鈥淲omen and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 305
Crit'l Race&Soc Just Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was 鈥淎nti-Racism and Activism in Canada鈥�, or WMST 301 when topic was 鈥淲omen of Colour in Canada鈥�.
GSFS 306
Queer Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 307
Indigenous Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was 鈥淚ndigenous Women of the North鈥�.
GSFS 308
Sex & Gender Minority Cultures
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was 鈥淨ueer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 401
Special Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 402
Special Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 403
Feminisms and the Law
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was 鈥淔eminist Legal Theory鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 404
Politics of Identity
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 405
Social Justice and Activism
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
- Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭he Women鈥檚 Movement in Canada鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 406
Trans*Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-脿-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭rans*Feminisms鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 407
Sex and Gender: New Directions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
- Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was 鈥淎dvanced Theories of Sexuality鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Complementary courses (15 credits)
15 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 3听credits must be at the 400-level or higher. Maximum of 9 credits may be taken at the 200-level.听Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses 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 courses.
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Honours in GSFS (57 credits)
The Honours program in GSFS consists of 57 credits. Before declaring the GSFS Honours program on Minerva, students must first complete the GSFS Honours advising form and meet with an IGSF student advisor. It is essential that students meet with their advisor during U1 or prior to entering their second year of study for optimal degree planning. To be eligible for Honours, students must have听a minimum CGPA of 3.00 or higher and a听program GPA of 3.30 or higher.听
The Honours program culminates in the completion of an Honours thesis, supervised by a faculty member whose approval is sought the year prior. The Colloquium requires supplemental reading and writing assignments, training in research and thesis writing methods, presentation to the group of theses in progress, and response to the work of others. In order to graduate in Honours, students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 and a CGPA of 3.00.
Students are advised to take GSFS 200 and GFSF 250 in their first year in the program, and GSFS 300 in their second year of the program. Students must take GSFS 495D1/D2 and GSFS 496D1/D2 in their last full year of the program.
Please use the following advising form to plan your Honours program: GSFS Honours Advising Form
Required Courses (18 credits)
GSFS 200
Feminist and Social Justice St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
GSFS 250
Sexual and Gender Diversity St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
GSFS 300
Research Inquiry in GSFS
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 495D1
Honours/Jt Honours Colloquium
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 495D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium must be completed concurrently with either Honours Thesis or Joint Honours Thesis course in the students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
GSFS 495D2
Honours/Jt Honours Colloquium
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 495D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium must be completed concurrently with either Honours Thesis or Joint Honours Thesis course in the students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
GSFS 496D1
Honours Thesis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Supervised reading and preparation of an Honours Thesis under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 496D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours Thesis course must be completed concurrently with GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium in students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 496D1 and GSFS 496D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 496D1 and GSFS 496D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 496D2
Honours Thesis
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Supervised reading and preparation of an Honours Thesis under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 496D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours Thesis course must be completed concurrently with GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium in students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 496D1 and GSFS 496D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 496D1 and GSFS 496D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Additional GSFS courses (9 credits)
9 credits selected from the following list. Minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level or higher:
GSFS 301
Current Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 302
Current Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 303
Gender and Disability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was 鈥淕ender and Disability鈥�.
GSFS 304
Postcolonial Feminist Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was 鈥淲omen and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 305
Crit'l Race&Soc Just Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was 鈥淎nti-Racism and Activism in Canada鈥�, or WMST 301 when topic was 鈥淲omen of Colour in Canada鈥�.
GSFS 306
Queer Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 307
Indigenous Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was 鈥淚ndigenous Women of the North鈥�.
GSFS 308
Sex & Gender Minority Cultures
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was 鈥淨ueer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 401
Special Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 402
Special Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 403
Feminisms and the Law
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was 鈥淔eminist Legal Theory鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 404
Politics of Identity
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 405
Social Justice and Activism
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
- Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭he Women鈥檚 Movement in Canada鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 406
Trans*Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-脿-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭rans*Feminisms鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 407
Sex and Gender: New Directions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
- Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was 鈥淎dvanced Theories of Sexuality鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Complementary courses (30 credits)
30 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 9听credits must be at the 400-level or higher. Maximum of 12听credits may be taken at the 200-level. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses 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 courses.
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Joint Honours in GSFS (36 credits)
The Joint Honours program in GSFS consists of 57 credits. Before declaring the GSFS Joint Honours program on Minerva, students must first complete the GSFS Joint Honours advising form and meet with an IGSF student advisor. It is essential that students meet with their advisor during U1 or prior to entering their second year of study听for optimal degree planning. To be eligible for Joint Honours, students must have a minimum CGPA of 3.00 or higher and a program GPA of 3.30 or higher.
The Joint Honours program culminates in the completion of a Joint Honours thesis, supervised by a faculty member whose approval is sought the year prior. The Colloquium requires supplemental reading and writing assignments, training in research and thesis writing methods, presentation to the group of theses in progress, and response to the work of others. Honours students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 and a CGPA of 3.00.
Students are advised to take GSFS 200 and GFSF 250 in their first year in the program, and GSFS 300 in their second year of the program. Students must take GSFS 495D1/D2 and GSFS 497D1/D2 in their last full year of the program.
Please use the following advising form to plan your Joint Honours program: GSFS Jt Honours Advising Form
Required Courses (15听credits)
GSFS 200
Feminist and Social Justice St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
GSFS 250
Sexual and Gender Diversity St
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
GSFS 300
Research Inquiry in GSFS
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 495D1
Honours/Jt Honours Colloquium
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 495D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium must be completed concurrently with either Honours Thesis or Joint Honours Thesis course in the students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
GSFS 495D2
Honours/Jt Honours Colloquium
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 495D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium must be completed concurrently with either Honours Thesis or Joint Honours Thesis course in the students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 495D1 and GSFS 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
GSFS 497D1
Joint Honours Thesis
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Supervised reading and preparation of a Joint Honours thesis under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 497D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours Thesis course must be completed concurrently with GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium in students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 497D2
Joint Honours Thesis
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Supervised reading and preparation of a Joint Honours thesis under the direction of a faculty supervisor.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250, GSFS 300.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 497D1/D2. Only open to Honours/Joint Honours students in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies.
- Note: GSFS Honours Thesis course must be completed concurrently with GSFS Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium in students鈥� final year of study.
- Students must register for both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both GSFS 497D1 and GSFS 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Additional GSFS courses (9 credits)
9 credits selected from the following list. Minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level or higher:
GSFS 301
Current Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 302
Current Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 303
Gender and Disability
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was 鈥淕ender and Disability鈥�.
GSFS 304
Postcolonial Feminist Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was 鈥淲omen and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 305
Crit'l Race&Soc Just Theories
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was 鈥淎nti-Racism and Activism in Canada鈥�, or WMST 301 when topic was 鈥淲omen of Colour in Canada鈥�.
GSFS 306
Queer Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
GSFS 307
Indigenous Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was 鈥淚ndigenous Women of the North鈥�.
GSFS 308
Sex & Gender Minority Cultures
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was 鈥淨ueer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World鈥�.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 401
Special Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 402
Special Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
- Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 403
Feminisms and the Law
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was 鈥淔eminist Legal Theory鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
GSFS 404
Politics of Identity
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 405
Social Justice and Activism
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
- Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭he Women鈥檚 Movement in Canada鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 406
Trans*Feminisms
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-脿-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was 鈥淭rans*Feminisms鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
GSFS 407
Sex and Gender: New Directions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Gender,Sexuality,Feminist,and: Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
- Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was 鈥淎dvanced Theories of Sexuality鈥�.
- Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Complementary courses (12听credits)
12 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 3听credits must be at the 400-level or higher. Maximum of 9听credits may be taken at the 200-level. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses 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 courses.
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