Gender and Women's Studies

• General Information
• Programs of Study
• Core Courses

Faculty

• Sandra Byers, PhD, Psychology
• Christa Canitz, PhD, English
• Wendy Churchill, PhD, History
• Lauren Cruikshank, PhD, Culture & Media Studies
• Tia Dafnos, PhD, Sociology
• Elizabeth Effinger, PhD, English
• Triny Finlay, PhD, English
• Nadia Francavilla, PhD, Culture & Media Studies
• Carmen Gill, PhD, MMFC/Sociology
• Anna Hamling, PhD, Culture and Media Studies
• Suzanne Hindmarch, PhD, Political Science
• Cathy Holtmann, PhD, MMRC/Sociology
• Bonnie Huskins, PhD, History
• Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, PhD, History
• Sophie Lavoie, PhD, Culture and Media Studies
• Sabine Lebel, PhD, Culture and Media Studies
• Carolyn MacDonald, PhD, Classics & Ancient History
• Koumari Mitra, PhD, Anthropology
• Erin Morton, PhD, History
• Sasha Mullally. PhD, History
• Carmen Poulin, PhD, Psychology
• Edith Snook, PhD, English
• Luc Theriault, PhD, Sociology
• Lisa Todd, PhD, History
• Joanne Wright, PhD, Political Science

General Information

The Interdisciplinary Gender and Women's Studies Program offers students the opportunity to focus on the experiences and achievements of women with a view to gaining a more complete and balanced understanding of women's and men's lives, both historically and in contemporary society.

Eligibility

Admission to the introductory Gender and Women’s Studies courses, GWS1003 and GWS 2003, is open to students in all Faculties and all years. Students in any Faculty may complete a Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. However, only students in Arts may take the Double Major or Joint Honours program; students will normally seek admission to the program from the Co-ordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies after successfully completing 45 ch.

Programs of Study

Minor

A Minor consists of 24 ch of course work, selected in consultation with the Coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies. These include at least one of GWS 1003, Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies I and  GWS 2003, Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies II; as well as GWS 4004,  Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies, and an additional 18 ch at the upper level chosen from the list of core courses available from the Co-ordinator.

Double Major

A Double Major consists of 30 ch of course work, selected in consultation with the Coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies. These include at least one of GWS 1003, Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies I and GWS 2003, Introduction to Women’s Studies II, as well as GWS 4004  Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies and an additional 24 ch at the upper level chosen from the list of core courses available from the Co-ordinator.

Joint Honours

The GWS portion of a Joint Honours programme consists of 36 ch of course work in GWS, selected in consultation with the Coordinator of Gender and Women's Studies. These 36 ch include:

1. at least one of GWS 1003, Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies I, and GWS 2003, Introduction to Women's Studies II;
2. GWS 4004, Seminar in Gender and Women's Studies;
3. GWS 4900, Honours Thesis in Gender and Women's Studies; and
4. 24 ch of upper level courses chosen from the list of core courses below,

If a student is completing Joint Honours in GWS and any another program requiring an Honours thesis, 6 credit hours of upper level or seminar courses may replace GWS 4900. Prior approval from the Co-ordinator of Gender and Women's Studies must be obtained.

Core Courses

ANTH 3114 Gender, Sex, and Cultures
ANTH 3704 South Asia
ANTH 4204 Gender, Kinship and Marriage
ANTH 4502 Issues in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 4702 Gender and Health
CCS/MAAC 3056 Queer Media & Culture
CCS 3062 Love and Religion: Latin American and Caribbean Women's Narrative from the Golden Age to the Beginning of the 20th Century
CCS 3072 Contemporary German Cineman and Media
CCS/SOCI 3668 Women, Creativity, and Nonviolence
CCS/MUS 3799 Women in Music
CCS 4062 Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Women Artists
CCS 4063 20th Century Women Writers
CLAS 3913 Gender and Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
ENGL 3883 Women's Writing in English
ENGL 3985 The Body in Literature
ENGL 3987 Fashioning the Nation
ENGL 5167 The American Sitcom and Feminist Theory
ENGL 5983 Women's Writing in the Atlantic World
FR 3534 Ecrits de femmes 
FR 3834 Écrivaines québécoises contemporaines
FVI 3006 Intervention Strategies and Programs for People who Batter
FVI 3007 Religion and Family Violence
FVI 3634 Violence Against Women
HIST 3025 History and Sexaulity
HIST 3326 Gender, Health, and Medicine
HIST 3625 Disability History
HIST 4001 Heretic and Witches in Europe (1350-1650)
HIST 4003 Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World
HIST 4012 Home Fronts at War
HIST 4313 History of Women in Canadian Society
HIST 4606 Gender, Race, and Disability in Colonial Contexts
HIST 4625 Gender & Slavery in the Atlantic World
MAAC 3055 Gender & Media
PHIL 3315 Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir
POLS 3441 Women Political Thinkers
POLS 3443 Feminist Issues in Political Thought
POLS 3447 Gender, Race and Global Politics
POLS 4722  Women, Gender, and Development
PSYC 3043 Human Sexuality
PSYC 3263 Psychology of Women
PSYC 3383 Women and Mental Health
PSYC 4223 Topical Seminar in Sex and Gender
SOCI 3006 Intervention Strategies and Programs for People who Batter
SOCI 3007 Religion and Family Violence
SOCI 3335 Religion, Gender and Society
SOCI 3543 Sociology of Gender Relations
SOCI 3634 Violence Against Women
SOCI 4336 Families, Law, and Social Policy
SOCI 4337 Legal Responses to Family Violence

ARTS 3000, Internship in Arts, when the placement is with an organization working on gender and women's issues, will count for credit in Gender and Women's Studies.

In addition, some departments offer honours seminars that may be pertinent. Please consult the relevant department for more details. Please consult the Co-ordinator of Gender and Women's Studies for the most recent list of core courses. Because Minors are subject to University-wide regulations,  arts students seeking credit for Gender and Women's Studies courses outside their Faculty must ensure that they have Arts Faculty approval before they register for such courses.