GRSJ 350B: Joy as Resistance
This course will look at how joy can fuel social movements and activate defiance and resistance while recognizing when joy can be understood as assimilation and accommodation, and be imposed as a tool to curtail and erase dissent.
GRSJ 350A: Fandoms, Fan Cultures, and Social Justice
This course explores various fandoms in the context of fan studies and social justice as spaces for negotiating identity, escapism, a means of collaboration and community, and as a form of activism.
GRSJ 425C: Special Topics – Gender, Race & Social Justice in Emotions & Everyday Life
Examination in depth of selected topics in gender, race, and sexuality.
GRSJ 425B: Special Topics – Sounds of Race and Empire
Examination in depth of selected topics in gender, race, and sexuality.
GRSJ 224B: Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice in Literature
Techniques of literary study, with emphasis on intersectionality and the ways in which gender is represented in literature and contributions of feminism and gender studies to literary studies.
GRSJ 505: Directed Readings/Studies
Undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member selected by the student, with the approval of the GRSJ Graduate Chair.
GRSJ 503: Special Topics in Gender, Race, and Sexuality
In this course we will read beautiful writings by scholars reflecting on practices of resistance in colonial spaces, such as the university and the nation state. We will read these writings to learn methods of knowing and teaching, modes of appreciation and listening, we will explore what it means to think of love as a critical methodology, and consider pedagogies that involve practices of vulnerability, risk and tenderness.
CSIS 500: Queer and Trans of Colour Creativity and World Making
Critical Studies in Sexuality: Multi-disciplinary Approaches. Queer and Trans of Colour Creativity and World Making. What can practices of queer and trans of colour creativity tell us about the present moment and how we have arrived here?
GRSJ 515A: Critical and Creative Social Justice Studies Seminars
The potential of creative work to disrupt ingrained ideas and representations by appealing to the senses. Study and engage with academics, artists, and activists interested in how art contributes to critical and engaged social justice work.
GRSJ 511: Difficult Knowledge: Ethics and Praxis of Research in Challenging Settings
Interdisciplinary seminar considering the ethics and praxis of working with difficult knowledge, such as highly divisive questions of memory and responsibility in the context and aftermaths of oppression and mass violence.