Graduate Course Description

GRSJ 425C: Special Topics – Gender, Race & Social Justice in Emotions & Everyday Life

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 – Decolonizing Disability: Towards the Abolition of Carceral Spaces

GRSJ 425B: Special Topics – Decolonizing Disability: Towards the Abolition of Carceral Spaces

Examination in depth of selected topics in gender, race, and sexuality.

GRSJ 505: Directed Readings/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 224B

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: Critical Studies in Sexuality: Multi-disciplinary Approaches

CSIS 500: Critical Studies in Sexuality: Multi-disciplinary Approaches

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

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

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.

GRSJ 502: Issues in Gender, Sexuality and Critical Race Theories

GRSJ 502: Issues in Gender, Sexuality and Critical Race Theories

Introduces students to key issues at the intersection of Queer, Trans, Feminist and Critical Race Theories.

GRSJ 501: Issues in Decolonizing and Feminist Methodologies

GRSJ 501: Issues in Decolonizing and Feminist Methodologies

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 appreciation and listening, we will explore what it means to think of love as a critical methodology, and consider pedagogies that involve practises of vulnerability, risk and tenderness.

grsj 500

GRSJ 500: Intersectional Issues in Social Justice and Equality Studies

A two-term seminar organized around the bi-weekly Wednesday Lecture Series, readings, discussions and faculty seminars. Required for first year MA and PhD students.