Undergraduate Course Description

GRSJ 350B: Joy as Resistance

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

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

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

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

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 224A (001)

GRSJ 210: Gender, Race & Colonialism in the Americas

Interdisciplinary exploration of the ways gender, class, sexuality and race shape modern histories in Canada, and transnationally, from 1920 to the present.

CSIS 490: Directed Topics

CSIS 490: Directed Topics

Designed to allow a student to develop an individual course of study in a specific area as approved by a faculty member affiliated with the CSIS program.

CSIS 450:Topics in Critical Studies in Sexuality | Sexuality & Fascism

CSIS 450:Topics in Critical Studies in Sexuality | Sexuality & Fascism

A thematic course, which explores current questions and issues in relation to the study of sexuality.

CSIS 301: Introduction to Trans* Studies

CSIS 301: Introduction to Trans* Studies

How race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, culture and dis/ability are materially and socially constructed together to give meaning to the category trans*. (Trans*: transgender, transsexual, gender variant and other articulations.)

CSIS 300A: Introduction to Critical Studies in Sexuality

CSIS 300A: Introduction to Critical Studies in Sexuality

A multidisciplinary course which provides an introduction to the study of sexuality, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and transgender issues and related topics.