GRSJ 450: Directed Studies
General reading and/or a research undertaking, with the agreement, and under supervision of, a faculty member.
GRSJ 422: Advanced Research Seminar
Critical theories, methodologies, ethics and practices appropriate for advanced feminist research.
GRSJ 415: Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches
Critical anti-colonial and feminist analyses of colonial and racial subjugation, as well as the many modalities of indigenous and minority resistance.
GRSJ 401: Gender, Body & Society
An interdisciplinary examination of the body, exploring how social relations and space are implicated in the constitution and experience of gendered bodies and identities, with an emphasis on feminist analyses of body-societal relations.
GRSJ 328: Theories of Subjectivity
How feminist scholarship has shaped and reinterpreted accounts of the subject, drawing on such traditions as structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and Queer Theory.
GRSJ 327: Theories of Representation & Difference
Feminist scholarship emphasizing languages and processes of representation and the construction of difference in cultural discourses and institutions.
GRSJ 326: The Politics of Gender, Families & Nation-Building
Investigation of historical and contemporary scholarship on the diversity of families, focusing on differences of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class within and across national borders.
GRSJ 325: Anti-Colonial & Feminist Qualitative Methods
Data collection techniques, the politics of interpretation, and the formulation of a research proposal using a feminist, anti-racist framework.
GRSJ 316: Queer & Trans of Colour Theorizing
The intellectual and political interventions of queer of colour theorizing in the gender and sexual politics of racial and imperial projects, including its engagements with women of colour feminisms, settler colonial and indigenous studies, and immigration and diaspora studies.
GRSJ 315: Critical Racial Theories
Critical theories of racial and cultural difference. Initial formulations of theses against scientific racism and their later transformation by historical, social, and global-historical accounts of racial subjugation.