An overview of intersectional feminist debates and theoretical traditions.
Term 1
GRSJ 101 (101)
Instructor: Dr. Litsa Chatzivasileiou
Description:
GRSJ 101 (102) : Fate, Fury, Forgetting and Failure
Instructor: Dr. Minelle Mahtani
Description: How have anti-colonial and feminist scholars engaged with fate, fury, forgetting and failure? By exploring these themes, the course will ultimately offer a renewed mapping of critical storytelling by investigating the relationship between affective pleasures of reading through theory, the discursive spaces of the academy and ask how certain readings (through conversations with authors) inspire us to move towards more creative and imaginative places for renewal and revitalized conversations about epistemologies.
GRSJ 101 (99A – online)
Instructor: Dr. Tara Mayer
Description:
Term 2
GRSJ 101 (201)
Instructor: Dr. Litsa Chatzivasileiou
GRSJ 101 (227)
Instructor: Pauahi Souza
This section is part of the Coordinated Arts Program Law and Society Stream.
Description: This introductory social justice course examines issues, approaches, and histories connected to terminology applicable between the boundaries of law and society using social justice and intersectional feminist frameworks. We begin with conceptualizing the importance of critical thinking and social justice and examine how power and oppression operate together while conversing with ideas associated with racism, anti-racism, feminism, and culture. Notably, we use a critical lens while thinking of the impact made through methods of colonization in relation to genocide and cultural erasure, environmental justice and kinship, and how these terms can also be combined with global anti-Blackness. We will delve into the legal aspects of intersectionality and how this concept informs legal terms such as restorative justice through the works of prominent scholars. We continue through the term by maneuvering through topics such as social justice movements in North America but find interest in global movements and how movement work in general encourages activists and organizers as a whole to work together without regard to geographical location. In this first year course focused on the Coordinated Arts Program Law and Society stream, we take a look at how gender, race, sexuality, age, ability, as well as culture is impacted, negotiated, and employed by social justice frameworks.
GRSJ 101 (99B – online)
Instructor: Dr. Tara Mayer