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100 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 101: Introduction to Social Justice
An overview of intersectional feminist debates and theoretical traditions.
100 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 102: Global Issues in Social Justice
Intersectional feminist theory and practice, focusing on contemporary issues in a transnational context.
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 200: Gender and Environmental Justice
An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural overview of contemporary environmental issues, as they relate to gender equality and social justice challenges and initiatives that respond to ecological crises
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 224: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and 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.
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 224C: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and 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.
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 225: Youth Activism and Social Justice
A critical engagement with major issues, debates, and politics in feminist and social justice scholarship through an exploration of youth movements with a focus on activists, popular culture, digital activism, fan cultures, and literature by and for youth.
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 226: Human Rights and Artistic Expression: Thinking Beyond the Legal
How human rights are expressed in the Arts. Critical engagement with feminist, race and social justice scholarship, and activism.
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 230: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Representation in Modern Asia
The complex relationships between mechanisms of power, gender, and representation in Asia in different spaces examined through an interdisciplinary lens.
200 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 235: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Structures in Modern Asia
Situates "Asia" in a global context and explores the complex relationships between gender, social structures, and social change.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 300: Intersectional Approaches to Thinking Gender
Interdisciplinary exploration of the multiple intersections between gender and (neo)colonialism, racism, poverty, ableism, and heterosexism in a globalized world; historical and cross-cultural aspects, and the social construction of sex and gender, masculinity and femininity.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 301: Gender, Race & Indigeneity in Canada
Gender and indigeneity in the documented histories and narrated lives of Indigenous people in Canada.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 302: Pedagogies of Social Justice
The intersections of gender, education, and work using sociological and economic frameworks.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 303: Gender, Law, and Social Justice
A survey of feminist legal thought and recent developments in feminism and law, with a focus on Canada.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 304: Gaming the System: Digital Media, Social Justice, and Video Games
Emerging technology in the areas of digital affect theory, cyborg feminism, critical digital humanities, critical race studies, surveillance studies, and queer game studies.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 305: Social Justice Issues in Community and International Organizing
Critical examination and practical applications of concepts, theories, methods, and strategies of gender-aware organizing at the community and international levels.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 306: Globalization and Social Justice: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in International Politics
Critical examination of the gender dimension of globalization and the theories, discourse, and practices in international politics using gender analysis.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 307: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
Critical examination of mainstream and alternative media images of gender, race, and sexuality in the context of networked social media, film, music, and television.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 308: Creativity from the Margins
Critical engagement with the creative process of marginalized peoples and the intersection of creative writing, social justice, and anti-racist feminism. Emphasis on how historical and social context are crucial to acts of creative writing and reading.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 310: Gender, Race, Social Justice and Health
Interdisciplinary introduction to gender and health issues using selected theoretical frameworks.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 311: African/Black Women in the Americas
An interdisciplinary survey of gender studies and histories of African/Black women in the Americas from the beginning of the slave trade to the present.
300 Level | GRSJ
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.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 316: Queer and 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.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 320: Anti-racist Feminist Pedagogies
Feminist pedagogies and feminist debates about pedagogy in formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 325: Anti-Colonial and Feminist Qualitative Methods
Data collection techniques, the politics of interpretation, and the formulation of a research proposal using a feminist, anti-racist framework.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 326: The Politics of Gender, Families, and Nation-Making
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.
300 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 327: Feminist Theories of Representation and Difference
Feminist scholarship emphasizing languages and processes of representation and the construction of difference in cultural discourses and institutions.
300 Level | GRSJ
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.
400 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 401: Gender, Body, and 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.
400 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 410: Religious Feminisms
Examines religious feminisms from three Abrahamic traditions. An in-depth study of challenges various doctrinal discourses and practices pose for feminist projects
400 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 415: Critical Racial and 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.
400 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 422: Advanced Research Seminar
Critical theories, methodologies, ethics and practices appropriate for advanced feminist research.
400 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 450: Directed Studies
General reading and/or a research undertaking, with the agreement, and under supervision of, a faculty member selected by the student and approved by the GRSJ Undergraduate Advisor. A written paper or equivalent will be required.
400 Level | GRSJ
GRSJ 480: Decolonizing Praxis: A Practicum in Social Justice
Connects feminist and critical race theory and practice through placement in a community organization.
200 Level | CSIS
CSIS 200: Critical Engagements in Sexuality Studies
Introductory survey to sexuality studies that emphasizes how sexuality intersects with race, gender, class, ability, and geography.
300 Level | CSIS
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.
300 Level | CSIS
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.)
400 Level | CSIS
CSIS 450:Topics in Critical Studies in Sexuality
A thematic course, which explores current questions and issues in relation to the study of sexuality. Topics may vary from year to year.
400 Level | CSIS
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.