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Minor in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice (18 credits)

The minor in GSFS consists of a minimum of 18 credits. Ideally, students will take GSFS 200 or 250 before registering in 300-level courses. Students are encouraged to meet with the IGSF student advisor upon declaring a minor in GSFS or prior to entering their final year of study.

Please use the following advising form to plan your GSFS minor: File GSFS Minor Advising Form

Required course (3 credits)

3 credits from the following:

GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.

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GSFS 250. Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.

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Additional GSFS courses (3 credits)

Three credits selected from the following list. Any GSFS course taken in addition to the required 3 credits can be counted as a complementary course (see below):

GSFS 301. Current Topics 1.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 302. Current Topics 2.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250.
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 303. Gender and Disability.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was “Gender and Disability”.

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GSFS 304. Postcolonial Feminist Theories.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was “Women and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives”.

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GSFS 305. Critical Race and Social Justice Theories.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.

Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was “Anti-Racism and Activism in Canada”, or WMST 301 when topic was “Women of Colour in Canada”.

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GSFS 306. Queer Theory.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.

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GSFS 307. Indigenous Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was “Indigenous Women of the North”.

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GSFS 308. Sex and Gender Minority Cultures.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was “Queer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World”.

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GSFS 401. Special Topics 1.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 402. Special Topics 2.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 403. Feminisms and the Law.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was “Feminist Legal Theory”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 404. Politics of Identity.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 405. Social Justice and Activism.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “The Women’s Movement in Canada”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 406. Trans*Feminisms.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “Trans*Feminisms”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 407. Sexuality and Gender: New Directions.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was “Advanced Theories of Sexuality”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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Complementary Courses (12 credits)

12 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 6 credits must be at the 300 level or higher. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines. Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the central focus of the courses.

Major in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (36 credits)

The Major in GSFS consists of a minimum of 36 credits. Ideally, students will complete GSFS 200 and 250 in their first year of study or before registering in 300-level GSFS courses. GSFS 200, 250 and 300 must be completed prior to registering for GSFS 400 in your final year of study. Students are encouraged to meet with the IGSF student advisor upon declaring a major in GSFS and prior entering their final year of study.

Please use the following advising form to plan your GSFS major: File GSFS Major Advising Form

Required Courses (12 credits)

GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.

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GSFS 250. Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.

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GSFS 300. Research Inquiry in GSFS.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 and GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 303.

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GSFS 400. Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the current state and debates within the interdisciplinary fields of Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies. Emphasis will be placed on how students can situate their knowledge and scholarship within and beyond these fields.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200, GSFS 250 and GSFS 300
Restriction(s); Open only to students in the GSFS Major Concentration, Honours, or Joint Honours.
This course is only open to students in the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) Major Concentration, Joint Honours Component, and Honours. It is required for Major Concentration students in their final year of study, and optional but recommended for Joint Honours Component and Honours.

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Additional GSFS courses (9 credits)

9 credits selected from the following list. Minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level or higher:

GSFS 301. Current Topics 1.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 302. Current Topics 2.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250.
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 303. Gender and Disability.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was “Gender and Disability”.

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GSFS 304. Postcolonial Feminist Theories.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was “Women and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives”.

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GSFS 305. Critical Race and Social Justice Theories.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.

Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was “Anti-Racism and Activism in Canada”, or WMST 301 when topic was “Women of Colour in Canada”.

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GSFS 306. Queer Theory.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.

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GSFS 307. Indigenous Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was “Indigenous Women of the North”.

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GSFS 308. Sex and Gender Minority Cultures.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was “Queer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World”.

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GSFS 401. Special Topics 1.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 402. Special Topics 2.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 403. Feminisms and the Law.

Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was “Feminist Legal Theory”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 404. Politics of Identity.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
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GSFS 405. Social Justice and Activism.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “The Women’s Movement in Canada”.
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GSFS 406. Trans*Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “Trans*Feminisms”.
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GSFS 407. Sexuality and Gender: New Directions.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was “Advanced Theories of Sexuality”.
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Complementary courses (15 credits)

15 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 3 credits must be at the 400-level or higher. Maximum of 9 credits may be taken at the 200-level. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines. Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the central focus of the courses.

Honours in GSFS (57 credits)

The Honours program in GSFS consists of 57 credits. Before declaring the GSFS Honours program on Minerva, students must first complete the GSFS Honours advising form and meet with an IGSF student advisor. It is essential that students meet with their advisor during U1 or prior to entering their second year of study for optimal degree planning. To be eligible for Honours, students must have a minimum CGPA of 3.00 or higher and a program GPA of 3.30 or higher.

The Honours program culminates in the completion of an Honours thesis, supervised by a faculty member whose approval is sought the year prior. The Colloquium requires supplemental reading and writing assignments, training in research and thesis writing methods, presentation to the group of theses in progress, and response to the work of others. In order to graduate in Honours, students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 and a CGPA of 3.00.

Students are advised to take GSFS 200 and GFSF 250 in their first year in the program, and GSFS 300 in their second year of the program. Students must take GSFS 495D1/D2 and GSFS 496D1/D2 in their last full year of the program.

Please use the following advising form to plan your Honours program: File GSFS Honours Advising Form

Required Courses (18 credits)

GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.

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GSFS 250. Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.

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GSFS 300. Research Inquiry in GSFS.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 and GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 303.

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Additional GSFS courses (9 credits)

9 credits selected from the following list. Minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level or higher:

GSFS 301. Current Topics 1.

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Credits: 3

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Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 302. Current Topics 2.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250.
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 303. Gender and Disability.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was “Gender and Disability”.

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GSFS 304. Postcolonial Feminist Theories.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was “Women and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives”.

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GSFS 305. Critical Race and Social Justice Theories.

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Credits: 3

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Description

An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.

Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was “Anti-Racism and Activism in Canada”, or WMST 301 when topic was “Women of Colour in Canada”.

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GSFS 306. Queer Theory.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.

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GSFS 307. Indigenous Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was “Indigenous Women of the North”.

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GSFS 308. Sex and Gender Minority Cultures.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was “Queer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World”.

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GSFS 401. Special Topics 1.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 402. Special Topics 2.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 403. Feminisms and the Law.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was “Feminist Legal Theory”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 404. Politics of Identity.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 405. Social Justice and Activism.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “The Women’s Movement in Canada”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 406. Trans*Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “Trans*Feminisms”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 407. Sexuality and Gender: New Directions.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was “Advanced Theories of Sexuality”.
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Complementary courses (30 credits)

30 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 9 credits must be at the 400-level or higher. Maximum of 12 credits may be taken at the 200-level. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines. Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the central focus of the courses.

Joint Honours in GSFS (36 credits)

The Joint Honours program in GSFS consists of 57 credits. Before declaring the GSFS Joint Honours program on Minerva, students must first complete the GSFS Joint Honours advising form and meet with an IGSF student advisor. It is essential that students meet with their advisor during U1 or prior to entering their second year of study for optimal degree planning. To be eligible for Joint Honours, students must have a minimum CGPA of 3.00 or higher and a program GPA of 3.30 or higher.

The Joint Honours program culminates in the completion of a Joint Honours thesis, supervised by a faculty member whose approval is sought the year prior. The Colloquium requires supplemental reading and writing assignments, training in research and thesis writing methods, presentation to the group of theses in progress, and response to the work of others. Honours students must maintain a program GPA of 3.30 and a CGPA of 3.00.

Students are advised to take GSFS 200 and GFSF 250 in their first year in the program, and GSFS 300 in their second year of the program. Students must take GSFS 495D1/D2 and GSFS 497D1/D2 in their last full year of the program.

Please use the following advising form to plan your Joint Honours program: File GSFS Jt Honours Advising Form

Required Courses (15 credits)

GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.

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GSFS 250. Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.

Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.

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GSFS 300. Research Inquiry in GSFS.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 and GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 303.

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Additional GSFS courses (9 credits)

9 credits selected from the following list. Minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level or higher:

GSFS 301. Current Topics 1.

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Credits: 3

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Terms Offered: Summer 2025

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Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 302. Current Topics 2.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250.
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 302 with the same topic.

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GSFS 303. Gender and Disability.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 when topic was “Gender and Disability”.

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GSFS 304. Postcolonial Feminist Theories.

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Credits: 3

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Description

Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when topic was “Women and the State in India: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives”.

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GSFS 305. Critical Race and Social Justice Theories.

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Credits: 3

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Description

An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.

Prerequisite(s):GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when topic was “Anti-Racism and Activism in Canada”, or WMST 301 when topic was “Women of Colour in Canada”.

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GSFS 306. Queer Theory.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.

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GSFS 307. Indigenous Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 302 in Winter 2014 when topic was “Indigenous Women of the North”.

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GSFS 308. Sex and Gender Minority Cultures.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 when the topic was “Queer Cultures: Gendered Systems and Sexual Meanings in a Modern, Global World”.

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GSFS 401. Special Topics 1.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restrictions(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 402. Special Topics 2.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 or GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 or WMST 402 with the same topic.
Note: Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 403. Feminisms and the Law.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 501 when the topic was “Feminist Legal Theory”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 404. Politics of Identity.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 405. Social Justice and Activism.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 305.
Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “The Women’s Movement in Canada”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 406. Trans*Feminisms.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 401 when the topic was “Trans*Feminisms”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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GSFS 407. Sexuality and Gender: New Directions.

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Credits: 3

Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)

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Description

Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.

Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course. Recommended GSFS 306
Restricion(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 402 when the topic was “Advanced Theories of Sexuality”.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.

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Complementary courses (12 credits)

12 credits selected from the approved complementary course list. Minimum of 3 credits must be at the 400-level or higher. Maximum of 9 credits may be taken at the 200-level. Complementary courses must centrally engage with at least two of the following themes: gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. Courses are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines. Additions may be made during a particular calendar year depending on the central focus of the courses.

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