Offered 2013-2014
| Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
| Fall 2013 |
|
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| WMST 200 |
Introduction to Women's Studies |
Elizabeth Groeneveld |
| WMST 301 |
Women's Studies Current Topics 1: Feminist Theories of Identity |
Elizabeth Groeneveld |
| WMST 401 |
Women's Studies Special Topics 1: Postcolonial Perspectives: Women & the State in India |
Vrinda Narain |
| WMST 461 |
Tutorial in Women's Studies 1 |
|
| Winter 2014 |
|
|
|
WMST 302
|
Women's Studies Current Topics 2: Indigenous Feminisms |
Kahente Horn-Miller |
|
WMST 303
|
Feminist Theory and Research |
Elizabeth Groeneveld |
| WMST 402 |
Women's Studies Special Topics 2: Feminist Media Production |
Elizabeth Groeneveld |
| WMST 462 |
Tutorial in Women's Studies 2 |
| Fall 2013/Winter 2014/Summer 2014 |
|
| WMST 494 |
Internship in Women's Studies |
| Spanned: Fall 2013 & Winter 2014 |
|
| WMST 495 D1/D2 |
Honours/Joint Honours Colloquium |
Elizabeth Groeneveld |
| WMST 497 D1/D2 |
Honours/Joint Honours Thesis |
NB: Students may take Special/Current Topics courses more than once, providing that the topic has changed.
Description of all Women's Studies Courses
WMST 200
Intro to Women's Studies
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Women's Studies from historical and contemporary perspectives, this course will explore key concepts, issues and modes of analysis based on the intersection of gender with factors such as race, ethnicity, class, religion, and sexuality.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
(Prerequisite: n/a)
This course introduces students to theoretical positions and topical issues in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies, primarily within a Canadian context. This course aims to demonstrate how “women” is applied as a social and political category imbued with certain, yet contested meanings depending on place and time, and cannot usefully be considered a self-evident effect of biology. Students are introduced to a variety of analytical tools and topical intersections that will encourage them to challenge seemingly natural and obvious truth claims regarding the meanings of gender, sex, sexuality, and feminism in contemporary societies. Course themes include: activisms; violence; the body; and sexuality. Students will have opportunities to engage with course themes through academic, activist, and creative approaches.
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Schedule: Lecture: Fridays 1:35-3:25pm; Conference: Thursdays 4:35-5:25pm
Location: Arts W-120; Conference: RPHYS room 112
WMST 301
Women's St Current Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Consideration of contemporary issues in Women's Studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Topic for Fall 2013: Feminist Theories of Identity (Prerequisite: WMST 200.)
Coming Soon.
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Schedule: Tuesdays 2:35-5:25pm
Location: FERRIER Building room 456
WMST 302
Women's St Current Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Consideration of contemporary issues in Women's Studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Topic for Winter 2014: Indigenous Feminisms (Prerequisite: WMST 200.
Restriction: Open only to Women's Studies students.)
Coming Soon.
Kahente Horn-Miller
Schedule: Mondays & Wednesdays 10:05am-11:25am
Location: EDUCATION room 433
WMST 303
Feminist Theory and Research
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: This course explores contemporary feminist theories and critiques of approaches to knowledge developed in the humanities, social, natural, and applied sciences. Feminist contributions to research and critical practices will be examined in relation to course projects.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 200
- Restriction: Open to Women's Studies students only
(Prerequisite: WMST 200.
Restriction: Open only to Women's Studies students.)
This course is a comparative and critical examination of feminist theories and their methodological implications, including contributions of and tensions between various feminisms. The course features landmark critical essays that have shaped feminist theory, and which have important implications for feminist research. We will also examine contemporary debates and developments within feminist theorizations of gender, the body, and popular culture. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to feminist theory and methods, this course will encourage students to make connections between the course materials and their own disciplinary backgrounds and research interests.
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:05-11:25am
Location: EDUC, Education Building room 211
WMST 401
Women's St Special Topics 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Women's Studies.Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Topic for Fall 2013: Postcolonial Perspectives: Women and the State in India(Prerequisite: WMST 200.
Restriction: Open only to Women's Studies and Political Science students; cross-listed as POLI 422.)
This course will explore the relationship between gender and nation in India, drawing upon insights from feminist legal theory, postcolonial feminist theory and critical race theory. Interrogating dichotomous categories of modernity/tradition, Western/non-Western, public/private, feminist/true Indian woman. Topics will include an examination of the connections between feminism, nationalism and colonialism; the idea of citizenship and the construction of women in the discourse of post-colonial nationhood; women, religion and identity; and the treatment of women in the narrative of the law. Exploring the relationship between women and the state, we will study the many ways in which women adopt strategies to renegotiate their status. The aim of the course is to highlight the complexity of the relationship between feminism and the nation, examining how feminism in India is both implicated in and impacted by the state discourse of modernity and nationhood.
Vrinda Narain
Schedule: Fridays 11:35-2:25pm
Location: STEWART BIO, room S2/2
WMST 402
Women's St Special Topics 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Women's Studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor
Topic for Winter 2014: Feminist Media Production (Prerequisite: WMST 200.
Restriction: Open only to Women's Studies students.)
Coming Soon.
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Schedule: Tuesdays 2:35-5:25pm
Location: FERRIER room 456
WMST 461
Tutorial in Women's Studies 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of Women's Studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 303 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Majors, Honours and Joint Honours students in Women's Studies. Program and advisor approval required.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.
(Prerequisite: WMST 303.
Restriction: Open only to Majors, Honours and Joint Honours students in Women's Studies. Advisor approval required.)
This is an advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of Women's Studies. See Tutorial in Women's Studies for guidelines.
WMST 462
Tutorial in Women's Studies 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of Women's Studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 303 and permission of instructor
- Restriction: Majors, Honours and Joint Honours students in Women's Studies.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.
(Prerequisite: WMST 303.
Restriction: Open only to Majors, Honours and Joint Honours students in Women's Studies. Advisor approval required.)
This is an advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of Women's Studies. See Tutorial in Women's Studies for guidelines.
WMST 494
Internship: Women's Studies
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students after completing 30 credits of a 90 credit program or 45 credits of a 96-120 credit program. A minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental advisor are required. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.
(Restrictions: Enrolment is limited to U2 and U3 students who have completed 30 credits of a 90 credit program or 45 credits of a 96-120 credit program; minimum CGPA 2.7; permission of the Women’s Studies Internship Program Co-ordinator required.)
A major research project based on a minimum 150-hour internship conducive to gender-based analysis. See Women's Studies Internships for guidelines.
WMST 495D1
Honours/Joint Hons. Colloquium
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 303
- Corequisite: WMST 497D1
- Restriction: Honours/Joint Honours students in Women's Studies
- Students must register for both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
(Prerequisite: WMST 303. Corequisite: WMST 497D1.
Restriction: Open only to Honours/Joint Honours students in Women's Studies. No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.)
Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Schedule: Wednesdays 11:35-2:25 pm
Location: REDPATH MUSEUM, room 200
(Prerequisite: WMST 495D1. Corequisite: WMST 497D2.
Restriction: Open only to Honours/Joint Honours students in Women's Studies. No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 495D1 and WMST 495D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.)
Students will research, discuss, and present their thesis topics.
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Schedule: Fridays 2:35-5:25 pm
Location: LEACOCK, room 116
WMST 497D1
Honours/Joint Honours Thesis
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: Supervised reading and preparation of a Joint Honours thesis under the direction of a member of faculty.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.
(Prerequisite: WMST 303. Corequisite: WMST 495D1.
Restriction: Open only to Honours/Joint Honours students in Women’s Studies. No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 497D1 and WMST 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.)
WMST 497D2
Honours/Joint Honours Thesis
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Women's Studies: See WMST 497D1 for course description.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.
(Prerequisite: WMST 497D1. Corequisite: WMST 495D2.
Restriction: Open only to Honours/Joint Honours students in Women’s Studies. No credit will be given for this course unless both WMST 497D1 and WMST 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.)
WMST 501 Advanced Topics 1 Not offered in 2013-2014
WMST 502 course description not available Not offered in 2013-2014
WMST 513 Gender, Race and Science Not offered in 2013-2014