Fall 2024 - Winter 2025
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Anthropology
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Architecture
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Art History
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Communication Studies
COMS 683. Special Topics in Media and Politics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Emergent themes in media and politics, and their application to current issues in communication studies.
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East Asian Studies
EAST 525. Critical Area Studies in Asia.
Credits: 3
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
- Prerequisite(s): At least one EAST 400- or 500-level seminar course, or permission of the instructor.
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Education
EDEM 675. Special Topics 1 in Educational Leadership.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Leadership Studies. (Content varies from year to year).
- Note: Intensive two-lecture-per-day format; add/drop will be July 3 (four lectures, two calendar days) and withdraw will be July 7 (eight lectures, four calendar days)
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
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EDPC 503. Intersectional Relationships and Sexualities.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Situated in sexuality studies and education this course explores intra and interpersonal relationships through examining the intersections of sexuality with a diversity of identities, expressions and communities. The course addresses the ways in which current and emerging technologies influence and inform understandings of sexuality and the resulting effect on how people negotiate sexual relationships.
- Section 002 (03-May-2011/16-Jun-2011)
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EDPE 515. Gender Identity Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theoretical models and empirical findings relevant to the development of gender identity. Special attention is given to the influence of peers in school settings. Psychological, physiological, parental, peer and cultural influences on gender identity.
- Offered through Continuing Education.
- Offered through Continuing Education.
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English
ENGL 540. Literary Theory 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of literary theory. Topic varies by year.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Winter
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ENGL 545. Topics in Literature and Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A seminar on literature and society. Topic varies by year.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Fall
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ENGL 670. Topics in Cultural Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This seminar covers specific topics in theories of culture, media studies, cinema studies. The focus may fall on a particular theory or theorist, a filmmaker, or genre.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Enrolment maximum: 15
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Geography
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History
HIST 525. Women, Work and Family in Global History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The shifting historical context of female labour and family in selected western and non-western countries; the interaction between labour and gender relations with special focus on women's experiences on the shop floor and in the family.
- Prerequisite: A 300 or 400-level course in women's history or labour history or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Restricted to students in History and Women's Studies
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Islamic Studies
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Music
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Philosophy
PHIL 642. Seminar: Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course devoted to a specific topic in feminist theory: e.g., a major figure; or theme, such as sex/gender, embodiment, race, subjectivity, agency, representation, politics, nature/culture, discourse and power; or a feminist approach to the history of philosophy, ethics, social/political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, phenomenology, or metaphysics.
- Prerequisite(s): Any 400-level, 3-credit course in political philosophy, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PHIL 542.
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PHIL 627. Seminar: Critical Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced course examining a question, theme, or thinker in the critical philosophy of race.
- Permission of the instructor.
- Topic varies by year depending on the instructor. Approaches range from the historical to the contemporary, from the thematic to a focus on the works of particular thinkers.
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Political Science
POLI 643. Politics of Identity.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theoretical approaches to the politics of identity with reference to experiences in different world regions. The politics of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, race and gender, and the relationship of such forms of identity politics to democracy, tolerance, pluralism, violence, socio-economic change and equality.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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Sociology
SOCI 519. Gender and Globalization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
- Prerequisite: SOCI 270 or permission of instructor.
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Women's Studies
WMST 601. Feminist Theories and Methods.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of feminist theories and research methods from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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WMST 602. Feminist Research Symposium.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Discussion and development of participants' research in gender and women's studies.
- Prerequisite: WMST 601.
- Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Option in Gender and Women's Studies.
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Please Note:
The courses listed on this page are the ones that are offered and approved as Complementary Courses for the Graduate Option in Gender and Women's Studies for the 2022-2023 calendar years. Where relevant, the topic is specified. Additional courses are currently under consideration and will be posted above, if approved.
Courses may only be applied towards the Graduate Option in Gender and Women's Studies when the topic significantly engages issues of gender and/or women and/or feminism.
Special or current topics courses are marked with an asterisk (*). Topics courses may be applied towards the Graduate Option in Gender and Women's Studies ONLY when the topic significantly engages issues of gender and/or women and/or feminism in a given year and with documentation on file for that year.
If you find a course which is not listed and that you think could count as a Complementary Course towards the Graduate Option in Gender and Women's Studies please contact the Administrative and Student Affairs Coordinator for approval.