Fall 2025 - Winter 2026
The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) has consolidated the previous Women’s Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies programs into one, newly entitled program in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS). The Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program recognizes social justice as a driving concept inherent to the study of gender, sexuality, and feminism. Social Justice frameworks incorporate critical race studies, disability studies, and Indigenous studies into the examination of gender, sexuality, and feminism.
The courses below significantly engage with at least two of these issues and are offered by a range of faculties and disciplines. Clicking on the title of each course will reveal information from the McGill University e-calendar, including a short description, the term offered, and the name of the professor or lecturer. Please see the note at the bottom of the page for more information on complementary courses.
GSFS complementary course lists from previous years are available.
Updates are ongoing. Please check back regularly. Last Updated on May 22, 2025.
Anthropology
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Credits: 3Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for Summer 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: TBAANTH 327. Anthropology of South Asia.
Credits: 3Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Sahar SadjadiANTH 385. Sex, Science and Culture.
Credits: 3Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interdisciplinary introduction to the study of human sexuality, scientific theories of sexuality and historical and cultural contexts of sexual acts, desires, relations and
identities. Topics include: legacies of sexology, eugenics, sexuality and identity, sex in nature, gender and colonialism, sexual-economic exchange, marriage,
monogamy.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Sandra Teresa HydeANTH 407. Anthropology of the Body.
Credits: 3Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Nicole CoutureANTH 413. Gender in Archaeology.
Credits: 3Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Relationship between the structure of the archaeological discipline and construction of gender roles in past human societies; division of tasks between men and women in subsistence activities, organization of the household and kin groups; and creation of power and prestige in a larger community.
Art History
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Credits: 3Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
Canadian Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The significant presence of people of African descent in Canada that dates back to the 17th century. Migration and immigration will be situated as part of the renewal of Canadian identity while examining the intellectual, historical and political presence of people of African descent.
Classical Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An exploration of gender roles in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Communication Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to feminist studies of the media. Impact of feminist and queer theory on media studies; current issues about gender in the media. Emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of media representations of gender in relation to other social differences, such as race, class and sexuality.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Carrie RentschlerCOMS 340. New Media.
Credits: 3Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Critical analysis of new media from cultural, philosophical, technological and institutional perspectives.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: TBDCOMS 411. Disability, Technology and Communication.
Credits: 3Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores communication, technology and culture from the perspective of disability. Topics may included identity, stigma, representation and art; design, access and accessibility; normalization and classification; contrasting models of disability; interfaces between bodies and technologies; the disabling dimensions of environments and technologies; disability policy and activism.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Jennifer BurmanCOMS 491. Special Topics in Communications Studies.
Credits: 3Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Emergent themes and issues in cultural approaches to media and communication studies.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Carrie RentschlerCOMS 492. Power, Difference and Justice.
Credits: 3Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices.
East Asian Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Maria Cecilia HwangEAST 388. Asian Migrations and Diasporas.
Credits: 3Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Kimberly ChungEAST 478. Topics: Korean Film and Media.
Credits: 3Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
Section 002 | Winter 2026 | Instructor: Maria Cecilia HwangEAST 525. Critical Area Studies in Asia.
Credits: 3Offered 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.
Education
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Credits: 3Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)Terms offered: Summer 2025View offerings for Summer 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
The complex way in which living in a digital age affects social relationships and its influences across generations in everyday lives.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Ada L SinacoreEDPC 503. Intersectional Relationships and Sexualities.
Credits: 3Offered 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.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Jessica RuglisEDPE 515. Gender Identity Development.
Credits: 3Offered 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.
English
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Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to dramatic literature, text analysis, textual and performance theory, and theatre history.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Derek Richard NystromENGL 275. Introduction to Cultural Studies.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Alanna ThainENGL 279. Introduction to Film History.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to key historical moments, cinematic movements, formal styles, as well as historiographical and theoretical debates in the history of world cinema.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Amber Rose JohnsonENGL 319. Theory of English Studies 3.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Cultural theory now.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Sandeep BanerjeeENGL 320. Postcolonial Literature.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of postcolonial literature.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Miranda Brun HickmanENGL 353. Literature and Gender
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of issues relating to literature and gender. The role of gender in literary works has been examined by anumerous waves of feminist scholarship as well as newer forms of queer and trans theory. Focus is on specific works and exposes levels of meaning through application of a variety of gender-related analytical frameworks. Introduction to theoretical commentaries.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Allan HepburnENGL 418. A Major Modernist Writer.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Carmen Faye MathesENGL 444. Studies in Women Authors.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Alanna ThainENGL 586. Cultural Studies: Other Media.
Credits: 3Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced study of a specific topic in a medium or media other than film, such as television, advertising, radio, or the internet.
Geography
TBD
German Studies
TBD
Hispanic Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Historical development and literary tendencies regarding gender and sexuality in Hispanic literature, film, and culture.
History and Classical Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An overview of the history of women in modern continental Europe, focusing on women's changing roles in the family and society at large, in the context of work, family life, education, and culture, and the changing notions of citizenship, femininity, and masculinity.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Jeremy TaiHIST 420. Gender and Sexuality in Modern China.
Credits: 3Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: TBDHIST 429. Topics: Gender/Feminist Histories.
Credits: 3Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of gender, feminism, and sexuality.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Brian LewisHIST 433. British Queer History.
Credits: 3Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An investigation of the changing historical construction of "deviant" and "normal" sexualities in Britain since 1700, and how queer women and men discovered ways of surviving and perhaps even flourishing in the face of persecution and hostility from the state, the churches and the medical profession.
Health Science Electives (Nursing)
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Credits: 3Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing (Ingram School of Nursing)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
Indigenous Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches. Introduction to the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous life in Canada.
Jewish Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of North American Jewish activists, thinkers and organizations whose social justice work is deeply rooted in Jewish text and in the lessons of Jewish historical experience.
Islamic Studies (Institute of Islamic Studies)
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Credits: 3Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Sara Ahmed Abdel-LatifISLA 300. Special Topics 7.
Credits: 3Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Michelle Laura HartmanISLA 585. Arab Women's Literature.
Credits: 3Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
Italian Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
Music Research
TBD
Music History and Literature
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Credits: 3Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A cross-cultural exploration of women's musical achievements in various historical periods. Develops understanding of both music and the social, political, and cultural forces shaping it. Music includes: sacred, love songs, opera, contemporary instrumental composition, and improvised genres with study organized around topics like authorship, genius/virtuosity, voice, body, power and technology.
Philosophy
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Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Eric LewisPHIL 327. Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to issues in the philosophy of race, for example: the metaphysical status of race; the biology of racial categories; the social construction of race; the relationship between race and racism; the phenomenology of racialized subjectivity; or, intersections of race, gender, and other identity categories.
Winter 2026 | Instructor: Eric LewisPHIL 427. Topics in Critical Philosophy of Race.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An advanced discussion of topics in the critical philosophy of race.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Alia Al-SajiPHIL 442. Topics in Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
Political Science
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Credits: 3Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course will help students deepen their understanding of international relations by introducing them to gender analysis of global politics and feminist approaches to international relations. Part one examines gender-sensitive and feminist theories in international relations research. The second part then applies these approaches to a range of substantive issues including security, violence, peacebuilding, international law and political economy.
Psychology
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Credits: 3Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examination of research on the associations between discrimination and health, with emphases on how (1) various types of discrimination (e.g., interpersonal, microaggression, online, institutional) impact health and wellbeing and (2)
various factors – rooted in individual’s cultural values and beliefs – help provide resilience against the effects of discrimination.
Religious Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of intersections between religion, gender and sexuality in diverse cultural,
historical and contemporary contexts.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: Aalekhya MalladiRELG 372. Hindu Goddesses.
Credits: 3Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The mythology, theology, soteriology, history, ritual, and texts of the goddess-centred (Sakta) branches of Hinduism.
Russian Studies
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Credits: 3Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Dedicated to the study of under-represented female directors in Soviet cinema, particularly the films of Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepitko. The work of these two directors is nothing short of stunning; in many ways, it surpasses that of their most well-known contemporary - Andrei Tarkovsky. Explores the ways in which these films represent gender, sexuality, and women's issues in the Soviet Union.
Sociology
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Credits: 3Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
Fall 2025 | Instructor: TBDSOCI 321. Gender and Work.
Credits: 3Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focus on men's and women's work in North American societies, historically and contemporarily, in order to understand the dynamisms of gender (in)equality in and outside of the home. Topics explored include: housework; the relationship(s) between gender, organizations and bureaucracy; emotional labour; occupational segregation and stratification; sexual harassment; and work-family policy.
The courses listed on this page are the ones that are offered and approved as Complementary Courses for the GSFS program for the 2025-2026 calendar year. Where relevant, the topic is specified. Please contact at our Administrative and Student Affairs Coordinator, si.yu.li [at] mcgill.ca (Si Yu Li), for more information.