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GSFS Advising 

GSFS Complementary Courses

Fall 2024 - Winter 2025

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 14th 2024.


Anthropology

ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Todd Eugene Myers
ANTH 385 Sex, Science and Culture 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Sahar Sadjadi
ANTH 407 Anthropology of the Body 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Sandra Teresa Hyde
ANTH 413 Gender in Archaeology 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Nicole Couture


Art History

ARTH 205 Introduction to Modern Art 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: TBD
ARTH 315 Indigenous Art and Culture 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Gloria Bell


Canadian Studies

CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Gloria Bell
CANS 401 Canadian Studies Seminar 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Myra Bloom
CANS 415 Black Canada 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: David Austin


Classical Studies

CLAS 308 Gender in the Ancient World 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Naomi Kaloudis


Communication Studies

COMS 310 Media and Feminist Studies 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Carrie Rentschler
COMS 320 Media and Empire 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Jenny Burman
COMS 491 Special Topics in Comm Studies 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Roberto Benedicto
COMS 491 Special Topics in Comm Studies 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Jonathan Sterne
COMS 492 Power, Difference and Justice 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Mark Lloyd


East Asian Studies

EAST 350 Gender&Sexuality in ChineseLit 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Guojan Wang
EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Maria Cecilia Hwang
EAST 493 Spec Topics:East Asian St 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Kimberly Chung
EAST 525 Critical Area Studies in Asia 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Maria Cecilia Hwang


Education

EDGC 337 Gendered Ident., Socl Learning 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Shikha Diwakar
EDPC 503 Inter. Relationships&Sexuality 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Ada L Sinacore
EDPE 515 Gender Identity Development 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Jessica Ruglis


English

ENGL 275 Intro to Cultural Studies 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Richard Jean So
ENGL 290 Postcolonial&World Lits: Engl 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Sandeep Banerjee
ENGL 320 Postcolonial Literature 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Aaron Thomas Bartels-Swindells
ENGL 331 Literature Romantic Period 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Carmen Faye Mathes
ENGL 354 Sexuality and Representation 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Alanna Thain
ENGL 371 Theatre Hist: 19th to 21st C 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Katherine Zien
ENGL 390 Political and Cultural Theory 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: TBD
ENGL 391 Spec Top:Cultural Studies 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025| Instructor: Alanna Thain
ENGL 431 Studies in Drama 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Katherine Zien
ENGL 467 Advanced St in Theatre Hist 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Paul Edward Yachnin
ENGL 476 Alt Approaches to Media 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Alanna Thain
ENGL 545 Topics in Literature & Society 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Carmen Faye Mathes


Geography

GEOG 331 Urban Social Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Darius Scott


German Studies

TBD


Hispanic Studies

HISP 244 Survey of Lat Amer Lit&Cult2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Amanda Holmes
HISP 333 Theatre,Perf&Politics:Lat Amer 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Amanda Holmes


History and Classical Studies

HIST 354 Women in Europe 1700-2000 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Judith Szapor
HIST 374 History of Sexuality in Canada 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Elsbeth Heaman
HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality & Medicine 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Andrea Tone
HIST 429 Topics: Gender/Feminist Hist 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Melissa Shaw
HIST 525 Women,Work&Family/Global Hist. 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Malek Abisaab


Health Science Electives (Nursing)

HSEL 308 Issues in Women's Health 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Cheryl Armistead 
HSEL 309 Women's Reproductive Health 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Cheryl Armistead


Indigenous Studies

INDG 200 Intro. to Indigenous Studies 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Jimena Marquez


Jewish Studies

TBD


Islamic Studies (Institute of Islamic Studies)

ISLA 210 Muslim Societies 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Setrag Manoukian


Italian Studies

TBD


Music Research

TBD


Music History and Literature

MUHL 314 Women in Music:A Cr-Cult Persp 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Althea Wair SullyCole


Philosophy

PHIL 242 Intro to Feminist Theory 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Marguerite Deslauriers
PHIL 327 Philosophy of Race 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Eric Lewis
PHIL 427 Topics: Critical Phil of Race 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Eric Lewis
PHIL 442 Topics in Feminist Theory 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Eric Lewis
PHIL 348 Philosophy of Law 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Natalie Stoljar


Political Science

POLI 348 Gender and Canadian Politics 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Kelly Gordon


Psychology

PSYC 411 Discrimtn&Wellb:MargnlzdCommts 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Noah Keita Christophe


Religious Studies

RELG 271 Religion and Sexuality 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Aalekhya Malladi
RELG 338 Women& the Christian Tradition 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Patricia Kirkpatrick


Russian Studies

RUSS 501 Topics in Slavic Culture 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Daniel Webster Pratt


Sociology

SOCI 247 Family & Modern Society 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Elaine Susan Weiner
SOCI 270 Sociology of Gender 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: TBD
SOCI 321 Gender and Work 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Elaine Susan Weiner
SOCI 345 Topics in Sociology 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Skyler Wang
SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender&Development 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Fall 2024 | Instructor: Isabel Grace Glasier Pike
SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Winter 2025 | Instructor: Elaine Susan Weiner


Please note:

The courses listed on this page are the ones that are offered and approved as Complementary Courses for the GSFS program for the 2023-2024 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.

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