The course will employ a number of instructional methods to accomplish its objectives, including some or all of the following:
- Lecture
- Audio-visual presentations
- Small group discussions
- Seminar presentations
- Classroom discussion
- Guest lectures.
Theoretical Foundations of Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies
This includes all or some of:
- A history of feminisms, related theoretical frameworks and/or movements in Canada and beyond
- Intersectionality: integrating analysis of race, class, sexualities, colonialism, (dis)ability, and gender
- Queer theory
- Social constructionism
- Essentialism within feminist and queer theorizing and activism
- Creation/enforcement of norms and margins; moving margins to center; privilege and oppression; defining and examining hegemony
- Theoretical perspectives: anti-racist, Marxist, socialist, liberal, radical, cultural, queer, critical disability studies, standpoint, and anarchist feminisms
From Theory to Praxis: Contemporary Social and Political Issues
This includes all or some of:
- Gendered education, science, and technology
- Gender and sexualities in health and medical care
- Language as a site of oppression, power, and resistance
- Gendered violence
- Bodies and the media
- Globalization and transnational feminisms
- Colonization, resistance and reconciliation
- Objectification, racialization and sexualities
- Masculinities
- Incarceration and institutionalization
- Work and welfare.
Upon completion of the course, the successful student should be able to:
- Analyze the relevance of feminist and queer approaches for understanding and improving quality of life;
- Explain and evaluate the issues and consequences of feminist activism, within Canadian and global contexts;
- Discuss the varied perspectives of feminist and queer theories and apply these to contemporary issues;
- Explain and evaluate the ways in which gender and sexualities are constructed and perpetuated through social processes, organizations, and institutions;
- Explain the ways in which gendered interests are represented by social policy and assess the potential for policy equity;
- Recognize and identify diversity in feminist and queer perspectives;
- Demonstrate the relevance of course materials to students' own lives and experience.
Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½policy and will include both formative and summative components. Evaluation will be based on some or all of the following assignments and projects.
| Class Participation and/or Presentations | 10% |
| Exams and Quiz | 40% |
| Group Workshops including discussion and presentations | 10% |
| A Research Portfolio integrating creative art, research skills, and academic analysis | 10% |
| Term Paper, Essay or Written Assignments | 30% |
| TOTAL | 100% |
A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided on the Instructor’s Course Outline, which is available to students at the beginning of each semester.
Possible texts include:
Margaret Hobbs and Carla Rice, eds. Gender and Women’s Studies in Canada (Toronto: Women’s Press, current edition).
Michael Kimmel, Amy Aronson, and Amy Kaler. The Gendered Society Reader, current Canadian edition (Toronto: OUP).
Michael Kimmel and Jacqueline Holler. The Gendered Society, current Canadian edition (Toronto: OUP).
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