GWS 2024-25 Course Offerings

Friendly reminder to register for your fall and winter classes for the upcoming academic year. Below is the list of courses offered by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies:

 

  • WOME 1100 YA, Madonna to Madonna (in-person) (R. Kimani): An interdisciplinary introduction, the course explores intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, age and other socially/historically shaped dimensions of identity. Discussions will include such topics as media, health, work, poverty, body and sexuality, violence, law and creativity, in local and global contexts.
  • WOME 1100 YDE, Madonna to Madonna (Web) (Dr. J. Chisholm): An interdisciplinary introduction, the course explores intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, age and other socially/historically shaped dimensions of identity. Discussions will include such topics as media, health, work, poverty, body and sexuality, violence, law and creativity, in local and global contexts.
  • WOME 2113 (fall 2024) Women, Popular Culture, and Counter Culture, (VID) (Dr. J. Roth): An interdisciplinary exploration of women, popular culture and resistance, this course examines the relationship between feminism, femininity and historical and contemporary cultural texts such as films, television, pulp fiction, magazines, advertising, music, blogs and zines. Group work and on-line assignments are integral to the course.
  • WOME 2114 WDE, WDF, Ecofeminism, (Zoom) (C. Hughes): Using an interdisciplinary approach and a foundation in feminist theory, students will explore the connections between women and "nature" in North America and transnationally. Opportunities are presented for pursuing more specialized and/or applied topics of interest. Format includes critical analysis of the scholarly literature, class discussion, presentation, and writing assignments, including reflexive work.
  • WOME 3030 FDE, FDF, Housewives, Radicals and Gender-Blenders: Theorizing Equality, (Web) (Dr. J.Roth): An introductory examination of the questions, tensions and debates within contemporary feminist theory from the late 20th Century to the present. This course considers multiple feminisms' arguments, strategies and politics to understand how contemporary theoretical positions account for material inequalities and lived experiences of marginalization, and how they work towards social justice in gender.
  • WOME 3133 (winter 2025) Women, Technology and Cyberculture, (VID)  (A. Gollat): An interdisciplinary examination of gender and technology, past and present, this course considers cyborgs, posthumanism, cyber-performance, avatars, and the gendering and gendered effects of technology in a gendered world.
  • WOME 3214 (winter 2025), Queer Studies, (Zoom) (M.Dudeja): An overview of queer challenges to binary definitions of gender and sexuality. Queer theory will be explored and applied to popular culture.
  • WOME 3357 (fall 2024)  Law & Women's Lives, (Zoom)  (Dr. K. Younes): Provides an historical and sociological overview of the development of the law with regard to issues of particular relevance to women and explores the extent to which law has limited women's lives. Course reading include case law, statutes and jurisprudence. Students are not expected to have knowledge of these issues prior to taking this course.
  • WOME 4010 (winter 2025), Women, Gender, and Social Justice, (VID) (Dr. J. Chisholm): Advanced colloquium for fourth-year Gender and Women's Studies students. Contemporary issues in the field of gender and women's studies will be explored. The specific thematic focus of the course will be negotiated annually in relation to student interests.
  • WOME 4214 (fall 2024) Regulating Reproduction & Families, (VID) (Dr. L. Chambers): Students are provided with an overview of the regulation of reproduction and family formation and dissolution, and of law and public policy impacting women's autonomy in these domains. Resistances will also be discussed. Students are not expected to have a developed knowledge of law prior to taking this course.


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