CORE COURSES (with “WGS” prefix)

400-SERIES COURSES:  ACORN/ROSI ENROLMENT AND BALLOTING

During the first and second round of ACORN/ROSI enrolment, certain enrolment restrictions apply to 400-Series courses.   Eligible students must have completed 2.5 full course equivalents in Women and Gender Studies.  Students with 8.5 credits or less are not permitted to enrol in 400-level courses.

“RP” indicator courses: this applies to all 4th-year courses except WGS451H1.  During the restricted (R) round, only 3rd-year and 4th-year Specialists and Majors in Women and Gender Studies are eligible to enrol.  During the priority (P) round, 3rd-year and 4th-year Minors in Women and Gender Studies are permitted to enrol.

EXCEPTION:  WGS460Y1Y.  During the restricted (R) round, only 4th-year Specialists and Majors in Women and Gender Studies are eligible to enroll in this course.

“E” indicator courses: this applies to Independent Studies (WGS451H1). Students should fill out this application form and submit it to the program office via email: wgsi.programs@utoronto.ca.

• WGS420H1  Asian/North American Feminist Issues (Not offered 2021-2022)

  A transpacific examination of issues that have directly and indirectly shaped the feminist and other related critical inquiries in Asia and among the Asian diasporas in Canada and the United States.Prerequisite: WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS426H1 S Gender and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives

  Critically examines current interdisciplinary scholarship on globalization, its intersections with gender, power structures, and feminized economies. Related socio-spatial reconfigurations, ‘glocal’ convergences, and tensions are explored, with emphasis on feminist counter-narratives and theorizing of globalization, theoretical debates on the meanings and impacts of globalization, and possibilities of resistance, agency, and change.Prerequisite:  WG160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.Exclusions:  WGS463H1, fall session 2009, WSTC25H3

• WGS434H1 F Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies (Fall 2021 - Water and Environmental Justice)

  An upper level seminar.  Topics vary from year to year.Topic for Fall 2021: Water and Environmental JusticePrerequisite: WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.Exclusions:  WGS280H1S (Spring 2017); WGS334H1S (Summer 2018)

• WGS435H1 S  Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies

  An upper level seminar.  Topics vary from year to year.Prerequisite: WG160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS440H1  Postcolonial Cyborgs for Planetary Futures:  Speculative Fiction Feminisms (Not offered 2021-2022)

  Drawing together film, fiction and theory, this course invites students to explore ways of imagining other worlds. From afro-futurism to planetary humanism, from cyborgs to hauntings, from science fiction fantasies to the politics of aliens, the course examines and produces feminist, postcolonial, anti-racist, and queer visions of other worlds.Prerequisite:  WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS442H1 S  Toxic Worlds, Decolonial Futures

  Description TBD.Prerequisite:  WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS450H1  Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship:  Gender and the Black Diaspora (Not offered 2021-2022)

  Explores transnational feminist genealogies of the black diaspora.  The course pays attention to the contexts and movements that generated key questions, exploring how these interventions disclose preoccupations with modernity, freedom and citizenship.  Topics may include trauma and memory, sexual citizenship, Afrofuturism, indigeneity, and the crafting of political communities.Prerequisite: WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.Exclusions: WGS434H1 Black Diasporic Feminisms: Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship, WSTB06H3, WGS340H5

• WGS451H1  Independent Study in Women and Gender Studies

  Under supervision, students pursue topics in Women and Gender Studies not currently part of the curriculum.  Not eligible for CR/NCR option. See information regarding "E" indicator courses above.

  Prerequisites: WGS160, WGS260, WGS360 + a minimum 3.0 CGPA and permission from the Undergrad Coordinator are required for an independent study.

  Application Deadline for Fall 2021 Session:  June 15, 2021.

  Application Deadline for Winter 2022 Session:  September 15, 2021.

• WGS460Y1 Y  Honours Seminar

  Supervised undergraduate thesis project undertaken in the final year of study. Students attend a bi-weekly seminar to discuss research strategies, analytics, methods and findings. A required course for Specialist students.  Not eligible for CR/NCR option.Prerequisite:  WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.ACORN/ROSI Enrolment:  For ACORN/ROSI enrolment details, please refer to the note on 400-level courses above.  WGS Specialists and Majors in their 4th year of study are permitted to enroll during the restricted (R) round of enrolment.

• WGS461Y1  Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies (Not offered 2021-2022)

  An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.Prerequisite: WG160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS462H1:  Advanced Topics in Gender and History (Not offered 2021-2022)

  An upper-level seminar.  Topics vary from year to year.Prerequisite: WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS463H1S   Spirits of the Age: Bodyminds and Afterlives 

  WGS 463   Spirits of the Age: Bodyminds and Afterlives This course uses an array of literary and critical texts, from the nineteenth century to the present, to survey representations of the human self as something both finite and ongoing. From ghost stories to treatises on identity, from science fiction to memoir, our texts find their common ground in the bodymind: a conception of the self as a complex of physical, mental, and indefinable aspects, often termed the spirit or soul. Our initial texts will invite us to consider the ways in which the bodymind has been theorized and represented as navigating the living world; the second half of term considers texts exploring its lingering presence as apparition, memory, trauma, or wider legacy.Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory.  Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.Prerequisite: WG160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.

• WGS465H1  Special Topics in Gender and the Law (Not offered in 2021-2022)

  Senior students may pursue advanced study in gender and law. Topics vary from year to year.Prerequisite: WG160Y1,WGS365H1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.This course is offered every three years.

• WGS470Y1 Y  Community Engagement

  The application of theoretical study to practical community experience. Advanced Women and Gender Studies students have the opportunity to apply knowledge acquired in the Women and Gender Studies curriculum through a practicum placement within a community organization.Prerequisite: WGS160Y1, one full course at the 300+ level in WGS, and one half course in WGS.Exclusions: WSTC23H3, WGS435Y5

• WGS482H1 F  Translating Sexuality: Queer Migration/Diaspora

  Description TBD.

ACORN/ROSI Enrolment:  For ACORN/ROSI enrolment details, please refer to the note on 400-level courses above.  WGS Specialists and Majors in their 3rd and 4th year of study are permitted to enrol during the first round of enrolment.  During the second round, WGS Minors in their 3rd and 4th year of study are permitted to enroll.