CORE COURSES (with “WGS” prefix)

200-SERIES COURSES

200-series courses, with the exception of WGS273H1, are subject to certain enrolment restrictions.  During the first (P) round of ACORN/ROSI enrolment, priority is given to Specialists, Majors and Minors in Women and Gender Studies.  Please refer to the Arts & Science Registration Instructions and Timetable for course enrolment procedures.

  • Examines modes of theories that shaped feminist thought and situates them historically and transnationally so as to emphasize the social conditions and conflicts in which ideas and politics arise, change and circulate.

    Recommended Preparation: WGS160Y1

    Exclusions: WGS262H1/WGS262Y1, WSTA03H3, WGS200Y5

  • A critical examination of institutions, representations and practices associated with contemporary popular culture, mass-produced, local and alternative.

    Recommended Preparation:  WGS160Y1

    Exclusions:  WGS271H1, WSTB13H3, WGS205H5

  • Using a transnational, feminist framework, this course examines material and conceptual interrelations between gendered human and non-human nature, ecological crises, political economies and environmental movements in a variety of geographical, historical and cultural contexts. Does environmental justice include social justice, or are they in conflict? What might environmental justice and activism involve?

    Exclusions:  WGS273Y1, WSTC20H3

  • Examines how masculinities shape the lives of men, women and transgender people.  Effects of construction, reproduction and impact of masculinities on  institutions such as education, work, religion, sports, family, medicine, military and the media are explored.  Provides critical analysis of how masculinities shape individual lives, groups, organizations and social movements.

    Recommended Preparation: WGS160Y1

    Exclusion: WGS353H5

  • Subjects of study vary from year to year.

    Recommended Preparation WGS160Y1

    Exclusion:  WGS334H1S

  • Subjects of study vary from year to year.

    Recommended Preparation WGS160Y1