Course Descriptions

An introduction to the ways gender, sexuality and identity are represented and produced in popular culture, mainstream media and populist feminist culture. Focuses on critical analysis and intervention, the production of culture and a variety of cultural forms, mainstream media and representational practices.

Prerequisite(s): WGST 112.3 or completion of 18 credit units at the university level.
Note: May be used as Humanities or Social Science credit.

The relationship between gender, sexuality, and music; four main themes will be explored, namely rock culture, masculinities and music, femininities and music, and image and identity in music.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 30 credit units at the university level or permission of the WGST Coordinator.
Note: May be used as Humanities or Social Science credit.

Interdisciplinary examination of current events relating to gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, ability and class. Special attention will be paid to how recent/ ongoing wars, ecological crises, terrorism, economic recession, etc., impact the lives of women, children and subaltern men, and how such events are represented in mainstream and alternative media.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 30 credit units at the university level or permission of the WGST Coordinator.
Note: May be used as Humanities or Social Science credit.

Locates queer embodiments, performances and projects in local, national and transnational contexts. What is made visible and invisible in performance theory, constructions/appropriations of the deviant, and the complex shifts in queer space taking place through globalization? How are effects produced as queer across interwoven spaces?

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): WGST 112.3 or completion of 18 credit units at the university level.
Note: WGST 110 or 112 is strongly recommended.

The body is fundamental to our sense of self and identity. This course explores the ways in which bodies are constituted in everyday life through the intersections of class, gender, ableness, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and race.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): WGST 112.3 or 30 credit units at the university level.

Introduces students to core theorists in masculinity studies and examines how "masculinities" circulate in, and are structured by diverse economic and political contexts, social conventions and cultural spaces. Explores the ideological underpinnings of the category "masculinity", its shifting and contested meanings, and alternative possibilities for thinking and mobilizing the masculine.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s):WGST 112.3 or completion of 18 credit units at the university level.
Note: May be used as Humanities or Social Science credit.

This course takes an intersectional, decolonizing, interdisciplinary approach to critical disabilities studies, inviting students to think critically about the reproduction of oppression and systemic barriers to inclusion operating out of prevailing socially constructed discourses of disability. Centering the invaluable scholarly and social rigour arising from minoritized perspectives, the course facilitates multi-disciplinary exploration of critical perspectives that engage social justice, social policy, human rights, social movements, intimate and international politics.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): WGST 112.3 or 18 credit units of university courses.
Note: This course is offered online.

Considers shifts in the directions and impact of feminist critical thought and diverse practices of cultural production. Offered occasionally as faculty resources permit, the topic will vary in accordance with the research interests of the instructor, student demand and new developments in the field.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s):WGST 112.3 or completion of 18 credit units at the university level.
Note: May be used as Humanities or Social Science credit. Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours