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Women's and Gender Studies
Department of Women's & Gender Studies, College of Arts and Science

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WGST 110.6
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
1&2(3L or 2L & 1T)

Introduces students to the research and writings in the area of Women's and Gender Studies. Examines the changing position of women in developed and developing societies since the 19th century. Special attention will be given to the analysis of women's experiences in the Canadian context.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 200 may not take WGST 110 for credit. This course may be used as either a Humanities or a Social Science.

WGST 201.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Images of Women and Men in Popular Culture
1/2(3L or 2L-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 30 credit units at the university or permission of the department.

An introduction to a variety of feminist critical approaches to mass media art forms. Focuses on visual and literary images of women and men in post-World War II North American popular culture.

Note: This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 202.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender and Environment
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110, or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural introduction to theories and practices linking gender and the environment, with particular emphasis on the emergence of ecofeminism in the late 20th century.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 298 (Special Topics: Gender and Environment) may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as a Social Science.

WGST 204.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender and Popular Music
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 30 credit units at the university or permission of the department.

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

Note: This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 205.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender, Work and Society
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 30 credit units at the university or permission of the department. WGST 110 strongly recommended.

Examination of women’s situation in the labour market and the types and conditions of both the market and non-market work which women perform. Topics to be covered include women’s work in pre-capitalist societies; women and the transition to market economies; the formation of gendered divisions of labour; waged work and domestic labour; women, post-industrialism, and new technologies; women, work and employment policies.

Note: This course may be used as a Social Science course to fulfill distribution requirements.

WGST 206.6
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Science and Society in Fiction and Film
1&2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): 30 credit units, or 6 credit units of WGST and/or ART, or permission of the department.

An examination of several works of fiction and film that addresses the interface of science and society. Works for examination include science fiction novels and their Hollywood adaptations. The course provides students with an opportunity to debate and research the way in which authors and film makers have represented science, and scientists have influenced the reading and viewing public with respect to the ethical and social issues provoked by developments in Western science.

Note: This course is acceptable for use in requirement (5) in program types A, B, C, and D. This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 210.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gendered Perspectives on Cultural Issues
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 30 credit units at the university or permission of the department.

An interdisciplinary examination of selected contemporary social and cultural issues from the perspective of gender. Students will be introduced to gender as an ideology, a category of analysis, and a theme common to issues such as racism, homophobia, militarism, and environmental crisis.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 101 may not take WGST 210 for credit. Students majoring in Program Type A, B or C may use this course for Requirement 5. Any student may use this course as an elective. This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 310.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Feminist Thought to 1980
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department. PHIL 227 is recommended.

Examination of the evolution of feminist theory within the larger context of Western political and philosophical thought from the 18th century to 1980. Special attention is given to the relationship of feminist theory to the 19th and 20th century waves of political feminism.

Note: This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 311.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Contemporary Feminist Thought
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department. WGST 310 and/or PHIL 227 is recommended.

Examination of contemporary feminist theory from 1980 to the present. Feminist theory will be set within the larger context of anti-Enlightenment philosophy and political thought, including postmodernism, postcolonialism, post-Freudian psychoanalysis and psycholinguistics.

Note: This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 312.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Feminist Research Methodologies
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

Examines various feminist methodologies and approaches to the formal construction of knowledge. A survey of the major methods of research in diverse fields is presented in the context of feminist critique and epistemology. Androcentric bias, feminist epistemology, ethics and subjectivity are central themes of the course.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 398 (Special Topics: Feminism and the Construction of Knowledge) may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as a Social Science.

WGST 314.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender-based Analysis: Engendering Public Policy
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units WGST and/or cognate courses; or permission of the department

Offers an introduction to the theory and practice of gender-based analysis (GBA) of public policies. Drawing upon the work of feminist scholars and policy analysts, students will learn to apply GBA and critically evaluate examples of GBA in selected policy areas (e.g. social services, health, housing, etc.).

Note: This course may be used as a Social Science.

WGST 350.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Women and Current Legal Issues
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

An examination of current legal issues from a feminist perspective. Issues may include: gender dominance and dependency; occupational segregation; pay equity; sexual harassment; reproductive technologies; pornography; gender violence.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 398 (Special Topics: Women and Current Legal Issues) may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as a Social Science.

WGST 351.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Women, Depression and Writing
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

Examines the phenomenon of depression, particularly women's depression, from clinical, theoretical, and literary perspectives. Traces the development of a language, theoretical and/or poetic, that articulates women's experience of depression and challenges the traditional, largely male-constructed discourses on clinical depression.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 398 (Special Topics: Women, Depression and Writing) may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as a Humanities.

WGST 352.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender Gadgets, Technologies of Cultural Construction
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

An interdisciplinary examination of the material and conceptual tools, used today and in the past, in a range of media to construct or challenge culturally received notions of gender and other dimensions of identity such as race and ethnicity, class, ability, age, sexuality. Media studied will include some of the following: literature, art, cinema, music, magazines and newspapers, television theatre and performance, scientific texts.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 398 (Special Topics: Four Canadian Women Writers/Painters) may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 353.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender, Culture and Contagion
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

An examination of theories of contagion and knowledge of contagious disease from a feminist perspective. A survey of major diseases, of past and present importance, explores how men and women experience contagious disease and how these experiences are represented in technical and popular literature. The current HIV/AIDS pandemic figures prominently in the course.

Note: This course may be used as a Social Science.

WGST 354.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Women and Addiction
1/2(3L)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 110 or 6 credit units in WGST and/or cognate courses, or permission of the department.

An examination of the experiences of women with various forms of addiction. Surveyed are how women live with problems of dependency, how they are represented in popular and technical media, how they care for others with substance abuse problems, and how they are treated in existing medical and social service facilities.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 398 (Special Topics: Women and Addiction) may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 400.0
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Honours Colloquium
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): At least 3 credit units of 400-level WGST and permission of the department.

Oral presentation of an academic paper in the department. The presentation is normally based on a paper already prepared, or in preparation, for a third- or fourth-year WGST seminar course.

Note: WGST 400 is required of all Honours students. Application for Honours should be made at least 18 months in advance of expected graduation date so that this requirement can be scheduled into the student’s final year in the program.

WGST 409.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Understanding Western Patriarchy
1/2(3S-1T)
Prerequisite(s): 18 credit units of WGST and/or cognate courses, including at least two of WGST 310, 311, 312, PHIL 227, HIST 347, RELST 359; and permission of the department.

Examination of a selection of texts which helped to shape gender, race, class, and ethnic arrangements in Western culture from 1700 BCE to the early 20th Century. The focus will be on influential sacred, legal, philosophical, and political writings that made the emergence of feminist thought and the rise of political feminism both necessary and possible.

Note: Students with credit for WGST 309 may not take this course for credit. This course may be used as a Humanities.

WGST 410.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Senior Seminar in Gender and Culture
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): 18 credit units of WGST and/or cognate courses, including at least two of WGST 210, 310, 311, 312, 352, and permission of the department.

An advanced seminar on a contemporary theme in gender and cultural studies. The theme will vary from year to year in accordance with the research interests of the instructor and new developments in the field. Student presentations and discussions will be emphasized. Students are required to have an e-mail account and access to the Internet.

Note: This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 413.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Community Practicum
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): WGST 312 and permission of the instructor.

A collaborative effort between the individual student, a community organization and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. It provides students with the opportunity to apply the theoretical and methodological tenets of feminism and Women's Studies, and to benefit from first-hand research and community work. Students must design and implement a project that meets the approval of a particular organization and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

Note: This course may be used as either a Humanities or Social Science.

WGST 453.3
Registration Info — 2004-2005 Regular Session» Gender, Health & Body: A Senior Seminar
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): 18 credit units of WGST and/or cognate courses, including at least two of WGST 312, 351, 353, 354, and permission of the department.

An advanced seminar on the cultural and political dimensions of health and body. This course examines the trends in feminist research on representations of bodies in states of health and illness and the gendered nature of regulating bodies. Special themes, such as international health and "exoticized bodies" along with gendered minds and mental health, and reproduction, will be explored in accordance with new developments in the field.

Note: This course may be used as a Social Science.




Special Topics

These courses are offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.
WGST 298.3

1/2(3L)

WGST 299.6

1&2(3L)

WGST 398.3

1/2(3S or 3L)

WGST 399.6

1&2(3S or 3L)

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