An interdisciplinary introduction to Women's Studies focusing on how women and men shape and are shaped by culture (including popular culture),...
An interdisciplinary introduction to Women's Studies that explores women's historic and current collective efforts to transform social, economic and...
An introduction to the growing national and international discussion of human rights, exploring the value and limitations of universal rights,...
An introduction to the history of feminist theorizing, including liberal, radical, socialist, multiracial, poststructural, postcolonial, third wave,...
This course will focus on the portrayal of women in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament.
An examination of goddesses and female religious symbols in a variety of cultures:
An examination of gender as identities performed or constructed in complex social, historical and cultural processes and conditions, including how...
A closely focused course on women's writing in English. The topic for the course varies, sometimes concentrating on specific issues, sometimes on an...
An exploration of feminist research methods, focusing on experience, power and knowledge and on learning methods such as how to do oral history,...
An advanced course in feminist theory that explores the critical impact of recent work on identity and difference, nationalism, race, queer theory,...
Students will explore ideas about representation, spectatorship and production in relation to issues of social difference, such as gender, race and...
A study of gender in several religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
This course examines key areas of women's history, such as indigenous cultures, slavery, immigration, religion, "witchcraft", the family, sexuality,...
This course examines key areas of women's history, such as the impact of the Great Depression and the Second World War, the civil rights movement, the...
This course examines contemporary debates in critical race theory in an attempt to critically decode the operations of race in literary and cultural...
This course explores a range of theories of gender and sexuality by working through readings from the intersecting fields of feminist, queer and...
A study of philosophical issues in feminist thought. Three hours; one term Prerequisite(s): Registration in Level III or IV of any program or six...
This course focuses on how gender and other differences shape our experiences of war and struggles for a more peaceful world. Three hours; one term ...
Students develop their own research projects, in regular consultation with a faculty supervisor. Upon completion, students present their results at a...
An intensive seminar in a field reflecting the instructor's research interests. Students benefit from current scholarship and learn research methods...