Current Courses


Summer 2025

GSWS 2140 WOMEN IN CANADIAN HISTORY
This course is designed to be an overview of women's history in Canada from the first days of European settlement to the end of the 20th Century. Its focus is social history, that is, examining the realities of women's everyday lives. Emphasis will be placed on examining a variety of historical sources. Factors such as race, class, ethnicity and sexuality will be important themes. At the end, students will have a sense of how women's diverse lived experiences have changed throughout Canadian history, and how they have remained the same. No prerequisites.
Summer Katherine McKenna Online asynchronous Previous course outline

GSWS 2163A SEX, HOW TO: SEX EDUCATION, ITS HISTORY AND CONTROVERSIES
Sex education is a controversial topic; should we even be teaching people how to have sex or how not to have sex? This course traces the history of sex education and its many controversies as well as looking at contemporary sex education practices both locally and in an international context. No prerequisites.

Summer TBA Online asynchronous Previous course outline

GSWS 2171A OUT OF LEFT FIELD: GENDER AND SPORT
This course examines sport from a critical feminist perspective. We will examine commonly held assumptions about the human body, while considering how gender, race, sexuality, and culture, among other topics, influence our understanding of sports as well as how athletes are positioned as celebrities and their impact on popular culture.

Summer 2171A TBA Online asynchronous Previous course outline