GSWS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
This course is an introductory and interdisciplinary survey of the diverse and changing roles of gender, sex, and sexuality in contemporary society. Together we will tackle several questions over the course of the year, including: How do gender and women's studies contribute to our thinking of particular issues, institutional practices, and changing global dynamics? How do principles of feminist thought allow us to navigate controversial issues, including those related to tensions or exclusions in resistance movements? What are the possibilities and responsibilities of local and international feminist interventions for social justice?

We will explore, among other topics, the following: challenges to the sex- and gender binary, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex identities; intersectionality and solidarities across gender, race, class, and ability; constructions of masculinities and femininities; the operation of state power on gender, sexual, and other minorities; colonialism and Indigenous resistances; and activism and protest, including through literature and art. Above all, in this class, we will strive to make connections between our everyday lives, global structures, and the work for gender equality, equity, and freedom.

GSWS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
This course is an interdisciplinary half-year course that will introduce students to the field of sexuality studies. It will examine this field through several different approaches: theoretical, literary, visual, cultural and historical. The aim will be to explore questions of identity and representation as they relate to sexuality: how are sexual identities formed? Are they essential or constructed? Who controls representations of sexuality? Why do we think of certain sexualities as normal and others as deviant? Within this context, we will analyze how certain expressions of sexuality are socially excluded and devalued in the name of a sexual norm.

GSWS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE, CHANGE
The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in struggles for social justice, economic empowerment, education, health, poverty alleviation, human rights, environmental protection, peace-building, good governance and political representation. A variety of case studies and examples will be used to highlight the ways in which women and other marginalized groups organize and agitate for change, resist oppression and theorize the concept of justice.

GSWS 1024F INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social difference and relations of power. We will examine arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion, the rights of minoritized groups, and the politics of affirmative action. We will take up readings about these issues from disciplines such as: anti-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. The course will examine some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity? What are human rights and what does it mean to have such rights? And how are these rights contested and protected?

GSWS 1030G INTRODUCTION TO BLACK STUDIES
Black Studies is comprised of the knowledge production practices and worldviews among African and African descendant peoples across the globe. It is rooted in rich histories, cultures, and philosophies that have given rise to anti-colonial, anti-racist, the Negritude, Pan-African and civil rights movements, including #BlackLivesMatter. This survey course introduces students to foundational debates, ideas, and practices in the Black intellectual tradition. With an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, course materials include book chapters, journal and magazine articles, music, film, art, and poetry. We will locate contemporary topics (e.g., identity, aesthetics, gender, race, sexuality, and popular culture, etc.,) in historical frameworks, with a focus on resilience and resistance in Black life. The purpose of the course is to deepen our understanding of how social, political, economic, and cultural issues are taken up in the Black intellectual-activist tradition.

GSWS 2291F INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE ARTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, SURVIVAL, AND COLONIAL RESISTANCE (Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2807F)
One of the main objectives of this course will be to unravel how human beings become categories that expand beyond the seemingly binary divide between the sexes, the races and the have and have-nots. We will consider the real-life experiences of women or two-spirit peoples through an examination of texts from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, among others. In addition, our examination of popular culture, such as films, television shows, music videos, and clips from the internet, will provide thoughtful, and often provocative, examples of the complex representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in our society.Antirequisites: Indigenous Studies 2682F/G, Art History 2634F/G. Prerequisites: Indigenous Studies 1020E, GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or 1.0 from Art History 1640 or the former VAH 1040 or two of Art History 1641A/B, 1649A/B or the former VAH 1041A/B VAH 1045A/B, or 1.0 course or special permission from the department. 

GSWS 2440F REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE 
Through an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural approach, this course examines reproductive justice. Topics may include abortion, birth control, sex education, choice rhetoric, human rights, bodily autonomy, forced sterilization, reproductive racism, reproduction and disability, eugenics, war and reproduction, and infertility. Specific content will vary year-to-year depending on the instructor. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, GSWS 1030F/G, or permission from the department. 

GSWS 2710G MARRIAGE: FEMINIST AND QUEER PERSPECTIVES
This course covers five themes: the history of marriage, primarily in the West; the transition from arranged marriage to companionate marriage; feminist attempts to render marriage egalitarian; capitalism and the growth of the wedding industrial complex; queer perspectives on both heterosexual and same-sex marriage. No prerequisites.

GSWS 3173G INTRODUCTION TO QUEER THEORY
What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory and investigate its current applications.  Prerequisites: GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3305F GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE 
While popular culture operates to naturalize and distribute dominant discourses about gender and sexuality, it is also a fertile space through which resistance can be enacted. This course examines 'common sense' representations of gender and sexuality within Western popular culture and the ways these representations have been confronted and contested.  Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2253E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department. 

GSWS 3320G INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES
This course introduces students to gender studies and feminist research methodologies from a variety of disciplinary traditions and theoretical perspectives. Students will learn about and begin to apply specific methodological issues, including ethics, archival work, researcher positionality, and the practices and politics of data collection, interpretation, and reporting.  Antirequisites:GSWS 3321F/G and GSWS 3322F/G. Prerequisite: GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3324F CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
From black face performances, appropriation of cultural and spiritual practices, and its centrality in economic and other forms of social inequalities, race and racism persists. In this course, we will ask: What is race and its formations? How does it shift and change over time? Why do we remain so deeply invested in race/racism but are afraid to talk about it? And how is race debated and contested in the twenty-first century? We will explore these, and other questions, with sources from across disciplines (e.g., sociology, feminism, anthropology, literature), as well as in popular culture/media, and in liberation and anti-colonial movements. The course does not offer definitive answers about race, but rather explores its historical roots and contemporary manifestations. Prerequisites: GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3330G FEMINIST STAND-UP COMEDY

GSWS 3333G SPECIAL TOPICS IN SEXUALITY STUDIES: Queer Cinema

GSWS 3345F FEMINIST TOPICS IN SEXUALITY STUDIES: In Your Skin

GSWS 3415G  (Cross-listed with the course offered at the Department of English)

GSWS 3440G GENDERED BLOOD: CRITICAL MENSTRUAL STUDIES

This course considers menstruation and menstrual equity movements through interdisciplinary, intersectional, and cross-cultural perspectives, particularly work to de-stigmatize periods. Students will deconstruct essentialist narratives and include gender non-binary menstruators. Topics may include menstrual leave, environmental impact of disposable products, period-tracking apps and menstrual management technologies, and reduction in period poverty.  Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from the Program. 

GSWS 3710G TRANSNATIONAL SEXUALITIES: BEYOND BORDERS AND BINARIES

This course explores sexualities across national and cultural boundaries. Students will examine how sexual citizenship, transnational reproduction, homonationalism, and pinkwashing shape global understandings of sex, gender, and power. Students will interrogate how sexual identities and practices are regulated and analyze how Western discourses of sexuality intersect with global politics. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G.  

GSWS 3730F GAY LIVES AND CULTURE
What does it mean to be a gay man today? This course examines contemporary gay male culture, considering their historical antecedents. Attention will be paid to various aspects of gay life, including race, intersectionality, activism, community-building, sex, art, politics, and health care.  Antirequisite(s): GSWS 1023F/G. Prerequisite(s): GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department. 

GSWS 4459G The Feminist Romance Novel

GSWS 4470F NARRATIVES, ARCHIVES, & MEMORIES OF RACE AND GENDER

GSWS 4473G QUEER ECOLOGIES