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Please visit the Academic Timetable to see which courses are presently being offered and in which location(s). Not all courses listed below run every term or in all locations. For specific details about program requirements and degree regulations, please refer to the Academic Calendar.

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  • GESO-1001H: Thinking About Gender & Social Justice

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Exploring social media, art, law, literature, and protest, this course draws connections between histories and the contemporary moment through the lens of gender and social justice. Examines the social construction of sex and gender in relation to race, class, disability, and sexuality, and challenge assumptions about feminism and human inequality.

  • GESO-1002H: Gender and Social Justice Matters

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Considers gender, sex, and bodies in relation to contemporary challenges facing our world, both in North America and abroad. Through issues including media, popular culture, violence, sexuality, health, poverty, and globalization, we explore diverse women's experiences and gender relations, and evaluate multiple pathways toward gender and economic justice for everyone. Excludes WMST 1000Y.

  • GESO-2002H: Health Humanities

    Offered:

    • Online

    Health humanities explores how the arts and media illuminate aesthetic, ethical, political, and contextual elements of health in everyday life, including but going beyond clinical encounters. With context in mind, students learn how humanities epistemologies enrich understandings of concepts central to health, such as diagnosis, disease, discrimination, and disability. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

  • GESO-2100P: Co-Op Work Term

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

  • GESO-2121H: Women & Health

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Addresses issues of importance to women as recipients and providers of health care and as subjects of health research. Students are introduced to various models of health and illness, and to the origins and theoretical underpinnings of the gendered dimensions of health in Canadian and global contexts. Prerequisite: 0.5 GESO or WMST credit at the 1000 level, or a minimum of 60% in all required NURS 1000-level courses, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 2121H.

    Cross-listed: NURS-2121H

  • GESO-2141H: Discovering Feminist Thought

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    How have feminists conceptualized social justice, especially as connected to struggles for social change? This course explores some of the key historical and contemporary feminist theories, inviting debate about the many different ways that feminists have explained and analyzed social inequalities, imagined alternatives, and strategized for social gender justice. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 0.5 GESO or WMST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 2141H.

    Cross-listed: PHIL-2141H

  • GESO-2151H: Contemporary Feminisms

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Uses a feminist lens to analyze a variety of contemporary social issues that may include sexual violence, migrant labour, transgender and queer politics, and environmental justice, as well as the new frontiers of transnational and digital feminist activism. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 0.5 GESO or WMST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Equivalent to WMST 2151H.

  • GESO-2181H: Intro to Fat Studies: Radical Self Love

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Fat studies interrogates and interrupts fat as a historically dependent social and political construction. This course locates the origins of fat as moral and racial panic, critically examines anti-fatness as a social justice issue, and unpacks the systemic biases that have embedded these attitudes into our daily lives. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

  • GESO-2210H: Gender, Race and Popular Culture

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    An introduction to historical and contemporary popular and everyday culture, arts, and entertainment as mechanisms that produce and reinforce ideologies about gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and citizenship. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 0.5 GESO, WMST, or CUST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 2210H.

    Cross-listed: CUST-2210H, MDST-2210H

  • GESO-2251H: Gender & International Development

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    An analysis of the intersectional gender relations that shape political, socio-economic, and cultural issues and struggles for sustainable development across the globe. Introduces students to feminist political economy and ecology frameworks and pathways to gender justice and human rights. Prerequisite: 0.5 GESO, WMST, or IDST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 2251H.

    Cross-listed: IDST-2251H

  • GESO-2410H: The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Popular Culture, Gender, And Social Movements

    Offered:

    • Online
    • Durham GTA

    Examines the role of popular culture in various forms-including live theatre, music, fashion, film, and television-within Canadian and American social movements of the twentieth century that sought to reimagine gender. Emphasizes the role of race, class, sexuality, ability, and medium in the production and consumption of protest cultures. Excludes WMST 2410H.

    Cross-listed: MDST-2410H

  • GESO-2430H: Sociology of Gender

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Focuses on gender as a core aspect of social organization and inequality. Key concepts are gender, femininity, masculinity, sexuality, homosexuality, heterosexuality, and queer. Naturalist ideas and sociological analyses developed within feminism and lesbian and gay theories are studied. Prerequisite: 60% or higher in SOCI 1002H (or in 1000Y); or 0.5 WMST or GESO credit. Excludes SOCI-WMST 3430H.

    Cross-listed: SOCI-2430H

  • GESO-2487H: Decolonizing Feminisms

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Looks at how contemporary feminisms can urgently turn to recognition and foregrounding of Indigenous peoples and their voices across territories. With emphasis on Indigenous women and 2SQ people as creative makers, vibrant thinkers, and vital members of our communities, we examine Indigenous/feminist acts of resistance, resilience and resurgence. Prerequisite: GESO 1001H or WMST 1001H. Excludes WMST 2487H.

    Cross-listed: INDG-2487H

  • GESO-2520H: Women in the Ancient World, 700 Bce-600

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Introduces students to the social and cultural presence, significance, and role of women in ancient Greece and Rome. Particular attention will be given to those few sources and evidence that offer a female perspective from these patriarchal societies, including literature, philosophical and medical treatises, law codes, and the visual arts. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes AHCL-WMST 2310H, 2320H.

    Cross-listed: AHCL-2520H

  • GESO-2601H: Documenting Canada

    Offered:

    • Durham GTA

    Explores attempts to document "real" aspects of Canadian life in order to question how we think we know about Canada. We discuss the genres of documentary film, poetry, and prose, the questions of power they raise, and the forms of creativity they generate. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-WMST 2000Y, ENGL 3550Y, CAST 2600Y.

    Cross-listed: CAST-2601H, MDST-2601H

  • GESO-2703H: Literature & Social Justice

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Studies a range of works from different periods and genres that raise moral questions and ethical dilemmas concerning issues of social justice involving race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, and other variables. Considers literature's power to evoke the plight of the socially disadvantaged, and the implications for social change. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3703H.

    Cross-listed: ENGL-2703H

  • GESO-2711H: Acting Up Feminism & Hist in Canada

    Offered:

    • Online

    An overview of the history of feminist ideas, strategies, and actions in Canada. We explore the diversity and distinctiveness of Canadian feminism at different historical moments, celebrating the strength and creativity of organized and individual forms of resistance, while also probing the complicated, difficult, and sometimes "messy" workings of feminism. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits, including 0.5 WMST, GESO, CAST, or HIST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST-CAST 2110H.

    Cross-listed: HIST-2711H, CAST-2711H

  • GESO-3021H: Discovering Social Justice Research

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    How can research be used as a tool for social change? This course teaches students how to design anti-oppressive, decolonial, and feminist research in collaboration with community organizations. With attention to a range of current social issues, students learn about the theory, ethics, and design of engaged research. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including GESO 2141H and 0.5 additional GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3021H.

  • GESO-3050H: Philosophy, Gender and Feminism

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    A study of philosophical concepts of gender, sex and sexuality, feminist critique, and developments in feminist philosophies. Prerequisite 7.0 university credits or permission of department chair. Excludes PHIL-WMST 2031Y.

    Cross-listed: PHIL-3050H

  • GESO-3150H: Troubling Trans

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Explores the ways trans and gender diverse bodies intersect with questions of queerness, feminism, nationalism, colonialism, citizenship, criminalization, race, and capital. What strategies of representation and resistance do trans communities engage in as part of their work of imagining and enacting freedom? Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO 4150H, WMST 3150H.

  • GESO-3250H: Queer Feminisms

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Students explore bodies, desires, relations, and culture through queer and feminist theories. We consider connections among queer feminist scholarship, personal experience, political struggle, and artistic expression. Gender, sexuality, transgression, and intersectionality are central to the inquiry and conversation. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 0.5 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO-CUST 4250H, WMST 3250H.

    Cross-listed: CUST-3250H

  • GESO-3310H: Love, Sex & Death in the Ancient World

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Ancient Greeks and Romans explored concepts of love, sexual roles, and violence through writing that inspires scholars and artists to this day. This course draws upon works ranging from ancient drama and poetry to philosophy and epitaphs in order to explore both ancient attitudes and their critical reception. Prerequisite: 8.0 university credits.

    Cross-listed: AHCL-3310H

  • GESO-3400H: Feminism and Disability

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Introduces students to critical perspectives that push thinking about disability beyond medical and social models. Focuses on connections between gender and disability. Explores feminist challenges to ableism. Other topics include bodies, race, sexuality, education, creativity, access, eugenics, intersections, and austerity. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits. Excludes WMST 3300H, 3400H.

    Cross-listed: SOCI-3400H, PHIL-3400H

  • GESO-3431H: Growing Gap:gender (in)justice in Canada

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    An intersectional feminist analysis of social welfare issues and policies in Canada. Focusing on topics including poverty, homelessness, childcare, and employment, we examine historical roots and contemporary contexts shaping the lives of women and marginalized groups bearing the brunt of the growing income gap and neoliberal threats to equality. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO-CAST-POST 4431H, WMST 3431H, WMST-CAST-POST 4430Y.

    Cross-listed: POST-3431H, CAST-3431H

  • GESO-3440H: Sexuality & the Social

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Explores sexuality as a complex issue in sociological analysis. Examines theoretical approaches to the body, gender, and sexuality, the construction of "normal" and "deviant" sexualities, and various forms of sexual regulation and resistance. Prerequisite: 5.0 university credits including at least 1.0 credit in SOCI, GESO or WMST at the 2000 level.

    Cross-listed: SOCI-3440H

  • GESO-3507H: Canadian Women's Writing

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    A survey of Canadian women's prose fiction and life-writing from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes mainstream authors such as Moodie, Montgomery, Laurence, Munro, and Atwood; less well-known Indigenous, immigrant, and (translated) francophone writers; and recent work by young authors. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-ENGL-WMST 2660Y. Students may take only one of CAST 3506Y or 3507H for credit.

    Cross-listed: CAST-3507H, ENGL-3507H

  • GESO-3609H: Sicklit

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    We read works that imagine disease, cure, and convalescence as gendered modes, asking how literature exposes pathologization and how authors rewrite illness beyond pathology. We focus on the regulation imposed by cultural and social understandings of "sickness" and the resistance posed by authors to medicalization. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3701H (2012FA).

    Cross-listed: ENGL-3609H

  • GESO-3672H: Gender, Diversity, Intersectionalities

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Examines issues of diverse intersectional gender identities and gender experiences, including Indigeneity, (dis)ability, race, class, LBTQ, and fat, and provides socio-political perspectives to understand activism, community building, and possibilities for socio-political and policy change. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 1.0 POST, CAST, SOCI or GESO credit at the 2000 level, or permission of instructor. Recommended: POST-CAST 2011H and/or 2012H. Excludes POST-CAST-WMST 3670Y.

    Cross-listed: POST-3672H, CAST-3672H, SOCI-3672H

  • GESO-3701H: Writing the Body

    Offered:

    • Durham GTA

    Studies how literary production is influenced by gender and sexuality, with selected works from different genres and literary periods in English. Areas of study may include the female literary tradition, discourses in masculinities, and queer and trans-gendered narratives, among others. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excudes ENGL-WMST 3700Y.

    Cross-listed: ENGL-3701H

  • GESO-3704H: Queer Lit

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Examines literary and cultural representations of queerness through historical, theoretical, and aesthetic approaches. What does it mean for a text to be "queer"? How do sexual identities intersect with racial, ethnic, and religious ones? What can explorations of queerness as an identity category tell us about identity itself? Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

    Cross-listed: ENGL-3704H

  • GESO-3709H: Girlhood Bodies and Narratives

    Offered:

    • Durham GTA

    Studies selected girlhood bodies and narratives as they have developed within the contexts of Canadian and global literature and popular culture. Focusing on the negotiation of girlhood bodies and narratives through a variety of spaces and over diverse borders, this course considers relationships between Canadian and global girlhoods. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 1.0 ENGL credit or permission of the instructor.

    Cross-listed: ENGL-3709H, CAST-3709H

  • GESO-3796H: Feminist Psychologies

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Explores principles and practices of feminist psychology, theories of gender and sexual development, and the psychology of women. Focus is on feminist critiques of psychology and feminist contributions to psychology. Feminist relational, community, post-colonial, and narrative approaches are emphasized. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond or 1.0 PSYC credit at 2000 level or beyond. Excludes GESO-PSYC 4796H, WMST 3796H.

    Cross-listed: PSYC-3796H

  • GESO-3860H: Gender Race & Class

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Analyzes power relations and lived experiences through the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Students undertake the critical work of understanding the ongoing implications of these interlocking systems of privilege and oppression upholding inequalities and fueling resistance in Canadian and international contexts. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, or SOCI credit at 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3860H.

    Cross-listed: SOCI-3860H, CAST-3860H

  • GESO-3881H: Gender Globalization & Resistance

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Focuses on how globalization is transforming intersectional gender dynamics that underpin relationships between and within states, markets, civil society, and households. Introduces students to feminist perspectives on the global political economy, focusing on specific issues such as international trade agreements, labour, security, migration, health, environment, and human rights. Prerequisite: 1.0 IDST, POST, GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST-POST 3880Y, 4881H.

    Cross-listed: IDST-3881H, POST-3881H, SOCI-3881H

  • GESO-3962H: Gender, Sexualities & the Law

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Explores key issues, theories, and debates concerning gender, feminism, and the law, primarily in Canada. Approaching law as a site of regulation and constraint and drawing upon restorative justice pedagogies and decolonial methodologies, the course examines issues such as family, sexuality, violence, pornography, prostitution, poverty, employment, and immigration. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, or POST credit, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3962H.

    Cross-listed: SOCI-3962H, CAST-3962H, POST-3962H

  • GESO-3966H: Criminalizing Women

    Offered:

    • Online

    A criminological analysis of women in trouble from early to late modernity to the present moment, with specific analysis of the disciplining and incarceration of cisgender women and trans women. Focuses on the Canadian criminal justice system, with analysis of its racist, colonial, patriarchal, homophobic, ableist legacies. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, or SOCI credit, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3966H.

    Cross-listed: CAST-3966H, SOCI-3966H

  • GESO-3122H: Activists and Activisms: Social Justice and Decolonial Perspectives

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    A critical analysis of contemporary activisms, drawing upon diverse racial justice, climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, border justice, feminist, and/or queer/trans justice scholars and activists. With attention to critical race, decolonial, and feminist scholarship, students learn alongside local change-makers and may participate directly in diverse activisms and ways of organizing. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO 4122H, WMST 3122H.

  • GESO-4010Y: Honours Thesis

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Consult the department office for information and for the required thesis registration form. Students wishing to take a double credit thesis with one credit applied to Gender & Social Justice and the second to a joint major should see the chair of the Gender & Social Justice Department. Excludes WMST 4010Y.

  • GESO-4050H: Critical Race Theory and Social Justice

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Highlighting work by racialized and Indigenous women, this course explores contemporary themes within feminism about critical race theory, white supremacy, and anti-racist practice. Topics include intersections of racism with other systems of inequality, everyday and systemic racism, racial violence, whiteness and privilege, and feminist anti-racism responses. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 3000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 4050H.

  • GESO-4122H: Activists and Activisms: Social Justice and Decolonial Perspectives

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    A critical analysis of contemporary activisms, drawing upon diverse racial justice, climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, border justice, feminist, and/or queer/trans justice scholars and activists. With attention to critical race, decolonial, and feminist scholarship, students learn alongside local change-makers and may participate directly in diverse activisms and ways of organizing. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO 3122H, WMST 4122H.

  • GESO-4150H: Troubling Trans

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Explores the ways trans and gender diverse bodies intersect with questions of queerness, feminism, nationalism, colonialism, citizenship, criminalization, race, and capital. What strategies of representation and resistance do trans communities engage in as part of their work of imagining and enacting freedom? Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO 3150H, WMST 4150H.

  • GESO-4206H: Indigenous Women and Settler History

    Offered:

    • Online

    Explores historical representations of several Indigenous women in what is now North America. Particular attention is paid to the symbolic uses of these women and how their bodies been put into the service of settler histories. Prerequisite: INDG 2306H. Excludes INDG-HIST-WMST 4205Y.

    Cross-listed: INDG-4206H

  • GESO-4208H: Nursing, Feminism & Women's Health

    Offered:

    • Online

    Drawing from the meta-paradigm concepts of nursing science-person, health, environment, and nursing- the focus of this course is women's health and women-centered health care delivery in the Canadian context. Androcentric science, sex/gender-based analysis, and topics such as methadone and mothering, smoking as social control, and HPV vaccination are discussed. Prerequisite: A pass in NURS 3020H and 3021H; 60% or higher in NURS 3000H, 3001H, 3004H, 3030H, and NURS-BIOL 3550H; and permission of the department. For non-Nursing students: GESO-WMST 2121H and permission of the School of Nursing.

    Cross-listed: NURS-4208H

  • GESO-4250H: Queer Feminisms

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Students explore bodies, desires, relations, and culture through queer and feminist theories. We consider connections among queer feminist scholarship, personal experience, political struggle, and artistic expression. Gender, sexuality, transgression, and intersectionality are central to the inquiry and conversation. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO-CUST 3250H, WMST 4250H.

    Cross-listed: CUST-4250H

  • GESO-4351H: Black Lives Matter

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course examines the Black Lives Matter movement within a history of social protest against state-sanctioned racial violence in the US. The course situates BLM within earlier civil rights movements and the "racial formations" (the prison industrial complex, racial justice activism, the Obama presidency) from which the movement emerged. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits or 1.0 GESO credit at the 2000 level or beyond (or permission of the department). Excludes ENGL 4301H (2018-2019).

    Cross-listed: ENGL-4351H

  • GESO-4431H: Growing Gap:gender (in)justice in Canada

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    An intersectional feminist analysis of social welfare issues and policies in Canada. Focusing on topics including poverty, homelessness, childcare, and employment, we examine historical roots and contemporary contexts shaping the lives of women and marginalized groups bearing the brunt of the growing income gap and neoliberal threats to equality. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO-CAST-POST 3431H, WMST-CAST-POST 4430Y, WMST 4431H.

    Cross-listed: POST-4431H, CAST-4431H

  • GESO-4551H: Gender and Disability in Canada

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Explores how difference-especially who is labelled "different"-changes according to social, political, and cultural factors and interests. We focus on disability and its intersection with other identity-based categories, including gender, race, and sexuality. Readings come from Canadian literature and film, critical theory, social policy, and the mass media. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-SOCI-WMST 4550Y.

    Cross-listed: CAST-4551H, SOCI-4551H

  • GESO-4630H: Advanced Seminar in the Sociology of Gender

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Examines intersections of gender with "race," ethnicity, sexuality, and class. The implications of intersectional perspectives for how we understand gender equality strategies and outcomes are considered. Specific topics are determined yearly, and may be different in Peterborough and Durham. For details, see trentu.ca/sociology/courses.php/4610. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits, including one of SOCI--GESO-WMST 2430H or 3430H or 3440H, and 2.0 credits at the 3000 level.

    Cross-listed: SOCI-4630H, IDST-4630H

  • GESO-4796H: Feminist Psychologies

    Offered:

    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA

    Explores principles and practices of feminist psychology, theories of gender and sexual development, and the psychology of women. Focus is on feminist critiques of psychology and feminist contributions to psychology. Feminist relational, community, post-colonial, and narrative approaches are emphasized. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond or 1.0 PSYC credit at 2000 level or beyond.

    Cross-listed: PSYC-4796H

  • GESO-4820Y: Community Research Placement

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    The Trent Community Research Centre makes available to students research placements with community organizations. Projects are supervised jointly by a faculty member and representative of a community organization. Projects with sufficient gendered content might be eligible for credit in Gender & Social Justice. For details, see Community-Based Research Program (p. 437). Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits and a minimum cumulative average of 75%. Excludes WMST 4820Y, 4821H.

  • GESO-4990H: Gender & Environmental Justice

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course examines debates and issues involved in understanding environmental problems from a gender and justice perspective. Students are introduced to environmental justice issues and concepts, feminist approaches and critiques, and explorations of emerging discourses making links between justice, sustainability, and issues like climate change. Prerequisite: 8.0 university credits including 1.0 WMST or ERST credit at the 3000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST - ERST 499H.

    Cross-listed: ERST-4990H

  • GESO-4995Y: Feminist Research Seminar

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Students focus on a key area of feminist scholarship through intensive seminar discussions that may include guest lectures from various feminist faculty members from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Students engage in a major independent research project and collaboratively organize a public or campus event. Prerequisite: Open to Honours Gender & Women's Studies students with 12.0 university credits including WMST 3021H.

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