Learn to think critically about how race and racism permeate and influence our laws, policies, culture, and justice.
This specialization is a learning pathway for students to advance your understanding of social justice by focusing on structures of race and racialization and the intersections with questions of power and privilege. Gain the knowledge and skills needed to examine how race impacts our lives and the opportunities different people are afforded.
Courses
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for a single- or joint-major degree in Gender & Social Justice may graduate with a Specialization in Critical Race Studies if they have successfully completed the following 4.0 credits:
- 4.0 credits from:
- GESO-CUST-MDST 2210H: Gender, Race, and Popular Culture
- GESO-INDG 2487H: Decolonizing Feminisms
- GESO 3052H/4052H: Race and Racialization
- GESO 3122H/4122H: Activists and Activisms: Social Justice and Decolonial Perspectives
- GESO 3151H: Transnational Sexualities
- GESO-CAST-SOCI 3860H: Gender, Racism and Class
- GESO-ENGL 4351H: Black Lives Matter
- CAST-POST-SOCI 2003H: Black Experience in Canada
- CAST-POST-SOCI 3661H: Race, Ethnicities, and Multiculturalism
- ENGL 3604Y/3605H: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature
- INDG-CAST-POST 2002H: Indigenous Peoples and Resurgency
- INDG-CAST 4050H: Alliances: Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Relationships for Justice
- INDG-CAST 4051H: Transforming Settler Consciousness: Complexities, Challenges, and Possibilities
- POST 4341H: Explorations in the Politics of Race in Global Perspective
Investigate how race and racialization impact the opportunities available to individuals in historical, contemporary, and socio-political settings.