Women and Gender Studies (Collaborative Program)
Overview | Master's Level | Doctoral Level | Courses | Committee | Contact
Lead Faculty
Arts and Science
Participating Degree Programs
Adult Education and Community Development – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Anthropology – MA, MSc, PhD
Cinema Studies – MA
Classics – MA, PhD
Comparative Literature – MA, PhD
Counselling Psychology – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Criminology – MA, PhD
Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Drama – MA, PhD
Educational Administration – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
English – MA, PhD
Exercise Sciences – MSc, PhD
French Language and Literature – MA, PhD
Geography – MA, MSc, PhD
Germanic Literature, Culture and Theory – MA, PhD
Health Administration – MHSc
Higher Education – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
History – MA, PhD
History and Philosophy of Education – MA, MEd
Information – MI
Information Studies – PhD
Law – LLM, SJD
Medieval Studies – MA, PhD
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations – MA, PhD
Nursing Science – MN, PhD
Philosophy – MA, PhD
Political Science – MA, PhD
Public Health Sciences – MPH, MSc, PhD
Religion – MA, PhD
Second Language Education – MA, MEd, PhD
Social Work – MSW, PhD
Sociology – MA, PhD
Sociology in Education – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Spanish – MA, PhD
Overview
The Graduate Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies (CWGS) provides students with an opportunity for advanced feminist studies in concert with a MA or PhD degree in another discipline. The program offers a rich interdisciplinary environment in which to grapple with how gender and sexuality is tangled with questions of race, citizenship, embodiment, colonialism, nation, global capitalism, violence, aesthetics, and other pressing concerns.
The graduate programs listed above participate in the Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. The collaborating units contribute courses and provide facilities and supervision for graduate research. The program is administered by the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). The CWGS brings together 34 graduate programs, more than 100 courses, and more than 100 graduate faculty members. Our core faculty brings transnational feminist commitments to the study of diverse sites and their interconnection with particular focus on Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and the United States. Students who successfully complete the requirements of the collaborative program will receive the notation "Completed Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies" on their transcript, in addition to the master's or doctoral degree from their home graduate unit.
Contact and Address
Web: www.wgsi.utoronto.ca/graduate/collaborative-program
Email: grad.womenstudies@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-3668
Fax: (416) 946-5561
Graduate Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies
Women and Gender Studies Institute
University of Toronto
Room 2036, Wilson Hall, New College
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C6
Canada
Master's Level
Admission Requirements
- Applicants who wish to enrol in the collaborative program must apply to and be admitted to both the collaborative program and a graduate degree program in one of the collaborating departments. Students must fulfill all the degree requirements in the home department.
- Applicants to the collaborative program should have a substantial undergraduate background in gender and feminist studies or an equivalent focus within a discipline. In exceptional cases, extensive work or activist experience which also requires academic knowledge of research on women and/or gender will also be considered.
- Two-page statement of research intent explaining how your program of study and specific research interests relate to women and gender studies at the master's level.
- Two letters of reference outlining your background in women and gender studies.
Program Requirements
- Programs of study should be planned in consultation with the CWGS Graduate Coordinator as well as the Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the student's home graduate unit.
- Courses should be selected from the established cross-listed courses or approved by the Graduate Coordinator of the collaborative program.
Non-thesis Master's
- A required 0.5 full-course equivalent (FCE) selected from WGS 1000H, WGS 1001H, or WGS 1002H.
- 1.0 FCE of cross-listed or approved courses with a focus on women/gender/feminist/sexuality/critical race/postcolonial studies.
- Regular attendance at the WGS Research Seminar
Thesis Master's
- A required 0.5 FCE selected from WGS 1000H, WGS 1001H, or WGS 1002H.
- 0.5 FCE course cross-listed or approved with a focus on women/gender/feminist/sexuality/critical race/postcolonial studies.
- Regular attendance at the WGS Research Seminar
- The thesis, or major paper, dealing with a subject in the field of women and gender studies.
- Theses will be supervised and evaluated in the same manner as those in the home graduate unit. Normally, at least one cross-listed or core graduate faculty member of WGSI will be a member of the thesis or supervisory committee of students in the program.
Doctoral Level
Admission Requirements
- Applicants who wish to enrol in the collaborative program must apply to and be admitted to both the collaborative program and a graduate degree program in one of the collaborating departments. Students must fulfill all the degree requirements in the home department.
- Applicants to the collaborative program should have a substantial undergraduate or graduate background in gender and feminist studies or an equivalent focus within a discipline. In exceptional cases, extensive work or activist experience which also requires academic knowledge of research on women and/or gender will also be considered.
- Two-page statement of research intent explaining how your program of study and specific research interests relate to women and gender studies at the doctoral level.
- Two letters of reference outlining your background in women and gender studies.
Program Requirements
- Programs of study should be planned in consultation with the CWGS Graduate Coordinator as well as the Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the student's home graduate unit.
- Courses should be selected from the established cross-listed courses approved by the Graduate Coordinator of the collaborative program.
- A required 0.5 FCE selected from WGS 1000H, WGS 1001H, or WGS 002H.
- Any other 0.5 FCE course in WGSI.
- 1.0 FCE of courses cross-listed or approved with a focus on women/gender/feminist/sexuality/critical race/postcolonial studies.
- Regularly participate in the WGS Research Seminar. Students are required to present their work in the seminar at least once before graduating.
- Doctoral thesis dealing with a subject in the field of women and gender studies. Theses will be supervised and evaluated in the same manner as those in the home graduate unit. Normally, at least one crosslisted or core graduate faculty member with WGSI will be a member of the thesis or supervisory committee of students in the program.
Course List
Core Courses
WGS 1000H Theories, Histories, Feminisms
WGS 1001H Feminism, Transnationalism and Postcolonialism,
WGS 1002H Feminist Methodologies and Epistemologies
Elective Courses
For courses offered by WGSI and cross-listed by the participating units offered in a particular year, check the collaborative program website, www.wgsi.utoronto.ca/graduate/collaborative-program.
Program Committee
Piran, Niva - BA, PhD – Adult Education & Counselling Psychology
McElhinny, Bonnie - BA, MA, PhD – Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies (Director)
Coupland, Gary - BA, MA, PhD – Anthropology
Keith, Alison - BA, PhD - Classics
Havercroft, Barbara - MA, MA, PhD – Comparative Literature
Wortley, Scot - BA, MA, PhD – Criminology
Campbell, Elizabeth - BA, BEd, MEd, PhD – Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
Testa, Bart - AM, BA, PhD – Cinema Studies
Barton, Bruce - PhD – Drama
Robins, William - BA, MPhil, PhD – English
Thomas, Scott - BSc, MSc, PhD – Exercise Sciences
Cozea, Angela - BA, MA, PhD – French
Daniere, Amrita - AB, PhD – Geography
Stock, Markus - MA, PhD – German
Cockerill, Rhonda - BA, MA, PhD – Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
Loeb, Lori - BA, MMSt, PhD – History
Mai, Jens-Erik - PhD – Information
Murphy, Michelle - BA, PhD – Women and Gender Studies (Coordinator, Graduate Program)
Dyzenhaus, David - BA, LLB, DPhil, FRSC – Law
Harvey, Elisabeth Ruth - BA, MPhil, PhD – Medieval Studies
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain - BA, LLB, MA, PhD – Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
Wynn, Francine - BA, MA, PhD – Nursing Science
Kremer, Philip - BSc, PhD – Philosophy
Skogstad, Grace - BA, MA, PhD – Political Science
Corey, Paul - BSc, MA, PhD – Public Health Sciences
Marshall, John - MA, PhD – Religion
Litvack, Andrea - BSW, MSW, CSW – Social Work
Wheaton, Blair - BA, MA, PhD – Sociology
Titchkosky, Tanya - MA, PhD – Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Davidson, Robert - MA, PhD – Spanish
Boler, Megan - BA, PhD – Theory & Policy Studies in Education