Women and Gender Studies (Collaborative Program)
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Lead Faculty
Arts and Science
Degree Programs Offered
Adult Education and Community Development – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Anthropology – MA, MSc, PhD
Classics – MA, PhD
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research – MSc
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, PhD
Germanic Literature, Culture and Theory – MA, PhD
Health Administration – MHSc, MSc, PhD
Higher Education - MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
History – MA, PhD
History and Philosophy of Education - MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Information Studies – MISt, PhD
Law – LLM, SJD
Medieval Studies – MA, PhD
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations – MA, PhD
Nursing Sciences – MN, PhD
Philosophy – MA, PhD
Political Science – MA, PhD
Public Health Sciences – MHSc, MSc, PhD
Religion – MA, PhD
Second Language Education - MA, MEd, PhD
Social Work – MSW, PhD
Sociology – MA, PhD
Sociology and Equity Studies – MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Spanish – MA, PhD
Overview
The Graduate Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies (CWGS) provides a formal educational context for the pursuit of interdisciplinary research in women and gender studies and advanced feminist scholarship. The program, offered at the master's and doctoral levels, provides a central coordinating structure to facilitate and disseminate research in women and gender studies through student and faculty research seminars, colloquia, circulation of work in progress, study groups, conferences, and publications. The CWGS contributes to the development of an integrated research community in women and gender studies at the University of Toronto.
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 33 graduate programs providing more than 100 courses and involving over 100 graduate faculty members.
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.utoronto.ca/wgsi
E-mail: 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
Room 2036, Wilson Hall, New College
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C6
Canada
Degree Programs
Master’s Degrees
Minimum 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 fulfil all the degree requirements in the home department.
- Normally, applicants to the master’s program (thesis and non-thesis) should have at least 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE), and preferably more, in women’s studies, feminist studies and/or gender studies. This 1.0 FCE may be in women’s studies/gender studies or it may be a course on gender and women in another 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 approved by the Graduate Coordinator of the collaborative program.
Non-Thesis Master's
- JPW 2118H Philosophical Foundations of Women's Studies or equivalent.
- 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE) selected from the cross-listed courses in CWGS.
Thesis Master's
- JPW 2118H Philosophical Foundations of Women's Studies or equivalent.
- 0.5 full-course equivalent (FCE) selected from the cross-listed courses in CWGS.
- 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 graduate faculty member cross-listed with CWGS will be a member of the thesis or supervisory committee of students in the program.
Doctor of Philosophy
Minimum 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 fulfil all the degree requirements in the home department.
- Familiarity with the approaches and methodologies associated with scholarship in women and gender studies, or extensive familiarity with women and gender studies scholarship in a single discipline or a cognate set of disciplines.
- Normally, applicants to the PhD program should have at least 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE), and preferably more, in women’s studies, feminist studies and/or gender studies. This 1.0 FCE may be in women’s studies/gender studies or it may be a course on gender and women in another 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.
- 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 graduate faculty member cross-listed with CWGS will be a member of the thesis or supervisory committee of students in the program.
- JPW 2118H Philosophical Foundations of Women's Studies or equivalent (if not already completed).
- WGS 3000H Advanced Research Seminar in Women’s Studies.
- 0.5 full-course equivalent (FCE) not taken previously from the list of cross-listed courses in CWGS.
Courses
Required Courses
JPW 2118H Philosophical Foundations of Women's Studies
WGS 3000H Advanced Research Seminar in Women's Studies
Cross-listed Courses
Courses in women and gender studies offered by the participating units are listed below. Not all courses are offered each year. Courses not included in this list may be petitioned for credit. Information and timetables are available from the individual graduate units.
Adult Education and Counselling Psychology
AEC 1104H Community Education and Organizing
AEC 1113H Gender and Hierarchy at Work
AEC 1143H Introduction to Feminist Perspectives on Society and Education
AEC 1146H Women, War and Learning
AEC 1156H Power and Difference in the Workplace
AEC 1207H Counselling Topics in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Diversity
AEC 1253H Feminist Issues in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
AEC 1408H Working with Survivors of Trauma
AEC 3119H Global Perspectives on Feminist Education, Community Development, and Community Transformation
AEC 3132H Special Topics in Women in Development and Community Transformation
AEC 3181H Feminist Standpoints: Critical and Post-Structural Approaches
Anthropology
Student must complete “Individual Reading and Research Course Form” before enrolling (available from department).
ANT 5146H Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses
ANT 6026H Anthropology of Identity and Subject Formation
ANT 6050H Reading Course in Specific Area and Theory I
ANT 6051H Reading Course in Specific Area and Theory II
ANT 6052Y Reading Course in Specific Area and Theory III
ANT 7001H Medical Anthropology I
ANT 7002H Medical Anthropology II
JAL 1155H Language and Gender
Classics
CLA 5000H Early Greek Epic
CLA 5023H Topics in the Study of Roman Literature and Culture
CLA 5024H Topics in the Study of Roman Society
Comparative Literature
COL 5021H The Body in Medieval Literature
COL 5025Y Feminism and Postmodernism: Theory and Practice
COL 5032H Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature
COL 5050Y Social Constructions and Artistic Images of Women in Modern Chinese Literature, Drama, and the Movies
COL 5068H Traditions and Innovations of Epic Theatre from an Intercultural and Feminist Perspective
Criminology
CRI 1020H Law and Society: Theoretical Perspectives
CRI 1050H Theories of Crime and Social Order
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
CTL 1012H Curriculum for Girls and Young Women: Historical and Contemporary Issues
CTL 1309H Les stéréotypes sexuels dans les programmes scolaires
CTL 1313H Gender Equity in the Classroom
Drama
DRA 1002H History of the Theatre II: Modernity and Modernism in North American Theatre
DRA 3120H "Something More than a Woman": The Way of the Actress
DRA 1051H Postcolonial Drama
DRA 1055H Performance Research: Sexual Performance (Studies S/M)
DRA 3211H The Performing Body
DRA 4057H Women Script History
English
ENG 1027H Constructions of the Other in Medieval Literature
ENG2430H Early Modern Women’s Writing: Voices, Texts, and Spaces
ENG 4220H Austen and Scott
ENG4605H George Eliot, Emotion, and the New Psychology
ENG 6524H Postcolonial Literature and the World on Paper
ENG 6803H Intertextuality in Feminist Cinema: The Counter-Cinematic Impulse
Exercise Sciences
EXS 5507H Desire and Bodies in Place
EXS 5511H Hormonal Aspects of Women's Health and Exercise: A Focus on Reproductive and Bone Health Issues
EXS 5519H Theories of the Body and Transcendence
French Language and Literature
FRE 2035H Autour de l’intime en France: les écrits contemporains des femmes
FRE 2036H Configurations du genre sexuel dans la prose contemporaine des femmes
FRE 2078H Alterite: formes et significations
Geography
GGR 1504H Health, Place and Difference
GGR 1801H Social Identities and Space
JPG 1505H The Multicultural City: Diversity, Policy and Planning
JPG 1506H State/Space/Difference: Understanding the New Social Geography of the State
JPG 1509H Feminism, Postcoloniality and Development
JPG 1805H Transnationalism, Diaspora and Gender
JPG 1810H Globalization and Postmodernism
JPG 1815H Political Economy, the Body, and Health
Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 1772H The Politics of the Non-Fiction Film
Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
JNH 5001H Health Care Settings, Site and Human Well Being
History
HIS 1004H History and Biopolitics
HIS 1016H Readings in the History of Gender and Sexuality
HIS 1026H Modernity and Its Others: History and Postcolonial (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS 1101H Race and Gender in the Northern Colonies of North America
HIS 1112H Canada in Comparative Contexts, Gender, Labour, Migration
HIS 1230H The Sexes in the Western World
HIS 1245H Gender, Men, and Women in Europe 1500-1900
HIS 1533H Gender and International Relations (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS 1555H Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
HIS 1663H Gender in East and Southeast Asia
HIS 1665H Gender and History in Colonial South Asia
HIS 1667H Transnational Gender Histories
Information Studies
FIS 1330H Archives Concepts and Issues
FIS 2010H Reading Course
FIS 2011H Reading Course
FIS 2125H Information and Culture in a Global Context
FIS 2165H Social Issues in Information and Communication Technologies
FIS 2174H History of Records and Records-Keeping
Law
Participation in LAW courses is at the discretion of the Faculty of Law upon presentation, to the Faculty of Law Records Office, of a signed permission form from the student's home department. Note that preference is given to JD students and that many law courses are full by the end of the Faculty of Law add/drop period).
LAW 294H The Law and Praxis of International Human Rights
LAW 301H Women's Rights in International Law
LAW 334H Feminist Theory: Challenges to Legal and Political Thought
LAW 386H Reproductive and Sexual Health Law
Medieval Studies
MST 3101H Current Theory and Medieval Texts: An Introduction
MST 3102H Topics in Current Theory and Medieval Texts (Courses with prerequisites)
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
NMC 1608H Life Cycle and Personal Status in Judaism
NMC 1609H Gender-Related Topics in Law and Religion
NMC 2035Y Women and Writing in Twentieth-Century Iran
Nursing Science
JNH 5002H The Body, Health Care, Technology and Place
NUR 1021H Nursing Ethics
NUR 1039H Women’s Health Across the Lifespan
NUR 1040H Issues in Women's Health Care
NUR 1058H Aging, Gender and Equity
Philosophy
PHL 2140H Feminist Philosophy
Political Science
JPJ 2049H International Women’s Rights Law
POL 2024Y Feminist Theory: Challenges to Legal and Political Thought
POL 2032H Judgement in Law and Politics
POL 2037H Law, Religion and Public Discourse
POL 2038H Pluralism, Justice and Equality
POL 2235H Development, International Relations, Globalization: Through the Lens of a Gender
POL 2316H Women and Politics
POL 2423H Colonialism/Post-Colonialism
Public Health Sciences
CHL 5109H Gender and Health
CHL 5117H A Global Perspective on the Health of Women and Children
Religion
RLG 2021H Historiography of Religions
RLG 2025H Critical Social Theory and Feminist Religious Thought
RLG 2026H Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Future of Religion
Social Work
SWK 4304H Globalization and Trans-nationalization: Social Work Responses Locally and Globally
SWK 4306H Process of Social Exclusion, Marginalization, and Resistance
SWK 4403H Women and Social Policy in Canada
SWK 4420H Human Rights and Social Justice
SWK 4606H Diversity, Access, and Equity in Social Work Practice
SWK 4609H Sexuality, Sexual Diversity and Social Work Practice
SWK 4618H Special Issues in Gerontological Social Work
SWK 4623H Violence in Families: Multilevel Intervention in Interdisciplinary Practice
SWK 4624H Feminist Social Work Practice
Sociology
SOC 6017H Sociology of Families I
SOC 6117H Sociology of Families II
SOC 6019H Gender Relations I
SOC 6119H Gender Relations II
Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
SES 1912H Foucault and Research in Education: Discourse, Power and the Subject
SES 1921Y The Principles of Anti-Racism Education
SES 1922H Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SES 1923H Racism, Violence, and the Law: Issues for Researchers and Educators
SES 1926H Race, Space and Citizenship: Issues for Educators
SES 1954H Marginality and the Politics of Resistance
SES 1956H Social Relations of Cultural Production in Education
SES 1957H Doing Disability in Theory and Everyday Life
SES 1982H Women, Diversity, and the Educational System
SES 1983H Gender, Race and Historical Sociology
SES 1985H Women’s Learning, Women’s Health Movements, and the Health Professions
SES 1989H Black Feminist Thought
SES 1992H Feminism and Poststructuralism in Education
SES 2910H Changes in Families and Policy Consequences for Government and Education
SES 2999H Special Topics in Sociological Research in Education
SES 3910H Advanced Seminar on Race and Anti-Racism Research Methodology in Education
SES 3913H En/Coding Domination: Theorizing Power Relations Based on Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
SES 3930H Methods to Avoid Sexist, Racist and Ableist Biases in Research
SES 3932H Women and Higher Education
SES 3933H Theorizing Transnationality: Feminist Perspectives
SES 3952H Sexism, Racism, Colonialism: Pedagogical Implications
SES 3999H Special Topics in Advanced Sociological Research in Education
Spanish
SPA 2278H Contemporary Hispanic Women’s Writing I
SPA 2279H Contemporary Hispanic Women’s Writing II
SPA 2805H Representations of Women in Latin American Culture
Theory and Policy Studies in Education
TPS 1406H Sexuality and the History of Education
TPS 1426H The History of Gender and Education in Canada
TPS 1430H Gendered Colonialisms, Imperialisms and Nationalisms in History
TPS 1439H Gender, Ethics, and Education: Philosophical Issues
TPS 1442H Cultural and Racial Difference in Education: Philosophical Perspectives
TPS 1462H Women, Literature, and Education
TPS 1488H Feminist Theory, Musical Experience, and Music Education
TPS 3046H Gender Issues in Educational Leadership
TPS 3417H Research Seminar in Feminist Criticism, Aesthetics, and Pedagogy
Program Committee
Karen Mirchandani - BA, MA, PhD - Adult Education & Counselling Psychology
Bonnie McElhinny - BA, MA, PhD - Anthropology (Director)
Holly Wardlow - BA, MPh, PhD - Anthropology
Alison Keith - BA, PhD - Classics
Julie LeBlanc - MA, PhD - Comparative Literature
Rosemary Gartner - BA, MS, PhD - Criminology
Tara Goldstein - BA, PhD - Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
Kay Armatage - BA, MA, PhD - Drama
Nancy Copeland - BA, MA, PhD - Drama
Elizabeth Harvey - BA, MA, PhD - English
Mary Nyquist - BA, MA, PhD – English
Margaret MacNeill – BPHE, MA, PhD – Exercise Sciences
Barbara Havercroft - BA, MA, PhD - French
Katharine Rankin - BA, MRP, PhD- Geography
Angelica Fenner - BA, MA, PhD - German
R. W. Cockerill, BA, MA, PhD/Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
Janet Noel - BA, MA, PhD - History
Michelle Murphy - BA, PhD – History (Coordinator of Graduate Studies)
Kerry Rittich - MusBac, LLB, SJD- LAW
Rebecca Cook, AB, MA, MPA, JD, LLM, JSD - Law
Suzanne Akbari, - BA, MA, MPhil, PhD – Medieval Studies
Tirzah Meacham - BA, MA, PhD - Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
Janet Angus - RN, BScN, MScN, PhD - Nursing Science
Amy Mullin - BA,PhD - Philosophy
Kathryn Morgan - BA, MA, MEd, PhD - Philosophy
Sylvia Bashevkin - BA, MA, PhD - Political Science
Anne-Emanuelle Birn - BA, MA, DSc - Public Health Sciences
Pamela Klassen - BA, MA, MPhil, PhD - Religion
S. M. Neysmith, BSc, MSW, DSW/Social Work
Judith Taylor - BA, PhD - Sociology
Sandy Welsh - BA, MA, PhD - Sociology
Margrit Eichler - MA, LLD, PhD - Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Alissa Trotz - BA, MPhil, PhD - Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Rosa Sarabia - BA, MA, PhD - Spanish
Roxana Ng - BA, MA, PhD - BA, MA, PhD/Theory & Policy Studies in Education