Faculty of Arts & Science
Women & Gender Studies

The Department offers a major in Women's Studies for the 40-course Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Arts and Science (BASc) degree programs. Alternatively, you can choose to do a General Major in Social Sciences and select Women's Studies as one of your three streams.

For more information on any of the degrees listed above, see your Program Planning Guide or speak to an Academic Advisor.

Courses and areas of interest within Women & Gender Studies include, but are not limited to:

• Migration & Citizenship
• Law, Gender & Sexuality
• Violence, Poverty & the State
• Women & Spirituality
• Globalization & Social Justice
• Feminist Theory & Research Methodologies
• Critical Perspectives on Activism & Advocacy
• Critical Race Theories
• Environmental Movements
• Feminist Geographies
• Women & Science
• Women, Physical Activity & Wellness
• Gender, Place & Culture
• Indigenous Women & Settler Colonialism

Students selecting this major will have the opportunity to take such courses as Knowing Bodies: An Owner's? Manual, Activism and Advocacy, Women and Globalization, Women and the Arts, Feminist Research and Methodologies, Feminist Theory, and Women, Bodies, and Movement. Check out the complete list of current courses!