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An introduction to Women's Studies through a critical feminist examination of women's embodied lives in differing social locations. The course challenges the traditional dichotomies of mind/body, culture/nature, and public/private in the treatment of such topics as the feminization of poverty; sexualities, reproduction, and family life; violence against women; women and religion; and culture and body image.

Note: Credit is not allowed for Women's Studies 1000 and 2000.

This series explores the relationship between faith and sexuality among world religious traditions and new religious movements. Individual courses will focus on specific areas such as religious gender ideologies, rites of passage into adulthood, sexual prohibitions and taboos, mysticism, and images of the divine as feminine and masculine.

Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005).

A history of the development of feminist theoretical perspectives from the 18th Century to the present using a multidisciplinary perspective.

Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005).

This course surveys women's reform activism in its various historical and cultural forms. Topics will include local grassroots movements, legislative lobbying, and international advocacy.

Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005).

Critical analysis of scientific methods and research processes from a feminist perspective including design, collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.

Prerequisite: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005).

This series investigates the relationships of women and their bodies to the physical, cultural and social domains in which they move. Individual offerings will focus on specific areas such as health, physical activity and well-being; cultural production; media; paid and unpaid labour; and migration and coerced removal.

Prerequisites: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005) and third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours).

This series examines how women's lives and local environments are impacted by globalization. Individual offerings will focus on specific areas such as global and grassroots feminist alliances, indigeneity, ecofeminism, technology transfer, sex trade and tourism, feminization of labour and free trade zones, and population and assimilation policies.

Prerequisites: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005) and third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours).

This series examines women's contributions to, and historical exclusion from, the arts. Individual offerings will focus on specific areas such as women and creative artists, critics and patrons of the arts; the arts in cultural and separatist feminisms; race, disability and ethnicity in the arts; avant garde activism by women in the arts.

Prerequisites: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005) and third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours).

This series examines myriad ways women have been stereotyped and how they have resisted or challenged those stereotypes in various cultural forms and practices. Individual offerings will focus on specific areas such as popular culture, media, literature, visual arts, performing arts, law, internet, fashion, and cosmetic industries.

Prerequisites: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005) and third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours).

This course explores recent debates within feminist theories such as postmodern feminism and the politics of difference, ecofeminism, ecriture feminine, and whiteness theory.

Prerequisite: Women's Studies 2300 (3500).

The relationship of women to the construction and application of scientific knowledge. The primacy of science and technology, with particular attention to its impact on women's lives, globally and individually.

Prerequisites: Women's Studies 1000 (WMST 2000 prior to 2004/2005) and third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours).

Students will design research proposals, write grant applications and conduct ethics reviews for specific projects, employing feminist research theory and methods.

Prerequisite: Women's Studies 2700.

Seminar for advanced investigation of specific topics or current issues in Women's Studies.

Prerequisites: Women's Studies 2300 (3500) and 2700.