Upcoming GWS 2025-2026 courses

WOME 3132 WA (Foundations of Feminist Research)

• An introduction to feminist research methodology, and the methods employed by feminist researchers. What distinguishes feminist research from other methodologies is its attention to gender as a focus for analysis. Students will learn the basic steps of the research process, how to conceptualize a research project and what considerations need to be made to ensure research is feminist, ethical and responsive to gendered social problems. Students will learn to identify the markers of feminist research and a feminist framework with which to evaluate secondary sources. Provides students with research skills and equip them for engaging in research as part of an honours or graduate degree or when working with governments and non-governmental organizations.
• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am-11:30am (in-person)
• Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Chisholm

 WOME 3215 FA (Gender, Bodies, and Technology)

• An intersectional examination of the technological production of gendered bodies in contexts such as classrooms, workplaces, and the internet. We will explore feminist understandings of technology, embodiment, and representation. Topics may include production and control of bodies based on sex, gender, race, class, and ability; embodiment, ability and the built environment; medicalization, bio-politics, and reproductive justice; surveillance, containment, and militarization.
• Tuesdays, 7pm-10pm (in-person)
• Instructor: Mohit Dudeja

WOME 3030 FDE*
(Housewives, Radicals and Gender-Blenders: Theorizing Equality)

• An introductory examination of the questions, tensions and debates within contemporary feminist theory from the late 20th Century to the present. This course considers multiple feminisms' arguments, strategies and politics to understand how contemporary theoretical positions account for material inequalities and lived experiences of marginalization, and how they work towards social justice in gender.
• Mondays, 7pm-10pm (online on Zoom)
• Instructor: Dr. Lori Chambers
  *Please note that this is a required core course

WOME-4012 FA/FAO** (Gender, Human Rights & Social Justice)

• The objective of this course is for students to develop a critical analysis of human rights law and Charter litigation. To what degree, and for whom, have these legal tools been successful in creating equity. Using a wide variety of sources, including legislation and legislative debates, case law, jurisprudence, and secondary literature, this course will explore the multiplicity of issues considered/protected under Human Rights Codes and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Particular attention will be paid to the western, individualist origins of human rights regimes and the problems this presents for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Please note that most subjects are not only or directly about gender. It is expected that we consider gender through an intersectional lens. You are not required to have previous knowledge of the law.
• Mondays, 2:30pm-5:30pm (in-person)
• Instructor: Dr. Lori Chambers
  **If you have not completed the required WOME-4010 yet please take the course substitution, WOME-4012 FA.

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