Honours Specialization


Honours Specialization in Gender Equality and Social Justice

Graduation Requirements:

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must also satisfy the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree requirements, which include regulations on first year and subject maximum and breadth requirements.


Program Requirements:

Students will need to achieve a minimum 70% average in the 60 credits presented for the Honours Specialization in Gender Equality and Social Justice.

Students must complete the required 6 credits of introductory GEND with a minimum grade of 60%.

Students must complete 120 credits including 60 credits in the Honours Specialization as follows:
GEND 1000 level   6 cr.
Group 1   6 cr.
Group 2   6 cr.
Group 3   6 cr.
GEND 3306 Ideas of Power 3 cr.
GEND 4005 Honours Essay or 6 cr.
GEND 4205 Honours Seminar  
GEND upper level courses or courses cross-listed with GEND 27 cr.

Breadth Requirements:

ACAD 1601   3 cr.
Humanities   3 cr.
Science   6 cr

Note:

A subject average of at least 70% is required for enrolment in 4000 level courses.

A maximum of 24 credits of cross-listed courses may count towards an Honours Specialization.


Group Requirements:

Group 1 Culture and Criticism
GEND 2026 Makeover Culture  
GEND 2047 Gender and Social Media  
GEND 2056 Selected Topics in Culture and Criticism  
GEND 2166 Women, Media and Representation  
GEND 2217 Gender and the Media: Themes and Controversies  
GEND 2276 Kid Media  
GEND 2305 Women in Cinema  
GEND 2306 Art and Social Justice  
GEND 3046 Queer Media  
GEND 3055 Selected Topics (Advanced) in Culture and Criticism  
GEND 3117 Gender and the Bible  
GEND 3205 Philosophy of Sex and Love  
Group 2 Power and Inequality
GEND 2066 Race, Colonization and Indigeneity  
GEND 2076 Religion and Colonization  
GEND 2086 Animal Rites  
GEND 2155 Selected Topics in Power and Inequality  
GEND 2175 Social Justice in Practice (Practicum)  
GEND 2206 Sex, Body, and Identity  
GEND 2506 Global Gender Issues  
GEND 2516 Violence, Race and Law  
GEND 3026 Women and World Religions  
GEND 3047 Deconstructing Nature  
GEND 3056 Selected Topics (Advanced) in Power and Inequality  
GEND 3066 Invasion and Resistance  
GEND 3116 Women and Western Religions  
GEND 3136 Masculinities and Power  
GEND 3306 Ideas of Power   
GEND 3407 Gender and Global Politics  
Group 3 Human Rights and Social Justice
GEND 2036 Gender and Environmental Justice  
GEND 2057 Selected Topics in Human Rights and Social Justice  
GEND 2146 Law, Power and Justice  
GEND 2147 Bodies, Borders, and Belonging  
GEND 2157 Case Studies in Gender and the Law  
GEND 2187 International Human Rights  
GEND 2226 Case Studies in Violent Conflict  
GEND 2277 Genocide and Mass Violence in Rwanda  
GEND 3036 Global Social Movements  
GEND 3057 Selected Topics in Human Rights and Social Justice  
GEND 3067 HIV/AIDS Health and Social Change  
GEND 3127 Gender, Globalization and Human Rights  
GEND 3207 The United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect  
GEND 3227 Justice after Atrocity  

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