Undergraduate and Professional Studies Program Requirements Gender Equality and Social Justice Specialization
Specialization
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 (four-year) degree requirements, which include regulations on first year and subject maximum and breadth requirements.
Program Requirements:
Students will need to achieve a minimum 60% average in the 54 credits presented for the Specialization in Gender Equality and Social Justice.
Students must complete the required 3 credits of introductory GEND with a minimum grade of 60%.
| Students must complete 120 credits including 54 credits in the Specialization as follows: | ||
| GEND 1000 level | Up to 6 cr. | |
| Group 1 | 6 cr. | |
| Group 2 | 6 cr. | |
| Group 3 | 6 cr. | |
| GEND 3306 | Ideas of Power | 3 cr. |
| GEND upper level courses or courses cross-listed with GEND | 27-30 cr.* | |
Note: Students who complete 3 credits of 1000-level GEND are required to take 30 credits of upper level GEND. Students who complete 6 credits of 1000- level GEND are required to take 27 credits of upper level GEND.
Breadth Requirements and Electives:
| ACAD 1601 | 3 cr. | |
| Humanities | 3 cr. | |
| Science | 6 cr. | |
| Electives | 54 cr. |
Note:
A maximum of 18 credits of cross-listed courses may count towards a Specialization.
Group Requirements:
| Group 1 Culture and Criticism | ||
|---|---|---|
| GEND 2026 | Makeover Culture | |
| GEND 2047 | Gender and Social Media | |
| GEND 2166 | Women, Media and Representation | |
| GEND 2217 | Gender and the Media: Themes and Controversies | |
| GEND 2276 | Kid Media | |
| GEND 2337 | Gender and Film | |
| GEND 2376 | Selected Topics in Kid Media | |
| GEND 2336 | Women in Cinema | |
| GEND 2306 | Art and Social Justice | |
| GEND 3046 | Queer Media | |
| GEND 3076 | Reality TV and the Politics of Difference | |
| GEND 3106 | Race and Gender in Popular Culture | |
| GEND 3117 | Gender, Sex, and the Bible | |
| GEND 3326 | Virtual Animals | |
| Group 2 Power, Justice and Transformation | ||
|---|---|---|
| GEND 2086 | Animal Rites | |
| GEND 2206 | Sex, Body, and Identity | |
| GEND 2246 | Transformative Justice: Case Studies | |
| GEND 2256 | Religion, Justice and Animals | |
| GEND 2286 | Contagion | |
| GEND 2326 | Pets | |
| GEND 2516 | Violence, Race and Law | |
| GEND 2526 | Prisons, Race, and Gender | |
| GEND 2536 | Tourism, Pleasure, and Power | |
| GEND 2556 | The 21st Century Family | |
| GEND 3026 | Women and World Religions | |
| GEND 3047 | Dark Ecology | |
| 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 3236 | Memory and Violence | |
| GEND 3246 | Madness and Medicine | |
| GEND 3306 | Ideas of Power | |
| GEND 3416 | Material Reconciliation | |
| Group 3 Human Rights and Social Justice | ||
|---|---|---|
| GEND 2036 | Environmental Justice | |
| GEND 2057 | Selected Topics in Human Rights and Social Justice | |
| GEND 2067 | HIV/AIDS: Health and Social Change | |
| GEND 2147 | Bodies, Borders, and Belonging | |
| GEND 2157 | Case Studies in Gender and the Law | |
| GEND 2187 | International Human Rights | |
| GEND 3036 | Global Social Movements | |
| GEND 3057 | Selected Topics in Human Rights and Social Justice | |
| GEND 3086 | Women and HIV | |
| GEND 3127 | Gender, Globalization and Human Rights | |
| GEND 3137 | Re-Imagining Globalization | |
| GEND 3207 | The United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect | |
| GEND 3216 | Testimony and Witness | |
| GEND 3227 | Justice after Atrocity | |
| GEND 3356 | International Rights of Indigenous Peoples | |
| GEND 3357 | The Opioid Crisis | |