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

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