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 3 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		3 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		30 cr.

Breadth Requirements and Electives:

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 2376	Selected Topics in 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 3076	Reality TV and the Politics of Difference
GEND 3117	Gender, Sex, 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 2286	Contagion
GEND 2506	Global Gender Issues
GEND 2516	Violence, Race and Law
GEND 2526	Prisons, Race, and Gender
GEND 2536	Tourism, Pleasure, and Power
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	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 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 3086	Women and HIV
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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