Courses - Women's Studies

Email this page to your SFU Connect account

-Hide-

Courses

100 | 200 | 300 | 400 |
500 and higher

Go to in Student Information System (select on the left menu)

Search

2010-2011 Calendar | Women's Studies |

Women鈥檚 Studies WS Courses

Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
91泡芙 Calendar 2010-2011

WS 101-3 Introduction to Women's Issues in Canada

An interdisciplinary study of current issues related to women's experiences in Canada. The focus will be on women's interaction with social structures and public policy and how these differ for different women's circumstances. Students who have taken WS 100 at SFU may not take WS 101 for further credit. Breadth-Social Sciences.

WS 102-3 Western and Global Feminisms

An historical and comparative survey of feminisms in Western European, North American, and Global communities. Breadth-Humanities.

WS 200-3 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective

The focus will be on the situation of women in cross-cultural perspective using literary, historical, anthropological and other appropriate sources.

WS 201-3 Colonizing Women: Canadian Women in Historical Perspective, 1600-1870s

Examines the lives of Canadian women in the colonial context, including the role of women in European-Aboriginal relations, the founding of New France, and settlement in British North America. Themes such as sexuality, race, work, religion and politics will be explored through the study of primary documents and historical literature. Students who have taken WS 201 under the title Women in Canada, 1600-1920 may not take this course for further credit.

WS 202-3 Modernizing Women: Canadian Women in Historical Perspective, 1870s-1970s

Examines the historical development of women's experiences and identities in Modern Canadian history. Looks closely at the ways in which ethnicity, race, class and sexuality have shaped women's lives, and examines the continuity and changes in work, sexuality, politics and domesticity over the 19th and 20th centuries through the study of primary documents and historical literature. Students who have taken WS 202 under the title Women in Canada, 1920 to the Present may not take this course for further credit.

WS 204-3 Sex and the City

Selected topics on the sexual politics of urban space. May be organized by region, critical approach, or genre.

WS 205-3 Women and Popular Culture

A study of women's place in society as revealed through the analysis of a variety of media.

WS 207-3 Introduction to Feminist Theory

A study of concepts, controversies and processes of feminist social theory. Prerequisite: WS 101 or 102 (may be taken concurrently).

WS 208-3 Feminist Research Methods

Explores a variety of feminist research methods including the definition of feminist research, the quantitative/qualitative controversy, action research, participant observation, survey, ethnography, case study, oral history, transnational study, interviews and research ethics. Prerequisite: WS 101 or 102 (may be taken concurrently). Students who have taken WS 208 under the title Researching Women's Issues or WS 400 Methodological Issues in Women's Studies may not take this course for further credit.

WS 301-4 Special Topics in Women's Studies

A specific topic within the field of women's studies, not otherwise covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses, will be dealt with as occasion and demand warrant. Prerequisite: six units in women's studies including WS 101 and/or 102.

WS 302-4 Special Topics in Women's Studies

WS 303-4 Special Topics in Women's Studies

WS 305-4 Conceiving Creativity

Through the lens of science fiction, this course focuses on scientific and religious accounts of creativity, and of responsibility for (and to) the outcomes of that creativity. In considering the range of relations amongst science and religion, it draws upon theories from social justice studies, including such topics as representation, participation and motivation within professional and other community domains of creativity. Prerequisite: 30 units. Students who have taken WS 310 (Special Topics) under this title may not take WS 305 for further credit. Breadth-Humanities.

WS 306-4 Women's Autobiographies, Memoirs, Journals

An examination of women's autobiographical writings, focusing on self images, self presentations and world views. Prerequisite: six units in women's studies or gender studies.

WS 308-4 Women in the Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour

Explores the nature and conditions of women's paid and unpaid labour in the economy as well as various theories which explain labour market discrimination, the impact of national public policies on women's labour and the transnational interconnections that affect women's paid and unpaid labour. Prerequisite: six units in women's studies or gender studies. Students who have taken SA 335 and/or WS 310 or WS 308 under the title Women and Work may not take this course for further credit.

WS 309-4 Gender and International Development

Examines from interdisciplinary and international perspectives how development is gendered and creates differential impacts, meanings and processes for women and men around the world. Prerequisite: 15 units. Students who have taken WS 310 Special Topic: Women and Development or WS 301 Special Topic: Gender and Development or WS 309 under the title Gender and Development may not take this course for further credit.

WS 310-4 Special Topics in Women's Studies

A specific topic within the field of women's studies, not otherwise covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses, will be dealt with as occasion and demand warrant. Prerequisite: 60 units.

WS 312-4 Immigrants, Women and Transnational Migration

Examines the global division of labor where migrant women as well as immigrant women tend to be exploited in numerous forms, ranging from lack of citizenship rights and erosion of skills to the risk of sexual assault, due to immigration/migration and social policies of various countries. Prerequisite: 24 units. Students who have previously taken WS 320 Special Topic: Immigrant Women and Economic Security may not take this course for further credit.

WS 313-4 Women and the Environment

Examines women's participation in environmentalism. Among the topics discussed will be the nature/nurture debate, the roots of environmentalism, ecofeminism and reproductive rights. Prerequisite: 30 units. Students who have taken this course as a women's studies special topics course may not enrol for WS 313. Breadth-Social Sci/Science

WS 314-4 Race, Class and Gender

An examination of feminist, Marxist and anti-racist theories pertaining to the historical development, social construction, and interactive nature of race, class and gender relations. Prerequisite: 15 units. Students who have taken either WS 301 or 310 as Special Topics: Race, Class and Gender may not take this course for credit.

WS 315-4 Gender and War

A critical examination of conceptualizations of, and interrelationships amongst, gender, war and health. The course will include such topics as total war, military-and medical-industrial complex, militarism and healthism, and professionalization in relation to societal constructions of gender roles in family, paid work and volunteer contexts. Prerequisite: 30 units. Students who have taken WS 206 under these topics may not take WS 315 for further credit.

WS 316-4 Disciplining Sex: Feminist Science Studies and Sociobiology

Conceptualizations of sex have played a fundamental part in the development of evolutionary theories in biology and psychology. At the same time, feminist critiques of these conceptualizations have been a major factor in the development of Feminist Science Studies. The interactions amongst these three approaches are examined, including methodologies, communities of practice and societal implications. Prerequisite: 30 units. Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences/Science.

WS 317-4 Bread Riots to Riot Grrls: Gender, Resistance and Protest in Historical Perspective

An examination of social protest from a historical perspective. Analyzes the relationships between race, class, gender, sexuality and religion within the formation of social movements. Focuses mainly on the North American context. Prerequisite: 15 units. Students who have previously taken WS 301 with the same title may not take this course for further credit.

WS 320-4 Special Topics in Women's Studies

A specific topic within the field of women's studies, not otherwise covered in depth in regularly scheduled courses, will be dealt with as occasion and demand warrant. Prerequisite: 30 units.

WS 327-4 Aboriginal Women in Canada

Themes and issues relating to the historical and contemporary experiences of aboriginal women in Canada: indigenous theories of gender; evolution and political function of stereotypes of indigenous women in Canada; history of Canadian legislation regulating indigenous identity; relevance of feminist analysis; and history of activism. Prerequisite: 45 units. Students who have taken FNST 322 under this topic may not take this course for further credit. FNST 327 and WS 327 are identical and students may not take both courses for credit.

WS 333-4 Ruth Wynn Woodward Advanced Seminar

A special topic in women's or gender studies, to be offered by the Woodward Chair. Prerequisite: 60 units.

WS 334-3 Law and Human Reproduction

Overview of theoretical perspectives and available research on debates linked with human reproduction. Reconsideration of the effects of legislation, social policy and social change on contraception, birth, abortion, adoption, eugenics policies, new reproductive technologies, sexualities, and other topics. Historical and contemporary examples will be used. Feminist perspectives will be featured along with other approaches to human reproduction. Prerequisite: this course is identical to CRIM 334 and students may not take both courses for credit. Students who have taken CRIM 416, 417, 418 under the title Law and Reproduction may not take this course for further credit.

WS 398W-4 Feminist Currents

Explores recent debates and future directions of feminist thought and introduces students to different models of feminist writing. The writing-intensive component of the course trains students to develop analytical, writing, and research skills through a variety of writing activities and assignments. Prerequisite: six units of women's studies or gender studies. Writing.

WS 399-4 Numeracy, Gender and Cultures

Through an examination of the social construction of numeracy, this course will provide an introduction to measurement and difference issues within social justice movements. In analyzing such topics as the relationship between professional, state and community conceptualizations of mathematical competence, students will make use of introductory statistical concepts, methods and argument. Prerequisite: 30 units. Quantitative.

WS 401-5 Research Project

Individual or small group studies of community problems. The students will submit a prospectus for the project at least two months before the study is undertaken. The project will be directed by one of the faculty members of the program. Prerequisite: nine units in women's studies including WS 101 and/or 102; permission of instructor; approval of course proposal by department.

WS 402-2 Directed Readings

Provides opportunities for individual tuition at an advanced level. Prerequisite: nine units in women's studies including WS 101 and/or 102; permission of instructor; approval of course proposal by department.

WS 403-3 Directed Readings

WS 405-4 Theoretical Issues in Women's Studies

A study and critique of feminist theories as they apply to the study of women. Each offering of the course will focus on a particular subset of feminist theories and applications. Prerequisite: 60 units including six units of women's studies or gender studies. Students who have taken WS 311 or 411 may not take this course for further credit when it is subtitled Feminist Psychoanalytic Theories.

WS 412-5 Women and Film, Films and Theories

An examination of film theory and practice from a feminist perspective. Prerequisite: 60 units including six units of women's studies or gender studies. Students who have taken WS 311 or WS 411 may not take this course for further credit when it is subtitled Feminist Psychoanalytic Theories.

WS 421-3 Practicum I

First term of work experience in the Women's Studies Co-operative Education Program. Units from this course do not count toward the units required for an SFU degree. Prerequisite: 30 units with a CGPA of 3.0; WS 101, 102 and two 200 division women's studies courses. Students should apply to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences co-operative education co-ordinator by the end of the third week of the term preceding the employment term.

WS 422-3 Practicum II

Second term of work experience in the Women's Studies Co-operative Education Program. Units from this course do not count towards the units required for an SFU degree. Prerequisite: 45 units with a CGPA of 3.0; WS 101, 102 and two 200 division women's studies courses. Students should apply to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences co-operative education co-ordinator by the end of the third week of the term preceding the employment term.

WS 423-3 Practicum III

Third term of work experience in the Women's Studies Co-operative Education Program. Units from this course do not count towards the units required for an SFU degree. Prerequisite: 60 units with a CGPA of 3.0; WS 101, 102 and two 200 division women's studies courses. Students should apply to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences co-operative education co-ordinator by the end of the third week of the term preceding the employment term.

WS 424-3 Practicum IV

Fourth term of work experience in the Women's Studies Co-operative Education Program. Units from this course do not count towards the units required for an SFU degree. Prerequisite: 90 units with a CGPA of 3.0; WS 101, 102 and two 200 division women's studies courses. Students should apply to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences co-operative education co-ordinator by the end of the third week of the term preceding the employment term.

WS 800-5 Methodology in Women's Studies Research

An interdisciplinary seminar in methods of research in women's studies. Students will examine theoretical issues in women's studies methodology and study examples of research and criticism from women's studies in history, art/literary criticism, philosophy, psychology and social and natural sciences. Emphasis will be placed on developing a rigorous and creative interdisciplinary approach to problems. Students will apply methods studied in the course to their own areas of concentration.

WS 820-5 Graduate Seminar in Women's Studies History

This course will examine one or two critical issues in the history of women. Canada, England and France are of special interest in this course, but students, with the permission of the instructor, may focus their work on North America and/or Europe generally.

WS 821-5 Graduate Seminar in the Psychology of Women

This course will consist of an in depth exploration of both traditional and feminist theories of the development of female personality. Special consideration will be given to the impact of social and economic factors on women's psychology and the extent to which such factors are or are not taken into account.

WS 822-5 Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory

This course will analyse and compare major feminist social and political theories, including those that have emerged from liberal, socialist and radical feminist traditions. The relationship among theories of sexism and political goals and practices will be discussed.

WS 823-5 Graduate Seminar in Feminist Art/Literary Criticism

This course will examine the development of feminist aesthetic theories with particular reference to literary, cinematic and/or art forms. The fundamental assumptions of feminist literary and/or art criticism as well as the principles of art forms will be discussed.

WS 824-5 Graduate Seminar on Women and Social Policy

This course will focus on one or more social issues and policies in such fields as law, health, economics, social welfare, and science and technology.

WS 825-5 Graduate Seminar in Women, Technology and Social Change

This course will focus on relationships between changes in the technological and scientific bases of a society and changes in other major aspects of that society, particularly as they affect women's roles and ideas about women. Emphasis will be on Europe and North America.

91泡芙

Contents