Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice

GRSJ 102 - Global Issues in Social Justice Intersectional feminist theory and practice, focusing on contemporary issues in a transnational context. ANTH 213 - Sex, Gender, and Culture An anthropological exploration of how understandings of sex and gender are culturally and historically shaped. GRSJ 200 - Gender and Environmental Justice An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural overview of contemporary environmental issues, as they relate to gender equality and social justice challenges and initiatives that respond to ecological crises. GRSJ 230 - Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Representation in Modern Asia The complex relationships between mechanisms of power, gender, and representation in Asia in different spaces examined through an interdisciplinary lens. GRSJ 235 - Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Structures in Modern Asia Situates “Asia” in a global context and explores the complex relationships between gender, social structures, and social change. GRSJ 307 - Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture Critical examination of mainstream and alternative media images of gender, race, and sexuality in the context of networked social media, film, music, and television. GRSJ 310 - Gender, Race, Social Justice and Health Interdisciplinary introduction to gender and health issues using selected theoretical frameworks. GRSJ 300 - Intersectional Approaches to Thinking Gender Interdisciplinary exploration of the multiple intersections between gender and (neo)colonialism, racism, poverty, ableism, and heterosexism in a globalized world; historical and cross-cultural aspects, and the social construction of sex and gender, masculinity and femininity. GRSJ 303 - Gender, Race, Social Justice and the Law A survey of feminist legal thought and recent developments in feminism and law, with a focus on Canada. GRSJ 307 - Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture Critical examination of mainstream and alternative media images of gender, race, and sexuality in the context of networked social media, film, music, and television. GRSJ 311 - African/Black Women in the Americas An interdisciplinary survey of gender studies and histories of African/Black women in the Americas from the beginning of the slave trade to the present. GRSJ 401 - Body, Gender and Society An interdisciplinary examination of the body, exploring how social relations and space are implicated in the constitution and experience of gendered bodies and identities, with an emphasis on feminist analyses of body-societal relations. GRSJ 480 - Decolonizing Praxis: A Practicum in Social Justice