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Women's Studies

The School of Women's Studies offers a consolidated undergraduate program which brings together the Women's Studies programs from the Faculties of Arts, Atkinson and Glendon. This merged undergraduate program provides students with increased flexibility and access to a greater number and variety of Women's Studies courses. Courses offered through the School of Women's Studies will count as in-Faculty courses for Arts, Atkinson and Glendon students, and will be offered during the day and evening on both the Keele and Glendon campuses. Please consult the School of Women's Studies supplemental calendar for further information, available at the School's main office, South 711 Ross, 416-650-8144 (press 1).

The undergraduate Women's Studies curriculum is built around four different kinds of courses.

1. Required Courses

• WMST 2500 6.0 or WMST 2510 9.0: required for all Women's Studies majors;
• WMST 4500 6.0: required for all Women's Studies majors in an Honours BA program.

2. Core Courses

The Core Courses are offered by the School of Women's Studies and, like the Required Courses, have the second digit five (5) in the course number, e.g. WMST 2500 6.0. Students are required to select between 12 and 24 credits of Core Courses depending on their degree program. Core Courses cover themes deemed essential to Women's Studies and will explicitly aim to develop critical reading, writing and oral presentation skills, research skills and more advanced research and theoretical skills as appropriate to the course and year level. The Required and Core Courses will:

• focus primarily on women;
• be taught from feminist perspectives;
• be interdisciplinary;
• address the intersections of race, ethnicity, disability, sexual identity and gender;
• acknowledge the different perspectives on women in a global context;
• explicitly identify the critical skills to be developed in the course.

3. Non-Core Courses

The School of Women's Studies will offer a small number of Non-Core Courses designed to serve a narrower disciplinary focus than the Core Courses, meet a particular program need (e.g. Independent Study or Special Topics courses), or appeal to non Women's Studies majors. These courses will have the second digit 8 in the course number, e.g. WMST 2801 6.0.

4. Courses Offered by Other Units

Courses offered by other teaching units may be accepted for program credit or cross-listed with the School of Women's Studies. These courses will count towards the major requirements in Women's Studies. Please consult the School of Women's Studies mini-calendar, available in the School's main office, South 711 Ross Building, 416-650-8144 (press 1).

1000-Level Courses

1000-level courses of interest to Women's Studies majors include: AS/HUMA 1950 9.0, AS/HUMA 1960 9.0, AS/SOSC 1185 9.0 (cross-listed to AS/SOSC 1180 6.0), AS/SOSC 1188 9.0, AS/SOSC 1210 9.0 or AS/SOSC 1350 9.0. Students may not count 1000-level courses for program credit in Women's Studies.

Foundations Courses

There are a number of 1000-level Foundations courses of interest to Women's Studies majors. In addition, one version of the required introductory course in the Women's Studies program is a 2000-level Foundations course, WMST 2510 9.0.

Program Requirements

Note: For purposes of meeting program requirements, all Foundations courses will count as 6 credits towards the major.

Specialized Honours BA Program

Students will take at least 54 credits in Women's Studies. Of these, students must take WMST 2500 6.0 or WMST 2510 9.0 and WMST 4500 6.0, and at least 24 additional credits from the core course offerings. Overall, 12 Women's Studies credits must be taken at the 4000 level.

Honours BA Program

Students will take at least 42 credits in Women's Studies. Of these, students must take WMST 2500 6.0 or WMST 2510 9.0 and WMST 4500 6.0, and at least 18 additional credits from the core course offerings. Overall, 12 Women's Studies credits must be taken at the 4000 level.

Honours Double Major BA Program

The Honours BA program described above may be pursued jointly with any other Honours Bachelor's degree program in the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, or with a major in Earth and Atmospheric Science or Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.

Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA Programs

Women's Studies may be linked with any Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA program in the Faculty of Arts. Students must take at least 36 credits in Women's Studies and at least 36 credits in the Interdisciplinary program. Courses taken to meet Women's Studies requirements cannot also be used to meet the requirements of the Interdisciplinary program. Students in these Interdisciplinary programs must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level, including at least 12 credits in Women's Studies and 6 credits in the Interdisciplinary program. For further details of requirements, see the listings for specific Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA programs.

The 36 credits in Women's Studies must include:

• WMST 2500 6.0 or WMST 2510 9.0;
• WMST 4500 6.0;
• an additional 6 credits at the 4000 level;
• at least 18 additional credits from the core course offerings.

Honours Major/Minor BA Program

The Honours BA program described above may be pursued jointly with any Honours Minor Bachelor's degree program in the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, or with a minor in Biology, Chemistry or Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.

Honours Minor BA Program

The Honours Minor must be pursued jointly with an Honours BA program in the Faculty of Arts.

Students will take at least 30 credits in Women's Studies. Of these, students must take WMST 2500 6.0 or WMST 2510 9.0 and at least 12 additional credits from the core course offerings. Overall, 12 Women's Studies credits must be taken at the 3000 or 4000 level, including 6 credits at the 4000 level.

Note: Faculty of Arts legislation requires that, in order to obtain an Honours BA (120 credits), students must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level including at least 12 credits at the 4000 level in each Honours Major or Specialized Honours Major.

BA Program

Students will take at least 30 credits in Women's Studies. Of these, students must take WMST 2500 6.0 or WMST 2510 9.0 and at least 12 additional credits from the core course offerings. Overall, 12 Women's Studies credits must be taken at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Please refer to the current departmental/divisional supplemental calendar for updated program/major requirements.