Women's Studies - Atkinson

School of Women's Studies
Atkinson Coordinator: Ruby Newman

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 College. 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 Atkinson, Arts, and Glendon students, and will be offered during the day and evening on both the Keele campus and the Glendon campus. Please consult the School of Women's Studies mini-calendar for further information, available at the school's main office, S711 Ross, 416-650-8144 (press 1).

The undergraduate women's studies curriculum is built around four different kinds of courses.

Required Courses

• AK/AS/GL/WMST 2500 6.00 or AK/AS/GL/WMST 2510 9.00: required for all women's studies majors;
• AK/AS/GL/WMST 4500 6.00: required for all women's studies majors in an Honours BA program.

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 6.00. 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.

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 4802 3.00.

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, S711 Ross Building, 416-650-8144 (press 1).

Program Requirements

Note: All courses mounted by the School of Women's Studies with a five (5) as the second digit (e.g. AK/AS/GL/WMST 2501 3.00) are considered core courses.

BA: 90 credits

Major: 30 credits

30 credits in women's studies including: AK/AS/GL/WMST 2500 6.00; at least 12 additional credits chosen from the list of core women's studies course offerings; 12 additional women's studies credits. Overall 18 women's studies credits must be taken at the 3000 or 4000 level.

BA (Specialized Honours): 120 credits

Major: 54 credits

54 credits in women's studies including: AK/AS/GL/WMST 2500 6.00; at least 24 additional credits from the core women's studies course offerings; six additional women's studies credits; at least 18 women's studies credits at the 4000 level including AK/AS/GL/WMST 4500 6.00.

BA (Combined Honours): 120 credits

Major: 60 credits

The Combined Honours degree consists of 60 credits in women's studies and one other discipline including: 42 credits in women's studies including AK/AS/GL/WMST 2500 6.00; at least 18 women's studies credits from the list of core women's studies courses; 12 women's studies credits at the 4000 level, including AK/AS/GL/WMST 4500 6.00; six additional women's studies credits; the remaining 18 credits must be in one other academic discipline including six credits at the 4000 level.

BA (General Honours) (Type A): 120 credits

Major: 66 credits

The General Honours degree consists of 42 credits in women's studies AK/AS/GL/WMST 2500 6.00; at least 18 additional women's studies credits from the list of core women's studies course offerings; 12 women's studies credits at the 4000 level including, AK/AS/GL/WMST 4500 6.00; six additional women's studies credits; the remaining 24 credits, including six credits at the 4000 level, must be in related academic disciplines approved by the undergraduate director of Women's Studies.

Please see the following for information concerning the Certificate in Sexuality Studies, Certificate in Women's Studies and Certificate in Women's Studies: Theory and Practice.

• Rules and Regulations in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
• Generic BA requirements
• Courses offered in Women's Studies