Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, & Social Justice Studies Major Concentration (B.A. & Sc.) at McGill University

The Major Concentration in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies (GSFS) is an interdisciplinary program that centrally engages contemporary and historical issues centered on gender, sexuality, feminism, and social justice. The program provides students with opportunities to explore the meaning and intersections of such categories as gender, race, class, sexual identification, age, ability, citizenship, and national identity, for example, and to examine how such categories might inform and reproduce power relationships. The Major Concentration consists of required GSFS courses that allow for an immersion into this area of study, and complementary courses from a range of departments, disciplines, and faculties. Students must see and adviser in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies at a minimum upon declaring the GSFS Major Concentration and prior to selecting courses for the final year of study. Students are advised to take GSFS 200 Feminist and Social Justice Studies. and GSFS 250 Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. in their first year in the program, GSFS 300 Research Inquiry in GSFS. in their second year of the program, and GSFS 400 Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS. in their final year of the program. Students must see an adviser in Women's Studies at a minimum upon registering in GSFS and prior to selecting courses for the final year of study. Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Science; programme credit weight 36 credits.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts  |  Department: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

What you will study

The programme is 36 credits (Required Courses (12 credits); Complementary Courses (24 credits)).

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