2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
	2001-2002 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR: COURSES
	Carleton University

Women's Studies Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

First-Year Seminar in Women's Studies 01.142
Issues in Women's Studies
Emphasis on the development of writing, research and analytical skills through the intensive examination of selected topics in women's studies (e.g. motherhood, sexuality, health, technology, law, politics). Specific themes will vary from year to year. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminars three hours a week.

First-Year Seminar in Women's Studies 01.143
Women and the Arts
Feminist research across a range of arts disciplines (including music, theatre, visual arts and film). The importance of feminist debates and theoretical issues in understanding women's involvement in the arts. Topics include gender and sexuality, feminine aesthetics, representation, identity and difference. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminars three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.188
Introduction to Women's Studies
This survey course provides an overview of the major issues in Women's Studies. Topics include the social construction of femininity and masculinity, violence, sexuality, representations of women, the treatment of women in the workplace and in education, women and the arts, and women's health.
Precludes additional credit for Women's Studies 09.288.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.280*
Gender and Diversity
This course examines the ways gender interacts with race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability and other axes of difference to affect women's experiences. The course incorporates the voices of many women and analyses the challenges these voices raise for key institutions in Canadian society.
Prerequisite: Women's Studies 09.188 (formerly 09.288) or 01.142 or 01.143 or Sociology-Anthropology 56.101.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.281*
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Activism
A comparative, interdisciplinary examination of women's attempts to effect social and political change in the modern era. A range of perspectives and materials are used to examine the objectives, scope and impact of women's activism in different historical, cultural and national settings.Prerequisite: Women's Studies 09.188 (formerly 09.288) or 01.142 or 01.143.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.282*
Topics in Women's Studies
An interdisciplinary analysis of one or more topics in Women's Studies. Prerequisite: Women's Studies 09.188 (formerly 09.288) or 01.142 or 01.143.Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.302
Gender and Literature
Study of autobiographical writing, novels, short stories, and poetry by women writing in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in a variety of cultural settings. Cross-cultural point of view informed by poststructuralist feminist criticism. All texts available in English translation. Also listed as Comparative Literary Studies 17.302.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the Institute of Women's Studies.
Seminar three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.388
Theory and Methods From a Feminist Perspective
Exploration of emerging feminist literatures in the humanities and in the social, natural and applied sciences. Feminist critiques of prevailing approaches to knowledge and feminist contributions to the development of theory and method are considered.
Prerequisites: Third-year standing, and Women's Studies 09.188 (formerly 09.288) or 01.142 or 01.143
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.490*
Independent Study
Reading or research course supervised by a faculty member. Written proposal approved by the supervisor must be submitted before last day of course changes. Normally, only 0.5 credit of independent study may be counted in the program.
Prerequisites: Third-year standing or above and permission of the Institute of Women's Studies.

Women's Studies 09.491*
Selected Topics in Women's Studies I
The topic for 2001-2002 is Gendering Policy. Introduction to theoretical and applied aspects of gender-based analysis (GBA). Study of the origins of gender mainstreaming in Canada and internationally as well as feminist critiques of GBA. Emphasis on the practical application and evaluation of gender mainstreaming in selected policy areas.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Institute of Women's Studies.
Seminar three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.492* A
Selected Topics in Women's Studies II
The topic for 2001-2002 is Women, Globalization and Social Change. Implications of globalization for women. Examination of the challenges and possibilities posed by globalization for women in Canada and internationally. Feminist critiques of globalization and responses of women's movements to these global changes.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Institute of Women's Studies.
Seminar three hours a week.

Women's Studies 09.498
Honours Research Essay
Students in the Combined Honours Program in Women's Studies and another discipline may write an honours research essay in Women's Studies. The subject for research is settled in conjunction with the Institute and an appropriate supervisor.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year standing in Women's Studies and 09.388.

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2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
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