Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies

• Articulate how feminist, queer and intersectional theories and concepts help explain the production of inequalities and difference.  
• Explain how theories of gender and sexuality have been and continue to be crucial to the social construction of identities.  
• Distinguish a variety of feminist research methods and epistemologies and their implications for academic research.  
• Understand the interdisciplinary foundations of GWST and develop the capacity to apply this learning to one or more areas outside the discipline.
• Articulate the importance of perspectives from marginalized communities by incorporating these perspectives into analyses, discussions, and problem-solving approaches.
• Acquire, analyze, evaluate, critically interpret, and integrate a broad selection of interdisciplinary data for its relevance to social justice.  
• Apply feminist, queer and intersectional theories, concepts, and methods to understand issues in and beyond the classroom through written, oral and arts-led means.
• Apply frameworks and concepts from gender, women’s and sexuality studies to develop self-reflexive analyses of our own implication in systems of power, privilege and marginalization. 

Communication, Impacts and Action 

• Use feminist frameworks to connect disparate issues of relevance to local, regional, and transnational justice.
• Design and produce effective communication in a variety of formats and genres to communicate gender, women’s and sexuality studies knowledge for specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Effectively collaborate with others within and beyond the classroom to generate, deepen and share knowledge on gender, women’s and sexuality studies.
• Develop transferable skills necessary for further study, employment or community involvement in gender-based social justice and related areas.  

Possibilities and Limits of Knowledge 

• Develop strategies for gender- and sexuality-related justice as relevant to contemporary lived experience of diverse communities in Canada.  
• Recognize sex, gender and sexuality as dynamic categories whose potential for critical and creative transformation is evolving.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of how ideas and practices of sex, sexuality, and gender are relevant to processes of settler colonialism in what is now known as Canada.