3.5 Course Overviews: "T", "W"
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TAXATION (TAXX)
TAXX 301
Introduction to Income Taxation
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: *Individualized study; grouped study; or e-Class®.
*Note: This course may be offered online or online-enhanced. Confirm status before registering.
Prerequisite: ACCT 253 and ECON 247.
*Note: The American equivalent of this course is TAXX 302.
This course examines the Canadian income tax system including its purpose and
administration. The calculation of income for tax purposes is examined in detail
and the procedures used to calculate personal, business and corporate taxable
income in common situations are presented.
TAXX 301 is revised annually. Confirm course
availability before registering.
WOMEN'S STUDIES (WMST)
WMST 267
Perspectives on Women: An Introduction to Women's Studies
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: WMST 267 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for WMST 300.
This course examines the questions that women's studies raise about many
academic disciplines and teaches how to seek out and use the ever-increasing
research on women's experience. Topics explored include theories of human
origins, the
history and sociology of women and work, the acquisition
of gender identity, gender and communication, and women in popular culture.
WMST 300
Women: Psychology, Sociology, and Feminist Thought
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: WMST 300 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for WMST 267.
This course uses feminist analysis to increase understanding of women's lives in
contemporary patriarchal, capitalist society. Topics addressed include the
women's movement
and its impact; the dynamics of social power; women's labour; and feminist
counselling as a legitimate alternative for healing and change.
WMST 302
Communication Skills: Feminist Practice
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Grouped study.
Prerequisite: WMST 300.
This is an introduction to communications skills from a feminist counselling
perspective. This course emphasizes communications as a process, how we
communicate rather than what we say. Experiential exercises will help
participants practise communication skills and develop their own personal style
of counselling.
WMST 303
Issues in Women's Health
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course allows students to examine and apply a feminist analysis to issues
in women's health. Specific issues such as premenstrual syndrome, contraception,
childbirth, reproductive technologies, estrogen replacement therapy, breast
cancer, Candidiasis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and workplace hazards are
explored within a framework that seeks to explain why women have little control
over their health. An overview of the history of health care is provided, and
the forces shaping the nature of modern medicine are identified.
WMST 310
Feminist Approaches to Counselling Women
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Grouped study.
Prerequisite: WMST 302
This course examines the application of feminist counselling to crisis
intervention and specific women's issues; to develop strategies for positive
action; and to explore ethical issues. The emphasis is on skill development.
Teaching methods used include demonstrations, experiential exercises, lectures,
readings, and discussions.
WMST 311
Special Issues in Counselling Women
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Grouped study (Jan./01).
Prerequisite: WMST 310.
Precluded course: WMST 311 cannot be taken for credit if credit has
already been obtained for PSYC 343.
This course examines how social categories such as race, age, class, sexual
orientation, and physical ability can be a source of women's power or factors in
their oppression. It also considers how women's beliefs, attitudes, and
socialization affect their counselling practice. Separation of the counsellor's
personal issues from the counselling relationship is addressed.
WMST 321 
Advocacy from the Margins
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Invidualized study.
Prerequisite: ***Previous post-secondary study in the social science area is recommended but not required.
***Note following amendment to WMST 321 dated Sept. 6, 2001.
WMST 300, a junior-level course in social science, or permission of the
course professor.
This course introduces students to the issues involved in advocating for a
change in women's status. It provides a theoretical and practical background in
the applications of advocacy in women's and community organizing. WMST 312
examines advocacy from a feminist perspective including self-advocacy, the
development of support groups, planning and timing, policy development,
government policies and programs that affect women.
WMST 333
Goddess Mythology, Women's Spirituality and Ecofeminism
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course introduces students to the cultural heritage of the goddess. It
examines the historical evolution of Western and Near/Middle Eastern goddess
mythology from Palaeolithic and Neolithic times through to Judaism and
Christianity, linking ancient goddess traditions with contemporary movements
such as ecofeminism.
WMST 354
Women, Religion and Social Change
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course engages the issue of women as social change agents through the case study of some North American women's attempts to challenge and change their social and religious environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics covered in the course include: constructions of gender and their import; religion as a cultural phenomenon that can both constrain and empower; theoretical and experiential linkages amongst feminists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; race and class as components in the construction of gender ideologies; and centrally, women as agents of social change. The course consists of four units that consider instances of women making change in relation to their social and religious circumstances.
WMST 399
Applied Projects
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the course coordinator. We recommend that WMST 399 be taken as the final course in the University Certificate in Counselling Women.
In this course students will integrate their knowledge and counselling skills while working on an approved
project. The assignments facilitate students' integration of knowledge
and skills as well as reflect on their learning experience.
WMST 400
Feminism in the Western Tradition
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None. WMST 267 is strongly recommended but not required.
This course deals with selected aspects of feminist thought and feminist
movements in the Western tradition from the 1790s to the 1940s. Its topics
include various debates about the meaning of feminism, and feminist critiques of,
and attempts to change, the social order in particular times and places. The
course has six general themes: feminism: every woman's heritage?; the struggle
for full citizenship; bread and roses; man-made religion; institutionalized
sexuality; and women and (men's?) wars.
WMST 401
Contemporary Feminist Theory
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None. WMST 267 is strongly recommended but not required.
This course focuses on the theoretical basis of programs, policies, and research
for and about women. It introduces students to feminist theory. Students will
have the opportunity to learn about feminist theory that has had an impact on
the academic discipline of women's studies; critically assess this theory;
examine the way feminist theory is used in the women's movement; and think and
write using a feminist theoretical approach and/or an approach that is critical
of feminism.
WMST 422
Women, Violence, and Social Change
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None. WMST 267 is strongly recommended but not required.
This course provides definitions and explanations for male violence against
women, as well as information on ways to end the violence.
WMST 444
Feminist Research Methodology
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None. WMST 267 is strongly recommended but not required.
This course is about feminist epistemology, feminist research methodology, and
feminist research methods. Students will have the opportunity to learn about
various defining features of feminist research; familiarize themselves with the
problems associated with sexist research; read and evaluate examples of
nonsexist and feminist research; and identify a research question, choose a
feminist method by which to answer this question, collect information using this
method, and evaluate each of these procedures.
WMST 465
Special Projects in Women's Studies
3—*Humanities
*Note: WMST 465, 466, 467 and 468 are one course that is available in four areas of study: humanities, social science, science and applied studies.
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the professor. This course is normally taken after
successful completion of the BA major in Women's Studies program core courses or
their equivalent.
This special projects course is designed through consultation between the
professor and the student. It will include a significant component of advanced
and more theoretical reading. A major written piece of work will generally be
required with its form being dependent on the focus of the work. Students are
responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials. Contact the course
professor for more information.
WMST 466
Special Projects in Women's Studies
3—*Social Science
*Note: WMST 465, 466, 467 and 468 are one course that is available in four areas of study: humanities, social science, science and applied studies.
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the professor. This course is normally taken after
successful completion of the BA major in Women's Studies program core courses or
their equivalent.
This special projects course is designed through consultation between the
professor and the student. It will include a significant component of advanced
and more theoretical reading. A major written piece of work will generally be
required with its form being dependent on the focus of the work. Students are
responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials. Contact the course
professor for more information.
WMST 467
Special Projects in Women's Studies
3—*Science
*Note: WMST 465, 466, 467 and 468 are one course that is available in four areas of study: humanities, social science, science and applied studies.
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the professor. This course is normally taken after
successful completion of the BA major in Women's Studies program core courses or
their equivalent.
This special projects course is designed through consultation between the
professor and the student. It will include a significant component of advanced
and more theoretical reading. A major written piece of work will generally be
required with its form being dependent on the focus of the work. Students are
responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials. Contact the course
professor for more information.
WMST 468
Special Projects in Women's Studies
3—*Applied Studies
*Note: WMST 465, 466, 467 and 468 are one course that is available in four areas of study: humanities, social science, science and applied studies.
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the professor. This course is normally taken after
successful completion of the BA major in Women's Studies program core courses or
their equivalent.
This special projects course is designed through consultation between the
professor and the student. It will include a significant component of advanced
and more theoretical reading. A major written piece of work will generally be
required with its form being dependent on the focus of the work. Students are
responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials. Contact the course
professor for more information.
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