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. 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 266
Thinking From Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: WMST 266 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for WMST 267 and WMST 300.WMST 266 examines questions that women's studies raise about how knowledge is constructed in many academic disciplines. Tracing continuities and conflicts in feminist debates as they have emerged over the past twenty-five to thirty years, the course examines the problem of women's exclusion from western knowledge and how feminists have rethought what we know and how we know it from the perspectives of women's lives. Topics explored include the development of women's studies, feminist theory and research methods, representations of women in literature and history, women and popular culture, social inequality, violence and male power, women and work, gendered social policy, women's health, women and education, family, marriage, motherhood and reproduction.
WMST 300 Course closed Aug. 6, 2002
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 266 or 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 or equivalent.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. Video component.
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 or equivalent.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. Video component.
Prerequisite: WMST 310 or equivalent.
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: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Junior-level course in social science.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 321 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 400
Feminism in the Western Tradition
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None. WMST 266 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. Video component.
Prerequisite: None. WMST 266 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 266 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 266 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: Professor approval. 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: Professor approval. 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: Professor approval. 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: Professor approval. 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 499
Applied Project
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Course coordinator approval. Recommend that WMST 499 be taken as the final course in the University Certificate in Counselling Women.This course helps students to integrate theory and practical feminist counselling skills while students work on an approved project under supervision in a community agency.
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