Undergraduate Program Calendar 2009|10

Women's Studies Major


Regulations amended, effective September 1, 2009 Athabasca University's Women's Studies program is designed to develop or expand your knowledge of the established field of women's studies and the emerging field of gender studies. You will have the opportunity to engage with a range of feminist theories, concepts, history, methodologies, research, and activism and discover how they inform the diverse lives and experiences of women across cultures. Athabasca University has developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.

Requirements within the 120 credits required for the four-year BA with major.


1.	A minimum of 45 credits in designated WMST major courses including 30 senior (300 or 400) level credits applicable to the major (a minimum of 12, 400-level credits). The 6, 400- level credits taken in the required core can be used to fulfill a portion of these 12, 400-level credits.

2.	12 credits in the following required core courses:


WMST 200	Feminist Research and Women's Lives	(3)
WMST 266	Thinking From Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies	(3)
WMST 400	Feminism in the Western Tradition	(3)
WMST 401	Contemporary Feminist Theory	(3)


3.	6 credits selected from the following WMST courses:


WMST 303	Issues in Women's Health	(3)
WMST/SOCI 345	Women and Work in Canada	(3)
HIST/WMST 363	The Women's West: Women and Canadian Frontier Settlement	(3)
HIST/WMST 365	Girls and Women in Urban Canada, 1880 to 1940	(3)
WMST 422	Violence Against Women: A Global Perspective	(3)



	Electives (27 credits selected from the following)


ANTH 375	The Anthropology of Gender	(3)
ENGL 307	Women in Literature	(3)
ENGL 423	Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism	(3)
HIST 499	The History of the Family in Western Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution	(3)
INST 358	Aboriginal Women in Canada	(3)
LBST 331	Women, Workers, and Farmers: Histories of North American Popular Resistance	(3)
LGST 390	Women, Equality and the Law	(3)
POLI 350	Women in Canada Politics	(3)
POLI 383	Canadian Political Economy in a Global Era	(3)
PSYC 345	The Psychology of Women	(3)
PSYC 347	The Introduction to Feminist Counselling	(3)
SOAN 384	The Family in World Perspective	(3)
SOCI 316	Sociology of the Family	(3)
SOCI 321	The Sociology of Work and Industry	(3)
WMST	All courses	(3)


	Recommendation Before enrolling in this program, students should contact the Centre for Work and Community Studies.

	Women's Studies Minor

1.	30 credits in courses designated Women's Studies.

2.	15 senior credits in courses designated Women's Studies.


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