BA Women’s and Gender Studies Concentration

Athabasca University’s Women’s and Gender 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.

Did you know? Athabasca University also offers:

• four-year BA Women’s and Gender Studies Major
• Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies (optional)
• University Certificate in Counselling Women

For specific degree requirements view each program page.

Requirements in addition to the general program requirements for the 3-year BA with Concentration:

1. A minimum of 36 credits in concentration courses including a minimum of 24 senior (300 or 400) level credits.
2. 3 junior (200) level credits in WGST 266 Thinking From Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies.
3. 12 credits selected from courses labelled WGST.
4. A minimum of 21 credits selected from the following designated Women’s and Gender Studies concentration electives:

   ANTH 375	The Anthropology of Gender	(3)
   ENGL 307	Women in Literature	(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 Canadian Politics	(3)
   POLI 383	Canadian Political Economy in a Global Era	(3)
   PSYC 345	The Psychology of Women	(3)
   PSYC 347	Introduction to Feminist Counselling	(3)
   SOAN 384	The Family in World Perspective	(3)
   SOCI 316	Sociology of the Family	(3)
   SOCI 321	Sociology of Work and Industry	(3)
   WGST	All courses