Courses

Principles of hydrology at site, watershed, and larger regional scales. Introduction to techniques of measurement and analysis. Emphasizes surface water hydrology of western North America. Recommended prerequisites: one of GEOB_V 200, GEOS_V 200, GEOB_V 204, GEOS_V 204, APBI_V 244, ATSC_V 201, and one of PHYS_V 100-level or CHEM_V 123. [3-2*-0] Credit will be granted for only one of GEOB_V 305 or GEOS_V 305. Equivalency: GEOB_V 305.

The impact of urbanization upon atmospheric processes and climates. The energy and water balances of cities. Meteorological effects (urban heat island, precipitation modification, etc.) and their significance. Models of the urban atmosphere. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: One of GEOB_V 204, GEOS_V 204, GEOB_V 300, GEOS_V 300, AGRO_V 244, APBI_V 244. Credit will be granted for only one of GEOB_V 401 or GEOS_V 401. Equivalency: GEOB_V 401.

Formation of ice masses and their evolution including snowpacks, glaciers, and ice sheets. Relationships between ice and climate including records of climate change, glacier dynamics and ice-related hazards. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: One of PHYS_V 101, PHYS_V 106, PHYS_V 107, PHYS_V 117, PHYS_V 131, PHYS_V 157, SCIE_V 001, and one of GEOB_V 206, GEOS_V 206, GEOB_V 305, GEOS_V 305, GEOB_V 308, GEOS_V 308. Credit will be granted for only one of GEOB _V 408 or GEOS _V 408. Equivalency: GEOB_V 408.

Students interact face-to-face and online as a community of learners to discuss global issues in agriculture, food, and natural resources in cultural context. Typically taken prior to studying abroad. [0-0-2; 0-0-2] Prerequisite: Open only to students in the B.Sc. (GRS) program.

Students interact face-to-face and online as a community of learners to discuss global issues in agriculture, food, and natural resources in cultural context. Typically taken while studying abroad. [0-0-2] Prerequisite: GRS_V 290

An overview of intersectional feminist debates and theoretical traditions.

An interdisciplinary and cross-cultural overview of contemporary environmental issues, as they relate to gender equality and social justice challenges and initiatives that respond to ecological crises. Recommended: GRSJ 101.

A critical engagement with major issues, debates, and politics in feminist and social justice scholarship through an exploration of youth movements with a focus on activists, popular culture, digital activism, fan cultures, and literature by and for youth.

The complex relationships between mechanisms of power, gender, and representation in Asia in different spaces examined through an interdisciplinary lens.

Gender and indigeneity in the documented histories and narrated lives of Indigenous people in Canada.Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102, or third-year standing.

A survey of feminist legal thought and recent developments in feminism and law, with a focus on Canada. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.

Critical examination and practical applications of concepts, theories, methods, and strategies of gender-aware organizing at the community and international levels. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.

Critical examination of mainstream and alternative media images of gender, race, and sexuality in the context of networked social media, film, music, and television. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.

Interdisciplinary introduction to gender and health issues using selected theoretical frameworks. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.

Critical theories of racial and cultural difference. Initial formulations of theses against scientific racism and their later transformation by historical, social, and global-historical accounts of racial subjugation.

Feminist pedagogies and feminist debates about pedagogy in formal, nonformal, and informal educational settings. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.

Investigation of historical and contemporary scholarship on the diversity of families, focusing on differences of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class within and across national borders. Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.

How feminist scholarship has shaped and reinterpreted accounts of the subject, drawing on such traditions as structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and Queer Theory. Recommended pre-requisites: All of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors and Minors in third-year standing or above.

An interdisciplinary examination of the body, exploring how social relations and space are implicated in the constitution and experience of gendered bodies and identities, with an emphasis on feminist analyses of body-societal relations. Recommended pre-requisites: either all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102 or third-year standing.

Critical theories, methodologies, ethics and practices appropriate for advanced feminist research. Recommended pre-requisite: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102. Restricted to GRSJ Majors with fourth-year standing.

Restricted to students in one of M.A. GRSJ, Ph.D. GRSJ.

Restricted to students in one of M.A. GRSJ, Ph.D. GRSJ.

Interdisciplinary seminar considering the ethics and praxis of working with difficult knowledge, such as highly divisive questions of memory and responsibility in the context and aftermaths of oppression and mass violence.

Background on sources of Aboriginal and Canadian law; detail on section 35 of the Constitution Act; a review of relevant Canadian case law; insight on the importance of international law; and literature on governance.