Courses

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.

This course introduces students to the key concepts and issues of a theory and praxis of social justice in the global present. Students will become familiar with current debates, key concepts, and innovative scholarship through: a) a series of dialogues on key concepts and debates led by Social Justice Institute faculty and b) the presentations and dialogue with local, national and international noted scholars and the reading of their work. Restricted to students in one of M.A. GRSJ, Ph.D. GRSJ.

This seminar offers an intensive engagement with foundational and emerging critical theories that shape contemporary understandings of social justice. Drawing from fields such as critical race theory, feminist, queer and trans theory, decolonial, anticolonial, and Indigenous studies, Marxism, disability and debility studies, and bio-necropolitical theory, the course interrogates how power operates across axes of difference and domination. 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.

Relationships and reconciliation processes between Indigenous peoples and other governments in the context of land and sea governance.

Conceptual tools of systems thinking, complexity and trans-systemics to aid understanding the dynamics of socialecological transformation and social innovation. These tools will be presented and complemented by experiences on Haida Gwaii that will foster an understanding of social change and system transformation for reconciliation. Complex problems. Prerequisite: Third-year Standing.

Examination of global vegetation, incorporating distribution, abundance, interactions between plants and other organisms, and the role of plants in different environments. Concepts will be addressed the ecosystems of the coastal temperate rainforest in general, and of Haida Gwaii in particular. Prerequisite: Third-year Standing.

The political, economic, and legal environment of Aboriginal-Canadian relations and its influence on resource use and management; review of historic relationships, emerging case law, and new reconciliation frameworks.

Processes that shape coastal terrestrial ecosystems through time and applications to current ecological reality. Part of the Haida Gwaii Fall Semester. Prerequisite: Third-year standing.

Unique biological attributes of island wildlife, such as subspecies, isolated populations, and distinct evolutionary pathways, with a focus on endemic species on Haida Gwaii. Part of the Haida Gwaii Fall Semester. Credit will be granted for only one of FRST 395 or HGSE 357. Prerequisite: Third-year standing.

The relationship between the culture of the Haida people and their marine environment; and traditional and modern approaches to management of marine resources.

Key elements inherent in MPA and MPA network design, governance, implementation, management, compliance and monitoring.

Introduction to key marine conservation and management issues, pairing broad topics with examples on Haida Gwaii to bring theory into practice.

Exploration of the diversity of Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and Canada and their unique histories, beginning with origin stories and oral histories and moving on to the histories and relationships that Indigenous groups have with the federal, provincial and territorial governments.

An examination of the challenges and opportunities of developing and diversifying resilient resource dependent cross-cultural, rural communities using Haida Gwaii's comprehensive community planning as a case study.

An examination of the relationships between culture, ingenuity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation required to understand and foster systems change through Indigenous and cross-cultural examples. Corequisite: All of HGSE 380, HGSE 382, HGSE 384.