FYI: The Option in Women’s and Gender Studies was passed by McGill Senate on May 9th! Please see below for the offering departments so far.

The first session of the core course in the program is being offered in Fall term:
WMST 601: Feminist Theories and Methods
Tuesdays, 2:30-5:30pm
Course convenes in W-5 Arts Bldg.
First floor of the west-wing of Arts Bldg.
Fall 2007
Prof. Carrie A. Rentschler,
Department of Art History and Communication Studies

Course description: WMST 601 is an intensive interdisciplinary graduate seminar that examines some of the major theories and research methodologies that orient current scholarly work in gender and women’s studies. The seminar’s emphasis will be placed on key themes in feminist research inquiry that cut a cross-disciplinary path through scholarly literatures in the humanities, social sciences and some natural sciences, including themes such as: the social construction of bodies and issues of embodiment, theories of sexual difference, practices of telling history, and queer and trans-sexuality studies, among several other topics. Seminar time will be split between lecture and discussion, inter-disciplinary faculty roundtable discussions, and student presentations. The course is open to Masters and Ph.D. students and fulfills one of the course requirements for the new Graduate Option in Gender and Women’s Studies as McGill University.


For more information on the Graduate Option, please contact Ms. Cy-Thea Sand at cy-thea.sand(AT)mcgill.ca. For more information on WMST 601, please contact Prof. Carrie Rentschler at carrie.rentschler(AT)mcgill.ca.


The Option is available to students enrolled in the following programs (new programs are being added).

Faculties of Arts and Science:

M.A. in Anthropology; Gender and Women’s Studies (48 cr.);

M.A. in Art History; Non-Thesis – Gender and Women’s Studies (45 cr.);

Ph.D. in Art History; Gender and Women’s Studies (0 cr.);

M.A. in French; Gender and Women’s Studies (48 cr.);

Ph.D. in French; Gender and Women’s Studies (0 cr.);

M.A. in Geography; Gender and Women’s Studies (48 cr.);

Ph.D. in Islamic Studies; Gender and Women’s Studies (0 cr.);

M.A. in Political Science; Non-Thesis – Gender and Women’s Studies (45 cr.);

M.A. in Sociology; Non-Thesis – Gender and Women’s Studies (45 cr.);

M.A. in Sociology; Gender and Women’s Studies (48 cr.); and

Ph.D. in Sociology; Gender and Women’s Studies (0 cr.).