Note on Departmental Foci: Faculty and student research and interests represent a variety of approaches to sociology and equity studies in education. The current composition of the department provides particular opportunities for students who may wish to focus their activities in the areas listed below, as well as in the Interdisciplinary and Interdepartmental Foci and Collaborative programs. Students are not required to stay within a single focus when selecting courses.


Feminist Studies & Gender Relations
in Education


Core courses: SES1981 (core course for this focus) and CTL 1313 (core course  for the M.Ed. in Gender Equity). This focus offers courses on Gender studies in the family, school, and workforce; feminist practice; gender, class, race, language, and cultural and biological reproduction; social history of women and women's education; feminism and feminist historiography.

Faculty include: Sandra Acker, Kathy Bickmore, Dwight Boyd, Kari Dehli (on leave), Margrit Eichler, Rose Baaba Folson, Edward Harvey, Monica Heller, Helen Lenskyj, Sherene Razack, Kathleen Rockhill (on leave), Alissa Trotz, and Njoki Nathani Wane.