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.