Feminist and Gender Studies
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies offers students exciting interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs that explore women, gender and feminisms. Our teaching and research deal with hot button issues such as globalization, transnationalism, sexualities, colonialism and racism. Courses blend scientific, theoretical and practical knowledge that contributes toward intellectual development and collective efforts for social justice.
Political Science
Politics is omnipresent in our lives. Political science seeks to describe, analyze, understand and assess the principles and power relations that govern social life. It revolves as much around the structures and institutions that define these relations and principles as around the ideas and practices that drive them. It studies everything that influences political life and institutions (ideologies, groups, social movements, etc.) on a local, regional, national and international scale.
Our programs offer in-depth training in political science and encourage critical reflection on pivotal issues like citizenship, identity, political participation, globalization and development, governance and the state, and ethics and democracy. A discipline open to many theoretical and methodological approaches, political science constantly exchanges and shares with other fields. At the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies, you build your knowledge in four subfields of political science: political thought, Canadian and Quebec politics, comparative politics, and international relations and global politics.
This program is offered in English and in French.
Co-operative education is available with this program.
The French immersion stream is available with this program.
Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2023-2024 calendars for the previous requirements.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Basic skills | ||
| ENG 1100 | Workshop in Essay Writing | 3 Units |
| ENG 1120 | Selected Topics in Literature and Composition | 3 Units |
| Total: | 6 Units | |
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Methodology (3 units) | ||
| 3 course units from: | 3 Units | |
| Methodology in Feminist Studies | ||
| Foundations of Research in Political Science | ||
| Feminist and Gender Studies (36 units) | ||
| FEM 1100 | Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction | 3 Units |
| FEM 3105 | Feminist Theories | 3 Units |
| 6 course units from: | 6 Units | |
| Gender, (Dis)Ability and Health | ||
| Diversities of Women: Gender, Race, Class and (Dis)ability | ||
| Gender and Globalization in a Transnational World | ||
| Sexuality, Gender and Popular Culture | ||
| Class, Work, Gender and (Re)Production | ||
| 3 course units from: | 3 Units | |
| Feminism and Transnationalism | ||
| Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racist Feminisms | ||
| Gender, Identity and Embodiment | ||
| Optional Courses in Feminist and Gender Studies | ||
| 9 optional course units at the 3000 or 4000 level from the list of optional courses | 9 Units | |
| 3 optional course units at the 4000 level from the list of optional courses | 3 Units | |
| 9 optional course units in Feminist and Gender Studies (FEM) from the list of optional courses | 9 Units | |
| Political Science (45 units) | ||
| POL 1101 | Introduction to Political Science | 3 Units |
| POL 2101 | Introduction to Canadian Politics | 3 Units |
| POL 2103 | Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics | 3 Units |
| POL 2104 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 3 Units |
| POL 2107 | Introduction to Political Thought | 3 Units |
| POL 2108 | Modern Political Thought I | 3 Units |
| POL 3102 | Modern Political Thought II | 3 Units |
| 3 course units from: | 3 Units | |
| Qualitative Analysis in Political Science | ||
| Quantitative Analysis in Political Science | ||
| 3 course units from the Canadian Politics group: | 3 Units | |
| Urban Politics in Canada | ||
| Quebec Politics | ||
| Politics and Francophonie in Ontario | ||
| Indigenous Politics in Canada | ||
| Comparative Provincial Politics | ||
| Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Canada and Quebec | ||
| Political Participation and Mobilization in Canada | ||
| Federalism | ||
| Canadian Foreign Policy and North American Relations | ||
| Law, Politics, and the Constitution in Canada | ||
| Francophonie, Diversity, Citizenship | ||
| Electoral Systems and Political Parties | ||
| Parliamentary Government in Canada | ||
| Health Politics and Policy in Canada | ||
| Social and Political Thought in Quebec | ||
| Social and Political Thought in Canada | ||
| Selected Topics in Canadian Public Policy | ||
| 3 course units from the Comparative Politics group: | 3 Units | |
| Comparative Politics: Asia | ||
| Comparative Politics of Development | ||
| Comparative Politics: Africa | ||
| Comparative Politics: Latin America | ||
| Political Violence | ||
| Comparative Politics: Middle East and Arab World | ||
| Comparative Politics: Europe | ||
| Comparative Politics: United States | ||
| Comparative Politics: Identity Issues | ||
| Democratization and Authoritarianism | ||
| Comparative Politics: China | ||
| 3 course units from the International Relations group: | 3 Units | |
| Migration, Mobility, Borders and Citizenship | ||
| Gender Studies and Feminist Theories in International Relations | ||
| The Politics of Security | ||
| Politics, Social Movements and Globalization | ||
| International Organizations and Global Governance | ||
| Contemporary Geopolitics | ||
| United States Foreign Policy | ||
| Politics of Foreign Aid | ||
| Agri-Food Politics | ||
| International Political Economy | ||
| International Relations as Political Theory | ||
| Global Environmental Politics | ||
| Selected Topics in Critical Security and War Studies | ||
| Selected Topics in International Political Economy and or Global Governance | ||
| 3 course units from: | 3 Units | |
| Honours Seminar in Political Thought | ||
| Honours Seminar in Canadian Politics | ||
| Honours Seminar in International Relations and Global Politics | ||
| Honours Seminar in Comparative Politics | ||
| Honours Seminar in International Relations and Global Politics | ||
| 3 optional course units in political science (POL) | 3 Units | |
| 6 optional course units in political science (POL) at the 4000 level | 6 Units | |
| Total: | 84 Units | |
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Elective Courses | ||
| 30 elective course units | 30 Units | |
| Total: | 30 Units | |
List of Optional Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ART 3117 | Art and Gender | 3 Units |
| CLA 3163 | Women in Early Christianity | 3 Units |
| CMN 3104 | Women and Media | 3 Units |
| CRM 3307 | Women and Gendered Confinement and Criminalization | 3 Units |
| CRM 4312 | Women and Gendered Justice | 3 Units |
| FEM 2104 | Gender, (Dis)Ability and Health | 3 Units |
| FEM 2107 | Diversities of Women: Gender, Race, Class and (Dis)ability | 3 Units |
| FEM 2109 | Gender and Globalization in a Transnational World | 3 Units |
| FEM 2110 | Sexuality, Gender and Popular Culture | 3 Units |
| FEM 2111 | Class, Work, Gender and (Re)Production | 3 Units |
| FEM 3100 | Special Topic in Feminist and Gender Studies | 3 Units |
| FEM 3104 | Feminism, Justice and the Law | 3 Units |
| FEM 3106 | Women, Gender and Development | 3 Units |
| FEM 3107 | Queer Theories | 3 Units |
| FEM 3108 | Indigenous Feminisms | 3 Units |
| FEM 3109 | Feminism, Animality and Posthumanism | 3 Units |
| FEM 4310 | Feminism and Transnationalism | 3 Units |
| FEM 4320 | Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racist Feminisms | 3 Units |
| FEM 4330 | Gender, Identity and Embodiment | 3 Units |
| FRA 3530 | La littérature et les minorités sexuelles | 3 Units |
| FRA 3532 | Théories et critiques féministes | 3 Units |
| HIS 4182 | Seminar in Women's History | 3 Units |
| PAP 3325 | Gender and Public Policy | 3 Units |
| POL 3123 | Gender Studies and Feminist Theories in International Relations | 3 Units |
| POL 3126 | Gender and Politics | 3 Units |
| POL 4163 | Sexual and Gender Diversity Politics | 3 Units |
| POL 4180 | Feminist Political Thought | 3 Units |
| PSY 3121 | Psychology of Women and Gender | 3 Units |
| SOC 3306 | Social Structures and Gender Analysis in Comparative Analysis Perspectives | 3 Units |
| SOC 4314 | Gender Relations, Development and Globalization | 3 Units |
| SRS 3163 | Women in Early Christianity | 3 Units |
| SRS 3165 | Gender and Religion | 3 Units |
| TSO 3520 | Identités trans et non binaires, sexualités marginalisées et travail social | 3 Units |
| TSO 3703 | Intervention féministe | 3 Units |