维多利亚大学

Learn about pressing local and global social-justice issues. Gender Studies courses encourage you to examine how gender, in relation to other categories of difference (race, class, sexuality, ability, age, and citizenship, etc.), shapes people’s lives, experiences, knowledge and possibilities. You’ll acquire a unique perspective on the world and your place in it.

What can you do with your degree?

Gender studies graduates work in various sectors of the job market including government, education, health, law, social services, arts, communications and media, marketing and non-profit and social justice organizations.

• Artist/filmmaker
• Communications Officer
• Counsellor
• Cultural programs coordinator
• Diversity officer
• HR coordinator
• International development
• Journalist
• Legal professional
• Librarian/archivist
• Midwife
• Outreach worker
• Program or project manager
• Public policy analyst
• Research consultant
• Sexual health, inclusion, anti-racism, sexualized violence educator
• Social media manager
• Student services
• Teacher/instructor
• Volunteer coordinator

Gender Studies offers Honours, Major and General programs leading to a Bachelor of Arts (BA). The Gender Studies program examines the complex and fascinating ways power circulates through the lives of individuals and groups. In both teaching and research, it explores how gender as a social construction intersects with other categories of difference, such as race, nation, citizenship, geographical location, class, sexuality, sex, ability and age, in the contexts of colonization, capitalism, globalization and transnationalism. Gender Studies, a discipline previously identified as Women’s Studies, continues to highlight historical and contemporary feminist scholarship, but also broadens this established approach with courses inclusive of queer and trans perspectives as well as the production of masculinities. Underlying all Gender Studies courses is the active pursuit of social justice enabled by critical analyses that expose inequalities and interrogate their systemic foundations in Canada and across the globe.

Honours Program

Students interested in the Honours Program should consult with the Honours Adviser during their third year. All terms of acceptance must be met no later than June 30 of the term preceding their enrolment in GNDR 499.

Terms of acceptance for the Honours Program:

• A GPA of at least 6.5 in five upper-level Gender Studies courses
• A minimum GPA of 4.5 in all other courses
• Written permission of their proposed GNDR 499 supervisor