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Women and gender studies, program overview.

The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) offers a program leading to the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Women and Gender Studies.

The Master’s Program in Women and Gender Studies (MWGS) focuses on feminist colonial, postcolonial, indigenous, diasporic, and transnational studies as rubrics for studying gender, sex, and feminism. This perspective explores the temporal and geographic processes through which human lives, sexed relations, gendered subjectivities, and sexualities are situated.

The PhD has four emphases:

• gender, sexuality, and queer studies;
• feminist cultural studies;
• feminist studies of technology, science, environment, and biomedicine;
• transnational political economy and development studies.

The program offerings bring feminist scholarship to the tasks of challenging and investigating colonial, postcolonial, and transnational contexts. Central themes of the program include global capitalism, nation and state formation, empire, citizenship, indigeneity, diaspora, and cultural flows, all of which are examined through the lenses of diverse feminist scholarship.

The program welcomes applications from international students.

See also: Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies .​ Applicants to the Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies are now required to submit a tailored Letter of Intent separate from the home graduate/degree program. The application deadline for this program is 30-May-2022.

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Introduction

For five decades, we have trained students to think deeply about how gender and sexuality operate at individual, interpersonal, institutional and global levels. We are an interdisciplinary program with faculty expertise across a range of fields, including history and literature, sociology and law, cultural studies and queer theory, and African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and Equity studies. We enable students to answer urgent and complex questions, such as how militarization can constrict men’s aspirations for their lives, why pay gaps exist, how sexual expression is scripted and can be re-scripted, and even what Lizzo might have in common with Shakespeare. In addition to training students to analyze a music video, a novel, and a government report with equal care and skill, we also focus attention on matters of scale: when to aggregate and when to parse significant distinctions; how to think comparatively across space and time.

The Women & Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) at the University of Toronto is distinctive for its transnational approach. We critically address how national borders and nationalist discourses frame constructions of gender, race, class, indigeneity, sexuality, ability, and other important differences. We study the effects of migration, diaspora, and displacement on experiences of home and heritage, family, desire, and selfhood. We provide students the conceptual tools to connect processes of imperialism and globalization with emergent economies and forms of labour and consumption. Finally, we encourage students to reflect on the varied histories of feminism when framing their own activisms in the present.

Our graduates go on to do innovative work in the public service, creative, and corporate sectors, and some enter the academy. They become everything from documentary filmmakers to grassroots activists to policy analysts in economic development agencies and professors in leading universities. All of them draw on the critical lenses they develop in this program, becoming part of a rich community of graduates who maintain their connections with one another, and who come back to the diverse classrooms where they once were students to share their experiences.

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Women Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) provides a rich and complex understanding of a range of socially informed experiences as they relate to race, gender, class, indigeneity and sexuality.

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A look at Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism in North America.  

The course examines how computer technologies facilitate women's participation in cyberspace and how women define and construct their involvement.

Drawing on theories and methods from feminist and sexuality studies, this course engages this question to understand the emergence of queer aesthetics as a response to social and political crisis.

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Ethics, Law & Society

This program provides students with a deeper understanding of ethical theories and their application in various social contexts; for example, it examines particular ethical issues concerning health care, the environment, legal systems, and political institutions.

Diaspora & Transnational Studies

Diaspora and transnational studies examines the historical and contemporary movements of peoples and the complex problems of identity and experience to which these movements give rise as well as the creative possibilities that flow from movement.

Anthropology (HBA)

Anthropology is the study of humankind from its beginnings to present. In practice, the discipline divides itself into several subfields, each of which focuses on different aspects of human life across space and through time.

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Collaborative specializations.

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

• Women and Gender Studies, MA
• Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD

The overall graduate program is cutting edge for its focus on transnational feminist studies. Graduate students and faculty investigate how gender and sexuality are informed, lived, and reinvented amidst entwined yet discrepant narratives, geographies, and histories.

Graduate work at the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) encourages an engagement with an interdisciplinary range of theories and methods that grapple with how gender and sexuality are entangled with questions of race, citizenship, embodiment, colonialism, nation, global capitalism, violence, political economy, cultural formations, aesthetics, and other pressing concerns.

The core faculty brings transnational feminist commitments to the study of diverse sites and their interconnection with particular focus on Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and the United States. In doing so, the institute seeks to ask feminist questions as well as put feminism into question.

Areas of focus within the transnational feminist approach include:

gender, sexuality and queer studies

political economy and critical development studies

feminist studies of technology, science, environment and biomedicine

feminist cultural studies.

The MA and PhD degree programs also feature the option of a practicum that aspires to strengthen students’ ability to interrogate the application of theories and methods to lived practice.

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The Master of Arts (MA) program in Women and Gender Studies focuses on feminist colonial, post-colonialism, diasporic, and transnational studies as rubrics for studying gender, sex, and feminism. This perspective explores the temporal and geographic processes through which women's and men's lives, sexed relations, gendered subjectivities, and sexualities are situated.

The MA program is a full-time program and cannot be taken on a part-time basis.

Minimum Admission Requirements

Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Women and Gender Studies Institute's additional admission requirements stated below.

An appropriate bachelor's degree in women's studies and gender studies or a related area at an approved university. Applicants must have obtained an average equivalent to a University of Toronto B+ or better in their final year of undergraduate study.

Letter of intent outlining the academic goals the applicant wishes to pursue in the program, two letters of recommendation, and transcripts from all post-secondary institutions.

Completion Requirements

The student's program of study must be approved by the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Students must successfully complete a total of 3.5 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:

0.5 core FCEs in women and gender studies WGS5000H Feminist Theories, Histories, Movements I .

1.0 elective FCE in women and gender studies; either a special topics seminar or an independent research/reading course WGS1007H Directed Research/Reading .

1.0 FCE WGS1005Y MA Research Paper .

1.0 FCE (one year-long or two half-year courses) offered by other departments and chosen in consultation with the faculty advisor.

Completion of WGS2000H WGS Research Seminar , requiring participation in the WGS Research Seminar Series. To complete this requirement, students must attend at least 80% of the seminars during the Fall/Winter academic session.

The MA degree program is not offered on a part-time basis.

Women and Gender Studies: Women and Gender Studies PhD

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in Women and Gender Studies has four areas of focus:

gender, sexuality, and queer studies

feminist cultural studies

feminist studies of technology, science, environment, and biomedicine

transnational political economy and development studies.

The offerings bring feminist scholarship to the tasks of challenging and investigating colonial, postcolonial, and transnational contexts. Central themes of the program include global capitalism, nation and state formation, empire, citizenship, diaspora, and cultural flows, all of which are examined through the lenses of diverse feminist scholarship. The program welcomes applications from international students.

Applicants may enter the PhD program via one of two routes:

following completion of an appropriate MA

direct entry after completing a bachelor's degree.

PhD Program

A master's degree in women and gender studies, or a master's degree in a related discipline from a recognized university. Applicants must have obtained an average of A– or better in the master's program.

Letter of intent outlining the academic goals the applicant wishes to pursue in the program, two letters of recommendation, a writing sample, and transcripts from all post-secondary institutions.

The student’s program of study must be approved by the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

All coursework should normally be completed by the end of Year 1 of PhD study. Students must successfully complete a total of 3.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:

1.0 FCE in Women and Gender Studies ( WGS5000H Feminist Theories, Histories, Movements I and WGS5001H Feminist Theories, Histories, Movements II ). Students who have already taken these courses, or their equivalent, will be required to enrol in alternate course selections, with institute approval.

0.5 elective FCE in Women and Gender Studies.

1.5 FCEs offered in Women and Gender Studies or by other graduate units and chosen in consultation with the student’s faculty advisor.

WGS Research Seminar Series . Normally, students enrol in WGS2000H WGS Research Seminar in Year 1 of their PhD program. Attendance at 80% of the seminars is required in Year 1. After completion of this course, students are recommended to attend this seminar regularly, as a crucial part of their graduate education. In addition, students must present their research in the seminar series once before graduation after they have achieved candidacy, a milestone captured by WGS2001H WGS Research Seminar — Presentation . Students will enrol in WGS2001H WGS Research Seminar — Presentation during the session in which they plan to present.

Comprehensive examinations:

Completion of two comprehensive exams, one in a primary (major) and one in a secondary (minor) area of study, defined in consultation with the advisor and other committee members.

The thesis proposal, an integral part of the comprehensive exams, should be defended and accepted no later than August 31 of Year 2.

Examinations are marked on a pass/fail basis. Candidates are allowed two attempts to pass a comprehensive examination. A failure to pass on the second attempt results either in the student’s voluntary withdrawal from the program, or a recommendation by the institute for termination of the student's registration in the program.

The major comprehensive examination should be completed by January 31 of Year 2. The minor comprehensive examination should be completed by May 31 of Year 2.

Completion of a doctoral thesis based on original research conducted by the candidate on an approved topic in women and gender studies, and successful defence at the SGS Final Oral Examination.

Each student will meet at least annually with their supervisor and other doctoral committee members to review academic progress and to consult about future directions.

PhD Program (Direct-Entry)

In exceptional cases, direct-entry admission is offered to outstanding students with a bachelor's degree in women and gender studies or a related area, from a recognized university. Direct-entry students must have a cumulative average of A or better. Applicants must also have obtained an average equivalent to an A– or better in their final year of undergraduate study.

All coursework should normally be completed by the end of Year 2 of PhD study. Students must successfully complete a total of 5.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:

1.0 FCE in Women and Gender Studies ( WGS5000H Feminist Theories, Histories, Movements I and WGS5001H Feminist Theories, Histories, Movements II ).

2.0 elective FCEs in Women and Gender Studies.

2.0 FCEs offered in Women and Gender Studies or by other graduate units and chosen in consultation with the student’s faculty advisor.

WGS Research Seminar Series . Normally, students will enrol in WGS2000H WGS Research Seminar in Year 1 of their PhD program. Attendance at 80% of the seminars is required in Year 1. After completion of this course, students are recommended to attend this seminar regularly, as a crucial part of their graduate education. In addition, students must present their research in the seminar series once before graduation after they have achieved candidacy, a milestone captured by WGS2001H WGS Research Seminar — Presentation . Students will enrol in WGS2001H WGS Research Seminar — Presentation during the session in which they plan to present.

Comprehensive examinations :

The thesis proposal, an integral part of the comprehensive exams, should be defended and accepted no later than December 31 of Year 3.

Examinations are marked on a pass/fail basis. Candidates are allowed two attempts to pass a comprehensive examination. A failure to pass on the second attempt results either in the student’s voluntary withdrawal from the program or a recommendation by the institute for termination of the student’s registration in the program.

The major comprehensive examination should be completed by May 31 of Year 2. The minor comprehensive examination should be completed by September 30 of Year 3.

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Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough is an interdisciplinary program that explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, age, disability, nationality and other relations of power that shape multiple social and cultural differences and inequalities.

The program offers both a rigorous and supportive environment for students to pursue an undergraduate Major/Major (Co-op)/ or Minor Program in Women's and Gender Studies. The programs integrate theory and practice by introducing students to scholarship from a wide range of intellectual perspectives, and challenging them to work for change and equality in their communities and in their daily lives.

Through our innovative learning environments, transformative feminist teaching and curriculum, students will learn to scrutinize structures of power, inequality and injustice. Students will ultimately develop the knowledge, language and tools they need to question conventional assumptions about the world around them.

Topics include women’s roles in society, history, family, religion and politics; women, literature, and language; women, science, and the environment; gender, media, and the arts; gender and work; race, gender, and empire; sexuality and transnationality; violence, LGBT history and activism; histories of Black feminism; gendered Islamophobia. Our program's interdisciplinary focus can be carried into many academic and professional areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as in science and technology. Students acquire skills in critical thinking, creative problem-solving, analytical research, effective writing and communication and community engagement. These skills prepare students for careers in education, research, journalism, arts, social work, activism, government, politics, law, business, administration, policy analysis and equity advocacy.

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Students who intend to complete a Women's and Gender Studies program should first take  WSTA01H3  and  WSTA03H3  in their first year before proceeding to the upper-level courses.

For updates and detailed information regarding Women's and Gender Studies, please visit the  Department of Historical and Cultural Studies  website.

Program Combination Restrictions in Women’s and Gender Studies

The Major and Minor programs in Women’s and Gender Studies cannot be combined.

Experiential Learning and Outreach

For a community-based experiential learning opportunity in your academic field of interest, consider the course  CTLB03H3 , which can be found in the  Teaching and Learning  section of the  Calendar .

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The Doctoral Program in Women and Gender Studies (DWGS) offers a particular focus on feminist colonial, post-colonial, diasporic and transnational studies.  The program supports diverse and multidisciplinary graduate research querying gendered, raced, sexed, and queered subjects as they are entangled in political economies and cultural formations.  In particular, WGSI has distinctive strengths in the following four areas of strength: (1) gender, sexuality and queer studies; (2) feminist cultural studies; (3) feminist studies of technology, science, environment and biomedicine; and (4) transnational political economy and critical development studies. Our core faculty brings transnational feminist commitments to the study of diverse sites and their interconnection with particular focus on Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, and the United States.

• Feminist Theories, Histories, Movements I
• History and Biopolitics
• Master’s Research Paper
• Community Engagement (Practicum)
• Independent Research and Reading in Women and Gender Studies
• Gender and Cypberpolitics
• Black Feminist Thought
• Restructuring Work and Care: Family, State and Market in Times of Crisis
• Geographies of Violence and Security
• Gender and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives
• Black Diasporic Feminisms: Modernity, Freedom, Belonging
• Studies in Aesthetic Expression and Radical Hope
• Women and Revolution in the Middle East
• Indigenous Aesthetics: Hip Hop, Media an Futurities
• Race, Space and Citizenship
• Reproductive Health Law in Transnational Perspective
• Queer of Colour Critique
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Requirements

• Admission to the Ph.D. Program in Women and Gender Studies requires that students have attained the appropriate breadth and depth of background in undergraduate and/or master’s studies to undertake coursework and other degree requirements at the Ph.D. level. WGSI interprets equivalency very broadly, and considers courses taken in departments other than Women and Gender Studies as potentially appropriate, so long as the course content or the student’s work in the course included substantial study of women and gender.
• SGS online application (submitted online – see link below)
• A statement (two pages maximum) of proposed study (submitted online – see link below).
• Two (2) letters of academic recommendation (submitted online – see link below). Your referees are required to fill out a web-based form via the online application system. When you (the applicant) fill out your online application form, you will provide the email addresses of two academic referees. After you have paid your online application fee (please do this no later than November 1, 2016), your referees will be sent an e-mail prompt asking them to submit their online reference by December 8, 2016. Please notify your academic referees in advance of the deadline specified above and follow up if necessary. If for some reason your referee(s) is unable to submit a reference online, please instruct them to send WGSI a hard copy of the form by December 8, 2016. The reference letter must be written on official university letterhead paper and contained in a signed and sealed university letterhead envelope.
• A brief academic curriculum vitae (CV), with details of education, awards, teaching and research experience, and other information of academic interest. (Submitted online – see link below).
• One sample of academic writing (under 30 pages) relevant to Women and Gender Studies, e.g. a course paper or conference paper (submitted online – see link below).
• Official copies of all post-secondary transcripts, submitted in BOTH ELECTRONIC AND HARD COPY FORM. All applicants, including UofT students, are required to submit official transcripts only.  WE DO NOT ACCEPT UNOFFICIAL ROSI (UofT) TRANSCRIPTS.  Please order official transcripts through your university transcript centre and have them mailed directly to the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Transcripts must be on official university letterhead and contained in sealed, university letterhead envelopes. When you are submitting transcripts electronically, please ensure that each transcript is legible and that you include the transcript legend or grading system. The transcript must show your course grades, and where applicable, the date of degree conferral. International students may include degree/diploma certificates IN ADDITION to their official transcripts & transcript legends.
• INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS should consult the “International Degree Equivalencies” chart to determine if they meet the minimum admission requirement at the University of Toronto. Go to http://portal.sgs.utoronto.ca/current/admission/intdegequiv.asp. Qualifications from a number of world-wide educational systems are listed.  The academic standings indicated are normally accepted as equivalent to a University of Toronto mid-B average if the degree has been awarded from an institution recognized by the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto.  Note that a mid-B average is the MINIMUM required for graduate study at the University of Toronto. Individual departments have their own admission requirements, which are normally higher than the minimum.  As stated above, applicants to the Master’s Program in Women and Gender Studies must have at least a B+ average (GPA 3.30–3.60) or better in their final year of study.  Applicants to the PhD Program in Women and Gender Studies must have an A- average (CGPA 3.70).  Direct-entry applicants to the PhD Program in Women and Gender Studies must have an A average (CGPA 4.00) and an A- average (GPA 3.70) in their final year of study.  Applicants who do not meet the minimum UofT requirement of a mid-B average (73% or GPA 3.00) need not apply.  Also, applicants who do not meet the minimum UofT English language requirement need not apply.  For details, consult the “How to Apply” section below.
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• CoPAS Program Director: Michael Chaiton
• Social Work Coordinator: Eileen McKee
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For a detailed listing of MSW & PhD Requirements please visit the CoPAS Website .

The goal of the CoPAS at the University of Toronto is to develop and integrate graduate training in the multidisciplinary field of addictions. This field encompasses the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other psychoactive substances, as well as gambling and other addictive behaviours.

Note: DLSPH has a later course enrolment schedule than FIFSW.

Students must apply and be accepted into the MSW or PhD Program before applying to the CoPAS Specialization.

• Following notice of your acceptance to the MSW/PhD program, submit the completed CoPAS Application Form and resume to [email protected] .
• When approved and signed, your application and resume will be forwarded the CoPAS Program Co-Director for final approval.
• Both MSW and PhD students are required to take PAS 3700H Multidisciplinary Aspects of Addictions. Enrollment is not open until the second week in August. Please complete the Request for Course Add/Drop form and e-mail the CoPAS Program Co-Director to [email protected] no sooner than the second week in August.
• The Co-Director sends your application to the School of Graduate Studies where your enrolment is registered on ACORN. (Note that letters of confirmation are not sent to students – please check your registration on ACORN approximately 12 weeks after submitting your application).

Students fulfilling the requirements of the collaborating department and CoPAS will receive a notation indicating completion of a specialization in Addiction Studies on the transcript issued by the University of Toronto.

• Coordinator : Esme Fuller-Thomson
• Institute for Life Course and Aging (ICLA) website

For a detailed listing of MSW & PhD Requirements please visit the Insitute for Life Course and Aging (ICLA) Website.

Note: Both MSW and PhD students are required to take AGE2000H Principles of Aging (AGE2000H is a prerequisite for entry into the doctoral level of the Collaborative Specialization)

The Collaborative Specialization in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course prepares students for specialization in the field of aging and/or the field of palliative and supportive care, with an emphasis on viewing aging issues within the perspective of the life course. The Collaborative Specialization offers students two options of study:

• Aging and the life course
• Palliative and supportive care

Students must apply to and register in a home participating unit ( see list of the graduate programs here ), and follow a course of study acceptable to both the graduate unit and the Collaborative Specialization in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course.

Upon successful completion of the requirements, students receive, in addition to their graduate degree from the home graduate unit, the notation on their transcript: “Completed the Collaborative Specialization in Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course”.

• Coordinator : Rupaleem Bhuyan
• Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies | The Munk School

The Collaborative Graduate Specialization in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies offers students with interests in citizenship, migration, and diversity the opportunity to widen their horizons – to expand their knowledge beyond a single disciplinary base, and to take advantage of the wealth of academic resources available at the University of Toronto – a great university situated in a large and cosmopolitan city.

Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies is a Collaborative Graduate Specialization, and is only open to students who have enrolled in a Master’s or Doctoral program in one of the collaborating graduate units at the University of Toronto.

To enroll, students must contact the Harney Program Coordinator at  [email protected] . There is no firm deadline to join the EIP specialization, but it is preferable for new applications to be submitted before the start of the new academic year.

Note: All MSW and PhD students are required to take the Interdisciplinary Seminar: JTH3000H Coordinating Seminar: Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, which is usually offered in the fall term.

For more information on how to enroll and requirements for MSW & PhD please go to the Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies website

• Coordinator: Carmen Logie

This Collaborative Specialization provides students with exemplary training in public health policy, which fosters synergies and cross-disciplinary learning. It gives students the capacity to engage in current events and contribute to the development, refinement, and evaluation of policies to address society’s pressing and emerging public health priorities. The collaborative specialization is cross-disciplinary, bringing together a broad range of disciplines, substantive foci, and theoretical and methodological underpinnings, to synergistically build an engaged community of practice of students and faculty focused on public health policy. It contributes to the creation of the next generation of public health policy research leaders and creative agents for change, able to address current health issues and challenges. Through the direction of the stellar team of academics and policy-makers associated with the collaborative specialization, students are provided with real-world skills to address the complex and demanding task of public health policy-making (including insight into a wide array of legislative and regulatory interventions, administrative practices, financing and funding decisions, and various forms of soft law, such as guidelines and informal processes) which operate at the international, federal, provincial, and municipal levels in ways that are both cross-jurisdictional and cross-sectoral.

• Coordinator: David Brennan
• Acting Collaborator: Eunjung Lee, [email protected]

For a detailed listing of MSW & PhD Requirements please go to the Sexual Diversity Studies Website .

The Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies, offered by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, is a rigorously interdisciplinary program recognizing sexual diversity studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. While it has emerged as an autonomous scholarly area, many of those who work within it engage questions of gender, ethnicity, race, Aboriginal status, (dis)ability, and class, to highlight the importance of exploring their interaction with sexual differences.

The graduate degree programs listed above participate in the Collaborative Specialization. From their home departments, students may take up questions from their own disciplinary or programmatic perspective, but explore it through the theoretical and methodological lens of sexuality studies.

• Contact the Collaborative Specialization Office 416-978-3668 for application procedures.
• Coordinator: Associate Dean, Academic, Dr. Eunjung Lee (until December 31, 2022); Ramona Alaggia (available from January 1, 2023)

For a detailed listing of MSW & PhD Requirements please go to the Specialization in Women and Gender Studies Website .

Specialization Requirements: Students must demonstrate familiarity with the approaches and methodologies associated with scholarship in women’s studies. If students lack the interdisciplinary background in this field, they should be able to demonstrate extensive familiarity with women’s studies scholarship in a single discipline or a cognate set of disciplines.

The Graduate Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies (CWGS) provides a formal educational context for the pursuit of interdisciplinary research in women and gender studies and advanced feminist scholarship. The specialization, offered at the master’s and doctoral levels, provides a central coordinating structure to facilitate and disseminate research in women and gender studies through student and faculty research seminars, colloquia, circulation of work in progress, study groups, conferences, and publications. The CWGS contributes to the development of an integrated research community in women and gender studies at the University of Toronto.

The graduate programs listed above participate in the Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. The collaborating units contribute courses and provide facilities and supervision for graduate research. The specialization is administered by the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). The CWGS brings together 33 graduate programs providing more than 100 courses and involving over 100 graduate faculty members.

Students who successfully complete the requirements of the collaborative specialization will receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies” on their transcript, in addition to the master’s or doctoral degree from their home graduate unit.

For a detailed listing of MSW & PhD Requirements please go to the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health website .

The Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health provides interdisciplinary training in women’s health research and practice for graduate students at the University of Toronto with the goal of:

• Helping students develop shared understandings of the complex interactions of biology and environment, sex and gender;
• Providing students with the necessary skill set to undertake and lead interdisciplinary, collaborative health care research projects;
• Enhancing mutually beneficial relationships among researchers and practitioners of women’s health across the university and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

To successfully complete the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health, students must also successfully complete the program requirements of their home graduate unit. Master’s students who successfully complete the specialization will have the following notation added to their transcripts: ‘Completed the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health.’

Open to MSW students only:

• Coordinator: A. Ka Tat Tsang

For a detailed listing of MSW Requirements please go to the Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies Website .

The graduate programs listed above participate in the collaborative master’s degree program in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. The collaborating units contribute courses and provide facilities and supervision for master’s level research. This specialization is administered by a Program Committee chaired by a Program Director.

This specialization is designed to provide graduates with advanced training in a particular discipline and in the historical and social science studies of modern East and Southeast Asia. The major topics of emphasis are political economy, modern and contemporary social history, international relations, gender, political and social change, economic development, and cultural studies. The specialization contributes to the development of an integrated and interdisciplinary research community in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University.

Applicants are expected to meet the admission and degree requirements of both a home unit and the specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies. The collaborative master’s degree specialization requirements can be met concurrently with, or in addition to, home unit requirements. Students who successfully complete the requirements of the collaborative specialization will receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies” on their transcript in addition to the master’s degree from the home unit.

• Coordinator: David Hulchanski

For a detailed listing of MSW Requirements please go to the Collaborative Specialization in Community Development Website .

The Collaborative Specialization provides students with a multidisciplinary graduate education in community development. Community development involves working with community members and groups to effect positive change in the social, economic, organizational, or physical structures of a community that improve both the welfare of community members and the community’s ability to direct its future.

Students must apply to and register in a home participating unit (i.e., one of the graduate departments or faculties listed above), and follow a course of study acceptable to both that unit and the Collaborative Specialization in Community Development. Applications are considered for the master’s degree programs listed above.

Open to PhD students only:

• Coordinators: Karen Faith / Peter Newman (FIFSW)
• Acting Coordinator: Eunjung Lee, [email protected]
• Joint Centre for Bioethics: Margot Smith

For a detailed listing of PhD Requirements please go to the Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics .

Introduced in 1994, the Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics (CSB), a research-stream graduate program, has admitted more than 50 students. The seven graduate units of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), Law (LAW), Medical Science (IMS), Nursing (NUR), Philosophy (PHL), Public Health Sciences (PHS), and Religion (RLG) collaborate to offer master’s (LLM, MA, MHSc, MN, MSc) and doctoral (PhD, SJD) degrees.

• Coordinator: Daniyal Zuberi

For a detailed listing of PhD Requirements please go to the Health Services and Policy Research Specialization Website .

The overall goal of the specialization is to increase health research capacity in Ontario through an innovative training program that builds on existing strengths in university and decision making environments.

Partnering with a number of health care organizations, the Collaborative Specialization in Health Services and Policy Research offers graduate training leading to a Diploma in Health Services and Policy Research.

Specific objectives of the specialization include:

• to provide training in health services research for graduate students,
• to enhance the quality and breadth of trans-disciplinary training in health services research, and
• to include decision makers as active partners in teaching, program and curriculum planning, and the provision of field placements for students.

This competency-based specialization focuses on the following five areas:

• understanding the Canadian health care system,
• ability to carry out health services research,
• understanding theories regarding how the health of populations is produced,
• understanding theories of health and health services knowledge production, and
• knowledge exchange and development of research partnerships.

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The Bachelor of Information (BI) is a two-year professional program open to students who have completed two years of undergraduate study in any field. Graduates work in the public and private sectors in a range of roles. They also go on to graduate studies.

The BI program explores interactions between social worlds and information technologies, providing students with both the practical techniques and conceptual tools necessary to understand and effect change in a data-intensive society.

Program Features

• Two years, full-time
• Lecture and studio-based courses
• Practicum course offers hands-on experience
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Bachelor of Information Program Highlights

The Bachelor of Information (BI) program integrates design thinking, critical scholarship, and experiential and work integrated learning to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design and critique complex technical, political, and cultural responses to new and enduring information practices.

Studio-based courses are an important part of the BI program. These courses use hands-on and experiential learning to engage and elaborate the intellectual content of the program’s lecture-based courses, while providing students with familiarity and expertise in common types of software and hardware suites.

All BI students complete a practicum course and a capstone project.

Practicum: Work Integrated Learning

All Bachelor of Information students complete a Practicum course for academic credit in the summer between the first and final years of the BI. Students gain invaluable professional and hands-on experience. They build their resumes with the guiding support of a faculty member. Students are able to customize the practicum to their interests and goals not only in the type of work but also the type of organization.

Capstone Project

BI students complete a self-guided and collaborative capstone project in their final year. Students will identify a design problem, design a creative solution to the problem using a combination of skills from previous courses, and share their project with the class. Students will present the outcomes of their project in both visual and written formats.

BI Students and Graduates

Erxun ta (bi, class of 2021).

Erxun discovered a love of research while completing her BI and returned to the Faculty of Information to complete an MI in User Experience Design and Information Systems Design.

Jayden Jung (BI, Class of 2024)

Jayden Jung is a recipient of a 2023 TELUS Diversity in Technology Scholarship. She’s committed to continuing to champion diversity and equity and challenging existing norms in every space she occupies.

Jason Ngo (BI, Class of 2024)

Jason switched to the BI from Computer Science to explore his interests in data and user experience simultaneously. He especially appreciates the sense of community and smaller cohort as well as the Faculty’s Learning Hub space.

Program Essentials

Admission requirements.

Details about admissions requirements for domestic and international students can be found on the BI Applications page.

Money Matters

Information about tuition fees, financial aid, and scholarships and awards can be found on the Money Matters page.

Students benefit from being at a smaller Faculty with a sense of community while also enjoying the perks of being part of U of T with all its resources.

BI Program Requirements and Details

The BI consists of 22 half-credit courses (11 credits total) taken over five terms (fall/winter/summer/fall/winter)

9 Required lecture-based courses

2 Practicum-based courses

6 Required studio-based courses

1 Practicum

4 Electives

Required Courses

INF301H1 Introduction to Information and Power 0.5 Credits

INF302H1 Integrative Approaches to Technology and Society 0.5 Credits

INF311H1 Information in the Cultural Imagination 0.5 Credits

INF312H1 Worlds Become Data 0.5 Credits

INF313H1 Computational Reasoning 0.5 Credits

INF314H1 Information, Memory and Culture 0.5 Credits

INF315H1 Information Practice in Organizations 0.5 Credits

INF351H1 Information Design Studio I: How to Make a Computer and Why 0.5 Credits

INF352H1 Information Design Studio II: How to Design 0.5 Credits

INF353H1 Information Design Studio III: Designing Interactive Systems 0.5 Credits

INF401H1 From Classroom to Workplace 0.5 Credits

INF402H1 Work Integrated Learning Practicum 0.5 Credits

INF411H1 Information in the Global Economy 0.5 Credits

INF412H1 Data Analytics: Informed Decisions with Data 0.5 Credits

INF413H1 Information Policy in Canadian and Global Contexts 0.5 Credits

INF451H1 Information Design Studio IV: Information Visualization 0.5 Credits

INF452H1 Information Design Studio V: Coding 0.5 Credits

INF453H1 Capstone Project 0.5 Credits

Elective Courses

INF330H1 Born-Digital Culture 0.5 Credits

INF430H1 The Material and Information Cultures of Music 0.5 Credits

INF440H1 Surveillance & Privacy in Digital Society 0.5 Credits

INF450H1 Project Management with Agile 0.5 Credits

INF481H1 Special Topics in Information Studies I: UX 0.5 Credits

INF482H1 Special Topics in Information Studies II: AI 0.5 Credits

INF499H1 Reading Course 0.5 Credits

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Special topics courses offer in-depth examinations of selected topics in Information. These will change from year to year, and may include, for example, Surveillance, Audiences, Information and Political Activism, Critical Histories of Information Technologies, Digital Material Culture, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Advanced Topics in Policy, Advanced Topics in UXD, Advanced Topics in ISD, Advanced Topics in Info and Culture

Careers for BI Graduates

The BI’s integrative, critical, humanities, and social science-based approach to information technologies and practices prepares students for vital and enriching careers in three areas:

• Products and Systems
• Policy and Research
• Information Management and Cultural Stewardship.

Sample job titles include:

• Business Analyst
• Data Scientist
• Design Researcher
• Digital Archives Assistant
• Information Specialist
• Interactive Media Designer
• Privacy Analyst
• Policy Analyst
• Social Media Strategist
• User Experience Designer
• Archives Assistant
• Information Management Coordinator
• Research Analyst
• Records and Systems Manager

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Master’s program in women and gender studies (mwgs).

We are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Master’s students in Women and Gender Studies to the University of Toronto (UofT).

The courses taken by our M.A. students provide them with an opportunity to undertake advanced feminist studies towards theorizing these questions. Our program aspires to strengthen students’ abilities to interrogate theories and methods, as well as to critique their application to lived practice. Students have the opportunity to undertake feminist studies in a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social and Health Sciences.

MWGS offers a particular focus on feminist colonial, post-colonial, diasporic and transnational studies. The program supports diverse and multidisciplinary graduate research querying gendered, raced, sexed, and queered subjects as they are entangled in political economies and cultural formations. In particular, WGSI has distinctive strengths in the following four areas of study: (1) gender, sexuality and queer studies; (2) feminist cultural studies; (3) feminist studies of technology, science, environment and biomedicine; and (4) transnational political economy and critical development studies. Our core faculty brings transnational feminist commitments to the study of diverse sites and their interconnection with particular focus on Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, and the United States.

Incoming master’s students are encouraged to check out collaborative specializations to enhance their degree. WGSI participates in a dozen programs that provide interdisciplinary study and training. Read more about collaborative programs here.