Course Selection
Winter 2026: September 19th - 29th
Add / Drop Appointments
Winter 2026: November 17th - 18th
For all returning students
Open Enrolment:
Fall 2025: July 30th - Sept 16th
Winter 2026: November 19th - January 16th
Deadline to drop:
Fall 2025: September 23rd
Winter 2026: January 23rd
TIP: We strongly encourage you to participate in the course selection process to ensure you have the best chance of getting into your most desired courses.
Fall 2025 course offerings
GSJ 203: The Waves of Feminist Thought
This course moves through the vital moments in feminist thought and practice throughout the 20th century (and before), focusing on the experience of BIPOC folks and the most marginalized within feminist communities. We will weave a complex intersectional narrative that helps us to understand and approach the complexity of current feminist struggles. At turns, the material we cover will be both familiar and confronting, uncomfortable and critical. Finally, we will critically investigate the metaphor of the ‘wave’ itself and analyze and critique its relevance for our lives and world.
GSJ 472- 003: Queer and Trans Studies
How do we think about gender, sexuality, and kinship in different times, places, and relationships? What is at stake when people contest dominant norms and practices? How are we regulating ourselves and each other — and what led us to do this? In this interdisciplinary, interactive seminar, students get to immerse themselves in queer and trans histories, movements, artistic creations, and theories as they examine our current context and imagine possible futures.
GSJ 473 / PHIL 420: Care & Solidarity
Increasingly, scholars and activists describe care as a radical or revolutionary response to social injustices and forces of power, such as neoliberal capitalism, mass incarceration, settler colonialism, or White supremacy. Drawing from the feminist care theorists and from community organizers, we will explore care as a community practice, one which sustains the well-being of individuals and communities, and which can be practiced as a form of solidarity within and between social justice movements. Not only will you gain a foundation in care theory, but we will apply our learning by practicing care and extending solidarity through a collaborative, community-informed project.
Note: Department consent is required to enrol due to overlapping content in the below courses. If you have not taken any of the below courses, please email gsjadvis@uwaterloo.ca to obtain a seat.
Fall 2024: PHIL 402 (8309) / GSJ 402 (8317), Winter 2023: PHIL 402-001 (8137) / GSJ 402-001 (8761), Winter 2021: GSJ 472-043 (8490) / PHIL 420-041 (4185).
GSJ 473/PHIL 420- promo video
Complete course offerings list
| course code | course title | course location |
|---|---|---|
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GSJ 101 |
The Global North | on-campus |
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GSJ 108/ ENGL 108E |
Gender and Representation | on-campus |
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GSJ 201 |
Gender and Social Justice in Pop Culture | on-campus |
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GSJ 203 |
The Waves of Feminist Thought | on-campus |
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GSJ 380/ HLTH380 |
Applied Health Ethics |
on-campus |
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GSJ 472-001 |
Feminist Philosophy of Science | on-campus |
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GSJ 472-002 |
Philosophy of Education: Tool of State or Tool of Resistance | on-campus |
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GSJ 472-003 |
Queer and Trans Studies | on-campus |
|
GSJ 473/ PHIL 420 |
Care and Solidarity | on-campus |
For the official calendar descriptions, see the Undergraduate Calendar
Winter 2026 course offerings
Featured courses
PHIL 102: The Global South
What do you see in the above image? How does this image relate to globalization and members of oppressed and marginalized groups in the global south? Find out more about these issues along with the dynamics of gender and its intersection with race, ethnicity, sexual identity, (dis)ability, class, religion, and other axes of oppression in the Global South. This introductory course places special emphasis on women in developing world contexts.
GSJ 302/304/ PHIL 302: Feminisms for Social Justice
Students will investigate how feminists conceptualize social justice in the struggle to create a better world by examining feminist theory as it engages with categories such as race, class, sexuality, and disability. Through this examination, students will explore the relationship between feminist theory and feminist practice. Students will also develop an understanding of a range of views about the nature of oppression and inequity as well as strategies for resisting oppression and inequity.
| course code | course title | course location |
|---|---|---|
| The Global South | on-campus | |
| Woman's Writing | on-campus | |
| Gender Issues | on-campus | |
| Social Determinants of Health | on-campus | |
| Topic: Feminisms for Social Justice |
on-campus |
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| The Discourse of Dissent | on-campus | |
| Sexuality and the Law | on-campus | |
| Witches, Wives, and Whores |
online |
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| Global Health | on-campus | |
| GSJ 410 / ENGL 410 | 18th Century Women Writers | on-campus |
For the official calendar descriptions, see the Undergraduate Calendar
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