Bachelor of Arts - Gender Equality and Social Justice (PA)

This program is designed for students who want to make the world a more just and better place, are passionate about issues like human rights violations, sexism, racism, homophobia, and poverty, and want to understand these issues better? Gender Equality and Social Justice is an interdisciplinary program with courses in the areas of Culture and Criticism, Power and Inequality, and Human Rights and Social Justice. We ask how race, class, colonialism, ability, sex, and gender intersect in everyday acts of power, oppression, activism, and resistance. This program will provide students with highly transferrable skills in critical thinking, research, writing, argumentation, analysis, and communication. As one of few programs of its kind in Canada, the Gender Equality and Social Justice program will teach students to think critically about who has the power in the world, and why, as well as how to resist, shape, and change power for social justice. This program is highly interdisciplinary with close links to Social Welfare and Social Development, Religions and Cultures, Political Science, and Philosophy, and is designed for those with interests in critical studies of popular culture; the politics of resisting inequality through the law; globalization and human rights; violent conflict and international justice; transnational organizing for social justice; histories of colonization; feminist philosophies; postmodernism; theories of justice; and the intersections of race, class, ability, sex and gender. Students of this department will receive a broad liberal education in Humanities and Social Sciences. Through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, students will examine the social and cultural constructions of gender, sexuality, race and class, and how these social categories relate to our knowledge, experience, relationships and the quality of our lives.