For Undergraduate Students
Our undergraduate program offers a distinct curriculum that enables students to study across the humanities, fine arts and social sciences. Drawing on innovative conceptual frameworks and interdisciplinary methodologies, our curriculum includes courses on feminist theory, popular culture, performance studies, technotheory, and transnational citizenship, among others, enabling students to engage with questions of identity, culture, the local and the global, and to develop critical tools of communication, analysis, and leadership.
Degree Programs and Requirements
We offer both three and four-year B.A. degrees, a minor and an Honours option to prepare students for direct employment, further professionalization, or interdisciplinary graduate studies. The undergraduate program is organized around two central thematic areas: Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies and Transnational Feminisms, which reflect current faculty resources and interests, emergent shifts in the field, and complementary opportunities offered at the University of Saskatchewan and elsewhere.
Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies involves the critical analysis of gender, sexualities, popular culture, and cultural production. This stream involves particular emphasis on media and cultural studies, including courses looking at film, performance theory, technology, and artistic practices and representations. As well, it advances new scholarship in the fields of masculinity studies, queer theory, and studies of sexualities.
Transnational Feminisms explore the gendered and social impacts of economic development and globalization, public and intergovernmental policies, human rights and citizenship, gender mainstreaming agendas, the rights of Indigenous peoples and critical race feminisms. This stream also builds upon the university’s efforts to accentuate internationalization and to take Aboriginal Studies a step further, by affirming critical transnational and Indigenous feminisms, and supporting place and culturally-specific forms of gender-based inquiry across disciplinary boundaries.
