Women’s Studies (WS)
0 courses in the 1976–77 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Women’s Studies started at the University of Waterloo in 1971, when the first course on women was taught. Since that time this subject has developed sorapidly that by now the University has eleven undergraduate and several graduate courses on women and sex roles on its books. To the best of our knowledge, this constitutes the strongest combination of offerings on women or sex roles at any University in Ontario and probably in Canada.
All courses that are offered, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, are regular credit courses, counting like any other course toward the fulfillment of requirements for majors and honours in their respective disciplines. Courses on women or sex roles are offered in the Departments of Anthropology, English, History, Human Relations, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Social Work. The Arts Library has a special collection on women which has been constantly expanded and which presently comprises more than 10,000 items on women. This makes it probably the largest collection on women in Canada. The Canadian Newsletter of Research on Women was started at this University. It appears three times a year and abstracts recent research on women in Canada and abroad.
Library, Newsletter, a relatively large number of courses and people who are actively concerned with research and teaching on women make women’s studies an important and well developed topic at the University.
Students who are interested in The Women’s Studies courses listed below will find complete course descriptions in the appropriate departmental sections of this Calendar.
Course Descriptions 413 Women’s Studies
Anthropology 350* Sex roles in Anthropology
English 108E* Women in Literature
English 208E* Women Writers of the Twentieth Century
History 203H* The individual and the Family in History
Political Science 116* Political Participation: The Case of Canadian Women
Political Science 294* Women and Politics
Psychology 365* The Behavioural Development of Women
Sociology 215* Sociology of Sex Roles
Sociology 415* Seminar on the Impact of Sex Factors on Sociological Theory and Research
Social Work 369R* Women and Social Work