Position available

Junior Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair in Women's Studies

Application deadline: Monday, March 15, 2010

Applications for Graduate Programs for Fall 2010

Applications are now being accepted for the Masters and PhD programs in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for starting in the Fall 2010 semester

Application deadline EXTENDED to Monday, February 1st, 2010

For more information on the Master's program, please visit:

http://www.sfu.ca/womens-studies/Programs/M.A.Program.html

For more information on the PhD program, please visit:

http://www.sfu.ca/womens-studies/Programs/PhDProgram.html

About Us

Quicklinks:

Welcome to the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

CJSF Radio Interview with Catherine Murray, Chair

Current Department Newsletter

Faculty and Staff

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Our Constitution

Our Mission Statement

Recent Faculty Publications

Women's Studies makes news in the Georgia Straight

Welcome to the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

The Department of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University welcomes students
interested in the study of women, gender, sexuality, and feminism. The department’s
interdisciplinary degree programs and faculty offer courses in a wide range of subject
areas in the social sciences, humanities, natural/applied sciences,
and contemporary arts.

Click here for information on applying to the Master's or PhD program.

Students may earn an undergraduate major or minor in Women’s Studies, or a minor
in Gender Studies. Both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies are offered
to graduate students.

The department’s courses focus on expanding traditional scholarship by studying the
ways gender has structured intellectual and social traditions and by exploring how
knowledge can be reshaped when women are included. The programs also examine
ways that issues of gender intersect with other structures of power, such as class, race,
ethnicity, species and disabilities to shape social structures and ways of thinking.

Situating women’s studies in the wider community is a very important feature of the Department. This is facilitated through the endowed Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, a program that brings community activists and scholars to SFU to teach and to deal with issues of academic and social activism. Public seminars, conferences and lectures foster links outside the university, as do the collaborative research projects of the faculty and students.

To read our constitution click here.

Please come visit us at AQ 5102A!

CJSF Radio Interview with Catherine Murray, Chair

We are pleased to share with you CJSF Radio's Interview with our new Chair, Dr. Catherine Murray.

Part I - 30 Minutes

Part II - 30 Minutes

If the links are dead, click here

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Our Mission Statement

Our mission is to place women at the centre of inter-disciplinary teaching and research about power relations, and to foster knowledge to transform these relations to the benefit of women.

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies in the Georgia Straight online

The original article titled, " Mary Lynn Stewart: Why women's studies, still?" is online at:

http://www.straight.com/article-203952/mary-lynn-stewart-why-womens-studies-still

The article is written by our very own department chair, Dr. Mary Lynn Stewart as part of a series of International Women's Day-related commentaries on-line in the lead-up to March 8th.