Requirements

The Calendar of the School of Graduate Studies contains the regulations governing graduate study and degrees at the University of Toronto. The section on the Women and Gender Studies Institute gives the regulations applicable specifically to graduate study and degrees in women and gender studies specifically. The graduate handbook elaborates on the information published in the Calendar.

Students must complete a total of 4.0 full-course equivalents (FCE) as follows:

• 2.0 full course equivalents in core courses in Women and Gender Studies, including WGS 1000H (Theories, Histories, Feminisms), WGS 1001H (Feminism, Transnationalism, and Postcolonialism), and WGS 1002H (Feminist Methodologies and Epistemologies). Students also choose one elective from other WGS offerings.
• 1.0 full course equivalents for WGS 1005Y (Master’s Research Paper). The MRP is written under the supervision of the Academic Advisor, and is usually completed in the summer.
• 1.0 full course equivalents as electives, chosen in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator and Faculty Advisor. Electives need not be chosen from courses cross-listed with WGSI. Students may choose any courses, which help support the development of their research interests.

Students wishing to enroll in electives must fill out a course add/drop form, available at the WGSI Program Office. Please take this form to the course instructor/professor for signature.  Then take the form to the graduate administrator/registrar’s office of the relevant department/faculty where the course is housed and notify them that you are enrolling in the course.  If there is space in the course, the form will be approved.  Finally, bring your signed form back to the WGSI Program Office.  The WGSI Graduate Administrator will enroll you in the course and retain the form for your graduate file.

The M.A. Program is offered as a full-time, twelve-month Master’s program. The program is not offered on a part-time basis.