Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough

In this program, you’ll break through boundaries. We offer innovative learning environments and transformative feminist teaching and curriculum, which give you the knowledge, language and tools to question structures of power, inequality and injustice. Our programs combine perspectives from different fields to give you a range of practical skills, including a strong capacity to understand and use academic theories. You’ll develop advanced abilities in critical thinking, creative problem-solving, effective writing and communication, analytical research and community engagement. Our dedicated faculty are renowned experts and support you as you're challenged to work toward change and equality in your community and daily life.  

We offer a rigorous curriculum within a tight-knit, supportive environment, where you’ll investigate intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, age, disability, nationality and other relations of power that shape social and cultural inequalities. You’ll choose from a huge selection of women and gender studies courses that integrate skills and knowledge from many academic disciplines, and our curriculum emphasizes the diversity of women's lives and experiences globally, particularly in relation to differences in race, ethnicity, class, age, sexual orientation and disability.