Graduate Collaborative Specializations

Aging Studies

The Collaborative Specialization in Aging Studies offers graduate students in Trent’s Masters and PhD programs the opportunity to develop a complementary emphasis in interdisciplinary aging studies as part of their degree. Drawing inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches from the humanities, social sciences and health studies, the collaborative specialization is designed to provide graduate students with a critical perspective on the significance of aging for individuals, communities and societies. The program provides a foundation in social and critical gerontology as well as opportunities to complete research that will contribute to the development of critically-informed scholarship, discourse and policy on aging.

Program Coordinator
L. Brown, BSc, MSc (Waterloo), PhD (Pennsylvania State)

REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLABORATIVE SPECIALIZATION IN AGING

Graduate students who have been accepted into a participating Masters or PhD graduate program may apply for a Collaborative Specialization in Aging Studies subject to the approval of the CSAS program coordinator. The requirements of the collaborative specialization are successful completion AGNG-CSAS 5000H: Foundations in Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (a 0.5 credit core course offered by the Trent Centre for Aging & Society) and a thesis, major research paper, or research creation project on aging studies subject matter. Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of their participating graduate programs and the requirements of the collaborative specialization, students receive the notation “with Specialization in Aging Studies” on their transcript and parchment.

AGNG-CSAS 5000H: Foundations in interdisciplinary aging studies
This interdisciplinary graduate course examines aging from a critical perspective. The course traces the evolving conceptualizations of aging, old age and life course and their role in understanding the processes, outcomes and representations of aging.

Feminist and Gender Studies

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The Graduate Collaborative Program in Feminist and Gender Studies will focus on research in feminist and gender studies and offer training and expertise to students who wish to undertake research in this field, as part of their MA or PhD degree in the humanities, sciences or social sciences.

Work with one of the country’s largest and leading cohorts of Gender and Social Justice Studies scholars to earn your graduate degree with a Feminist and Gender Studies collaborative specialization.

As a humanities, sciences or social sciences graduate student, explore interdisciplinary feminist theories, methodologies, and practices through course work and research. At Trent, you can earn a degree and a specialization in as little as one year, as you investigate the centrality of gender and its interactions with hierarchical power relations.

As home to the Canada Research Chair in Feminist and Gender Studies and with close to 30 affiliated faculty members undertaking related research, the program gives you an opportunity to be inspired by today’s leaders in the field. Regardless of your discipline, this specialization will allow you to collaborate with our community of scholars as you pursue your own academic path.

Participate in one of the few collaborative programs of this kind in Canada
Learn about the foundations of research in feminist and gender studies in the interdisciplinary core course – a seminar that brings students together with experts in the field
Develop your research skills and deepen your knowledge of feminist methodologies prior to embarking on your thesis or major research paper

Program Coordinator
K. Pendleton-Jimenez

REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLABORATIVE SPECIALIZATION IN FEMINIST AND GENDER STUDIES

Graduate students who have been accepted into a participating Masters or PhD graduate program may apply for a Collaborative Specialization in Feminist and Gender Studies subject to the approval of the program coordinator. The requirements of the collaborative specialization are successful completion of a 0.5 credit core course (GESO 5000H: Social Justice Research Practice: Feminist, Decolonial, Queer, Crip, and Critical Race Methodologies) and a thesis or major research paper on feminist and gender studies subject matter. Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of their participating graduate programs and the requirements of the collaborative specialization, students receive the notation “with Specialization in Feminist and Gender Studies” on their transcript and parchment.

GESO 5000H: Social Justice Research Practice: Feminist, Decolonial, Queer, Crip, and Critical Race Methodologies
This course explores anti-oppressive approaches to knowledge production and analysis. The course is designed to support students to develop their own primary or secondary research (thesis, MRP or otherwise) through a lens of feminist, decolonial, queer, crip, and/or critical race epistemologies and methodologies. Core questions include: How has research been used as a tool for social change? How can research be designed to reveal or obscure systems of power and inequality? How can research resist the erasure of some knowledges within academia, and why is it important to raise critical questions about what knowledges are deemed credible? How do we work toward accountability and remain critical of existing relations of power as anti-oppressive researchers in uncertain times? This course can be taken as an elective or as the foundation for Trent's Collaborative Graduate Specialization in Feminist and Gender Studies.