Sexual Diversity Studies

Lead Faculty of the Collaborative Specialization

Arts and Science

Participating Degree Programs

Adult Education and Community Development — MA, MEd, PhD
Anthropology — MA, MSc, PhD
Art History — MA, PhD
Cinema Studies — MA
Classics — MA, PhD
Comparative Literature — MA, PhD
Counselling and Clinical Psychology — MA, PhD
Counselling Psychology — MEd, EdD
Criminology and Sociolegal Studies — MA, PhD
Curriculum and Pedagogy — MA, MEd, PhD
Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies — MA, PhD
East Asian Studies — MA, PhD
Educational Leadership and Policy — MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
English — MA, PhD
French Language and Literature — MA, PhD
Geography — MA, PhD
Higher Education — MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
History — MA, PhD
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology — MA, PhD
Immunology — PhD
Information — MI, PhD
Italian Studies — MA, PhD
Kinesiology — MSc, PhD
Law — LLM, MSL, SJD
Linguistics — MA, PhD
Medieval Studies — MA, PhD
Museum Studies — MMSt
Music — MA, PhD
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations — MA, PhD
Philosophy — MA, PhD
Political Science — MA, PhD
Psychology — MA, PhD
Public Health Sciences — MPH, MSc, PhD
Public Policy — MPP
Religion — MA, PhD
Slavic Languages and Literatures — MA, PhD
Social Justice Education — MA, MEd, EdD, PhD
Social Work — MSW, PhD
Sociology — MA, PhD
Sustainability Management — MScSM
Visual Studies — MVS
Women and Gender Studies — MA, PhD

Supporting Unit

Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

Overview

The interdisciplinary Collaborative Specialization (CS) in Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS), offered by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, is designed to bring together students from a variety of academic fields based on their common research interests in queer, trans, and sexuality studies. The CS provides students with the analytical competencies needed to pursue sexuality studies research through an intersectional lens by fostering critical conversations and analyses of queer, trans, and gender non-conforming lived experience at the intersections of race, class, gender, empire, migration, disability, citizenship status, and the legacies of settler colonialism. During their time in the CS, SDS students gain a distinctive approach to the materials of their home subject and become part of a diverse community of scholars through public lectures, student-focused workshops, and intellectual exchange among members of the Bonham Centre.

The graduate degree programs listed above participate in the CS. From their home graduate units, students take up questions from their own disciplinary or programmatic perspective and explore it through the theoretical and methodological lens of queer, trans, and sexuality studies. Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of the participating home graduate unit and the CS, students will receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies” on their transcript.

Contact and Address

Web: sds.utoronto.ca
Email: sexual.diversity@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-6276 for general inquiries
Fax: (416) 971-2027

Director, Sexual Diversity Studies Collaborative Specialization
Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
Room 251, University College
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
Canada

Admission Requirements

• Each graduate student in the collaborative specialization shall be enrolled in a participating degree program in the graduate unit where the research is conducted, which is known as the home graduate unit. The student shall meet the admission requirements of both the home graduate unit and the collaborative specialization.

Specialization Requirements

• Students must meet all respective degree requirements of the School of Graduate Studies and the participating graduate unit, and meet the requirements of the collaborative specialization as follows:

  • 0.5 full-course equivalent (FCE) core course in Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS1000H)

  • 0.5 FCE in other courses with substantial treatment of sexual diversity

  • thesis or major research paper (if applicable) must be on a sexual diversity studies topic.

• Courses may be counted towards the 0.5 FCE beyond the core course if a significant portion of the course addresses questions related to sexuality, or if most of the session work completed in association with it explores such questions.

• All course selection for the additional 0.5 FCE must be approved by the collaborative specialization director.

Admission Requirements

• Each graduate student in the collaborative specialization shall be enrolled in a participating degree program in the graduate unit where the research is conducted, which is known as the home graduate unit. The student shall meet the admission requirements of both the home graduate unit and the collaborative specialization.

Specialization Requirements

• Students must meet all respective degree requirements of the School of Graduate Studies and the participating graduate unit; and meet the requirements of the collaborative specialization as follows:

  • 0.5 FCE core course in Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS1000H)

  • 0.5 FCE in other courses with substantial treatment of sexual diversity

  • thesis or major research paper (if applicable) must be on a sexual diversity studies topic.

• Doctoral students in the program who have completed the collaborative specialization at the master's level will not be required to repeat SDS1000H. All course selection for the additional 0.5 FCE must be approved by the collaborative specialization director.

• The doctoral thesis committee should include at least one faculty member associated with Sexual Diversity Studies. In most cases, the supervisor would be associated with Sexual Diversity Studies, though in some cases, the student's particular analytical perspective will suggest another faculty member in her or his discipline.

• The student's course of study and overall progress will be reviewed annually by the collaborative specialization director, though ultimate responsibility for the student's progress will remain with the graduate chair of the home program.