Students enrolled in this program examine key issues such as gender identity and expression, sexualities, colonialism, racism, globalization, and transnational power relations, while becoming familiar with the scientific study of crime, criminalization, and social control. The courses integrate both theoretical and practical knowledge, allowing students to explore how norms are constructed, how certain behaviors become criminalized, and how gendered and racialized dynamics shape these processes.

By combining feminist, sociological, political, and legal perspectives, the program prepares students to analyze:

• the nature and dynamics of behaviors that challenge social norms;
• the social construction of norms, gender, crime, and deviance;
• the intersections between gender, race, sexuality, colonialism, and the criminal justice system;
• the goals and functioning of justice and social regulation institutions;
• contemporary, community-based, and structural forms of intervention and social change.

The program provides access to a wide range of workplaces in areas of activity such as:

Intervention with vulnerable and criminalized populations

• Individual or group counselor
• Equity and human rights advisor
• Restorative justice case worker or practitioners
• Gender equity specialist
• Victim services workers
• Settlement and aid worker (newcomers, immigrants and refugees)
• Civil rights activist

Organizing and assisting community agencies and their initiatives

• Public education worker
• Feminist program coordinator
• Community engagement manager
• Media relations specialist
• Social media coordinator
• Digital marketer

Research and development

• Policy advisor or developer (government or not for profit)
• Project manager
• Journalist
• Documentary filmmaker

Global efforts and other areas

• Emergency relief worker (i.e. UNICEF, UN)
• International human rights officer
• Anti‑violence worker (i.e. Amnesty International)
• Sustainability worker