New College
Faculty List
Professors
S. Mojab, BA, MA, Ph D (OISE)
A. Trotz, BA, MPhil, Ph D (Caribbean Studies/Women and Gender Studies)
Associate Professors
D.L. Eyoh, MA, Ph D (African Studies/Political Science)
M. Lo, MA, MSc, Ph D (African Studies/Women and Gender Studies)
B. McElhinny, MA, Ph D (Anthropology)
M.J. Newton, BA, D Phil (History)
N. Rodríguez, BA, Ph D (Spanish and Portuguese)
Associate Professors, Teaching Stream
A. Itwaru, Ph D (Caribbean Studies)
J. Larkin, BA, M Ed, Ph D (Equity Studies/Women and Gender Studies)
A. McGuire, BA (Hons), MA, Ph D (Equity Studies)
A. Wasike, BA, MA, M Ed, Ph D (African Studies)
Assistant Professors, Teaching Stream
S. Doyle-Wood, BA, MA, Ph D (Equity Studies/Transitional Year Programme)
E. Newbery, B. Arts Sc, B Ed, M Ed (Writing Centre)
CLTAs
K. Ahmed, BA (Hons), MA, Ph D (African Studies)
K. Edmonds, BA (Hons), MA (Caribbean Studies)
A. Guerson, Ph D (International Foundation Program/New One)
M. Levin, BA, MSc, Ph D (African Studies)
S. Stewart, BA (Hons), B Ed, M Ed, Ph D (Writing Centre)
S. Tecle, BA (Hons), B Ed, M Ed (Community Engaged Learning)
T. Toneatto, Ph D (Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health/Psychiatry)
Introduction
New College courses have in common a commitment to socially engaged learning and to explorative and inventive pedagogy that widens students’ experience by critically examining relationships among academic disciplines. We offer four degree programs: African Studies; Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health; Caribbean Studies; and Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity. These programs are open to all students in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
We also offer interdisciplinary courses that can enhance any degree program. Integration of student experience is a major priority in a college with students from all faculties in the University. The Independent Studies courses provide an opportunity for students to design their own programs and to test their research, analytic, synthetic, and creative skills by writing a major research paper. The Community Engaged Learning program supports course-based service learning and independent community engaged learning opportunities. These allow students to integrate their theoretical knowledge with practical experience, while engaging in meaningful work in campus and community organizations.
Contact:
Program Administrator's Office:
New College, Room 133 (416-978-5404 or nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca)
New One:
new.one@utoronto.ca
Registrar’s Office:
New College, Room 107 (416-978-2460)
New One: Learning Without Borders
New One provides first year students with a comprehensive foundation for successful undergraduate study. It encourages active, engaged learning and creative forms of inquiry, and supports students in developing their research, writing and oral communication abilities. In the second semester particularly, students will practice and develop skills in research and knowledge presentation, showcasing their projects at the annual end-of-year "Knowledge Fair."
New One gives students the tools to think deeply, critically, and creatively about these topics and what they can teach us about the ways our lives are connected "beyond borders." Inspired by the social advocacy focus of New College's academic programs, the program grapples with the core question: how do we imagine responsible global citizenship and build a more equitable and just society?
New One offers up to ten interdisciplinary small-class seminars annually. Students join the program by simply registering in one of our courses, whether in the Fall or Winter term. The courses explore themes that connect to our daily lives such as the food we eat, the languages we speak, the technology we use, the art that we create and surrounds us, and the science that impacts our lives. We encourage students to take a course in both the Fall and Winter terms for a more complete experience.
New One courses meet for 3 hours each week. A portion of those sessions will occasionally be allocated to "Learning Labs." All students in the program come together in these Learning Labs to engage in joint activities and explore issues that are common to the four topics. Both in seminars and Learning Labs, students will experience a variety of ways of learning (through, for example, guest lectures, group work, workshops, field trips to local community organizations, and panels of senior students sharing their experience and insights).
New One does not require a specific application. All first-year students in the Faculty of Arts and Science on the St. George campus are eligible to register in our courses. Students, however, can only take courses in one College One program in the same term. For more information about the program, go to http://uoft.me/NewOne or contact new.one@utoronto.ca.
The African Studies Program
(Specialist, Major, Minor) The African Studies Program examines the dynamics, challenges and processes of socio-economic, environmental and political transformations in Africa, the varied histories, societies, ideas, institutions of Africa and its diasporas through interdisciplinary lenses. The interdisciplinary courses, through innovative and critical pedagogies deal with cutting edge subjects such as political economy, African inventions, development, aid, humanitarianism, NGOs, conflict and peacemaking, activism and political struggles, politics, African cultures, migration and displacement, gender and development, environment, health, black freedom, urbanization, African systems of thought, the slave trade, colonialism, the post-colonial state, Africa and its diaspora, Pan-Africanism, and globalization. Innovative pedagogies nurturing students’ intellectual curiosity, cultivating engaged, creative and critical thinking and teaching cutting edge courses that recognize Africa as a living place rather than merely as a site for intellectual speculation and study inform our teaching. The program also offers practical courses in African languages. Additional cross-listed courses, drawn from disciplines in humanities, social sciences and sciences complement the program offerings.
Consult Program Director, Prof. M. Lo, 416-946-3218 or marieme.lo@utoronto.ca. For general enquiries call 416-978-5404 or email nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca.
The Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Program
(Minor) An interdisciplinary Minor program, BPMH focuses on the growing convergence between western psychology and the psychological aspects of Buddhism as expressed in the recent interest in mindfulness meditation as a means of enhancing health and wellness. The program allows students to investigate the diverse ways that Buddhist and western psychology and science intersect, bringing together academic, clinical and contemplative traditions. Students choose from a wide range of courses on mind, consciousness, mindfulness meditation, social implications and applications of Buddhism, cognitive science, psychotherapy and the psychology of religion. The program encourages a critical examination of the ways that Buddhist psychology can contribute to the modern understanding of consciousness, wisdom, mental health and physical health.
Consult Program Director, Dr. T. Toneatto, 416-946-0282/416-875-2533 or email tony.toneatto@utoronto.ca. For general enquiries, call 416-978-5404 or email nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca.
The Caribbean Studies Program
(Specialist, Major, Minor) Caribbean Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program that consists of courses on Caribbean history and society, politics and economic development, literature and thought. Our courses deal with a wide range of issues including gender, religion, culture, ethnicity, race, development, language, colonialism, the environment and regional common markets. Caribbean Studies equips students to think about broad, theoretical and challenging intellectual issues and, at the same time, to ground that expansive thinking in deep understanding of the particular historical, political, economic, geographical, cultural and linguistic realities of the Caribbean and its diasporas. This combined interdisciplinary and area studies approach prepares students to think across disciplines about these kinds of questions, and to base their comparative, transnational and interdisciplinary thinking in concrete knowledge of the Caribbean and its people. The study of the Caribbean equips students to question the order of things, reflect on their own place in the world, and see past the Caribbean's size or current level of geo-political influence to recognize the inherent value and intellectual significance of all places and all people.
Consult Program Director, Prof. N. Rodríguez, 416-585-4438 or email crb.program@utoronto.ca. For general enquiries, call 416-978-5404 or email nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca.
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity
(Major, Minor) Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity (CSES) is an interdisciplinary program that explores how social relations and practices of power and privilege are (re)produced locally and transnationally. In CSES we question the dominant conceptualization of equity by the state, educational programs, the non-profit sectors and community organizations as individualized and de-historicized social differences. CSES is a hub of critical disability studies teaching and learning. The program provides students with theoretical and practical tools to study social, political, economic and historical injustices. CSES takes a unique approach to undergraduate education that values student experiential learning and community knowledge. The learning goal of CSES is to provide frameworks on theories of transformative social change rooted in political activism and formations of solidarity. The program encourages students to apply theory in action through organizing and practicing solidarity in making a more just world. CSES creates a dynamic learning environment that extends far beyond the university walls. With a vibrant student body, dynamic faculty members, connection with a wide range of community partners and a bold curriculum, CSES at New College is a leader in studies of social justice, settler colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, disability, land/water and sustainability, activism, solidarity and the art of resistance, and global food equity and security.
Consult Program Director, Prof. S. Mojab, 416-978-0829 or email shahrzad.mojab@utoronto.ca. For general enquiries, call 416-978-5404 or email nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca.
Community Engaged Learning (CEL)
New College offers several community engaged courses. These provide students the opportunity to integrate academic, experiential and practice-based learning as they participate in meaningful work in community or campus organizations.
Two forms of community engaged learning courses are offered: embedded and independent. In the former, a community service component is either a mandatory or optional component of the course syllabus. (Examples of such courses are NEW342H1 and NEW232H1). In the independent community engaged learning courses, upper level students, with various academic backgrounds, are placed with a social purpose community or campus-based organization for several hours per week, contributing to the mission of that organization in program support work or research. Through seminar discussions and critical reflection on their experiences, students learn how to mobilize their academic knowledge, deepen their appreciation of community engagement and social justice, explore social and ethical issues, and build professional dispositions and work-place skills relevant to the social sector.
Information about CEL can be found at http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/academics/new-college-academic-programs/community-engaged-learning.
Enquiries: nc.engagedlearning@utoronto.ca or 416-978-8821.
Independent Studies
New College Independent Study courses are designed both to complement regular offerings in New College Programs and to provide an opportunity for New College students in any program to enrich their studies. The normal expectation of a project course is that the student, aided and advised by their supervisor, will read relevant literature, and plan, analyze and report on an original and independent investigation of an appropriate topic. Written applications, including a detailed proposal, should be made through the Programs Office for approval by the Vice Principal of New College or a designate by April 15 for the Summer Session; by July 15 for the Fall Term; or by November 15 for the Winter Term. Should the deadline fall on a weekend, applications will be accepted until the following Monday. Students will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of an application. If the project requires ethics approval, please be advised that you should find and consult with a supervisor about meeting this requirement at least a semester in advance of these deadlines. For more information and application forms, please see the Independent Studies website: http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/new-college-academic-programs/independent-studies.
Enquiries: New College Program Administrator - Wetmore Hall, room 133; nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
Interdisciplinary Courses on Jungian Theory
This suite of courses offers students opportunities for sustained, interdisciplinary engagement with the thought of Carl Jung. Courses invite students to consider Jung's thought and practice in relation to a range of disciplinary and cultural issues in order to open up conversations about models of consciousness and mind.
The International Foundation Program
is designed for international students who need to meet the University's English language requirement. Students will acquire the academic and language skills necessary for full admission to undergraduate studies. Core courses include one first year history credit course (IFP100Y1), three non-credit language courses and one non-credit discipline-specific course. Courses are open only to students admitted to the program. For program and admission information, please see https://internationalprograms.utoronto.ca.
The Human Biology Programs
offer a broad education in life sciences with courses offered by departments in both the Faculties of Arts and Science, and Medicine (see Human Biology section of the Calendar.)
The Women and Gender Studies Program
(Specialist, Major, Minor) provides an interdisciplinary and culturally inclusive approach to understanding gender (see Women and Gender Studies section of the Calendar.)
New College Programs
African Studies Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE1707
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(11 full courses or their equivalent, including at least four 300+ series courses with at least one FCE at the 400-level)
First Year:
1. NEW150Y1
Higher Years:
2. JQR360H1
3. NEW450Y1
4.. 2.5 full course equivalents from Group A, to be chosen from at least two different departments/programs
5. Two full course equivalents from Group B
6. Two full course equivalents from Groups A or B
7. A combination of two language full course equivalents as outlined in Group C
Note: Four FCEs of the eleven courses must be 300/400 series (including at least one 400-series FCE) of which at least one FCE must be from Group A and another from Group B
African Studies Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1707
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(6 full courses or their equivalent, including two FCEs at the 300+level)
First Year:
1. NEW150Y1
Higher Years:
2. JQR360H1
3. NEW450Y1
4. 1.5 full course equivalents from Group A
5. Two full course equivalents from Group B, or NEW280Y1 and NEW380Y1
Note: At least two full course equivalents from Groups A and/or B must be at the 300/400 level
African Studies Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1707
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(4 full courses or their equivalent, including one FCE at the 300+level)
First Year:
1. NEW150Y1
Higher Years:
2. One full course equivalent from Group A
3. One full course equivalent from Group B, or another one from Group A
4. One full course equivalent from Group B or NEW280Y1, NEW281Y1 or NEW380Y1
Note: At least one full course equivalent must be a 300/400 series course from Groups A and/or B
Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1017
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(4 full courses or their equivalent, including one FCE at the 300+level)
First Year:
No specific first-year courses required.
Higher Years:
1. NEW232H1
2. 2.0 full course equivalents from the Core Group
3. 1.5 full course equivalents from Group A
Core Group:
NEW214H1, NEW214Y1, NEW330H1, NEW332H1, NEW333H1, NEW334H1, NEW335H1, NEW336H1, NEW337H1, NEW338H1, NEW339H1, NEW430H1, NEW432H1, NEW433H1, NEW438H1
Group A:
ANT100Y1, ANT204H1, ANT207H1, ANT253H1, ANT348H1, ANT356H1, ANT368H1, COG250Y1, COG341H1, COG342H1, EAS241H1, EAS346H1, EAS361H1, EAS393H1, EAS393Y1, EAS414H1, ETH201H1, ETH220H1, ETH230H1, FAH260H1, HIS280Y1, HIS282Y1, HIS489H1, HMB300H1, HMB434H1, HPS100H1, HPS110H1, HPS200H1, HPS250H1, HPS352H1, INS300Y1, INS340Y1, JFP450H1, NEW214H1, NEW302Y1, NEW303H1, NEW316H1, NEW332H1, NEW333H1, NEW335H1, NEW336H1, NEW339H1, NEW344H1, NEW344Y1, NEW432H1, NEW433H1, NEW438H1, PHL100Y1, PHL200Y1, PHL201H1, PHL217H1, PHL232H1, PHL235H1, PHL237H1, PHL240H1, PHL243H1, PHL244H1, PHL275H1, PHL281H1, PHL302H1, PHL310H1, PHL311H1, PHL319H1, PHL320H1, PHL331H1, PHL332H1, PHL335H1, PHL340H1, PHL341H1, PHL344H1, PHL375H1, PHL376H1, PHL382H1, PHL383H1, PHL404H1, PHL405H1, PHL406H1, PHL407H1, PHL414H1, PHL415H1, PHL478H1, PHL479H1, PSY100H1, PSY210H1, PSY220H1, PSY230H1, PSY240H1, PSY260H1, PSY270H1, PSY280H1, PSY311H1, PSY312H1, PSY313H1, PSY321H1, PSY326H1, PSY331H1, PSY333H1, PSY336H1, PSY337H1, PSY341H1, PSY342H1, PSY343H1, PSY370H1, PSY371H1, PSY414H1, PSY425H1, PSY426H1, PSY434H1, PSY435H1, PSY450H1, PSY473H1, PSY493H1, RLG100Y1, RLG101H1, RLG200H1, RLG206H1, RLG209H1, RLG210Y1, RLG211H1, RLG212H1, RLG213H1, RLG235H1, RLG280Y1, RLG301H1, RLG303H1, RLG304H1, RLG311H1, RLG366H1, RLG368H1, RLG372H1, RLG373H1, RLG374H1, RLG376H1, RLG378H1, RLG421H1, RLG462H1, RLG463H1, RLG464H1, RLG465H1, RLG469Y1, RLG470H1, SOC212H1, SOC243H1, SOC250Y1, SOC363H1, SOC448H1, SOC483H1, VIC106H1, VIC206H1
Caribbean Studies Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE1545
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(10 full courses or their equivalent, including at least four FCEs at the 300+ level, one FCE of which must be at the 400-level.)
First Year:
1. NEW120Y1
Higher Years:
2. 1.0 full course or its equivalent from HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1
3. JQR360H1
4. 3.5 full courses or their equivalent from the Core Group (including at least 2.5 FCE at the 300+ level, at least 1.0 FCE of which must be at the 400-level)
5. 2.0 full courses or their equivalent from Group A (including at least 1.0 FCE at the 300+ level)
6. 2.0 full courses or their equivalent from Group A or B
Caribbean Studies Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1545
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(7 full courses or their equivalent including at least two FCEs at the 300+level, 0.5 of which must be at the 400-level)
First Year:
1. NEW120Y1
Higher Years:
2. 1.0 full course or its equivalent from HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1
3. JQR360H1
4. 2.0 full courses or their equivalent from the Core Group at the 300+ level, at least 0.5 of which must be at the 400-level
5. EITHER 2.5 full courses or their equivalent from Group A or B OR
2.0 full courses or their equivalent if taking 1.5 FCE from HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1 OR
1.5 full courses or their equivalent if taking 2.0 FCE from HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1
Caribbean Studies Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1545
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(4 full courses or their equivalent including at least 1.0 FCE at the 300+level)
First Year:
1. NEW120Y1
Higher Years
2. 1.0 full course or its equivalent from HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1
3. 1.0 full course or its equivalent from the Core Group
4. 1.0 full course or its equivalent from the Core Group or Group A
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1141
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity (CSES) is an interdisciplinary program that explores how social relations and practices of power and privilege are (re)produced locally and transnationally. In CSES we question the dominant conceptualization of equity by the state, educational programs, the non-profit sectors and community organizations as individualized and de-historicized social differences. CSES is a hub of critical disability studies teaching and learning. The program provides students with theoretical and practical tools to study social, political, economic and historical injustices. CSES takes a unique approach to undergraduate education that values student experiential learning and community knowledge. The learning goal of CSES is to provide frameworks on theories of transformative social change rooted in political activism and formations of solidarity. The program encourages students to apply theory in action through organizing and practicing solidarity in making a more just world. Equity Studies creates a dynamic learning environment that extends far beyond the university walls. With a vibrant student body, dynamic faculty members, connection with a wide range of community partners and a bold curriculum, CSES at New College is a leader in studies of social justice, settler colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, disability, land/water and sustainability, activism, solidarity and the art of resistance, and global food equity and security.
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(7 full courses or their equivalent, including two FCEs at the 300+level)
First Year:
No specific first-year courses required.
Higher Years
1. NEW240H1
2. NEW341H1
3. JQR360H1
4. 2.0 additional full course equivalents from the core group, including at least 0.5 at the 400-level
5. 3.5 FCEs from Groups A, B, C, D (including one or more FCEs from at least three of the four groups)
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1141
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity (CSES) is an interdisciplinary program that explores how social relations and practices of power and privilege are (re)produced locally and transnationally. In CSES we question the dominant conceptualization of equity by the state, educational programs, the non-profit sectors and community organizations as individualized and de-historicized social differences. CSES is a hub of critical disability studies teaching and learning. The program provides students with theoretical and practical tools to study social, political, economic and historical injustices. CSES takes a unique approach to undergraduate education that values student experiential learning and community knowledge. The learning goal of CSES is to provide frameworks on theories of transformative social change rooted in political activism and formations of solidarity. The program encourages students to apply theory in action through organizing and practicing solidarity in making a more just world. Equity Studies creates a dynamic learning environment that extends far beyond the university walls. With a vibrant student body, dynamic faculty members, connection with a wide range of community partners and a bold curriculum, CSES at New College is a leader in studies of social justice, settler colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, disability, land/water and sustainability, activism, solidarity and the art of resistance, and global food equity and security.
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
(4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one FCE at the 300+ level)
First Year:
No specific first-year courses required.
Higher Years:
1. NEW240H1
2. 1.0 FCE in any area from the Core Group
3. 1.5 additional FCE in any area from the Core Group or 1.5 FCE from Groups A, B, C, D
4. An additional 1.0 FCE from Groups A, B, C, D
Course Groups
African Studies Group A
- ENG367H1 African Literatures in English
- FCS392H1 Special Topics in French Cultural Studies II
- HIS295Y1 African History and Historical Methodology
- HIS297Y1 History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
- HIS383Y1 Women in African History
- HIS394H1 20th and 21st Century African Icons: Media and Biography
- HIS481H1 Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa
- HIS486H1 Writing and Masculinity in Africa
- JNH350H1 AIDS : Challenges and Successes
- JQR360H1 The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics
- NEW250Y1 Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- NEW322H1 The Contemporary African Novel
- NEW351Y1 African Systems of Thought
- NEW352H1 International Organizations, NGOs, Development and Change in Africa
- NEW353H1 International Relations of Africa
- NEW354H1 African Cultures and Development
- NEW355H1 African Youth Languages and Cultures
- NEW357H1 Special Topics in African Studies
- NEW358H1 Special Topics in African Studies
- NEW450Y1 Advanced Topics in African Studies
- NEW451H1 Special Topics in African Studies
- NEW453Y1 Language and Postcolonial Education in East Africa
- NEW454H1 Migration, Mobility, and Displacement in Contemporary Africa
- NEW455H1 Conflicts, Negotiations and Peacebuilding in Africa
- NEW459H1 Advanced Special Topics in African Studies
- POL301Y1 Government and Politics in Africa
- POL488Y1 Topics in African Politics I
- POL489H1 Topics in African Politics II
- an independent studies course approved by the Program Committee
African Studies Group B
- ANT204H1 Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT345H1 Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT348H1 Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT364H1 Environment & Globalization
- ANT374H1 Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
- ARC233H1
- CIN332Y1 Screening Race
- CIN372Y1 Contemporary World Cinema
- DTS200Y1 Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
- DTS401H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- DTS402H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- ECO231H1 Economics of Global Trade
- ECO232H1 Global Macroeconomics and Policies
- ECO324H1 Economic Development
- ENG270H1 Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
- ENG356Y1 African Canadian Literature
- ENG370Y1 Postcolonial and Transnational Discourses
- ENV221H1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment
- ENV333H1 Ecological Worldviews
- FOR201H1 Conservation of Tropical and Subtropical Forests
- FRE332H1 Francophone Literatures
- FRE334H1 Francophone Cinema
- FRE336H1 Postcolonialism: Francophone Literatures
- GGR112H1 Geographies of Globalization, Development and Inequality
- GGR338H1 Environmental Issues in the Global South
- GGR419H1 Environmental Justice
- HAJ453H1 AIDS: A Global Perspective
- HIS106Y1 The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804
- HIS221H1 African American History to 1865
- HIS222H1 African American History from 1865 to the Present
- HIS230H1 Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History
- HIS231H1 Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean
- HIS293H1 The Making of the Atlantic World, 1480-1804
- HIS359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
- HIS360H1 Critical Histories of the Black Canadian Experience
- HIS391Y1 Black Freedom in the Atlantic World
- HIS392Y1 Screening Freedom
- HIS413H1 Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
- HIS446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
- HIS474H1 Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonisation
- HIS487H1 Animal and Human Rights in Anglo-American Culture
- HMB202H1 Introduction to Health and Disease
- HMB203H1 Introduction to Global Health
- HMB303H1 Global Health and Human Rights
- HMB323H1 Global Health Research
- HMB433H1 Topics in Global Health
- HMB443H1 Global Hidden Hunger
- JPR374H1 Religion and Power in the Postcolony
- NFS490H1 International and Community Nutrition
- NMC343H1 Farmers to Pyramid Builders: Cultural and Political History of Ancient Egypt I
- NMC344H1 Hyksos Subjects to Empire Builders: Cultural and Political History of Ancient Egypt II
- NMC362Y1 Ancient Egyptian Sites
- NMC374H1 The Mamluks: from Slaves to Sultans
- NMC376H1 History of Islamic Spain and North Africa (640-1492)
- NMC377Y1 The Ottoman Empire to 1800
- NMC378H1 Modern Arab History
- NMC381H1 Modern Islamic Thought
- NEW220H1 Comparative Caribbean Literature I: Canonical Readings
- NEW221H1 Comparative Caribbean Literature II: Contemporary Readings
- NEW225H1 Caribbean Societies
- NEW226H1 Caribbean Political Thought
- NEW321H1 Caribbean Visual Arts, Social Media and Performance
- NEW324H1 The Contemporary Caribbean in a Global Context
- NEW325H1 Caribbean Women Thinkers
- PHL336H1 Islamic Philosophy
- PHL380H1 Global Bioethics
- POL201H1 Politics of Development
- POL417Y1 Global South in International Politics
- POL445H1 Politics of Growth in Developing Countries
- POL447H1 Political Economy of Development
- POL479H1 Topics in Middle East Politics
- RLG203H1 Christianity
- RLG204H1 Islam
- RLG241H1 Early Christian Writings I
- RLG312H1 Gender, Body and Sexuality in Islam
- RLG351H1 The Quran: An Introduction
- RLG355H1 Living Islam
- SDS355H1 Theories of Sexuality
- SOC210H1 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- WGS369H1 Studies in Post-Colonialism
- WGS385H1 Gender and Neoliberalism
- WGS440H1 Decolonial Cyborgs for Planetary Futures
- WGS450H1 Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship: Gender and the Black Diaspora
- WGS463H1 Advanced Topics in Gender Theory
African Studies Group C
- NEW280Y1 Introductory Swahili
- NEW380Y1 Intermediate Swahili
- FSL221Y1 French Language II
- FSL321Y1 French Language III
- FSL421Y1 French Language IV
- NML110Y1 Elementary Standard Arabic
- NML210Y1 Intermediate Standard Arabic I
- PRT100Y1 Portuguese for Beginners
- PRT220Y1 Intermediate Portuguese
- or two courses in a major African language approved by the Program Committee
Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Core Group
- NEW214H1 Socially Engaged Buddhism
- NEW330H1 Mindfulness-Informed Interventions for Mental Health
- NEW332H1 Buddhism and Psychotherapy
- NEW333H1 Buddhism and Cognitive Science
- NEW334H1 Science of Wisdom: Buddhist and Western Traditions
- NEW335H1 Meditation and the Body
- NEW336H1 Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW337H1 Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW338H1 Exploring Mindful Awareness
- NEW339H1 Yogacara Buddhism and Western Psychology
- NEW430H1 Jungian Psychology and Tantric Buddhism
- NEW432H1 Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW433H1 Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW438H1 Mindfulness Meditation: Science and Research
Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Group A
- ANT100Y1 Introduction to Anthropology
- ANT204H1 Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT207H1 Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT253H1 Language & Society
- ANT348H1 Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT356H1 Anthropology of Religion
- ANT368H1 Nature Culture Human
- COG250Y1 Introduction to Cognitive Science (formerly JUP250Y1, UNI250Y1)
- COG341H1 Issues on Attention, Perception and Consciousness
- COG342H1 Issues on Concepts, Theories of Mind, Cognitive Evolution
- EAS241H1 History of Chinese Philosophy
- EAS361H1 Zen Buddhism
- EAS393H1 Chinese Buddhism
- ETH201H1 Contemporary Moral Problems
- ETH220H1 Moral Psychology
- ETH230H1 Morality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- FAH260H1 The Artistic Landscape of East Asia
- HIS280Y1 History of China
- HIS282Y1 History of South Asia
- HIS489H1 The History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness
- HMB300H1 Neurobiology of Behaviour
- HMB434H1 Complementary & Integrative Medicine
- HPS100H1 Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science
- HPS110H1 The Science of Human Nature
- HPS200H1 Science and Values
- HPS250H1 Introductory Philosophy of Science
- INS300Y1 Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
- INS340Y1 Indigenous Health Science
- JFP450H1 Indigenous Issues in Health and Healing
- NEW214H1 Socially Engaged Buddhism
- NEW302Y1 C.G. Jung: Stories, Patterns, Symbols
- NEW303H1 Hypotheses of the Unconscious
- NEW316H1 Caribbean Religions
- NEW332H1 Buddhism and Psychotherapy
- NEW333H1 Buddhism and Cognitive Science
- NEW335H1 Meditation and the Body
- NEW336H1 Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW339H1 Yogacara Buddhism and Western Psychology
- NEW344H1 Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
- NEW344Y1 Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
- NEW432H1 Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW433H1 Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
- NEW438H1 Mindfulness Meditation: Science and Research
- PHL100Y1 Introduction to Philosophy (Historical)
- PHL200Y1 Ancient Philosophy
- PHL201H1 Introductory Philosophy
- PHL217H1 Introduction to Continental Philosophy
- PHL232H1 Knowledge and Reality
- PHL235H1 Philosophy of Religion
- PHL237H1 History of Chinese Philosophy
- PHL240H1 Persons, Minds and Bodies
- PHL243H1 Philosophy of Human Sexuality
- PHL244H1 Human Nature
- PHL275H1 Introduction to Ethics
- PHL281H1 Bioethics
- PHL302H1 Ancient Philosophy After Aristotle
- PHL310H1 The Rationalists
- PHL311H1 The Empiricists
- PHL319H1 Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory
- PHL320H1 Phenomenology
- PHL331H1 Metaphysics
- PHL332H1 Epistemology
- PHL335H1 Issues in Philosophy of Religion
- PHL340H1 Issues in Philosophy of Mind
- PHL341H1 Freedom, Responsibility, and Human Action
- PHL344H1 Philosophy of Emotions
- PHL375H1 Ethics
- PHL376H1 Topics in Moral Philosophy
- PHL382H1 Ethics: Death and Dying
- PHL383H1 Ethics and Mental Health
- PHL404H1 Seminar in Epistemology
- PHL405H1 Seminar in Philosophy of Mind
- PHL406H1 Seminar in Metaphysics
- PHL407H1 Seminar in Ethics
- PHL414H1 Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
- PHL478H1 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Religion
- PHL479H1 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Mind
- PSY100H1 Introductory Psychology
- PSY210H1 Introduction to Development
- PSY220H1 Introduction to Social Psychology
- PSY230H1 Personality and Its Transformations
- PSY240H1 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
- PSY260H1 Learning and Plasticity
- PSY270H1 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- PSY280H1 Sensation and Perception
- PSY311H1 Social Development
- PSY312H1 Cognitive Development
- PSY313H1 Psychology of Aging
- PSY321H1 Cross-Cultural Psychology
- PSY326H1 Social Cognition
- PSY331H1 Social Psychology of Emotion
- PSY333H1 Health Psychology
- PSY336H1 Positive Psychology
- PSY337H1 Advanced Personality Psychology
- PSY341H1 Psychopathologies of Childhood
- PSY342H1 Cognition and Psychopathology
- PSY343H1 Theories of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
- PSY370H1 Thinking and Reasoning
- PSY371H1 Higher Cognitive Processes
- PSY414H1 Moral Development
- PSY425H1 Self-Consciousness
- PSY426H1 Motivational Theories in Social Psychology
- PSY434H1 Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
- PSY435H1 Environmental Psychology
- PSY450H1 History of Psychology
- PSY473H1 Social Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSY493H1 Cognitive Neuroscience
- RLG100Y1 World Religions
- RLG101H1 Introducing Religion
- RLG200H1 The Study of Religion
- RLG206H1 Buddhism
- RLG209H1 Justifying Religious Belief
- RLG211H1 Psychology of Religion
- RLG212H1 Anthropology of Religion
- RLG213H1 Embarrassment of Scriptures
- RLG235H1 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
- RLG280Y1 World Religions: A Comparative Study
- RLG301H1 Religion on the Couch: Freud and Jung on Religion
- RLG303H1 Evil and Suffering
- RLG304H1 Language, Symbols, Self
- RLG311H1 Gender, Body and Sexuality in Asian Traditions
- RLG366H1 Hindu Philosophy
- RLG368H1 Hindu Ways of Living
- RLG372H1 Engaging Tibet
- RLG373H1 Buddhist Ritual
- RLG374H1 Buddhist Life Stories
- RLG376H1 Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia
- RLG378H1 Buddhist Borderlands
- RLG421H1 The Psychoanalytic Study of Religion
- RLG462H1 Newar Religion
- RLG463H1 Tibetan Buddhism
- RLG465H1 Readings in Buddhist Texts
- RLG469Y1 Readings in Tibetan
- RLG470H1 Buddhist Tantra
- SOC212H1 Sociology of Crime & Deviance
- SOC243H1 Sociology of Health and Illness
- SOC250Y1 Sociology of Religion
- SOC363H1 Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
- SOC448H1 Sociology & Emotions
- SOC483H1 Culture and Cognition
- VIC106H1 Psychology and Society
- VIC206H1 Psychology and Society
Caribbean Studies Core Group
- HIS230H1 Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History
- HIS231H1 Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean
- HIS474H1 Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonisation
- JHN323H1 Indigeneity in the Caribbean
- JLN327H1 Regional Perspectives on the Hispanic Caribbean
- JLN427H1 Advanced Topics: The Hispanic Caribbean
- NEW220H1 Comparative Caribbean Literature I: Canonical Readings
- NEW221H1 Comparative Caribbean Literature II: Contemporary Readings
- NEW225H1 Caribbean Societies
- NEW226H1 Caribbean Political Thought
- NEW315H1 Caribbean Foodways Across History, Culture and Diaspora
- NEW316H1 Caribbean Religions
- NEW317H1 Caribbean Women Writers
- NEW321H1 Caribbean Visual Arts, Social Media and Performance
- NEW324H1 The Contemporary Caribbean in a Global Context
- NEW325H1 Caribbean Women Thinkers
- NEW328H1 Caribbean Indentureship and its Legacies
- NEW329H1 Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
- NEW421H1 Global Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution
- NEW423H1 Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
- NEW426H1 Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
- NEW426Y1 Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
- NEW428H1 Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas
- NEW429H1 Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
- SPA486H1 Contemporary Caribbean Literatures and Identities
Caribbean Studies Group A
- ENG356Y1 African Canadian Literature
- ENG369H1 South Asian Literatures in English
- HIS106Y1 The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804
- HIS221H1 African American History to 1865
- HIS222H1 African American History from 1865 to the Present
- HIS291H1 Latin America: The Colonial Period
- HIS292H1 Latin America: The National Period
- HIS359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
- HIS360H1 Critical Histories of the Black Canadian Experience
- HIS391Y1 Black Freedom in the Atlantic World
- HIS392Y1 Screening Freedom
- HIS413H1 Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
- HIS446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
- HIS474H1 Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonisation
- POL442H1 Topics in Latin American Politics
- POL467H1 The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada
- SPA220Y1 Intermediate Spanish
- WGS450H1 Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship: Gender and the Black Diaspora
Caribbean Studies Group B
- ANT207H1 Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT320H1 Ancient Cultures of the Andes
- ANT322H1 Anthropology of Youth Culture
- ANT324H1 Tourism & Globalization
- ANT345H1 Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT346H1 Anthropology of Food
- ANT364H1 Environment & Globalization
- ANT370H1 Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT372H1 Cultural Property
- ANT374H1 Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
- ANT388H1 Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT407H1 Inka and Aztec States
- ANT412H1 Historical Archaeology
- ANT420H1 Archaeology of Inequality
- ARC233H1
- CDN335H1 Black Canadian Studies
- CIN332Y1 Screening Race
- CRI383H1 Immigration, Ethnicity and Crime
- CRI422H1 Indigenous Law
- CRI429H1 Youth Culture, Racialization and Crime in the Global Context
- CRI487H1 Law, Space, and the City
- DRM362H1 Theatre and the World
- DTS200Y1 Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
- DTS401H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- DTS402H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- DTS403H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- DTS404H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- DTS406H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- ECO306H1 American Economic History
- ECO313H1 Environmental Economics and Policies
- EEB215H1 Conservation Biology
- EEB255H1 Essentials of Biodiversity Science and Conservation Biology
- ENG270H1 Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
- ENG285H1 The English Language in the World
- ENG329H1 Contemporary British Fiction
- ENG356Y1 African Canadian Literature
- ENG369H1 South Asian Literatures in English
- ENG370Y1 Postcolonial and Transnational Discourses
- ENG385H1 History of the English Language
- ENV322H1 International Environmental Policy
- ENV422H1 Environmental Law
- FOR201H1 Conservation of Tropical and Subtropical Forests
- FOR306H1 Tropical Forest Ecology and Conservation Field Course
- FRE272H1 The French Language: A Linguistic Introduction
- FRE324H1 French Literature in the Time of Revolutions and Industrialization
- FRE332H1 Francophone Literatures
- FRE336H1 Postcolonialism: Francophone Literatures
- FSL100H1 French for Beginners
- FSL102H1 Introductory French
- GGR112H1 Geographies of Globalization, Development and Inequality
- GGR240H1 Geographies of Colonialism in North America
- GGR241H1 Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion
- GGR320H1 Geographies of Transnationalism, Migration, and Gender
- GGR329H1 The Global Food System
- GGR338H1 Environmental Issues in the Global South
- HAJ453H1 AIDS: A Global Perspective
- HIS324H1 British Imperial Experience, 1600-2000
- HIS394H1 20th and 21st Century African Icons: Media and Biography
- HIS457H1 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
- INS201Y1 Introduction to Indigenous Studies: Foundations, History and Politics
- INS250H1 Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice (formerly Indigenous Environmental Education)
- INS300Y1 Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
- INS302H1 Indigenous Representation in the Mass Media and Society
- INS322H1 Indigenous Narratives of Empowerment
- INS355H1 Current Issues in Indigenous Environment and Health
- INS360Y1 Politics and Process of Reconciliation in Canada
- INS390H1 Research and Ethics in Indigenous Studies
- INS402H1 Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
- INS491Y1 Topics in International Indigenous Studies
- JPR374H1 Religion and Power in the Postcolony
- JPS315H1 Sexual Diversity Politics
- LAS200H1 Introduction to Latin American Studies I: Foundational Themes
- LAS201H1 Introduction to Latin American Studies II: Current Issues
- NEW150Y1 Introduction to African Studies
- NEW240H1 Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies
- NEW270H1 Community (dis)Engagement and Solidarity
- NEW322H1 The Contemporary African Novel
- NEW345H1 Equity and Activism in Education
- NEW346H1 Community Organizing and Global Solidarity
- NEW351Y1 African Systems of Thought
- NEW446H1 Community Development and Social Change
- NEW447H1 Race, Ethnicity and Educational Praxis
- PHL316H1 Hegel
- PHL362H1 Philosophy of History
- POL201H1 Politics of Development
- POL301Y1 Government and Politics in Africa
- POL305Y1 Politics and Society in Latin America
- POL326Y1 United States Foreign Policy
- POL328Y1 Politics and Government in South Asia
- POL349H1 Global Urban Politics
- POL360H1 Topics in Latin American Politics
- POL384H1 Global Environmental Governance from the Ground Up
- POL412H1 Human Rights and International Relations
- POL417Y1 Global South in International Politics
- POL426H1 Democracy and Dictatorship
- POL445H1 Politics of Growth in Developing Countries
- POL447H1 Political Economy of Development
- RLG100Y1 World Religions
- RLG233H1 Religion and Popular Culture
- RLG280Y1 World Religions: A Comparative Study
- SOC209H1 Sexuality and Modernity
- SOC214H1 Family Patterns
- SOC249H1 Sociology of Migration
- SOC308H1 Global Inequality
- SOC311H1 Immigration and Race Relations in Canada
- SOC367H1 Race, Class, and Gender
- SOC383H1 The Sociology of Women and International Migration
- USA200H1 Introduction to American Studies
- USA300H1 Theories and Methods in American Studies
- WGS273H1 Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
- WGS355H1 Gendered Labour Around the World
- WGS369H1 Studies in Post-Colonialism
- WGS385H1 Gender and Neoliberalism
- WGS426H1 Gender and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives
- WGS440H1 Decolonial Cyborgs for Planetary Futures
- WGS450H1 Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship: Gender and the Black Diaspora
- WGS463H1 Advanced Topics in Gender Theory
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Core Group
- JNS450H1 Sexuality & Disability
- NEW240H1 Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies
- NEW241Y1 Introduction to Critical Disability Studies
- NEW270H1 Community (dis)Engagement and Solidarity
- NEW315H1 Caribbean Foodways Across History, Culture and Diaspora
- NEW340H1 Special Topics in Equity Studies
- NEW341H1 Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race
- NEW342H1 Theory and Praxis in Food Security
- NEW344H1 Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
- NEW344Y1 Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
- NEW345H1 Equity and Activism in Education
- NEW346H1 Community Organizing and Global Solidarity
- NEW347H1 Critical Race and Anti-Racism Studies
- NEW348H1 Special Topics in Equity Studies
- NEW349H1 Disability Arts and Culture
- NEW440Y1 Advanced Special Topics in Equity Studies
- NEW441H1 Advanced Topics in Equity Studies
- NEW442H1 Food Systems and the Politics of Resistance
- NEW443H1 Advanced Special Topics in Equity Studies
- NEW444H1 Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence
- NEW446H1 Community Development and Social Change
- NEW447H1 Race, Ethnicity and Educational Praxis
- NEW448H1 Disability and the Child
- NEW449H1 Contemporary Theories in Critical Disability Studies
- NEW469Y1 Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Group A: Gender
- ANT343H1 Social Anthropology of Gender
- ANT460H1 Global Perspectives on Womens Health
- CAS360H1 Asian Genders
- CLA219H1 Women in Antiquity
- CLA319H1 Sexuality and Gender in Classical Literature
- EAS380H1 Writing Women in Premodern China
- EAS388H1 Asian/North American Feminist Issues
- ENG355Y1 Transnational Indigenous Literatures
- FRE304H1 Contemporary French Women's Prose Fiction
- GGR320H1 Geographies of Transnationalism, Migration, and Gender
- GGR327H1 Geography and Gender
- HIS202H1 Gender, Race and Science
- HIS205H1 Topics in Women's History
- HIS297Y1 History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
- HIS348H1 Topics in Gender History
- HIS354H1 Men, Gender and Power in Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revolution
- HIS363H1 Dynamics of Gender in Canadian History
- HIS383Y1 Women in African History
- HIS406H1 Advanced Topics in Gender History
- HIS417Y1 The Oldest Profession in Canada: Sex Work Histories in Comparative Contexts
- HIS446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
- HIS465Y1 Gender and International Relations
- HIS481H1 Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa
- HIS486H1 Writing and Masculinity in Africa
- ITA455H1 Women Writers in Italy
- JAL355H1 Language and Gender
- NEW317H1 Caribbean Women Writers
- NEW325H1 Caribbean Women Thinkers
- NMC245H1 Women in the Ancient Near East
- NMC284H1 Topics in Judaism and Feminism: Conflict, Competition, Complement
- NMC484H1 Gender-related Topics in Jewish Law and Religion
- PHL367H1 Philosophy of Feminism
- POL303H1 Women in Western Political Thought
- POL351H1 Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective
- POL432H1 Feminist Theory: Challenges to Legal and Political Thought
- POL450H1 Women and Politics
- PSY323H1 Sex Roles and Behaviour
- RLG235H1 Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
- RLG311H1 Gender, Body and Sexuality in Asian Traditions
- RLG312H1 Gender, Body and Sexuality in Islam
- RLG313H1 Gender, Sexuality and Religion in the West
- SLA248H1 Women and Women's Themes in Ukrainian Literature
- SMC322H1 Women and Christianity
- SOC265H1 Gender and Society
- SOC314H1 Family Relations
- SOC365H1 Gender Relations
- SOC366H1 Sociology of Women and Work
- SOC383H1 The Sociology of Women and International Migration
- SOC465H1 Advanced Studies in Gender
- SPA382H1 Spanish American Women in Art, Film, and Literature
- VIC341H1 The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children
- VIC342H1 Women and Writing in the Renaissance
- VIC343Y1 Sex and Gender
- WGS160Y1 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
- WGS260H1 Texts, Theories, Histories (formerly WGS262H1/WGS262Y1)
- WGS271Y1 Gender in Popular Culture
- WGS273H1 Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
- WGS367H1 The Politics of Gender and Health
- WGS372H1 Women and Psychology/ Psychoanalysis
- WGS373H1 Gender and Violence
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Group B: Race, Creed, Ethnicity
- ANT204H1 Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT458H1 Settler-Colonialism and Indigenous Health in Canada
- CAS310H1 Comparative Colonialisms in Asia
- CDN230H1 Asian Canadian History
- CDN280H1 Canadian Jewish History
- CDN307H1 Asian Cultures in Canada
- CDN335H1 Black Canadian Studies
- ENG270H1 Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
- ENG355Y1 Transnational Indigenous Literatures
- ENG356Y1 African Canadian Literature
- ENG367H1 African Literatures in English
- ENG368H1 Asian North American Literature
- ENG369H1 South Asian Literatures in English
- ENG370Y1 Postcolonial and Transnational Discourses
- FIN320H1 The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
- FRE336H1 Postcolonialism: Francophone Literatures
- GGR240H1 Geographies of Colonialism in North America
- HIS107Y1 Approaches to East Asian History
- HIS208Y1 History of the Jewish People
- HIS221H1 African American History to 1865
- HIS222H1 African American History from 1865 to the Present
- HIS230H1 Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History
- HIS231H1 Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean
- HIS245H1 European Colonialism, 1700- 1965
- HIS282Y1 History of South Asia
- HIS297Y1 History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
- HIS303H1 The Mediterranean, 600-1300: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
- HIS338H1 The Holocaust, to 1942 (formerly HIS338Y1/398Y1)
- HIS359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
- HIS360H1 Critical Histories of the Black Canadian Experience
- HIS361H1 The Holocaust, from 1942
- HIS391Y1 Black Freedom in the Atlantic World
- HIS392Y1 Screening Freedom
- HIS402H1 Canada and Decolonization
- HIS413H1 Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
- HIS416H1 Orientalism and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
- HIS467H1 French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film
- HIS470H1 History, Rights, and Difference in South Asia
- HIS474H1 Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonisation
- JHN323H1 Indigeneity in the Caribbean
- JLN327H1 Regional Perspectives on the Hispanic Caribbean
- INS261H1 Contemporary Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities
- LAS301H1 Topics in the Humanities
- LAS302H1 Topics in Latin American Studies
- LAS401H1 Latinos in Canada
- NEW150Y1 Introduction to African Studies
- NEW225H1 Caribbean Societies
- NEW226H1 Caribbean Political Thought
- NEW250Y1 Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- NEW322H1 The Contemporary African Novel
- NEW324H1 The Contemporary Caribbean in a Global Context
- NEW328H1 Caribbean Indentureship and its Legacies
- NEW351Y1 African Systems of Thought
- NEW352H1 International Organizations, NGOs, Development and Change in Africa
- NEW429H1 Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
- NEW453Y1 Language and Postcolonial Education in East Africa
- NMC484H1 Gender-related Topics in Jewish Law and Religion
- POL301Y1 Government and Politics in Africa
- POL467H1 The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada
- RLG313H1 Gender, Sexuality and Religion in the West
- RLG315H1 Rites of Passage
- RLG344H1 Antisemitism
- RLG352H1 Post-Colonial Islam
- RLG353H1 The Politics of Charity
- SLA222H1 Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe
- SOC210H1 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- SPA486H1 Contemporary Caribbean Literatures and Identities
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Group C: Sexual Diversities
- ANT441H1 Love, Sex, and Marriage
- ANT456H1 Queer Ethnography
- ENG273Y1 Queer Writing
- ENG384Y1 Literature and Psychoanalysis
- JPS315H1 Sexual Diversity Politics
- JSU325H1 Queerly Canadian
- PHL243H1 Philosophy of Human Sexuality
- SDS255H1 Histories of Sexuality
- SDS256H1 Methods in Sexual Diversity Studies
- SDS345H1 Sex and the Epidemic: Social Work, HIV, and Human Sexuality
- SDS346H1 Feminist and Queer Approaches to Technology
- SDS354H1 Theories of Sexuality I: Western Trajectories
- SDS355H1 Theories of Sexuality
- SDS365H1 Sexuality and Law
- SDS377H1 Lesbian Studies: Identity/Theory/Culture
- SDS378H1 Queer Youth Studies in Education
- SDS379H1 Queer Popular Culture
- SDS380H1 Sexual Diversity in Transnational Perspective
- SDS381H1 Intro to Trans Studies
- SDS382H1 Intro to Queer of Colour Critique
- SDS390H1 Sexuality & Sport
- SDS455H1 Special Topics in Sexual Diversity Studies
- SDS470H1 Sexual Representations: Critical Approaches in Porn Studies
- SDS475H1 The New Queer Visibility
- SDS477H1 Transgender Studies
- UNI104H1 Sex in the City
- WGS374H1 Feminist Studies in Sexuality
- WGS376H1 Studies in Queer and Trans (formerly WGS272H1/WGS272Y1)
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Group D: General Equity
- ANT204H1 Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT324H1 Tourism & Globalization
- ANT327H1 "Diversity": Critical/Comparative Studies of Indigeneity, Multiculturalism and (Settler) Colonialism
- ANT329H1 Language & Power Structure
- ANT346H1 Anthropology of Food
- ANT348H1 Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT358H1 Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
- ANT364H1 Environment & Globalization
- ANT366H1 Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
- ANT388H1 Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT420H1 Archaeology of Inequality
- ANT426H1 Western Views of the Non-West
- ANT472H1 Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives (formerly ANT354Y1 and ANT354H1)
- ANT474H1 Ethnographies of HIV/AIDS: Risk, Vulnerability, and Care
- ARC233H1
- CAS350H1 Asian Youth Cultures
- CAS420H1 Asia and the New Global Economy
- CDN267H1 Canadian Nationalisms
- CDN367H1 Canadian Pluralism
- CRI487H1 Law, Space, and the City
- DTS200Y1 Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
- DTS401H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- DTS402H1 Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
- EAS315H1 The "Yellow Peril": Past & Present
- EAS439H1 The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time, and Colonialism
- ENG254H1 Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
- ENV430H1 Environment and Health in Vulnerable Populations
- GGR107H1 Environment, Food and People
- GGR112H1 Geographies of Globalization, Development and Inequality
- GGR240H1 Geographies of Colonialism in North America
- GGR241H1 Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion
- GGR328H1 Labour Geographies
- GGR329H1 The Global Food System
- GGR338H1 Environmental Issues in the Global South
- GGR339H1 Urban Geography, Planning and Political Processes
- GGR357H1 Housing and Community Development
- GGR363H1 Critical Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas on Space, Society and Culture
- GGR418H1 Political Economy of Natural Resources
- GGR419H1 Environmental Justice
- GGR420H1 Critical Development Geography
- GGR434H1 Building Community Resilience
- GGR452H1 Space, Power, Geography: Understanding Spatiality
- GGR457H1 The Post-War Suburbs
- HAJ453H1 AIDS: A Global Perspective
- HIS106Y1 The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804
- HIS318H1 The "Wild" West in Canada
- HIS323H1 Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
- HIS366H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1815 to the Present
- HIS369H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1500 to 1830
- HIS424H1 Violence in Medieval Society
- HIS459H1 Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
- HIS472H1 Indigenous-Newcomer Relations in Canadian History
- HIS480H1 Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
- HIS489H1 The History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness
- HMB203H1 Introduction to Global Health
- HMB303H1 Global Health and Human Rights
- HMB443H1 Global Hidden Hunger
- HPS324H1 Natural Science and Social Issues
- HST330H1 Population Health
- HST411H1 Political Economy of Health
- INS200H1 Introduction to Indigenous Truth and Resilience
- INS201Y1 Introduction to Indigenous Studies: Foundations, History and Politics
- INS240Y1 Ecological Interactions: Intro to Indigenous and Western Sciences
- INS250H1 Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice (formerly Indigenous Environmental Education)
- INS261H1 Contemporary Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities
- INS300Y1 Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
- INS301Y1 Native Language and Culture
- INS302H1 Indigenous Representation in the Mass Media and Society
- INS322H1 Indigenous Narratives of Empowerment
- INS340Y1 Indigenous Health Science
- INS341H1 North American Indigenous Theatre
- INS350H1 Indigenous Health Systems
- INS351Y1 Indigenous Legends & Teaching
- INS353H1 First Nations Politics in Canada
- INS354H1 Indigenous Governance and Self-Determination
- INS360Y1 Politics and Process of Reconciliation in Canada
- INS402H1 Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
- INS403H1 Indigenous Peoples and the Urban Context
- INS405H1 Indigenous Thought & Expression: Creative Non-fiction
- JFP450H1 Indigenous Issues in Health and Healing
- JGI216H1 Globalization and Urban Change
- JNH350H1 AIDS : Challenges and Successes
- JSU237H1 Introduction to HIV/AIDS: Health, Sexuality and Gender (formerly UNI237H1)
- JUG325H1 Landscapes of Violence in Canada
- NEW214H1 Socially Engaged Buddhism
- PHL273H1 Environmental Ethics
- PHL281H1 Bioethics
- PHL380H1 Global Bioethics
- PHL383H1 Ethics and Mental Health
- PHL384H1 Ethics, Genetics and Reproduction
- POL201H1 Politics of Development
- POL344H1 Social Movements in Europe and North America
- POL412H1 Human Rights and International Relations
- POL421H1 Maimonides and His Modern Interpreters
- POL439H1 The Canadian Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
- POL480H1 Studies in Comparative Political Theory
- RLG317H1 Religious Violence and Nonviolence
- SAS318H1 Colonialism and Tradition
- SOC207H1 Sociology of Work & Occupations
- SOC220H1 Social Inequality in Canada
- SOC282H1 Introduction to Social Problems
- SOC309H1 HIV and AIDS: Social Policies and Programs
- SOC363H1 Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
- SOC364H1 Urban Health
- SOC367H1 Race, Class, and Gender
- SOC479H1 Advanced Studies in Social Movements
- UNI101H1 Citizenship in the Canadian City
- VIC260H1 Equity and Diversity in Education
New College Courses
New One: Learning Without Borders
NEW101H1 - The Everyday Politics of Food
How often do we reflect on the environmental, social and economic impact of our everyday food choices? This course offers an introduction to the key concepts, terms and theories that underlie our current food system. The course links the food we eat to global forces and considers how these forces affect food distribution, access and consumption. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW102H1 - Exploring Multilingual Toronto
How does language connect and divide people, places and communities? This course considers how interactions between people in Toronto are shaped by language as well as history, economy, architecture and urban landscapes. Students engage with the city both in and out of class to think about a range of questions linked to gender and sexuality, indigeneity, migration, race, ethnicity, and public/private space. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW103H1 - Digital Technology and Society
While the internet and other forms of digital technology have created new forms of social relationships and widened access to information, they have also raised concerns. This course explores issues such as surveillance, addiction and bullying as well as the potential of digital technologies (e.g. smart cities, Big Data, and the internet of things). The course engages students' own experience of digital technology. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW104H1 - Creating Community: Art, Identity and Belonging
How is art implicated in the process of community building? How does art foster a sense of community identity and belonging? This course explores how communities, in Toronto and beyond, engage a variety of art forms including graffiti, spoken-word, hip-hop, digital art, traditional dance and music to connect people and express community identity. Students will have the opportunity to visit community arts projects. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW105H1 - Current Issues Without Borders I
This interdisciplinary course addresses a current issue that exemplifies the themes of "Learning Without Borders" in New One. It investigates how this issue is implicated in connecting us with others around the globe; it engages different kinds of knowledge and community perspectives; and integrates students' own experience as related to the issue. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW106H1 - Science, Health and Social Justice
How can scientific knowledge and research be mobilized to impact individual and global health? How is health impacted by social, racial and economic inequalities? This course explores scientific research and practice with special attention to the translation of scientific knowledge in the public sphere, and its ability to inform policies, practices and laws. Students have the opportunity to meet with clinician-scientists, policy-makers, and other professionals connected to the health care system. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Recommended Preparation: None
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW111H1 - Food, Ethics and Sustainability
How do we produce and ensure access to nutritious and environmentally sustainable food for all? This course explores what is involved in achieving ethical food production and food security, examining topics such as: the paradox of food waste amidst scarcity, the relationship between food production and climate change, community-led alternatives to dominant food systems, and the role of biotechnology. Research projects allow students to focus on an issue of particular interest. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI/Munk/SMC/TRN/UNI/VIC/WDW One; NEW112H1/NEW113H1/NEW114H1/NEW115H1/NEW116H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW112H1 - Language Freedom and Power
How do we imagine a balance between the need for communication, freedom of expression, and protection for marginalized groups? This course considers how language shapes and is shaped by the relations of power not only in such sites as colonies, nations and institutions, but also in popular culture and how we communicate online. It explores the key role of language in activism and youth cultures and allows students to focus on an issue of particular interest. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI/Munk/SMC/TRN/UNI/VIC/WDW One; NEW111H1/NEW113H1/NEW114H1/NEW115H1/NEW116H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW113H1 - Unpacking Digital Technology
What are the social and material implications of the digital technologies we use every day - for the present and for the future? This course explores how digital technologies have been remaking the world and affecting our lives by tracing their historical development, their social effects, and the impact of their physical presence. It also peers into scenarios of the future in this digital world. Students engage in research on a topic of their own interest. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI/Munk/SMC/TRN/UNI/VIC/WDW One; NEW111H1/NEW112H1/NEW114H1/NEW115H1/NEW116H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW114H1 - Art for Social Change
How does art contribute to social change? Artistic productions can draw attention to social problems, mobilize support for and symbolize social movements, and inspire new visions for imagined futures. This course will explore case studies of the role of various art forms in relation to past and current social change initiatives. Students will have the opportunity to engage in research on an art project of their choice. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI/Munk/SMC/TRN/UNI/VIC/WDW One; NEW111H1/NEW112H1/NEW113H1/NEW115H1/NEW116H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW115H1 - Current Issues Without Borders II
Building on the integrated learning from any New One course, this course explores, in more depth, the social and ethical implications of a current issue exemplifying the themes of "Learning without Borders." Normally, this course would address the same current issues as offered in NEW105H1 in the preceding term. The course also considers examples of policy and community organizing responses. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI/Munk/SMC/TRN/UNI/VIC/WDW One; NEW111H1/NEW112H1/NEW113H1/NEW114H1/NEW116H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW116H1 - Science and Global Threats
What is the role of science in addressing current global threats? What are the possibilities and the limitations of scientific research and knowledge in tackling complex problems such as climate change, pandemics and pollution? In this course, students explore these questions by examining case studies, meeting with specialists in various scientific fields, and engaging in research on a topic of their own choice. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Exclusion: INI, SMC, TRI, UC, VIC, WDW One, Munk One; NEW111H1/NEW112H1/NEW113H1/NEW114H1/NEW115H1
Recommended Preparation: None
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
African Studies Courses
NEW150Y1 - Introduction to African Studies
A multi-disciplinary study of Africa, emphasizing inquiry and critical analysis. Pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary African history, anthropology, politics, African humanism and society, religion, art, music, race, resistance, gender and Pan-Africanism.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW250Y1 - Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
A critical examination of Africa as a living space rather than merely a site of intellectual speculation and study. Uses scholarly and popular literature to explore the issues that engage the attention of ordinary Africans, ranging from the dramatic to the seemingly trivial, as they struggle to fashion meaningful lives in fast-changing societies. Topics include urban transition and city life; economic, political and cultural impacts of globalization; new religious movements and changing conceptions of selfhood; new African diasporas in the West; dynamics of gender relations, kinships and identities; and the politics of liberalization. Materials studied will include print and electronic news media and other mass media resources from Africa and across the world.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW280Y1 - Introductory Swahili
Introduction to grammar and basic vocabulary of Swahili. Emphasis on comprehension and oral practice. Reading of selected texts. Relation of the language to its East African cultural context.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW322H1 - The Contemporary African Novel
Hours: 24S
Novels written in the last forty years by English, French and Portuguese-speaking Africans. Ideological views concerning colonialism and neo-colonialism. Tradition, religious and secular; the use of African symbolism. A small number of historical and sociological texts are recommended as essential background reading. Works not written in English are read in translation. (Offered in alternate years)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
JNH350H1 - AIDS : Challenges and Successes
Hours: 24L
Explores the pandemic of AIDS in Africa through a social science lens. (Given by Human Biology and New College)
Recommended Preparation: NEW150Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Science; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW351Y1 - African Systems of Thought
Hours: 48L
The exploration of a range of African cosmologies, epistemologies, and theologies, as well as specific case studies on justice, the moral order, and gender relations. The influence of these richly diverse traditions is traced as well in the writings of African thinkers in the Diaspora.
Recommended Preparation: NEW150Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3); Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW352H1 - International Organizations, NGOs, Development and Change in Africa
NEW353H1 - International Relations of Africa
Explores inter-state relations in Africa, African states’ relations with the West, China, India, Brazil, and international political, economic and financial institutions.
Exclusion: POLC80H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW354H1 - African Cultures and Development
Critically examines scholarly debates on the relationships between African cultures and development in various regions of the continent. Draws on interdisciplinary scholarship and development discourses to enhance students' understanding of African conditions and cultures in the context of development thinking.
Exclusion: NEW358H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: Culture and Development in Postcolonial Africa), offered in Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW355H1 - African Youth Languages and Cultures
Examines the nature of youth languages and cultures in contemporary Africa with a focus on their characteristics and the conditions under which they develop. Also considers similarities and/or differences between youth languages and cultures in different regions of Africa and the general youth condition. Includes urban youth languages such as Sheng, Engsh, Tsotsital, etc. and music genres associated with youth such as hip hop, Bongo flava, etc. Discusses challenges and opportunities associated with African youth languages as they relate to questions of identity, national integration, regional integration, and development.
Exclusion: NEW358H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: African Youth Languages and Cultures), offered in Winter 2018
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW357H1 - Special Topics in African Studies
NEW358H1 - Special Topics in African Studies
NEW359H1 - The Horn of Africa - Critical Perspectives
Examines the Horn of Africa, its diversity, geopolitics, cultural politics, present conditions and current debates through a critical and comparative lens. Considers social forces in contemporary politics within the region including competing claims, explanations of the underpinnings of the Horn's conflict, and the promise of peace. Draws upon interdisciplinary scholarship, public discourse, texts and media to reflect on the future of the Horn of Africa at this historical moment.
Exclusion: NEW357H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: The Horn of Africa: Critical Perspectives) offered in Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Recommended Preparation: NEW150Y1/NEW250Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
JQR360H1 - The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics
Examines the Canadian population census through the experience of diasporic groups in Canada. Approaches the census as a statistical tool, an historical source and an ideological project of citizenship and nationalism. Uses census data to explore mathematical and statistical concepts and to integrate numerical ways of thinking with qualitative analysis. (Jointly sponsored by African Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Caribbean Studies, Equity Studies and Latin American Studies).
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW380Y1 - Intermediate Swahili
Grammar and syntax. Conversation and written composition. Reading of texts: literary, journalistic. Relation of the language to its East African context.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW450Y1 - African Studies Honours Research Seminar
This honours research seminar required of all specialists and majors in African Studies offers critical explorations of the genealogy of African Studies, the transnational study of Africa, Africa’s place in a globalized world, the historical, intellectual and institutional contexts of Africanist knowledge production, its dissemination and consumption in Africa, Europe, the Americas and emerging academic sites in Asia. It engages with the paradigm shifts and vibrant scholarly and epistemic debates across disciplines and geographies as well as unfolding events, public discourses, geopolitics, African popular cultures and the reimagining of African futures through canonical, emergent scholarship and creative media and emphasizes students’ original and creative research explorations, engaged praxis and search for alternative theorizing and epistemologies.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW451H1 - Special Topics in African Studies
NEW453H1 - Language and Postcolonial Education in East Africa
Examines the choice of languages for education in East Africa using critical perspectives. Pays particular attention to the influences of the historical experience of colonialism, the socio-linguistic contours of each country and the strength of linguistic and educational lobby groups in East African countries.
Exclusion: NEW453Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW453Y1 - Language and Postcolonial Education in East Africa
Examines the choice of languages for education in East Africa using critical perspectives. Pays particular attention to the influences of the historical experience of colonialism, the socio-linguistic contours of each country and the strength of linguistic and educational lobby groups in East African countries.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW454H1 - Migration, Mobility, and Displacement in Contemporary Africa
Why do people move voluntarily or involuntarily? What are the causes and consequences of migration and displacement in Africa? This course critically examines the multifaceted dimensions of migration, mobility, and displacement, with a specific focus on communities and populations displaced by war, environmental destruction and disaster, economic failings, and the quest for economic opportunities, love, education, or individual freedom.
Exclusion: NEW451H1 (Fall 2016)
Recommended Preparation: JQR360H1/NEW351Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW455H1 - Conflicts, Negotiations and Peacebuilding in Africa
Examines conflicts and peace negotiations in African contexts such as Somalia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and North Africa through public discourse, citizen actions, policy debates and mobilizations. Explores formal, informal, indigenous and institutional mediation and peace negotiation platforms, strategies, and impulses. Analyzes various conflict zones, case studies and intervention strategies for negotiating and sustaining peace in Africa in the broader context of the war on terror, increasing militarism, and securitization in peacebuilding.
Exclusion: NEW451H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: Conflicts, Negotiations and Peacebuilding in Africa), offered in Winter 2019, Winter 2020; NEW452H1
Recommended Preparation: NEW353H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW459H1 - Advanced Special Topics in African Studies
Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Courses
NEW214H1 - Socially Engaged Buddhism
Socially Engaged Buddhism applies traditional Buddhist spiritual, ethical and social teachings to improve society. This course will focus on contemporary movements in Vietnam, Tibet, China & Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India, as well as its ramifications in the West that have inspired movements such as Buddhist prison ministries and the Peacemaker Order.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW232H1 - Buddhist Psychology
Hours: 36L
Describes the psychology inherent within the original teachings of Buddhism. Primary focus is on the understanding of the causes of suffering and happiness, the nature of cognition and emotion, characteristics of the self/ego, personality transformation, the role of the unconscious, and mindfulness meditation. Includes an option for Community Engaged Learning experience.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
JNR301H1 - The History of Buddhist Meditation
This course will survey historical, cultural, and textual contexts for Buddhist meditative and contemplative practices and techniques.
Corequisite: None
Exclusion: None
Recommended Preparation: None
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW330H1 - Mindfulness-Informed Interventions for Mental Health
An exploration of the current interest in incorporating mindfulness into western mental health interventions. Examines the concept of mindfulness closely to show how mindfulness is implicitly a component of western psychological theories and interventions. Also discussed is how mindfulness is used directly and indirectly as a psychological intervention.
Recommended Preparation: NEW232H1/NEW232Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW332H1 - Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Evaluates the relationship between Buddhist psychology and the practice of Western psychotherapy. Areas that will be studied include positive psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive-behaviour therapy, mindfulness meditation and Jungian psychology. Comparisons with original Buddhist teachings and commentaries will be made.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW333H1 - Buddhism and Cognitive Science
Explores some important connections between Cognitive Science and Buddhism. In particular it will examine the insights of cognitive science into central Buddhist concepts such as wisdom, mindfulness, meditation, insight and self-control, as well as related concepts such as flow and mystical experience.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW334H1 - Science of Wisdom: Buddhist and Western Traditions
Provides a conceptual and practical exploration of several ancient wisdom traditions. Buddhist approaches to self-actualization and wisdom will be compared to several other wisdom traditions (e.g. Mesopotamia, classical Greece, Christianity, Renaissance, etc.) Includes guided experiential exercises for each of the wisdom traditions.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW335H1 - Meditation and the Body
In recent years, the effects of meditation on the body have been widely researched. There is an increasing body of evidence that mindfulness meditation can affect brain activity, brain structure, neurochemistry and other psychobiological processes (e.g. blood pressure, cardiac function). This course will examine the research in this emerging field.
Recommended Preparation: NEW232H1/NEW232Y1
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
NEW336H1 - Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
NEW337H1 - Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
NEW338H1 - Exploring Mindful Awareness
Mindfulness meditation is a systematic investigation of subjective experience. Classic and modern descriptions of mindfulness and the recent scientific literature are surveyed. In addition to exploring a variety of meditative practices in the class, students are also required to maintain an ongoing meditation practice outside of class time over the duration of the course.
Exclusion: NEW432H1 (Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health: Cultivating Consciousness), offered in Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Summer 2015, and Winter 2016
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW339H1 - Yogacara Buddhism and Western Psychology
A comparative study of the nature of mind in Indian Yogacara Buddhism and modern psychology. Yogacara Buddhist teachings address the three aspects of mind, the storehouse consciousness, and the theory of consciousness-only, allowing an interdisciplinary dialogue with modern scientific understandings of the mind in psychology.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW430H1 - Jungian Psychology and Tantric Buddhism
Jung wrote extensively on the benefits of Buddhism to personal development and transformation. This course explores the contribution of Jungian psychology to understanding Tantric (or Vajrayana) Buddhism. Through experiential exercises, students will investigate the role of archetypal psychology as a mediator of the spiritual transformation described in Tantric Buddhism.
Exclusion: NEW433H1 (Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health: The Psychology of Tantric Buddhism), offered in Winter 2015 and Winter 2016
Recommended Preparation: NEW302Y1/NEW303H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW432H1 - Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
NEW433H1 - Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health
NEW438H1 - Mindfulness Meditation: Science and Research
Critically evaluates the empirical research literature relevant to the study of mindfulness meditation. Conceptual, methodological and interpretive limitations of the scientific literature are discussed. Comparisons between the scientific models of mindfulness meditation and Buddhist descriptions will be made.
Recommended Preparation: NEW232H1/NEW232Y1/NEW331H1/NEW333H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Caribbean Studies Courses
NEW120Y1 - Introduction to Caribbean Studies
Explores the complex and diverse languages, geographies, regional and national histories, cultural practices, intellectual traditions and political and economic landscapes of the Caribbean region, its people and its diasporas. Students will be introduced to the main questions, themes, and debates in Caribbean Studies. Lectures and readings develop the skills to take an interdisciplinary approach to Caribbean Studies.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW220H1 - Comparative Caribbean Literature I: Canonical Readings
Introduction to the rich and multi-linguistic literary traditions of the Caribbean and its diaspora, focusing on canonical texts of Caribbean literature. Texts not originally written in English are read in translation.
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW221H1 - Comparative Caribbean Literature II: Contemporary Readings
Focuses on recent literary production, written in the last decade, from the Caribbean, insular and continental, and its diaspora. Texts not originally written in English are read in translation. While NEW220H1 is an excellent companion course, NEW221H1 can be taken independently.
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW225H1 - Caribbean Societies
Offers an interdisciplinary introduction to Caribbean sociology, focusing on the writings of thinkers and scholars from the era of decolonization to the more contemporary period. Themes may include: colonial encounters in the making of Caribbean societies; the role of religion; popular consciousness; histories of capitalism and exploitation; the relationship between political institutions and the wider society; "development", dependency and "underdevelopment".
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW226H1 - Caribbean Political Thought
Examines currents of Caribbean political thought from the Haitian Revolution to the present. Themes may include: struggles for independence and liberation, particularly the Haitian and Cuban Revolutions; theories of dependency; Caribbean political systems; regional integration; contemporary political issues facing Caribbean societies today; analyses of capitalism by Caribbean thinkers.
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW315H1 - Caribbean Foodways Across History, Culture and Diaspora
Examines the historical roots of regional Caribbean food from the colonial period to the present day, and then moves to study Caribbean food in the global and Caribbean-Canadian diasporas, in the literary imagination, as a marker of personal, group and national identity, and as cultural expression.
Recommended Preparation: HIS230H1/HIS231H1/NEW120Y1/NEW220H1/NEW221H1/NEW224Y1/NEW225H1/NEW226H1/NEW240Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW316H1 - Caribbean Religions
Explores the complex and dynamic practices, philosophies and political and cultural contexts of Caribbean religions. Topics may include the profound impact - in both the Caribbean and its diasporas - of Caribbean Christianities, Hinduisim and Islam as well as Afro-Creole religions such as Vodun, Rastafari and Santeria.
Exclusion: NEW329H1 Special Topics in Caribbean Studies: Caribbean Religions
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW317H1 - Caribbean Women Writers
A critical feminist reading of selected works of fiction, poetry and essays by Caribbean women writers. The aim is to appraise the development of this literature, situate texts within the key social and political debates which have influenced the region's literary output, as well as to consider the implications of the environments within which these writers function.
Exclusion: WGS330H1
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1/NEW220H1/NEW221H1/WGS160Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW321H1 - Caribbean Visual Arts, Social Media and Performance
Explores themes relating to visual arts, social media and theatre in the Caribbean. Topics may include: theatre, film, mixed media arts, the role of the internet and online publishing in the arts and the relationship between artists, the state and wider society.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
JHN323H1 - Indigeneity in the Caribbean
Explores the legacies of the pre-Columbian era, as well as the post-1492 experiences of people of pre-Columbian Caribbean ancestry. Examines the origins and consequences of the Caribbean's narrative of "indigenous absence", as well as the relationship between indigeneity, globalization and diaspora.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW324H1 - The Contemporary Caribbean in a Global Context
This upper level course examines the interplay between wider global processes and intra-regional responses that together help shape contemporary Caribbean realities. Topics include: economic crisis and structural adjustment; tourism; the agricultural sector; the Caribbean Single Market and Economy; migration and diaspora.
Exclusion: NEW324Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW325H1 - Caribbean Women Thinkers
An examination of the historical and political significance of writings (literary, political, scholarly) by Caribbean women who engage problems within Caribbean culture and provide insights into the endeavours of the peoples of the region.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
JLN327H1 - Regional Perspectives on the Hispanic Caribbean
Explores the Hispanic areas of the Caribbean including the Caribbean areas of continental Spanish-speaking America. Topics may include: regional politics, state and economy; revolutions and authoritarian regimes; popular culture, the arts and media; religion and society; gender and sexuality; state structures; diasporas and migration.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW328H1 - Caribbean Indentureship and its Legacies
Explores indentured migration and its legacies from the 17th century through to the present. Encourages students to think comparatively and transnationally about indentureship and diaspora, as well as indentured migration's relationship to contract and labour law.
Exclusion: NEW326Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW329H1 - Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
An upper level course. Topics of study vary from year to year.
JQR360H1 - The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics
Examines the Canadian population census through the experience of diasporic groups in Canada. Approaches the census as a statistical tool, an historical source and an ideological project of citizenship and nationalism. Uses census data to explore mathematical and statistical concepts and to integrate numerical ways of thinking with qualitative analysis. (Jointly sponsored by African Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Caribbean Studies, Equity Studies and Latin American Studies).
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW421H1 - Global Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution
Examines the colonial pre-history of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Explores how this transatlantic revolution unfolded, including the emancipation of slaves, Toussaint, Louverture, and the roles played by Spain, the United States and Britain. A reflection on the Revolution in contemporary literature and film.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW422H1 - Caribbean Regionalism
In a public lecture in 1958, Trinidadian CLR James described Federation as the means to "accomplish the transition from colonialism to national independence." This course explores the shift from James' vision to Jamaican economist Norman Girvan's observation that contemporary "...governments tend to perceive supranationality as less an exercise in collective sovereignty and more a diminution of national sovereignty." Among the topics to be considered are: histories of regionalism; formal and informal dimensions of regional identity-making practices; freedom of movement; governance mechanisms; and widening and deepening debates, with particular reference to the non-Anglophone Caribbean and Latin America.
Exclusion: NEW329H1 (Special Topics in Caribbean Studies: Caribbean Regionalism), offered in Winter 2018; NEW423H1 (Special Topics in Caribbean Studies: Caribbean Regionalism), offered in Winter 2019
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1/NEW220H1/NEW221H1/HIS231H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW423H1 - Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
NEW426H1 - Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor.
NEW426Y1 - Special Topics in Caribbean Studies
An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor.
JLN427H1 - Advanced Topics: The Hispanic Caribbean
Explores, in depth, a country in the Hispanic Caribbean or a theme relating to the Hispanic Caribbean. Topics vary each year and may include: Cuban society; Hispanic Caribbean revolutions; Hispanic Caribbean music, art and popular cultures; Hispanic Caribbean diasporas.
Exclusion: NEW427H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW428H1 - Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas
Examines Caribbean migration in the post-slavery era. Topics include: Caribbean diasporas in the West; labour migrations such as the Panama Canal migration; Caribbean migrant communities in Central America; intra-regional migrations between the Caribbean islands; 'guest worker' programs; remittances and their impact; heritage tourism and 'return' migrations.
Exclusion: HISC70H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW429H1 - Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
Explores the transnational circuits through which the Caribbean diaspora makes a living and makes life in contemporary Canada. How do we make sense of the Caribbean experience in Canada? What might an engagement with the Caribbean teach us about Canada as a diasporic space?
Exclusion: NEW329H1 (if taken in Summer 2013 or Summer 2014 as "The Caribbean Diaspora: Travels and Tribulations")
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Courses
NEW240H1 - Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies
Hours: 24L/12T
An interdisciplinary intersectional interrogation and examination of systemic inequity and social justice in local and global contexts. Provides a foundation for the field of critical equity and solidarity studies through a concentrated focus on theory and practice as it relates to major concepts, historical perspectives, key debates and radical grassroots community resistance to inequity. Introduces and foregrounds the concept of critical equity as both a theoretical framework and as a lived contestation of the structural nature and effects of systemic inequity.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW241Y1 - Introduction to Critical Disability Studies
Draws on an intersectional history and politics of normativity and bodily difference to understand disability as a diverse and materially salient social category that can be used as a lens to better understand systems and experiences of colonization, race, class, gender, age, etc. Explores scenes of disability or 'crip' solidarity, resistance and cultural production, disability D/deaf and mad arts, coalitional movements for disability justice, collective approaches to access and other non-normative ways of knowing and being.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW270H1 - Community (dis)Engagement and Solidarity
An introduction to issues and questions arising from the field of 'community engagement'. Explores the meaning, practices and implications of/for 'community' and 'community (dis)engagement' from multiple perspectives (e.g. the State and its agencies, institutional power, colonial discourse, communities of embodied difference, etc.) Takes a multi-media and arts-based approach to examining self-care from an anti-colonial perspective of central importance in the practice and pedagogy of critical equity and solidarity in the collective struggle for freedom and transformation.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW340H1 - Special Topics in Equity Studies
NEW341H1 - Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race
Provides students with a theoretical background for understanding settler colonialism, capitalist social relations and difference (including race, class, gender, disability and sexuality) and solidarity. Provides an analysis of state violence and the formation of hegemonic power relations. Introduces students to the method of thinking dialectically to examine the social world as a set of relations between multiple phenomena occurring at the same time. Articulates an emancipatory politics of knowledge production and strategies of building solidarities to enable the imagination of a different future.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW342H1 - Theory and Praxis in Food Security
Explores the concept of food security in the context of equity issues related to global food systems. Students participate in food-related field work activities outside of regular classroom time.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW344H1 - Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
Through lectures, small-group discussions and experiential activities, explores how intersecting cultural stories impact our bodies and how stories inscribed upon us shape and constrain our relations, perceptions, experiences and vulnerabilities as embodied subjects. Draws on work in cultural studies, critical race and decolonial theory, gender studies, queer, trans and disability theory and fat studies to ask: Whose bodies matter? How do bodies come to matter? And, how are we - as embodied beings - engaged in acts of rewriting, resisting and otherwise transforming the body means and what it can do?
Exclusion: NEW344Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW344Y1 - Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
Through lectures, small-group discussions and experiential activities, explores how intersecting cultural stories impact our bodies and how stories inscribed upon us shape and constrain our relations, perceptions, experiences and vulnerabilities as embodied subjects. Draws on work in cultural studies, critical race and decolonial theory, gender studies, queer, trans and disability theory and fat studies to ask: Whose bodies matter? How do bodies come to matter? And, how are we - as embodied beings - engaged in acts of rewriting, resisting and otherwise transforming the body means and what it can do?
Exclusion: NEW344H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW345H1 - Equity and Activism in Education
Examines contemporary issues in education and schooling from a social justice and equity perspective. Engages with a variety of theoretical frameworks including anti-homophobia education, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, decolonizing knowledges, and intersectionality. Includes an overview of educational activist projects.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW346H1 - Community Organizing and Global Solidarity
Considers, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the evolution of community organizations and non-profits in the context of neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and imperialism. Examines the inter-woven relations of political economy, local community development, marginalized communities in Canada, and emergent forms of global/local solidarity.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW347H1 - Critical Race and Anti-Racism Studies
Considers what it means to pursue integrative anti-racism in organizational/institutional settings such as the workplace, justice system, media and education through a study of theories on race and philosophical tenets of anti-racism. Examines the concept of race as a pedagogical discourse and social-political practice across local, national and global contexts.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW348H1 - Special Topics in Equity Studies
NEW349H1 - Disability Arts and Culture
Explores the work of disabled, mad, sick and/or Deaf artists and considers how disability disrupts - or 'crips' - artistic spaces and cultural movements. Engaged with contemporary debates emanating from within these spaces and movements to revewal disability as a dynamic range of bodily practices, aesthetics and relations.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
JQR360H1 - The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics
Examines the Canadian population census through the experience of diasporic groups in Canada. Approaches the census as a statistical tool, an historical source and an ideological project of citizenship and nationalism. Uses census data to explore mathematical and statistical concepts and to integrate numerical ways of thinking with qualitative analysis. (Jointly sponsored by African Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Caribbean Studies, Equity Studies and Latin American Studies).
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW440Y1 - Advanced Special Topics in Equity Studies
An advanced level seminar course. Topics of study vary from year to year.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2); Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW441H1 - Advanced Topics in Equity Studies
NEW442H1 - Food Systems and the Politics of Resistance
Examines the food we eat in the local and global context of food systems, food sovereignty and food movements. Explores the possibilities for food as a catalyst for learning, resistance and social change. Consult the Program Office for course enrolment procedures.
Note: This is a joint graduate/undergraduate course.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW443H1 - Advanced Special Topics in Equity Studies
NEW444H1 - Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence
Interrogates how theorizations, embodied lived experiences and lived resistance to structural violence can create social, epistemological, ontological and political decolonizing/anti-colonial transformation. Examines the work of Frantz Fanon, Kwame Ture, Eric Williams, Walter Rodney, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Elaine Brown and Assata Shakur amongst others to search for alternative and oppositional ways to rethink and re-respond to violence. Pursues a nuanced understanding of disability as a socio-political phenomenon.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW446H1 - Community Development and Social Change
Explores the significance of community development as a social change strategy, through a critical social analysis of local and global case studies and policies. Consult the Program Office for course enrolment procedures.
Note: This is a joint graduate/undergraduate course.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW447H1 - Race, Ethnicity and Educational Praxis
An application of critical race, ethnicity and social difference discourse to educational praxis. Examines the articulation of theoretical perspectives to explain particular incidents in society, and to understand forms of institutional racism and emerging minority responses. Explores the implications for pedagogical practices in education.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW448H1 - Disability and the Child
Examines a range of historical and present-day meanings associated with the figure of the disabled child. Draws on work emanating from a variety of disciplines, including history, psychology, neuroscience, visual arts, film and literature, and engaging with critical theories of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability, to discuss ideas and issues relevant to the construction of 21st century disabled childhoods. Counters the near monolithic story of disability as threat to the presumed goodness of normative childhood by asking: what alternate depictions and narratives of disabled childhood exist and what can they teach us?
Exclusion: NEW448H1 (Advanced Special Topics in Disability Studies: Disability and the Child), offered in Fall 2016, Fall 2018 and Fall 2019
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW449H1 - Contemporary Theories in Critical Disability Studies
Explores competing conceptions, definitions and practices of disability through a range of critical disability theories, including crip-of-colour critique, decolonial theories of disability studies and black feminist disability frameworks. Enacts disability studies as a justice-oriented methodology or practice that has value for understanding and responding to colonial systems of race, class, gender and disability. Interrogates the shape and limits of disability and disability studies to ask the provocative question: what can disability studies do?
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
JNS450H1 - Sexuality & Disability
An interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to the study of disability and sexuality. Students will enage with historical, mainstream and critical discourses and explore complex issues and representations pertaining to disability, sexuality, sexual practices and desire. Draws from a range of writings and cultural texts in queer, crip and sexuality studies.
Exclusion: SDS455H1: Special Topics in Sexual Diversity: Sexuality & Disability (2015)
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW469Y1 - Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers
A feminist/anti-racist/anti-colonial/anti-imperialist exploration of research methods. Examines the work of researchers and scholar-activists who seek to humanize research with communities detrimentally impacted by colonial, imperialist, heteropatriarchal research agendas and processes. Supports students' independent research projects through guidance from the course instructor. Prepares students for graduate studies or research-oriented careers. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Society and its Institutions (3)
Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Courses
NEW495Y1 - Independent Community Engaged Learning
A placement-based course in which students develop knowledge, practice and professional skills appropriate to the social purpose sector while working to support programming for community partners. The accompanying seminar considers social justice issues and models community-engagement practice, supporting students’ experiential, participatory and reflective learning. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW496H1 - Independent Community Engaged Learning
A placement-based course in which students develop knowledge, practice and professional skills appropriate to the social purpose sector while working to support programming for community partners. The accompanying seminar considers social justice issues and models community-engagement practice, supporting students’ experiential, participatory and reflective learning. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. (Offered only in special circumstances)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities; Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW497Y1 - Community Based Research as Resistance and Social Change
Explores how research is conducted and mobilized by marginalized communities as a form of resistance, knowledge mobilization and social change. Examines the foundations of empirical research, the role of the university as a site of research activity and knowledge production and the ethics and methods of community-based research. Informed by examples of grassroots research projects from Black, Indigenous and racialized communities locally, nationally and globally, students engage in community-based and participatory action research projects. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1/ NEW150Y1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW224Y1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1/ NEW232H1/ NEW232Y1/ NEW240Y1/ NEW241Y1/ NEW270H1/ HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ other NEW courses
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW498H1 - Community Based Research as Resistance and Social Change
Explores how research is conducted and mobilized by marginalized communities as a form of resistance, knowledge mobilization and social change. Examines the foundations of empirical research, the role of the university as a site of research activity and knowledge production and the ethics and methods of community-based research. Informed by examples of grassroots research projects from Black, Indigenous and racialized communities locally, nationally and globally, students engage in community-based and participatory action research projects. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Recommended Preparation: NEW120Y1/ NEW150Y1/ NEW220H1/ NEW221H1/ NEW224Y1/ NEW225H1/ NEW226H1/ NEW232H1/ NEW232Y1/ NEW240Y1/ NEW241Y1/ NEW270H1/ HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ other NEW courses
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Independent Studies Courses
NEW299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/.... Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
NEW390Y1 - New College Independent Studies
New College Independent Studies. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
NEW391H1 - New College Independent Studies
New College Independent Studies. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
NEW398Y0 - Research Excursion
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/.... Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
NEW490Y1 - New College Independent Studies
New College Independent Studies. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
NEW491H1 - New College Independent Studies
New College Independent Studies. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Interdisciplinary Courses
NEW198H1 - Myths of French Sensuality
A study of French cultural history with respect to the French reputation for the indulgence and refinement of all the senses in visual arts, music, cuisine, perfume and fashion. Supporting mythologies are investigated, along with stereotype formation, exoticism and cultural appropriation. Through various research, writing and presentation techniques, including mini-essays, poster displays and pecha kucha, students will explore what is left of this reputation in an era of globalization. No knowledge of French is necessary. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW199H1 - We Are What We Eat: The Example of French Cuisine
The historical study of French cuisine reveals a culture rich in controversy and conflicting narratives. These include contested origins, court intrigues, sensual delight, revolutions, colonialism and slavery, controversial farm practices, haute cuisine, cuisine bourgeoise, regionalism, European regulation. Through various research, writing and presentation techniques, including mini-essays, wikis and pecha kucha, students will explore what is left of French food culture in an era of globalization. No knowledge of French is necessary. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
NEW271H1 - Interdisciplinary Special Topics
Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult timetable for current offering information.
JQR360H1 - The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics
Examines the Canadian population census through the experience of diasporic groups in Canada. Approaches the census as a statistical tool, an historical source and an ideological project of citizenship and nationalism. Uses census data to explore mathematical and statistical concepts and to integrate numerical ways of thinking with qualitative analysis. (Jointly sponsored by African Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Caribbean Studies, Equity Studies and Latin American Studies).
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
NEW370Y1 - Interdisciplinary Special Topics
Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.
NEW371H0 - International Field Course
Provides opportunities for students to engage in an international experiential learning program related to their academic areas of study. The course involves seminars, group exercises, site visits and a final project. Some sessions will be held in Toronto prior to and following the trip. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
NEW372H1 - Interdisciplinary Special Topics
Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult timetable for current offering information.
NEW471H1 - Interdisciplinary Special Topics
Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.
Interdisciplinary Courses in Jungian Theory
NEW302Y1 - C.G. Jung: Stories, Patterns, Symbols
Impact of Jung's analytical psychology, critical methodology and interpretative practice on issues in religion, anthropology, art and literature, popular culture, gender studies and postmodernist critique. Theoretical studies include traditional Jungian and contemporary post-Jungian texts together with feminist and non-Jungian sources.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1); Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW303H1 - Hypotheses of the Unconscious
Current discussions of the hypotheses, starting with Freud's and Jung's hypotheses, especially Jung's collective unconscious; critical examination through retrospective analysis of the evolution and development of the concept in works from philosophy, psychology, poetry, ethnology, science and popular culture that anticipated, influenced or were influenced by the work of Freud and Jung, post-Freudians and post-Jungians.
Recommended Preparation: NEW302Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
NEW402Y1 - Advanced Special Topics in Jungian Theory
Topics vary from year to year, depending on the interests of students and instructors.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
NEW403H1 - Advanced Special Topics in Jungian Theory
Topics vary from year to year depending on the interests of students and instructors.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
International Foundation Program Courses
IFP100H1 - Themes in World History
Surveys the development of human societies from their origins to the present. Topics may include the environment, cultural development and interaction, the creation and nature of belief systems, political, economic and social structures, gender relations, and the relationship between global patterns and local development. Restricted to students enrolled in the summer offering of the International Foundation Program (IFP). Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
IFP100Y1 - Themes in World History
Surveys the development of human societies from their origins to the present using examples from across the world. Topics may include the environment, cultural development and interaction, the creation and nature of belief systems, political, economic and social structures, gender relations, and the relationship between global patterns and local developments. Enrolment is restricted to students registered in the International Foundation Program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3); Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
UTP100H1 - Themes in World History
Surveys the development of human societies from their origins to the present. Topics may include the environment, cultural development and interaction, the creation and nature of belief systems, political, economic and social structures, gender relations, and the relationship between global patterns and local development. Restricted to students enrolled in the UTPrep program.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)