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NEW New College CoursesNEW150Y1 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. NEW160Y1 (formerly NEW260Y) 52L, 26T NEW200Y1 Issues of human self-knowledge in Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian cultures; problems of historical perspective and critical method. The Bible, Classical myth, Augustine, Castiglione, Laura Cereta, Cicero, Dante, Homer, Machiavelli, Christine de Pisan, Plato, Sophocles: read in English translation. (Offered in alternate years) NEW211Y1 Introduction to Bengali (formerly SAS201Y) 104L NEW212Y1 Introduction to Hindi (formerly SAS202Y) 104L NEW223Y1 A study of Caribbean writers of fiction, poetry and drama, drawn from the major linguistic and racial/cultural groups in the region. Works are analyzed as literary texts and within the contexts of social and political life in which the writing is situated. (Offered in alternate years) NEW224Y1 A multi-disciplinary exploration of writing pertaining to culture and consciousness
particularly Afro- and Indo-Caribbean thought: theoretical perspectives on the
implications and consequences of slavery and indenture, the struggle for freedom from the
legacy of the plantation and colonial dependence, responses to domination and
exploitation, race, gender, religion and music. NEW240Y1 An interdisciplinary study of issues of social diversity exploring debates about the origins of inequity and the various means of addressing it. Course readings draw from a broad range of relevant literature in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural and Medical Sciences. NEW261Y1 A psychological, anthropological and biological study of sex and gender. The influence
of gender socialization on behaviour, cognition, emotion and motivation; the diversity of
sex-role behaviour in primate and human societies; prenatal and neonatal sex
differentiation, the nature and determination of gender, the existence of sex in an
evolutionary perspective. NEW271Y1 Contemporary Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives (formerly NEW 371H) 26L NEW280Y1 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. (Offered in alternate years) NEW299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 42 for details. NEW300Y1 Impact of the scientific paradigm and varieties of modern Romanticism on Humanist concepts of Man’s identity as a social, natural, and moral creature, reflected in works by: Darwin, Freud, Goethe, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, J.S. Mill, Rousseau, Mary Shelley, Tolstoy, Voltaire. A sequel to Humanism I. May be taken independently. Works not written in English are read in translation. (Offered in alternate years) NEW302Y1 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 anti-Jungian, feminist, and non-Jungian sources. NEW303H1 Current discussions of the hypothesis, especially Jung’s collective unconscious,
introduces critical examination through retrospective analysis of the evolution and
development of the concept in works by philosophers, psychologists, poets, and
ethnologists whose work anticipated or directly influenced that of Freud and Adler as well
as Jung. NEW305H1 Issues of concern common to scientific and religious discourses: belief and knowledge; mechanism and motivation; age of the universe; concepts of species origin; consciousness; free will; geocentrism; proving a creator; likelihood in religion; critical criteria for a prophecy. NEW306H1 Examines Rabindranath Tagore’s concepts of humanity, art, personality, freedom, nationalism, ashram, teacher-student relationship, rural reconstruction. NEW308H1 Exploration of humane vision expressed through the multi-faceted creativity of Satyajit Ray, 20th-century author, painter, musical composer and foremost director of India’s “New Wave” cinema. NEW309Y1 Fragmentation of humanist culture and the struggle to establish alternative answers to fundamental questions of human identity and purpose, as represented in works by: Beckett, Camus, Cassirer, Conrad, Foucault, Gould, Kafka, Kuhn, Langer, McLuhan, Ryle, Sartre, Skinner, and Watson. A sequel to NEW200Y and NEW300Y. May be taken independently. Works not written in English are read in translation. (Offered in alternate years) NEW311Y1 Readings in Bengali Literature (formerly SAS301Y)
104L NEW312Y1 Readings in Hindi Literature (formerly SAS302Y) 104L NEW322Y1 Novels written in the last thirty 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) NEW324Y1 Critical enquiry at an advanced level into the construction of society, race, language,
religion, culture and gender; theories of economy, resistance, self-affirmation,
continuing colonization and place of the Caribbean within the global context; internal and
external theoretical perspectives on “the Caribbean personality.” NEW325H1 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. NEW326Y1 Indian survival in the Caribbean despite hardships of indentured labour; social and
cultural change; role of Hinduism and Islam; resistance to Colonial domination;
contribution of Indo-Caribbean intellectuals to literature, politics, and education.
(Offered in alternate years) NEW334H1/335H1 An upper level seminar. NEW341H1/342H1 An upper level seminar dealing with topics related to Equity Studies. NEW360Y1 Examination of classical feminist texts, central theoretical debate and feminist
research methodologies. NEW362H1 An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. NEW363H1 An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. NEW365H1 An investigation of the extent to which the law incorporates a white middle class, male
perspective and therefore fails adequately to take account of women’s interests and
the diversity of women’s experience. Legal issues concerning sexuality, the family,
employment, and reproduction. NEW367H1 Issues of importance to women as providers and recipients of health care; an analysis
of the origins and theoretical perspectives of the contemporary women’s health
movement. NEW368H1 (formerly NEW368Y) 26L NEW369Y1 (formerly NEW369H) 52L NEW372H1 An interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship of women to a variety of
psychological and psychoanalytical theories and practices. Topics may include women and
the psychological establishment; women’s mental health issues; feminist approaches to
psychoanalysis. NEW373H1 Women and violence as theorized by second and third-wave feminism. Topics may include
racism and sexism in representations of violence against women; questions of victimhood
and agency; legal issues; pornography and censorship debates; current forms of resistance
and community mobilization. NEW374H1 An examination of female sexual practices, sexualized subjectivities, and constructions
of female sexuality in a wide variety of specific historical and cultural contexts: the
role of class, ethno-cultural constraints, medical and scientific discourses; contemporary
debates on sexual identity, practice and representation. NEW380Y1 Grammar and syntax. Conversation and written composition. Reading of texts: literary,
journalistic. Relation of the language to its East African context. (Offered in alternate
years) NEW390Y1/490Y1 Prerequisite: Permission of College NEW391H1/491H1 Prerequisite: Permission of College NEW410Y1 Topics vary from year to year, depending on the needs of the program and the interests
of students and instructorsl NEW411H1/412H1 Topics vary from year to year, depending on the needs of the program and the interests
of students and instructorsl NEW425Y1 This course critically analyzes theories of colonialism/imperialism, neocolonialism,
“development” and concepts/policies and methodologies of women in Development
(WID) program of governments, international agencies, the World Bank and the IMF. NEW434H1/435H1 An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. NEW451H1 Under supervision, students pursue topics in Women’s Studies not currently part of
the curriculum. NEW460Y1 Supervised individual research project undertaken in Third or Fourth year. Students
attend a seminar to discuss research methods and findings. NEW462H1 Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics vary from
year to year depending on instructor. NEW463H1 Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics vary from
year to year depending on instructor. NEW465H1 Senior students may pursue advanced study in gender and law. Topics vary from year to
year. NEW470Y1 The application of theoretical study to practical community experience. Advanced
Women’s Studies students have the opportunity to apply knowledge acquired in the
Women’s Studies curriculum through a practicum placement within a community
organization. |
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