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NEW New College Courses NEW150Y1 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. NEW223Y1 (See Caribbean Studies below) 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) NEW322Y1 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) 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) 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. 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) 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. NEW341H1/342H1 An upper level seminar dealing with topics related to Equity
Studies. 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) 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) 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 NEW299Y1 NEW390Y1/490Y1 TBA NEW391H1/491H1 TBA NEW211Y, NEW212Y, NEW311Y, NEW312Y - for course
descriptions see South Asian Studies (SAS), page ??? NEW160Y1 (formerly NEW260Y) 52L,
26T 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 An interdisciplinary course examining media, forms of
entertainment, and daily life practices, and focusing on the role of women and girls as
consumers and producers of popular culture. NEW334H1/335H1 An upper level seminar. 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. 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 TBA NEW460Y1 TBA 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
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