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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
The position of women in contemporary Western Society. Women’s sexuality,
socialization, economic and political roles, creative production in the arts,
and theories of women’s liberation in historical and contemporary contexts. 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
Intensive introduction to phonology, grammar, syntax of the modern Bengali
language; emphasis on basic writing and reading. NEW212Y1
Intensive introduction to phonology, grammar, syntax of the modern Hindi
language; emphasis on basic writing and reading. 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
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. 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 Research Opportunity Program 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. 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 from selected authors of modern Bengali prose and poetry;
introduction to samples of pre-modern Bengali texts. NEW312Y1
Readings from selected authors of modern Hindi prose and poetry; introduction
to samples of pre-modern Hindi texts. 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) 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) NOTE: Courses numbered NEW 330H - 339H are reserved for Special Topics in Women’s Studies offered each year by visiting scholars. Topics will change according to the interests of the instructor. NEW341H1/342H1
An upper level seminar dealing with topics related to Equity Studies. NEW334H1/335H1
An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. NEW360Y1 Examination of classical feminist texts, central theoretical debates 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
Examines the operation of the law as it affects women, the construction and
representation of women within the legal system, and the scope for feminist and
intersectional analyses of law. NEW366H1
A critical interdisciplinary investigation of how gender impacts on central
topics in disability studies: ableism as a political ideology; the normalized
body and cultural representations; sexuality, violence and nurturance relations;
the cognitive and social roles of medicine; transnational perspectives on
disability, disability rights and issues of social justice. 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
Examines both the diversity and shared experiences of women in non-western
societies using a comparative and historical perspective. The concepts of
universal subordination, of patriarchy, and a consciousness which categorizes
women in non-western societies as "the other" (exotic), are among topics
critically evaluated. NEW369Y1
How do representations of gender, class, sexuality, and “the other” intersect
in colonial and neocolonial contexts? Topics include the rise of racialist,
feminist, democratic, liberatory, and neoconservative discourses in a variety of
literary texts and cultural media. 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
TBA NEW391H1/491H1
TBA 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 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. NEW461Y1
An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on the
instructor. NEW462H1
Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics
vary from year to year depending on instructor. NEW463H1
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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