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New College Courses
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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. 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) JNI388Y1 See Innis College, Cinema Studies courses NEW450H1 A required course for all Specialists and Majors in the African Studies Program, enrolment is restricted to students enrolled in the program in their final year of study. The seminar is taught by the core faculty in the African Studies Program and is designed to build upon the accumulated knowledge of students and the interdisciplinary nature of the program. Topics vary from year to year. 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. NEW422Y1 An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor. 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. NEW343H1 Romani history and culture through theories on the origins and diaspora of the Roma (often misnamed "gypsies"). Historic and current equity issues facing the Roma people (particularly newcomers) in Canada from c1890 to the present. NEW209Y1 Examines cross-disciplinary issues raised by the telling and retelling of stories: sequence and consequence; narrative as argument and proof by scenario; construction and deconstruction of identities; instabilities amongst "history," "fact," "fiction," "myth," "law" and "science". Works by Darwin, Davis, Gould, Kincaid, Kuhn, Ondaatje, Plato, etc. NEW301Y1 Issues of rhetorical proof, analysis and interpretation in open (alogical) systems; mediation and the media; the scandal of chaos; motives for metaphor, custom and culture, anatomies of reason, idea and ideology. (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; 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, directly influenced that of Freud and Jung, post-Freudians and post-Jungians. NEW306H1 See South Asian Studies Courses below NEW308H1 See South Asian Studies Courses below NEW299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 40 for details. NEW390Y1/490Y1 Prerequisite: Permission of College NEW391H1/491H1 Prerequisite: Permission of College 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. NEW214Y1 A comprehensive survey of socially engaged Buddhism. Particular focus on contemporary movements in Vietnam, Tibet, China & Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and India. The role of women in Buddhism. NEW306H1 Examines Tagore's concepts of humanity, art, personality, freedom, nationalism, ashram, science, education. Evaluates Tagore's literary contribution, his work in rural reconstruction, and Tagore-Gandhi tensions over education and the non-cooperation movement. Reading knowledge of Bengali not presumed; however students with knowledge of language encouraged to read materials in Bengali. NEW308H1 Examines the artistic vision of Satyajit Ray as chronicler of Bengali culture and one of the greatest filmmakers of our time: his life and work; his films as expressions of his humane vision; cultural orientation and values; fictional compositions, visual and musical artistry; affinities and continuity with Rabindranath Tagore. Reading knowledge of Bengali not presumed; however students with knowledge of language encouraged to read materials in Bengali. 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. NEW160Y1 An integrated and historical approach to social relations of gender, race, class, sexuality and disability, particularly as they relate to women's lives and struggles across different locales, including Canada. 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 A critical examination of institutions, representations and practices associated with contemporary popular culture, mass-produced, local and alternative. NEW330H1/334H1/335H1 An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year. NEW360Y1 Examines canonical texts (de Pisan, Wollstonecraft, Truth, Marx, Freud, Bacon, de Beauvoir, Foucault, among others) as well as three central topics relating to gender: (1) citizenship and the subject, (2) knowledge and power, (3) political agency, resistance and revolution. Emphasises, historically and transnationally, the social conditions in which ideas arise and circulate. 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 Feminist theories and frameworks examining the interconnections between women, health and biomedicine in North America and transnationally. NEW368H1 Explores the ways in which gendered constructions of cultural identity and difference are implicated in local and transnational political projects, including feminism. Challenges colonialist stereotypes of women as exotic or "victims of culture". NEW369Y1 Gendered representations of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and disability in a variety of colonial, neo-colonial, and "post"-colonial contexts. Topics may include the emergence of racialist, feminist, liberatory and neoconservative discourses as inscribed in literary texts, historical documents, cultural artifacts and mass 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 Gendered violence in both historical and contemporary contexts including topics such as textual and visual representations of violence against women; victimhood and agency; legal and theoretical analyses; resistance and community mobilization. NEW374H1 Sexual agency as understood and enacted by women in diverse cultural and historical contexts. An exploration of the ways in which women have theorized and experienced sexual expectations, practices and identities. 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 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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