African Studies Courses
NEW150Y1
Introduction to African Studies 52L
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.
 NEW250Y1
Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities 52L, 26T
An introduction to the study of Africa as a living place rather than merely
a site for intellectual speculation and study. This course explores the issues
that engage the attention of ordinary Africans, ranging from the dramatic to
the seemingly trivial but quotidian concerns that occupy our lives. Topics
covered will include urban life, family networks, kinship and social capital,
religion and belief systems, indigenous government, courts and judicial processes,
migration, and land tenure. Materials studied will include the various African
media in Toronto – radio, television, newspapers, literature, religion, politics,
sports, music, film and food – as well as BBC World Service, allAfrica and
Panapress and several African socio-cultural journals and texts.
This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
NEW252Y1
African Systems of Thought (formerly JAP256H1) 26L
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.
Exclusion: JAP256H1/JAP356H1/NEW252H1
NEW280Y1
Introductory Swahili 26L, 78T
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)
NEW296Y1
Black Freedom 52L, 26T
People of African descent – from Olaudah Equiano to Angela Davis – have made profound contributions to the intellectual history and political practice of freedom in the Atlantic world. Black writers and historical actors have been at the vanguard of re-conceiving, implementing, and realizing the Enlightenment project of freedom.
Exclusion: HIS296Y1
NEW322Y1
The Contemporary African Novel 52S
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)
NEW352Y1
African Cinemas (formerly JNI388Y1) 26L,
78P
History and practice of African Cinemas studied from an interdisciplinary perspective through examination of films and production contexts, within the context of contemporary African history. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1/NEW150Y1
Exclusions: JNI388Y1/INI483H1
NEW380Y1
Intermediate Swahili 26L, 78T
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)
Prerequisite: NEW280Y1
NEW450H1
Advanced Topics in African Studies 26S
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.
Caribbean Studies Courses
NEW223Y1
Caribbean Literature and Society 52S
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.
NEW224Y1
Caribbean Thought I 52L, 26T
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.
Recommended preparation: HIS106Y1
NEW324Y1
Caribbean Thought II 52L
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.”
Prerequisite: NEW224Y1
NEW325H1
Caribbean Women Thinkers 26L
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
Indenture, Survival, Change 52L
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)
NEW422Y1
Performing and Transforming the Caribbean 52S, 78P
Addresses ways in which performance can be a force for cultural resistance and social change. Examines Caribbean performances such as jonkonnu, theatre, dance hall and carnival, looking at how these forms engage questions of neo-colonialism, transculturation, gender, race and nation, community and identity and diasporic memory.
Prerequisite: NEW324Y1 or permission of instructor
NEW 423H1
Special Topics in Caribbean Studies 26S
An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the
instructor.
Prerequisite: NEW324Y1
NEW424Y1
The Capitalist Press and the New Imperialism 78S
Social analysis of the state-corporate mainstream capitalist press (print/electronic) problematically named “The Free Press”; its racist-sexist globalizing EuroAmerican cultural imperialism; the production of the commoditized consumer-subject and other re-conquest narratives and their implications for Caribbean and other World Majority peoples.
Prerequisite: NEW324Y1
NEW426Y1
Special Topics in Caribbean Studies 78S
An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor.
Prerequisite: NEW324Y1
Equity Studies Courses
NEW240Y1
Introduction to Equity Studies 52L
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
Special Topics in Equity Studies 26S
An upper level seminar dealing with topics related to Equity Studies.
Prerequisite: NEW240Y1 or permission of instructor
NEW343H1
The Romani Diaspora in Canada 26L
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.
Recommended preparation: NEW240Y1 or a course in East European History
NEW344Y1
Selected Topics in Equity Studies 52L
An upper level course. Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW240Y1 or permission of instructor
NEW349H1
Selected Topics in Disability Studies 26S
An upper level course. Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW240Y1/366H1/SOC373H1/SOC374H1
NEW441H1/442H1
Advanced Topics in Equity Studies 26S
An advanced level seminar course. Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW240Y1 or permission of instructor
NEW449H1
Advanced Topics in Disability Studies 26S
An advanced level seminar course. Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: NEW240Y1/366H1/SOC373H1/SOC374H1
Paradigms and Archetypes Courses
NEW209Y1
Stories 52L, 26T
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
Analogy and Its Rituals 52L 26T
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)
Recommended preparation: NEW209Y1
NEW302Y1
C.G. Jung: Stories, Dilemmas, Rituals 52L
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.
Prerequisite: At least one course in the humanities
NEW303H1
The Hypothesis of the Unconscious 26L
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, influenced or were influenced by the work of Freud and Jung, post-Freudians and post-Jungians.
Recommended preparation: NEW302Y1
NEW 304Y1
Dilemmas 52L 26T
Issues raised by the problem/solution paradigm and the construction of
truth as binary; strategies of paradox, aporia, paradigm anomaly, enigma, puzzlement;
mystery and mystification; crisis, crux and apocalypse. Authors studied include
Ryle, Mill, Carroll, Tolstoy. (Offered in alternate years)
Recommended preparation : NEW209Y1
NEW306H1
Rabindranath Tagore: Paradigms of Culture
See South Asian Studies Courses below
NEW308H1
Satyajit Ray: Paradigms of Vision
See South Asian Studies Courses below
NEW 402Y1
Advanced Special Topics in Paradigms and Archetypes 52S
Topics vary from year to year, depending on the needs of the program
and the interests of students and instructors. Topic for 2006-2007: Theories & Applications of Buddhist Psychology.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
NEW 403H/404H
Advanced Special Topics in Paradigms and Archetypes 26S
Topics vary from year to year depending on the needs of the program and
the interests of students and instructors. Topic for 2006-2007: C.J.
Jung's Seminars on Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Independent Studies Courses
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 the
supervisor, will read relevant literature, and plan, execute, analyze and report
on an original and independent investigation of an appropriate
topic.
Written
applications
(detailed proposal, reading list and a letter of support from a
faculty member who is prepared to supervise) should be made through the Program
Office for
approval by the College’s Committee for Academic Affairs by May 1 for the Summer Session or by the last Friday in August for the Winter Session. Students will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of an application. For more information and application forms, please see the Independent Studies website: http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/independent-studies/
Enquiries: New College, Room 132 (978-5404)
NEW299Y1
Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 45 for details.
NEW390Y1/490Y1
New College Independent Studies TBA
Prerequisite: Permission of College
NEW391H1/491H1
New College Independent Studies TBA
Prerequisite: Permission of College
South Asian Studies Courses
NEW114Y1
Introduction to South Asian Studies 78L
An interdisciplinary introduction to South Asian Studies emphasizing inquiry and critical analysis, drawing attention to the specificities of individual nations as well as the factors (historical, political, economic and cultural) that define it as a region. Some attention will be paid to the South Asian diaspora.
NEW211Y1
Introduction to Bengali 104L
Intensive introduction to phonology, grammar, syntax of the modern Bengali language; emphasis on basic writing and reading.
Exclusion: SAS 201Y1; enrolment subject to placement evaluation
NEW212Y1
Introduction to Hindi 104L
Intensive introduction to phonology, grammar, syntax of the modern Hindi language; emphasis on basic writing and reading.
Exclusion: SAS 202Y1; enrolment subject to placement evaluation
NEW213Y1Y
Introduction to Tamil 104L
Intended for students with little or no knowledge of written Tamil. Intensive introduction to phonology and grammar; syntax of the modern Tamil language; emphasis on basic writing and reading.
NEW214Y1
Socially Engaged Buddhism 52L
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.
NEW215H1
Colonial Thought and Postcolonial Practice in Bengal 26L
An interdisciplinary history, beginning with colonialism as a moment of transition, of the ways in which colonial ideology and indigenous resistance shaped the contours of culture and politics in Bengal until Independence; consideration of factors that provide a sense of unity to Bengali culture while accommodating changes and transformations. (Taught in the summer program only).
NEW216H1
South Asia: Perspectives on Politics and Society 26L
A critical overview of South Asia, considering historical and social factors that account for both distinctiveness and connections among nations and communities. Special attention to the major role played by postcolonial histories in establishing the separate trajectories of each nation while preserving the significance of the region as a whole. (Taught in the summer program only).
NEW217H1
Tamil Studies in South Asia and the Diaspora 26L
An interdisciplinary approach that explains the complexity and multiplicity of Tamil culture. An historical approach to the evolution of Tamil culture over the last twenty centuries. Issues of region, space, politics, and religion will aid in an understanding of contemporary Tamil culture, both in South Asia and the diaspora. (Taught in the summer program only).
NEW306H1
Rabindranath Tagore: Paradigms of Culture 26L
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
Satyajit Ray: Paradigms of Vision 26L
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 in Bengali Literature 104L
Readings from selected authors of modern Bengali prose and poetry; introduction to samples of pre-modern Bengali texts.:
Exclusion: SAS 301Y1; enrolment subject to placement evaluation.
Prerequisite: NEW211Y1/SAS 201Y1/ permission of instructor
NEW312Y1
Readings in Hindi Literature 104L
Readings from selected authors of modern Hindi prose and poetry; introduction to samples of pre-modern Hindi texts.
Exclusion: SAS 302Y1; enrolment subject to placement evaluation
Prerequisite: NEW212Y1/SAS 202Y1/permission of instructor
NEW 413H1/414H1
Advanced Special Topics in South Asian Studies 26S
An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the
instructor |