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 52L (formerly JAP256H1)
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
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)
NEW281Y1
Introductory Somali 104L
Introduction to grammar and basic vocabulary of Somali. Emphasis on comprehension and oral practice. Reading of selected texts. Relation of the language to its cultural context in the Horn of Africa.
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)
NEW350H1
Special Topics in African Studies 26L
Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor.Recommended preparation: NEW150Y1
 This
course is a SOCIAL SCIENCE or SCIENCE course.
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.
Buddhism,
Psychology and Mental Health Courses
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.
NEW333H1
Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health 26L Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor.
Recommended preparation: NEW214Y1/RLG206Y1
NEW432Y1
The Healing Mind: Theories & Applications of Buddhist Psychology (formerly NEW402Y1) 52S Explores the contributions of Buddhism to the study of human consciousness and behaviour. Focus is on the expanding academic discourse on the intersection of Buddhist and Western theories of psychology, phenomenology and psychotherapy. Includes analyses of the application of Buddhist mindfulness meditation in clinical interventions for mental and physical disorders.
Exclusion: NEW402Y1
Recommended preparation: NEW214Y1/RLG206Y1
NEW433H1
Advanced Special Topics in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health 26S An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor. Topic for 2007-2008: Buddhist Perspectives on Mind and Knowledge
Recommended preparation: NEW214Y1/RLG206Y1
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)
NEW327H1
The Hispanic Caribbean: Race, Religion and Revolution in Cuban History
and Culture 26L
Examines Cuba’s relevance and legacy from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Explores the tensions of Cuban life in counterpoint with its creative rendering in the arts and literature, through a variety of fresh approaches in fields such as cultural studies, historical sociology, anthropology, and sociology of religion.
Recommended preparation: LAS200Y1/NEW224Y1
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
NEW426H1/Y1
Special Topics in Caribbean Studies 39S/78S
An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor.
Prerequisite: NEW324Y1
Equity Studies Courses
NEW306H1
Rabindranath
Tagore: Paradigms of Culture
See South Asian Studies Courses below
NEW214Y1
Socially
Engaged Buddhism 52L
See Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Courses above
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.
NEW241Y1
Introduction to Disability Studies 52L
Introduces students to the theory and practice of Disability Studies.
Explores the history of the development of disability studies. Examines cultural
representations of disability and critically assesses the ways disability
is conceptualized
in societal institutions. Forms of disability activism are also discussed.
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: NEW 240Y1 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/SOC373H1/374H1
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
NEW444H1
Social Change
and Non-Violence 26S
Examines theories and practices that promote the building of cooperative,
non-violent communities. Grounded in a series
of historical cases studies, including the
Sri Lankan Sarvodaya movement, the course critically
considers Gandhian principles and the ways in which these have been
translated into collective action.
Prerequisite: NEW
240Y or permission of the instructor
NEW449H1
Advanced
Topics in Disability Studies 26S
An advanced level seminar course. Topics vary from year
to year.
Prerequisite: NEW240Y1/366H1/SOC373H1/374H1
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: NEW 209Y
NEW302Y1
C.G. Jung: Stories, Dilemmas,
Rituals52L
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: NEW 302Y1
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 : NEW 209Y1
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.
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
2007-2008: Psyche
Stories.
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 47 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 Studies78L
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 I
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.
Exclusion: High school Tamil
NEW214Y1
Socially Engaged Buddhism 52L
See Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Courses
above
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.
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.
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
NEW315Y1
Intermediate Bengali 104L
Enables students to achieve an elevated level in Bengali in order to read on their own and compose short paragraphs. Provides the required skills to appreciate Bengali literature with comfort. Topics covered: Grammar – Euphonic combination; Onomatopoetic & Compound words; Phrases & Idioms. Distinction between Chaste and Standard Colloquial styles of the language.Prerequisite: NEW211Y1/SAS 201Y1/ permission of instructor
NEW413H1/ 414H1
Advanced Special Topics in South Asian Studies 26S
An upper-level seminar. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the instructor
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