Diaspora and Transnational Studies Programs

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Introduction

Interdisciplinary program

Where is home? Need it be in one place? Is it always attached to territory? Diaspora and transnational studies examines the historical and contemporary movements of peoples and the complex problems of identity and experience to which these movements give rise as well as the creative possibilities that flow from movement. The program is comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from the social sciences, history and the arts. Students are required to take two linked half-courses that offer an introduction to a broad array of themes and disciplinary methodologies. The program offers a wide selection of additional courses, giving students the opportunity to learn about a range of diasporic communities as well as key debates in the field.

Diaspora and Transnational Studies Programs

Major program

(7 full courses or their equivalent, including at least two 300+ series courses)

1. DTS200Y1

2. Five full-course equivalents (FCEs) from Group A and B courses, with at least two FCEs from each group. Coverage must include at least two diasporic communities or regions, to be identified in consultation with the program advisor.

3. DTS401H1, DTS402H1

Minor program

(4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one 300+ series course)

1. DTS200Y1

2. Three full-course equivalents (FCEs) from Group A and B courses, with at least one FCE from each group.

3. Either DTS401H1 or DTS402H1

Group A (Humanities) Courses

Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses in Groups A and B.

Note: course = one full course or the equivalent in half courses.

East-Asian Studies

English

  • ENG275Y1 Jewish Literature in English
  • ENG277Y1 Introduction to African Canadian Literature
  • ENG268H1 Asian North American Literature
  • ENG285H1 The English Language in the World
  • ENG368H1 Asian North American Poetry and Prose
  • ENG370H1 Postcolonial and Transitional Discourses

Finno-Ugric Studies

  • FIN320H1 The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience

French

German

  • GER361H1 Introduction to Yiddish Literature in Translation
  • GER362H1 Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union
  • GER363Y1 East European Jewish Cultural History: 1800 - 2000
  • GER364H1 History of Yiddish Cinema

History

  • HIS202H1 Gender, Science and Technology
  • HIS206Y1 Medieval History of the Jewish People
  • HIS208Y1 Modern History of the Jewish People
  • HIS232Y1 The British Imperial Experience
  • HIS294Y1 Caribbean History and Culture
  • HIS296Y1 Black Freedom
  • HIS303Y1 The Mediterranean, 600-1700: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
  • HIS305H1 Popular Culture and Politics in the Modern Caribbean
  • HIS312H1 Immigration to Canada
  • HIS324Y1 Science, Technology, and the Development of Modern Culture
  • HIS326Y1 Chinese Migration
  • HIS338Y1 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany, Occupied Europe and the Destruction of European Jewry
  • HIS345H1 History and Film
  • HIS356H1 Zionism and Israel
  • HIS359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
  • HIS360Y1 African-Canadian History, 1606-Present
  • HIS366Y1 Black Canadian Women’s History
  • HIS367H1 History of Images
  • HIS369Y1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1500
  • HIS370H1 The Black Experience in the United States Since the Civil War
  • HIS476Y1 Voices From Black America
  • HIS384H1 Colonial Canada: the East
  • HIS386H1 Muslims in India and Pakistan
  • HIS393H1 Slavery and the American South
  • HIS394H1 South Asian Migration and Settlement
  • HIS403Y1 Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
  • HIS408Y1 History of Race Relations in America
  • HIS417H1 Globalization, Science, and Technology
  • HIS433H1 Polish Jews Since the Partition of Poland
  • HIS435Y1 Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Europe
  • HIS437H1 A History of the Black Autobiographical Tradition in Canada
  • HIS444H1 Topics in Jewish History: Jewish Identity in the Modern World
  • HIS445H1 Nationalism
  • HIS446Y1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
  • HIS456Y1 Black Slavery in Latin America
  • HIS472H1 Topics in Canadian Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations
  • HIS480H1 Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
  • HIS484H1 The Car in History: Business, Space, and Culture in North America
  • HIS487H1 Travelers and Scholars East/West

Innis College

Italian Studies

  • ITA233Y1 Ethnicity and Mainstream Italian Canadian Culture
  • ITA334H1 Italian Canadian Literature I: Life in a New World
  • ITA493H1 Italian Canadian Literature II

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

  • NMC274Y1 Steppe Frontier in Islamic History
  • NMC357H1 Mass Media and/in the Middle East
  • NMC370Y1 Ancient Israel
  • NMC385H1 Intellectuals of the Arab World
  • NMC475H1 Orientalism and Occidentalism

New College - African Studies

New College - Caribbean Studies

New College - Equity Studies

  • NEW343H1 The Romani Diaspora in Canada

Religion

  • RLG243H1 Diasporic Religions
  • RLG341H1 Dreaming of Zion: Exile and Return in Jewish Thought
  • RLG430H1 Jewish Culture in Medieval Latin, Greek, and Arabic Europe

Slavic Languages and Literature

St. Michael’s College

Spanish and Portuguese

  • SPA480H1 Theories of Culture in Latin America
  • SPA486H1 Contemporary Caribbean Literatures and Identities

Victoria College

  • VIC350Y1 Creative Writing: A Multicultural Approach

Women’s Studies

  • WGS368H1 Gender and Cultural Difference: Transnational Perspectives
  • WGS369Y1 Studies in Post-Colonialism
  • WGS380H1 Aboriginal, Black and Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
  • WGS445H1 Migrations and the Sacred

 

Group B (Social Sciences) courses

Anthropology

  • ANT347Y1 Metropolis: Global Cities
  • ANT426H1 Orientalism: Western Views of the Other
  • ANT440Y1 Global Society in Transition
  • JAP256H1 African Systems of Thought

Geography

  • GGR216H1 Global Cities
  • JGI216H1 Urbanization & Global Change
  • GGR256H1 Recreation and Tourism
  • GGR336H1 Urban Historical Geography of North America
  • GGR346H1 The Urban Planning Process
  • GGR350H1 Canada in a Global Context
  • GGR361H1 Understanding the Urban Landscape
  • GGR362H1 Cities of Difference
  • GGR363H1 Critical Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas on Space, Society and Culture
  • GGR366H1 Historical Toronto
  • GGR368H1 Geography of Language
  • GGR435H1 Technology, Toronto, and Global Warming
  • GGR452H1 Space, Power, Geography: Understanding Spatiality
  • GGR459H1 Urban Form, Structure and Growth

Political Science

  • POL215Y1 Politics and Transformation of Asia-Pacific
  • POL304H1 Ethnicity and Politics in Canada
  • POL321H1 Ethnic Politics in Comparative Perspective
  • POL349Y1 Globalization and Urban Politics in Europe and North America
  • POL358Y1 Post-Colonial Questions: Politics, Knowledge, Power
  • POL364H1 Religion and Politics
  • POL403H1 Colonialism/Post-Colonialism: The Colonial State and Its Forms of Power
  • POL405Y1 Marxism
  • POL425Y1 Multiculturalism in Canada
  • POL429Y1 Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Democracy
  • POL430Y1 Comparative Studies in Jewish and Non-Jewish Political Thought
  • JHP435Y1 Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Europe
  • POL436Y1 Problems of Political Community
  • POL439H1 The Canadian Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
  • POL443H1 The Colonial State and its Forms of Power
  • POL445Y1 Canada and The Third World
  • JPF455Y1 Cities

Sociology

  • SOC218Y1 Asian Communities in Canada
  • SOC341Y1 The Jewish Community in Europe and North America
  • SOC344Y1 Contemporary International Migration
  • SOC383H1 The Sociology of Women and International Migration

University of Toronto Scarborough courses that can be applied to the program

Group A (Humanities) Courses

  • ENGB17H3 Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean
  • ENCC13H3 Ethnic Traditions in American Literature
  • ENGC70H3 The Immigrant Experience to 1980
  • ENCC71H3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature since 1980
  • ENGD87H3 Between Traditions and Freedoms: Writing by Canadians of Asian Descent
  • FREB28H3 The Francophone World
  • FREB35H3 Francophone Literature
  • FREB70H3 Cinema of the Francophone World
  • FREC47H3 Special Topics in Linguistics: Pidgin and Creole Languages
  • HISC14H3 Edible History: History of Global Foodways
  • HISC36H3 People in Motion: Immigrants and Migrants in U.S. History
  • HISC45H3 Immigrants and Race Relations in Canadian History
  • VPAB09H3 Dialogues in the Diaspora
  • VPHB50H3 Africa through the Photographic Lens
  • VPHC52H3 Issues in Contemporary Global Arts

Plus courses identified by University of Toronto Scarborough as a Group A courses

Group B (Social Science) Courses

ANTB08H3 The Chinese Diaspora

  • ANTC34H3 The Anthropology of Transnationalism
  • GGRC19H3 Spaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory
  • GGRC45H3 Local Geographies of Globalization
  • POLA81H3 Leaving Home: Politics and Emigration
  • SOCC25H3 Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations
  • SOCC34H3 Globalization: Causes, Consequences and Critique

Plus courses identified by University of Toronto Scarborough as Group B courses.

University of Toronto Mississauga courses that can be applied to the program

Group A (Humanities) Courses

  • ENG272H5 Literature and Exile
  • ENG271H5 Diasporic Literatures in Toronto
  • ENG370H5 Postcolonial and Transitional Discourses
  • FRE290Y5 Aspects of Francophone Cultures
  • FRE390H5 Women of the Francophone World
  • FRE395H5 Films of the Francophone World
  • LIN366H5 Creoles
  • VCC302H5 Visual Culture Through the Post Colonial Lens
  • VCC304H5 Visual Culture and the Construction of Identity
  • WGS335H5 Immigrant and Refugee Women
  • WGS369Y5 Gender, Colonialism and Cultural Resistance

Group B (Social Science) Courses

  • ANT361H5 African Cultures
  • POL362H5 Decolonizing Political Science I
  • POL363H5 Decolonising Political Science II
  • SOC236H5 Critical Theories of Globalization
  • SOC332H5 Race and Ethnicity
  • SOC333H5 Race and Ethnicity II
  • SOC338H5 Global Diasporas
  • SOC339H5 Social and Ecological Issues in Globalization
  • SOC353H5 Sociology of Globalization since 1945
  • SOC354H5 Global Sociology

Plus courses identified by University of Toronto Mississauga as Group B courses