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Diaspora and Transnational Studies Courses
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all DTS courses are classified as SOCIAL SCIENCE or HUMANITIES courses. |
DTS200Y1 An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of diaspora, with particular attention to questions of history, spatiality, globalization, cultural production and the creative imagination. Material will be drawn from Toronto as well as from diasporic communities in other times and places. DTS390H1 This will provide for directed reading courses on either a semester or year-long
basis on a range of topics to do with diaspora and transnational studies. DTS401H1 This will be a course using the intersections between Postcolonialism and Diaspora Studies to explore issues of place, memory, and identity. The course will be comparative and interdisciplinary with a focus on literature, anthropology, political science and cultural studies. DTS402H1 This course is a critical examination of the established concepts on capitalism.
It also proposes alternative ways to evaluate diasporic mercantile successes
and their economic systems. In particular, students will be introduced to emerging
studies that utilize theories on socio-economic institutions and “social capital”
in the studies of various Asian trading groups. |