Diaspora & Transnational Studies


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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 a year long course that offers 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. 5 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. 2.5 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

EAS202Y1 Modern East-Asian History
EAS271H1 20th Century Korean History

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

Finnish

FIN320H1 The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience

French

FRE332H1 Francophone Literature I
FRE431H1 Francophone Literature II

German

GER362H1 Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union
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 History
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
HIS369H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes fROM 1500
HIS370H1 The Black Experience in the United States Since the Civil War
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
HIS476Y1 Voices From Black America 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

INI327Y1 Race and Representation
INI380Y1 Contemporary World Cinema

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

NEW296Y1 Black Freedom

New College - Caribbean Studies

NEW223Y1 Caribbean Literature and Society
NEW322Y1 Contemporary African Novel
NEW224Y1 Caribbean Thought I
NEW324Y1 Caribbean Thought II
NEW325H1 Caribbean Women Thinkers
NEW326Y1 Indenture, Survival, Change
NEW327Y1 The Hispanic Caribbean: Insights and Images of Cuba

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

SLA302H1 The Imaginary Jew

St. Michael’s College

SMC413H1 The Irish in Canada
SMC414H1 The Scots in Canada
SMC416H1 Irish Nationalism in Canada and the United States

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 and Gender 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

Please visit http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/registrar/calendars/calendar/Diaspora_and_Transnational_Studies.html.

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

Please visit http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/8940.0.html.