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NEW COLLEGEOn this page: Introduction | Programs | Courses See also: Course Summer Timetable | Course Winter Timetable | Secondary School Information | More on Department IntroductionNew College courses have in common a commitment to be explorative and inventive and to widen students' experience by critically examining relationships among academic disciplines. A number of courses take their place within such well-defined programs as Women's Studies, Equity Studies, African Studies, and Caribbean Studies. These programs co-ordinated by New College are open to all students in the University. Integration of student experience is a major concern in a college with students from all faculties in the University. Several courses are designed specifically to deal with this concern. The Minor in Humanism provides a perspective on the problem of self-knowledge as seen in selected texts in literature, science, and religion. The Independent Studies courses provide an opportunity for students to design their own programs and to test their analytic, synthetic, and creative skills by writing a thesis. The African Studies Program (Specialist, Major, Minor) offers opportunities to study Africa through a selection of courses devoted to African history, society and culture. The core courses are drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political science. The Caribbean Studies Program (Major, Minor) consists of courses in Caribbean history, literature and thought that deal with issues including gender, religion, politics, culture, ethnicity, race, development, language, colonialism and regional common markets. The Equity Studies Program (Major) is an interdisciplinary program that examines various models — historically and culturally specific — for conceptualizing social inequities and for bringing about equity. It draws together discourses on equity from the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The Human Biology Program (Specialist, Major) integrates the study of life sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science with the basic medical sciences taught by departments in the Faculty of Medicine. (See Basic Medical Sciences section of the Calendar.) The Humanism Program (Minor) provides an opportunity for undergraduates studying different subjects to read, discuss and examine critically a wide historical and culture range of primary sources by major authors whose ideas underlie current preoccupations in the sciences, philosophy, literature, religion and law. The Women's Studies Program (Specialist, Major, Minor) offers a wide variety of courses in a rapidly developing and intellectually fertile field. Courses cover such issues as the representation and social organization of sexual differences, women and health, gender issues in law, women in world cultures, women and issues of international development and the history of feminism. Program Secretary's Office: New College, Room 2016 (978-5404) Registrar's Office: New College, Room 107 (978-2460) NEW COLLEGE PROGRAMSAFRICAN STUDIES (B.A.)Consult Program Director, Dr. D. Eyoh, New College, 978-8288. For general enquiries call 978-5404.Enrolment in the Specialist, Major and Minor programs in African Studies is open to students who have completed four courses; no minimum GPA required. Specialist program (Hon.B.A.): S17071
(11 full courses or their equivalent including at least one 400-series course)
Major program: M17071 (6 full courses or their equivalent)
Minor program: R17071 (4 full courses or their equivalent)
Group A: ANT 325Y, 345Y; FRE 402H, 432H; HIS 295Y, 383Y, 395Y, 495Y; NEW 322Y; POL 301Y, 488H, 489H; an independent studies course approved by the Program Committee Group B: ANT 200Y, 204Y; HIS 101Y, 232Y; NMC 185Y; MUS 200H; NEW 223Y; POL 201Y Group C: ANT 340H, 341H, 342H, 343Y, 351H, 363Y, 441H, 449Y, 451H; HIS 294Y, 302Y, 408Y; JPE 400Y; NEW 425Y; POL 325Y, 417Y, 418Y, 445Y, 451H, 479H; SOC 307Y, 312Y, 325Y Group D: NEW 280Y/380Y, or FSL 181Y, 182H, 183H, and two of FSL 262H/263H/264H/265H/282H/283H/362H/363H, or NMC 210Y/310Y, or PRT 100Y/220Y, or PRT 210Y/220Y, or two courses in a major African language approved by the Program Committee CARIBBEAN STUDIES (B.A.)Consult Program Director, Dr. A. Itwaru, New College, 978-8966. For general enquiries call 978-8966 or 978-5404.Enrolment in the Major and Minor programs in Caribbean Studies is open to students who have completed four courses; no minimum GPA required. Major program: M15451 (6 full courses or their equivalent including two at the 300+level)
Minor program: S15451 (4 full courses or their equivalent including one at the 300-level)
POL 201Y, 305Y, 445Y; SPA 380H, 381H, 386H EQUITY STUDIES (B.A.)For general enquiries call Program Co-ordinator, Professor J. Larkin, 923-6641 ext. 2256.Enrolment in this program is open to students who have completed four courses; no minimum GPA required. Major program: M11401 (7 full courses or their equivalent, including two at the 300+level)
Note: at least 2 of the 7 required courses must be at the 300+level. Group A: ANT 343Y; CLA 219H, 220H; EAS 451H; ENG 233Y; FCS 294H; FRE 400H, 401H, 402H; GGR 455H; HIS 245Y, 363H, 399H, 439Y; INI 323Y; ITA 455Y; JAL 355Y; JPP 343Y; NEW 160Y, 261Y, 334H, 335H, 360Y, 362H, 363H, 365H, 367H, 368H, 369H, 371H, 372H, 373H, 425Y; NMC 455Y; PHL 267H; POL 432H, 450H; PSY 323H; SOC 365Y; SPA 382H, VIC 410Y; VIS 209H Group B: ANT 204Y, 325Y, 342Y, 344Y, 345Y, 362Y, 446H, 448H, 451H, 453H, 456H; ENG 253Y, FRE 402H; HIS 208Y, 294Y, 370H, 383Y, 384Y, 393H, 394H, 398Y, 406Y, 408Y, 456Y, 474Y, 478Y; INI 327Y; NEW 224Y, 230Y, 322Y, 324Y; NMC 384Y, 484Y; POL 304Y, 321H; RLG 220H, 237Y, 314H, 344Y; SOC 210Y, 330Y; SPA 382H Group C: FCS 397H; HIS 430Y; POL 315H; NEW 374H; PHE 403H; PHL 243H; UNI 255H, 355H Group D: ABS 200Y, 300Y; 320Y; ANT 365Y; CLA 331H; ECO 239Y, 332H, 339Y, 340H, 369Y, 424H, 425H; ENG 254Y; FRE 434H; HIS 106Y, 313Y, 369H, 395Y, 410Y, 417Y, 442Y, 472Y; HPS 314Y, 324Y; PHL 281Y, 384H; PHM 420H; POL 405Y; RLG 201Y; SOC 220Y, 301Y, 338Y, 370Y, 480Y Note: Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses in Groups A, B,C, and D HUMANISM (B.A.)Consult Professor M.F. Dixon, New College, 978-6487. For general enquiries call 978-2460.Enrolment in this program is open to students who have completed four courses; no minimum GPA required. Minor program: R07801 (4 full courses or their equivalent)
WOMEN'S STUDIES (B.A.)Consult Undergraduate Coordinator, Professor J. Larkin, 923-6641, ext. 2256. For general enquires call the Program Office (946-3817)Enrolment in the Specialist, Major, and Minor programs in Women's Studies is open to students who have completed four courses; no minimum GPA required. Specialist program (Hon.B.A.): S05711 (10 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one 400-series course)
Major program: M05711 (7 full courses or their equivalent, including at least three 300+ series courses)
Minor program: R05711 (4 full courses or their equivalent)
Core Group: NEW 160Y, 261Y, 330H-339H, 360Y, 362H, 363H, 365H, 367H, 368H, 369H, 371H, 372H, 373H, 374H, 425Y, 434H, 435H, 451H, 460Y, 462H, 463H, 470Y Group A: (Women and gender relations): ANT 343Y; CLA 219H, 220H; EAS 451Y; ENG 233Y, 468H; FAH 406H; FCS 294H; FRE 400H, 401H, 402H; HIS 308Y, 359Y, 383Y, 434Y, 439Y, 483Y; INI 323Y; JAL 355H; JPP 343Y; NEW 325H; NMC 384Y, 455Y, 484Y; PHL 243H, 267H; POL 315Y, 432Y, 450H, 480Y; PSY 323H; RLG 237Y, 314H; SOC 214Y, 333Y, 365Y; SPA 382H; VIS 209H Group B: (General interest): ANT 342Y, 365Y; EAS 239H; ENG 290Y; FCS 395H; INI 327Y; JAL 253H; NEW 207Y; PHL 281Y, 384H; SOC 207Y, 215Y, 302Y, 375Y; TRN 311H, 320Y NEW COLLEGE COURSES(see Section 4 for Key to Course Descriptions)For Distribution Requirement purposes, all NEW courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses except NEW 261Y and 425Y, which are SOCIAL SCIENCE courses. African Studies Courses
NEW150Y 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.
NEW223Y
NEW280Y 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)
NEW322Y Novels written in the last thirty 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)
NEW380Y 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)
Caribbean Studies Courses
NEW223Y 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. (Offered in alternate years)
NEW224Y 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.
NEW324Y 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."
NEW325H 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. Equity Studies Course
NEW240Y 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. Humanism CoursesNEW200YHumanism I: Classical to Renaissance Thought 52L, 26T Issues of human self-knowledge in Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian cultures; problems of historical perspective and critical method. The Bible, Classical myth, Augustine, Bacon, Castiglione, Cicero, Dante, Homer, Machiavelli, Plato, Sophocles: read in English translation. (Offered in alternate years)
NEW300Y Impact of the scientific paradigm and varieties of modern Romanticism on Humanist concepts of Man's identity as a social, natural, and moral creature, reflected in works by: Darwin, Freud, Goethe, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, J.S. Mill, Rousseau, Tolstoy, Voltaire. A sequel to Humanism I. May be taken independently. Works not written in English are read in translation. (Offered in alternate years)
NEW302Y 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.
NEW306H Examines Rabindranath Tagore's concepts of humanity, art, personality, freedom, nationalism, ashram, teacher-student relationship, rural reconstruction.
NEW308H Exploration of humane vision expressed through the multi-faceted creativity of Satyajit Ray, 20th-century author, painter, musical composer and foremost director of India's "New Wave" cinema.
NEW309Y Fragmentation of humanist culture and the struggle to establish alternative answers to fundamental questions of human identity and purpose, as represented in works by: Beckett, Camus, Cassirer, Conrad, Foucault, Gould, Kafka, Kuhn, Langer, McLuhan, Ryle, Sartre, Skinner, and Watson. A sequel to NEW200Y and NEW300Y. May be taken independently. Works not written in English are read in translation. (Offered in alternate years) Independent Studies CoursesThese courses provide an opportunity for individual students or groups of students to design a cross-disciplinary course of study not otherwise available within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Students work closely with a supervisor. Written applications (detailed proposal, reading list and a letter of support from a faculty who is prepared to supervise) should be made through the Program Director for approval by the College's Committee for Academic Affairs by May 1 for the Winter Session or by January 1 for the Summer Session. Students will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of an application. Enquiries: New College, Room 2045 (978-5404)
NEW299Y Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See Research Opportunity Program for details.
NEW390Y/490Y New College Independent Studies
NEW391H/491H New College Independent Studies Women's Studies Courses
NEW160Y The position of women in contemporary Western Society. Women's sexuality, socialization, economic and political roles, creative production in the arts, and theories of women's liberation in historical and contemporary contexts.
NEW261Y A psychological, anthropological and biological study of sex and gender. The influence of gender socialization on behaviour, cognition, emotion and motivation; the diversity of sex-role behaviour in primate and human societies; prenatal and neonatal sex differentiation, the nature and determination of gender, the existence of sex in an evolutionary perspective. This is a Social Science course NOTE Courses numbered NEW 330H - 339H are reserved for Special Topics in Women's Studies offered each year by visiting scholars. Topics will change according to the interests of the instructor.
NEW334H/335H Special Topic in Women's Studies An upper level seminar.
NEW360Y Examination of classical feminist texts, central theoretical debate and feminist research methodologies.
NEW362H An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year.
NEW363H An upper level seminar. Subjects of study vary from year to year.
NEW365H An investigation of the extent to which the law incorporates a white middle class, male perspective and therefore fails adequately to take account of women's interests and the diversity of women's experience. Legal issues concerning sexuality, the family, employment, and reproduction.
NEW367H Issues of importance to women as providers and recipients of health care; an analysis of the origins and theoretical perspectives of the contemporary women's health movement.
NEW368H This course examines both the diversity and shared experiences of women in non-western societies using a comparative and historical perspective. The concepts of universal subordination, of patriarchy, and a consciousness which categorizes women in non-western societies as "the other" (exotic), are among topics we evaluate critically.
NEW369Y How do representations of gender, class, sexuality, and "the other" intersect in colonial and neocolonial contexts? Topics include the rise of racialist, feminist, democratic, liberatory, and neoconservative discourses in a variety of literary texts and cultural media.
NEW371H An interdisciplinary course examining media, forms of entertainment, and daily life practices, and focussing on the role of women and girls as consumers and producers of popular culture.
NEW372H An interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship of women to a variety of psychological and psychoanalytical theories and practices. Topics may include women and the psychological establishment; women's mental health issues; feminist approaches to psychoanalysis.
NEW373H Women and violence as theorized by second and third-wave feminism. Topics may include racism and sexism in representations of violence against women; questions of victimhood and agency; legal issues; pornography and censorship debates; current forms of resistance and community mobilization.
NEW374H An examination of female sexual practices, sexualized subjectivities, and constructions of female sexuality in a wide variety of specific historical and cultural contexts: the role of class, ethno-cultural constraints, medical and scientific discourses; contemporary debates on sexual identity, practice and representation.
NEW425Y This course critically analyzes theories of colonialism/imperialism, neocolonialism, "development" and concepts/policies and methodologies of women in Development (WID) program of governments, international agencies, the World Bank and the IMF.
This is a Social Science course
NEW434H/435H Special Topic Women An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor.
NEW451H Under supervision, students pursue topics in Women's Studies not currently part of the curriculum.
NEW460Y Supervised individual research project undertaken in Third or Fourth year. Students attend a seminar to discuss research methods and findings.
NEW462H Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor.
NEW463H Senior students may pursue more advanced study in feminist theory. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor.
NEW470Y The application of theoretical study to practical community experience. Advanced Women's Studies students have the opportunity to apply knowledge acquired in the Women's Studies curriculum through a practicum placement within a community organization.
Other New College Courses
NEW207Y Survey of the science fiction novel from Verne and Wells to the present. Includes the reading and discussion of 20-25 novels.
NEW230Y Examination of the ways that prose writers of various nationalities and backgrounds have worked to meet the literary challenge presented by the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe in World War II. Authors considered include Primo Levi, Tadeusz Borowski, Aaron Appelfeld, Andre Schwarz-Bart, Elie Wiesel, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Mordecai Richler, David Grossman.
NEW305H Issues of concern common to scientific and religious discourses: belief and knowledge; mechanism and motivation; age of the universe; concepts of species origin; consciousness; free will; geocentrism; proving a creator; likelihood in religion; critical criteria for a prophecy. 
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