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Program Requirements
Required Courses (9 credits)
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SOCI 210 Sociological Perspectives (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Major theoretical perspectives and research methods in sociology. The linkages of theory and method in various substantive areas including: the family, community and urban life, religion, ethnicity, occupations and stratification, education, and social change.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Elrick, Jennifer (Fall) Miltsov, Alexandre (Winter) Lomonosov, Matvey (Summer)
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SOCI 230 Sociology of Ethnic Relations (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An introduction to the sociological study of minority groups in Canada. The course will explore the themes of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, ethnic and racial inequalities, cultural identities, multiculturalism, immigration. Theoretical, empirical, and policy issues will be discussed. While the focus will be primarily on Canada, comparisons will be made with the United States.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Vang, Zoua (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission of instructor
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SOCI 475 Canadian Ethnic Studies Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on current social sciences research and public policies in areas relating to Canadian ethnic studies. Topics will include ethnic and racial inequalities, prejudice and discrimination, ethnic identities and cultural expressions, the structure and organization of minority groups.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Weinfeld, Morton (Winter)
Restrictions: Open to students following the Minor Concentration in Canadian Ethnic Studies; or to students with at least nine credits, three at the 300 level, in the social sciences; or with permission of instructor. Not open to students who took CANS 404 in 2007-08.
Note: Of the 18 credits, selected with due regard to Faculty guidelines and course prerequisites, at least 9 must be above the 200 level.
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
9 credits, at least 6 of which must be at the 300 level or higher, selected from two of the following departmental lists:
Art History
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ARTH 411 Canadian Art and Race (3 credits)
Overview
Art History : Examination of impact of colonialism on Canadian art and visual culture from contact to the present. Emphasis will be placed on role of racial marginalization and privilege in issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Anthropology
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ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.
Terms: Fall 2017, Summer 2018
Instructors: Kohn, Edward (Fall) Friesen, Joshua (Summer)
Fall
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ANTH 320 Social Evolution (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : The evolution of human social organization, with a focus on pre-industrial societies (hunter-gatherers, small-scale sedentary societies, complex chiefdoms and small scale states).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 402 Topics in Ethnography (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : An exploration of selected ethnographic case material. Investigation of a regional literature or survey of significant contributions to ethnography or examination of an ethnological issue.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: U3 students in Anthropology or permission of instructor
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ANTH 426 Immigration and Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Immigration is transforming Europe and North America, and is a major demographic and cultural process in Canada. It is also the subject of government policies in Canada and elsewhere, including the increasingly controversial "multiculturalism." The study of immigration and its cultural dimensions should be covered in our anthropology curriculum, if we are to be up-to-date in our understanding and teaching about globalization and about Canada today.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Salzman, Philip Carl (Fall)
Restriction: Anthropology Honours or Majors, U3 status, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity and Diaspora (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Winter
Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
Enrolment Limit: 25 students.
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ANTH 575 Concepts of Race (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Examination of the evolution of the idea of race within anthropology, and the impact which the discipline's debates have had on society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Canadian Studies
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CANS 310 Canadian Cultures: Context and Issues (3 credits)
Overview
Canadian Studies : This course traces the history of Canadian cultures from the middle of the 19th century to the present. It focuses on the diversity of Canadian cultural identities through literature, drama, art and the mass media.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Butler, Shelley Ruth (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CANS 202
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CANS 405 Canadian Studies Seminar 5 (3 credits)
Overview
Canadian Studies : An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Colpitts, George (Fall) Mendelssohn, Michele Nicole (Winter)
Prerequisite: CANS 200 or permission of instructor
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CANS 413 Canada and Quebec Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Canadian Studies : Comparison of Canada and Quebec.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Poutanen, Mary Anne (Winter)
Prerequisites: Cans 200 or permission of the Instructor
Note: A reading knowledge of French is required
English
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ENGL 275 Introduction to Cultural Studies (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Barth, Josie (Fall)
Fall
Required of all U1 Cultural Studies students
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ENGL 441 Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a specific area of Canadian culture or Canadian cultural theory.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Cooke, Nathalie M (Fall)
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ENGL 489 Culture and Critical Theory 1 (3 credits)
Overview
English (Arts) : Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Winter
Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, Social Justice Studies
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GSFS 304 Postcolonial Feminist Theories (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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GSFS 305 Critical Race and Social Justice Theories (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Zellars, Rachel (Fall)
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GSFS 404 Politics of Identity (3 credits)
Overview
GSFS : Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite(s): GSFS 200 OR GSFS 250 and any GSFS 300 level course
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 301 or WMST 402 as the topic Feminist Theories of Identity.
Students are required to take the intro course(s) and one GSFS course at the 300 level before taking GSFS courses at the 400 level.
Geography
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GEOG 331 Urban Social Geography (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Twigge-Molecey, Amanda K (Fall)
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GEOG 507 Advanced Social Geography (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Current theories and themes in social geography, such as relations between society and space, social and spatial relations of inequality, difference and diversity, situated and embodied identities, social issues and problems, connections between society and nature, all within a spatial framework.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Oswin, Natalie (Winter)
Prerequisite: GEOG 331 or equivalent, and permission of instructor.
History
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HIST 353 History of Montreal (3 credits)
Overview
History : The history of Montreal from its beginnings to the present day. Montreal's economic, social, cultural and political role within the French and British empires, North America, Canada, and Quebec; the city's linguistic and ethnic diversity.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hamon, Michael (Winter)
- HIST 357 Cultural Diversity in Canada (3 credits)
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HIST 397 Canada: Ethnicity, Migration (3 credits)
Overview
History : Immigration, ethnicity and race in Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics will include the migration process, government policy and legislation, urban and rural migration, acculturation, nativism and multiculturalism.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Zucchi, John (Winter)
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HIST 423 Topics: Migration and Ethnicity (3 credits)
Overview
History : The study of various topics and themes in the area of migration, ethnicity and race in Canada. Topics vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Zucchi, John (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 397 or permission of instructor
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HIST 442 Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas (3 credits)
Overview
History : The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Madokoro, Laura (Fall)
Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
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HIST 586D1 Canada: Diasporas and the State (3 credits)
Overview
History : Explores themes in the history of migration and international diasporas, and state and societal responses to immigrants
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203 or permission of instructor
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 471D1/D2.
Students must register for both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 586D2 Canada: Diasporas and the State (3 credits)
Overview
History : Explores themes in the history of migration and international diasporas, and state and societal responses to immigrants
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 203 or permission of instructor
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 471D1/D2.
Students must register for both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 586D1 and HIST 586D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Philosophy
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PHIL 327 Philosophy of Race (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : An introduction to issues in the philosophy of race, for example: the metaphysical status of race; the biology of racial categories; the social construction of race; the relationship between race and racism; the phenomenology of racialized subjectivity; or, intersections of race, gender, and other identity categories.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Douglas, Emily (Winter)
Political Science
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POLI 478 The Canadian Constitution (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : An examination of legislative and judicial protection of rights and liberties in Canada. Topics to be covered include civil rights and the division of powers; the implied bill of rights theory; the 1960 Bill of Rights; establishment and enforcement of human rights legislation; and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Manfredi, Christopher P (Winter)
Prerequisites: POLI 378 or an upper level course in Canadian Politics or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Not open to students who took 160-427 in 1989-90 or 1991
Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
Sociology
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SOCI 219 Sociology of Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : A survey of theoretical approaches and substantive topics in the culture. Topics include: norms and values in national cultures; negotiation of cross-cultural interpersonal exchanges; structural codes and cultural classifications; production constraints on cultural objects; the differential reception of cultural products.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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SOCI 227 Jews in North America (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An introduction to the study contemporary North American Jewry using findings of sociology and other social sciences. Social, cultural, and political issues of concern to the Jewish community. Specific characteristics of Jewish life in Canada, and Qu茅bec in particular, in comparison to the American Jewish experience.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Weinfeld, Morton (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SOCI 327.
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SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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SOCI 366 Neighborhoods and Inequality (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The causes and consequences of neighborhood-based social inequalities in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Forms of inequality covered include poverty, segregation, ethnic enclaves, unemployment, educational attainment, crime, and health. Methodological issues and social policy will also be examined.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Vang, Zoua (Winter)
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SOCI 375 Suspect Minorities in Canada (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course will address the challenge of diverse, liberal societies like Canada, of dealing with "suspect" minorities of various types --racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic -- from the perspective of the minority group, and majority group, and the society and polity at large.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Weinfeld, Morton (Fall)
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SOCI 400 Comparative Migration & Citizenship (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Advanced course on international migration, belonging and diversity in contemporary societies. Will examine dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, the accommodation of cultural diversity, the adaptation of immigrants and how global international migration challenges and re-shapes citizenship. Will cover key theoretical debates in the field and the data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Vang, Zoua (Winter)
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SOCI 512 Ethnicity & Public Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Major themes in the theoretical literature on ethnicity. Public policies with direct and indirect implications for inter-ethnic relations will be studied. Policies affecting areas such as language, education, immigration, employment and promotion, multiculturalism and welfare. Examples drawn from several multi-ethnic societies. Political, constitutional, and economic problems associated with these policy initiatives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Soehl, Thomas (Fall)
Prerequisite: 15 credits in the Social Sciences
Social Work
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SWRK 325 Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Social Work : Social work policy and practice, including an examination of discrimination and oppressions, identity and social location, reflexivity, intersectionality, contemporary anti-oppression movements, access and equity in human services and their implications.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Hanley, Jill; Martin, Shadi; Gabriel, Wanda; Brotman, Shari (Winter)
Prerequisite: SWRK 223.
Restrictions: Limited to BSW U2 students.
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SWRK 400 Policy and Practice for Refugees (3 credits)
Overview
Social Work : Refugee-generating conflicts, international and national responses are considered. Canadian policy, history and response to refugees are analyzed. Theory-grounded practice with refugees is examined, including community organizing and direct service delivery to individuals and families.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Ives, Nicole (Fall)
Restrictions: Limited to BSW U3 and U3 non- Social Work students
Faculty of Arts—2017-2018 (last updated Aug. 23, 2017) (disclaimer)
