Courses
Current Courses 2011-12
| Course # | Cat # | Title | Day & Time | Location | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5010 6.0 (Y) |
N68U01 | Theory In Social Anthropology | Fall half held - Monday Winter half held - Thursday 1:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Blincow (Fall) Myers (Winter) |
5020 3.0 (W) |
H15G01 | Methods in Social Anthropology | Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Winland |
5040 3.0 (F) |
R09A01 | MA Internship Option | |||
5040 3.0 (W) |
MA Internship Option | ||||
5130 3.0 (F) |
T42Q01 | Issues in Medical Anthropology | Friday 10:00 - 1:00 |
2043 Vari Hall |
MacDonald |
5135 3.0 (W) |
C24M01 | Globalization and Cultural Identity | Tuesday 10:00 - 1:00 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Holmes |
5175 3.0 (F) |
X43D01 | Discourses of Race & Racist Discourses | Thursday 1:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Yon |
| 5195 3.0 (F) | U79S01 | Matters of Nature: Theories and Politics of Social Natures | Wednesday 1:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Gururani |
5210 3.0 (F) |
K56J01 | MA Independent Directed Reading |
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5210 3.0 (W) |
E03S01 | MA Independent Directed Reading | |||
| 5230 3.0 (W) |
E32K01 | Themes in Visual Anthropology | Thursday 10:00 - 1:00 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Hirji |
| 5280 3.0 (F) |
Q49W01 | Bodies and Biotechnologies in Anthropology | Thursday 10:00 - 1:00 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Adelson |
| 6010 3.0 (F) |
U50D01 | Advanced General Theory in Social Anthropology | Tuesday 1:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Little |
| 6020 3.0 (W) |
N97M01 | Advanced Research Methods in Anthropology | Tuesday 1:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Schrauwers |
6040 3.0 (F) |
H44V01 | PhD Internship Option | |||
| 6040 3.0 (W) | A91H01 | PhD Internship Option | |||
6100 (Y) |
N/A | Graduate Seminar | Monday 2:30 - 4:30 |
2043 Vari Hall |
Holmes |
6210 3.0 (F) |
R38P01 | Independent Directed Reading PhD | |||
| 6210 3.0 (W) | K85B01 | Independent Directed Reading PhD |
Course Descriptions
Note: Not all courses listed below are offered every year.
Social Anthropology 5010 6.0: Theory in Social Anthropology.
Particular emphasis is placed on the major theorists of this century and on contemporary theoretical frameworks and models for analysis. The course includes critical study of recent major theoretical works in social anthropology.
Required course
Social Anthropology 5020 3.0: Methods in Social Anthropology.
This course provides a general overview of research methodology. It examines the multifaceted role of the field worker in the context of the rapidly changing social reality within which modern anthropological research takes place. Its primary focus is on the nature of anthropological field work and the traditional data gathering techniques which flow from our role as participant observers. Lectures and class discussions are supplemented by practical exercises in interviewing, census taking, questionnaire construction and the use of computers.
Required course
Social Anthropology 5040 3.0: Internship Option.
In certain instances a candidate for the Masters degree may elect to do an Internship option in order to fulfill course requirements. For example, students specializing in the field of medical anthropology might work in a hospital or psychiatric setting; students concentrating on ethnicity would work with a voluntary association or agency working with immigrants, etc.
Prior approval by the Graduate Program Director is required. Final grade to be based on an evaluation by the affiliate institution, communicated in writing to the graduate director
Social Anthropology 5100 3.0: Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Identity.
On the assumption that "ethnicity" is a process, and constantly negotiated and redefined, this course examines the intersection of ethnic, class, religious and political identities, in cross cultural perspective. It explores the rise of assorted varieties of nationalism, in the first and third worlds, colonial and postcolonial, using historical and contemporary examples. Special attention is directed to problems of the multicultural state, to questions of aboriginality, and to the role of transnational communities in a global context.
Same as Sociology 6880 3.0 .
Social Anthropology 5130 3.0: Issues in Medical Anthropology.
This course provides an intensive, critical analysis of recent work in medical anthropology, with particular emphasis on the social construction of biomedical knowledge. Current themes also include international health, gender and science, and the contextualization of both the body and medicine in various cross cultural domains.
Social Anthropology 5135 3.0: Globalization and Cultural Identities.
This course explores globalization and its influence on the construction of cultural identities., addressing the contested term and its impact on nations, institutions, and peoples as they experience in local situations spatial and temporal transformations produced in discourses, images, and actions resulting from this process.
Same as Communication & Culture 6311 3.0 and Social & Political Thought 6212 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5140 3.0: Seminar in Symbolic Anthropology.
Particular attention is placed on a fundamental understanding of symbolic thought and action with the aim of addressing the questions: how do symbols symbolize? How do they function to mediate meanings and transform sentiment and emotions into significant inducements or dispositions to action? Literature in anthropology, language and linguistics, semiotics and literary criticism among others are surveyed.
Same as Communication & Culture 5104 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5150 3.0: Historical Ethnography and the Anthropology of History.
This course examines how and why anthropologists have incorporated history into their ethnographic work since the mid-1980s and it explores the political contests engendered by efforts to (re)present the past.
Social Anthropology 5160 3.0: Feminist Issues in Anthropology: History and Current Debates.
This course explores the growth of feminist anthropology during the past twenty years. Included are some major theoretical trends, reflection on how some have been blind alleys and how others have led to the "hotter" and more central themes of the 1990's. After an overview, the course examines Margaret Mead's early work, her place in the field and considers feminist reactions to a masculine discipline and discusses the major issues of the 1970's: the debate regarding male dominance. The course then focuses on the construction and meaning of gender in cross cultural contexts, body metaphor and the politics of reproduction and mothering.
Same as Women's Studies 6301.03.
Social Anthropology 5170 3.0: Race, Culture and Schooling.
This course examines the prevailing attitudes and beliefs about race, ethnicity and culture in Canadian society and their effects on the schooling of minority group students. Policy, provision and pedagogy for integrating multicultural and anti-racist education into the mainstream curriculum are explored.
Same as Education 5420 3.0 and Linguistics 6270 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5175 3.0: Discourses of Race & Racist Discourses.
This seminar works with an understanding of race as a complex set of social meanings, that are being constantly transformed. It explores the relationships between discourses of race and discourses of identity and culture. It examines how race converges with discourses of nation, class, gender, colonialism and the postcolonial.
Same as Education 5421 3.0 and Film 5320 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5180 3.0: Environmental Sociology II: Political Ecology.
This course focuses on political ecology as a method which situates environmental sociology in an ecological and political economic context. Specific topics will depend on student interest. The course assumes familiarity with social and international dimensions of environmental studies.
Same as Sociology 6310B 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5185 3.0: Towards an Anthropology Approach to Disability.
This course provides a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary approach to the emerging field of disability studies. Participants follow what Oliver and others identify as the "social model of disability". Seminars focus on disability culture following their research interests.
Social Anthropology 5190 3.0: Cultural Politics of Environment and Development II: Environmental Justice.
This course focuses on environmental movements and social justice in the context of both northern and southern settings. It draws on cultural studies, political economy, and the geography of space to explore questions of identity, justice and violence.
Same as Sociology 6315 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5195 3.0: Matters of Nature: Theories and Politics of Social Natures.
This course critically engages with the vast and growing body of work anthropology, geography, and science studies that addresses the discursive and material contours of society-nature relations in historically situated and geographically diverse sites.
Same as Geography 5327 3.0.
Social Anthropology 5210 3.0: Independent Directed Reading Courses in Social Anthropology
(Theoretical or Area Focus).
Note: In order to fulfill degree course requirements students may register for ONE Independent Directed Reading half-course. The particular theoretical/area topic and Course Director selected must be approved by the graduate director.
Social Anthropology 5220 3.0: Technoscientific Cultures: Foundations in Anthropology of Science and Technology
In this course we read foundational texts in anthropology of science, exploring a range of sites, methods, and theories to equip students for ethnographic research within technoscientific cultures. Central themes include science as practice and culture; bio politics; and technoscientific imaginaries.
Social Anthropology 5230 3.0: Themes in Visual Anthropology
This course provides a critical analysis of a range of themes in visual anthropology including the production and use of visual materials such as photographs and film by anthropologists, the epistemological basis on which authority is accorded/denied to the visual in the human sciences, the role of the visual in the formation and articulation of self, community and the other, and the differential impact of visual technologies on human societies. The seminar will also include a number of practical sessions on the ethics and use of visual technologies for research.
Social Anthropology 5240 3.0: Themes in Ethnographic Study of Islam and Muslim Societies
This course examines key themes in the ethnographic study of Islam and Muslim societies. In particular, it examines issues to do with the transmission and reception of scriptural and other types of knowledge in different Muslim contexts through textual, visual and kinaesthetic means.
Social Anthropology 5250 3.0: Affect and Anthropology
This course examines theories of affect and their use in anthropology, and allied disciplines. Why affect and why now? The course maps key cultural and political themes that examine affect as a force of life in the act of its "becoming"
Social Anthropology 5260 3.0: Classic Texts as Anthropological Ethnography and Theory
This course is devoted to close readings of three key works - as history, as texts, as analytical frameworks - in the history of anthropological ethnography and theory: Marx's "Capital"' Durkheim's "Elementary Forms", and Weber's "Protestant Ethic".
Social Anthropology 5270 3.0: Natures's Narratives, Nature's Politics
By drawing on historical and contemporary case studies of ecological contestations, environmental movements, and gendered ecologies, the course critically explores the social production of nature and community, ecological knowledges, representation of natural landscapes, environmental history, and bio diversity.
Social Anthropology 5280 3.0: Bodies and Biotechnologies in Anthropology
The disciplinary focus of anthropology, and more specifically the anthropology of the body, offers students a critical theoretical perspective and point of departure for the study of the contingency of, and relationship between, bodies and biotechnologies.
Social Anthropology 6010 3.0: Advanced General Theory in Social Anthropology.
A seminar for doctoral students which considers recent theoretical works under current discussion as potential advances in the discipline, and analyses in detail practical knowledge between anthropology and social movements.
Social Anthropology 6020 3.0: Advanced Research Methods in Anthropology.
The course deals primarily with traditional field methods used in anthropological field research. It explores the many ramifications of the role of participant observer in small-scale research settings.
Social Anthropology 6040 3.0: Internship Option.
In certain instances a candidate for the Doctoral degree may elect to do an Internship option in order to fulfill course requirements. For example, students specializing in the field of medical anthropology might work in a hospital or psychiatric setting; students concentrating on ethnicity would work with a voluntary association or agency working with immigrants, etc.
Prior approval by the Graduate Program Director is required. Final grade to be based on an evaluation by the affiliate institution, communicated in writing to the graduate director.
Social Anthropology 6210 3.0: Independent Directed Reading Course in Social Anthropology
(Theoretical, Thematic, or Area Emphasis).
Note: The topic of an independent directed reading half course and the Course Director selected must have the prior approval of the graduate director and the student's advisory committee.
