Current Courses (2013/14)
| Current courses | Previous Courses |The courses listed below are offered in 2013-2014. The Humanities Program is distinctive in its explicit focus on interdisciplinary scholarship in practice and in theory. It builds on the tradition in Humanities at York of reading a broad diversity of texts, both historical and contemporary, which range from works of literature, religion, philosophy, science, and politics to oral traditions, visual arts, and music.
(Last updated: March 19, 2013)
Summer 2013
(Note: The day/time/locations may change)
| Semester | Course No. | Course Title | Time | Location | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2013 |
GS/HUMA 6142 3.0 | No Place for Fairness: Indigenous Rights, Memory and Oral Tradition in Canada | Monday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
RS 801 | David McNab |
Fall Term 2013
| Semester | Course No. | Course Title | Time | Location | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6107 3.0 | Inventing Modernisms: Place and Sensibility | Monday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
VC 114 | Richard Teleky |
| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6137 3.0 |
Post-Orientalism & Post-Occidentalism | Wednesday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
RS 501 | Nalini Persram |
| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6148 3.0 | Narrative: Theory and Interpretation | Thursday 2:30pm - 5:30pm |
MC 101A |
Matthew Clark
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| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6150 3.0 GS/EN 6745 3.0 |
Wednesday 8:30am - 11:30am |
MC 101A | T.V. Reed |
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| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6228 3.0 | Religion, Networks and Underground Alliances at the Turn of the 20th Century: Europe and South and Southeast Asia | Wednesday 2:30pm - 5:30pm |
RS 101 | Alicia Turner |
| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6326 3.0 |
Theories of Material Culture | Tuesday 4:00pm - 7:00pm |
RN 201 |
Sarah Blake
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| Fall 2013 | GS/HUMA 6322 3.0 GS/EN 6549 3.0 |
Modernism, Interdisciplinarity, and the Arts | Friday 2:30pm - 5:30pm |
RS 501 | Elicia Clements |
Winter Term 2014
| Semester | Course No. | Course Title | Time | Location | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6115 3.0 | Straddling Modernity: Selfhood in 20th Century Japanese Literature, Film, and Art | Tuesday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
RN 836A | Ted Goossen |
| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6149 3.0 | Theorizing Cultural Translation
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Wednesday 2:30pm - 5:30pm |
RS 536 | TBA |
| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6152 3.0 GS/EN 6616 3.0 |
Black Song: Introduction to African American Poetry | Wednesday 4:00pm - 7:00pm |
VH 1020 | Leslie Sanders |
| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6212 3.0 | Tuesday 2:30pm - 5:30pm |
YRT 764 | Carl Ehrlich |
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| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6308 3.0 GS/CMCT 6127 3.0 GS/FILM 5320N 3.0 |
Images of Animals | Thursday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
MC 101A | Jody Berland |
| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6151 3.0 GS/EN 6746 3.0 |
Social Movements and Culture, 1960 to the Present: Theory and Praxis | Wednesday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
MC 113 | T.V. Reed |
| Winter 2014 | GS/HUMA 6211 3.0 GS/HIST 5132 3.0 |
The Social and Cultural History of Religion in Canada | Monday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
VH 1020 | Bill Westfall |
Fall/Winter 2013 - 2014
| Semester | Course No. | Course Title | Time | Location | Professor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2013 - 2014 |
GS/HUMA 5001/6001 0.0 | Graduate Seminar | Monday 5:30pm - 8:30pm |
VC 010 | Markus Reisenleitner |
| Fall/Winter 2013 - 2014 |
GS/HUMA 5100 6.0 | Core Practices and Methodologies in Humanities Research | Monday 11:30am - 2:30pm |
MC 101A | Susan Ingram |
| Fall/Winter 2013 - 2014 |
GS/HUMA 6310 6.0/ GS/HIST 5830 6.0/ GS/SPTH 6100A 6.0/ GS/STS 6305 6.0 |
Contexts Of Victorian Science | Thursday 2:30pm - 5:30pm |
CFA 312 | Bernie Lightman |
General Program Courses
Humanities 5000 3.0 and 6.0 - Directed Readings for M.A. StudentsPermission of Program Director required.
Humanities 5001 0.0 - Graduate Seminar for M.A. Students
The Graduate Seminar is organized thematically around provocative debates in Humanities and gives students exposure to a wide range of methodological and theoretical issues and problems fundamental to the study of Humanities. The Seminar meets once a month during the academic year. The seminar is a non-credit-bearing required course for all M.A. and Ph.D. students in their first year of study.
Humanities 5002 0.0 M.A. - Major Research Paper
Students will be required to demonstrate in a Major Research Paper their grasp of a subject within the interdisciplinary study of culture in Humanities. See Requirements for obtaining a MA in Humanities
Humanities 6000 3.0 and 6.0 - Directed Readings for Ph.D. Students
Permission of Program Director required.
Humanities 6001 0.0 - Graduate Seminar for Ph.D. Students
The Graduate Seminar is organized thematically around provocative debates in Humanities and gives students exposure to a wide range of methodological and theoretical issues and problems fundamental to the study of Humanities. The Seminar meets once a month during the academic year. The seminar is a non-credit-bearing required course for all M.A. and Ph.D. students in their first year of study.
Humanities 7000 0.0 - Ph. D. Dissertation Research
No course credit.
