Courses

M.A. students wishing to strengthen their background in a particular area may take one 4000-level Sociology course in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies or Glendon, with the approval of the Instructor. They should enrol in GS/SOCI 5900 3.00 and expect to undertake additional work. The available courses are listed each year in the Sociology Program Manual.

M.A. students wishing to strengthen their background in a particular area may take one 4000-level Sociology course in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies or Glendon, with the approval of the Instructor. They should enrol in GS/SOCI 5900 3.00 and expect to undertake additional work. The available courses are listed each year in the Sociology Program Manual.

M.A. students wishing to strengthen their background in a particular area may take one 4000-level Sociology course in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies or Glendon, with the approval of the Instructor. They should enrol in GS/SOCI 5900 3.00 and expect to undertake additional work. The available courses are listed each year in the Sociology Program Manual.

This course, designed for MA students in the Graduate Program in Sociology, consists of a survey of some of the key questions and concepts in classical and contemporary sociological theory, with a specific emphasis on critical modes of theorizing.

Based on a cohort model, this course provides a supportive environment that allows master's students to rapidly accrue sociological reading, writing and revising skills. The curriculum moves students through the initial research/writing stages to completion of the RRP/thesis proposal.

The overall objectives of this workshop-based course are: (i) the development of professional skills for the academic and non-academic labour market; (ii) to facilitate timely progress through the program; and (iii) to contribute to the development of a research culture in the cohort and beyond.

The objectives of this workshop-based course are: (i) the development of professional skills for the academic and non-academic labour markets; (ii) to facilitate academic progress after completion of the comprehensive exams; and (iii) to contribute to the development of a research culture in the cohort. Pre-requisite: Completion of Sociology 6001 3.0: Doctoral Seminar 1, and registration in the second year of the Sociology PhD program.

The objectives of this workshop-based course are: (i) the development of professional skills for the academic and non-academic labour markets; (ii) to facilitate academic progress after completion of the comprehensive exams; and (iii) to contribute to the development of a research culture in the cohort. Pre-requisite: Completion of Sociology 6001 3.0: Doctoral Seminar 1, and registration in the second year of the Sociology PhD program.

An introduction to qualitative and survey interviewing methods, as well as associated data analysis methods, epistemologies, and ethical questions. Assignments provide practical experience and opportunities to experiment by varying methods.

The course focuses on the use of regression models to analyze surveys and other social data. Assuming no prior background, it covers the statistical basics, model building strategies, model assumptions and the interpretation of results.

A selected topics seminar may be offered when there is sufficient student and faculty interest for a course not listed in the Calendar.

This course explores how power and knowledge shape intertwined social and ecological relationships, drawing on theoretically-informed ethnographies and other empirical studies, with an emphasis on global south research.

This course examines the contemporary articulation and organization of sexual identities and rights in the developing world, and considers how interventions by international agencies, nation-states and advocacy groups have informed/been informed by racial and gender politics, and notions of citizenship.

This course examines the social, economic and political incorporation of migrants in the contemporary world from a cross-national comparative perspective giving particular attention to related social transformations in communities connected to their movement.

This course offers a historical examination of the multiple, overlapping processes through which Asian identities and regions were constituted. It will also examine new directions in Asian studies in an era of intensified global flows, transnationalism, and the presence of Asian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to debates and perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean studies and links theory with practice in the field. Supported by numerous CERLAC Fellows from a range of disciplines, students from different graduate programs and areas of study will collaborate together in teams on applied research projects.

Grounded in three interrelated foundations-dialectical materialist philosophy, historical materialist social theory, and political economy-Marxist theory forms an organic and coherent theoretical whole. This course provides an introduction to key ideas within the Marxist tradition. It is of interest to students in geography, environmental studies, sociology, political thought, international development, and other cognate fields.

The objective of this course is to provide students with theoretical and methodological tools to critically examine and explore how race and processes of racialization are constituted, exercised, lived and contested in law, through law and by law. This course examines the relationship between race, colonization and the contemporary legal order. The course will address the intersections of law, modernity and liberalism in order to address the role that law plays in the constitution of racialized, gendered and classed subjects. The course will address how legal processes of racialization contribute to the politics of nation-building and to the development of national subjectivities.