Courses

AP/HREQ 1010 6.00
Introduction to Human Rights and Equity Studies

This course is a critical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of human rights and equity studies. The course covers the origins and history of human rights and equity, examining such concepts as natural rights, religious ...

AP/HREQ 2020 6.00
Social Control and the Violation of Human Rights

This course examines how forms of social control can lead to violations of human rights. Topics may include the restriction of dissent; whistleblowing; activism; surveillance and securitization; the impact of patriarchal structures and ideology; and ...

AP/INDG 2030 6.00
Racism and Colonialism

This course examines colonialism and racial conflict in historical and comparative perspective, including a discussion of links between racism and sexism, and the experience of Indigenous peoples. Examples are drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas ...

AP/HREQ 2030 6.00
Theoretical Foundations of Rights and Equity

This course explores the philosophical, religious, historical and conceptual bases of rights and equity. Prerequisites: AP/HREQ 1010 6.00 (formerly AP/HREQ 2010 6.00) Open to: majors in AP/HREQ

AP/HREQ 2310 6.00
Introduction to Refugee and Migration Studies

An introduction to the study of refugees that covers conceptual issues (definitions, refugee rights, ethical norms), history, Canadian policy, and issues in specific areas of the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and ...

AP/HREQ 2440 6.00
Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance

This course explores the ways in which human rights are impacted by the surveillance activities of state, corporate, and societal actors. The course analyzes the effects of practices such as racial profiling, cyber tracking, and ...

AP/HREQ 3005 3.00
Human Rights and Humanitarian Action

This course explores the foundations, origins and contemporary challenges in the interplay between human rights and humanitarian action. It analyses classical and contemporary approaches towards understanding the relationship between human rights and humanitarian action, including ...

AP/HREQ 3010 6.00
Imperialism, Racism and the Global Economy

This course examines how dominant state and corporate entities form an imperial network of global power relations that further economic class division, racial discrimination and refugee migration, as well as a perpetual war economy. The ...

AP/HREQ 3020 3.00
Commemoration and Human Rights Pedagogy

This course explores a range of commemorative gestures and remembrance practices that seek to come to terms with past atrocities. Memory, emotion, and imagination in the aftermath of mass violence are examined through trials, truth ...

AP/HREQ 3100 6.00
Research Methods in Human Rights and Equity Studies

This course is an introduction to interdisciplinary approaches in human rights and equity studies research. Students learn to distinguish between methodology (theoretical orientation) and methods (procedures) as they develop their research question, and become familiar ...

AP/HREQ 3120 3.00
Human Rights and the Canadian Charter

Examines the Charter in relation to the question of fundamental human rights and equity in Canada. Because that question/debate invariably exceeds national borders, the course situates the Charter in the larger context of an international ...

AP/HREQ 3150 6.00
International Frameworks for Human Rights

This course provides students with a particular interdisciplinary and multicultural understanding of international frameworks for the protection of human rights. It analyses the historical and philosophical foundation of international human rights, critically examining the sources of international human rights law, including institutions and ...

AP/HREQ 3240 6.00
Human Rights in the Middle East

This course studies human rights in the Middle East from an interdisciplinary perspective with attention on five countries--Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria. Subject matter will provide understandings in legacies of colonialism, and militarism. Current regional ...

AP/HREQ 3350 6.00
Muslim Diasporas and the West

This course examines the experience of Muslim immigrants and refugees from the Indian subcontinent, Africa and the Middle East, with particular attention to policies and practices of the receiving country, as well as issues of ethnicity, religion, ...

AP/HREQ 3370 6.00
Migrant Women’s Experiences

This course examines the forced and voluntary movement of women and their historic, socio-economic and cultural situation from a comparative interdisciplinary perspective. It analyzes the economy, the state and dominant cultural attitudes in terms of ...

AP/HREQ 3410 6.00
Human Rights and Urban Space

This course examines the way space is organized in cities as a product of purposeful social practice with implications for equity and human rights. Topics explored include the differential impact of spatial processes and environmental ...

AP/HREQ 3450 6.00
Legal Institutions and Social Justice

This course examines the impact of legal institutions on equity in civil society. Topics explored include transformative/restorative justice, racism and racial profiling, moral regulation, nation-building, and the influence of different cultural legal traditions. Prerequisites: 24 ...

AP/HREQ 3485 3.00
Migrant Workers and Human Rights

Examines precarious forms of labour migration in the context of human rights legislation, migrant "illegality," and migrant counterstrategies. It looks at the impacts on migrants and their families of global economic restructuring, and whether human ...

AP/HREQ 3561 6.00
Canadian State Practices, Law, and Racism

This course discusses Canadian legal provisions with explicit racial content, beginning with the Indian Act (1876); the Continuous Journey Regulation (1908), which effectively barred South Asians; the Chinese Exclusion Act (1923); the rejection of Jewish ...

AP/HREQ 3562 6.00
Health in a Multicultural Context

This course examines concepts of health, race, and culture from a cross-cultural perspective, critically analyzing racial and cultural stratification in health policies and practices. Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 3562 6.00 Health, Culture and “Race” Prerequisite: 24 ...

AP/HREQ 3580 6.00
Ethnicity, Equity, and Inclusion

This course explores the experiences of ethnic groups in Canada, including their prospects and struggles. Topics explored include leadership, institutions, the evolution of ethnic identity, and the impact of Canadian policies. Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST ...

AP/HREQ 3604 6.00
Racism and Culture

An approach to racism and resistance in relation to cultural theory, with application to literature and film and to popular forms such as television, newspapers, advertising and popular music. The course focuses on power relations ...

AP/HREQ 3605 6.00
Race and Diversity in Education

This course identifies and explains stereotyping, discrimination and institutionalized racism in the school system. Linkages of racism to class, gender, language, religious difference and other forms of diversity are analyzed and strategies for achieving social ...

AP/HREQ 3610 6.00
Global Migration and Diasporic Cultures

This course examines migration and diasporic cultures in historical and comparative perspective, including patterns of forced displacement and migrant labour, and issues of citizenship, racism, religious and ethnic identity. Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 3610 6.00 ...

AP/HREQ 3624 6.00
Canadian Immigration Policy and Settlement

This course explores the role of the Canadian state in the economy through its policies and programs in the areas of immigration and settlement. Barriers and positive initiatives are discussed, and a comparative perspective is ...

AP/HREQ 3645 6.00
Women, Racism, and Equity

This course examines the ideology of misogyny and its intersection with racism in institutional contexts such as education, the workplace, the criminal justice and healthcare systems, media, religion, and immigration.

AP/HREQ 3680 6.00
Racism in Canada

This course examines racial discrimination as affected by institutional practices in Canada, together with efforts to affirm principles of equity. Topics may include: immigration, police and the criminal justice system, education, hospitals, media, and private ...

AP/HREQ 3800 3.00
Human Rights, Islamic Thought, and Politics

Critically examines the relationship between Islam and human rights. Describes the state of human rights in Muslim-majority countries and debates within them and amongst Muslim minorities in liberal democracies over the compatibility of human rights ...

AP/HREQ 3800 6.00
Human Rights, Islamic Thought, and Politics

Critically examines the relationship between Islam and human rights. Describes the state of human rights in Muslim-majority countries and debates within them and amongst Muslim minorities in liberal democracies over the compatibility of human rights ...

AP/HREQ 3830 6.00
Women's Health and Equity

Women, family health care and medical practice examined in historical and cross-cultural perspective. Areas of discussion: women's roles as mothers, patients, lay healers, midwives, employees and health professionals; childbirth, abortion, menstruation, sexuality and menopause; medicalization ...

AP/HREQ 3890 3.00
Social Justice: Theory and Practice

This course addresses inequality and domination, resistance and collective empowerment, in Canada and beyond, and examines the historical importance and the contemporary relevance of struggles to overcome inequality and injustice. Prerequisite: 24 credits

AP/HREQ 3890 6.00
Social Justice: Theory and Practice

This course addresses inequality and domination, resistance and collective empowerment, in Canada and beyond, and examines the historical importance and the contemporary relevance of struggles to overcome inequality and injustice. Prerequisite: 24 credits

AP/HREQ 3891 6.00
Gender, Religion, and Human Rights

Description: This course analyzes culturally-rooted practices and ideological and political factors that justify or rationalize the inequitable treatment of women and children and sexual or religious minorities, with special attention to the legitimizing role of ...

AP/HREQ 3892 3.00
Community Action and Social Justice

This course encourages students to engage in debate, dialogue, and critical analysis of strategies designed to enhance individual and collective rights, responsibilities, and equity, including an interrogation of the concepts of advocacy, social movements, empowerment ...

AP/HREQ 3961 3.00
International Human Rights and Children

This course connects economic, social, and structural powers that allow violence against children, drawing on expressive literature as well as social science materials. Topics include the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other ...

AP/HREQ 3962 3.00
Trauma, Social Dislocation, and Human Rights

The course examines violence, torture and inhumane treatment understood as health issues and as issues in international human rights. It engages with survivors' experiences in countries of origin and the human costs and challenges of ...

AP/HREQ 3963 3.00
Language, Linguistic Rights, and Human Rights

This course explores issues involving the social and cultural impact of language; gives students the conceptual tools to analyze the relationship between linguistic rights and human rights; and discusses topics such as language and identity, ...

AP/HREQ 3964 3.00
Equity and Human Rights in Schooling

This course examines issues of inequality and equity in education from a critical human rights perspective. It engages with literature linking educational rights to human rights, adopting a comparative perspective throughout. Efforts to achieve equity ...

AP/HREQ 3990 6.00
Directed Reading/Supervised Study

This course enables students to do a supervised 6-credit 3000-level directed reading course. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in the course. The course transaction form for this course ...

AP/HREQ 3990 3.00
Directed Reading/Supervised Study

This course enables students to do a supervised 6-credit 3000-level directed reading course. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in the course. The course transaction form for this course ...

AP/HREQ 4040 6.00
Jewish Diasporas

Description: An examination of Jewish communities in a variety of historical and contemporary settings, including immigration experience, family life, culture and identity. Course credit exclusion: AP/MIST 4040 6.00 Jewish Communities

AP/INDG 4050 6.00
Slavery, Colonialism, and African Communities in the Americas

This course focuses on slavery and post-slavery among African-descendants in United States, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Mexico, while also considering historical origins of anti-black racism, Atlantic slave trade and the impact of colonial land appropriation ...

AP/HREQ 4052 6.00
Race, Ethnicity, and Social Policy

Focuses on training students to analyze and construct public policy analysis on social issues through the lens of race and ethnicity. Through this course, public policy analysis will be utilized as a tool for understanding ...

AP/HREQ 4081 6.00
Gender, Culture and Society in the Middle East

This course examines culture and social change in the Middle East, with a specific focus on the politics of religion, gender and identity, both within and beyond the region's borders. Case studies may include such ...

AP/HREQ 4450 6.00
Theories of Rights and Equity: Advanced Perspectives

An examination at an advanced level of critical issues in social theory with a focus on the ways in which theories engage with concerns addressed by human rights and equity studies practitioners and advocates. Course ...

AP/HREQ 4600 6.00
Research Seminar (for Specialized Honours Students)

This seminar adopts an advanced approach to research and interpretation, including data collection and analysis within a relevant theoretical framework. Students will develop a research question, formulate a thesis, a complete a substantial research project.  ...

AP/HREQ 4600 6.00
Research Seminar

This seminar adopts an advanced approach to research and interpretation, including data collection and analysis within a relevant theoretical framework. Students will develop a research question, formulate a thesis, a complete a substantial research project. ...

AP/HREQ 4650 3.00
Equity in the Workplace: Labour Rights and Human Rights

This course examines initiatives to promote equity in the workplace. The course explores public policy strategies to address intersectional inequalities and assesses recent efforts to establish international labour standards and occupational health and safety as ...

AP/HREQ 4651 3.00
Chinese Rights and Virtues in East Asia

This course compares Chinese virtues of benevolence, propriety, righteousness, wisdom and faithfulness with Western human rights in both contemporary and ancient perspectives. It contrasts universal claims of Western social and cultural rights with particular forms ...

AP/HREQ 4652 3.00
Violence, Enslavement, and Human Rights

Examines violent domination, slave trade and slavery, and the place of enslavement as an extreme form of social exclusion and violation of human rights. Course credit exclusion: AP/SOCI 4652 3.00 (prior to Fall 2013). PRIOR ...

AP/HREQ 4652 3.00
Violence, Enslavement, and Human Rights

Examines violent domination, slave trade and slavery, and the place of enslavement as an extreme form of social exclusion and violation of human rights. Course credit exclusion: AP/SOCI 4652 3.00 (prior to Fall 2013). PRIOR ...

AP/HREQ 4720 3.00
Directed Reading/Special Study

This course provides an opportunity for students to carry out an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The student selects a research issue, formulates related research questions, and sets the project ...

AP/HREQ 4720 6.00
Directed Reading/Special Study

This course provides an opportunity for students to carry out an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The student selects a research issue, formulates related research questions, and sets the project ...

AP/HREQ 4740 6.00
Ideology and Freedom of Expression

This course analyzes the role of the state, institutions, and groups in the creation of dominant ideologies. Using select case studies, it further explores the interrelationship between equity, agency, and freedom of expression. Course credit ...

AP/HREQ 4740 6.00
Ideology and Freedom of Expression

This course analyzes the role of the state, institutions, and groups in the creation of dominant ideologies. Using select case studies, it further explores the interrelationship between equity, agency, and freedom of expression. Course credit ...

AP/HREQ 4770 6.00
Democracy, Social Movement and Freedom of Assembly

This course explores the legal and institutional safeguards required for democratic organizing and action. It takes an historical view of the constitutional and practical measures required to protect the operation of a democratic public sector ...

AP/HREQ 4770 6.00
Democracy, Social Movements, and Freedom of Assembly

This course explores the legal and institutional safeguards required for democratic organizing and action. It takes an historical view of the constitutional and practical measures required to protect the operation of a democratic public sector ...

AP/HREQ 4772 6.00
Migration and Refugee Protection

This seminar provides students with a critical analysis of the politics of migration and refugee protection. It develops an interdisciplinary and multicultural understanding of the nature and evolution of national and international refugee regimes, with ...

AP/HREQ 4800 6.00
Honours Thesis

This course requires students to plan, develop and execute a research project. This project consists of a literature review, a proposal and a major paper. Note: Student must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before ...

AP/HREQ 4820 6.00
Atrocity, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity

The overall aim of the course is to develop a critical understanding of genocide and to develop the student’s ability to analyze genocide in both historical and contemporary contexts. The course will examine the causes ...