Examines the strategies employed by members of marginalized groups to resist and to manoeuvre within patriarchal stereotypes, norms and values from within their religious tradition. PRIOR TO FALL 2010: Course credit exclusions: AP/WMST 3518 6.00, GL/WMST 3518 6.00.
An overview of Sikhism, major texts of Sikh tradition, and the rich array of poetics, musical thought and languages involved. It exposes students to the Sikh geographical imagination which emerges in sacred texts, place and institutional development, and embodied practices. Students will also gain insights into the religious and cultural circulations between Punjab, South Asia, […]
This course introduces dramatic arts as a means of exploring issues in childhood and youth studies. Students in this course examine the development of local and global performances by, for, and about children and youth, actively engaging in performative inquiry to analyze course concepts.
Although the Nazi genocide targeted both men and women, writing by victims and survivors along with contemporary depictions of the Holocaust, indicates significant gender-specific differences in experience and ways of coping and remembering. Close readings and critical analyses of primary texts are emphasized.
This course examines contemporary manifestations of antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada. To provide historical context it explores the antecedents of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim thought in the medieval and early modern periods. The course is interdisciplinary in nature drawing on both Humanities (primary texts, films, literature) as well as social science approaches. It begins by providing […]
This course examines the role and representation of the religious on television. It introduces students to the vocabularies of Religious Studies and Media Studies, and critically explores the relationship between religion and television as aspects of contemporary popular culture. Distinguishing various television genres from kinds of cinema, the course analyzes the ways in which daily […]
Feminist filmmakers deploy film as a provocative cultural form to explore women's complex social and cultural locations and issues. This course explores theoretical and practical points of contact between feminism and film to encourage new readings of the intricate subject women. Course Credit Exclusion: AP/CLTR 3523 6.0, AP HUMA 3523 6.0 AP/GL WMST 3523 6.00
This course foregrounds women's voices/stories and examines a wide range of feminist approaches to religion, including feminists who identify as practitioners of a tradition as well as those who do not. The main thread spinning through source materials is the power of women's voices/stories to bring women together to strengthen themselves and their communities, and […]
This course centres "the nowhere of the ghetto and the nowhere of utopia" (Hartman, xiii) to understand the social, historical and political contexts of the wayward practices of Black Women. It uses key issues and debates in contemporary Black Feminist Thought to grapple with the conundrum of social dispossession that around the way Black women […]
This course examines the burgeoning corpus of Black Canadian film to consider the ways in which Black cinematic culture in Canada has developed in the last 40 years and continues to develop today. It addresses a range of genres, including dramatic feature films, documentaries, short and experimental films. Guest speakers including Black Canadian authors will […]