This course explores how visual images affect our understandings and perspectives of the natural world, through the examination of a variety of technologies and practices of visual representations of nature in different cultural and historical contexts.Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3226 6.00, AP/HUMA 4226 3.00, AP/HUMA 4226 6.00, SC/STS 3226 3.00 (as of FW18)
Explores the role of musical arts in the lives of children and young people. Understanding music in its broadest sense, including the integration of dance, performance, poetry, storytelling, singing, and instrument playing, will provide the context to examine how children engage in musical arts in a global context and what this means in their daily […]
This course critically analyzes children's health and quality of life. Students will explore multiple influences on contemporary Canadian children's health. The course ethos is the respect of children and youth as human beings, with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child viewed as the most important social determinant of health for Canadian […]
Analyzes various types of writing by children and youth rather than what is usually (and problematically) understood by "children's literature"--writing by adults for children. Can adults access "authentic" children's writing? Can such writing be considered literature? If so, what can literature written by children tell us about children and about literature?
This is an in-depth course that will explore contemporary theories of childhood and their implication on the lived experiences of children around the world. The first module of the course explores new and developing childhood theories within the fields of children's geographies, children and development, gender studies, digital culture and within international rights discourse. Reviewing […]
This course provides an introduction to the graphic novel form, a medium of literature for and about children and youth. Students will ready widely in this genre, with an attention given to texts from a wide range of multicultural contexts, to explore how this new medium shapes and interrogates our perceptions of childhood and youth […]
This course surveys and analyzes Canadian children's literature historically in relation to the national culture and the sub-cultures of authors and illustrators, as well as with respect to the nature and significance of the children's culture that received it. Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 3685 3.00
The course explores the variegated meanings of Italy -- home of the Roman Empire and Catholicism, birthplace of the Renaissance, locus of artistic richness, passion, drama, and intrigue -- as a place symbolically laden with aesthetic, moral, and spiritual significance. The focus is on the idea of beauty, and the course material is drawn from […]
Vienna is now a relatively minor European capital in the heart of Central Europe, but its history and culture can be seen as exemplary for traditions and imaginaries that define European-ness. As the former capital of the Holy Roman Empire and the multinational Habsburg lands which comprised much of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the […]
This course focuses on issues, skills and approaches to develop a critical attitude to forms of knowledge and underlie any cultural production. The course also emphasizes strategies for reading, writing, research and analysis, as ell as situating knowledge in historical and political contexts. It pays special attention to the four streams of Power, Diaspora and […]