The course analyses processes of colonialism, racialization and racism in historical and contemporary examples of the internment and detention of racialized individuals and groups by Canada and other western countries. The internment of Japanese Canadians is examined, as well as contemporary examples of detention, including Guantánamo Bay and other sites. Prerequisites: AP/INDG 1050 6.00.
Plato's Republic is the first known systematic account of an utopian society in western literature. It is arguably the most influential and famous philosophical and political treatise ever written. The Republic expounds Plato's conception of the perfectly just state (the standard against which all other states, in his eyes, can be judged to be just […]
A general survey of the development of Greek literature and culture from the early 19th century, as they related to contemporary Greek consciousness. Further practice and study of modern Greek.
This course introduces students to modern Mediterranean history through the colonial expansion of Britain, France and Italy from the late eighteenth nineteenth until the middle of the twentieth century. The end of the colonial era in the Mediterranean came when nationalist uprisings and movements gave rise to independent, post-colonial states in North Africa and the […]
Learn about major developments in European and world history by focusing on the history of Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course includes visits to historical sites, museums, research centres in Athens and two trips to Nafplio in the Peloponnese and Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros. Every topic and on-site teaching is […]
This course examines the history of migration from Greece to North America, Australia and Europe from the end of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century using case studies, concepts and theories of migration. Students will discuss in the online forum and in their essays: the causes and conditions of migration and the […]
This course examines the main political, economic and social events that shaped the history of Modern Greece. The journey into Modern Greek History begins in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and explores the integration of disparate regions under Ottoman and Venetian rule into an independent, prosperous and regionally strong nation-state. Topics to be examined include: […]
This course studies the place of athletic competition in ancient Greek society, with a particular focus on the Archaic and Classical periods and on the Panhellenic games, of which the Olympic Games were the most important.
This course examines Greek myths of gods and heroes in their social, religious and historical contexts through close reading of primary texts and visual representations and through analysis of modern comparative, psychoanalytical and structuralist theories.
This course explores literary and archeological evidence for practices associated with honouring the gods in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. We will be attentive to variations in practice and belief from one locale to another and from one level of society to another.