This course explores methods and methodologies for child-centred research with a focus on ethical standards and guidelines that shape the field and sustain best practice for research with children. A child-centred approach is central to examining how children can be an integral part of the research process without being subjected to objectification and/or marginalization. Prerequisites: […]
This course incorporates book history, Childhood Studies, literary analysis, and digital humanities methodologies in its exploration of the social and textual production of children's literature. It focuses on a selection of historical children's texts from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries to study how these archival artefacts shape and interrogate our perceptions of children, childhood and […]
The course focuses on major filmmakers and trends in German film after 1989. Topics include film and authorship, art vs. popular cinema, approaches to history and memory, cinematic responses to contemporary social and political developments.
Examination of the relationship between science and religion through a study of the implications of the following intellectual developments for religious thought: the rise and triumph of Newtonian science, the Darwinian revolution, relativity theory, quantum physics, "big bang" theory, and creationism
This course develops an understanding of contemporary North American Jewry using findings of social science. Social, cultural, political and religious issues concerning the Jewish community are analyzed, such as assimilation, inter-marriage, ethnic identity and antisemitism. Course credit exclusion: AP/SOSC 3917 3.00, AP/HUMA 3917 3.00
Studies the development of American film and television. Includes historical overviews and critical studies of the various forms of production, distribution and exhibition that characterize American media culture. Four hours. Prerequisite: FA/Film 1400 6.00 or permission of the course director.
Since antiquity, Jerusalem has been a focal point for both spiritual transcendence and earthly strife. This course explores the history of a city holy to three major Western religions. It focuses on the political and religious factors that have shaped its changing meaning for Jews, Christians, and Muslims and the controversies that surround it to […]
Examines the role and representation of the religious in popular film. It identifies and analyzes ways in which contemporary cinema reflects, shapes and embodies our world-views, values and commitments, both as individuals and as a society.
This course explores the intersections between religion, culture and identity in the Balkans. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of this complex religious and ethnic mosaic through a wide range of sources, including consideration of the image of the Balkans in Europe and beyond. HUMA 3816 3.0 M SU 2021 (S2)Since the early 20th century, the […]
A survey of the literature of ancient Israel concentrating on the Hebrew Bible with the context of its world. Students examine the text in translation and become familiar with a variety of literary, historical and theological approaches to the text.