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AP/HUMA 3104 6.00 Eros and Amor: Sex and Gender in Greco-Roman Literature

Examines issues of gender and sexuality in Greco-Roman culture through reading Greek and Roman literature in translation.

AP/HUMA 3103 6.00 Childhood And Children In The Ancient Mediterranean

Examines childhood experience and the social construction of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the end of classical antiquity. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3103 3.00.

AP/HUMA 3102 3.00 Ancient Greek Tragic Drama

An overview of the society, culture, politics and history of fifth-century Athens providing the context for a close reading of selected ancient Greek tragedies and a range of modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3100 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HUMA 3100 6.00.

AP/HUMA 3019 6.00 Cultural Transgressions: The Trickster's Creative Chaos

Through the study of selected examples of tricksters from a diverse range of cultural contexts and historical periods, this course examines the importance of cultural transgression in the chaotic process of creating culture and the centrality of the trickster figure in this process. An interdisciplinary theoretical framework sets the context for the examination of contemporary […]

AP/HUMA 3016 6.00 Animals in Human Culture

Offers an interdisciplinary study of the images, meanings and values that humans have assigned to animals in specific historical and cultural contexts. The question "What is an Animal?," and various perspectives on why the answer matters, will be explored through readings in and encounters with social history, cultural studies, fiction, philosophy, animal rights, literature and […]

AP/CLTR 3542 6.0 Consumer and Popular Culture

Examines individual and collective expression within the context of popular and consumer culture, including such areas as music, activism, the Web, fashion, subcultures, shopping, car culture, fan clubs, zines, TV and film.

AP/CLTR 3225 6.0 Performance and Resistance

Explores strategies artists and activists use to create performance poetry, art and political theatre by combining discussion, practice and theory to understand how a variety of performance strategies provoke and enliven audiences, and call for political action. Not open to students who have taken AP/CLTR 3225 3.00 (AK/CLTR 3225 3.00 prior to Fall 2009).

AP/CLTR 3590 6.0 Contemporary Popular Culture

Surveys historical and contemporary approaches to the texts and contexts of fiction, film, television, music, folklore and fashion. Themes include the industrialization of culture; changing definitions of the popular; genre and gender; the politics of style; nature and other utopias.

AP/CLTR 3570 6.0 Experiencing Canadian Culture

An exploration of how a unique Canadian sensibility manifests itself in contemporary cultural forms. Students are encouraged to attend contemporary plays, movies, readings, art shows, and concerts to supplement reading materials.

AP/CLTR 3523 3.0 Feminism and Film

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.