A book is both a physical object and an immaterial verbal entity. This course studies the dual nature of the book as artifact and text, the ways this duality is embodied in print, digital and other media, and how it engages the mind and the hands of the reader to create meaning.
A book is both a physical object and an immaterial verbal entity. This course studies the dual nature of the book as artifact and text, the ways this duality is embodied in print, digital and other media, and how it engages the mind and the hands of the reader to create meaning.
Students in this course analyze various activist rhetorics from around the world, engage with critical theory about the forms and functions of politically effective discourses, and learn to produce their own activist rhetorics.
Explores the many ways people of African descent contributed to building the Province of Ontario. By piecing together clues from such sources as archival documents, archaeological site reports and material culture, coupled with critical analysis of secondary sources, students learn to identify, analyze, interpret and share through on-line publication previously undiscovered evidence for Ontario's rich […]
This course considers how Black peoples and Black artists shape and encounter the city of Toronto through sound. It uses analytical frameworks and key areas of concern in Black Studies and Sound Studies to understand the social, historical and political contexts of listening as a critical practice.
The course moves from the close reading of great works of the literary imagination to examine the roles that the author and the reader play in the process of textual interpretation. The effects of digital media on reading and textual meaning are a central concern. Prerequisites: 78 credits and permission of the coordinator of Humanities.
The Digital Humanities aims to conceive imagine, experiment, and create a substantive humanities-related digital project that critically interrogates a research topic of personal interest focused on humans and human communities. In the process, students strengthen their project management and digital literacy skills. Previous experience with digital media is not required or expected but genuine curiosity […]
Investigates the employment of the created environment and other expressions of culture for propagandistic purposes, meant to advance privileged ideologies in politics, religion, and social interchange. Discusses examples chosen from different eras and communities, including modern and contemporary applications.
Shiism is the oldest self-identified movement in Islam, defined by the belief that Muhammad appointed Ali as his successor and transmitted to the Imams his charismatic authority. The course explores the imprint of these beliefs on pre-modern Shii Quranic exegesis, theology, jurisprudence, mysticism, ritual practices, pilgrimage sites, and religious architecture, and on attitudes to political […]
This course examines the legal measures implemented by authorities in response to historical and fictional pandemics and the role that legal concepts, institutions, and practices play in shaping a pandemic narrative. Every pandemic has a dominant characteristic that shapes its narrative, such as the breakdown of law and order, mass death, the othering of outsiders, […]