Through a reading of the contemporary scientific literature on materialism, the mind and the economy, this course examines Victorian debates on science and its application to pressing moral and social problems. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 4227 6.00, SC/STS 4227 3.00 (as of FW18)
What makes "fashion" a European idea? What makes "Europe" a fashionable idea? This course explores a range of representative traditions in European Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 4180 6.00.
While surveying the manifestations and strategies of post-modernism and deconstruction, this course traces the two concepts' precedents and assesses the claims and counter-claims made by their supporters and detractors.
Examines the power of stories to reflect, shape, and change our multicultural and multicentered worlds. Analyses the notion of "the local" and relationships among human and other-than-human beings in the West, focusing on the stories and fantasies of the "other" and the ways that they might enable groups to come together from diverse backgrounds to […]
How is scientific knowledge and its associated technologies transformed as they cross cultural boundaries? This course analyzes scientific theories, objects, and technologies in circulation, as they move from their point of origin to locations around the world. It will draw on recent scholarship on the global history of science, science and translation studies, and the […]
This course explores the genre of life writing through an analysis of its conventions as well as traditional and experimental applications. Central questions include: What is life writing? What are its historical and literary functions? How does it mark gender, race and class privilege? Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: […]
Explores childhood experience and the social construction of childhood in Canadian law. Students will examine the social policies that inform the law, consider how children experience the law through popular culture and direct contact with the legal system, and explore the current state of "children's rights," asking what reforms would empower children, making childhood an […]
This course explores the history of children and childhood in the Anglo-American legal tradition. By reading and studying historical, literary, and cultural materials, students will learn how children experienced the operation of the law in everyday life, how children gradually came to be seen as people with distinct rights, and how childhood itself came under […]
Explores the fantasy mode in childhood and children's culture made by and for them, including literature, film, toys, songs and games.
This course analyses contemporary forms of culture created (or appropriated) by children or produced for children by adults; it also explores the effects of these cultural forms on children's ways of being in the modern world.