Probes the role of pleasure, desire and power in contemporary consumer culture, especially around objects of consumption, such as so-called designer goods or iconic products such as the Kitchenaid mixer or the Ipod.
Examines the specific role that art and artists have played in selected social movements.
Nietzsche's famous, prophetic claim that "God is dead" is often taken as describing the declining significance of God within modernity. Adopting neither a pro- nor anti- theistic stance, this course critically examines the relationship between atheism and modernity in Western thought and culture by drawing upon religious, philosophical, scientific, literary, historical, sociological, artistic, and cinematic […]
This course studies children's and youth dramas/theatre in Canada during the first golden age of children's literature - the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines how these plays inculcate normative sexual identities, genders, and sexuality in children and express the cultural influence of emergent psychologies as they reflect scientific racism, social engineering, and […]
This course offers an exploration of distinctive Jewish approaches to questions of gender, sexuality, and the body, as formulated in their historical, religious, ethical and social dimensions. While we begin our journey with Biblical and other traditional sources, we focus most of our attention on contemporary encounters between gender/sexuality and Jewish life and the gendered […]
Examines the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" through study of some of the various interpretive strategies, both ancient and modern, which have been applied to these texts.
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in this 3000-level reading course. The course transaction […]
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in this 3000-level reading course. The course transaction […]
This course explores the tradition of pastoral lyric poetry from the world of Ptolemaic Alexandria to late medieval and renaissance Europe, studying the pastoral poetry of, among others, Theocritus, Vergil, Moduin of Autun, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Mantuan, Spenser, Milton and Marvell. The course interrogates the poetics of pastoral, the dynamics of tradition, and classicism and classical […]
In this course students gain experience in using various approaches to study the roles of translation in the development of children's literature and films in North and South Korea. While the two countries share cultural traditions, their socio-political systems lead them to import and use foreign materials, as well as to export their own materials, […]