Fall

AP/HUMA 3303 3.00 Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora Peoples

The course explores the co-existence of traditional African religious cultures and Christianity on the continent and among various African Diasporas in the Americas. Our approach is interdisciplinary. We read anthropological and cultural studies theories of African-derived religious practices that crossed the Atlantic during the slave trade and continue into present societies and cultural productions. Students […]

AP/HUMA 4310 3.00 Black Athletes and Sporting Resistance

This course examines the social construction of 'the Black athlete' through race and gender politics, and capitalism. Sport is more than entertainment; the course considers sport as a site where stereotypes, prejudices, and inequalities manifest themselves. It also considers athletes who engage in resistance, and examines the ways dominant representations of Blackness in sport are […]

AP HUMA 4814 3.00 The Qur'an and its Interpreters

This course focuses on the Qur'an and its different interpretations. Historical, linguistic, literary, sectarian, Sufi, feminist, modernist and traditionalist approaches are considered in the discussion of selected readings from the Qur'an in English translation.

AP HUMA 3814 6.00 Gendering Islam: Discourses on the Muslim Male and Female

Examines the representation and the construction of the gendered roles of "Muslim Woman" and "Muslim Man" in different Islamic societies.

AP/HUMA 3819 3.00 Outsiders Inside Religion

Examines the strategies employed by members of marginalized groups to resist and to manoeuvre within patriarchal stereotypes, norms and values from within their religious tradition. PRIOR TO FALL 2010: Course credit exclusions: AP/WMST 3518 6.00, GL/WMST 3518 6.00.

AP/HUMA 3856 3.0 Women and the Holocaust

Although the Nazi genocide targeted both men and women, writing by victims and survivors along with contemporary depictions of the Holocaust, indicates significant gender-specific differences in experience and ways of coping and remembering. Close readings and critical analyses of primary texts are emphasized.

AP/HUMA 3226 3.0 Visual Cultures and the Natural World

This course explores how visual images affect our understandings and perspectives of the natural world, through the examination of a variety of technologies and practices of visual representations of nature in different cultural and historical contexts.Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3226 6.00, AP/HUMA 4226 3.00, AP/HUMA 4226 6.00, SC/STS 3226 3.00 (as of FW18)

AP/HUMA 4307 3.0 Black Toronto Sounds

This course considers how Black peoples and Black artists shape and encounter the city of Toronto through sound. It uses the 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. Bringing Black Studies and the analytical frame […]

AP/HUMA 4515 3.0 North Korea: Culture, Literature, Film

This course explores the development of literature and films in North Korea from the late 1940s to the present. Students use various approaches to the study of literature and film to analyze literary works and films in the context of the evolving socialist culture. Emphasis is placed on the historical background and the continuity and […]

AP/HUMA 3843 3.0 Jerusalem: Sacred City, Contested City

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 […]