A study of the sources, contexts, expressions, and inter-relationships of the idea of 'Frontiers' in 'The West'. Social, literary, philosophical, and religious works and their interactions with the arts (painting, sculpture, music, architecture, film, and popular culture) are examined from a variety of critical perspectives. What transformations occur when one cultural reproduction influences other mediums? […]
Examines the development of Confucianism in historical, philosophical and socio-political contexts across China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam with particular attention paid to the tradition's implications for both East Asian modernity and global culture. Note: Internet access is required.
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 […]
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.
Investigates how children and youth use digital technologies and new media both as "extensions" of individual identities and facilitators of "youth culture." Texting, sexting, tweeting, learning, playing, protesting, creating-how are youth making meaning of the world through digital youth cultures? What are children and youth doing in a digital world and what are the implications […]
Explores the human condition of childhood as portrayed and experienced in Canadian culture over time.
The Interdisciplinary Capstone Project allows upper-year undergraduate students in LA&PS to work in multi-disciplinary teams with students from across the university on pressing, 'real-world¿ challenges posed by organizations operating in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Teams research, design, test and reflect on potential solutions to their challenge that build on existing skills and knowledge acquired […]
Analyzes representations of children's and youths' alterity in picture books, graphic novels, novels, life writing, documentary and fiction films, photographs, art, advertising, and non-fiction for children and adults. Alterity refers to the "Other," marginalized through gender, sexuality, race, class, physical and mental (dis)abilities, religion, nation, and the difference between being human and being animal, cyborg, […]
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. Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 3523 3.00, AP/CLTR 3523 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2013: Course […]