Stream: Power, Diaspora, Race

AP/HUMA 3314 6.00 Black Literatures and Cultures in Canada

This course examines the wide range of lives, experiences and histories of Black peoples in Canada by focusing on expressive cultures. The approach is broadly interdisciplinary and we will study a range of Black Canadian literature (novels, poetry, plays) as well as other forms of cultural production such as film, musics, and visual art. Through […]

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 4656 6.00 Women in Islam

Examines the status, roles, and rights of Muslim women in the Quran, the Prophetic traditions, and the diverse Islamic laws. It explores the development of different schools of laws in diverse societies and examines the changes regarding Muslim women's identity.

AP HUMA 3688 3.00 Holocaust Literature of Children and Youth

"This was the ghetto: where children grew down instead of up" (Spinelli, Milkweed, 2003, 153).This course analyzes themes and art relevant to children and youth in adolescents' and children's Holocaust literature. Participants apply cognitive andaffective modes of perception-ways of knowing, perceiving, and sensing- to read through the eyes of the main characters, predominantly children and […]

AP HUMA 3661 6.00 Studies in African American Art and Theatre

Explores how certain African American visual artist and dramatists interpret historical experience. Raises theoretical questions of representation, visualization, intertexuality, interdisciplinarity, and politics and the aesthetics of portrayal, focusing on the work of Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, August Wilson, Adrienne Kennedy.

AP HUMA 3660 6.00 African-Canadian Voices

Examines the diversity of African-Canadian artistic production, literature in particular, but also film and visual art, seeking to develop theoretical and critical frameworks in which to situate contemporary work within Canadian, as well as the African Diasporic discourse.

AP HUMA 4750 3.00 Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Life

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 […]

AP HUMA 3815 6.00 Aspects of Islamic Thought

Introduces students to some of the major aspects of classical Islamic thought. Based on primary sources, the course explores the writings of leading figures in Islamic theology, jurisprudence, Qur'anic exegesis, mysticism and philosophy.

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 3662 3.00 Ecocritical Approaches to Black Literature and Film

This course applies concepts of ecocriticism to cultural production, literature and film, of Africa and its Diaspora. The course will examine and highlight the role of land and landscape in the literary compositions of the selected writers and filmmakers, and how their works are informed by ecocritical tenets such as naturecultures, animals and animal activism, […]