This course focuses on issues, skills and approaches to develop a critical attitude to forms of knowledge and underlie any cultural production. The course also emphasizes strategies for reading, writing, research and analysis, as ell as situating knowledge in historical and political contexts. It pays special attention to the four streams of Power, Diaspora and […]
Students discover how local cultural production is fostered, disseminated, and in some cases restricted in and by the communities they serve. Building on cultural theories and concepts of public pedagogy, students work in small groups with partner organizations to engage in a choice of research or community focused experiential learning activities to be used for […]
This course introduces students to the theoretical study of culture, offering tools for understanding, questioning, and analyzing the social, historical, and political contexts of the media we experience on a day-to-day basis. It covers and develops the four streams of the Humanities Major: Power, Diaspora, and Race; Arts, Material, and Popular cultures; Digital, Technological, and […]
This course provides an introduction to the methods and theories used throughout the Humanities core major, covering its four streams; Power, Diaspora, and Race; Arts, Material, and Popular Cultures; Digital, Technological, and Natural Worlds; Texts, Contexts, Interpretations. (All Humanities Majors will be required to take this core course. This is not a general education course)
This course places the development of novels, tales, folk operas and other narratives focusing on the family within the context of changing cultural patterns in modern Korea.
This course provides students with practical experience analyzing issues through the lens of Black Canadian Studies with placement in the offices of elected officials. Prerequisites: 21 credits of courses in the Black Canadian Studies Certificate with a B+ average in those courses Open to: Students completing the Black Canadian Studies Certificate
'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 and affective modes of perception-ways of knowing, perceiving, and sensing- to read through the eyes of the main characters, predominantly […]
This course introduces students to aspects of the traditional cultures of Africa. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, the course examines the particular features of verbal art as performance and the social functions it serves in everyday social contexts.
Analyzes the history and theories of Canada from the perspectives of indigenous knowledge and environment. Previously offered as AP/MIST 3535 3.00
Explores the interactions of religion and gender from the traditional to the modern period in Korea, and relates this material to the general process of cultural development.