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 […]
Explores how the creative arts, including poetry, fiction, drama, film and the visual arts, take up issues related to human rights.
Explores contemporary craft traditions and innovations in their social, political and artistic contexts. Theoretically, the course will draw from such areas as craft theory, cultural studies, popular culture, critical theory, craft culture and the history of technology.
An exploration of how a unique Canadian sensibility manifests itself in contemporary cultural forms. Students are encouraged to attend contemporary plays, movies , readings, art shows and concerts to supplement reading materials.
Surveys historical and contemporary approaches to the texts and contexts of fiction, film, television, music, folklore and fashion. Themes include the industrialization of culture; changing definitions of the popular; genre and gender; the politics of style; nature and other utopias.
Examines individual and collective expression within the context of popular and consumer culture, including such areas as music, activism, the Web, fashion, subcultures, shopping, car culture, fan clubs, zines, TV and film.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some of the most distinctive literary and cinematic approaches to collective and individual memory and its representation in pre- and postwar Europe.
Examines the radical impulse as it shapes and is shaped by progressive cultural movements. Using examples from fine art, literature, film, music, and other artistic forms and drawing on history, cultural theory and socio-political thought, the course explores the tension between radical aesthetics and radical politics, investigating cultural praxis as it is moved by the […]
Explores how history has been depicted through popular culture in cinema and other electronic media. Focuses on WWII and its aftermath when filmmakers began to rethink the function of cinematic representation and its political and cultural relationship to the contemporary world.
This experiential course engages students in the study of a diverse spectrum of interdisciplinary performance theories and practices from Aristotle to Judith Butler. At the heart of this course is the requirement that students study performativity and attend live performance events through which they interpret their developing knowledge of the field.