This experiential course examines the history and development of musical theatre on stage and in film. Its study crosses the disciplines of theatre, film, dance, and popular culture in an endeavour to understand the historical and contemporary associations between human beings, cultural production, and reproduction in musical performances.
This course will begin with an exploration of the theory and practice of piracy. It will analyze the mythology of piracy, and consider this mythology in the context of historical and social realities of piracy. The course will examine what drove men and women to engage in piracy, how piracy is defined and its various […]
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 […]
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.
Examines the representation and the construction of the gendered roles of "Muslim Woman" and "Muslim Man" in different Islamic societies.
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, […]
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.
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.
Studies of the poetry, prose and non-fiction of Dionne Brand.
Canadian Native writers of the 19th and 20th centuries have defined themselves and their world through unique representations of their own life stories. The course explores the contexts and interpretations of "identity", "history", "literature", "tradition", and integrating different world views.