Explores the history and literature of the Metis and Louis Riel in their homelands and in their communities in North America since the 17th century. Topics will include Metis identities, family histories, communities, resistance movements, land and treaty rights.
By focusing on influential post-colonial theorists, this course examines 20th century attempts to rethink the Western humanistic tradition from the point of view of colonized and formerly colonized peoples.
This course introduces students to literature produced by black women writers in the Caribbean, Canada and the United States after the 1970s.
This course examines aesthetic and expressive aspects of Caribbean folk culture and explores how and why West Indian novelists, dramatists and poets have used this culture in their literary works.
Examines the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" through study of some of the various interpretive strategies, both ancient and modern, which have been applied to these texts.
Examines the strategies employed by members of marginalized groups to resist and to manoeuvre within patriarchal stereotypes, norms and values from within their religious tradition. PRIOR TO FALL 2010: Course credit exclusions: AP/WMST 3518 6.00, GL/WMST 3518 6.00.
An overview of Sikhism, major texts of Sikh tradition, and the rich array of poetics, musical thought and languages involved. It exposes students to the Sikh geographical imagination which emerges in sacred texts, place and institutional development, and embodied practices. Students will also gain insights into the religious and cultural circulations between Punjab, South Asia, […]
Although the Nazi genocide targeted both men and women, writing by victims and survivors along with contemporary depictions of the Holocaust, indicates significant gender-specific differences in experience and ways of coping and remembering. Close readings and critical analyses of primary texts are emphasized.
This course examines contemporary manifestations of antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada. To provide historical context it explores the antecedents of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim thought in the medieval and early modern periods. The course is interdisciplinary in nature drawing on both Humanities (primary texts, films, literature) as well as social science approaches. It begins by providing […]
This course examines the role and representation of the religious on television. It introduces students to the vocabularies of Religious Studies and Media Studies, and critically explores the relationship between religion and television as aspects of contemporary popular culture. Distinguishing various television genres from kinds of cinema, the course analyzes the ways in which daily […]