Feminist filmmakers deploy film as a provocative cultural form to explore women's complex social and cultural locations and issues. This course explores theoretical and practical points of contact between feminism and film to encourage new readings of the intricate subject women. Course Credit Exclusion: AP/CLTR 3523 6.0, AP HUMA 3523 6.0 AP/GL WMST 3523 6.00
This course foregrounds women's voices/stories and examines a wide range of feminist approaches to religion, including feminists who identify as practitioners of a tradition as well as those who do not. The main thread spinning through source materials is the power of women's voices/stories to bring women together to strengthen themselves and their communities, and […]
This course centres "the nowhere of the ghetto and the nowhere of utopia" (Hartman, xiii) to understand the social, historical and political contexts of the wayward practices of Black Women. It uses key issues and debates in contemporary Black Feminist Thought to grapple with the conundrum of social dispossession that around the way Black women […]
This course examines the burgeoning corpus of Black Canadian film to consider the ways in which Black cinematic culture in Canada has developed in the last 40 years and continues to develop today. It addresses a range of genres, including dramatic feature films, documentaries, short and experimental films. Guest speakers including Black Canadian authors will […]
This course explores how visual images affect our understandings and perspectives of the natural world, through the examination of a variety of technologies and practices of visual representations of nature in different cultural and historical contexts.Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3226 6.00, AP/HUMA 4226 3.00, AP/HUMA 4226 6.00, SC/STS 3226 3.00 (as of FW18)
This fourth-year seminar will examine representations of blackness in textual and visual work from the mid-1980s onward. Central to this course is the problematization of the very terms of representation and the visual. We will work to understand how representation works and what is at stake in the repetition of certain visual tropes and refusals […]
This course considers how Black peoples and Black artists shape and encounter the city of Toronto through sound. It uses the analytical frameworks and key areas of concern in Black Studies and Sound Studies to understand the social, historical and political contexts of listening as a critical practice. Bringing Black Studies and the analytical frame […]
Borrowing its title from Austin Clarke's famous novel, this course examines Toronto, Canada and London, UK as important "meeting points" for various Black diasporic communities since the mid-20th century. It considers how cross-cultural movements and exchanges are represented in various creative works, such as novels, short stories, poetry, memoir, film, and multimedia art. Guest speakers […]
This course will trace the epistolary form in ancient Greek literature, exploring issues including: reading, writing, and literacy; rhetoric and education; literary criticism; the relationship between "real" and literary letters; fiction, fakes, and forgeries in antiquity; the ancient novel; sex and eroticism in Greek literature; friendship in Greek culture; public and private; and social status […]
How do three-dimensional objects or artefacts - that is, matter that has been crafted or worked on by humans - embody, transmit and transform intangible aspects of culture, such as values, knowledge, or history? Over the term, students will develop intensive case studies of an object of their choice. They will gain experience with the […]