AP HUMA 3801 6.00 Thinking Religion in South Asia

Explores the teachings of selected religious traditions of South Asian and examines the category of religion as it is applied to South Asia in the context of oriental discourses.

AP HUMA 3439 3.00 How the Irish Saved Western Civilization

Examines the remarkable cultural achievements of the Irish, how they kept the lamps of learning, literature and material culture (manuscript, painting, ornamental metalwork) burning following the barbarian invasions of the fifth century and the decline of Roman civilization on the continent.

AP HUMA 3435 3.00 Augustine

A study of the life and seminal ideas of Augustine of Hippo. Setting his ideas in the context of his life story, the course explores his teaching on such themes as religion, education, philosophy, grade and free will, sexuality and politics.

AP HUMA 4651 3.00 Specialized Studies in Religion

Examines a specific set of works, author, time period or issue pertaining to religious studies. Depending upon the expertise of the instructor, the focus may be on biblical studies, related ancient literature or contemporary works from one or more religions.

AP HUMA 4308 6.00 Black Life Writing Matters

This course assembles a selection of late twentieth- and early twenty-first century life writing by Black thinkers across boundaries of form and geography. In addition to traditional forms of autobiographies and memoirs, we read poems, letters, and essays as modes of worldly articulation of the self, family, and community.

AP HUMA 3973 3.00/6.00 Science and Victorian Intellectual Life

This course examines British debates on science and its application to pressing moral and social problems through a reading of the scientific literature on materialism, the mind, and the economy during the Victorian era.

AP HUMA 3858 3.00 Cult and Culture in Ancient Canaan: A Survey of "Biblical" Archeology

This course surveys the material culture of the land known variously as Canaan, Israel, Judah, Judea, Palestine, and the Holy Land, from the Neolithic or "New Stone" Age (as of ca. 8500 BCE) until the Persian Period (539-330 BCE).

AP HUMA 3688 3.00 Holocaust Literature of Children and Youth

"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 andaffective modes of perception-ways of knowing, perceiving, and sensing- to read through the eyes of the main characters, predominantly children and […]

AP HUMA 3664 3.00 The Oral Tradition in Caribbean Culture

This course introduces students to traditional oral cultures of the African-Caribbean diaspora. Adapting an ethnographic approach, the course focuses on the culture's African origins, its evolution in the Caribbean nations, and its subsequent transplantation to urban contexts such as Toronto.

AP HUMA 3685 6.00 Canadian Children's Literature and Culture

This course surveys and analyzes Canadian children's literature historically in relation to the national culture and the sub-cultures of authors and illustrators, as well as with respect to the nature and significance of the children's culture that received it.