This course is an undergraduate seminar that engages with the most recent debates about the political economy of energy and its impacts on the environment, focusing especially on climate change. The course discusses the global energy market dominated by hydrocarbons and its alternatives, amid the pressures of climate change and global political transformations. Pre-requisite: SOSC […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3663 This course critically examines the global private security industry, including its historical origins, influence on the development of public policing agencies, and contemporary manifestations. These manifestations include private prisons, private military firms, front-line security companies, and private intelligence agencies. To explore Global North/Global South dynamics of private-security provision, the course examines private […]
This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore and understand the relationship between transitional justice (TJ) and development in countries emerging from armed conflict and authoritarian rule in the Global South. The course focuses on the relevance of TJ principles and interventions for addressing mass atrocity crimes and underdevelopment at the conceptual, structural, and practical […]
Criminology remains a Global North-centric academic discipline. The purpose of this course is to highlight Global South as key geographies of criminological knowledge production. This course examines issues of crime, crime control and related matters of violence, surveillance, authoritarianism in Global South contexts by advancing a Southern criminological perspective. Prerequisite: SOSC/CRIM 1650, with a grade […]
Building on critiques of the cruelty and inefficacy of the adversarial Western approach to criminal justice prevalent in critical criminological scholarship, this course examines interdisciplinary arguments for abandoning it – namely, through penal abolition, the dismantling of police, prisons, and related institutions that endeavour to address crime and deviance through punishment, stigmatization and segregation. Prerequisite: […]
Visual criminology suggests that crime and its control cannot be understood separately from their representation. This course explores the role of images and imaging technology in crime and punishment, as well as the complex ways in which crime, criminality, and its control are visualized, constructed and framed through various forms of visual technologies, materials, and […]
This course incorporates a critical human rights approach and examines how human rights is defined by different schools of law and its implementation by Islamic governments. It explores the state of human rights in Muslim-majority countries and debates amongst Muslim minorities in liberal democracies over the compatibility of human rights claims with Islamic principles. Course credit […]
Cities face many challenges, but climate change presents some of the most urgent demands on governance, policy, and planning cities have ever experienced. Social inequalities are heightened in crises and are often determinative of success or failure in survival. This course examines the concept of resilience, asking how cities can pursue resilience in a context […]
This course focuses on the business and management implications of environmental change in both the Global South and Global North. Concepts and tools covered in the course identify and measure impacts of production and other economic activities such as ecological degradation, resource depletion, adverse effects on human health, and other externalities. Pre-requisite: AP/SOSC1340 9.00
An examination of the changing relationship between biomedical research and technologies, medical practice, and social structures since 1800. Topics may include: risk and medical screening, public health, medical specialization, tropical medicine, immunology, microbiology, psychiatric illness and psychopharmacology. Course credit exclusions: SC/STS 3780 6.00 (prior to Winter 2014), AK/STS 3780 6.00.