Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 3663 This course examines the relationship between gender, crime, and the criminal justice system. Drawing on feminist interdisciplinary scholarship, the course engages with the intersections between gender, race, class and sexuality to critically assess the ways these affect agents of criminal justice and the broader patterns of offending, victimization, and imprisonment. Particular emphasis […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 3660 Crime and Development is an interdisciplinary course that examines the interlinkages between criminality and development in the Global South. It begins with an overview of a variety of theoretical perspectives on the crime-development nexus followed by an application of these theories to understand the impact of social change on crime as well […]
Globalization has been a key force in the transformation of work and working conditions around the world. In an increasingly mobile world, this course introduces students to the key debates about globalization, the major forces transforming work, its uneven impacts around the globe and emerging strategies for workers justice.
This course examines diversity, justice and solidarity at work, including demands for equity and inclusion, trade union and human rights initiatives. Examples of Canadian and international labour market inequalities are explored, including the strategies adopted by community and labour organizations to achieve social, political and economic justice. Part one examines how class, gender, race, ethnicity, […]
Examination of the value of cross-national comparisons by considering the conduct and sources of the contemporary foreign policies of at least two countries drawn from a list including the United States, China, Japan and Russia. Particular attention is devoted to the domestic forces with shape policy formulation and implementation.
The course analyzes significant political and economic developments in India in the 20th century. It is divided into three sections: (a) the nationalist movement, (b) the political economy of India's development, and (c) social movements e.g. women, anti-caste and the environmental movements.
An examination of Africa's present crisis, identifying both the opportunities for, and the severe constraints upon, the political and economic transformation of selected African states, with emphasis varying from year to year, on Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Course credit exclusions: GL/POLS 3200 6.00.
Explores various dimensions of the global south, with emphasis on political-economy and development. It examines the similarities and differences between various local experiences in the global south and explores their contemporary dynamic in a historical context.
This course examines post-Second World War Central American politics in light of theories of revolution, including national and international political and social forces that explain the emergence and success or failure of revolutionary movements and counter-revolutionary offensives in the region.
Examines post-Second World War experiences of dictatorship and democratization in South America. Regional trends and specific countries (such as Brazil, Chile and Peru) are considered from a political economy perspective, including class relations, popular organizations and political institutions.