This course analyzes economic, social, cultural and political aspects of gender formation in a comparative context and in Canada. Emphasis is on the different ways in which femininity and masculinity are constituted in interaction with race, class and other factors.
Crosslisted: AP/MIST 3680, AP/SOCI 3680, AP/REI 3680 Offers a sociological critique of race and racism by examining both the concept and practices in terms of social organization, discourse and history. Biogenetic and cultural racism are investigated in terms of knowledge frameworks involving gender and class.
This foundation course deals with the problem of social order, how social organization is possible, and its various forms. Special attention is given to formal organizations and institutions, as well as to the role of ideology, media and education. Crosslisted: AK/POLS/SOCI 3570, AS/SOCI 2070
Students earn course credit by working on a project for an outside organization involved in urban development or administration. Details of each student's responsibilities are worked out in consultations among the student, the project supervisor and the Instructor.
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4664 The course explores the politics of contemporary Canadian policing in the context of the history of modern governance. It explores the police role in society and interrogates policing in terms of fairness, inequality, discrimination and social justice. It further explores the relationship between policing, media, law, politics and social order, emphasizing the […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4665 This course examines the global approaches to the detection, investigation, and enforcement of a broad variety of internet crimes and technology-related crimes with a particular focus on the efforts of non-state actors. It considers technology both as a target and tool of regulation. Among the topics considered are the transnational regulation of […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4663 The course introduces students to victimology, the diverse theoretical approaches in the field, and the politics of the victim label, from a critical perspective. Topics include victim precipitation theories and victim-blaming; contemporary, critical and radical perspectives in victimology; victims’ rights movements; and existing programs and rights instruments for victims in Canada. Victimology […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4662 This seminar course takes an intersectional, critical, and practical approach to Canadian criminal justice policy through theoretical engagement, discursive and practical policy analysis in a highly participatory seminar format. Topics considered include the relationship between criminal and regulatory tools, their enforcement, and social norms; the effects of criminal justice policy on diverse […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4661 This course examines theory, practice and research on surveillance from a criminological perspective. It places particular emphasis on the role of surveillance in crime control and law enforcement as well as on the history of surveillance and current forms of surveillance. The human rights implications of surveillance are also examined in relation […]
Crosslisted: AP/CRIM 4660 What does the criminalization of dissent tell us about the social, political and economic relations of the Canadian state in the context of neoliberalism and interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and racism? This seminar interrogates the politics of criminalization processes through a focus on the relationship between the state and political […]