International Development Studies Minor Concentration (B.A.) (18 credits)
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 18
Program Description
The B.A.; Minor Concentration in International Development Studies focuses on the many challenges facing developing countries, including issues related to socio-economic inequalities and well being, governance, peace and conflict, environment and sustainability, and key development-related themes.
NOTE: At least 9 of the 18 credits must be at the 300 level or above.
Students who are pursuing a Field Studies program can have a portion of their Field Studies courses count towards their IDS program. See Adviser in office for details.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (9 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 208 | Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. | 3 |
Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. Terms offered: Summer 2025 A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory. | ||
| ECON 313 | Economic Development 1. | 3 |
Economic Development 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment. | ||
| INTD 200 | Introduction to International Development. | 3 |
Introduction to International Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations. | ||
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
Thematic
- 9 credits from the following:
African Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AFRI 200 | Introduction to African Studies. | 3 |
Introduction to African Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts. | ||
Agriculture
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AGRI 411 | Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture. | 3 |
Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture. Terms offered: Winter 2026 International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development. | ||
Agricultural Economics
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AGEC 430 | Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy. | 3 |
Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Examination of North American and international agriculture, food and resource policies, policy instruments, programs and their implications. Economic analysis applied to the principles, procedures and objectives of various policy actions affecting agriculture, and the environment. | ||
| AGEC 442 | Economics of International Agricultural Development. | 3 |
Economics of International Agricultural Development. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used. | ||
Anthropology
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 202 | Socio-Cultural Anthropology. | 3 |
Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Terms offered: Summer 2025 An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases. | ||
| ANTH 206 | Environment and Culture. | 3 |
Environment and Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources. | ||
| ANTH 207 | Ethnography Through Film. | 3 |
Ethnography Through Film. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics. | ||
| ANTH 209 | Anthropology of Religion. | 3 |
Anthropology of Religion. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements. | ||
| ANTH 212 | Anthropology of Development. | 3 |
Anthropology of Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency. | ||
| ANTH 214 | Violence, Warfare, Culture. | 3 |
Violence, Warfare, Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Cultural diversity and comparative perspectives on violence and warfare; sociological, political, materialist, psychological, and ideological explanations of conflict. Examines historical and contemporary cases of warfare in state and pre-state societies; 'ethnic', civil, nationalist secessionist and genocidal forms of conflicts; processes of conflict avoidance and resolution, peace-making and -keeping. | ||
| ANTH 222 | Legal Anthropology. | 3 |
Legal Anthropology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism. | ||
| ANTH 227 | Medical Anthropology. | 3 |
Medical Anthropology. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography. | ||
| ANTH 302 | New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. | 3 |
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies. | ||
| ANTH 304 | Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film. | 3 |
Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Uses both ethnography and film to examine 20Ih century Chinese society and popular culture in the context of the revolution and its aftermath. | ||
| ANTH 308 | Political Anthropology 01. | 3 |
Political Anthropology 01. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The study of political systems and political processes. Conflict and its resolution. The emphasis of the course will be on local-level politics and non-industrial societies. | ||
| ANTH 318 | Globalization and Religion. | 3 |
Globalization and Religion. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels. | ||
| ANTH 322 | Social Change in Modern Africa. | 3 |
Social Change in Modern Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change. | ||
| ANTH 326 | Anthropology of Latin America. | 3 |
Anthropology of Latin America. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Central themes in the anthropology of Latin America, including colonialism, religiosity, sexuality and gender, indigeneity, social movements, and transnationalism. | ||
| ANTH 327 | Anthropology of South Asia. | 3 |
Anthropology of South Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization. | ||
| ANTH 338 | Indigenous Studies of Anthropology. | 3 |
Indigenous Studies of Anthropology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology. | ||
| ANTH 339 | Ecological Anthropology. | 3 |
Ecological Anthropology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth. | ||
| ANTH 343 | Anthropology and the Animal. | 3 |
Anthropology and the Animal. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores through the ethnographic study of human-animal relations how the question of "the animal" helps us examine our central assumptions about what it means to be human. | ||
| ANTH 355 | Theories of Culture and Society. | 3 |
Theories of Culture and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism. | ||
| ANTH 418 | Environment and Development. | 3 |
Environment and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced study of the environmental crisis in developing and advanced industrial nations, with emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management and environmental change. Each year, the seminar will focus on a particular set of issues, delineated by type of resource, geographic region, or analytical problem. | ||
| ANTH 422 | Contemporary Latin American Culture and Society. | 3 |
Contemporary Latin American Culture and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Themes central to the culture and society of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, including globalization, questions of race and ethnicity, (post)modernity, social movements, constructions of gender and sexuality, and national and diasporic identities. | ||
| ANTH 436 | North American Native Peoples. | 3 |
North American Native Peoples. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A detailed examination of selected contemporary problems. | ||
| ANTH 438 | Topics in Medical Anthropology. | 3 |
Topics in Medical Anthropology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development. | ||
| ANTH 500 | Chinese Diversity and Diaspora. | 3 |
Chinese Diversity and Diaspora. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures. | ||
| ANTH 512 | Political Ecology. | 3 |
Political Ecology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources. | ||
Business Administration
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUSA 433 | Topics in International Business 1. 1 | 3 |
Topics in International Business 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current topics in the area of international business. Topics will be selected from important current issues in international business. | ||
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Canadian Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CANS 315 | Indigenous Art and Culture. | 3 |
Indigenous Art and Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the work of selected First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists in Canada. | ||
East Asian Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EAST 211 | Introduction: East Asian Culture: China. | 3 |
Introduction: East Asian Culture: China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history. | ||
| EAST 213 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| EAST 388 | Asian Migrations and Diasporas. | 3 |
Asian Migrations and Diasporas. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration. | ||
Economics
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 205 | An Introduction to Political Economy. | 3 |
An Introduction to Political Economy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A critical study of the insights to be gained through economic analysis of a number of problems of broad interest. The focus will be on the application of economics to issues of public policy. | ||
| ECON 209 | Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications. | 3 |
Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications. Terms offered: Summer 2025 A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy. | ||
| ECON 223 | Political Economy of Trade Policy. | 3 |
Political Economy of Trade Policy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy. | ||
| ECON 314 | Economic Development 2. | 3 |
Economic Development 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization. | ||
| ECON 326 | Ecological Economics. | 3 |
Ecological Economics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy. | ||
| ECON 336 | The Chinese Economy. | 3 |
The Chinese Economy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the growth and transformation of the Chinese economy and the domestic and international implications. | ||
| ECON 347 | Economics of Climate Change. | 3 |
Economics of Climate Change. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies. | ||
| ECON 411 | Economic Development: A World Area. | 3 |
Economic Development: A World Area. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries. | ||
| ECON 416 | Topics in Economic Development 2. | 3 |
Topics in Economic Development 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level. | ||
| ECON 473 | Income Distribution. | 3 |
Income Distribution. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Economics of income and wealth distribution, and the study of inequality. The dynamics of income, saving and wealth and their determinants. Macroeconomic implications. Effects of fiscal and redistributive programmes. The role of unemployment. | ||
English
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 290 | Postcolonial and World Literatures in English. | 3 |
Postcolonial and World Literatures in English. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A critical introduction to the field of postcolonial and world literature studies, drawing on a selection texts from South and East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. | ||
| ENGL 421 | African Literature. | 3 |
African Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of African literature. | ||
| ENGL 440 | First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media. | 3 |
First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film. | ||
Geography
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GEOG 216 | Geography of the World Economy. | 3 |
Geography of the World Economy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures. | ||
| GEOG 217 | Cities in the Modern World. | 3 |
Cities in the Modern World. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian. | ||
| GEOG 221 | Environment and Health. | 3 |
Environment and Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings. | ||
| GEOG 302 | Environmental Management 1. | 3 |
Environmental Management 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes. | ||
| GEOG 303 | Health Geography. | 3 |
Health Geography. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people. | ||
| GEOG 310 | Development and Livelihoods. | 3 |
Development and Livelihoods. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments. | ||
| GEOG 311 | Economic Geography. | 3 |
Economic Geography. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy. | ||
| GEOG 325 | New Master-Planned Cities. | 3 |
New Master-Planned Cities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines the origins, designs, motivations and cultural politics of planned cities, focusing primarily on those currently under construction in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A variety of themes will be explored including design responses to urban pollution and over-crowding, 'new' cities from earlier decades, totalitarianism and the city, utopianism, 'green' cities, and 'creative' cities. The course examines the various motivations underlying the design and construction of planned cities and how they are shaped by power, religion, and political ideologies. There will be a focus on evolving concepts used in city design as well as the continuities and cultural revivalism expressed through urban design and architecture. Students interested in urban and cultural geography, cities, architecture and planning in different cultural contexts will enjoy this course. | ||
| GEOG 360 | Analyzing Sustainability. | 3 |
Analyzing Sustainability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines challenges to sustainability through a series of case studies to illustrate the analytical approaches used to understand the linkages between scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural aspect of systems. Includes cases that are thematic and place-based, national and international, spanning from the local to global scales. | ||
| GEOG 403 | Global Health and Environmental Change. | 3 |
Global Health and Environmental Change. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts. | ||
| GEOG 406 | Human Dimensions of Climate Change. | 3 |
Human Dimensions of Climate Change. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will examine the human dimensions of climate change focusing on the vulnerability of human systems, climate change adaptation and mitigation, key policy debates, and current and future challenges. Case studies will be utilized to provide context and help investigate and understand key concepts, trends, and challenges. | ||
| GEOG 408 | Geography of Development. | 3 |
Geography of Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities). | ||
| GEOG 410 | Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems. | 3 |
Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the cultural, political, and economic mechanisms and manifestations of contemporary underdevelopment and the response to it from different regional and national peripheral societies within the dominant world economic system. | ||
| GEOG 425 | Southeast Asia Urban Field Studies. | 3 |
Southeast Asia Urban Field Studies. Terms offered: Summer 2025 This course allows students to experience some of the urban changes taking place in Southeast Asian cities, a dynamic region, while providing the opportunity to connect recent scholarship with field observations. We will explore various current themes in urban studies and urban geography including globalization, the transnational circulation of urban policies, interpretations of culture and heritage / new built heritage, gentrification, migrant labour, public housing, creative clusters, and new cities as national economic strategies. | ||
| GEOG 510 | Humid Tropical Environments. | 3 |
Humid Tropical Environments. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era. | ||
History
Students may count either HIST 339 or POLI 347 Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace. towards their program but not both.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 197 | FYS: Race in Latin America. | 3 |
FYS: Race in Latin America. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements. | ||
| HIST 200 | Introduction to African History. | 3 |
Introduction to African History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880. | ||
| HIST 201 | Modern African History. | 3 |
Modern African History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization. | ||
| HIST 206 | Indian Ocean World History. | 3 |
Indian Ocean World History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the “global” system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900. | ||
| HIST 208 | Introduction to East Asian History. | 3 |
Introduction to East Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history. | ||
| HIST 209 | Introduction to South Asian History. | 3 |
Introduction to South Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area. | ||
| HIST 213 | World History, 600-2000. | 3 |
World History, 600-2000. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed. | ||
| HIST 218 | Modern East Asian History. | 3 |
Modern East Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries. | ||
| HIST 223 | Indigenous Peoples and Empires. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and Empires. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800. | ||
| HIST 240 | Modern History of Islamic Movements. | 3 |
Modern History of Islamic Movements. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century. | ||
| HIST 309 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| HIST 317 | Themes in Indian Ocean World History. | 3 |
Themes in Indian Ocean World History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World. | ||
| HIST 326 | History of the Soviet Union. | 3 |
History of the Soviet Union. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev’s reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period. | ||
| HIST 328 | Themes in Modern Chinese History. | 3 |
Themes in Modern Chinese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of a theme in Modern Chinese history. | ||
| HIST 333 | Indigenous Peoples and French. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and French. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Encounters between Indigenous Peoples and French newcomers in Canada and other parts of North America, 16th - 18th century. Through an examination of exploration, Catholic missions, trade, military alliances and colonization, the course focuses on the motives, outlooks and actions of both Indigenous Peoples and Europeans. | ||
| HIST 338 | Twentieth-Century China. | 3 |
Twentieth-Century China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms. | ||
| HIST 340 | History of Modern Egypt. | 3 |
History of Modern Egypt. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. | ||
| HIST 341 | Themes in South Asian History. | 3 |
Themes in South Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia. | ||
| HIST 360 | Latin America since 1825. | 3 |
Latin America since 1825. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence. | ||
| HIST 361 | Topics in Canadian Regional History. | 3 |
Topics in Canadian Regional History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in Canadian regional history. Topics will vary by year. | ||
| HIST 363 | Canada 1870-1914. | 3 |
Canada 1870-1914. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities. | ||
| HIST 366 | Themes in Latin American History. | 3 |
Themes in Latin American History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present. | ||
| HIST 382 | History of South Africa. | 3 |
History of South Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state. | ||
| HIST 389 | Topics: African Country Survey. | 3 |
Topics: African Country Survey. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. In depth survey of a single African country (other than South Africa), including the pre-colonial history of the region, colonialism, and post-colonial economic, cultural and political history. | ||
| HIST 408 | Selected Topics in Indigenous History . | 3 |
Selected Topics in Indigenous History . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in Indigenous history. | ||
| HIST 409 | Topics in Latin American History. | 3 |
Topics in Latin American History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. In-depth discussion and research on a circumscribed topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present. | ||
| HIST 419 | Central America. | 3 |
Central America. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The study of historical roots of the regional crisis of the 1980s, with particular attention to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. | ||
| HIST 528 | Indian Ocean World Slave Trade. | 3 |
Indian Ocean World Slave Trade. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system. | ||
International Development Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INTD 350 | Culture and Development. | 3 |
Culture and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This is a general survey course intended to familiarize students with the complexities surrounding the interaction between culture and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific themes may include religion, democracy, gender, diaspora communities and the environment, using relevant case studies from the developing world. | ||
| INTD 352 | Disasters and Development . | 3 |
Disasters and Development . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines how disasters shape and are shaped by socio-economic conditions, inequalities and development processes through interdisciplinary investigation and a wide range of case studies. Analyzes disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts from the global to local levels, as well as survivors’ perspectives and experiences. | ||
| INTD 354 | Civil Society and Development . | 3 |
Civil Society and Development . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the study of civil society and development. Critically engages with both conventional socio-political views and emerging perspectives of civil society. Employs political, sociological, and anthropological perspectives to understand the multifaceted, and socio-cultural implications of civil society in both developing and developed countries. Examines civil society’s impact, capacity, and behavior through a wide range of development themes. | ||
| INTD 356 | Quantitative Methods for Development . | 3 |
Quantitative Methods for Development . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to quantitative methods for impact evaluation. Builds from fundamental concepts in statistics; introduction of an intuitive conceptual framework to think about causal effects. Simple but rigorous data analytics, design and implement randomized controlled trials, regression analysis, or implement other main methods for impact evaluation. | ||
| INTD 358 | Ethnographic Approaches to Development . | 3 |
Ethnographic Approaches to Development . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of how anthropologists have used ethnographic methods to evaluate, criticize and reform development. Drawing on ethnographies of “Big D” development, as well as small-scale grassroots initiatives, exploration of how qualitative methods have been used to strengthen development practice from within and deconstruct development ideology from without. Topics include state driven, participatory and internationally sponsored development; gender; “aidnography”; neoliberalism; markets and microcredit. | ||
| INTD 360 | Environmental Challenges in Development. | 3 |
Environmental Challenges in Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of some of the great environmental challenges of our times, and some of the ways in which the development community has tackled them. | ||
| INTD 397 | Topics in International Development. | 3 |
Topics in International Development. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Examines topics in specific problem areas in International Development Studies. Content varies every term. | ||
| INTD 398 | Topics in Conflict and Development. | 3 |
Topics in Conflict and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines topics in specific problem areas in international development studies and in areas of conflict and development. | ||
| INTD 490 | Development Research Project. | 3 |
Development Research Project. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report. | ||
| INTD 499 | Internship: International Development Studies. | 3 |
Internship: International Development Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Internship with an approved host institution or organization. | ||
Islamic Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ISLA 200 | Islamic Civilization. | 3 |
Islamic Civilization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century. | ||
| ISLA 210 | Muslim Societies. | 3 |
Muslim Societies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace. | ||
| ISLA 305 | Topics in Islamic History. | 3 |
Topics in Islamic History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva. | ||
| ISLA 310 | Women in Islam. | 0-3 |
Women in Islam. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles. | ||
| ISLA 325 | Introduction to Shi'i Islam. | 3 |
Introduction to Shi'i Islam. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates. | ||
| ISLA 330 | Islamic Mysticism: Sufism. | 3 |
Islamic Mysticism: Sufism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems. | ||
| ISLA 350 | From Tribe to Dynasty. | 3 |
From Tribe to Dynasty. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions. | ||
| ISLA 355 | Modern History of the Middle East. | 3 |
Modern History of the Middle East. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict. | ||
| ISLA 360 | Islam and Politics in Africa | 3 |
Islam and Politics in Africa Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis. | ||
| ISLA 365 | Middle East Since the 1970's. | 3 |
Middle East Since the 1970's. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology. | ||
| ISLA 370 | The Qur’an: History and Interpretation. | 3 |
The Qur’an: History and Interpretation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur’anic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur’ān. | ||
| ISLA 383 | Central Questions in Islamic Law. | 3 |
Central Questions in Islamic Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is. | ||
| ISLA 385 | Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature. | 3 |
Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English. | ||
| ISLA 388 | Persian Literature. | 3 |
Persian Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation. | ||
| ISLA 392 | Arabic Literature as World Literature. | 3 |
Arabic Literature as World Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena. | ||
| ISLA 411 | History: Middle-East 1918-1945. | 3 |
History: Middle-East 1918-1945. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region. | ||
| ISLA 415 | Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach. | 3 |
Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran. | ||
| ISLA 421 | Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent. | 3 |
Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups. | ||
| ISLA 430 | Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba . | 3 |
Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy. | ||
Latin American & Caribbean Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LACS 497 | Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean. 1 | 3 |
Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the Latin-American and Caribbean Studies Program. | ||
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Management Core
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGCR 382 | International Business. | 3 |
International Business. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises. | ||
| MGCR 360 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
Management, Organizational Behaviour
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ORGB 380 | Cross Cultural Management. | 3 |
Cross Cultural Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning. | ||
Management Policy
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGPO 435 | The Origins of Capitalism. | 3 |
The Origins of Capitalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization." | ||
| MGPO 438 | Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. | 3 |
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value. | ||
| MGPO 440 | Strategies for Sustainability. | 3 |
Strategies for Sustainability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations. | ||
| MGPO 469 | Managing Globalization. | 3 |
Managing Globalization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries. | ||
| MGPO 475 | Strategies for Developing Countries. | 3 |
Strategies for Developing Countries. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance. | ||
| MSUS 402 | Systems Thinking and Sustainability. | 3 |
Systems Thinking and Sustainability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines interconnected dynamics of organizations and social, economic, and ecological systems. Introduces systems thinking principles to foster learning, inform organizational decision-making, and solve real-world problems. Covers problem diagnosis and resolution of organizational and societal sustainability issues through causal loop diagrams, stock-and-flow mapping, group model building, computational simulations and case studies. | ||
Nutrition
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NUTR 501 | Nutrition in the Majority World. | 3 |
Nutrition in the Majority World. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition. | ||
Political Science
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| POLI 227 | Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South. | 3 |
Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization. | ||
| POLI 243 | International Politics of Economic Relations. | 3 |
International Politics of Economic Relations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations. | ||
| POLI 244 | International Politics: State Behaviour. | 3 |
International Politics: State Behaviour. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system. | ||
| POLI 319 | Politics of Latin America. | 3 |
Politics of Latin America. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today. | ||
| POLI 322 | Political Change in South Asia. | 3 |
Political Change in South Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality. | ||
| POLI 324 | Comparative Politics of Africa. | 3 |
Comparative Politics of Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism. | ||
| POLI 338 | Topics in Comparative Politics 1. | 3 |
Topics in Comparative Politics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem. | ||
| POLI 340 | Comparative Politics of the Middle East. | 3 |
Comparative Politics of the Middle East. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia). | ||
| POLI 341 | Foreign Policy: The Middle East. | 3 |
Foreign Policy: The Middle East. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. | ||
| POLI 345 | International Organizations. | 3 |
International Organizations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system. | ||
| POLI 347 | Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace. | 3 |
Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution. | ||
| POLI 349 | Foreign Policy: Asia. | 3 |
Foreign Policy: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia. | ||
| POLI 350 | Global Environmental Politics. | 3 |
Global Environmental Politics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels. | ||
| POLI 352 | International Policy/Foreign Policy: Africa. | 3 |
International Policy/Foreign Policy: Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy. | ||
| POLI 353 | Politics of the International Refugee Regime. | 3 |
Politics of the International Refugee Regime. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration. | ||
| POLI 359 | Topics in International Politics 1. | 3 |
Topics in International Politics 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A specific problem area in International Relations. | ||
| POLI 369 | Politics of Southeast Asia. | 3 |
Politics of Southeast Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics. | ||
| POLI 372 | Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development. | ||
| POLI 380 | Contemporary Chinese Politics. | 3 |
Contemporary Chinese Politics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy. | ||
| POLI 381 | Politics in Japan and South Korea. | 3 |
Politics in Japan and South Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries? | ||
| POLI 423 | Politics of Ethno-Nationalism. | 3 |
Politics of Ethno-Nationalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies. | ||
| POLI 435 | Identity and Inequality. | 3 |
Identity and Inequality. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts. | ||
| POLI 441 | International Political Economy: Trade. | 3 |
International Political Economy: Trade. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies. | ||
| POLI 442 | International Relations of Ethnic Conflict. | 3 |
International Relations of Ethnic Conflict. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases. | ||
| POLI 445 | International Political Economy: Monetary Relations. | 3 |
International Political Economy: Monetary Relations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank. | ||
| POLI 450 | Peacebuilding. | 3 |
Peacebuilding. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction. | ||
| POLI 474 | Inequality and Development. | 3 |
Inequality and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the world; the historical roots of inequality in different regions, varying manifestations of inequality (class, region, ethnicity, gender), and selected contemporary problems. | ||
| POLI 476 | Religion and Politics. | 3 |
Religion and Politics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development. | ||
Religious Studies
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| RELG 253 | Religions of East Asia. | 3 |
Religions of East Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice. | ||
| RELG 309 | World Religions and Cultures They Create.. | 3 |
World Religions and Cultures They Create.. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures. | ||
| RELG 331 | Religion and Globalization. | 3 |
Religion and Globalization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict | ||
| RELG 370 | Religion and Human Rights. | 3 |
Religion and Human Rights. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Social justice and human rights issues as key aspects of modem religious ethics. Topics include: the relationship of religion to the modem human rights movement; religious perspectives on the universality of human rights; the scope and limits of religious freedom; conflicts between religion and rights. | ||
| RELG 371 | Ethics of Violence/Non-Violence. | 3 |
Ethics of Violence/Non-Violence. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Forms of violence and the reaction of religious groups are assessed both for their effectiveness and for their fidelity to their professed beliefs. Different traditions, ranging from the wholesale adoption of violent methods (e.g., the Crusades) to repudiation (e.g., Gandhi; the Peace Churches). | ||
| RELG 375 | Religion, Politics and Society. | 3 |
Religion, Politics and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions. | ||
Sociology
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| SOCI 212 | International Migration. | 3 |
International Migration. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to social science research on international migration. Covers theories about why people migrate, constraints to migration, and various aspects of immigrant integration. Will explore key theoretical debates of the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge. | ||
| SOCI 234 | Population and Society. | 3 |
Population and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world. | ||
| SOCI 254 | Development and Underdevelopment. | 3 |
Development and Underdevelopment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology. | ||
| SOCI 265 | War, States and Social Change. | 3 |
War, States and Social Change. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The impact of war on society in agrarian and industrial epochs. Particular attention is given to the relationship between war and economic development, social classes, nationalism, and democratization. | ||
| SOCI 307 | Globalization. | 3 |
Globalization. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility. | ||
| SOCI 309 | Health and Illness. | 3 |
Health and Illness. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization. | ||
| SOCI 365 | Health and Development. | 3 |
Health and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic. | ||
| SOCI 370 | Sociology: Gender and Development. | 3 |
Sociology: Gender and Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used. | ||
| SOCI 400 | Comparative Migration and Citizenship. | 3 |
Comparative Migration and Citizenship. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced course on international migration, belonging and diversity in contemporary societies. Will examine dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, the accommodation of cultural diversity, the adaptation of immigrants and how global international migration challenges and re-shapes citizenship. Will cover key theoretical debates in the field and the data and case studies on which these debates hinge. | ||
| SOCI 446 | Colonialism and Society. | 3 |
Colonialism and Society. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s. | ||
| SOCI 513 | Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa. | 3 |
Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa. | ||
| SOCI 519 | Gender and Globalization. | 3 |
Gender and Globalization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms. | ||
| SOCI 520 | Migration and Immigrant Groups. | 3 |
Migration and Immigrant Groups. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups. | ||
| SOCI 550 | Developing Societies. | 3 |
Developing Societies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion. | ||
| SOCI 555 | Comparative Historical Sociology. | 3 |
Comparative Historical Sociology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The analysis of patterns of state and nation-building in historical and comparative perspectives with particular attention being given to methodology. | ||
Social Work
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| SWRK 400 | Policy and Practice for Refugees. | 3 |
Policy and Practice for Refugees. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Refugee-generating conflicts, international and national responses are considered. Canadian policy, history and response to refugees are analyzed. Theory-grounded practice with refugees is examined, including community organizing and direct service delivery to individuals and families. | ||