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Graduate Course Listing

Please visit the Academic Timetable to see which courses are presently being offered and in which location(s). Not all courses listed below run every term or in all locations. For specific details about program requirements and degree regulations, please refer to the Academic Calendar.

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500 level courses (13)
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CSID-5000Y

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Core Colloquium

This required course is intended to introduce students to a fundamental principle which underlies the Frost Centre MA: that all students critically engage with the fields of Indigenous Studies and Canadian Studies. It will also create a context for developing of the thesis/MRP proposal for MA students and build a strong scholarly and collegial community among MA students.

CSID-5002H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Research Methods

This course will cover two related themes: an overview of the theory and practice of selected research methodologies; and the ethical considerations of research within Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies and Sustainability Studies.

Cross-listed: SUST-5002H

CSID-5101H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Graduate Seminar in Indigenous Studies

Indigenous scholars have become an important aspect of the intellectual landscape in Native Studies and a few other disciplines. Over the last few decades, Indigenous scholarly writing has emerged in a number of fields: politics, social theory, philosophy, history. This required course examines this emerging literature.

Cross-listed: INDG-6603H

CSID-5171H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Indigenous Settler Relations

This course explores the evolution of Indigenous settler relations in Canada, tracing how they are shaped by economic, social, cultural, religious, political and military factors, and how they differ across regions and First Nations. Themes include comparative imperial policies; treaties, land and space; law and Aboriginal-settler relations; education; religion; the state and policy development; political organization and resistance; gender, familial and sexual relations.

Cross-listed: CAST-6171H, HIST-5171H, SUST-5171H

CSID-5200H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Sustainable Rural Communities

A critical perspective on rural community sustainability in Western developed economies. Traces the evolving interdisciplinary conceptualizations of 'rurality', 'community' and 'sustainability', and their role in understanding how rural people, places and systems respond to Socio-economic and environmental change. Emphasizes how sustainability is manifest in rural and small town Canada.

Cross-listed: SUST-5200H

CSID-5202H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Culture, Heritage & the Arts

This course will critically explore selected theoretical, empirical, and creative constructions, contestations and celebrations of Canadian culture(s). Course content ranges from the national to the local, examining cultural communities and identities, intellectual traditions, cultural policies, museums and galleries, and cultural expression in film, theatre and literature.

Cross-listed: ENGL-5306H, CAST-6102H

CSID-5210H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Perspectives on the Canadian North

This course explores historical and contemporary perspectives on the Canadian North, focusing on aspects of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples experience and frame the region. It critically examines how environmental, economic, social, cultural, political, legal, and military factors have (re)shaped the region. Themes include Indigenous and Euro-Canadian concepts of North; the frontier/homeland dichotomy; legal systems; sovereignty and security issues; colonialism and state control; land claims and co-management; climate change; and Canada's Northern strategies.

Cross-listed: CAST-6210H, SUST-5210H

CSID-5301H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Policy, Economy & the State

This course explores the political economy tradition in Canada, and specifically the complex relationship between the state, economy, society, politics, and culture. The course content will provide essential grounding in the approaches, methods, and themes that have been critical to the ongoing development of this Canadian tradition.

Cross-listed: CAST-6301H, HIST-5301H

CSID-5401H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Environment & Place

This course explores human-environmental relationships from a variety of perspectives using both academic and public policy debates as source material. Selected topics will draw from historical and political ecology, environmental protection and activism, heritage law, land tenure and land rights, tourism, public parks, and notions of wilderness in Canadian identities.

Cross-listed: CAST-6201H, SUST-5401H, CUST-5512H

CSID-5501H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Identities & Social Movements

This course directly addresses a wave of identity politics and its controversial place even within seemingly identity-based movements. Readings on gender, queer theory and politics, disability, aging, and race will come from sociology and political science as well as cultural, literary and film studies.

Cross-listed: CAST-6401H, ENGL-5501H

CSID-5701H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Feminist, Gender & Women's Studies

This course explores the scholarly interpretations, debates, and theories that have shaped our understanding of women and gender in the Canadian and North American context. The historical and social construction of gender identity, culture, and sexualities are explored, and topics such as work, reproduction, 'race,' colonialism, political engagement and social movements.

Cross-listed: CAST-6501H, HIST-5105H, SUST-5701H, CUST-5503H, GWST-5000H

CSID-5800Y

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Major Research Paper

CSID-5990H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Directed Study

A written justification, course outline and approval of the Graduate Program Director are required to take the course.

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