
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.
Course Code | Description |
---|---|
CSID-5000Y
Offered:
|
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:
|
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:
|
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:
|
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-5202H
Offered:
|
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: CAST-6102H, ENGL-5306H |
CSID-5301H
Offered:
|
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:
|
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:
|
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-5990H
Offered:
|
Directed Study
A written justification, course outline and approval of the Graduate Program Director are required to take the course. |