Undergraduate Course Listing

An introduction to the conflicts, contexts, and challenges of Canada and what it means to be Canadian. Exploring social, political, and cultural upheavals to the land itself, topics may include colonization and conquest, identity, regional conflict, representations from Riel to hockey, immigration, and art. Excludes CAST 1000Y.

What is our image of Canada and what is its reality? This course compares the often conflicting images of Canada and traces their roots to the nation's political and economic history. Topics may include a history of Canadian prosperity, democracy, the rule of law, and social and political accommodation. Excludes CAST 1000Y.

An examination of selected Quebecois and French Canadian works and excerpts to provide training in textual analysis and writing of critical essays. Introduction to Quebec and French Canadian culture. Review of French grammar that focuses on challenges specific to Canadian speakers. Prerequisite: FREN 1101H or permission of instructor. Excludes FREN 1100Y.

Cross-listed: FREN-1102H

Invites students to explore contemporary Canadian social, cultural, and ecological issues through the lens of hockey.

Examines the nature of Indigenous relationships with Canada and the impact those relationships have had upon Indigenous peoples and communities. The course engages with different understandings of self-government and sovereignty. Prerequisite: 0.5 INDG, CAST, or POST credit. Excludes INDG-POST 2000Y.

Cross-listed: INDG-2001H, POST-2001H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

Examines the nature of Indigenous resurgence and contemporary struggles within the state. By understanding the different ways in which Indigenous peoples are reclaiming and revisioning their current relationships, students become aware of the impact Indigenous resurgence is having on Indigenous communities. Prerequisite: 0.5 INDG, CAST, or POST credit. Excludes INDG-POST 2000Y.

Cross-listed: INDG-2002H, POST-2002H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

Explores the Black Canadian experience from the first recorded moment that a Black body arrived in Canada to the present. Discussion moves the conversation from victimhood to the vitality inherent in the Black experience particularly as represented by activities and contributions made by Black communities to cultural diversity. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: POST-2003H, SOCI-2003H

Provides a systematic introduction to the core institutions and processes of Canadian government such as the Canadian constitution, Parliament, the civil service, the electoral system, policy-making, political parties, interest groups, and social movements. Examines how well these institutions and processes function to promote democratic governance. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of instructor. Excludes POST-CAST 2010Y.

Cross-listed: POST-2011H

Provides a systematic introduction to Canadian democracy, examining political relationships between citizens and state, and in turn, relating these to broader patterns and politics for democratic change in Canadian society. Examines the demands for democratic change made by key groups and the politics of those demands. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of instructor. Excludes POST-CAST 2010Y.

Cross-listed: POST-2012H

Provides an introductory survey of French colonialism in North America, from the first French incursions on the continent to the cession of its colonies to Britain in 1763. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3020Y.

Cross-listed: HIST-2021H

An interdisciplinary enquiry into the function and idea of the land in Canadian traditions. Themes may include Aboriginal rights, settlement, sources of land law, post-colonialism, regionalism, urban/rural conflict over natural resource extraction and waste disposal, sustainability, environmental racism, energy, climate change, and representations of land and landscape in literature and the visual arts. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Students may take only one of CAST-ERST-GEOG-INDG 2040Y or 2041H for credit.

Cross-listed: ERST-2041H, GEOG-2041H, INDG-2041H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

In an age of economic dysfunction, social injustice, climate change, and myriad other impasses, this course investigates modes of knowing 'the land' in Canadian society that includes understandings that balance the pragmatic, objective, rational, and technological in relation to contemplative, creative, and emotional facets of human being. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-ERST-GEOG-INDG 2040Y.

Cross-listed: ERST-2042H, GEOG-2042H, INDG-2042H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

Explores the relationship between Canadian law and society. Provides a foundation for understanding how the Canadian legal system is structured, how it works, and what role it plays in domestic and international relations. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Seeks to destabilize conventional narratives of pre-twentieth-century Canadian history, which tend to present the region's history as characterized by peaceful accommodation and "progress." Instead, it looks at how violence was deeply ingrained in the colonial project of what would become Canada, and profoundly influenced social, political, racialized, class-based, and gender relations. Prerequisite: 3.0 univeristy credits.

Cross-listed: HIST-2211H

A study of Ontario as a political, economic, and cultural region. Topics may include provincial political culture and state formation; writers and artists; farms, factories, and cities; education policy; First Nations; the provincial north; Ontario in the Great Depression; Ontario and Canada. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: HIST-2215H, POST-2215H

Explores transformations in Ontario politics, culture, and social and economic life from the Second World War to the present. Themes may include immigration, human rights, Toronto's growth, the Ontario north, economic restructuring from the Autopact to NAFTA, health, education and social policy, and the impact of the common sense revolution. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: HIST-2225H, POST-2225H

The origins and history of the rebellions of 1837 and 1838 in Upper and Lower Canada and the fight over democracy and responsible government in British North America in the 1840s. Course operates in conjunction with Season One of the audio podcast series 1867 & All That and students learn to create and edit podcast episodes in a flipped classroom with an intensive writing focus. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the instructor. Excludes CAST-HIST 2235H.

Cross-listed: HIST-2236H

Examines the political origins of Canada in the midst of religious and ethnic violence in the 1850s and 1860s. Instead of a regular essay, students create an audio podcast episode as the major course assignment. Course operates in conjunction with Season Two of the audio podcast series 1867 & All That. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Not open to students with credit for CAST-HIST 2235H.

A study of Indigenous involvement in the fur trade and imperial politics of the eighteenth century, the development of European "civilizing" policies, and the growth and ideology of the modern Indigenous political movement. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits, including 1.0 CAST or HIST or INDG credit at the 1000 level with a minimum of 60%. Students may take only one of CAST-HIST-INDG 2255Y or 2256H for credit.

Cross-listed: HIST-2256H, INDG-2256H

Was Louis Riel a traitor who deserved to be executed? Did diplomat Herbert Norman kill himself because of American accusations that he was a Communist? Was the bombing of Air India Flight 182 "Canada's 9/11"? This course uses such episodes to explore political, social, economic, and cultural changes in Canada. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 2350Y. Students may take only one of HIST-CAST 2360Y or 2361H for credit.

Cross-listed: HIST-2360Y

A survey of the development of a culture from la Nouvelle-France to present-day Quebec and French Canada. Prerequisite: FREN 1100Y or 1102H or permission of instructor. Excludes FREN 2450Y.

Cross-listed: FREN-2452H

Canadian natural resource management is examined with attention to the context within which management occurs, and the requirement to address different interests, understandings, and issues. Prerequisite: ERSC 1010H and 1020H (or 1000Y).

Cross-listed: ERST-2520H

The context of market theory and ecological/resource economics is used to provide environmental students with experience in critical thinking. Objectives are to understand the framework of political economy, particularly Canadian, that informs contemporary political and economic practice, and to master basic elements of critical research and writing. Prerequisite: ERSC 1010H and 1020H (or 1000Y); or 1.0 PHIL credit; or POST 1001H and 1002H (or 1000Y).

Cross-listed: ERST-2525H

Explores attempts to document "real" aspects of Canadian life in order to question how we think we know about Canada. We discuss the genres of documentary film, poetry, and prose, the questions of power they raise, and the forms of creativity they generate. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-WMST 2000Y, ENGL 3550Y, CAST 2600Y.

Cross-listed: MDST-2601H, GESO-2601H

Cities are dynamic and contradictory spaces. Focusing on the lived spaces of the city, the course explores the ideologies, practices, and geographical processes shaping the transformation of cities. Special attention is made to integrate urban theory with the everyday uses of urban space. Prerequisite: GEOG 1030H, ERSC 1010H, SOCI 1002H, or both ECON 1010H and 1020H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-2710H

An overview of the history of feminist ideas, strategies, and actions in Canada. We explore the diversity and distinctiveness of Canadian feminism at different historical moments, celebrating the strength and creativity of organized and individual forms of resistance, while also probing the complicated, difficult, and sometimes "messy" workings of feminism. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits, including 0.5 WMST, GESO, CAST, or HIST credit at the 1000 level, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST-CAST 2110H.

Cross-listed: GESO-2711H, HIST-2711H

Explores the geography of Canada and its peoples and places. Examines the development of Canada's cultural landscapes and regions, and the social, economic, and political development of the Canadian nation-state. Canada's geography is explored as an east-west nation under increasing pressure from globalization and new national agendas. Prerequisite: GEOG 1030H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-2810H

Introduces students to the international politics of the circumpolar region and concludes with a unique simulation of the Arctic Council at which students are challenged to develop real-life scenarios and to play the role of diplomatic and reach consensus on difficult areas of Arctic public policy. Prerequisite: GEOG 1045H or permission of the instructor.

Cross-listed: GEOG-2811H

Explores how and why foodways have changed in Canada and the Western world between 1492 and the present. It allows students to draw links between global questions and everyday life, gender and politics, and social class and health, while introducing various methods of historical inquiry. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits. Excludes HIST-CAST-SAFS 2820Y.

Cross-listed: HIST-2821H, SAFS-2821H

A behind-the-scenes history of everyday life in Canada, exposing the complex histories of such common activities as drinking, barbecuing, gambling, and sex. The course emphasizes the "otherness" of previous moments in time as a way to foster an awareness of the contingency of our current historical moment. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits. Students may take only one of HIST-CAST 3010Y or 3011H for credit.

Cross-listed: HIST-3011H

Cross-listed: HIST-3021H

Cross-listed: HIST-3022H

A number of extreme weather events across Canada and around the world, this course acknowledges climate change as the defining existential and ecological challenge of the twenty-first century. Prerequisite: CAST-ERST-GEOG-INDG 2041H or 2042H.

Cross-listed: ERST-3041H, GEOG-3041H

An examination of shifting ideas of nature and wilderness in the work of a number of contemporary Canadian artist-thinkers. Special emphasis is placed on ecological literacy, or in learning to read the land as an "ultra-primary" text. Prerequisite: 9.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ERST-3042H, GEOG-3042H

An examination of other ways of knowing and the different understandings of reality that come with them. In this course, ideas of "magic," "myths," and "monsters" exist at the intersection of, and are shaped by, different social, cultural, economic, ecological, linguistic, and political forces. Prerequisite: CAST-ERST-GEOG-INDG 2041H or 2042H.

Examines the first Trudeau era and its enduring legacy vis-a-vis Canadian politics, culture, and society. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 4061H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: HIST-3061H

The art of bringing history to a wider public. This course explores issues of memory, commemoration, heritage preservation and interpretation that face historic sites, museums, heritage societies, and archives in Canada and throughout the world. Excludes HIST-CAST 4071H. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.

Cross-listed: HIST-3071H

Examines the way the Canadian constitution both constrains and opens up possibilities for political change. Includes consideration of formal constitutional interpretation and the politics of the judicial process. Looks at important issues such as the federal-provincial division of powers, secession, Senate reform, and Indigenous self-determination. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits. Recommended POST-CAST 2011H, POST-CAST 2012H, or PHIL-POST 2150H.

Cross-listed: POST-3091H

Examines key Supreme Court decisions on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms pertaining to fundamental freedoms, democratic rights, legal rights, and equality rights. Assesses the role of the Charter in advancing the struggles of groups such as women, racialized communities, LGBTQ persons, and people with disabilities. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits. Recommended POST-CAST 2011H, POST-CAST 2012H, or PHIL-POST 2150H.

Cross-listed: POST-3092H

Empowers students with the unique knowledge and concrete skills to channel their inner leader and advocate, organize people and communities in campaigns for change, and mobilize power to ensure sustained impacts. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: COMM-3094H

An interdisciplinary inquiry into how environmental policies in Canada are developed, implemented, and improved, applying political, economic, legal, scientific, Indigenous, and moral perspectives. Focus is on federal, provincial, and municipal contexts, recognizing that the environment does not respect jurisdictions. Topics include energy and materials use, biodiversity, toxic substances, waste management, and land use. Prerequisite: 1.0 ERST, CAST, POST, or ADMN credit at the 2000 level or beyond. Excludes ERST-CAST-POST 3100Y.

Cross-listed: ERST-3120H, POST-3120H, FRSC-3120H

How do we understand our complex and quickly changing twenty-first century world? This course examines contemporary issues in Canada and the United States in historical perspective by utilizing flashpoint issues, individuals, and events to explain longer trends and developments within a continental, cross-border analytical framework. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 4290Y, 4957.

Cross-listed: HIST-3170H

A survey of the beginnings and evolution of Quebec theatre, concentrating on twentieth-century work and beyond. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and either 2450Y or 2452H, or permission of instructor. Excludes FRENCAST 3230Y.

Cross-listed: FREN-3231H

A survey of the beginnings and evolution of Quebec poetry, from patriotic poetry to contemporary forms. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and either 2450Y or 2452H, or permission of instructor. Excludes FREN-CAST 3230Y.

Cross-listed: FREN-3232H

Focuses on significant works of Francophone literature of North America and studies them in their historical, political, sociological, and cultural context. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and one of 2450Y or 2452H.

Cross-listed: FREN-3237H

Focuses on significant works of First Nations literature published in French and studies them in their historical, political, sociological, and cultural context. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and either 2450Y or 2452H.

Cross-listed: FREN-3238H, INDG-3238H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

Focuses on significant works of Franco-Ontarian literature and studies them in their historical, political, social-economic, and cultural context. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and either 2450Y or 2452H.

Cross-listed: FREN-3239H

Introduces students to major themes in the Canadian Northern history, from pre-contact to the creation of the territory of Nunavut in 1999. The major themes focus on evolving cultural, political, socio-economic, and environmental histories. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits.

Explores issues in the contemporary Canadian North with a focus on social, political, economic, and environmental issues. Students are encouraged to critically examine Canada's Northern strategies and compare these to the social and economic priorities of Arctic leaders and Indigenous peoples living in remote Northern communities. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits.

An overview of the fundamental theoretical and applied components of protected area management, including the history, planning, and management of parks and protected areas with a focus on Canadian federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous contexts. Lectures, case studies, seminars and assignments engage students in the exploration of current protected area topics and issues. Prerequisite: GEOG 2310H or GEOG-CAST-ERST-INDG 2040Y or 2041H or 2042H or both ERST-CAST 2520H and 2525H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-3330H, ERST-3330H

The history of Canada's food and agricultural system is the backdrop to this interdisciplinary course on community development of the system's social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Production, distribution, processing, consumption, and regulatory issues are addressed. Community-based research projects are undertaken with local food and agricultural organizations. Field trip fee: 5. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits. Recommended: CAST-ERST-GEOG-INDG 2040Y, IDST-ANTH-GEOG-SAFS-SOCI 2500H, and SAFS-IDST-ANTH 2600H (IDST-ANTH 2210Y).

Cross-listed: SAFS-3341H, ERST-3341H, SOCI-3341H

Capitalism and globalization shape our world in profound ways. Utilizing a "glocal" approach that combines global and Canadian cases within a transnational context, this course seeks to interrogate and understand the evolution and development of modern capitalism and globalization from the late nineteenth century into the early twenty-first. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST 3080Y, 3081H.

Cross-listed: HIST-3390H, ADMN-3390H

Poverty is a persistent social problem. In this course students are introduced to the dynamics of poverty in Canada, the USA, and Britain, learn how poverty affects people's lives, and become familiar with the dominant sociological perspectives that inform people's opinions about poverty and poverty-related policies and programs. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 1.0 POST or CAST credit at the 2000 level, or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: POST-3422H, SOCI-3422H

An intersectional feminist analysis of social welfare issues and policies in Canada. Focusing on topics including poverty, homelessness, childcare, and employment, we examine historical roots and contemporary contexts shaping the lives of women and marginalized groups bearing the brunt of the growing income gap and neoliberal threats to equality. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO-CAST-POST 4431H, WMST 3431H, WMST-CAST-POST 4430Y.

Cross-listed: GESO-3431H, POST-3431H

Considers the expectations and functions of narrative, and examines the ways in which the fictions of Indigenous authors draw on, extend, and defy white European literary traditions, and incorporate narrative methods of their own traditions. Fictions by authors in both Canada and the United States will be included. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ENGL-3481H, INDG-3481H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

Considers the range of contemporary poetry by Indigenous authors from Canada and the United States, and the poems' relations to traditional language forms and to literary traditions and genres. It begins with a brief study of "orature" and songs, and includes a discussion of one nineteenth-century exemplar. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ENGL-3483H, INDG-3483H

This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.

We explore critical, historical, aesthetic, and sociological contexts of the emergence of CanLit. Focusing on Anglophone cultural production since 1960, we read literary works alongside political speeches, government documents, visual artifacts, popular culture, and essays to explore how Canadians have formed and transformed a national literature over the last fifty years. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3502Y or 3503H for credit.

Cross-listed: ENGL-3503H

An examination of Canadian literature's geographic and social spaces, this course considers Canadian regionalism from a variety of perspectives. You might examine, among many other possibilities, the literatures of Toronto (or Winnipeg or Halifax or Vancouver), the poetry of the north, or the rise and fall of prairie fiction. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3504Y or 3505H for credit.

Cross-listed: ENGL-3505H

A survey of Canadian women's prose fiction and life-writing from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes mainstream authors such as Moodie, Montgomery, Laurence, Munro, and Atwood; less well-known Indigenous, immigrant, and (translated) francophone writers; and recent work by young authors. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-ENGL-WMST 2660Y. Students may take only one of CAST 3506Y or 3507H for credit.

Cross-listed: GESO-3507H, ENGL-3507H

An overview of developments in Canadian literary culture since the year 2000, this course examines how contemporary Canadian writing challenges CanLit's traditional notions of regionalism, multicultural inclusivity, gender performance and identity, community, feminism, white settler cultures, Indigenous reconciliation, cultural appropriation, nationalism, and various subjectivities. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ENGL-3509H

Study of selected aspects of the Polar regions with considerable reference to northern Canada but with the deliberate intention of developing comparisons between it and other parts of the Polar regions. Prerequisite: GEOG 1045H; or GEOG 1030H and one of 1040H or 1050H; or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: GEOG-3640H

Explores ethnicities with a focus on contemporary Canada. Topics include settler colonialism, immigration, multicultural policies and practices, and contemporary political conflicts involving ethnicities. The course also covers theories and concepts of "race" and ethnicity as social categories, the social basis of racism, and the critique of multiculturalism. Prerequisite: 5.0 university credits including at least 1.0 credit in SOCI, CAST, or POST at the 2000 level. Excludes SOCI 3660Y.

Cross-listed: SOCI-3661H, POST-3661H

Interrogates the political economy tradition in Canada from its roots to more contemporary approaches, examining the dynamics of Canadian economic, political, and social development. Addresses issues associated with the development of a resource-based and branch-plant economy, globalization and continental integration, and inequality, discrimination, and social justice. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: POST-3665H, SOCI-3665H

Examines issues of diverse intersectional gender identities and gender experiences, including Indigeneity, (dis)ability, race, class, LBTQ, and fat, and provides socio-political perspectives to understand activism, community building, and possibilities for socio-political and policy change. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 1.0 POST, CAST, SCOI or GESO credit at the 2000 level, or permission of instructor. Recommended: POST-CAST 2011H and/or 2012H. Excludes POST-CAST-WMST 3670Y.

Cross-listed: POST-3672H, GESO-3672H, SOCI-3672H

Studies selected girlhood bodies and narratives as they have developed within the contexts of Canadian and global literature and popular culture. Focusing on the negotiation of girlhood bodies and narratives through a variety of spaces and over diverse borders, this course considers relationships between Canadian and global girlhoods. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 1.0 ENGL credit or permission of the instructor.

Cross-listed: ENGL-3709H, GESO-3709H

Examines the main planning principles which govern the economic, social, and physical development of cities and regions. Topics to be covered include national, provincial, regional, and municipal policies and their impact on urban and rural systems; historical development of planning in North America; and planning in North America; and planning as a profession. Prerequisite: GEOG-CAST 2710H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-3710H

Examines the main planning principles which govern the economic, social, and physical development of cities and regions. Topics to be covered include national, provincial, regional, and municipal policies and their impact on urban and rural systems; historical development of planning in North America; and planning in North America; and planning as a profession. Prerequisite: GEOG-CAST-ERST 2710H. Equivalent to GEOG-CAST 3710H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-3711H, ERST-3711H

This interdisciplinary course is designed to explore critical and practical perspectives on urban environments. The theme of water and infrastructure networks (i.e., canals, rivers, waterfronts) guides a critical exploration of the historical and symbolic dimensions of our built environment and the eco-future of our urban spaces. Prerequisite: One of GEOG-CAST 2710H, GEOG-CAST-ERST- INDG 2040Y, 2041H, or 2042H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-3720H, ERST-3720H

Designed around a term-long research project, this course explores themes such as tourism, built heritage, and post-industrial design associated with the production of craft beer. Students learn how to examine land-use patterns, built form, and branding techniques in one locale. Emphasis is placed on in-class participation and experiential learning. Prerequisite: GEOG-ERST 2510H, GEOG- CAST 2710H, SAFS 1001H, or ADMN 2080H.

Cross-listed: GEOG-3760H, ERST-3760H, SAFS-3760H, ADMN-3760H

Introduces students to the economic theory of renewable resources in the Canadian social, political, and regulatory context, and also to professional project planning and management. Students are introduced to project components such as scoping, scheduling, budgeting, communications, team and risk management, and environmental sustainability. Prerequisite: 1.0 ERST or CAST credit at the 2000 level or beyond.

Cross-listed: ERST-3780H

A survey of the beginnings and evolution of the Quebec novel from its birth in 1837 to the nineteenth century to the "terroir" novel to the first representations of the city. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and either 2450Y or 2452H. Excludes FREN-CAST 3830Y, 4830Y.

Cross-listed: FREN-3831H

A survey of the Quebec novel, from the end of World War II to contemporary times. Prerequisite: FREN 2051H and either 2450Y or 2452H, or permission of instructor. Excludes FREN-CAST 3830Y, 4830Y.

Cross-listed: FREN-3832H

Analyzes power relations and lived experiences through the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Students undertake the critical work of understanding the ongoing implications of these interlocking systems of privilege and oppression upholding inequalities and fueling resistance in Canadian and international contexts. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, or SOCI credit at 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3860H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3860H, SOCI-3860H

Explores key issues, theories, and debates concerning gender, feminism, and the law, primarily in Canada. Approaching law as a site of regulation and constraint and drawing upon restorative justice pedagogies and decolonial methodologies, the course examines issues such as family, sexuality, violence, pornography, prostitution, poverty, employment, and immigration. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, or POST credit, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3962H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3962H, SOCI-3962H, POST-3962H

A criminological analysis of women in trouble from early to late modernity to the present moment, with specific analysis of the disciplining and incarceration of cisgender women and trans women. Focuses on the Canadian criminal justice system, with analysis of its racist, colonial, patriarchal, homophobic, ableist legacies. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, or SOCI credit, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3966H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3966H, SOCI-3966H

A capstone seminar that explores major themes in Canadian Studies using contemporary writing and research to examine timely and critical issues. Its focus is on comprehensive understanding of current Canadian society, history, culture, and environment. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits.

Allows students to investigate the value of supporting the initiatives in the Indigenous community nationally in Canada and worldwide and to find their place in that initiative. Prerequisite: 1.0 INDG credit or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: INDG-4050H

Examines the Trudeau era and its enduring legacy vis-a-vis Canadian politics, culture, and society. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST or CAST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST 3061H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: HIST-4061H

Explores Canadian process of developing public policy. Examines key institutions and actors in Canadian politics, including the public policy roles of the prime minister, cabinet, the opposition, political parties, the bureaucracy, business, the mass media, social movements, and the public. Prerequisite: 12.0 university credits including 1.0 POST credit that includes at least one of POST-CAST 2011H or 2012H; or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: POST-4081H

A critical review of the archaeology of the Great Lakes region of North America, from the earliest evidence of human presence to European colonization. Seminars address the long-term historical and evolutionary nature of landscapes and societies, focusing on environmental change and population history, technology, subsistence, settlement, trade and exchange, and socio-political organization. Prerequisite: ANTH 2121H and 2122H (or 2120Y), or permission of instructor. Excludes ANTH 4151Y.

Cross-listed: ANTH-4155H, INDG-4155H

Selected themes in Canadian women's history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on class, race, and gender in shaping women's experiences and on interpretive debates in women's history. Prerequisite: 4.0 HIST or CAST or GESO or WMST credits or permission of the chair. Excludes HIST-CAST-WMST 3160Y, 3161H, 3162H. Offered only at Trent University Durham.

Cross-listed: HIST-4160Y, GESO-4160Y

A study of Quebec science fiction and fantasy, both from a historical perspective, based on literary movements and tendencies, and from the perspective of genre theories, observing their constitutive traits, their similarities, and their fundamental differences. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits, including 3.0 FREN credits beyond the 1000 level, or permission of the department. Excludes FREN 4500Y (2010-2011).

Cross-listed: FREN-4229Y, CUST-4229Y

Canada's place within twentieth- and twenty-first-century globalization, along with its North-South policies and practices, are examined. Topics include Fordism and post-Fordism, global production and social reproduction, environment, inequality, dissent, development assistance, and the roles of Canadian business and civil society in international development. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits including 1.0 IDST or CAST or POST credit at the 2000 level or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: POST-4240Y, IDST-4240Y

This course focuses on the ethical and moral complexities raised by displacement and forced migration. Students examine the social, economic, and political factors associated with Canada's refugee sponsorship programs. Attention is given to media representations of refugees. Topics include resilience, parenting in a war context, and refugee education. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits including 1.0 POST, CAST, IDST, and/or SOCI credit at the 2000 level, and an additional 2.0 credits at the 3000 level of which at least 1.0 must be from POST, IDST, CAST, or SOCI, or permission of instructor. Recommended: POST 2011H, 2012H, CAST 2245H, IDST 3150H, SOCI 3661H.

Cross-listed: POST-4252H, IDST-4252H, SOCI-4252H

A survey of current affairs from French language newspapers and information websites in Canada. The course focuses on topics and issues impacting French communities across Canada. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits, including 3.0 FREN credits beyond the 1000 level, or permission of the department.

Cross-listed: FREN-4301H

An intersectional feminist analysis of social welfare issues and policies in Canada. Focusing on topics including poverty, homelessness, childcare, and employment, we examine historical roots and contemporary contexts shaping the lives of women and marginalized groups bearing the brunt of the growing income gap and neoliberal threats to equality. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including 1.0 GESO or WMST credit at the 2000 level or beyond, or permission of instructor. Excludes GESO-CAST-POST 3431H, WMST-CAST-POST 4430Y, WMST 4431H.

Cross-listed: GESO-4431H, POST-4431H

See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4400Y or 4401H for credit.

Cross-listed: ENGL-4501H

Explores how difference-especially who is labelled "different"-changes according to social, political, and cultural factors and interests. We focus on disability and its intersection with other identity-based categories, including gender, race, and sexuality. Readings come from Canadian literature and film, critical theory, social policy, and the mass media. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-SOCI-WMST 4550Y.

Cross-listed: GESO-4551H, SOCI-4551H

Focuses on contemporary issues facing Canadian cities in comparative perspective. It locates cities within the global circuit of capital, examines the ways in which cities are being reordered to enhance their global competitiveness and standing, and analyzes the effects of restructuring on communities and the struggles for social justice. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: GEOG-4555H, POST-4555H

Examines how and why our environment and our relationship with it have changed over time. Topics include how to do environmental history, shifts in ideas about natural resources and wilderness, the history of the Trent and Peterborough environments, the urban environment (particularly Toronto), and the history of environmental science and environmental politics. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: ERST-4670H, HIST-4670H

A seminar course that explores advanced themes in Canadian Studies with special focus on culture, literature, and the arts. Prerequisite: 13.0 university credits.

A structured course arranged between student and instructor, approved by the chair, involving independent study of material. Regular meetings and detailed written work. See program brochure for details and requirements.

Traces the history of the concept of the self in Western culture, with a special focus on Canada. Examines key debates about the idea of the self through interdisciplinary readings in philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, politics, and history. Includes questions as to the concept's historicity, modernity, and its connections to modern debates about identity politics and political correctness. Prerequisite: 14.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: HIST-4975H