Courses with African Content in Other Units

Courses with African Content in Other Units

a) Undergraduate

Fall 2016

ANTH 2850 A, Development and Underdevelopment, Prof. Louise de la Gorgendiere, Fall Term (0.5 credits)

ANTH 4020 A, Advanced Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Prof. Amina Mire, Fall Term (0.5 credits). Also listed as SOCI 4020

ANTH 4215A/5809, Selected Topics in Anthropology. Title: Anthropology of Natural Resources in the Global South Prof. Blair Rutherford, Fall Term (0.5 credits)
This course examines the political economies, political ecologies, cultural politics, and/or governmentalities shaping access towards and uses of “natural resources.” Although the readings will be focused more on mining and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, topics will include forests, oil, wildlife, etc. in the Global South.

ANTH 4730 A, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism, Prof. Xiaobei Chen, Fall Term (0.5 credits). Also listed as SOCI 4730

ENGL 3940 A, Studies in Diaspora Literature, Prof. TBA, Fall Term (0.5 credits)

HIST 5710 F, Race and Empire, Prof. Audra Diptee, Fall Term (0.5 credits)

A seminar examining how discourses on race have been used to construct visions of empire. Students will be introduced to relevant historiographical, theoretical, discursive, and methodological approaches to race and empire.

PSCI 4104, Theory and Practice of Development in the Global South, Prof. Linda Freeman, Fall Term (0.5 credits)

SOCI 2020 A, Race and Ethnicity, Prof. Peter Goss, Fall Term (0.5 credits)

Winter 2017

ANTH 2850 A, Development and Underdevelopment, Prof. Louise de la Gorgendiere, Winter Term (0.5 credits)

HIST 2710, Introduction to Caribbean History, Prof. Audra Diptee, Winter 2017(0.5 credits)

HIST 3907, Freedom and its Discontents: Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture, Prof. Daniel McNeil, Winter 2017 (0.5 credits)
This course asks students to consider the history of freedom from the perspective of people who are both Black and Western. Focusing on the meaning and significance of freedom after the formal abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, the course will pay particular attention to the politics and poetics of Black intellectuals who have shaped the modern world by resisting forms of racial hierarchy that associate blackness with emotionality and whiteness with rationality.

Topics that will be explored in the course include: the marketing and reading of slave narratives; anti-lynching crusades and the visual archive of mob violence; contested memories of the transatlantic slave trade and imperialism; the relationship between anti-colonialism, surrealism and existentialism; Black Consciousness Movements and Afrofuturism; and decolonized education projects designed to break the school to prison pipeline, critique casino capitalism and resist the unjust workings of the state.

FREN 4212/5600 ou FINS 4802 – La figure du zombi dans la littérature haïtienne*), Prof. Christine Duff, Hiver 2017 (0.5 credits)

LAWS 3908 E, Approaches in Legal Studies II, Prof. Christiane Wilke, Winter 2017(0.5 credits)
Note: This course is mandatory for Law (BA Hons) students. It introduces them to research methods in legal studies based on a theme. The theme for this section is: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa and Canada. The course covers ideas about transitional justice, settler colonialism, debates about reconciliation, testimony, and truth. We will also consider movements to indigenize law in South Africa and Canada.

MGDS 2000, Introduction to Migration and Diaspora Studies, Prof. Daniel McNeil, Winter 2017 (0.5 credits)
This course introduces students to the burgeoning fields of Migration and Diaspora Studies by examining the cultural, social, political and economic implications of the movement of people and ideas.

For examples of student work, and the range of topics covered in Migration and Diaspora Studies relating to citizenship, cosmopolitanism, diversity, exile, integration, forced migration, refugee communities, state security and transnational identities, please consult Passages: The Magazine of the Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative and the MDS website.

TSES 4011, Technology and Society in International Development, Prof. Edith Gingras, Winter 2017 (0.5 credits)
This course provides an overview of technology, its adaptation, and its direct effect on society in international development cooperation practices. Discussions include global matters, climate/environmental issues, and use of alternative technology in project design. Constraints in project planning and delivery of NGO, bilateral and multilateral aid projects in developing countries are analyzed. Most examples/illustrations will be based on current African development issues as this course is supported by Engineers Without Borders.

b) Graduate

Fall 2016

ANTH 5809, Selected Topics in Anthropology. Title: Anthropology of Natural Resources in the Global South Prof. Blair Rutherford, Fall Term (0.5 credits)
This course examines the political economies, political ecologies, cultural politics, and/or governmentalities shaping access towards and uses of “natural resources.” Although the readings will be focused more on mining and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, topics will include forests, oil, wildlife, etc. in the Global South.

Winter 2017

FREN 5600, La figure du zombi dans la littérature haïtienne*), Prof. Christine Duff, Hiver 2017 (0.5 credits)