Winter 2025 Undergraduate

FYSM 1409 A Controversies and Social Change in Canada Today
This is term 2 of a full-year 1.0 credit course.

Instructor: Robyn Green

CDNS 4400 A/ 5400 W/ INDG 4901 C  Space, Landscape and Identity in Canada — ONLINE Synchronous

Instructor: Kenneth (Jake) Chakasim

Course Description: Critical in its approach, this course brings into focus the contemporary role indigenous literature and design plays in the realm of indigenous space, landscape, and identity practices. Whether one is ‘tricked into believing’ or ‘mistreated to take action’, we can no longer escape the chaos, disorder, and destruction of indigenous landscapes and its supporting infrastructure (or lack thereof).

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CDNS 3901B / FILM 2206 B Canadian Cinema — In Person
This course involves both a lecture AND a film screening scheduled on the same evening.
Students need only register into CDNS 3901 B; the screening component is linked to the lecture.

Title: Canadian Cinema

Instructor: TBD

Course Descriptor: A critical examination of Canadian cinema and media and how it relates to other aspects of Canadian culture.

CDNS 3560 Black Studies in Canada — ONLINE Synchronous

Instructor: TBD

Course Description: Theories and methods of Black Studies in Canada. Students could explore regional, national and/or transnational histories; anit-Blackness; racial capitalism; identities, experiences and cultures of Black Canada.

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CDNS 3020 is being offered as CDNS 3901A during Winter 2025  – IN person

Practicing Research in Canadian Studies

Instructor: TBD

Course Description: This course engages with the practice of interdisciplinarity in Canadian Studies and builds on CDNS 3000. Approaches may include: mixed methods; authoethnography; research-creation; collaboration; and community based research.

CDNS 2400 Heritage Places and Practices in Canada– In Person

Instructor: Susan Ross

Course Descriptor:  This course, intended for students studying in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Architecture and Engineering, will build on the lessons we can learn from Canadian, Indigenous and international theories, practices, and tools to continue to move the field ahead in stimulating and critical directions.

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CDNS 2302/INDG 2302   Land, Water, Capitalism — In Person

Instructor: Julie Tomiak

Course Descriptor: This course provides students with the opportunity to study the political economy of settler capitalism and its consequences. Centering Indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics grounded in place, the course foregrounds Indigenous anti-capitalism. The role of Indigenous land, water, and relationality is discussed not only in terms of capitalist dispossession and destruction, but also with a focus on resistance, healing, and Indigenous futurities. Students will examine a range of case studies that will bring the contestations, complexities, and contradictions of capital accumulation and anti-capitalist struggles into focus.

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CDNS 2300   Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Canada –  ONLINE Combined

Instructor: TBD

Description: This course is a critical examination of nationalism, colonialism, racialization, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in Canada. In this condensed blended asynchronous/synchronous course, students will explore belonging, citizenship, social inclusion/exclusion and inequality through a series of live and pre-recorded lectures, group discussions, testimonials, and contextual and experiential learning activities.

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CDNS 2002 Language, Culture and Power — IN Person

Instructor: TBD

Course Description: Students will study the relationship between language and power, politics, identity and culture in Canada. Using experiential learning methods including field trips, we will explore the interplays between power, language, and the constitution of social norms.

Each class will use a case study to examine the struggles over discourse and how we describe and understand the world.

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CDNS 2000 Debating Canada — In Person

Instructor: Orly Lael Netzer

Course Description: Over the past decades, scholars of cultural studies in Canada have demonstrated that the foundation of the nation-state and the continued development of national identity in Canada rely on three central myths: Peacekeeping turned Humanitarianism, Multiculturalism, and Reconciliation. In this course we will explore how debates about Canadian identity and culture are shaped through the dynamic tensions between the three foundational myths, and the shared thread of settler-colonialism which ties them together.

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CDNS 1101 Power, Places and Stories in/of Odawang/Ottawa – Winter term – In Person

Instructor: Orly Lael Netzer

Course Description: In this course we will explore historic and contemporary Odawang/Ottawa through stories, monuments, and locations. Attuned to local, national, and global perspectives of the city, we will interrogate the politics of place-making, asking who shapes the story of a place, for whom, and how.

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