An introduction to the role music plays in shaping culture, with particular emphasis on constructions of identity.
This course explores the concept of popular culture, contemporary and/or historical,
A closely focused course on women's writing in English. The topic for the course varies, sometimes concentrating on specific issues, sometimes on an...
An analysis of the development of the concept of culture from the Enlightenment to the present. Theoretical readings combined with the analysis of...
An exploration of a variety of cultural forms (e.g., literature, art, photography, film, music) produced by avant-gardes and counter-cultural groups...
This course will examine modernity and postmodernity through an exploration of a variety of theorethical discourses and representational practices,...
This course examines the representations and constructions of the racialized, gendered, ethnic, or othered human body in and through contemporary...
This course examines contemporary debates in critical race theory in an attempt critically to decode the operations of race in literary and cultural...
This course explores a range of theories of gender and sexuality by working through readings from the intersecting fields of feminist, queer and...
A critical examination of selected films and film genres as cultural texts, using methods drawn from film theory and cultural studies. Three hours,...
An examination of a number of standard science fiction tropes such as time travel, lost worlds, utopia/dystopia, totalitarian societies, alien races...
A study of selected texts by African American writers published since 1900, considered in the context of African American history and literary...
A survey of the main developments in critical theory from Plato to the end of the 19th century. Areas of investigation may include: art, aesthetics,...
This course examines selected issues in contemporary critical theory. Areas of investigation may include: representation, power/knowledge, discourse,...
A study of contemporary texts including literature, film, art and other forms of popular culture that engage the implications of living in a...
This course introduces students to a selection of literary texts and films from countries across the African continent. Three hours; one term ...
A study of significant works by Native writers who give voice to their experience in Canada. Issues examined include appropriation of voice, native...
A study of contemporary works by Native writers in the United States within the context of American society and Post-Modern and Post-Colonial Literary...
A critical evaluation of literary works from approximately 1700 to the present, written primarily for children. Three lectures; one term ...