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Études africaines : The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Sandwell, Rachel (Fall)
Études africaines : An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the African Studies Program. As part of their contribution, students will prepare a research paper under the supervision of one or more members of staff.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Wright, Victor (Winter)
Prerequisite: an introductory course in any of the disciplines studying Africa
Restriction: Open to final year Program students, and to others by permission of Program Adviser
Anthropologie : The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Barber, Nicholas (Fall)
Historique : This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Bell, Erin (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-200D
Historique : While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Soske, Jon (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-200D
Sciences politiques : The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Medani, Khalid (Fall)
Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
Études africaines : Basic knowledge of the Swahili language and culture with emphasis on handling circumstances that might be encountered in field research: everyday conversation, developing aural and oral skills and mastering basic grammar rules, understanding cultural norms and practices, issues of culture sensitivity and appropriateness.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Ngaira, Angela (Fall)
Note: Priority to students in the African Studies Program and/or participants of the Canadian Field Studies in Africa program and to students with a demonstrable need related to internship or research. Approval by African Studies Program Adviser required.
Études africaines : Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a staff member.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Prerequisite: the completion of all available courses relevant to the topic, and permission of the instructor and Program Adviser prior to registration
Restriction(s): Open only to Joint Honours students.
Études africaines : Supervised reading in advanced special topics in African Studies under the direction of a member of staff.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Prerequisite: the completion of all available courses relevant to the topic, and permission of the instructor and Program Adviser prior to registration
Études africaines : Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Note: U2 and U3 students in good standing, normally after completing 30 credits of a 90-credit program or 45 credits of a 96-120 credit program, a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission from the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will normally not fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses.
Historique : Topics in African social history. This is an Honours seminar during which students will be expected to write a major research paper.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Soske, Jon (Fall)
Prerequisite: HIST 200 or HIST 201 or HIST 382 or permission of the instructor.
Topics will vary by year.
Students must register for both HIST 486D1 and HIST 486D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 486D1 and HIST 486D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
Historique : See HIST 486D1 for course description.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Soske, Jon (Winter)
Prerequisite: HIST 486D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 486D1 and HIST 486D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Anthropologie : Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Winter
Anthropologie : Variations in herding systems over a wide range of habitats and involving a variety of species of domestic livestock. Comparative perspectives on the prehistory of pastoral systems, on the ideologies, cultures, and social and economic systems of nomadic pastoralists. Relations with non-pastoralists and the effects of change and development will also be examined.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Anthropologie : The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Barber, Nicholas (Fall)
Anthropologie : Critical evaluation of theories in primate behaviour, ecology, and conservation that emphasizes direct observations, research design, and developing field methods.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Schoof, Valérie (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology, Geography or Environmental Studies, Introductory Biology, or permission of the instructor.
Restriction: Students must have completed at least two full semesters at their home university. Only open to students in the Canadian Field Studies in Africa program.
Anthropologie : Study of environmental effects of development in East Africa, especially due to changes in traditional land tenure and resource use across diverse ecosystems. Models, policies and cases of pastoralist, agricultural, fishing, wildlife and tourist development will be examined, across savanna, desert, forest, highland and coastal environments.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Galaty, John (Winter)
Winter
Restriction: Open only to students in the Study in Africa program, a full-term field study program in East Africa
Prerequisite: One prior course in Anthropology, Geography or Environmental Studies
Économie (Arts) : A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Trimestres : Automne 2014, Hiver 2015, Été 2015
Chargés de cours : Fatema, Naureen; Japaridze, Irakli; Dickinson, Paul (Fall) Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Winter) Sayour, Nagham (Summer)
Économie (Arts) : Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Trimestres : Automne 2014, Hiver 2015, Été 2015
Chargés de cours : Chemin, Matthieu; Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Fall) Chemin, Matthieu (Winter) Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Summer)
Économie (Arts) : This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Frankman, Myron Joseph (Winter)
Anglais (Arts) : A study of postcolonial literature.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Banerjee, Sandeep (Fall)
Winter
Anglais (Arts) : Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
Anglais (Arts) : A study of African literature.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Popescu, Monica (Winter)
Winter
GĂ©ographie : The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Coomes, Oliver T; Breau, Sebastien (Fall)
Fall
3 hours
GĂ©ographie : Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
GĂ©ographie : Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Meredith, Thomas C (Winter)
Winter
3 hours
Prerequisite: GEOG 302 or permission of instructor
GĂ©ographie : Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Unruh, Jon (Fall)
GĂ©ographie : An examination of the cultural, political, and economic mechanisms and manifestations of contemporary underdevelopment and the response to it from different regional and national peripheral societies within the dominant world economic system.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Pritchard, Matthew (Winter)
Winter
3 hours
Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
GĂ©ographie : A synthetic overview of physical and cultural geography examining particularly the relation of African peoples to their landscapes, the causes and consequences of environmental changes, and the idea of sustainable development as it applies to African landscapes, resource systems and economies.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Winter
Offered in Kenya as part of the African Field Studies semester.
Historique : This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Bell, Erin (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-200D
Historique : While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Soske, Jon (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-200D
Historique : An overview of the history of foreign intervention and anticolonial resistance in 19th and 20th century Africa. Topics include: theories of colonialism, the scramble for Africa, colonialism and disease, indirect rule, labour, nationalism and resistance, and changing gender roles.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Historique : History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Historique : Exceptionally, and under the direction of a member of staff, advanced and highly qualified students who have an extensive background in the proposed area of study, may pursue this independent study.
Trimestres : Automne 2014, Hiver 2015, Été 2015
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Prerequisite: Written permission
Restriction: Open to History Major Concentration students only. Students may register in this course only once.
Historique : The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Études islamiques : Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Middle East and Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Fall
Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
Études islamiques : A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Parsons, Laila (Fall)
3 hours
Études islamiques : Modern Standard Arabic. Focus on the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, with an emphasis on the functional use of the language.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Jawlakh, Hala; Nancekivell, David (Fall)
Fall and Winter
5 lecture hours and laboratory
Prerequisite: Placement Test or permission of instructor
Students must register for both ISLA 521D1 and ISLA 521D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 521D1 and ISLA 521D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Études islamiques : See ISLA 521D1 for course description.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Jawlakh, Hala; Nancekivell, David (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: ISLA 521D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 521D1 and ISLA 521D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Sciences politiques : An introduction to Third World politics. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and contemporary dynamics of political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building and national integration, revolution, the role of the military, and democratization.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Norman, Julie (Winter)
Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
Sciences politiques : The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Medani, Khalid (Fall)
Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
Sciences politiques : Seminar on developing areas. Topic varies year to year.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Balan, Manuel (Fall)
Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in the politics of developing areas.
Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor; (Note: The field is Comparative Politics in Developing Areas).
Sociologie (Arts) : Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Bertrand-Dansereau, Anais (Winter)
Sociologie (Arts) : Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Roychowdhury, Poulami (Fall)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210
Sociologie (Arts) : Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
Trimestres : Automne 2014
Chargés de cours : Lange, Matthew (Fall)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission from instructor.
Sociologie (Arts) : Focus on the sociological aspects of recent transitions to democracy within developing countries - particularly within Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Exploration of why democratization has taken place, to what extent it has been successful and the implications of democratization.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Prerequisite: SOCI 210
Sociologie (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Trimestres : Ce cours n’est pas au programme de l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Chargés de cours : Aucun professeur n’est associé à ce cours pour l’année universitaire 2014-2015.
Sociologie (Arts) : Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
Trimestres : Hiver 2015
Chargés de cours : Roychowdhury, Poulami (Winter)