Degree Programs

Offered by:Geography
Degree:Bachelor of Arts

Program Requirement:

There is increasing consensus around the idea that health is not just an expression of individual characteristics but an interaction between the characteristics of the individual and the environments, both physical and social, to which one is exposed over a lifetime of daily living and working. Health outcomes vary dramatically by physical and social characteristics of places both within and between countries and these provide a wedge for our understanding of the factors that might be modified to improve the health of large groups of people. The B.A.; Minor Concentration in Health Geography introduces students to both local and global health issues and provides a skill set in spatial and statistical analyses of diverse health outcomes in populations.

Required Courses (12 credits)

• GEOG 201 Intro Geo-Information Science 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours and lab

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Margaret Kalacska, Grant McKenzie
• GEOG 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
  • Note: This course is also offered as NRSC 221. Students enrolled in downtown campus programs register in GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register in NRSC 221. In Winter 2013, GEOG 221/NRSC 221 will be taught on the downtown campus.

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  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ian Brett Strachan, Nancy A Ross
• GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: One of the following: GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of instructor

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  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Mylene Riva
• GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 205 or GEOG 221 or GEOG 321 or GEOG 303 or permission from the instructor
  • Restriction: Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.

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  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Complementary Courses (6 credits)

3 credits from:

• ENVR 200 The Global Environment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Frederic Fabry, George McCourt, James W Fyles, Anthony Ricciardi, Eyad Hashem Atallah
• ENVR 201 Society,Environ&Sustainability 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Jeffrey A Cardille, Geoffrey Garver, Kevin B Manaugh, Madhav Govind Badami, Christopher Barrington-Leigh
• GEOG 203 Environmental Systems 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours
  • Restriction: Because of quantitative science content of course, not recommended for B.A. and B.Ed. students in their U0 year.

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Gail L Chmura, Christian von Sperber
• GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours

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  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Brian E Robinson, Yann le Polain de Waroux
• GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Note: Winter
  • Note: 3 hours

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Natalie Oswin

3 credits from:

• GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geog 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with emphasis on geographical perspectives in public health research. Topics include the social and environmental determinants of chronic and infectious disease, health and health-related behaviours. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography research.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 303 or GEOG 403 or permission of instructor
  • Restrictions: Course open to U3 undergraduate students and graduate students in the Department of Geography OR others with permission of instructor. Not open to students who took GEOG 503 in Winter 2009.

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Nancy A Ross, Mylene Riva
• PPHS 501 Population Health&Epidemiology 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents concepts and methods of epidemiology at the introductory level. The use of epidemiologic methods for population and public health research and practice will be illustrated. A review of selected population health questions such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the cardiovascular disease epidemic, cigarette smoking, or screening for disease will be presented.

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 501.
  • Course not open to students enrolled in Epidemiology or Public Health programs.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
• PPHS 511 Fundamentals of Global Health 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Population&Pub Health Sciences: This exciting and interactive course aims to give students the opportunity to broaden their understanding and knowledge of global health issues, including global burden of diseases, determinants of health, transition in health and drivers of such transition, challenges in healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings, and the variety of agencies and actors engaged in addressing global health challenges. The course consists of lectures, case studies, debates, discussions and small group work.

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Madhukar Pai
    • Charles Palmer Larson
• PPHS 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits*+

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Population&Pub Health Sciences: Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken SOCI 525.
  • Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology

  • Symbols:
  • *+

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée
• PPHS 529 Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context.

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 529.
  • 1. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students.
  • 2.This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
  • 3. Previous coursework in statistics and environmental science is useful, though not required.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Jill Baumgartner
• SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée
• SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits*+

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken PPHS 525.
  • Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology.

  • Symbols:
  • *+

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée

+ Students can take PPHS 525 OR SOCI 525
* These courses may have additional prerequisites or restrictions.

Offered by:McGill School of Environment
Degree:Bachelor of Arts

Program Requirement:

An understanding of the interface between human health and environment depends not only on an appreciation of the biological and ecological determinants of health, but equally on an appreciation of the role of social sciences in the design, implementation, and monitoring of interventions. Demographic patterns and urbanization, economic forces, ethics, indigenous knowledge and culture, and an understanding of how social change can be effected are all critical if we are to be successful in our efforts to assure health of individuals and societies in the future. Recognizing the key role that nutritional status plays in maintaining a healthy body, and the increasing importance of infection as a health risk linked intimately with the environment, this domain prepares students to contribute to the solution of problems of nutrition and infection by tying the relevant natural sciences to the social sciences.

Program Prerequisites or Corequisites

To graduate from the Faculty Program in Environment, students are required to complete these courses by the end of their U1 year. These courses can be taken using the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option. See: http://www.mcgill.ca/study/university_regulations_and_resources/undergra... for details.

Numeracy

3 credits from the following, or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00UN):

• MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.

  Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

  • Fall
  • 4 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
  • Prerequisite: a course in functions
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent.
  • Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
  • Students continue in MATH 141
  • Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Lars M Sektnan, Sidney Trudeau
• MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.

  Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
  • Prerequisite: High School Calculus
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 120, MATH 139 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122 or MATH 130 or MATH 131, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sidney Trudeau, Rebecca Patrias, Jérôme Fortier

Basic Science

3 credits of basic science from the following, or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00UK):

• AEBI 120 General Biology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): An introduction to the structure, function and adaptation of plants and animals in the biosphere.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Fall
  • 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have passed CEGEP objective 00UK or equivalent (formerly Biology 301)

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Gary Brian Dunphy
• BIOL 111 Principles:Organismal Biology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Sci): An introduction to the phylogeny, structure, function and adaptation of unicellular organisms, plants and animals in the biosphere.

  Offered by: Biology

  • Fall
  • 2 hours lecture and 3 hours laboratory
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UK or equivalent; or BIOL 115.
  • This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00UK
  • May require departmental approval.
  • Open to all students wishing introductory biology.
  • Attendance at first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.
  • This class will use a Student Response System (clicker) which can be obtained from the Bookstore.

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Andrew Hendry, Elena M Cristescu, Anna L Hargreaves

Suggested First Year (U1) Courses

For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "MSE Student Handbook" available on the MSE website (http://www.mcgill.ca/mse), or contact Kathy Roulet, the Program Adviser (kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca).

Program Requirements

Note: You are required to take a maximum of 30 credits at the 200 level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400 level or higher in this program. This includes core and required courses, but does not include the program prerequisites or corequisites listed above.

Location Note: When planning your schedule and registering for courses, you should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Core: Required Courses (18 credits)

Location Note: Core required courses are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Macdonald campus.

• ENVR 200 The Global Environment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Frederic Fabry, George McCourt, James W Fyles, Anthony Ricciardi, Eyad Hashem Atallah
• ENVR 201 Society,Environ&Sustainability 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Jeffrey A Cardille, Geoffrey Garver, Kevin B Manaugh, Madhav Govind Badami, Christopher Barrington-Leigh
• ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Winter
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • George McCourt, Sylvie de Blois, Brian Leung, Nagissa Mahmoudi
• ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics&Environment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Julia Freeman, Gregory Matthew Mikkelson
    • Iwao Hirose, Ismael Vaccaro, Nicolas Kosoy
• ENVR 301 Environmental Research Design 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Techniques used in design and completion of environmental research projects. Problem definition, data sources and use of appropriate strategies and methodologies. Principles underlying research design are emphasized, including critical thinking, recognizing causal relationships, ideologies and bias in research, and when and where to seek expertise.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall - Downtown campus; Winter - Macdonald campus
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus
  • Restrictions: Restricted to U2 or higher
  • Prerequisite(s): Completion of U1 Required courses in Environment, or permission of instructor.

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ismael Vaccaro
    • Jeffrey A Cardille, Julia Freeman
• ENVR 400 Environmental Thought 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
  • Section 001: Downtown Campus
  • Section 051: Macdonald Campus
  • Prerequisite: ENVR 203
  • Restriction: Open only to U3 students, or permission of instructor

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Julia Freeman, Geoffrey Garver
    • Jaye Dana Ellis, Julia Freeman, Gregory Matthew Mikkelson, Nicolas Kosoy

Core: Complementary Course - Senior Research Project (3 credits)

Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.

• AEBI 427 Barbados Interdisc Project 6 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): The planning of projects and research activities related to tropical food, nutrition, or energy at the local, regional, or national scale in Barbados. Projects and activities designed in consultation with university instructors, government, NGO, or private partners, and prepared by teams of 2-3 students working cooperatively with these mentors.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Corequisite(s): AEBI 421, AEBI 423 and AEBI 425
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to students that are participating in the Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies Field Semester
  • **Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 22, 2017.
  • **Although this course follows a Monday/Tuesday class schedule pattern, the last class will be on Wednesday, August 22 which is when the Project Presentations will be held.

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  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• AGRI 519 Sustainable Development Plans 6 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agriculture: Geared for solving real-world environmental problems related to water at the local, regional and international scale in Barbados. Projects to be designed by instructors in consultation with university, government and NGO partners and to be conducted by teams of 2 to 4 students in collaboration with them.

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering

  • Restrictions: Enrolment in full "Barbados Field Study Semester". Not open to students who have taken CIVE 519 or URBP 519.

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  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ENVR 401 Environmental Research 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Students work in an interdisciplinary team on a real-world research project involving problem definition, methodology development, social, ethical and environmental impact assessment, execution of the study, and dissemination of results to the research community and to the people affected. Teams begin defining their projects during the preceding summer.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ENVR 301 and MATH 203 or equivalent.
  • Restriction: Open only to U3 students in their final year in the following programs, or by permission of the instructor: B.A. Faculty Program in Environment, B.A.&Sc. Interfaculty Program in Environment , B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) and B.Sc. Major in Environment, Diploma in Environment, and B.Com. Major in Managing for Sustainability.

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    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Renee Sieber, George McCourt, Madhav Govind Badami, Frederic Fabry, Brian Leung, Kevin Manaugh, Christopher Barrington-Leigh
• ENVR 451 Research in Panama 6 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Research projects will be developed by instructors in consultation with Panamanian universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Project groups will consist of four to six students working with a Panamanian institution. Topics will be relevant to Panama: e.g., protection of the Canal watershed, economical alternatives to deforestation, etc.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Winter
  • Restriction: students in the Panama Field Semester program. Offered in Panama only

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  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Complementary Courses (33 credits)

33 credits of complementary courses are chosen as follows:

6 credits of Health and Environment
12 credits of Fundamentals, maximum 3 credits from any one category
9 credits from List A
6 credits from List B

Health and Environment

• GEOG 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
  • Note: This course is also offered as NRSC 221. Students enrolled in downtown campus programs register in GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register in NRSC 221. In Winter 2013, GEOG 221/NRSC 221 will be taught on the downtown campus.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ian Brett Strachan, Nancy A Ross
• GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: One of the following: GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Mylene Riva
• NRSC 221 Environment and Health 3 CreditsTaught only in alternate years*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Natural Resource Sciences: Introduction to physical and social environments as factors contributing to the production of human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken GEOG 221.
  • Note: This course is also offered as GEOG 221. Students enrolled in main campus programs register as GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register as NRSC 221.

  • Symbols:
  • Taught only in alternate years
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ian Brett Strachan, Nancy A Ross

* Students take either GEOG 221 or NRSC 221, but not both.

Fundamentals: (12 credits)

12 credits of Fundamentals (3 credits from each category):

Health and Infection

• GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 205 or GEOG 221 or GEOG 321 or GEOG 303 or permission from the instructor
  • Restriction: Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 493 Health & Environment in Africa 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Exploration of key diseases of development, as well as patterns and determinants of health and disease in East Africa. Topics will focus on population and environmental health.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Prerequisite: GEOG 221, GEOG 303 or permission of instructor
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GEOG 403. Open to students in the African Field Study Semester (AFSS) only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geog 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with emphasis on geographical perspectives in public health research. Topics include the social and environmental determinants of chronic and infectious disease, health and health-related behaviours. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography research.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 303 or GEOG 403 or permission of instructor
  • Restrictions: Course open to U3 undergraduate students and graduate students in the Department of Geography OR others with permission of instructor. Not open to students who took GEOG 503 in Winter 2009.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Nancy A Ross, Mylene Riva
• PARA 410 Environment and Infection 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Parasitology: Infectious pathogens of humans and animals and their impact on the global environment are considered. The central tenet is that infectious pathogens are environmental risk factors. The course considers their impact on the human condition and juxtaposes the impact of control and treatment measures and environmental change.

  Offered by: Parasitology

  • 2 lectures per week
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or AEBI 120 or equivalent

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Marilyn E Scott
• PPHS 529 Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context.

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 529.
  • 1. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students.
  • 2.This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
  • 3. Previous coursework in statistics and environmental science is useful, though not required.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Jill Baumgartner

Economics

• AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agricultural Economics: The field of economics as it relates to the activities of individual consumers, firms and organizations. Emphasis is on the application of economic principles and concepts to everyday decision making and to the analysis of current economic issues.

  Offered by: Agricultural Economics

  • Fall
  • 3 lectures

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Aurelie P Harou
• ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sara Hayati, Paul Dickinson, Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
    • Paul Dickinson
• ECON 225 Economics of the Environment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Sandra Saghir

Nutrition

• EDKP 292 Nutrition and Wellness 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Kinesiology&Physical Education: This course will examine the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water in a balanced diet. Students will be introduced to the affects of nutrition on exercise, sport performance and wellness. The validity of claims concerning nutrient supplements will be studied.

  Offered by: Kinesiology and Physical Ed

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDKP 392

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Hugues Plourde, Laura Plante
• NUTR 200 Contemporary Nutrition 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Nutrition and Dietetics: Provides students without a biology/chemistry background with the fundamental tools to critically assess nutrition related information, to evaluate their own diets, and to implement healthy changes. Emphasis is on current issues and maximizing health and disease prevention at different stages of the lifecycle.

  Offered by: Human Nutrition

  • Restriction: Not open for credit to students with a biology or chemistry course in their program, or to students registered in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, or to students who take NUTR 207.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• NUTR 207 Nutrition and Health 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Nutrition and Dietetics: Provides students who have a basic biology/chemistry background with the fundamental information on how macronutrients, vitamins and minerals are metabolized in the body, followed by application to evaluate current issues of maximizing health and disease prevention at different stages of the lifecycle.

  Offered by: Human Nutrition

  • Fall
  • 3 lectures
  • Corequisites: AEBI 202 or CEGEP Objective 00XU or FDSC 230 or CEGEP Objective 00XV
  • Restriction: Not open to students who take NUTR 200 or EDKP 292
  • Restriction: Science students in physical science and psychology programs who wish to take this course should see the Arts and Science Student Affairs Office for permission to register.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Linda J Wykes, Mary Hendrickson

Statistics

One of the following Statistics courses or equivalent:

Note: Credit given for Statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. You should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Arts.

• AEMA 310 Statistical Methods 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci): Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial and Poisson distributions; normal, chi-square, Student's t and Fisher-Snedecor F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance for simple experimental designs.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Two 1.5-hour lectures and one 2-hour lab
  • Please note that credit will be given for only one introductory statistics course. Consult your academic advisor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Pierre R L Dutilleul, Valérie Gravel
    • Pierre R L Dutilleul
• GEOG 202 Statistics & Spatial Analysis 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 2.5 hours and lab
  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Tim Elrick
• MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).

  Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

  • No calculus prerequisites
  • Restriction: This course is intended for students in all disciplines. For extensive course restrictions covering statistics courses see Section 3.6.1 of the Arts and of the Science sections of the calendar regarding course overlaps.
  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar. Students should consult http://www.mcgill.ca/students/transfercredit for information regarding transfer credits for this course.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Abbas Khalili Mahmoudabadi, David B Wolfson
    • David B Wolfson
• SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 211
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PSYC 204, PSYC 305 or ECON 227
  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Ana Laura Fostik Sanchez

List A:

9 credits from List A (maximum 3 credits from any one category):

Health and Society

• ANTH 320 Social Evolution 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: The evolution of human social organization, with a focus on pre-industrial societies (hunter-gatherers, small-scale sedentary societies, complex chiefdoms and small scale states).

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 208, and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology, or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 225 Medicine&Health in Mod Society 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Socio-medical problems and ways in which sociological analysis and research are being used to understand and deal with them. Canadian and Québec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 234 Population & Society 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sarah R Brauner-Otto
• SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée
• SOCI 331 Population and Environment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Main topics and controversies linking population processes and the environment. Topics include how population processes influence the environment, population responses to changing environments, policies related to these effects, variation across and within developed and developing countries.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite(s): SOCI 210 or SOCI 211 or SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 515 Medicine and Society 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Hydrology and Climate

* Note: You may take BREE 217 or GEOG 322, but not both.

• AGRI 452 Water Resources in Barbados 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agriculture: Physical environment challenges, centered on water, being faced by an island nation. Guest speakers, field study tours and laboratory tests. Private, government and NGO institutional context of conservation strategies, and water quantity and quality analyses for water management specific to Barbados.

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering

  • Restrictions: Enrolment in full "Barbados Field Study Semester". Not open to students who have taken CIVE 452.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Ronald Gehr, Angela Keane
• BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Bioresource Engineering: Measurements and analysis of components of the water cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration and groundwater. Analysis of hydrologic data. Hydrograph theory. Hydrologic estimations for design of water control projects; flood control and reservoir routing. Integrated watershed management and water conservation. Water management systems for environmental protection.

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering

  • 3 lectures, one 2-hour lab
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 217.
  • Note: This course carries an additional course charge of $32.25 to cover transportation costs for two field trips, which may include a visit to a national weather station and a trip to gain hands-on experience on monitoring water flow in streams.
  • This course carries an additional course charge of $33.12 to cover transportation costs for two field trips, which may include a visit to a national weather station and a trip to gain hands-on experience on monitoring water flow in streams.
  • Measurements and analysis of components of the water cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration and groundwater. Analysis of hydrologic data. Hydrograph theory. Hydrologic estimations for design of water control projects; flood control and reservoir routing. Integrated watershed management and water conservation. Water management systems for environmental protection.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Shiv Prasher
• GEOG 321 Climatic Environments 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: The earth-atmosphere system, radiation and energy balances. Surface-atmosphere exchange of energy, mass and momentum and related atmospheric processes on a local and regional scale. Introduction to measurement theory and practice in micrometeorology.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or ATOC 210 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ian Brett Strachan
• GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Quantitative, experimental study of the principles governing the movement of water at or near the Earth's surface and how the research relates to the chemistry and biology of ecosystems.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or equivalent

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Bernhard L Lehner

Agriculture

• AEBI 425 Tropical Energy and Food 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): Tropical biofuel crops, conversion processes and final products, particularly energy and greenhouse gas balances and bionutraceuticals. Topics include effects of process extraction during refining on biofuel economics, the food versus fuel debate and impact of biofuels and bioproducts on tropical agricultural economics.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Corequisite(s): AEBI 421, AEBI 423 and AEBI 427.
  • Restriction: Restricted to students that are participating in the Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies Field Semester
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• AGRI 340 Princ of Ecological Agricult 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agriculture: Focus on low-input, sustainable, and organic agriculture: the farm as an ecosystem; complex system theory; practical examples of soil management, pest control, integrated crop and livestock production, and marketing systems.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • 3 lectures and one 2-hour seminar
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken AGRI 250

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Caroline B Begg
• AGRI 411 Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agriculture: International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.

  Offered by: Animal Science

  • Winter
  • Two 2-hour conferences

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Humberto Monardes
• AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture 3 CreditsTaught only in alternate years

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agriculture: Contrast theory and practice in defining agricultural environmental "challenges" in the Neotropics. Indigenous and appropriate technological means of mitigation. Soil management and erosion, water scarcity, water over-abundance, and water quality. Explore agro-ecosystem protection via field trips and project designs. Institutional context of conservation strategies, NGO links, and public participation.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Prerequisites: HISP 218 or equivalent; MATH 203 or AEMA 310 or equivalent
  • Restriction: Restricted Enrolment. Location in Panama. Student must be registered for a full semester of studies in Panama

  • Symbols:
  • Taught only in alternate years

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• NUTR 341 Global Food Security 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Nutrition and Dietetics: Food insecurity is one of the most critical issues humanity has faced in history. The magnitude of this phenomenon, reflected in its worldwide presence and in the number of individuals affected, makes it an imperative component of all nations' and of all internaltional agencies' agendas. Its complexity of determinants and its numerous consequences require the involvement of multipe disciplines and sectors. McGill undergraduate students as future professionals tackling global issues require an integrated and multidisciplinary training on food security.

  Offered by: Human Nutrition

  • Corequisite(s): NUTR 207 or permission of Instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Hugo R Melgar-Quiñonez

Decision Making

• AGEC 333 Resource Economics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agricultural Economics: The role of resources in the environment, use of resources, and management of economic resources within the firm or organization. Problem-solving, case studies involving private and public decision-making in organizations are utilized.

  Offered by: Agricultural Economics

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or equivalent

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Paul Thomassin
• ECON 440 Health Economics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): The organization and performance of Canada's health care system are examined from an economist's perspective. The system is described and its special features analyzed. Much attention is given to the role of government in the system and to financing arrangements for hospital and medical services. Current financial problems are discussed.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 227 or comparable courses or consent of the instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Erin C Strumpf
• PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Philosophy: An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)

  Offered by: Philosophy

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Iwao Hirose
• RELG 270 Religious Ethics & the Environ 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Religious Studies: Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.

  Offered by: Religious Studies

  • Fall: Macdonald Campus (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue). Winter: Downtown Campus.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• URBP 507 Planning and Infrastructure 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Urban Planning: An exploration of the interrelationship between land-use planning and infrastructure provision, especially water and sewerage. An examination of their policy and regulatory frameworks and other methodology of plan making and evaluation.

  Offered by: Urban Planning

  • (8-.5-.5)
  • Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Barbados Field study Semester.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Lisa M Bornstein, Paul Lecavalier

Biology Fundamentals:

* Note: You may take BIOL 308 or ENVB 305, but not both.

• AEBI 210 Organisms 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): The biology of plants and plant-based systems in managed and natural terrestrial environments. The interactions between autotrophs and soil organisms and selected groups of animals with close ecological and evolutionary connections with plants (e.g., herbivores and pollinators) will be explored in lecture and laboratory.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken PLNT 201 or PLNT 211
  • 2 hour lecture and 3 hour lab

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Olivia Wilkins
• AEBI 211 Organisms 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): Introduction to the biology, physiology, structure and function of heterotrophs and their interactions with other organisms. This course will focus on animals in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. Topics include bioenergetics and functional metabolism, adaptations to environments, animal-animal, animal-plant, and animal-pathogen interactions.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Winter
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 200

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Jessica Head
• BIOL 200 Molecular Biology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Sci): The physical and chemical properties of the cell and its components in relation to their structure and function. Topics include: protein structure, enzymes and enzyme kinetics; nucleic acid replication, transcription and translation; the genetic code, mutation, recombination, and regulation of gene expression.

  Offered by: Biology

  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or equivalent
  • Corequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Paul Lasko, Shelton M Hendricks, Monique C Zetka, Kenneth E M Hastings
• BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Sci): Principles of population, community, and ecosystem dynamics: population growth and regulation, species interactions, dynamics of competitive interactions and of predator/prey systems; evolutionary dynamics.

  Offered by: Biology

  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour computer lab/tutorial
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 215 or both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Frederic Guichard
• ENVB 305 Population & Community Ecology 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environmental Biology: Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Winter
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 205

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• LSCI 211 Biochemistry 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Life Sciences: Biochemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids; enzymes and coenzymes. Introduction to intermediary metabolism.

  Offered by: Parasitology

  • Co-requisite: FDSC 230
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken FDSC 211

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Reza Salavati, Elias Georges
    • Armando Jardim, Elias Georges, Reza Salavati

Development and Ecology

• ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: 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.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300 or ENVR 201, or ENVR 203, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Colin H Scott
• ANTH 512 Political Ecology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ismael Vaccaro
• ENVR 421 Mtl:Envr Hist & Sustainability 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: This course will focus on the role of place and history in the cities in which we live and in our understanding of sustainability. Each year, students will work to develop a historical reconstruction of the natural environment of Montreal and of its links to the cultural landscape, building on the work of previous cohorts of students.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Each year focuses on making a specific and unique contribution to The Hochelaga Project; topics vary as required.
  • Prerequisite(s): ENVR 301 or equivalent, or permission from the instructor.
  • Corequisite(s): ENVR 422

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 300 Human Ecology in Geography 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: The course will examine research approaches in human ecology since its inception early in this century. Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical shifts that have led to its emergence as an important social science perspective. The course will also involve case studies to evaluate the methodological utility of the approach.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or ANTH 202 or BIOL 111

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • George Wenzel
• GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • George Wenzel, Sarah E Turner, Yann le Polain de Waroux
• SOCI 254 Development&Underdevelopment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Summer

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

List B:

6 credits from List B (maximum 3 credits from any one category):

Advanced Ecology

* Note: You may take BIOL 451 or NRSC 451, but not both.

• AEBI 421 Trop. Horticultural Ecology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): A comprehensive survey of the major fruit, vegetable, turf, and ornamental crops grown in Barbados. Effect of cultural practices, environment, pests and pathogens, social and touristic activities, and importation of horticultural produce on local horticulture.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Corequisite(s): AEBI 423, AEBI 425, AEBI 427
  • Restriction: Restricted to students that are participating in the Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies Field Semester
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• BIOL 451 Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Sci): Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.

  Offered by: Biology

  • Winter
  • Open only to U2 or later students in the AFSS.
  • Corequisite(s): ANTH 451 or GEOG 451
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 451.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• BIOL 465 Conservation Biology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Sci): Discussion of relevant theoretical and applied issues in conservation biology. Topics: biodiversity, population viability analysis, community dynamics, biology of rarity, extinction, habitat fragmentation, social issues.

  Offered by: Biology

  • Fall
  • 3 hours lecture
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 215 OR both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Lauren J Chapman
• BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Sci): Ecology revisited in view of tropical conditions. Exploring species richness. Sampling and measuring biodiversity. Conservation status of ecosystems, communities and species. Indigenous knowledge.

  Offered by: Biology

  • Winter
  • 24 hours lecture and 36 hours field work over a 4-week period
  • Prerequisites: HISP 218, MATH 203, and BIOL 215
  • Corequisites: ENVR 451; GEOG 404 and HIST 510 alternating with GEOG 498 and AGRI 550
  • Restriction: location in Panama. Students must register for a full semester of studies in Panama

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Catherine Potvin
• ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environmental Biology: Biotic and abiotic processes that control the flows of energy, nutrients and water through ecosystems; emergent system properties; approaches to analyzing complex systems. Labs include collection and multivariate analysis of field data.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: ENVB 222, AEMA 310 or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WOOD 410
  • This course has an additional charge of $16.99 to cover the cost of transportation (bus rental) for local field trips.The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • James W Fyles
• ENVB 500 Advanced Topics Ecotoxicology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environmental Biology: Exploring the impact of environmental chemicals on biological organisms in an ecological context. Basic topics in ecotoxicology, such as source and fate, routes of exposure, bioavailability, dose-response, biomarkers, and risk assessment will be covered from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The processes by which pollutants are tested, regulated, and monitored will be critically examined.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Prerequisite(s): LSCI 211 and AEBI 211 and one of NRSC 333 or ANSC 323, or permission of the instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Jessica Head
• NRSC 451 Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa 3 CreditsTaught only in alternate years*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Natural Resource Sciences: Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Winter
  • Not open to students who have taken or are taking BIOL 451. Open to U2 or later students in the African Field Study Semester (AFSS).
  • Corequisites: ANTH or GEOG 451 Society & Development in Africa

  • Symbols:
  • Taught only in alternate years
  • *

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Pollution Control and Pest Management

• ENTO 350 Insect Biology and Control 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Entomology: Introduction to insect structure, physiology, biochemistry, development, systematics, evolution, ecology and control. Stress on interrelationships and integrated pest control.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Winter
  • 3 hours lecture
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 205 or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ENTO 330 or BIOL 350
  • Note: Offered on the downtown campus. This course is also offered as BIOL 350 in the Fall term.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ENTO 352 Biocontrol of Pest Insects 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Entomology: Modern concepts of integrated control techniques and principles of insect pest management, with emphasis on biological control (use of predators, parasites and pathogens against pest insects), population monitoring, and manipulation of environmental, behavioral and physiological factors in the pest's way of life. Physical, cultural, and genetic controls and an introduction to the use of non-toxic biochemical controls (attractants, repellents, pheromones, antimetabolites).

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Winter
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have previously taken ENTO 452
  • 3 lectures

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Gary Brian Dunphy
• NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Natural Resource Sciences: The environmental contaminants which cause pollution; sources, amounts and transport of pollutants in water, air and soil; waste management.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Fall
  • 3 lectures
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 333

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Lyle Whyte, Jessica Head
• PARA 515 Water, Health and Sanitation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Parasitology: The origin and types of water contaminants including live organisms, infectious agents and chemicals of agricultural and industrial origins. Conventional and new technological developments to eliminate water pollutants. Comparisons of water, health and sanitation between industrialized and developing countries.

  Offered by: Parasitology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Techniques and Management

* Note: You may take ENVB 529 or GEOG 201, but not both.

• AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): Management, preservation, and utilization of forage crops in sustainable tropical environments; examination of their value as livestock feed in terms of nutritional composition and impact on animal performance; land use issues as it pertains to forage and animal production in insular environments.

  Offered by: Plant Science

  • Corequisite(s): AEBI 421, AEBI 425, AEBI 427
  • Restriction: Restricted to students that are participating in the Barbados Interdisciplinary Tropical Studies Field Semester
  • **Since this course is being taught abroad, la Fête Nationale du Québec (June 24th) and Canada Day (July 1st) statutory holidays will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lectures on both Friday, June 24 and Friday, July 1, 2016.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• CHEE 230 Envrnmntl Aspects of Technol 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemical Engineering: The impact of urbanization and technology on the environment. Topics include urbanization: causes, effects, land use regulations; transportation technology and environmental implications; environmental impact of energy conversions; energy policy alternatives; formulation of energy and environmental policy; air pollution: sources, effects, control; water pollution: sources, effects, control.

  Offered by: Chemical Engineering

  • (3-0-6)

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Mgmt 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environmental Biology: Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to the presentation and analysis of ecological information, including sources and capture of spatial data; characterizing, transforming, displaying spatial data; and spatial analysis to solve resource management problems.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Prerequisite(s): At least one environmental science course and one ecology course or permission of instructor
  • Restriction(s): U2 students and above. Not open to students who have taken GEOG 201, GEOG 306 or GEOG 307, ENVB/BREE 430, or BREE 529. Limited to 32 students.
  • Fall

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Jeffrey A Cardille
• ENVR 422 Mtl Urban Sustainability Anal 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Applied and experience-based learning opportunities are employed to critically assess Montreal as a sustainable city through research, discussion, and field trips. The urban environment is considered through various specific dimensions, ranging from: waste, energy, urban agriculture, green spaces and design, or transportation.

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Prerequisite(s): ENVR 301 or equivalent, or permission from the instructor.
  • Corequisite(s): ENVR 421

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 201 Intro Geo-Information Science 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours and lab

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Margaret Kalacska, Grant McKenzie
• GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.

  Offered by: Geography

  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in Geography or MSE or BIOL 308 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Thomas C Meredith
• GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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).

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 302 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Thomas C Meredith
• WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Resource Development: Study of current controversial issues focusing on wildlife conservation. Topics include: animal rights, exotic species, ecotourism, urban wildlife, multi-use of national parks, harvesting of wildlife, biological controls, and endangered species.

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

  • Winter
  • 3 lectures
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NRSC 421.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Kyle Elliott

or, advanced quantitative methods course (with approval of Adviser).

Social Change and Influences

• ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Samuele Collu
• ENVR 430 The Economics of Well-Being 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Environment: Definition, measurement, and determinants of subjective well-being and their implications for policy, growth, and the environment

  Offered by: McGill School of Environment

  • Prerequisites: ECON 230D1/D2 or ECON 250 D1/D2; ECON 227D1/D2 or ECON 257D1/D2 or equivalent; MATH 122 or MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150 or permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: ENVR 430 is not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 430.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 406 Human Dimensions Clim. Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: This course will examine the human dimensions of climate change focusing on the vulnerability of human systems, climate change adaptation and mitigation, key policy debates, and current and future challenges. Case studies will be utilized to provide context and help investigate and understand key concepts, trends, and challenges.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ENVR 200 or GEOG 200 or GEOG 205 or GEOG 300 or GEOG 302

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 514 Clim Change Vulnblty & Adapt 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: A critical examination of: the theoretical and conceptual evolution of climate change vulnerability and adaptation research; methodological developments from the role of model-driven assessments to the rise of participatory case study research, and the integration of vulnerability research into adaptation planning.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Prerequisite: GEOG 406 or ECON 347, or equivalent with permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 249 Health&the Healer in West Hist 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Faith Wallis, Thomas Andreas Schlich
• SOCI 307 Globalization 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Mehri Ghazanjani
• URBP 520 Globaliz: Planning & Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Urban Planning: Economic and social issues related to planning for sustainable development, with a focus on water. Political and environmental determinants of resource use. Impact of global, regional and local institutions, programs and plans in Barbados and in the field locale in general.

  Offered by: Urban Planning

  • (3-3-3)
  • Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Barbados Field Study Semester.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Inteaz Alli, Hugo R Melgar-Quiñonez

Immunology and Infectious Disease

* Note: You may take MIMM 413 or WILD 424, but not both.

• MIMM 214 Intro Immun: Elem of Immunity 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Microbiology and Immun (Sci): Basic immunology, organs and cells, elements of innate immunity, phagocytes, complement, elements of adaptive immunity, B-cells, T-cells, antigen presenting cells, MHC genes and molecules, antigen processing and presentation, cytokines and chemokines. Emphasis on anatomy and the molecular and cellular players working together as a physiological system to maintain human health.

  Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

  • Prerequisite: BIOL 200
  • Corequisite: BIOL 201 or ANAT 212/BIOC 212

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Claire Trottier
• MIMM 314 Intermediate Immunology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Microbiology and Immun (Sci): An intermediate-level immunology course covering the cellular and molecular basis of lymphocyte development and activation in immune responses in health and disease.

  Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

  • Winter
  • 3 hours of lecture
  • Prerequisite: MIMM 214

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ciriaco Piccirillo, Sylvie Fournier, Irah King
• MIMM 324 Fundamental Virology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Microbiology and Immun (Sci): A study of the fundamental properties of viruses and their interactions with host cells. Bacteriophages, DNA- and RNA-containing animal viruses, and retroviruses are covered. Emphasis will be on phenomena occurring at the molecular level and on the regulated control of gene expression in virus-infected cells.

  Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

  • Fall
  • 3 hours of lecture
  • Prerequisites: MIMM 211, BIOL 200, BIOL 201 or BIOC 212

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Selena Sagan, Jose Guerreiro Teodoro, Chen Liang, Dalius J Briedis, Andrew J Mouland, Jacques Archambault
• MIMM 413 Parasitology 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Microbiology and Immun (Sci): A study of the biology, immunological aspects of host-parasite interactions, pathogenicity, epidemiology and molecular biological aspects of selected parasites of medical importance. Laboratory will consist of a lecture on techniques, demonstrations and practical work.

  Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: MIMM 314 or equivalent - ANAT 261 is strongly recommended

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Greg J Matlashewski, Momar Ndao, Timothy Geary, Madhukar Pai
• PARA 438 Immunology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Parasitology: An in-depth analysis of the principles of cellular and molecular immunology. The emphasis of the course is on host defence against infection and on diseases caused by abnormal immune responses.

  Offered by: Parasitology

  • 3 lectures per week
  • Prerequisites: AEBI 202 or LSCI 202 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Gaetan Mario Faubert
• PPHS 501 Population Health&Epidemiology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents concepts and methods of epidemiology at the introductory level. The use of epidemiologic methods for population and public health research and practice will be illustrated. A review of selected population health questions such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the cardiovascular disease epidemic, cigarette smoking, or screening for disease will be presented.

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 501.
  • Course not open to students enrolled in Epidemiology or Public Health programs.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
• WILD 424 Parasitology 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Resource Development: Systematics, morphology, biology and ecology of parasitic protozoa, flatworms, roundworms and arthropods with emphasis on economically and medically important species.

  Offered by: Parasitology

  • Winter
  • 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 424 (formerly ZOOL 424).

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Petra C Rohrbach

Populations and Place

* Note: You may take ANTH 451 or GEOG 451, but not both.

• ANTH 451 Res in Society & Dev in Africa 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Instruction focuses on three goals: 1) existing research in selected core thematic areas, 2) participating in interdisciplinary team research, 3) developing powers of observation and independent inquiry. Students will be expected to develop research activities and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to become conversant with advances in local research in their field.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: Open to U2 or later students in the AFSS.
  • Corequisite: NRSC 452.
  • Restriction: Open only to AFSS students during the year of participation in the field. Not open to students who have taken GEOG 451.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• CANS 407 Regions of Canada 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Canadian Studies: Canadian regionalism and its manifestations in literature and the media, as well as in social and public policy, focusing on one region in Canada.

  Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada

  • Prerequisite: CANS 200 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• EDKP 204 Health Education 3 CreditsIf appropriate, may be included in the academic concentration.

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Kinesiology&Physical Education: A study of the teacher's role in the total school health program at both elementary and high school levels; current issues in contemporary health education.

  Offered by: Kinesiology and Physical Ed

  • Symbols:
  • If appropriate, may be included in the academic concentration.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Jordan Koch
• GEOG 451 Res in Society & Dev in Africa 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Three intersecting components: 1) core development themes including culture change, environmental conservation, water, health, development (urban and rural), governance and conflict resolution, 2) research techniques for topics related to core themes, including ethics, risk, field methods and data analysis, 3) field documentation, scientific recording and communication.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: Open to U2 or later students in the AFSS.
  • Corequisite: NRSC 452.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken, or are taking ANTH 451.

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Envirnmnts 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Focus on understanding of inter-relations between humans and neotropical environments represented in Panama. Study of contemporary rural landscapes, their origins, development and change. Impacts of economic growth and inequality, social organization, and politics on natural resource use and environmental degradation. Site visits and field exercises in peasant/colonist, Amerindian, and plantation communities.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 6 hours lecture for 4 weeks, 3 hours seminar, 2 hours laboratory, 8 hours conference
  • Restriction: Location in Panama. Student must register for a full semester of studies in Panama
  • Prerequisites: HISP 218, MATH 203 or equivalents

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: The social and intellectual history of science and medicine in Canada, from early exploration, through the rise of learned societies, universities and professional organizations, to World War II.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 212

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Elsbeth Anne Heaman
• HIST 510 Enviro. Hist. of L. Am (Field) 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Human-nature interactions over different scales of time in Latin America (with an emphasis on neo-tropical environments) and the application of the historical perspective to contemporary environmental issues, including historiography and methodology; cultures of environmental knowledge.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • This course will be offered in Panama as part of the Panama Field Studies Semester. Language of instruction is in English but fluency in Spanish is required for the fieldwork component of the class.
  • Prerequisites: HISP 218 or HISP 210 or equivalent proficiency

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
• SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: 15 credits in the Social Sciences

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken PPHS 525.
  • Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée
• SOCI 550 Developing Societies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Poulami Roychowdhury

Offered by:Inst for the St of Development
Degree:Bachelor of Arts

Program Requirement:

This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration International Development Studies.

Course Selection Guidelines for the Overall Program

1. At least 9 of the 18 credits must be at the 300 level or above. Ultimately, no 200-level courses can be taken from the Stream list.
2. Students may complete the Minor concentration with no more than 9 credits in total from any one discipline.
Students who are pursuing a Field Studies program can have a portion of their Field Studies courses count towards their IDS program. See Adviser in office for details.

Required Courses (9 credits)

• ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sara Hayati, Paul Dickinson, Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
    • Paul Dickinson
• ECON 313 Economic Development 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Matthieu Chemin
    • Francesco Amodio
• INTD 200 Intro to Int'l Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Kazue Takamura
    • Kazue Takamura

Complementary Courses (9 credits)

Introductory

3 credits from the following introductory courses:

• ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Edward O Kohn
• ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: 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.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Brian E Robinson, Yann le Polain de Waroux
• GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Oliver T Coomes, Sebastien M Breau
• POLI 227 Developing Areas/Introduction 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: 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.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 254 Development&Underdevelopment 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Summer

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Streams

6 credits from any of the four streams:

Stream 1: Economic Development and Living Standards
Stream 2: States and Governance
Stream 3: Culture and Society
Stream 4: Environment and Agricultural Resources

Stream 1: Economic Development and Living Standards

Experience has shown that development requires economic growth and is shaped by the distribution of economic resources. At the same time, the globalized economy has created new opportunities and new challenges for sustained growth. Courses in this stream revolve around the factors contributing to sustained economic growth, the trade-offs associated with different ways of achieving it, and the distributional issues development inevitably raises. More generally, this stream is also concerned with understanding what "development" actually entails in different contexts.

Stream 1 - Agriculture

• AGRI 411 Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agriculture: International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.

  Offered by: Animal Science

  • Winter
  • Two 2-hour conferences

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Humberto Monardes

Stream 1 - Agricultural Economics

• AGEC 430 Agric, Food & Resource Policy 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agricultural Economics: Examination of North American and international agriculture, food and resource policies, policy instruments, programs and their implications. Economic analysis applied to the principles, procedures and objectives of various policy actions affecting agriculture, and the environment.

  Offered by: Agricultural Economics

  • Winter
  • 3 lectures
  • Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or equivalent

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Gordon M Hickey
• AGEC 442 Econ of Int'l Agric Dvlpmnt 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Agricultural Economics: The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.

  Offered by: Agricultural Economics

  • Winter
  • 3 lectures
  • Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or AGEC 201 or equivalent

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Aurelie P Harou

Stream 1 - Anthropology

• ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300 or ENVR 201, or ENVR 203, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Colin H Scott

Stream 1 - Business Administration

• BUSA 433 Topics in Int'l Business 1 3 Credits*

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Business Admin: Current topics in the area of international business. Topics will be selected from important current issues in international business.

  Offered by: Management

  • Corequisite: MGCR 382

  • Symbols:
  • *

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

* When topic is relevant to IDS.

Stream 1 - Economics

• ECON 314 Economic Development 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisite: ECON 313

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Eesha Sen Choudhury
    • Franque Grimard
• ECON 326 Ecological Economics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or consent of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Robin Thomas Naylor
• ECON 336 The Chinese Economy 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): Examination of the growth and transformation of the Chinese economy and the domestic and international implications.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 (or ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2).

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Christopher Green
• ECON 411 Econ Development:A World Area 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (Arts): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 and one semester of economic development

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ECON 416 Topics in Econ Development 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Economics (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.

  Offered by: Economics

  • Prerequisite(s): ECON 230 or ECON 250 and ECON 227D1/D2 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Francesco Amodio

Stream 1 - Geography

• GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: One of the following: GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Mylene Riva
• GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • George Wenzel, Sarah E Turner, Yann le Polain de Waroux
• GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 205 or GEOG 221 or GEOG 321 or GEOG 303 or permission from the instructor
  • Restriction: Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• GEOG 408 Geography of Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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).

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Jon D Unruh
• GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200 or GEOG 310 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Sarah E Turner
• GEOG 410 Geog of Underdvlpmnt:Cur Probs 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Geography: 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.

  Offered by: Geography

  • Winter
  • 3 hours
  • Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 1 - History

• HIST 361 Topics in Cdn Regional History 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Topics in Canadian regional history. Topics will vary by year.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or permission of instructor
  • Not open to students who have taken HIST 432.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 1 - International Development Studies

• INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: This is a general survey course intended to familiarize students with the complexities surrounding the interaction between culture and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific themes may include religion, democracy, gender, diaspora communities and the environment, using relevant case studies from the developing world.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite(s): A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 with the same topic: "Culture and Development" prior to Fall 2017. Open to U2 and U3 students only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Kazue Takamura
• INTD 397 Topics in Int'l Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Examines topics in specific problem areas in International Development Studies. Content varies every term.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Megan Bradley
    • Kazue Takamura
• INTD 490 Development Research Project 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite: completion of ECON 313 and 3 credits of IDS Group A Complementary Courses
  • Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in International Development Studies Concentrations with prior approval of IDS program adviser and project supervisor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • R Philip Buckley, Subho Basu, Enid G Coleman, Kazue Takamura
• INTD 499 Internship: Intl. Develop. St. 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Internship with an approved host institution or organization.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 3.3 and permission of the department Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to the successful completion of the student's tenure. Only tenure track professors or McGIll faculty lectures may supervise.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sarah Moser, Katherine Lemons, Kazue Takamura, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Maria F Macchi, Paola Perez-Aleman, Khalid M Medani, Jon D Unruh

Stream 1 - Management Core

• MGCR 360 Social Context of Business 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Management Core: This course examines how business interacts with the larger society. It explores the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Students will examine these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.

  Offered by: Management

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Robert James David, Nii Antiaye Addy, Lindsay Holmgren
    • Lindsay Holmgren, Jan J Jorgensen, Arvind Karunakaran
• MGCR 382 International Business 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Management Core: An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.

  Offered by: Management

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Donald Melville, John Saba, Jan J Jorgensen
    • John Saba, Donald Melville

Stream 1 - Management Policy

• MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneur&Innovation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Management Policy: Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction(s): Open to U2, U3 students only. Students cannot receive credits if they already received credits for MGPO 434.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Steve Maguire
• MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Management Policy: This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Dror Etzion
• MGPO 475 Strategies for Devel Countries 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Management Policy: Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Paola Perez-Aleman

Stream 1 - Political Science

• POLI 372 Aboriginal Politics in Canada 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: The relationship of aboriginal politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, and aboriginal political development.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: At least one course in Canadian politics such as, POLI 221 or POLI 222 OR Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 372 prior to W06.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics; and one 300 or 400-level course on developing areas (any discipline.) The same course can fulfill both requirements
  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Narendra Subramanian
• POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: POLI 243 or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Krzysztof J Pelc
• POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: POLI 243 or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Mark R Brawley

Stream 1 - Sociology

• SOCI 307 Globalization 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Mehri Ghazanjani
• SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Amélie Quesnel Vallée
• SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 513 Soc Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisites: SOCI 225 or SOCI 309 or Permission of Instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 2: States and Governance

The courses in this stream focus on how political institutions shape developmental processes. Some courses analyze states and recognize how some promote development by providing diverse developmental goods while others impede development by preying on their peoples. Other courses focus on regimes and consider how political rights and participation, or their absences, affect developmental processes. Finally, several courses consider factors that make possible effective states and regimes.

Stream 2 - Anthropology

• ANTH 342 Gender, Inequality & the State 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Comparative studies of gender in stratified societies: Asia, the Mid-East, Latin and North America. Economic, political and social manifestations of gender inequality. Oppressive and egalitarian ideologies. State and institutional policies on gender, and male-female strategies. Sexual apartheid and integration.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 341, or Women's Studies Minor, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 512 Political Ecology 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Ismael Vaccaro

Stream 2 - History

• HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 and HIST 203 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Robert Jarrett Rudy

Stream 2 - International Development Studies

• INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: This is a general survey course intended to familiarize students with the complexities surrounding the interaction between culture and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific themes may include religion, democracy, gender, diaspora communities and the environment, using relevant case studies from the developing world.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite(s): A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 with the same topic: "Culture and Development" prior to Fall 2017. Open to U2 and U3 students only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Kazue Takamura
• INTD 397 Topics in Int'l Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Examines topics in specific problem areas in International Development Studies. Content varies every term.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Megan Bradley
    • Kazue Takamura
• INTD 490 Development Research Project 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite: completion of ECON 313 and 3 credits of IDS Group A Complementary Courses
  • Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in International Development Studies Concentrations with prior approval of IDS program adviser and project supervisor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • R Philip Buckley, Subho Basu, Enid G Coleman, Kazue Takamura
• INTD 499 Internship: Intl. Develop. St. 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Internship with an approved host institution or organization.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 3.3 and permission of the department Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to the successful completion of the student's tenure. Only tenure track professors or McGIll faculty lectures may supervise.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sarah Moser, Katherine Lemons, Kazue Takamura, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Maria F Macchi, Paola Perez-Aleman, Khalid M Medani, Jon D Unruh

Stream 2 - Islamic Studies

• ISLA 360 Islam and Politics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Lara Khattab
• ISLA 383 Central Questions-Islamic Law 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 2 - Latin American & Caribbean Studies

• LACS 497 ResSem:Latin Amer&theCaribbean 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Latin American & Caribbean St: An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the Latin-American and Caribbean Studies Program.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Restriction: Open to Program students and to others with permission of the Program Adviser.
  • Ordinarily offered in alternate years

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Katherine Zien

Stream 2 - Political Science

• POLI 319 Politics of Latin America 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • 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.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Daniel Douek
• POLI 322 Political Change: South Asia 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • 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.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 324 Developing Areas/Africa 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: 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.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • 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.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Khalid M Medani
• POLI 340 Developing Areas/Middle East 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).

  Offered by: Political Science

  • 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.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Rex J Brynen
• POLI 341 Foreign Policy:The Middle East 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 345 International Organizations 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: A basic course in International Politics or written consent of instructor
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 347 Arab-Israel Confl,Crisis,Peace 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: 160-243 prior to 1997-98; or POLI 244
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Daniel Douek
• POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 359 Topics in Intl Politics 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: A specific problem area in International Relations.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Krzysztof J Pelc
• POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: 200 level course in comparative politics (POLI 211, POLI 212, or POLI 227).

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 372 Aboriginal Politics in Canada 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: The relationship of aboriginal politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, and aboriginal political development.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: At least one course in Canadian politics such as, POLI 221 or POLI 222 OR Permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 372 prior to W06.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 422 Developing Areas/Topics 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: A specific problem area in the Comparative Politics of Developing Areas.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
  • Note: The field is Comparative Politics in Developing Areas.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Aaron S Erlich
    • Rex J Brynen
• POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics; and one 300 or 400-level course on developing areas (any discipline.) The same course can fulfill both requirements
  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Narendra Subramanian
• POLI 435 Identity and Inequality 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: 300 level course in comparative politics or related social science course.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: POLI 243 or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Krzysztof J Pelc
• POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: POLI 243 or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: The field is International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Mark R Brawley
• POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics/developing areas and international relations. Internet research skills are strongly recommended
  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas; also in the field of International Politics.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Rex J Brynen
• POLI 473 Democracy and the Market 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: The course examines the relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization. The inter-play of societal, state-level and international actors, and the possible trade-offs involved, are explored using examples from Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and other developing areas.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • Prerequisite: A course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
  • Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• POLI 474 Inequality and Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Political Science: The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the developing world; the historical roots of inequality in different regions, varying manifestations of inequality (class, region, ethnicity, gender), and selected contemporary problems.

  Offered by: Political Science

  • 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.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 2 - Sociology

• SOCI 484 Emerging Democratic States 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisite: SOCI 210

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• SOCI 550 Developing Societies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (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.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Poulami Roychowdhury

Stream 2 - Social Work

• SWRK 400 Policy & Practice for Refugees 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Social Work: Refugee-generating conflicts, international and national responses are considered. Canadian policy, history and response to refugees are analyzed. Theory-grounded practice with refugees is examined, including community organizing and direct service delivery to individuals and families.

  Offered by: Social Work

  • Restrictions: Limited to BSW U3 and U3 non- Social Work students

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Nicole Ives

Stream 3: Culture and Society

The courses in this stream focus on how the social structures, history, and culture of populations affect developmental processes. Associations, class, gender, religion, race, and ethnicity, for example, all shape development in multiple and diverse ways. Moreover, present developmental processes oftentimes cannot be adequately understood without considering history. Culture, in turn, is increasingly recognized within development studies as both a determinant and a constitutive element of development. In exploring all three, the courses in this stream provide important insight into the complex and varied relationship between social context and development.

Stream 3 - Anthropology

• ANTH 301 Nomadic Pastoralists 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: 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.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 318 Globalization and Religion 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: 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.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Evan K Kirigia
• ANTH 326 Anthropology of Latin America 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Central themes in the anthropology of Latin America, including colonialism, religiosity, sexuality and gender, indigeneity, social movements, and transnationalism.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202 or 204 or 205 or 206 or 212 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Kristin Norget
• ANTH 327 Anthropology of South Asia 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 329 Modern Chinese Society&Change 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: 20th and 21st century Chinese economic, social and cultural changes and continuities. Topics include rural development, revolution and reform policies, gender and households, family planning, minorities, urbanization, and human rights.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisites: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212, or East Asian Studies Honours/Major, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 338 Native Peoples of N America 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Ethnographic survey of Native cultures in North America. Conditions arising from European colonization and their social, economic and political impact. Contemporary situation of indigenous peoples.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or GEOG 336, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 340 Middle Eastern Society&Culture 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 341 Women in Cross-Cultural Persp 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: A wide range of anthropological studies are examined and compared, along with theoretical models regarding changes in women's positions. The impact of colonialism, women and social change, and problems of women in developing societies are examined.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: ANTH 202 or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 342, or Women's Studies Minor, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 342 Gender, Inequality & the State 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Comparative studies of gender in stratified societies: Asia, the Mid-East, Latin and North America. Economic, political and social manifestations of gender inequality. Oppressive and egalitarian ideologies. State and institutional policies on gender, and male-female strategies. Sexual apartheid and integration.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 341, or Women's Studies Minor, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 422 Contemp.Latin Amer Cult & Soc 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Themes central to the culture and society of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, including globalization, questions of race and ethnicity, (post)modernity, social movements, constructions of gender and sexuality, and national and diasporic identities.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisites: ANTH 355, or ANTH 352, or HISP 226, or permission of the instructor.
  • Restriction: U3 students.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ANTH 436 North American Native Peoples 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: A detailed examination of selected contemporary problems.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ANTH 338, or ANTH 336, or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sarah C Moritz
• ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity & Diaspora 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Anthropology: Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.

  Offered by: Anthropology

  • Winter
  • Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
  • Enrolment Limit: 25 students.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 3 - Canadian Studies

• CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Canadian Studies: An examination of the work of selected First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists in Canada.

  Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ARTH 315 or have taken "Aboriginal Art and Culture" as a CANS or ARTH topics course.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year

Stream 3 - History

Students may count either HIST 339 or POLI 347 toward Stream 3 but not both. See the Political Science course list for Stream 3.

• HIST 309 Hist of Latin America to 1825 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: The social, cultural, and economic aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean in the colonial period. Topics include: pre-Columbian and hispanic cultures in conflict, plantation empires, and the transition to independence. The sequel to this course is HIST 360.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Fall

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Laurent Corbeil
• HIST 317 Intro to Indian Ocean Wld Hist 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Examines the unifying features that linked the entire region from eastern Africa to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East from early times to c.1900.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: A 200-level African or Asian history course or a political science course or an Islamic Studies course or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 333 Natives and French 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Encounters between indigenous peoples and French newcomers in Canada and other parts of North America, 16th - 18th century. Through an examination of exploration, Catholic missions, trade, military alliances and colonization, the course focuses on the motives, outlooks and actions of both natives and Europeans.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: Any course in history or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Catherine M Desbarats
• HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: one previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 339 Arab-Israeli Conflict 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: The political, military, and diplomatic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with a focus on a number of historiographical debates over specific issues, such as the 1948 and 1967 wars, and the failures of the various peace initiatives.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Restriction: Open to U2 or U3 students only or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 340 History of Modern Egypt 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 341 Themes in South Asian History 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Themes may vary from year to year.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Subho Basu
• HIST 360 Latin America since 1825 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence. Emphasis on the domestic history of the region, with some attention to relations with the United States and Europe.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Iwa Nawrocki
• HIST 361 Topics in Cdn Regional History 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Topics in Canadian regional history. Topics will vary by year.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or permission of instructor
  • Not open to students who have taken HIST 432.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 202 and HIST 203 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Robert Jarrett Rudy
• HIST 366 Themes: Latin American Hist 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 309 or HIST 360 or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: Topics will vary from year to year.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
• HIST 382 History of South Africa 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: 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.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 200 or HIST 201 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • J Elizabeth Elbourne
• HIST 408 Colonialism and Native Peoples 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: The nature and consequences of encounters between American native peoples and Europeans.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 202

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 409 Themes: Latin American Hist 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: In-depth discussion and research on a circumscribed topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisites: HIST 309 or HIST 360 and at least one other course in the Latin America area or permission of instructor.
  • Note: Topics will vary from year to year.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 419 Central America 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: The study of historical roots of the regional crisis of the 1980s, with particular attention to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisite: HIST 309, HIST 360 or permission of instructor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• HIST 528 Indian Ocean World Slave Trade 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  History: 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.

  Offered by: History and Classical Studies

  • Prerequisites: HIST 200 or HIST 213 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 467.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Gwyn R Campbell

Stream 3 - International Development Studies

• INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: This is a general survey course intended to familiarize students with the complexities surrounding the interaction between culture and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific themes may include religion, democracy, gender, diaspora communities and the environment, using relevant case studies from the developing world.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite(s): A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 with the same topic: "Culture and Development" prior to Fall 2017. Open to U2 and U3 students only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Kazue Takamura
• INTD 397 Topics in Int'l Development 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Examines topics in specific problem areas in International Development Studies. Content varies every term.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students only.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Megan Bradley
    • Kazue Takamura
• INTD 490 Development Research Project 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Prerequisite: completion of ECON 313 and 3 credits of IDS Group A Complementary Courses
  • Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in International Development Studies Concentrations with prior approval of IDS program adviser and project supervisor

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • R Philip Buckley, Subho Basu, Enid G Coleman, Kazue Takamura
• INTD 499 Internship: Intl. Develop. St. 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  International Development: Internship with an approved host institution or organization.

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

  • Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 3.3 and permission of the department Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to the successful completion of the student's tenure. Only tenure track professors or McGIll faculty lectures may supervise.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sarah Moser, Katherine Lemons, Kazue Takamura, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Maria F Macchi, Paola Perez-Aleman, Khalid M Medani, Jon D Unruh

Stream 3 - Islamic Studies

• ISLA 310 Women in Islam 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ISLA 345 Science&Civilization in Islam 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: History of scientific traditions and ideas in Islamic civilization, from the origins of Islam to the early modern period. Emphasis is on the derivation, development and transmissions of Islamic science, as well as on the assimilation and influence of science within Islamic culture.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of the instructor.
  • Note: All readings are in English.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Faiz J Ragep
• ISLA 355 Modern History: Middle East 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ISLA 360 Islam and Politics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: 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.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Lara Khattab
• ISLA 365 Middle East Since the 1970's 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ISLA 383 Central Questions-Islamic Law 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Winter
  • Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ISLA 411 History:Middle-East 1918-1945 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • 3 hours

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year
• ISLA 415 Modern Iran: Anthro Approach 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Setrag Manoukian
• ISLA 421 Islamic Culture-Indian Subcont 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Islamic Studies: Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.

  Offered by: Islamic Studies

  • Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.

  • Symbols:

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2018-2019 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018-2019 academic year