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The following degrees cover various aspects of global health offered by departments all across the university. Please contact the host department for more information. Please note that these degrees are NOT offered by the McGill Global Health Programs office.
If you are looking to pursue thesis graduate studies, you can also search our Research section for individual Faculty members or research groups whose work match your research interests.
Undergraduate Degrees
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Minor Concentration Health Geography (18 Credits)
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)
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GEOG 201 Intro Geo-Information Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Tim Elrick
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GEOG 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- 3 hours
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
- In Fall 2019, GEOG 221 will be taught at Macdonald campus. 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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: ENVR 201; GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mylene Riva
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GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (6 credits)
3 credits from:
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ENVR 200 The Global Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Fall
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anthony Ricciardi, Christie Lovat
- Christie Lovat
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ENVR 201 Society,Environ&Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Fall
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Madhav Govind Badami, Jeffrey A Cardille, Geoffrey Garver
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GEOG 203 Environmental Systems 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gail L Chmura, Graham K MacDonald, Sara H Knox
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GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Benjamin Forest, Sarah Moser
3 credits from:
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GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geog 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mylene Riva
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PPHS 501 Population Health&Epidemiology 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Ananya Banerjee
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PPHS 511 Fundamentals of Global Health 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024
- Instructors
- Madhukar Pai
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PPHS 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits*+
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Amélie Quesnel Vallée
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PPHS 529 Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Scott Andrew Weichenthal
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SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits*+
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Amélie Quesnel Vallée
+ Students can take PPHS 525 OR SOCI 525
* These courses may have additional prerequisites or restrictions.
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Faculty Program Environment - Ecological Determinants of Health in Society (54 Credits)
Offered by:Bieler 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):
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MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent.2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 140 or MATH 150. 3) 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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Hovsep Mazakian, Sidney Trudeau
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MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken MATH139 or MATH 150 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sidney Trudeau, Marcin Sabok, Artem Kalmykov
Basic Science
3 credits of basic science from the following, or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00UK):
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AEBI 120 General Biology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Fall
- 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab per week
- Restriction: Not open to students who have obtained CEGEP competency 00UK.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Christie Lovat
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BIOL 111 Principles:Organismal Biology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2 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
- Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Anna L Hargreaves, Anne-Marie L'Heureux, Benjamin Jesse Shapiro, Andrew Hendry, Elena M Cristescu
Suggested First Year (U1) Courses
For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "Bieler School of Environment Student Handbook" available on the website (http://www.mcgill.ca/environment), 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.
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ENVR 200 The Global Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Fall
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Anthony Ricciardi, Christie Lovat
- Christie Lovat
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ENVR 201 Society,Environ&Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Fall
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Madhav Govind Badami, Jeffrey A Cardille, Geoffrey Garver
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ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Winter
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brian Leung, Raja Sengupta, Fiona M Soper, Christie Lovat
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ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics&Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
- Section 001: Downtown Campus
- Section 051: Macdonald Campus
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Nicolas Kosoy, Julia Freeman
- Iwao Hirose, Amy Janzwood
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ENVR 301 Environmental Research Design 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler 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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Raja Sengupta
- Julia Freeman
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ENVR 400 Environmental Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler 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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Nicolas Kosoy, Julia Freeman
- Renee Sieber, Amy Janzwood
Core: Complementary Course - Senior Research Project (3 credits)
Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.
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AEBI 427 Barbados Interdisc Project 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 18, 2020.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Project course AEBI 427 runs concurrently with the other courses (AEBI 421, AEBI 423 & AEBI 425) and the Mondays of each week are dedicated to AEBI 427.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENVR 401 Environmental Research 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): ENVR 301 and MATH 203 or equivalent, or by permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Only open to U3 students in their final year in the following programs: B.A. Faculty Program in Environment, B.A.& Sc. Interfaculty Program in Environment, B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) and B.Sc. Major in Environment, and Diploma in Environment.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fiona M Soper, Renee Sieber, Christie Lovat, Kevin B Manaugh, Jen Gobby
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ENVR 451 Research in Panama 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Winter
- Restriction: students in the Panama Field Semester program. Offered in Panama only
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FSCI 444 Barbados Research Project 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Faculty of Science: A research project that is supervised by McGill academic staff and is conducted in collaboration with local partners. The project topic must relate to the field of sustainability relating to the Caribbean or Barbados specifically.
Offered by: Science
- Corequisites GEOG 340, ATOC 341, BIOL 343 or permission of the Program Director.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students from all faculties who are registered in the Barbados Field Study Semester, with minimum CGPA of 3.0.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Virginie Millien
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
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GEOG 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- 3 hours
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
- In Fall 2019, GEOG 221 will be taught at Macdonald campus. 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.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: ENVR 201; GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mylene Riva
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NRSC 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
* 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
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GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 493 Health & Environment in Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geog 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mylene Riva
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PARA 410 Environment and Infection 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Lucienne Tritten
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PPHS 529 Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Scott Andrew Weichenthal
Economics
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AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Aurelie P Harou
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ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Eesha Sen Choudhury, Leonie Baumann
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ECON 225 Economics of the Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner
Nutrition
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EDKP 292 Nutrition and Wellness 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Hugues Plourde, Sarah Blunden
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NUTR 207 Nutrition and Health 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: FDSC 230 [for students that have not taken the CEGEP equivalent OOXV].
- Prerequisites: AEBI 122 or BIOL 112 or CEGEP equivalent OOXU
- 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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Linda J Wykes
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.
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AEMA 310 Statistical Methods 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Pierre R L Dutilleul
- Jaskaran Dhiman
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GEOG 202 Statistics & Spatial Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- 3 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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mallik Mahmud
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MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jose Andres Correa, David A Stephens
- Alia Sajjad
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SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Orsola Torrisi
List A:
9 credits from List A (maximum 3 credits from any one category):
Health and Society
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SOCI 225 Medicine&Health in Mod Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 234 Population & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 331 Population and Environment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 515 Medicine and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Hydrology and Climate
* Note: You may take BREE 217 or GEOG 322, but not both.
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AGRI 452 Water Resources in Barbados 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Bioresource Engineering: Introduction to water resources and hydrologic cycle. Precipitation and hydrologic frequency analysis. Soil water processes, infiltration theory and modeling. Evapotranspiration estimation methods and crop water requirements. Surface runoff estimation as a function of land use modifications. Estimation of peak runoff rates. Unit hydrograph. Design of open channels and vegetated waterways.
Offered by: Bioresource Engineering
- Three lectures, one 2-hour lab per week.
- This course carries an additional course charge for field trips.
- This course carries an additional course charge of $20.01 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.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Shiv Prasher
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GEOG 321 Climatic Environments 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sara H Knox
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GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Bernhard L Lehner, Genevieve Ali
Agriculture
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AEBI 425 Tropical Energy and Food 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Project course AEBI 427 runs concurrently with the other courses (AEBI 421, AEBI 423 & AEBI 425) and the Mondays of each week are dedicated to AEBI 427.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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AGRI 340 Princ of Ecological Agricult 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- .
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Caroline B Begg
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AGRI 411 Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Elsa Vasseur
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AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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NUTR 341 Global Food Security 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Hugo R Melgar-Quiñonez
- Hugo R Melgar-Quiñonez
Decision Making
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AGEC 333 Resource Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Julian V Karaguesian
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ECON 440 Health Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Iwao Hirose
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RELG 270 Religious Ethics & the Environ 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Biology Fundamentals:
* Note: You may take BIOL 308 or ENVB 305, but not both.
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AEBI 210 Organisms 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of lab, per week.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mehran Dastmalchi
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AEBI 211 Organisms 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Biology (Agric & Envir Sc): Introduction to the biology of heterotrophs, focusing on animal diversity from the perspectives of phylogenetics, physiology, and ecology. Introduction to major animal taxa, comparing and contrasting these taxa, and exploration of the relationships among them.
Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences
- Restrictions: None
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jessica Head
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BIOL 200 Molecular Biology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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, or CHEM 204
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kenneth E M Hastings, Paul Lasko, Shaun Turney, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Serge Champetier
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BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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, 2 hour computer lab/tutorial
- Prerequisite: BIOL 215 or both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Frederic Guichard, Gregor F Fussmann
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ENVB 305 Population & Community Ecology 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Melissa McKinney
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LSCI 211 Biochemistry 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Life Sciences: Biochemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids; enzymes and coenzymes. Introduction to intermediary metabolism.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Igor Cestari, Thavy Long
- Thavy Long, Igor Cestari
Development and Ecology
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Colin H Scott
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ANTH 512 Political Ecology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENVR 421 Mtl:Envr Hist & Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler 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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 300 Human Ecology in Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 254 Development&Underdevelopment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Isabel Pike
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SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 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.
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AEBI 421 Trop. Horticultural Ecology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Project course AEBI 427 runs concurrently with the other courses (AEBI 421, AEBI 423 & AEBI 425) and the Mondays of each week are dedicated to AEBI 427.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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BIOL 451 Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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BIOL 465 Conservation Biology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Lauren J Chapman, Andrew Gonzalez
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BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- This course carries an additional charge of $20.54 to cover the cost of transportation (bus rental) for local field trips. The fee is refundable only during the withdrawal with full refund period.
- Prerequisites: ENVB 222, AEMA 310 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Karen F Favret, Brian T Driscoll
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ENVB 500 Advanced Topics Ecotoxicology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jessica Head
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NRSC 451 Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Pollution Control and Pest Management
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ENTO 350 Insect Biology and Control 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENTO 352 Biocontrol of Pest Insects 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- .
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- .
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jessica Head, Nastasia J Freyria
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PARA 515 Water, Health and Sanitation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Niladri Basu
Techniques and Management
* Note: You may take ENVB 529 or GEOG 201, but not both.
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AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 Wednesday, June 24 and Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
- **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.
- Project course AEBI 427 runs concurrently with the other courses (AEBI 421, AEBI 423 & AEBI 425) and the Mondays of each week are dedicated to AEBI 427.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Mgmt 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024
- Instructors
- Jeffrey A Cardille, Viacheslav Adamchuk, Jaskaran Dhiman
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ENVR 422 Mtl Urban Sustainability Anal 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite(s): ENVR 301 or equivalent, or permission from the instructor.
- Corequisite(s): ENVR 421
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 201 Intro Geo-Information Science 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024
- Instructors
- Tim Elrick
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GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sarah M Harris
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GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- .
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kyle Elliott
or, advanced quantitative methods course (with approval of Adviser).
Social Change and Influences
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ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Todd E Meyers
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ENVR 430 The Economics of Well-Being 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Environment: Definition, measurement, and determinants of subjective well-being and their implications for policy, growth, and the environment
Offered by: Bieler 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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 340 Sustain. in the Caribbean 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: The local environmental, social, historical, political and economic context of Barbados and the Caribbean. The small island developing States (SIDS), and why those nations are more vulnerable to global environmental challenges. The 17 Sustainability Development Goals of the United Nations, with a focus on the leadership role played by Barbados for the entire Caribbean region.
Offered by: Geography
- Corequisites: ATOC 341, BIOL 343, FSCI 444 or permission of the Program Director.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students from all faculties who are registered in the Barbados Field Study Semester, with minimum CGPA of 3.0.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Virginie Millien
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GEOG 406 Human Dimensions Clim. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 514 Clim Change Vulnblty & Adapt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mette Bendixen
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HIST 249 Health&the Healer in West Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sebestian Kroupa, Thomas Schlich
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SOCI 307 Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ina Filkobski
Immunology and Infectious Disease
* Note: You may take MIMM 413 or WILD 424, but not both.
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MIMM 214 Intro Immun: Elem of Immunity 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Jasmin K Chahal
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MIMM 314 Intermediate Immunology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ciriaco Piccirillo, Irah King, Heather Melichar
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MIMM 324 Fundamental Virology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jose Guerreiro Teodoro, Chen Liang, George Kukolj, Dalius J Briedis, Andrew J Mouland, Jacques Archambault, Qian Liu, Leo Liu
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MIMM 413 Parasitology 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Greg J Matlashewski, Momar Ndao
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PARA 424 Fundamental Parasitology 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Parasitology: Systematics, morphology, biology and ecology of parasitic protozoa, flatworms, roundworms and arthropods with emphasis on economically and medically important species.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Prerequisite(s): AEBI 211 or LSCI 230 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken WILD 424.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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PARA 438 Immunology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Karine Sonzogni-Desautels
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PPHS 501 Population Health&Epidemiology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Ananya Banerjee
Populations and Place
* Note: You may take ANTH 451 or GEOG 451, but not both.
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ANTH 451 Res in Society & Dev in Africa 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDKP 204 Health Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jordan Koch
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GEOG 451 Res in Society & Dev in Africa 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Envirnmnts 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yann le Polain de Waroux
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HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 510 Enviro. Hist. of L. Am (Field) 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Thomas G Soehl
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SOCI 525 HlthCare Systems in Comp Persp 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Amélie Quesnel Vallée
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SOCI 550 Developing Societies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Minor Concentration International Development Studies (18 Credits)
Offered by:Inst for the St of Development
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
The B.A.; Minor Concentration in International Development Studies focuses on the many challenges facing developing countries, including issues related to socio-economic inequalities and well being, governance, peace and conflict, environment and sustainability, and key development-related themes.
NOTE: At least 9 of the 18 credits must be at the 300 level or above.
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)
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ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Eesha Sen Choudhury, Leonie Baumann
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ECON 313 Economic Development 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Franque Grimard
- Nicolas Ajzenman
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INTD 200 Intro to Int'l Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
- Kazue Takamura
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
Thematic
9 credits from the following:
African Studies
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AFRI 200 Intro to African Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:African Studies: The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Milka Nyariro
Agriculture
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AGRI 411 Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Elsa Vasseur
Agricultural Economics
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AGEC 430 Agric, Food & Resource Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gordon M Hickey
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AGEC 442 Econ of Int'l Agric Dvlpmnt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Aurelie P Harou
Anthropology
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ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Edward O Kohn
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ANTH 206 Environment and Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 207 Ethnography Through Film 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Katherine Lemons
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 214 Violence, Warfare, Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Cultural diversity and comparative perspectives on violence and warfare; sociological, political, materialist, psychological, and ideological explanations of conflict. Examines historical and contemporary cases of warfare in state and pre-state societies; 'ethnic', civil, nationalist secessionist and genocidal forms of conflicts; processes of conflict avoidance and resolution, peace-making and -keeping.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 222 Legal Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Todd E Meyers
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ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anth. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 227
- Restriction: Anthropology program students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 304 Chinese Cult in Ethnogr & Film 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Uses both ethnography and film to examine 20Ih century Chinese society and popular culture in the context of the revolution and its aftermath.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisites: ANTH 202 or ANTH 204 or ANTH 209 and another 200-level anthropology course, U2 standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: U2 standing or above.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sandra T Hyde
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ANTH 308 Political Anthropology 01 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: The study of political systems and political processes. Conflict and its resolution. The emphasis of the course will be on local-level politics and non-industrial societies.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 318 Globalization and Religion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 326 Anthropology of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 327 Anthropology of South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Vineet Rathee
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ANTH 338 Indigenous Studies of Anthro 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leslie James Sabiston
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ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Colin H Scott
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ANTH 343 Anthropology and the Animal 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: This course explores through the ethnographic study of human-animal relations how the question of "the animal" helps us examine our central assumptions about what it means to be human.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Prerequisite: One ANTH 200 level course or consent of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Edward O Kohn
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ANTH 355 Theories of Culture & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level
- Restriction: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Margaret E Stevenson
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ANTH 418 Environment and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Advanced study of the environmental crisis in developing and advanced industrial nations, with emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management and environmental change. Each year, the seminar will focus on a particular set of issues, delineated by type of resource, geographic region, or analytical problem.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 339, or ANTH 349, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300, or GEOG 302, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 422 Contemp.Latin Amer Cult & Soc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 436 North American Native Peoples 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: A detailed examination of selected contemporary problems.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 438 Topics in Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity & Diaspora 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 512 Political Ecology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Business Administration
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BUSA 433 Topics in Int'l Business 1 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
* When topic is relevant to IDS.
Canadian Studies
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CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gloria J Bell
East Asian Studies
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EAST 211 Intro:East Asian Culture:China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 213 Intro:East Asian Culture:Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
Economics
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ECON 205 An Intro to Political Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A critical study of the insights to be gained through economic analysis of a number of problems of broad interest. The focus will be on the application of economics to issues of public policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 205D.
- Restriction: This course does not count for credit towards the Minor Concentration, Major Concentration, or Honours degree in Economics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 295, ECON 330 or ECON 352
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Paul T Dickinson
- Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
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ECON 223 Pol Economy of Trade Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 208
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Ling Ling Zhang
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ECON 314 Economic Development 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matthieu Chemin
- Franque Grimard
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ECON 326 Ecological Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 336 The Chinese Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Robert D Cairns
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ECON 411 Econ Development:A World Area 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 416 Topics in Econ Development 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Francesco Amodio, Franque Grimard
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ECON 473 Income Distribution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Economics of income and wealth distribution, and the study of inequality. The dynamics of income, saving and wealth and their determinants. Macroeconomic implications. Effects of fiscal and redistributive programmes. The role of unemployment.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Markus K Poschke
English
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ENGL 290 Postcolonial&World Lits: Engl 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): A critical introduction to the field of postcolonial and world literature studies, drawing on a selection texts from South and East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Offered by: English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sandeep Banerjee, Tazreen J Bari, Yusuf Saadi
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ENGL 421 African Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): A study of African literature.
Offered by: English
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Winter
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENGL 440 First Nations&Inuit Lit&Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
Offered by: English
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Winter
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 415 or ENGL 419 as "Native Canadian Literature" or as "Inuit Literature".
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Geography
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GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Oliver T Coomes, Sébastien Breau
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GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Benjamin Forest, Sarah Moser
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GEOG 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- 3 hours
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
- In Fall 2019, GEOG 221 will be taught at Macdonald campus. 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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sarah M Harris
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GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: ENVR 201; GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mylene Riva
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GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 311 Economic Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
Offered by: Geography
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sébastien Breau
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GEOG 325 New Master-Planned Cities 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: This course examines the origins, designs, motivations and cultural politics of planned cities, focusing primarily on those currently under construction in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A variety of themes will be explored including design responses to urban pollution and over-crowding, 'new' cities from earlier decades, totalitarianism and the city, utopianism, 'green' cities, and 'creative' cities. The course examines the various motivations underlying the design and construction of planned cities and how they are shaped by power, religion, and political ideologies. There will be a focus on evolving concepts used in city design as well as the continuities and cultural revivalism expressed through urban design and architecture. Students interested in urban and cultural geography, cities, architecture and planning in different cultural contexts will enjoy this course.
Offered by: Geography
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 217, or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and above students.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sarah Moser
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GEOG 360 Analyzing Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Examines challenges to sustainability through a series of case studies to illustrate the analytical approaches used to understand the linkages between scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural aspect of systems. Includes cases that are thematic and place-based, national and international, spanning from the local to global scales.
Offered by: Geography
- Winter
- Prerequisites: ENVR 201 or equivalent; and GEOG 203 or ENVR 200 or ESYS 200 or equivalent; or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brian E Robinson
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GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 406 Human Dimensions Clim. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 408 Geography of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jon D Unruh
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GEOG 410 Geog of Underdvlpmnt:Cur Probs 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 425 SE Asia Urban Field Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: This course allows students to experience some of the urban changes taking place in Southeast Asian cities, a dynamic region, while providing the opportunity to connect recent scholarship with field observations. We will explore various current themes in urban studies and urban geography including globalization, the transnational circulation of urban policies, interpretations of culture and heritage / new built heritage, gentrification, migrant labour, public housing, creative clusters, and new cities as national economic strategies.
Offered by: Geography
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 217 and GEOG 325
- Restriction(s): Preference will be given to Urban Studies Majors and Minors
- A fee of $1508.63 covers the cost of a 2 week urban field studies course in Singapore and Malaysia, including accommodation, ground transportation and entrance fees. Students are responsible for arranging their own airfares to Singapore.
- **Web withdrawal is not applicable.
- **The Instructor’s approval is required.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or equivalent and written permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
History
Students may count either HIST 339 or POLI 347 towards their program but not both.
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HIST 197 FYS: Race in Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25 students
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 200 Intro to African History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 201 Modern African History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Pedro Monaville
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HIST 206 Indian Ocean World History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the “global” system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gwyn R Campbell
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HIST 208 Intro to East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 209 Intro to South Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Subho Basu, Andrea Farran
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HIST 213 World History, 600-2000 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 218 Modern East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Lorenz M Luthi
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HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 240 Mod Hist of Islamic Movements 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Malek Abisaab
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HIST 309 Hist of Latin America to 1825 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: The social, cultural, and economic aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean in the colonial period and the transition to independence.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 317 Themes:Indian Ocean Wrld Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 326 History of the Soviet Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev’s reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Donald James Morard III
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HIST 328 Themes in Modern Chinese Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Exploration of a theme in Modern Chinese history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST218 is recommended.
- Topic may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 333 Indigenous Peoples & French 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 Indigenous Peoples and Europeans.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: HIST 218 recommended.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 340 History of Modern Egypt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 341 Themes in South Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
- Themes may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Madhulagna Halder
- Subho Basu
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HIST 360 Latin America since 1825 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Don Nerbas
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HIST 382 History of South Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 389 Topics: African Country Survey 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: In depth survey of a single African country (other than South Africa), including the pre-colonial history of the region, colonialism, and post-colonial economic, cultural and political history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206 or AFRI 200 recommended.
- Country will vary from year to year.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Pedro Monaville
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HIST 408 Sel Topics: Indigenous History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Selected topics in Indigenous history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 223
- Topics will vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 409 Topics in Latin American Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 210, HIST 309, HIST 360, HIST 366 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Topics will vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 419 Central America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 528 Indian Ocean World Slave Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gwyn R Campbell
International Development Studies
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INTD 250 History of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: A history of development, focusing on the ideologies as well as the practices that have shaped how empires, governments, corporations, and individuals have sought to 'improve' the world—most often, but not exclusively, in the global south. Themes will include colonialism, gender, race, economic growth, poverty, geopolitics, multilateralism, foreign aid, south-south relations, philanthropy, and the environment.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397, when topic was "History of Development" in Winter 2024.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jacob Blanc
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INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
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INTD 352 Disasters and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Examines how disasters shape and are shaped by socio-economic conditions, inequalities and development processes through interdisciplinary investigation and a wide range of case studies. Analyzes disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts from the global to local levels, as well as survivors’ perspectives and experiences.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 when topic was "Disasters and Development" [fall 2018]. Opento U2 and U3 students only.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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INTD 354 Civil Society and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Introduction to the study of civil society and development. Critically engages with both conventional socio-political views and emerging perspectives of civil society. Employs political, sociological, and anthropological perspectives to understand the multifaceted, and socio-cultural implications of civil society in both developing and developed countries. Examines civil society’s impact, capacity, and behavior through a wide range of development themes.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 when topic was "Civil Society and Development" [Winter 2017, Winter 2018]. Open to U2 and U3 students only.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
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INTD 356 Quantitative Methods for Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Introduction to quantitative methods for impact evaluation. Builds from fundamental concepts in statistics; introduction of an intuitive conceptual framework to think about causal effects. Simple but rigorous data analytics, design and implement randomized controlled trials, regression analysis, or implement other main methods for impact evaluation.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mehri Ghazanjani
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INTD 358 Ethnographic Approaches to Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Consideration of how anthropologists have used ethnographic methods to evaluate, criticize and reform development. Drawing on ethnographies of “Big D” development, as well as small-scale grassroots initiatives, exploration of how qualitative methods have been used to strengthen development practice from within and deconstruct development ideology from without. Topics include state driven, participatory and internationally sponsored development; gender; “aidnography”; neoliberalism; markets and microcredit.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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INTD 360 Envrnmntl Challenges in Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Examination of some of the great environmental challenges of our times, and some of the ways in which the development community has tackled them.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yann le Polain de Waroux
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INTD 397 Topics in Int'l Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Iwa Nawrocki
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INTD 398 Topics: Conflict & Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Examines topics in specific problem areas in international development studies and in areas of conflict and development.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to international development, or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, and U3 students.
- Students can take multiple topics courses under INTD as long as the topics are different.
- Content varies every term.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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INTD 490 Development Research Project 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: ECON 313
- Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 3.30 and permission of the department Adviser. Only tenure track professors or McGill faculty lecturers may supervise.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Kazue Takamura, Milos Brocic
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INTD 499 Internship: Intl. Develop. St. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura, Jacob Blanc
Islamic Studies
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ISLA 200 Islamic Civilization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sara A Abdel-Latif
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ISLA 210 Muslim Societies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Setrag Manoukian
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ISLA 305 Topics in Islamic History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 310 Women in Islam 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 325 Introduction to Shi'i Islam 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 330 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 350 From Tribe to Dynasty 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 355 Modern History: Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Malek Abisaab
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ISLA 360 Islam and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 365 Middle East Since the 1970's 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 370 The Qur’an: Hist & Interpret 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur’anic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur’ān.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sara A Abdel-Latif
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ISLA 383 Central Questions-Islamic Law 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 385 Poetics & Politics in Arab Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 388 Persian Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Prashant Keshavmurthy
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ISLA 392 Arabic Lit as World Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 411 History:Middle-East 1918-1945 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 415 Modern Iran: Anthro Approach 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 421 Islamic Culture-Indian Subcont 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 430 Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rula J Abisaab
Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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LACS 497 ResSem:Latin Amer&theCaribbean 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Restriction: Open to Program students and to others with permission of the Program Adviser.
- Ordinarily offered in alternate years
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cecily C Raynor
* When topic is relevant to IDS.
Management Core
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MGCR 382 International Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
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MGCR 460 Social Context of Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
- Lindsay Holmgren
Management, Organizational Behaviour
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Organizational Behaviour: Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tatiana L Gauvin
- Matissa Hollister
Management Policy
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MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization."
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Restricted to U2 and U3 students
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Saku O Mantere
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MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneur&Innovation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman, Rohini Jalan
- Niels Billou
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MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville
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MGPO 469 Managing Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries.
Offered by: Management
- Recommended: MGCR 423
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Elena Obukhova
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MGPO 475 Strategies for Devel Countries 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman
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MSUS 402 Sys Thinking & Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Managing for Sustainability: Examines interconnected dynamics of organizations and social, economic, and ecological systems. Introduces systems thinking principles to foster learning, inform organizational decision-making, and solve real-world problems. Covers problem diagnosis and resolution of organizational and societal sustainability issues through causal loop diagrams, stock-and-flow mapping, group model building, computational simulations and case studies.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open only to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Joseph Khoury, Anna Kim
Nutrition
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NUTR 501 Nutrition: the Majority World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Nutrition and Dietetics: Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition.
Offered by: Human Nutrition
- Fall
- One 3-hr lecture
- Prerequisite: A course in nutrition across the lifespan at the intermediate undergraduate level such as NUTR 337, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Grace S Marquis
Political Science
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POLI 227 Intro to Compar Pol-Global S. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 243 Intl Poltcs of Econ Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
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POLI 244 Intl Politics: State Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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POLI 319 Politics of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 322 Political Change: South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 338 Topics in Compar Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 340 Compar Pol of the Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 341 Foreign Policy:The Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 345 International Organizations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 347 Arab-Israel Confl,Crisis,Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
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POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Amy Janzwood
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POLI 352 Intl Pol/Foreign Pol:Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International or African politics or written consent of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 353 Politics Intl Refugee Regime 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Pre-requisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 359 Topics in Intl Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- The fee for this field course is $3500. The fee for this activity covers ground transportation, academic materials, accommodation, and other field related expenses.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
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POLI 372 Indigenous Pples&theCdn State 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship of Indigenous 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, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous 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.
- Note: Field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 380 Contemporary Chinese Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
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POLI 381 Politics in Japan and S Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Andrey Davydov
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POLI 435 Identity and Inequality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 442 Int'l Rel of Ethnic Conflict 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 474 Inequality and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the 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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 476 Religion and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A course in Comparative Politics or permission of instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
Religious Studies
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RELG 253 Religions of East Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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RELG 309 World Rel&Cultures They Create 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisite: RELG 204, RELG 207, RELG 252, or RELG 253 recommended
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 208.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Armando Salvatore
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RELG 331 Religion and Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RELG 319 when topic was "Religion and Globalization"
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Samuel C Nelson
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RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Social justice and human rights issues as key aspects of modem religious ethics. Topics include: the relationship of religion to the modem human rights movement; religious perspectives on the universality of human rights; the scope and limits of religious freedom; conflicts between religion and rights.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel M Cere
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RELG 371 Ethics of Violence/Non-Violenc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Forms of violence and the reaction of religious groups are assessed both for their effectiveness and for their fidelity to their professed beliefs. Different traditions, ranging from the wholesale adoption of violent methods (e.g., the Crusades) to repudiation (e.g., Gandhi; the Peace Churches).
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Summer
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 375 Religion, Politics and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Samuel C Nelson
Sociology
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SOCI 212 International Migration 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Introduction to social science research on international migration. Covers theories about why people migrate, constraints to migration, and various aspects of immigrant integration. Will explore key theoretical debates of the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Thomas G Soehl
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SOCI 234 Population & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 254 Development&Underdevelopment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Isabel Pike
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SOCI 265 War, States and Social Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): The impact of war on society in agrarian and industrial epochs. Particular attention is given to the relationship between war and economic development, social classes, nationalism, and democratization.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 307 Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ina Filkobski
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SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender&Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 210
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Isabel Pike
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SOCI 400 Comp. Migration & Citizenship 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Advanced course on international migration, belonging and diversity in contemporary societies. Will examine dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, the accommodation of cultural diversity, the adaptation of immigrants and how global international migration challenges and re-shapes citizenship. Will cover key theoretical debates in the field and the data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 446 Colonialism and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission from instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 513 Soc Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 270 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Elaine S Weiner
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SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Thomas G Soehl
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SOCI 550 Developing Societies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 555 Comparative Historical Socio 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): The analysis of patterns of state and nation-building in historical and comparative perspectives with particular attention being given to methodology.
Offered by: Sociology
- Restriction: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Social Work
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SWRK 400 Policy & Practice for Refugees 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Open to U3 students or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rodney B Nkrumah
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Major Concentration International Development Studies (36 Credits)
Offered by:Inst for the St of Development
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
The B.A.; Major Concentration in International Development Studies focuses on the many challenges facing developing countries, including issues related to socio-economic inequalities and well being, governance, peace and conflict, environment and sustainability, key development-related themes, and training in research methods related to international development studies.
Course Selection Guidelines for the Overall Program
1. At least 18 of the 36 credits must be at the 300 level or above.
2. At least 9 credits must be from INTD courses.
3. Students cannot take more than 12 credits in any one discipline other than the INTD 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 (12 credits)
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ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Eesha Sen Choudhury, Leonie Baumann
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ECON 313 Economic Development 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Franque Grimard
- Nicolas Ajzenman
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INTD 200 Intro to Int'l Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
- Kazue Takamura
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INTD 497 Adv. Topics: Int'l Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: A course on topics of common interest to faculty members and students of the International Development Studies programs.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Restriction: Open only to students in final year of an IDS Concentration. Students are permitted to take one section ONLY.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Celina Van Dembroucke, Cyntia Kraichati
- Kazue Takamura
Complementary Courses (24 credits)
6 credits from the following two Introductory Categories.
Culture, Populations and Development
3 credits from the following:
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ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Edward O Kohn
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ANTH 207 Ethnography Through Film 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Oliver T Coomes, Sébastien Breau
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GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Benjamin Forest, Sarah Moser
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INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
Politics, Society and Development
3 credits from the following:
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POLI 227 Intro to Compar Pol-Global S. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 243 Intl Poltcs of Econ Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
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POLI 244 Intl Politics: State Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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SOCI 254 Development&Underdevelopment 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Isabel Pike
Thematic
12-15 credits from the following:
African Studies
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AFRI 200 Intro to African Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:African Studies: The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Milka Nyariro
Agriculture
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AGRI 411 Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Elsa Vasseur
Agricultural Economics
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AGEC 430 Agric, Food & Resource Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gordon M Hickey
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AGEC 442 Econ of Int'l Agric Dvlpmnt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Aurelie P Harou
Anthropology
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ANTH 206 Environment and Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Katherine Lemons
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ANTH 214 Violence, Warfare, Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Cultural diversity and comparative perspectives on violence and warfare; sociological, political, materialist, psychological, and ideological explanations of conflict. Examines historical and contemporary cases of warfare in state and pre-state societies; 'ethnic', civil, nationalist secessionist and genocidal forms of conflicts; processes of conflict avoidance and resolution, peace-making and -keeping.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 222 Legal Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Todd E Meyers
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ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anth. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 227
- Restriction: Anthropology program students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 304 Chinese Cult in Ethnogr & Film 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Uses both ethnography and film to examine 20Ih century Chinese society and popular culture in the context of the revolution and its aftermath.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisites: ANTH 202 or ANTH 204 or ANTH 209 and another 200-level anthropology course, U2 standing or above, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: U2 standing or above.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sandra T Hyde
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ANTH 308 Political Anthropology 01 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: The study of political systems and political processes. Conflict and its resolution. The emphasis of the course will be on local-level politics and non-industrial societies.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 318 Globalization and Religion 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 326 Anthropology of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 327 Anthropology of South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Vineet Rathee
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ANTH 338 Indigenous Studies of Anthro 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leslie James Sabiston
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ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Colin H Scott
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ANTH 343 Anthropology and the Animal 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: This course explores through the ethnographic study of human-animal relations how the question of "the animal" helps us examine our central assumptions about what it means to be human.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Prerequisite: One ANTH 200 level course or consent of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Edward O Kohn
-
ANTH 355 Theories of Culture & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Winter
- Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level
- Restriction: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Margaret E Stevenson
-
ANTH 418 Environment and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Advanced study of the environmental crisis in developing and advanced industrial nations, with emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management and environmental change. Each year, the seminar will focus on a particular set of issues, delineated by type of resource, geographic region, or analytical problem.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 339, or ANTH 349, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300, or GEOG 302, or permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 422 Contemp.Latin Amer Cult & Soc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 436 North American Native Peoples 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: A detailed examination of selected contemporary problems.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 438 Topics in Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity & Diaspora 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ANTH 512 Political Ecology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Business Administration
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BUSA 433 Topics in Int'l Business 1 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
* When topic is relevant to IDS.
Canadian Studies
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CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Gloria J Bell
East Asian Studies
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EAST 211 Intro:East Asian Culture:China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gal Gvili
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EAST 213 Intro:East Asian Culture:Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kimberly Chung
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EAST 388 Asian Migrations and Diasporas 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Asian Language & Literature: Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
Offered by: East Asian Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria C Hwang
Economics
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ECON 205 An Intro to Political Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A critical study of the insights to be gained through economic analysis of a number of problems of broad interest. The focus will be on the application of economics to issues of public policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 205D.
- Restriction: This course does not count for credit towards the Minor Concentration, Major Concentration, or Honours degree in Economics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 295, ECON 330 or ECON 352
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Paul T Dickinson
- Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
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ECON 223 Pol Economy of Trade Policy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 208
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Ling Ling Zhang
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ECON 314 Economic Development 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Matthieu Chemin
- Franque Grimard
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ECON 326 Ecological Economics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 336 The Chinese Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Robert D Cairns
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ECON 411 Econ Development:A World Area 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ECON 416 Topics in Econ Development 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Francesco Amodio, Franque Grimard
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ECON 473 Income Distribution 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Economics of income and wealth distribution, and the study of inequality. The dynamics of income, saving and wealth and their determinants. Macroeconomic implications. Effects of fiscal and redistributive programmes. The role of unemployment.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Markus K Poschke
English
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ENGL 290 Postcolonial&World Lits: Engl 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): A critical introduction to the field of postcolonial and world literature studies, drawing on a selection texts from South and East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Offered by: English
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sandeep Banerjee, Tazreen J Bari, Yusuf Saadi
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ENGL 421 African Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): A study of African literature.
Offered by: English
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Winter
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ENGL 440 First Nations&Inuit Lit&Media 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:English (Arts): An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
Offered by: English
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english.
- Winter
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 415 or ENGL 419 as "Native Canadian Literature" or as "Inuit Literature".
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Geography
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GEOG 221 Environment and Health 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- 3 hours
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
- In Fall 2019, GEOG 221 will be taught at Macdonald campus. 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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sarah M Harris
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GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: ENVR 201; GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mylene Riva
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GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 311 Economic Geography 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
Offered by: Geography
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sébastien Breau
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GEOG 325 New Master-Planned Cities 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: This course examines the origins, designs, motivations and cultural politics of planned cities, focusing primarily on those currently under construction in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A variety of themes will be explored including design responses to urban pollution and over-crowding, 'new' cities from earlier decades, totalitarianism and the city, utopianism, 'green' cities, and 'creative' cities. The course examines the various motivations underlying the design and construction of planned cities and how they are shaped by power, religion, and political ideologies. There will be a focus on evolving concepts used in city design as well as the continuities and cultural revivalism expressed through urban design and architecture. Students interested in urban and cultural geography, cities, architecture and planning in different cultural contexts will enjoy this course.
Offered by: Geography
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 217, or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and above students.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sarah Moser
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GEOG 360 Analyzing Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Examines challenges to sustainability through a series of case studies to illustrate the analytical approaches used to understand the linkages between scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural aspect of systems. Includes cases that are thematic and place-based, national and international, spanning from the local to global scales.
Offered by: Geography
- Winter
- Prerequisites: ENVR 201 or equivalent; and GEOG 203 or ENVR 200 or ESYS 200 or equivalent; or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Brian E Robinson
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GEOG 403 Global Health & Envir. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 406 Human Dimensions Clim. Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 408 Geography of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jon D Unruh
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GEOG 410 Geog of Underdvlpmnt:Cur Probs 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 425 SE Asia Urban Field Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: This course allows students to experience some of the urban changes taking place in Southeast Asian cities, a dynamic region, while providing the opportunity to connect recent scholarship with field observations. We will explore various current themes in urban studies and urban geography including globalization, the transnational circulation of urban policies, interpretations of culture and heritage / new built heritage, gentrification, migrant labour, public housing, creative clusters, and new cities as national economic strategies.
Offered by: Geography
- Prerequisite(s): GEOG 217 and GEOG 325
- Restriction(s): Preference will be given to Urban Studies Majors and Minors
- A fee of $1508.63 covers the cost of a 2 week urban field studies course in Singapore and Malaysia, including accommodation, ground transportation and entrance fees. Students are responsible for arranging their own airfares to Singapore.
- **Web withdrawal is not applicable.
- **The Instructor’s approval is required.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Geography: Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
Offered by: Geography
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or equivalent and written permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
History
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HIST 197 FYS: Race in Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25 students
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 200 Intro to African History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 201 Modern African History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Pedro Monaville
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HIST 206 Indian Ocean World History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the “global” system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gwyn R Campbell
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HIST 208 Intro to East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- David C Porter
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HIST 209 Intro to South Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Subho Basu, Andrea Farran
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HIST 213 World History, 600-2000 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 218 Modern East Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Lorenz M Luthi
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HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 240 Mod Hist of Islamic Movements 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Malek Abisaab
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HIST 309 Hist of Latin America to 1825 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: The social, cultural, and economic aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean in the colonial period and the transition to independence.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 317 Themes:Indian Ocean Wrld Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 326 History of the Soviet Union 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev’s reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Donald James Morard III
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HIST 328 Themes in Modern Chinese Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Exploration of a theme in Modern Chinese history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST218 is recommended.
- Topic may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 333 Indigenous Peoples & French 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 Indigenous Peoples and Europeans.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: HIST 218 recommended.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 340 History of Modern Egypt 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 341 Themes in South Asian History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 209 recommended.
- Themes may vary from year to year.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Madhulagna Halder
- Subho Basu
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HIST 360 Latin America since 1825 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Don Nerbas
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HIST 382 History of South Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 389 Topics: African Country Survey 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: In depth survey of a single African country (other than South Africa), including the pre-colonial history of the region, colonialism, and post-colonial economic, cultural and political history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite(s): HIST 200, HIST 201, HIST 206 or AFRI 200 recommended.
- Country will vary from year to year.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Pedro Monaville
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HIST 408 Sel Topics: Indigenous History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:History: Selected topics in Indigenous history.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Prerequisite: HIST 223
- Topics will vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 409 Topics in Latin American Hist 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 210, HIST 309, HIST 360, HIST 366 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Topics will vary from year to year.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 419 Central America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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HIST 528 Indian Ocean World Slave Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Gwyn R Campbell
International Development Studies
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INTD 250 History of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: A history of development, focusing on the ideologies as well as the practices that have shaped how empires, governments, corporations, and individuals have sought to 'improve' the world—most often, but not exclusively, in the global south. Themes will include colonialism, gender, race, economic growth, poverty, geopolitics, multilateralism, foreign aid, south-south relations, philanthropy, and the environment.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397, when topic was "History of Development" in Winter 2024.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Jacob Blanc
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INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
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INTD 352 Disasters and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Examines how disasters shape and are shaped by socio-economic conditions, inequalities and development processes through interdisciplinary investigation and a wide range of case studies. Analyzes disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts from the global to local levels, as well as survivors’ perspectives and experiences.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 when topic was "Disasters and Development" [fall 2018]. Opento U2 and U3 students only.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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INTD 354 Civil Society and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Introduction to the study of civil society and development. Critically engages with both conventional socio-political views and emerging perspectives of civil society. Employs political, sociological, and anthropological perspectives to understand the multifaceted, and socio-cultural implications of civil society in both developing and developed countries. Examines civil society’s impact, capacity, and behavior through a wide range of development themes.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 when topic was "Civil Society and Development" [Winter 2017, Winter 2018]. Open to U2 and U3 students only.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
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INTD 360 Envrnmntl Challenges in Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Examination of some of the great environmental challenges of our times, and some of the ways in which the development community has tackled them.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Yann le Polain de Waroux
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INTD 397 Topics in Int'l Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Iwa Nawrocki
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INTD 398 Topics: Conflict & Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Examines topics in specific problem areas in international development studies and in areas of conflict and development.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to international development, or permission of the instructor.
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, and U3 students.
- Students can take multiple topics courses under INTD as long as the topics are different.
- Content varies every term.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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INTD 490 Development Research Project 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: ECON 313
- Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 3.30 and permission of the department Adviser. Only tenure track professors or McGill faculty lecturers may supervise.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Kazue Takamura, Milos Brocic
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INTD 499 Internship: Intl. Develop. St. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura, Jacob Blanc
Islamic Studies
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ISLA 200 Islamic Civilization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Sara A Abdel-Latif
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ISLA 210 Muslim Societies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Setrag Manoukian
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ISLA 305 Topics in Islamic History 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 310 Women in Islam 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 325 Introduction to Shi'i Islam 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 330 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ISLA 350 From Tribe to Dynasty 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The political and intellectual developments shaping Arab and Persian societies from the rise of Islam in the 7th century until the early mid 8th century, including the major social changes, political revolts, religious schisms, and the consolidation of lasting cultural institutions.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Fall
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 355 Modern History: Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Malek Abisaab
-
ISLA 360 Islam and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 365 Middle East Since the 1970's 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 370 The Qur’an: Hist & Interpret 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur’anic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur’ān.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or permission of instructor
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Sara A Abdel-Latif
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ISLA 383 Central Questions-Islamic Law 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 385 Poetics & Politics in Arab Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Reading and discussion in English.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 388 Persian Literature 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Prashant Keshavmurthy
-
ISLA 392 Arabic Lit as World Lit 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Winter
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 411 History:Middle-East 1918-1945 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 415 Modern Iran: Anthro Approach 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 421 Islamic Culture-Indian Subcont 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
ISLA 430 Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Islamic Studies: The course examines the major socio-political developments in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain from the 9th to the 13th Century. Emphasis is laid on the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Cordoba, and the 'Abbasid Caliphate centered in Baghdad, and the rise of important local dynasties leading up to the Mongol invasion. The course underscores the formation of Islamic cultures in distinct geographical settings and the transformation of religious life under new socio-economic conditions. It also explores shifting notions of civil society and orthodoxy.
Offered by: Islamic Studies
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rula J Abisaab
Latin American & Caribbean Studies
-
LACS 497 ResSem:Latin Amer&theCaribbean 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Restriction: Open to Program students and to others with permission of the Program Adviser.
- Ordinarily offered in alternate years
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Cecily C Raynor
* When topic is relevant to IDS.
Management Core
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MGCR 382 International Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
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MGCR 460 Social Context of Business 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Hervé Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
- Lindsay Holmgren
Management, Organizational Behaviour
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Organizational Behaviour: Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Tatiana L Gauvin
- Matissa Hollister
Management Policy
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MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization."
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Restricted to U2 and U3 students
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Saku O Mantere
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MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneur&Innovation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman, Rohini Jalan
- Niels Billou
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MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville
-
MGPO 469 Managing Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Management Policy: This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries.
Offered by: Management
- Recommended: MGCR 423
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Elena Obukhova
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MGPO 475 Strategies for Devel Countries 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman
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MSUS 402 Sys Thinking & Sustainability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Managing for Sustainability: Examines interconnected dynamics of organizations and social, economic, and ecological systems. Introduces systems thinking principles to foster learning, inform organizational decision-making, and solve real-world problems. Covers problem diagnosis and resolution of organizational and societal sustainability issues through causal loop diagrams, stock-and-flow mapping, group model building, computational simulations and case studies.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open only to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Joseph Khoury, Anna Kim
Nutrition
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NUTR 501 Nutrition: the Majority World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Nutrition and Dietetics: Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition.
Offered by: Human Nutrition
- Fall
- One 3-hr lecture
- Prerequisite: A course in nutrition across the lifespan at the intermediate undergraduate level such as NUTR 337, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Grace S Marquis
Political Science
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POLI 319 Politics of Latin America 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 322 Political Change: South Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 338 Topics in Compar Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
- The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 340 Compar Pol of the Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rex Brynen
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POLI 341 Foreign Policy:The Middle East 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 345 International Organizations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 347 Arab-Israel Confl,Crisis,Peace 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- T V Paul
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POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Amy Janzwood
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POLI 352 Intl Pol/Foreign Pol:Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A basic course in International or African politics or written consent of the instructor
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
-
POLI 353 Politics Intl Refugee Regime 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Pre-requisite(s): A basic course in International Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 359 Topics in Intl Politics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- The fee for this field course is $3500. The fee for this activity covers ground transportation, academic materials, accommodation, and other field related expenses.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
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POLI 372 Indigenous Pples&theCdn State 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship of Indigenous 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, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous 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.
- Note: Field is Canadian Politics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
POLI 380 Contemporary Chinese Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Juan Wang
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POLI 381 Politics in Japan and S Korea 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 422 Adv Topics: Comparative Pol 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A specific problem area in comparative politics.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Andrey Davydov
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POLI 435 Identity and Inequality 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 441 IPE: Trade 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 442 Int'l Rel of Ethnic Conflict 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 243 or POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 445 IPE: Monetary Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 POLI 244 or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Relations.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Mounir Katul
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POLI 450 Peacebuilding 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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 and international relations.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics; also in the field of International Politics.
- Internet research skills are strongly recommended
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 474 Inequality and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the 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 field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 476 Religion and Politics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite(s): A course in Comparative Politics or permission of instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Erik Kuhonta
Religious Studies
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RELG 253 Religions of East Asia 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Rongdao Lai
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RELG 309 World Rel&Cultures They Create 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: The constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. Focus on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Prerequisite: RELG 204, RELG 207, RELG 252, or RELG 253 recommended
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 208.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Armando Salvatore
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RELG 331 Religion and Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RELG 319 when topic was "Religion and Globalization"
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Samuel C Nelson
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RELG 353 Gandhi: His Life and Thought 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A study of the life and thought of Gandhi.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Arvind Sharma
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RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Social justice and human rights issues as key aspects of modem religious ethics. Topics include: the relationship of religion to the modem human rights movement; religious perspectives on the universality of human rights; the scope and limits of religious freedom; conflicts between religion and rights.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Daniel M Cere
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RELG 371 Ethics of Violence/Non-Violenc 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: Forms of violence and the reaction of religious groups are assessed both for their effectiveness and for their fidelity to their professed beliefs. Different traditions, ranging from the wholesale adoption of violent methods (e.g., the Crusades) to repudiation (e.g., Gandhi; the Peace Churches).
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Summer
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 375 Religion, Politics and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Fall
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Samuel C Nelson
Sociology
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SOCI 212 International Migration 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Introduction to social science research on international migration. Covers theories about why people migrate, constraints to migration, and various aspects of immigrant integration. Will explore key theoretical debates of the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Thomas G Soehl
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SOCI 234 Population & Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 265 War, States and Social Change 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): The impact of war on society in agrarian and industrial epochs. Particular attention is given to the relationship between war and economic development, social classes, nationalism, and democratization.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 307 Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Ina Filkobski
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SOCI 309 Health and Illness 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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SOCI 365 Health and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender&Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 210
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Isabel Pike
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SOCI 400 Comp. Migration & Citizenship 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Advanced course on international migration, belonging and diversity in contemporary societies. Will examine dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, the accommodation of cultural diversity, the adaptation of immigrants and how global international migration challenges and re-shapes citizenship. Will cover key theoretical debates in the field and the data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 446 Colonialism and Society 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission from instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 513 Soc Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 270 or permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Elaine S Weiner
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SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Thomas G Soehl
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SOCI 550 Developing Societies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 555 Comparative Historical Socio 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): The analysis of patterns of state and nation-building in historical and comparative perspectives with particular attention being given to methodology.
Offered by: Sociology
- Restriction: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Social Work
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SWRK 400 Policy & Practice for Refugees 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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: Open to U3 students or by permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Rodney B Nkrumah
Methods
3-6 credits from the following: *
Anthropology
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ANTH 358 The Process of Anthro Research 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: The nature of anthropological research as evidenced in monographs and articles; processes of concept formation and interpretation of data; the problem of objectivity.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Fall
- Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level
- Restrictions: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Setrag Manoukian
Economics
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ECON 227D1 Economic Statistics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Distributions, averages, dispersions, sampling, testing, estimation, correlation, regression, index numbers, trends and seasonals.
Offered by: Economics
- Students must register for both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 together are equivalent to 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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
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ECON 227D2 Economic Statistics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): See ECON 227D1 for course description.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisite: ECON 227D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 together are equivalent to 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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- John W Galbraith
International Development Studies
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INTD 356 Quantitative Methods for Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Introduction to quantitative methods for impact evaluation. Builds from fundamental concepts in statistics; introduction of an intuitive conceptual framework to think about causal effects. Simple but rigorous data analytics, design and implement randomized controlled trials, regression analysis, or implement other main methods for impact evaluation.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Mehri Ghazanjani
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INTD 358 Ethnographic Approaches to Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Consideration of how anthropologists have used ethnographic methods to evaluate, criticize and reform development. Drawing on ethnographies of “Big D” development, as well as small-scale grassroots initiatives, exploration of how qualitative methods have been used to strengthen development practice from within and deconstruct development ideology from without. Topics include state driven, participatory and internationally sponsored development; gender; “aidnography”; neoliberalism; markets and microcredit.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Political Science
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POLI 210 Poli Sci Research Methods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Maria D Popova, Brendan Szendro
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POLI 461 Adv. Quant. Political Science 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: A lab course that deals with topics not covered in POLI 311 or POLI 312 and applicable across political science subfields. Such topics include: Estimating models with limited and categorical outcomes; dealing with time-dependent data; estimating models of duration; advanced spatial methods; advanced text-as-data methods; advanced network methods .
Offered by: Political Science
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Sociology
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SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Orsola Torrisi
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SOCI 461 Quantitative Data Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): This course blends theory and applications in regression analysis. It focuses on fitting a straight line regression using matrix algebra, extending models for multivariate analysis and discusses problems in the use of regression analysis, providing criteria for model building and selection, and using statistical software to apply statistics efficiently.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 350
- You may not be able to get 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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
SOCI 477 Qualitative Methods in Sociol 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Sociology (Arts): Introduction to qualitative research methods. Students will be exposed to various types of data collection (e.g., textual, observational) and data analysis techniques (e.g., in vivo coding) for qualitative data in an experiential, hands-on fashion.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 211
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Alexis Dennis
* When selecting their Methods courses, students must consult with the IDS Adviser. They must also consult with the most recent Faculty of Arts policy on course overlap: https://www.mcgill.ca/study/faculties/arts/undergraduate/ug_arts_course_...
For more information, see Programs, Courses and University Regulations.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Honours International Development Studies (57 Credits)
Offered by:Inst for the St of Development
Degree:Bachelor of Arts
Program Requirement:
The B.A.; Honours in International Development Studies focuses on the many challenges facing developing countries, including issues related to socio-economic inequalities and well being, governance, peace and conflict, environment and sustainability, key development-related themes, and training in research methods related to international development studies.
Honours students must maintain a CGPA of 3.50 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Course Selection Guidelines for the Overall Program
1. At least 30 of the 57 credits must be at the 300 level or above; 9 credits of these must be at the 400 level or above.
2. At least 12 credits must be from INTD courses.
3. Students cannot take more than 18 credits in any discipline other than the INTD 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 (12 credits)
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ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Eesha Sen Choudhury, Leonie Baumann
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ECON 313 Economic Development 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Franque Grimard
- Nicolas Ajzenman
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INTD 200 Intro to Int'l Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
- Kazue Takamura
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INTD 498 Honours Seminar in Int'l Dev 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:International Development: Seminar on selected topics in international development studies.
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
Complementary Courses (45 credits)
6 credits from the following two Introductory Categories.
Culture, Populations and Development
3 credits from the following:
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ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Edward O Kohn
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ANTH 207 Ethnography Through Film 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Anthropology: This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics.
Offered by: Anthropology
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Oliver T Coomes, Sébastien Breau
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GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Benjamin Forest, Sarah Moser
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INTD 350 Culture and Development 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the: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.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Kazue Takamura
Politics, Society and Development
3 credits from the following:
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POLI 227 Intro to Compar Pol-Global S. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Daniel Douek
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POLI 243 Intl Poltcs of Econ Relations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Winter 2025
- Instructors
- Leonardo Baccini
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POLI 244 Intl Politics: State Behaviour 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Political Science: Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
Offered by: Political Science
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Fernando Nuñez-Mietz
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SOCI 254