2025-2026 CSES Courses
2025 – 2026 CSES Course Timetable
| Course # | Course Name | Instructor | Term | Time | Delivery | Cap |
| CSE240H1 | Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies | S. Doyle Wood | F | Lecture: W 1-3 Tutorial: TBA | In Person | 240 |
| CSE241Y1 | Introduction to Critical Disability Studies | A. McGuire | Y | Lecture: F 11-1 Tutorial: TBA | In Person | 72 |
| CSE270H1 | Foundations for Dis/Engagement and Solidarity | TBA | S | Lecture: W 1-3 Tutorial: TBA | In Person | 130 |
| CSE339H1 | Special Topics – Cripping Solidarity: Disability Activisms and Cross Movement Organizing | TBA | S | W 11-1 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE340H1 | Abolition in the Global Context: Theorizing Uprisings and Youth Activism against Policing and Prisons | TBA | F | T 3-5 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE341H1 | Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race | C. Desai | S | R 3-5 | In Person | 120 |
| CSE342H1 | Theory and Praxis in Food Security | C. Ramsaroop | S | M 3-5 | In Person | 35 |
| CSE344H1 | Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice | TBA | F | W 11-1 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE345H1 | Equity & Activism in Education | TBA | F | M 6-8 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE346H1 | Community Organizing and Global Solidarity | M. ElWaer | F | T 1-3 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE348H1 LEC0101 | Special Topics in Equity Studies – Critical Perspectives on Youth Activism | M. ElWaer | S | M 1-3 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE348H1 LEC0201 | Special Topics in Equity Studies – Mad Studies, Abolition, and Carceral Logics | TBA | S | W 3-5 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE349H1 | Disability Arts and Culture | TBA | S | M 6-8 | In Person | 40 |
| JQR360H1 | The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics | TBA | S | R 5-8 | In Person | 156 |
| CSE439H1 | Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Beyond Compliance: Disability Cultures of Access and Justice | A. McGuire | F | R 11-1 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE441H1 | Advanced Topics in Equity Studies – Food Justice: Solidarity and Sustainability Across the Food Chain | C. Ramsaroop | F | M 3-5 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE444H1 | Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence | S. Doyle Wood | S | F 1-4 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE445H1 | Rethinking Palestine: Colonialism, Revolution and Transnational Solidarity | C. Desai | S | T 5-7 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE469Y1 | Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers | C. Desai | Y | T 1-3 | In Person | 15 |
| CSE499H1 | Advanced Topics in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity – Are Political Ideologies Dead? | M. ElWaer | F | W 2-4 | In Person | 25 |
Note: Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses
- CSE240H1F – Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies
- CSE241Y1Y – Introduction to Critical Disability Studies
- CSE270H1S – Foundations for Dis/Engagement and Solidarity
- CSE339H1S – Special Topics – Cripping Solidarity: Disability Activisms and Cross Movement Organizing
- CSE340H1F – Abolition in the Global Context: Theorizing Uprisings and Youth Activism against Policing and Prisons
- CSE341H1S – Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race
- CSE342H1S -Theory and Praxis in Food Security
- CSE344H1F – Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
- CSE345H1F – Equity and Activism in Education
- CSE346H1F – Community Organizing and Global Solidarity
- CSE348H1S LEC0101– Special Topics in Equity Studies: Critical Perspectives on Youth Activism
- CSE348H1S LEC0201– Special Topics in Equity Studies: Mad Studies, Abolition, and Carceral Logics
- CSE349H1S – Disability Arts and Culture
- CSE439H1F – Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Disability at the Border: The embodied politics of migration and citizenship
- CSE441H1F – Advanced Topics in Equity Studies – Food Justice: Solidarity and Sustainability Across the Food Chain
- CSE444H1S – Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence
- CSE445H1S – Rethinking Palestine: Colonialism, Revolution and Transnational Solidarity
- CSE469Y1Y – Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers
- CSE499H1F – Advanced Topics in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity: Are Political Ideologies Dead?
- JQR360H1S – The Canadian Census : Populations, Migrations and Demographics
Instructions for Enrolling in 400-level Core Courses
400-level CSES/Equity Studies courses are generally small with high enrolment pressure. As all CSES/Equity Studies Majors are required to complete a 400-level half course, we have changed the enrolment process to ensure that all students in this POSt have access to at least one 400-level CSES/Equity Studies half course.
2025-2026 Special Topics Courses
CSE339H1: Special Topics in Equity Studies: Cripping Solidarity: Disability Activisms and Cross Movement Organizing
This course critically examines intersectional disability activist movements within broader contexts of cross-movement organizing. Moving beyond a singular focus on US- and UK-centered disability rights movements, Cripping Solidarity adopts an expansive understanding of disability political formations and resistance practices. Through interdisciplinary readings and case studies, students will encounter histories, lineages, legacies, and contemporary manifestations of disability activisms, connecting present-day organizing for disability justice with health justice movements of the past and present, such as the Black Panther Party’s health activism in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and AIDS activism in the 80s. Emphasizing the importance of solidarity, political collaboration and coalition-building, we will explore how disability movements intersect with, are indebted to, and strengthen collective struggles for justice and liberation.
CSE348H1 (LEC0101): Special Topics in Equity Studies: Critical Perspectives on Youth Activism
This course invites students to reconsider the boundaries of youth activism across a range of social, political, and geopolitical contexts. Moving beyond a U.S.-centric focus on student activism on American campuses, we examine global and transnational movements to illuminate the diversity of strategies, objectives, and constraints that shape youth activism around the world. Rather than adopting an uncritically celebratory perspective, the course promotes a critical examination of the assumptions that underlie these movements—including the category of “youth” itself as a defining identity. We will also explore forms of activism where youth participation is prominent but not explicitly articulated as youth movements. By adopting this expanded and critical lens, students will uncover the complexities of youth activism and rethink what it means to engage politically across borders and identities.
CSE348H1 (LEC0201): Special Topics in Equity Studies: Mad Studies, Abolition, and Carceral Logics
This course introduces students to Mad Studies—an interdisciplinary field of scholarship and activism that centers the intersectional lived experiences, histories, cultures, and politics of those who variously identify as Mad, psychiatric survivors, mentally ill, service users, consumers, (ex) patients, and/or neurodivergent. Grounded in an abolitionist praxis, we will examine the material and structural entanglements of the Medical Industrial Complex and the Prison Industrial Complexes, focusing on how carceral logics shape approaches to care and containment. Together, we will explore the histories of mad politics and activism in Canada; the production of mental health and illness at the intersections of race, class, gender, and psychiatric oppression; critical perspectives on transinstitutionalization and the expansion of carceral care; cultural and artistic representations of madness and neurodivergence; movements toward decarcerated, community-based models of care; abolitionist futures for mental health justice and mad pride. Through readings, discussions, field trips, and creative engagement, students will critically engage with the politics of madness, and imagine futures beyond carceral forms of care.
CSE439H1: Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Beyond Compliance: Disability Cultures of Access and Justice
Drawing on current best practices of accessible design and centering the critical interventions of disabled users, scholars, artists, activists, and designers, this course invites students to imagine, design and enact more just and accessible worlds. We will begin by exploring a variety of contemporary approaches to accessibility, including legislation and regulatory compliance, universal and adaptive design, assistive technologies, etc., and delve into the unique access knowledge, practices and ‘hacks’ incubated in disability community and cultural spaces. Together, we will ask: how do differing understandings of disability give rise to divergent approaches to access? For example, while deficit-based understandings of disability often anticipate an assimilationist model of accessibility, in disability culture/s, access is often treated as a creative intervention or even an aesthetic. What can be learned from these divergences and what are the stakes? In addition to offering students a strong theoretical grounding in the models, principles, politics and histories of disability and access, the course integrates unique opportunities for skills-based learning. In weekly ‘access skills labs,’ students will gain practical tools and resources for making our world more accessible, including how to: caption audiovisual materials, write alt-text, tag a PDF document; and organize an accessible event. Rooted in disability cultural knowledge/practices, critical disability theory and the principles of disability justice, this course treats access not simply as a requirement or a checklist, but as a necessary responsive, evolving, creative, and justice-oriented commitment. Together, we will tinker, try, re/make, create, and collaborate our way to more accessible and just futures.
CSE441H1: Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Food Justice: Labour, Solidarity and Sustainability Across the Food Chain
This advanced course delves deeply into the complex issues of food justice, focusing on labour as well as principles of solidarity and sustainability throughout the food chain. Building upon foundational knowledge of food systems and social justice, students will critically analyze the interconnected challenges of food production, distribution, and consumption through solidarity-based approaches. Each class will focus on a particular side of labour across the food chain – from migrant agricultural work and seasonal workers programs to warehouse and grocery store labour, from restaurants and the service industry to the gig economy, from campus food and food systems to international solidarity/supply chain organizing. Through case studies, guest lectures, and site visits, students will explore diverse examples of grassroots initiatives, community-led projects, and solidarity networks that challenge dominant food systems and promote alternatives rooted in principles of critical equity, solidarity, and sustainability. Students will critically reflect on their own roles as consumers, advocates, and potential agents of change within the food system, grappling with ethical dilemmas and envisioning transformative pathways towards food justice. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and critical consciousness necessary to contribute meaningfully to the ongoing struggle for food sovereignty, solidarity, and sustainability in local and global contexts.
CSE499H1: Advanced Topics in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity – Are Political Ideologies Dead?
In today’s politically complex world, the traditional boundaries between ideological frameworks—fascism, conservatism, Islamism, pragmatism, liberalism, progressivism, anarchism, communism, and beyond—are becoming increasingly blurred. Many now express antipathy toward ideologies altogether, with some even declaring that we have entered a post-ideological era. This raises critical questions: Are ideologies—like grand narratives and sweeping belief systems—truly dead or disappearing? Or is the very notion of a post-ideological moment itself an ideological claim? This course explores the concept of ideology: what it is, how it manifests in everyday life, and why it continues to matter. Engaging with a range of theoretical perspectives and case studies, we will examine the material and symbolic power of ideological formations in the contemporary world. We will investigate how ideological frameworks persist, transform, reinvent, and hybridize within modern political life, and explore their roles in shaping current issues and conflicts across both the global North and the global South.