Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity: Courses

2026-2027 CSES Courses

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
• CSE260H1F -–Special Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Language and Liberation – Developing Antiracist and Anticolonial Writing Praxis
• CSE260H1S – Special Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Introduction to Food Equity and Justice
• CSE270H1S – Community Dis/Engagementand Solidarity
• CSE339H1F – Special Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Gaza and the Regional War: Genocide, Imperialism, and Resistance in the Middle East
• 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
• CSE344H1S – Body Matters:  Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
• CSE345H1F – Equity and Activism in Education
• CSE346H1S – Community Organizing and Global Solidarity
• CSE348H1F – Special Topics in Equity Studies: Mad Studies, Abolition, and Carceral Logics 
• CSE349H1S – Disability Arts and Culture
• CSE442H1F – Food Systems and the Politics of Resistance
• CSE443H1S – Advanced Special Topics in Equity Studies – Disability Justice across Social Movements: Histories, Solidarities, and Futures
• CSE444H1S – Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence
• CSE445H1F – Rethinking Palestine: Colonialism, Revolution and Transnational Solidarity
• CSE448H1F – Disability and the Child
• CSE469Y1Y – Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers
• CSE499H1S – Advanced Topics in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity – Writing for Change in the Age of AI: School, Work, and Community
• 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.

2026-2027 Special Topics Courses

CSE260H1F: Language and Liberation – Developing Antiracist and Anticolonial Writing Praxis for Equity and Solidarity

Uses a toolkit metaphor to centre writers’ existing tools and knowledges (languages, technologies, identities, experiences), fostering agency. Emphasizes assembling, expanding, and refining antiracist and anticolonial writing approaches through assignments, linking theory and lived experience to build persuasive, evidence-based arguments while examining power in knowledge production, circulation, and value. 

CSE260H1S: Introduction to Food Equity and Justice

Introduces food equity and justice through an intersectional analysis of food systems, governance, and everyday food practices. Examines how access to food is unevenly structured by broader social, economic and political systems such as colonialism, capitalism, racialization, gender, migration, labour, as well as ecological conditions. Explores food-based resistance, community care and mutual aid, Indigenous food sovereignty, alternative food networks, and cultural production, emphasizing collective, relational, and non-dominant approaches to knowing, producing, and sharing food. 

CSE339H1F: Gaza and the Regional War: Genocide, Imperialism, and Resistance in the Middle East

Examines the political catastrophes of the twenty-first century: the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and its reverberations across Palestine and the broader Middle East. Beginning with the events of October 7, 2023, and moving through the subsequent Israeli military campaigns in Gaza and the West Bank, the war in Lebanon and Iran, confrontations with Yemen, the transformation of Syria, and the deepening entanglements of Gulf states, the course asks: what does this moment demand of us as scholars, students, and human beings?

CSE348H1F: Mad Studies, Abolition, and Carceral Logics

Introduces students to Mad Studies as a field grounded in the lived experiences, histories, and cultural production of Mad people, survivors of psychiatry, and neurodivergent communities. Anchored in abolitionist praxis, the course examines the interlocking operations of the Medical Industrial Complex and the Prison Industrial Complex, and how carceral logics shape systems of care, containment, and psychiatric governance. Explores disability and madness as sites of both oppression and world-building.