2024-2025 CSES Courses
2024 – 2025 CSES Course Timetable
| Course # | Course Name | Instructor | Term | Time | Delivery | Cap |
| CSE240H1 | Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies | S. Doyle Wood | S | Lecture: F 1-3 Tutorial: 12 & 3 | In Person | 260 |
| CSE241Y1 | Introduction to Critical Disability Studies | A. McGuire | Y | Lecture: T 1-3 Tutorial: 12 & 3 | In Person | 90 |
| CSE270H1 | Community Dis/Engagement and Solidarity | TBA | F | Lecture: R 3-5 Tutorial: 2 & 5 | In Person | 156 |
| 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 | S | T 3-5 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE341H1 | Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race | TBA | S | T 5-7 | In Person | 120 |
| CSE342H1 | Theory and Praxis in Food Security | C. Ramsaroop | F | M 1-3 | 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 | F 1-3 | In Person | 40 |
| CSE347H1 | Critical Race and Anti-Racism Studies | G.Dei | F | T 5:30-8 | In Person | 35 |
| CSE348H1 | Special Topics in Equity Studies – Mad Studies: Theories and Politics | TBA | F | 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 | M. Majeed | S | R 4-7 | In Person | 156 |
| CSE439H1 | Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Disability at the Border: The embodied politics of migration and citizenship | TBA | F | R 11-1 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE441H1 | Advanced Topics in Equity Studies – Food Justice: Solidarity and Sustainability Across the Food Chain | C. Ramsaroop | S | M 2-4 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE442H1 | Food Systems and the Politics of Resistance | J. Sumner | S | W 9-12 | In Person | 4 |
| CSE444H1 | Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence | S. Doyle Wood | S | W 2-5 | In Person | 30 |
| CSE448H1 | Disability and the Child | A. McGuire | S | T 10-12 | In Person | 25 |
| CSE469Y1 | Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers | M. ElWaer | Y | M 4-6 | In Person | 12 |
| CSE499H1 | Advanced Topics in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity – Young People on the Move: Youth, Migration and Resettlement | TBA | F | W 1-3 | In Person | 25 |
Note: Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses
- CSE240H1S – Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies
- CSE241Y1Y – Introduction to Critical Disability Studies
- CSE270H1F – Foundations for Dis/Engagement and Solidarity
- CSE339H1S – Special Topics – Cripping Solidarity: Disability Activisms and Cross Movement Organizing
- CSE340H1S – Abolition in the Global Context: Theorizing Uprisings and Youth Activism against Policing and Prisons
- CSE341H1S – Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race
- CSE342H1F – Theory and Praxis in Food Security
- CSE344H1F – Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
- CSE346H1F – Community Organizing and Global Solidarity
- CSE347H1F – Critical Race and Anti-Racism Studies
- CSE348H1F – Special Topics in Equity Studies: Mad Studies: Theories and Politics
- CSE349H1S – Disability Arts and Culture
- JQR360H1S – The Canadian Census : Populations, Migrations and Demographics
- CSE439H1F – Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Disability at the Border: The embodied politics of migration and citizenship
- CSE441H1S – Advanced Topics in Equity Studies – Food Justice: Solidarity and Sustainability Across the Food Chain
- CSE442H1S – Food Systems and the Politics of Resistance – Download the CSE442H1S ballot form here!
- CSE444H1S – Anti-Colonization and the Politics of Violence
- CSE448H1S – Disability and the Child
- JNS450H1F – Sexuality and Disability
- CSE469Y1Y – Decolonizing Research Methodologies for New Researchers
- CSE499H1F – Advanced Topics in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity: Pedagogies of Solidarity
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. Note: Enrolment in CSE442H1S is by application.
Application forms are here: CSE442H1S
2024-2025 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: Special Topics in Equity Studies: Mad Studies: Theories and Politics
This course introduces the field of Mad Studies, an interdisciplinary area of scholarship and activism that centers the intersectional lived experiences, histories, cultures and politics of people who variously identify as Mad, psychiatric survivors, mentally ill, services users and consumers, (ex) patients and/or neurodivergent.
Key topics explored include: the history of mad politics and activism in Canada; critiques of psychiatry; critical analyses of the production of mental health and illness at the intersections of race, class and gender; the intersections of prisons, policing and madness; ongoing carceral histories and abolitionist futures; cultural and artistic modes of representing experiences of madness and neurodivergence; resistance and mad pride.
CSE439H1: Advanced Topics in Equity and Solidarity Studies – Disability at the Border: The embodied politics of migration and citizenship
Drawing on frameworks of disability justice, critical race studies, and decolonial thought, this course examines the discursive and material construction of disability and its transnational production. Disablement is a common and shared outcomes of living under exploitative global imperialist and capitalist systems, as well as a primary outcome of war, famine, state violence, and environmental disaster. Just as these conditions drive disabled/debilitated migrants away from affected lands, primarily in the Global South, ableist immigration policies in the Global North target and restrict disabled people’s mobility across borders. This course will interrogate the historical and contemporary contexts of border control, immigration policies, and the construction of citizenship within capitalist societies. Students will analyze the ways in which ableism, racism, nationalism, and economic exploitation intersect to produce exclusionary border regimes that disproportionately impact disabled migrants across transnational contexts.
Key topics covered in the course include: Disability, deportation, and the criminalization of migration; humanitarianism, securitization, and the biopolitics of border control; Resistance movements, solidarity networks, and activism by disabled/debilitated migrants and allies; ethical dilemmas, tensions, and possibilities for transformative change within border regimes, etc.
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 sites of labour across the food chain – from migrant agricultural work and seasonal workers programs to warehouse and grocery store labour, from restaurants and 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 – Young People on the Move: Youth, Migration and Resettlement
The world is experiencing the highest levels of human displacement on record, and preoccupations about the integration of people on the move – particularly young people – have come to feature prominently in immigration and resettlement policies. Against this backdrop, this seminar takes an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine the processes of migration and resettlement in the Canadian and global contexts. This course explores and historically traces the development of the social categories of ‘youth’, ‘migrants’, and ‘refugees’ in relation to different approaches to settlement. Additionally, the course explores the relationship between hyper-securitized migration policies and migrating young people.