Program Requirements
Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with New College programs will have new three-letter designators based on the area of study: “AFR” (African Studies), “BPM” (Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health), “CAR” (Caribbean Studies), and “CSE” (Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity). For program completion purposes, the courses previously offered under the “NEW” designator are interchangeable with the new designator(s).
Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Major
This is an open enrolment program. A student who completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
7.0 credits, including 2.0 credits at the 300+ level
First Year:
No specific first-year courses required.
Higher Years:
1. CSE240H1
2. CSE341H1
3. JQR360H1
4. 2.0 additional credits from the core group, including at least 0.5 at the 400-level: JNS450H1, CAR315H1, CSE241Y1, CSE270H1, CSE340H1, CSE342H1, CSE344H1, CSE344Y1, CSE345H1, CSE346H1, CSE347H1, CSE348H1, CSE349H1, CSE439H1, CSE440Y1, CSE441H1, CSE442H1, CSE443H1, CSE444H1, CSE445H1, CSE446H1, CSE447H1, CSE448H1, CSE449H1, CSE469Y1, CSE499H1
5. 3.5 credits from Groups A, B, C, D (including one or more credits from at least three of the four groups)
Group A, B, C and D
Group A: Gender
ANT343H1: Social Anthropology of Gender
ANT460H1: Global Perspectives on Women’s Health
CAR317H1: Caribbean Women Writers
CAR325H1: Caribbean Women Thinkers
CAS360H1: Asian Genders
CHC322H1: Women and Christianity
CLA219H1: Women in Antiquity
CLA319H1: Sexuality and Gender in Classical Literature
CRI380H1: Crime, Gender and Sex
EAS380H1: Writing Women in Premodern China
EAS388H1: Asian/North American Feminist Issues
FRE304H1: Contemporary French Women’s Prose Fiction
GGR320H1: Geographies of Transnationalism, Migration, and Gender
GGR327H1: Geography and Gender
HIS198H1: Decolonizing Women’s History
HIS205H1: From Women’s History to Gender History
HIS297Y1: History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
HIS348H1: Topics in Gender History
HIS363H1: Dynamics of Gender in Canadian History
HIS383Y1: Women in African History
HIS406H1: Advanced Topics in Gender History
HIS446H1: Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS465H1: Gender and International Relations
HIS481H1: Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa
ITA341H1: Gender and Genre in Italian Cinema
ITA455H1: Women Writers in Italy
JAL355H1: Language and Gender
NMC198H1: Iranian Women Reveal Their Lives: The First Generation
NMC239H1: Women and Gender in the Near and Middle East
NMC242H1: Women and Money in the Medieval Middle East
NMC245H1: Women in the Ancient Near East
NMC284H1: Judaism and Feminism: Legal Issues from Menstruation to Ordination
NMC308H1: Getting Justice: Women, Slaves, and Religious Minorities in the Courts in the Pre-modern Middle East
NMC365H1: Women and Gender in Egyptian Archaeology
NMC387H1: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ottoman Empire
NMC484H1: Gender Issues in Jewish Law
PHL367H1: Philosophy of Feminism
POL303H1: Women in Western Political Thought
POL351H1: Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective
POL432H1: Feminist Political Thought
REN341H1: The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children
REN342H1: Women and Writing in the Renaissance
REN343H1: Sex and Gender
RLG196H1: Goddess Lessons: Gender, Religion and Pop
RLG198H1: Dystopia: Religion & Gender in Science Fiction
RLG235H1: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
RLG311H1: Gender, Body and Sexuality in Asian Traditions
RLG312H1: Gender, Body and Sexuality in Islam
RLG313H1: Love, Sex, Family
RLG321H1: Women and the Hebrew Bible
RLG415H1: Performance, Gender, Religion
SLA248H1: Women and Women’s Themes in Ukrainian Literature
SOC265H1: Gender and Society
SOC365H1: Gender Relations
SOC383H1: The Sociology of Women and International Migration
SOC465H1: Advanced Studies in Gender
SPA382H1: Spanish American Women in Art, Film, and Literature
WGS160Y1: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
WGS260H1: Texts, Theories, Histories
WGS271Y1: Gender in Popular Culture
WGS273H1: Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
WGS275H1: Men and Masculinities
WGS340H1: Women and Revolution in the Middle East
WGS355H1: Gendered Labour Around the World
WGS365H1: Gender Issues in the Law
WGS367H1: The Politics of Gender and Health
WGS372H1: Women and Psychology/ Psychoanalysis
WGS373H1: Gender and Violence
WGS385H1: Gender and Neoliberalism
WGS386H1: Gender and Critical Political Economy
WGS397H1: The Politics of Girlhood
WGS426H1: Gender and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives
Group B: Race, Anti-Racism and Ethnicity
AFR150Y1: Africa: A Critical Introduction
AFR250Y1: Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
AFR322H1: The Contemporary African Novel
AFR351Y1: African Systems of Thought
AFR352H1: International Organizations, NGOs, Development and Change in Africa
AMS310H1: Approaches to American Studies
ANT204H1: Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
ANT342H1: Anthropology of Race and Racism
ANT458H1: Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
ANT463H1: Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession
ANT464H1: Black Ethnographies
CAR225H1: Caribbean Societies
CAR226H1: Caribbean Political Thought
CAR324H1: Capitalism and Crisis in the Caribbean
CAR328H1: Caribbean Indentureship and its Legacies
CAS310H1: Comparative Colonialisms in Asia
CAR427H1: Caribbean Diasporic Narratives: London, Paris, Toronto, Berlin, New York
CAR428H1: Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas
CAR429H1: Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
CDN280H1: Canadian Jewish History
CDN307H1: Asian Cultures in Canada
CDN335H1: Black Canadian Studies
CIN337H1: Black Cinema
CLT420H1: Ireland, Race and Empires
DRM462H1: Black Playwrights: Resistance, Resilience and Transformation
ENG270H1: Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
ENG368H1: Asian North American Literature
ENG369H1: South Asian Literatures in English
FAH251H1: Black Art in North America
FAH451H1: Studies in Black Art
FIN320H1: The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
FRE336H1: Postcolonialism: Francophone Literatures
GGR199H1: Global Racial Capitalism in the 21st Century
GGR240H1: Geographies of Colonialism in North America
GGR456H1: Entanglements of Power: Race, Sexuality and the City
HIS107Y1: Approaches to East Asian History
HIS208Y1: History of the Jewish People
HIS221H1: African American History to 1865
HIS222H1: African American History from 1865 to the Present
HIS230H1: Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History
HIS231H1: Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean
HIS245H1: European Colonialism, 1700- 1965
HIS265Y1: Black Canadian History
HIS266H1: Asian Canadian History
HIS282Y1: History of South Asia
HIS285H1: History of Chinese Diasporas in the Americas
HIS297Y1: History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
HIS305H1: Death and Life in Plantation America
HIS307H1: Oral Histories of Asian Canadians
HIS315H1: Decolonial Vietnamese Histories
HIS338H1: The Holocaust, to 1942
HIS359H1: Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
HIS360H1: Critical Histories of the Black Canadian Experience
HIS361H1: The Holocaust, from 1942
HIS370H1: Modern Palestine
HIS374H1: Mass Incarceration in the United States
HIS390H1: Slavery in Latin America
HIS413H1: Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIS416H1: Orientalism and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
HIS453H1: Slavery in North America
HIS467H1: French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film
HIS469H1: Upper Canada: Creating a Settler Society, 1790s-1860s
HIS470H1: History, Rights, and Difference in South Asia
HIS474H1: Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization
HPS442H1: Sciences of Whiteness in the Middle East & Its Diasporas
HST305H1: Perspectives in Health, Gender, Ethnicity and Race
ITA349H1: Black Italian Cultural Production
JAA377H1: Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives
JHN323H1: Indigeneity in the Caribbean
JLN327H1: Culture and Modernity in the Hispanic Caribbean
INS261H1: Contemporary Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities
LAS301H1: Topics in the Humanities
LAS302H1: Topics in Latin American Studies
LAS401H1: Latinos in Canada
NMC475H1: Orientalism & Occidentalism
NMC484H1: Gender Issues in Jewish Law
PHL269H1: Philosophy of Race
POL348H1: Privilege and Race in Global Perspective
POL467H1: The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada
REN245H1: Race and Power in the Renaissance
RLG217H1: Black Diaspora Religions
RLG344H1: Antisemitism
RLG352H1: Post-Colonial Islam
RLG353H1: The Politics of Charity
RLG419H1: Ghosts to Ancestors: Racialized Hauntings and Reparative Promise in Psychoanalysis
SLA222H1: Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe
SLA302H1: The Imaginary Jew
SLA492H1: Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
SOC210H1: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC311H1: Immigration and Race Relations in Canada
SPA486H1: Contemporary Caribbean Literatures and Identities
UNI199H1: The Construction of Race in America: A History
WGS390H1: Land-ing: Indigenous and Black Futurist Spaces
WGS420H1: Asian/North American Feminist Issues
WGS442H1: Toxic Worlds, Decolonial Futures
WGS450H1: Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship: Gender and the Black Diaspora
WGS481H1: Gender, Sexuality and Black Liberation from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter
Group C: Sexual Diversities
ANT441H1: Love, Sex, and Marriage
ANT456H1: Queer Ethnography
BMS434H1: Boys’ Love and the Culture of Desire
CIN336H1: Queer Film and Media
DTS413H1: Global Sexualities
EAS236H1: Queer Feminist Literature: Writing in Global Capitalism
EAS389H1: Dangerous Bodies: Crossings in Gender and Sexuality Studies
GGR456H1: Entanglements of Power: Race, Sexuality and the City
HIS192H1: A History of Queer Asia
HIS417H1: Sex Work History in North America, 1763 onwards
ITA315H1: Sex and Gender in Contemporary Italy
JPS315H1: LGBTQ Politics
JPS316H1: Indigenous Feminist and Queer Theories
JPS378H1: Sex and the State
JSR312H1: Queer Religion and Religiosities
JSU325H1: Queerly Canadian
MST340H1: Mediaeval Genders and Sexualities
NMC357H1: Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Arabic Literature
NMC358H1: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Middle Eastern Cultures
NMC384H1: Marking Time: Legal Issues and Personal Status in Judaism
PHL243H1: Philosophy of Human Sexuality
POL338H1: Queer International Relations
PSY323H1: Sex Roles and Behaviour
PSY495H1: Sex and the Brain
RLG313H1: Love, Sex, Family
SDS199H1: Sexuality at the Intersections
SDS246H1: Queer Digital Media Studies
SDS255H1: Histories of Sexuality
SDS256H1: Methods in Queer and Trans Studies
SDS279H1: Queer Popular Culture
SDS345H1: Sex and the Epidemic: Social Work, HIV, and Human Sexuality
SDS355H1: Theories of Sexuality
SDS365H1: Sexuality and Law
SDS377H1: Lesbian Studies: Identity/Theory/Culture
SDS378H1: Queer Youth Studies in Education
SDS380H1: Sexual Diversity in Transnational Perspective
SDS381H1: Intro to Trans Studies
SDS382H1: Intro to Queer of Colour Critique
SDS385H1: Queer Indigenous Politics and Cultures
SDS425H1: Sexuality & Health
SDS455H1: Special Topics in Sexual Diversity Studies
SDS465H1: Queer Migrations and Refugee Politics
SDS470H1: Critical Approaches in Porn Studies
SDS478H1: Queer Musics
SOC209H1: Sexuality and Modernity
UNI104H1: Sex in the City
WGS374H1: Feminist Studies in Sexuality
WGS376H1: Studies in Queer and Trans
WGS480H1: Challenging Coloniality: Caribbean Sexualities in Transnational Perspective
Group D: General Critical Equity
AFR251H1: Language, Freedom and Linguistic Human Rights in Africa
AFR298H1: Popular Uprisings in Africa
AFR370H1: Anticolonialism, Radicalism and Revolutions in Africa
AFR454H1: Migration, Mobility, and Displacement in Contemporary Africa
AFR460H1: Climate Change, Food Security, and Sustainability in Africa
AMS100H1: Global Capitalism
AMS320H1: Tearing Down Monuments: Controversies in Public Memory
ANT204H1: Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
ANT205H1: Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
ANT215H1: Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
ANT324H1: Tourism & Globalization
ANT329H1: Language & Power Structure
ANT344H1: Political Anthropology
ANT345H1: Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
ANT346H1: Anthropology of Food
ANT348H1: Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
ANT354H1: Right-Wing Nationalisms
ANT357H1: Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
ANT358H1: Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
ANT364H1: Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
ANT366H1: Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
ANT420H1: Archaeology of Inequality
ANT426H1: ‘The West’ and Its Others
ANT442H1: Social Studies of Autism
ANT446H1: Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
ANT472H1: Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
BMS350H1: Propaganda and Media
BMS431H1: Media and Environmental Justice
BPM214H1: Socially Engaged Buddhism
BPM381H1: Buddhist Perspectives on Current Social Issues
CAR220H1: Comparative Caribbean Literature
CAR221H1: Comparative Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture
CAS350H1: Asian Youth Cultures
CAS420H1: Asia and the New Global Economy
CAS430H1: Nationalism and Revolution in Asia
CDN198H1: Canada, Colonialism and Settler Relations
CDN267H1: What is Canada?
CDN367H1: Canadian Pluralism
CDN380H1: Contemporary Jewish Canadian Communities
CHC309H1: Christianity and Politics
CIN366H1: Durable Empires and Medias of Mass Culture
CRI487H1: Law, Space, and the City
DRM363H1: Story-ing the Possible: Talking Treaties, Rehearsing (Re) conciliation
DTS300H1: Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning
DTS305H1: Special Topics in Diaspora and Transnational Studies
DTS401H1: Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
DTS402H1: Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
DTS410H1: Diasporic Foodways
DTS411H1: Transnational Justice
EAS315H1: The “Yellow Peril”: Past & Present
EAS439H1: The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time, and Colonialism
EAS476H1: Social Protest in Modern East Asia
EDS260H1: Equity and Diversity in Education
EDS355H1: Social Justice in Education
EDS358H1: Residential Schools and Education in Canada
ENG254H1: Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
ENV101H1: Confronting the Climate Crisis
ENV430H1: Community Research in Environment and Faith
ENV463H1: Edible Campus
GER332H1: Deviance – Madness – Outsiders
GGR107H1: Environment, Food and People
GGR112H1: Geopolitics, Globalization, and Inequality
GGR197H1: Re(story)ing the Earth: Indigenous Wisdoms, Ecological Stewardship, and Global Climate Action
GGR198H1: Mobility and Borders
GGR240H1: Geographies of Colonialism in North America
GGR328H1: Labour Geographies
GGR329H1: The Global Food System
GGR338H1: Social Transformation and Environment in the Majority World
GGR339H1: Urban Political Geographies
GGR340H1: Health Geography
GGR357H1: Housing and Community Development
GGR363H1: Critical Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas on Space, Society and Culture
GGR418H1: Geographies of Extraction
GGR419H1: Environmental Justice
GGR434H1: Building Community Resilience
HIS106Y1: The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804
HIS190H1: Freedom Schools
HIS318H1: Histories of the “Wild” West
HIS323H1: Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
HIS324H1: The Criminalization of Protest in Latin American History
HIS424H1: Violence in Medieval Society
HIS459H1: Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
HIS480H1: Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
HIS489H1: The History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness
HMB203H1: Introduction to Global Health
HMB303H1: Global Health and Human Rights
HMB443H1: Global Hidden Hunger
HMB453H1: AIDS: A Global Perspective
HPS240H1: The Influence of the Eugenics Movement on Contemporary Society
HPS324H1: Natural Science and Social Issues
HPS347H1: History of Autism Across Time and Cultures
HPS445H1: Slavery, Medicine, and Science
HST209H1: Introduction to Social Determinants of Health
HST330H1: Population Health
HST411H1: Political Economy of Health
INS200H1: Introduction to Indigenous Truth and Resilience
INS240Y1: Ecological Interactions: Intro to Indigenous and Western Sciences
INS250H1: Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies
INS261H1: Contemporary Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities
INS300Y1: Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
INS301Y1: Indigenous Languages and Cultures
INS302H1: Indigenous Representation in the Mass Media and Society
INS322H1: Indigenous Narratives of Empowerment
INS340Y1: Indigenous Health Science
INS341H1: North American Indigenous Theatre
INS350H1: Indigenous Health Systems
INS353H1: First Nations Politics in Canada
INS354H1: Indigenous Governance and Self-Determination
INS355H1: Current Issues in Indigenous Health
INS360Y1: Politics and Process of Reconciliation in Canada
INS402H1: Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
INS403H1: Indigenous Peoples and the Urban Context
INS405H1: Indigenous Thought & Expression: Creative Non-fiction
INS407H1: Indigenous Environmental Justice
JFP450H1: Indigenous Issues in Health and Healing
JGU216H1: Globalization and Urban Change
JHU473H1: Environmental Crises, Human Mobility, and Health
JIG440H1: Indigenous Geographies
JPI201H1: Indigenous Politics in Canada
JPR458H1: Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism and the Limits of Liberalism
JRC199H1: Truths & Reconciliations in Canada
JRN301H1: Disability in the Hebrew Bible and Related Texts
JSU237H1: Introduction to HIV/AIDS: Health, Sexuality and Gender
JUG325H1: Landscapes of Violence in Canada
LAS370H1: Critical Perspectives of Development in Latin American Contexts
LIN197H1: Language and Social Justice
LIN208H1: Linguistic Discrimination and Justice
LIN211H1: American Sign Language 1
NEW101H1: The Everyday Politics of Food
NEW102H1: Exploring Multilingual Toronto
NEW105H1: Current Issues Without Borders
NEW106H1: Science, Health and Social Justice
NEW111H1: Food, Ethics and Sustainability
NEW113H1: Unpacking Digital Technology
NEW114H1: Art for Social Change
NEW115H1: Current Issues Without Borders
NEW197H1: Public Intellectual Activism: Theory and Practice
NMC384H1: Marking Time: Legal Issues and Personal Status in Judaism
PHL273H1: Environmental Ethics
PHL281H1: Bioethics
PHL317H1: Marx and Marxism
PHL369H1: Philosophy of Race, Gender, and Capitalism
PHL373H1: Issues in Environmental Ethics
PHL380H1: Global Bioethics
PHL381H1: Ethics and Medical Research
PHL383H1: Ethics and Mental Health
PHL384H1: Ethics, Genetics and Reproduction
PHL440H1: Clinical Bioethics
POL198H1: First-Year Foundation Seminar: Social Justice and the City
POL201H1: Politics of Development
POL333H1: Global Politics and Global Political Thought
POL344H1: Social Movements in Canada
POL358H1: Conflicts, Minority Rights and Para-States in Europe
POL384H1: Global Environmental Governance from the Ground Up
POL412H1: Human Rights and International Relations
POL413H1: Global Environmental Politics
POL417H1: Politics of North-South Relations
POL418H1: Human Security and Intra-state Conflicts in the Global South
POL421H1: Maimonides and His Modern Interpreters
POL439H1: The Canadian Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
POL444H1: Land and Indigenous Politics
POL480H1: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
RLG201H1: Indigenous Spiritualities and Religions
RLG317H1: Religion, Violence, and Non-Violence
RLG453H1: Christianity and Judaism in Colonial Context
RLG461H1: Buddhism and Indigeneity
RLG476H1: Caste and its “Other”
SAS318H1: Colonialism and Tradition
SOC207H1: Sociology of Work & Occupations
SOC220H1: Social Stratification
SOC243H1: Sociology of Health and Illness
SOC282H1: Introduction to Social Problems
SOC308H1: Global Inequality
SOC309H1: HIV and AIDS: Social Policies and Programs
SOC360H1: Social Movements
SOC363H1: Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
SOC364H1: Urban Health
SOC367H1: Race, Class, and Gender
SOC370H1: Immigration and Employment
SOC479H1: Advanced Studies in Social Movements
SPA196H1: Power, Privilege, and Precarity in the Americas
SPA383H1: Disability and Embodiment in Spanish American Cultures
UNI101H1: Citizenship in the Canadian City
URB333H1: Social Justice in the City
URB337H1: Housing and Homelessness
URB433H1: Special Topics in Urban Studies
VIC153H1: School and Society: Equity and Social Justice in Education
VIC168H1: Identity and Equality in the Public Sphere
VIC185H1: Democracy and Dictatorship
WRR414H1: Writing for Social Change
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Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity Minor
This is an open enrolment program. A student who completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.
Consult Program Administrator: nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5404.
4.0 credits, including at least 1.0 credit at the 300+ level
First Year:
No specific first-year courses required.
Higher Years:
1. CSE240H1
2. 1.0 credit in any area from the Core Group: JNS450H1, CAR315H1, CSE241Y1, CSE270H1, CSE340H1, CSE341H1, CSE342H1, CSE344H1, CSE344Y1, CSE345H1, CSE346H1, CSE347H1, CSE348H1, CSE349H1, CSE439H1, CSE440Y1, CSE441H1, CSE442H1, CSE443H1, CSE444H1, CSE445H1, CSE446H1, CSE447H1, CSE448H1, CSE449H1, CSE469Y1, CSE499H1
3. 1.5 additional credits in any area from the Core Group, or 1.5 credits from Groups A, B, C, D
4. An additional 1.0 credit from Groups A, B, C, D
Group A, B, C and D
Group A: Gender
ANT343H1: Social Anthropology of Gender
ANT460H1: Global Perspectives on Women’s Health
CAR317H1: Caribbean Women Writers
CAR325H1: Caribbean Women Thinkers
CAS360H1: Asian Genders
CHC322H1: Women and Christianity
CLA219H1: Women in Antiquity
CLA319H1: Sexuality and Gender in Classical Literature
CRI380H1: Crime, Gender and Sex
EAS380H1: Writing Women in Premodern China
EAS388H1: Asian/North American Feminist Issues
FRE304H1: Contemporary French Women’s Prose Fiction
GGR320H1: Geographies of Transnationalism, Migration, and Gender
GGR327H1: Geography and Gender
HIS198H1: Decolonizing Women’s History
HIS205H1: From Women’s History to Gender History
HIS297Y1: History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
HIS348H1: Topics in Gender History
HIS363H1: Dynamics of Gender in Canadian History
HIS383Y1: Women in African History
HIS406H1: Advanced Topics in Gender History
HIS446H1: Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS465H1: Gender and International Relations
HIS481H1: Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa
ITA341H1: Gender and Genre in Italian Cinema
ITA455H1: Women Writers in Italy
JAL355H1: Language and Gender
NMC198H1: Iranian Women Reveal Their Lives: The First Generation
NMC239H1: Women and Gender in the Near and Middle East
NMC242H1: Women and Money in the Medieval Middle East
NMC245H1: Women in the Ancient Near East
NMC284H1: Judaism and Feminism: Legal Issues from Menstruation to Ordination
NMC308H1: Getting Justice: Women, Slaves, and Religious Minorities in the Courts in the Pre-modern Middle East
NMC365H1: Women and Gender in Egyptian Archaeology
NMC387H1: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ottoman Empire
NMC484H1: Gender Issues in Jewish Law
PHL367H1: Philosophy of Feminism
POL303H1: Women in Western Political Thought
POL351H1: Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective
POL432H1: Feminist Political Thought
REN341H1: The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children
REN342H1: Women and Writing in the Renaissance
REN343H1: Sex and Gender
RLG196H1: Goddess Lessons: Gender, Religion and Pop
RLG198H1: Dystopia: Religion & Gender in Science Fiction
RLG235H1: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
RLG311H1: Gender, Body and Sexuality in Asian Traditions
RLG312H1: Gender, Body and Sexuality in Islam
RLG313H1: Love, Sex, Family
RLG321H1: Women and the Hebrew Bible
RLG415H1: Performance, Gender, Religion
SLA248H1: Women and Women’s Themes in Ukrainian Literature
SOC265H1: Gender and Society
SOC365H1: Gender Relations
SOC383H1: The Sociology of Women and International Migration
SOC465H1: Advanced Studies in Gender
SPA382H1: Spanish American Women in Art, Film, and Literature
WGS160Y1: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
WGS260H1: Texts, Theories, Histories
WGS271Y1: Gender in Popular Culture
WGS273H1: Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
WGS275H1: Men and Masculinities
WGS340H1: Women and Revolution in the Middle East
WGS355H1: Gendered Labour Around the World
WGS365H1: Gender Issues in the Law
WGS367H1: The Politics of Gender and Health
WGS372H1: Women and Psychology/ Psychoanalysis
WGS373H1: Gender and Violence
WGS385H1: Gender and Neoliberalism
WGS386H1: Gender and Critical Political Economy
WGS397H1: The Politics of Girlhood
WGS426H1: Gender and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives
Group B: Race, Anti-Racism and Ethnicity
AFR150Y1: Africa: A Critical Introduction
AFR250Y1: Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
AFR322H1: The Contemporary African Novel
AFR351Y1: African Systems of Thought
AFR352H1: International Organizations, NGOs, Development and Change in Africa
AMS310H1: Approaches to American Studies
ANT204H1: Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
ANT342H1: Anthropology of Race and Racism
ANT458H1: Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
ANT463H1: Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession
ANT464H1: Black Ethnographies
CAR225H1: Caribbean Societies
CAR226H1: Caribbean Political Thought
CAR324H1: Capitalism and Crisis in the Caribbean
CAR328H1: Caribbean Indentureship and its Legacies
CAS310H1: Comparative Colonialisms in Asia
CAR427H1: Caribbean Diasporic Narratives: London, Paris, Toronto, Berlin, New York
CAR428H1: Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas
CAR429H1: Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
CDN280H1: Canadian Jewish History
CDN307H1: Asian Cultures in Canada
CDN335H1: Black Canadian Studies
CIN337H1: Black Cinema
CLT420H1: Ireland, Race and Empires
DRM462H1: Black Playwrights: Resistance, Resilience and Transformation
ENG270H1: Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
ENG368H1: Asian North American Literature
ENG369H1: South Asian Literatures in English
FAH251H1: Black Art in North America
FAH451H1: Studies in Black Art
FIN320H1: The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience
FRE336H1: Postcolonialism: Francophone Literatures
GGR199H1: Global Racial Capitalism in the 21st Century
GGR240H1: Geographies of Colonialism in North America
GGR456H1: Entanglements of Power: Race, Sexuality and the City
HIS107Y1: Approaches to East Asian History
HIS208Y1: History of the Jewish People
HIS221H1: African American History to 1865
HIS222H1: African American History from 1865 to the Present
HIS230H1: Indigenous and Early Colonial Caribbean History
HIS231H1: Revolution and Emancipation in the Colonial Caribbean
HIS245H1: European Colonialism, 1700- 1965
HIS265Y1: Black Canadian History
HIS266H1: Asian Canadian History
HIS282Y1: History of South Asia
HIS285H1: History of Chinese Diasporas in the Americas
HIS297Y1: History of Africa from a Gender Perspective
HIS305H1: Death and Life in Plantation America
HIS307H1: Oral Histories of Asian Canadians
HIS315H1: Decolonial Vietnamese Histories
HIS338H1: The Holocaust, to 1942
HIS359H1: Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
HIS360H1: Critical Histories of the Black Canadian Experience
HIS361H1: The Holocaust, from 1942
HIS370H1: Modern Palestine
HIS374H1: Mass Incarceration in the United States
HIS390H1: Slavery in Latin America
HIS413H1: Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIS416H1: Orientalism and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
HIS453H1: Slavery in North America
HIS467H1: French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film
HIS469H1: Upper Canada: Creating a Settler Society, 1790s-1860s
HIS470H1: History, Rights, and Difference in South Asia
HIS474H1: Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery? Historical Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization
HPS442H1: Sciences of Whiteness in the Middle East & Its Diasporas
HST305H1: Perspectives in Health, Gender, Ethnicity and Race
ITA349H1: Black Italian Cultural Production
JAA377H1: Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives
JHN323H1: Indigeneity in the Caribbean
JLN327H1: Culture and Modernity in the Hispanic Caribbean
INS261H1: Contemporary Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities
LAS301H1: Topics in the Humanities
LAS302H1: Topics in Latin American Studies
LAS401H1: Latinos in Canada
NMC475H1: Orientalism & Occidentalism
NMC484H1: Gender Issues in Jewish Law
PHL269H1: Philosophy of Race
POL348H1: Privilege and Race in Global Perspective
POL467H1: The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada
REN245H1: Race and Power in the Renaissance
RLG217H1: Black Diaspora Religions
RLG344H1: Antisemitism
RLG352H1: Post-Colonial Islam
RLG353H1: The Politics of Charity
RLG419H1: Ghosts to Ancestors: Racialized Hauntings and Reparative Promise in Psychoanalysis
SLA222H1: Forging Identities: The Roms of Central and Eastern Europe
SLA302H1: The Imaginary Jew
SLA492H1: Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe and Russia
SOC210H1: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC311H1: Immigration and Race Relations in Canada
SPA486H1: Contemporary Caribbean Literatures and Identities
UNI199H1: The Construction of Race in America: A History
WGS390H1: Land-ing: Indigenous and Black Futurist Spaces
WGS420H1: Asian/North American Feminist Issues
WGS442H1: Toxic Worlds, Decolonial Futures
WGS450H1: Modernity, Freedom, Citizenship: Gender and the Black Diaspora
WGS481H1: Gender, Sexuality and Black Liberation from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter
Group C: Sexual Diversities
ANT441H1: Love, Sex, and Marriage
ANT456H1: Queer Ethnography
BMS434H1: Boys’ Love and the Culture of Desire
CIN336H1: Queer Film and Media
DTS413H1: Global Sexualities
EAS236H1: Queer Feminist Literature: Writing in Global Capitalism
EAS389H1: Dangerous Bodies: Crossings in Gender and Sexuality Studies
GGR456H1: Entanglements of Power: Race, Sexuality and the City
HIS192H1: A History of Queer Asia
HIS417H1: Sex Work History in North America, 1763 onwards
ITA315H1: Sex and Gender in Contemporary Italy
JPS315H1: LGBTQ Politics
JPS316H1: Indigenous Feminist and Queer Theories
JPS378H1: Sex and the State
JSR312H1: Queer Religion and Religiosities
JSU325H1: Queerly Canadian
MST340H1: Mediaeval Genders and Sexualities
NMC357H1: Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Arabic Literature
NMC358H1: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Middle Eastern Cultures
NMC384H1: Marking Time: Legal Issues and Personal Status in Judaism
PHL243H1: Philosophy of Human Sexuality
POL338H1: Queer International Relations
PSY323H1: Sex Roles and Behaviour
PSY495H1: Sex and the Brain
RLG313H1: Love, Sex, Family
SDS199H1: Sexuality at the Intersections
SDS246H1: Queer Digital Media Studies
SDS255H1: Histories of Sexuality
SDS256H1: Methods in Queer and Trans Studies
SDS279H1: Queer Popular Culture
SDS345H1: Sex and the Epidemic: Social Work, HIV, and Human Sexuality
SDS355H1: Theories of Sexuality
SDS365H1: Sexuality and Law
SDS377H1: Lesbian Studies: Identity/Theory/Culture
SDS378H1: Queer Youth Studies in Education
SDS380H1: Sexual Diversity in Transnational Perspective
SDS381H1: Intro to Trans Studies
SDS382H1: Intro to Queer of Colour Critique
SDS385H1: Queer Indigenous Politics and Cultures
SDS425H1: Sexuality & Health
SDS455H1: Special Topics in Sexual Diversity Studies
SDS465H1: Queer Migrations and Refugee Politics
SDS470H1: Critical Approaches in Porn Studies
SDS478H1: Queer Musics
SOC209H1: Sexuality and Modernity
UNI104H1: Sex in the City
WGS374H1: Feminist Studies in Sexuality
WGS376H1: Studies in Queer and Trans
WGS480H1: Challenging Coloniality: Caribbean Sexualities in Transnational Perspective
Group D: General Critical Equity
AFR251H1: Language, Freedom and Linguistic Human Rights in Africa
AFR298H1: Popular Uprisings in Africa
AFR370H1: Anticolonialism, Radicalism and Revolutions in Africa
AFR454H1: Migration, Mobility, and Displacement in Contemporary Africa
AFR460H1: Climate Change, Food Security, and Sustainability in Africa
AMS100H1: Global Capitalism
AMS320H1: Tearing Down Monuments: Controversies in Public Memory
ANT204H1: Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
ANT205H1: Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
ANT215H1: Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
ANT324H1: Tourism & Globalization
ANT329H1: Language & Power Structure
ANT344H1: Political Anthropology
ANT345H1: Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
ANT346H1: Anthropology of Food
ANT348H1: Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
ANT354H1: Right-Wing Nationalisms
ANT357H1: Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
ANT358H1: Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
ANT364H1: Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
ANT366H1: Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
ANT420H1: Archaeology of Inequality
ANT426H1: ‘The West’ and Its Others
ANT442H1: Social Studies of Autism
ANT446H1: Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
ANT472H1: Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
BMS350H1: Propaganda and Media
BMS431H1: Media and Environmental Justice
BPM214H1: Socially Engaged Buddhism
BPM381H1: Buddhist Perspectives on Current Social Issues
CAR220H1: Comparative Caribbean Literature
CAR221H1: Comparative Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture
CAS350H1: Asian Youth Cultures
CAS420H1: Asia and the New Global Economy
CAS430H1: Nationalism and Revolution in Asia
CDN198H1: Canada, Colonialism and Settler Relations
CDN267H1: What is Canada?
CDN367H1: Canadian Pluralism
CDN380H1: Contemporary Jewish Canadian Communities
CHC309H1: Christianity and Politics
CIN366H1: Durable Empires and Medias of Mass Culture
CRI487H1: Law, Space, and the City
DRM363H1: Story-ing the Possible: Talking Treaties, Rehearsing (Re) conciliation
DTS300H1: Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning
DTS305H1: Special Topics in Diaspora and Transnational Studies
DTS401H1: Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
DTS402H1: Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism
DTS410H1: Diasporic Foodways
DTS411H1: Transnational Justice
EAS315H1: The “Yellow Peril”: Past & Present
EAS439H1: The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time, and Colonialism
EAS476H1: Social Protest in Modern East Asia
EDS260H1: Equity and Diversity in Education
EDS355H1: Social Justice in Education
EDS358H1: Residential Schools and Education in Canada
ENG254H1: Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
ENV101H1: Confronting the Climate Crisis
ENV430H1: Community Research in Environment and Faith
ENV463H1: Edible Campus
GER332H1: Deviance – Madness – Outsiders
GGR107H1: Environment, Food and People
GGR112H1: Geopolitics, Globalization, and Inequality
GGR197H1: Re(story)ing the Earth: Indigenous Wisdoms, Ecological Stewardship, and Global Climate Action
GGR198H1: Mobility and Borders
GGR240H1: Geographies of Colonialism in North America
GGR328H1: Labour Geographies
GGR329H1: The Global Food System
GGR338H1: Social Transformation and Environment in the Majority World
GGR339H1: Urban Political Geographies
GGR340H1: Health Geography
GGR357H1: Housing and Community Development
GGR363H1: Critical Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas on Space, Society and Culture
GGR418H1: Geographies of Extraction
GGR419H1: Environmental Justice
GGR434H1: Building Community Resilience
HIS106Y1: The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804
HIS190H1: Freedom Schools
HIS318H1: Histories of the “Wild” West
HIS323H1: Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
HIS324H1: The Criminalization of Protest in Latin American History
HIS424H1: Violence in Medieval Society
HIS459H1: Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
HIS480H1: Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique
HIS489H1: The History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Illness
HMB203H1: Introduction to Global Health
HMB303H1: Global Health and Human Rights
HMB443H1: Global Hidden Hunger
HMB453H1: AIDS: A Global Perspective
HPS240H1: The Influence of the Eugenics Movement on Contemporary Society
HPS324H1: Natural Science and Social Issues
HPS347H1: History of Autism Across Time and Cultures
HPS445H1: Slavery, Medicine, and Science
HST209H1: Introduction to Social Determinants of Health
HST330H1: Population Health
HST411H1: Political Economy of Health
INS200H1: Introduction to Indigenous Truth and Resilience
INS240Y1: Ecological Interactions: Intro to Indigenous and Western Sciences
INS250H1: Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies
INS261H1: Contemporary Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities
INS300Y1: Worldviews, Indigenous Knowledges, and Oral Tradition
INS301Y1: Indigenous Languages and Cultures
INS302H1: Indigenous Representation in the Mass Media and Society
INS322H1: Indigenous Narratives of Empowerment
INS340Y1: Indigenous Health Science
INS341H1: North American Indigenous Theatre
INS350H1: Indigenous Health Systems
INS353H1: First Nations Politics in Canada
INS354H1: Indigenous Governance and Self-Determination
INS355H1: Current Issues in Indigenous Health
INS360Y1: Politics and Process of Reconciliation in Canada
INS402H1: Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
INS403H1: Indigenous Peoples and the Urban Context
INS405H1: Indigenous Thought & Expression: Creative Non-fiction
INS407H1: Indigenous Environmental Justice
JFP450H1: Indigenous Issues in Health and Healing
JGU216H1: Globalization and Urban Change
JHU473H1: Environmental Crises, Human Mobility, and Health
JIG440H1: Indigenous Geographies
JPI201H1: Indigenous Politics in Canada
JPR458H1: Postsecular Political Thought: Religion, Radicalism and the Limits of Liberalism
JRC199H1: Truths & Reconciliations in Canada
JRN301H1: Disability in the Hebrew Bible and Related Texts
JSU237H1: Introduction to HIV/AIDS: Health, Sexuality and Gender
JUG325H1: Landscapes of Violence in Canada
LAS370H1: Critical Perspectives of Development in Latin American Contexts
LIN197H1: Language and Social Justice
LIN208H1: Linguistic Discrimination and Justice
LIN211H1: American Sign Language 1
NEW101H1: The Everyday Politics of Food
NEW102H1: Exploring Multilingual Toronto
NEW105H1: Current Issues Without Borders
NEW106H1: Science, Health and Social Justice
NEW111H1: Food, Ethics and Sustainability
NEW113H1: Unpacking Digital Technology
NEW114H1: Art for Social Change
NEW115H1: Current Issues Without Borders
NEW197H1: Public Intellectual Activism: Theory and Practice
NMC384H1: Marking Time: Legal Issues and Personal Status in Judaism
PHL273H1: Environmental Ethics
PHL281H1: Bioethics
PHL317H1: Marx and Marxism
PHL369H1: Philosophy of Race, Gender, and Capitalism
PHL373H1: Issues in Environmental Ethics
PHL380H1: Global Bioethics
PHL381H1: Ethics and Medical Research
PHL383H1: Ethics and Mental Health
PHL384H1: Ethics, Genetics and Reproduction
PHL440H1: Clinical Bioethics
POL198H1: First-Year Foundation Seminar: Social Justice and the City
POL201H1: Politics of Development
POL333H1: Global Politics and Global Political Thought
POL344H1: Social Movements in Canada
POL358H1: Conflicts, Minority Rights and Para-States in Europe
POL384H1: Global Environmental Governance from the Ground Up
POL412H1: Human Rights and International Relations
POL413H1: Global Environmental Politics
POL417H1: Politics of North-South Relations
POL418H1: Human Security and Intra-state Conflicts in the Global South
POL421H1: Maimonides and His Modern Interpreters
POL439H1: The Canadian Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
POL444H1: Land and Indigenous Politics
POL480H1: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
RLG201H1: Indigenous Spiritualities and Religions
RLG317H1: Religion, Violence, and Non-Violence
RLG453H1: Christianity and Judaism in Colonial Context
RLG461H1: Buddhism and Indigeneity
RLG476H1: Caste and its “Other”
SAS318H1: Colonialism and Tradition
SOC207H1: Sociology of Work & Occupations
SOC220H1: Social Stratification
SOC243H1: Sociology of Health and Illness
SOC282H1: Introduction to Social Problems
SOC308H1: Global Inequality
SOC309H1: HIV and AIDS: Social Policies and Programs
SOC360H1: Social Movements
SOC363H1: Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorders
SOC364H1: Urban Health
SOC367H1: Race, Class, and Gender
SOC370H1: Immigration and Employment
SOC479H1: Advanced Studies in Social Movements
SPA196H1: Power, Privilege, and Precarity in the Americas
SPA383H1: Disability and Embodiment in Spanish American Cultures
UNI101H1: Citizenship in the Canadian City
URB333H1: Social Justice in the City
URB337H1: Housing and Homelessness
URB433H1: Special Topics in Urban Studies
VIC153H1: School and Society: Equity and Social Justice in Education
VIC168H1: Identity and Equality in the Public Sphere
VIC185H1: Democracy and Dictatorship
WRR414H1: Writing for Social Change
Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses in Groups A,B,C, and D
NOTE: If taken during the 2015-2016 academic year, SDS455H1 may be used to fulfill the core group requirement, including the requirement for 0.5 FCE at the 400+ level. If taken during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 or 2017-2018 academic years, NEW471H1 may also be used to fulfill the core group requirement, including the 0.5 FCE at the 400+ level. Contact nc.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca to have your program adjusted on Degree Explorer if you choose to exercise this option.
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