Minor Concentration (AFRI)

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: Inst for the St of Development

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • Khalid M Medani

African Studies: An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the African Studies Program. As part of their contribution, students will prepare a research paper under the supervision of one or more members of staff.

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

• Prerequisite: an introductory course in any of the disciplines studying Africa
• Restriction: Open to final year Program students, and to others by permission of Program Adviser

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Khalid M Medani

African Studies: Basic knowledge of the Swahili language and culture with emphasis on handling circumstances that might be encountered in field research: everyday conversation, developing aural and oral skills and mastering basic grammar rules, understanding cultural norms and practices, issues of culture sensitivity and appropriateness.

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

• Note: Priority to students in the African Studies Program and/or participants of the Canadian Field Studies in Africa program and to students with a demonstrable need related to internship or research. Approval by African Studies Program Adviser required.

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • Angela Ngaira

African Studies: Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a staff member.

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

• Prerequisite: the completion of all available courses relevant to the topic, and permission of the instructor and Program Adviser prior to registration
• Restriction(s): Open only to Joint Honours students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

African Studies: Supervised reading in advanced special topics in African Studies under the direction of a member of staff.

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

• Prerequisite: the completion of all available courses relevant to the topic, and permission of the instructor and Program Adviser prior to registration

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

African Studies: Internship with an approved host institution or organization.

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

• Note: U2 and U3 students in good standing, normally after completing 30 credits of a 90-credit program or 45 credits of a 96-120 credit program, a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission from the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will normally not fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses.

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • Khalid M Medani

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 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

Anthropology: Variations in herding systems over a wide range of habitats and involving a variety of species of domestic livestock. Comparative perspectives on the prehistory of pastoral systems, on the ideologies, cultures, and social and economic systems of nomadic pastoralists. Relations with non-pastoralists and the effects of change and development will also be examined.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Fall
• Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

Anthropology: Critical evaluation of theories in primate behaviour, ecology, and conservation that emphasizes direct observations, research design, and developing field methods.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter
• Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology, Geography or Environmental Studies, Introductory Biology, or permission of the instructor.
• Restriction: Students must have completed at least two full semesters at their home university. Only open to students in the Canadian Field Studies in Africa program.

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

Anthropology: Study of environmental effects of development in East Africa, especially due to changes in traditional land tenure and resource use across diverse ecosystems. Models, policies and cases of pastoralist, agricultural, fishing, wildlife and tourist development will be examined, across savanna, desert, forest, highland and coastal environments.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter
• Restriction: Open only to students in the Study in Africa program, a full-term field study program in East Africa
• Prerequisite: One prior course in Anthropology, Geography or Environmental Studies

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Paul Dickinson, Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
  • Paul Dickinson

Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Matthieu Chemin
  • Francesco Amodio

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 2019
• Instructors
  • Francesco Amodio

English (Arts): A study of postcolonial literature.

Offered by: English

• Winter

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

English (Arts): Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.

Offered by: English

• Fall
• Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

English (Arts): A study of African literature.

Offered by: English

• Winter

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 2018
• Instructors
  • Oliver T Coomes, Sebastien M Breau

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 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 2019
• Instructors
  • Thomas C Meredith

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

• Fall
• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • Jon D Unruh

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 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

Geography: A synthetic overview of physical and cultural geography examining particularly the relation of African peoples to their landscapes, the causes and consequences of environmental changes, and the idea of sustainable development as it applies to African landscapes, resource systems and economies.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• Offered in Kenya as part of the African Field Studies semester.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

History: An overview of the history of foreign intervention and anticolonial resistance in 19th and 20th century Africa. Topics include: theories of colonialism, the scramble for Africa, colonialism and disease, indirect rule, labour, nationalism and resistance, and changing gender roles.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Prerequisite: HIST 200 or HIST 201 or AFRI 200 or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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

• Prerequisite: HIST 200 or HIST 201 or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • J Elizabeth Elbourne

History: A survey of critical theory, focused particularly on methodological and theoretical questions pertinent to historical analysis. Thinkers to be read and discussed include Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Lukács, the Frankfurt School, Althusser, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lacan, and their contemporary interpreters. Primary texts of major thinkers and secondary writings will be included.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Prerequisite(s): One 200-level HIST course or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

History: Exceptionally, and under the direction of a member of staff, advanced and highly qualified students who have an extensive background in the proposed area of study, may pursue this independent study.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Prerequisite: Written permission
• Restriction: Open to History Major Concentration students only. Students may register in this course only once.

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 2018
• Instructors
  • Gwyn R Campbell

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
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • Khalid M Medani

Islamic Studies: A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

Islamic Studies: Modern Standard Arabic. Focus on the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, with an emphasis on the functional use of the language.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Fall and Winter
• 5 lecture hours and laboratory
• Prerequisite: Placement Test or permission of instructor
• Students must register for both ISLA 521D1 and ISLA 521D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 521D1 and ISLA 521D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Fall 2018
• Instructors
  • David E Nancekivell, Shokry A Gohar

Islamic Studies: See ISLA 521D1 for course description.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Winter
• Prerequisite: ISLA 521D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 521D1 and ISLA 521D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • David E Nancekivell

Political Science: An introduction to Third World politics. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and contemporary dynamics of political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building and national integration, revolution, the role of the military, and democratization.

Offered by: Political Science

• Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Khalid M Medani

Political Science: Seminar on developing areas. Topic varies year to year.

Offered by: Political Science

• Prerequisite: At least one upper-level course in the politics of developing areas.
• Restriction: Open to graduate students, final year honours students, and other advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor; (Note: The field is Comparative Politics in Developing Areas).

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Narendra Subramanian

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

• Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

• Terms
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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 2018
• Instructors
  • Poulami Roychowdhury

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
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Matthew K Lange

Sociology (Arts): Focus on the sociological aspects of recent transitions to democracy within developing countries - particularly within Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Exploration of why democratization has taken place, to what extent it has been successful and the implications of democratization.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: SOCI 210

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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

• Prerequisites: SOCI 225 or SOCI 309 or Permission of Instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year

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
  • Winter 2019
• Instructors
  • Poulami Roychowdhury