Complexity courses
Students will enrol in a single Complexity course in each of the Fall or Winter terms.
Course 1 (Fall 2024):
AFYR 101 - Understanding Corruption: causes, consequences, and representations around the world
Students will learn about what is and what isn't corruption, explore its history, causes, and consequences (including approaches that see some positive effects of corruption!), learn about how corruption manifests itself in different parts of the world, and analyze media, cultural, and fictional representations of corruption. In doing so, students will be exposed to an array of different approaches to the study of corruption through a set of guest lecturers from different disciplines.
Course 2 (Winter 2025):
AFYR 102 - The Fictions and Realities of Work
The history, politics, and cultural narratives of labor in twenty-first-century North America. Drawing on groundbreaking works of sociology alongside a handful of highly acclaimed contemporary novels, students in this course will consider how the stories we tell ourselves about work both reflect and shape the realities of labor in the twenty-first century.
