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DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES
interdisciplinary program

“Diaspora” refers to the relations between homelands and host nations from the perspective of those who have moved, whether voluntarily or not, and to the lived experience of these communities. “Transnational” refers to the flows and counterflows of people, as well as goods and ideas. The interdisciplinary program in Diaspora and Transnational Studies explores these phenomena comparatively across cultures from the perspectives of the many participating disciplines.

Programs:
Diaspora and Transnational Studies (major and minor options)

If you are interested in enrolling in the diaspora and transnational studies program you should take the DTS200Y1 course. This course is a prerequisite for the advanced level courses and is a requirement for the programs in diaspora and transnational studies. It provides students with an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of diaspora, with particular attention to questions of history, spatiality, globalization, cultural production and the creative imagination.

2011-2012 Calendar

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The following DTS program requirements apply only to those students who enrolled in the program in September 2010. Students who enrolled before that date should fulfill the requirements listed in the A&S Calendar of the year in which they enrolled.

 

Diaspora & Transnational Studies Major
7 full courses or their equivalent, including at least two 300+ series courses.

1. DTS200Y1
2. JQR360H1
3. 4.5 full-course equivalents (FCEs) from Group A and B courses, with at least two FCEs from each group. Coverage must include at least two diasporic communities or regions, to be identified in consultation with the program advisor.
4. Any of the two DTS 400-level courses

Diaspora & Transnational Studies Minor
4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one 300+ series course.

1. DTS200Y1
2. JQR360H1
3. 2 full-course equivalents (FCEs) from Group A and B courses, with at least one FCE from each group.
4. Any one DTS 400-level course

 

Information on DTS 400 level courses offered in 2011-12


DTS402H1    Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism (Citizenship, Diaspora, Delinquency)[24S]

Who belongs?  Who does not?  What are the mechanisms by which individuals become included and excluded? Once bounded by the sovereign nation-state, these questions have taken on new significance in a world now organized by proc-esses of disapora and transnationalism.  This course, in response, explores new coordinates for membership.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS403H1    Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism (The Diasporic Lives of Objects) [24S]

 As they travel through space and time, material objects play an important role in the production of diasporic identity. This course focuses on the culturally defined and socially regulated processes of circulation, transaction, and use to examine the ways in which diasporic communities identify value and meaning in objects and how those objects give value to the social relations that define communities. Through readings, guest lectures and discussions, we will address questions such as: What roles do objects play in the constitution and reproduction of diasporic communities? What qualities are read into objects, through what mechanisms, and how does their meaning vary across space? What is the relationship between object, narrative, affect and identity? What conditions affect the durability of the relation between object and diasporic identity?

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

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DTS404H1    Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism (Jewish Storytelling from around the World) [24S]

 The course examines patterns of Jewish stories popular in the countries of the Jewish Diaspora. We will start with biblical stories, then move on to the moralistic tales of the Talmud, medieval Ladino and Hebrew ballads and legends, tales of Dybbuks, Golems and other supernatural beings, Hassidic tales, Yiddish wonder stories, immigration folklore of the 20th and 21st century.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)


Group A (Humanities) Courses

Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses in Groups A and B.

Note: course = one full course or the equivalent in half courses.

East-Asian Studies

EAS105H1 Modern East-Asian History
EAS251H1 Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century Korea
EAS271H1 20th Century Korean History
EAS318H1 Rethinking Modernism: The Perspectives of Mainland China,Taiwan and Hong Kong
EAS333H1 Modernism and Colonial Korea
EAS374H1 Modern Japan and Colonialism
EAS439H1 The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time and Colonialism

English

ENG268H1 Asian North American Literature
ENG270Y1 Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
ENG275Y1 Jewish Literature in English
ENG277Y1 African Canadian Literature
ENG285H1 The English Language in the World
ENG370H1 Postcolonial and Transnational Discourses
ENG375H1 Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture

Finnish

FIN320H1 The Finnish Canadian Immigrant Experience

French

FRE332H1 Francophone Literature I
FRE334H1 Francophone Cinema
FRE336H1 Postcolonialism: Francophone LIterature
FRE438H1 Advanced Topics in Francophone Literatures: Black Blanc Beur: Ecrire la banlieue

German

GER335H1 Writing Memory: POST 1945
GER361H1 Yiddish Literature and Culture in Translation
GER362H1 Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union
GER363H1 Cultural History of East European Community 1800-2000
GER364H1 Introduction to the History of Yiddish Cinema
GER365H1 Knights, Dybbuks, and Fairies: Yiddish & German Story-Telling BefORE 1700

History

HIS202H1 Gender, Race and Science
HIS208Y1 History of the Jewish People
HIS263Y1 Introduction to Canadian History
HIS282Y1 History of South Asia
HIS284Y1 Viet Nam: Crossroads of Asia
HIS291Y1 Latin America: The Colonial Period
HIS294Y1 Caribbean History & Culture: Indigenous Era to 1886
HIS296Y1 Black Freedom
HIS303H1 The Mediterranean, 600-1300: Crusade, Colonialism, Diaspora
HIS305H1 Popular Culture and Politics in the Modern Caribbean
HIS312H1 Immigration to Canada
HIS330H1 Germany from Frederick the Great to the First World War
HIS336H1 Medieval Spain
HIS338H1 The Holocaust, to 1942
HIS352H1 Secularism and Strife: Modern Jewish Politics and Culture
HIS356H1 Zionism and Israel
HIS359H1 Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean
HIS360Y1 African-Canadian History, 1606-Present
HIS361H1 The Holocaust, fROM 1942
HIS369H1 Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes from 1500
HIS370H1 The Black Experience in the United States Since the Civil War
HIS383H1 African Women from Colonial Conquest to the Era of Structural Adjustment
HIS384H1 Colonial Canada
HIS385H1/Y1 The History of Hong Kong
HIS393H1 Slavery and the American South
HIS403Y1 Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
HIS408Y1 History of Race Relations in America
HIS412Y1 Crusades, Conversions and Colonization in the Medieval Baltic
HIS413H1 Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
HIS414H1 The Third Reich
HIS431H1 Gender and the Holocaust
HIS433H1 Polish Jews Since the Partition of Poland
JHP435H1 Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Europe
HIS439H1 Russia’s Empire
HIS442H1 European Women in the Twentieth Century
HIS444H1 Topics in Jewish History: Jewish Identity in the Modern World
HIS446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
HIS456Y1 Black Slavery in Latin America
HIS467H1 French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film
HIS472H1 Indigenous-Newcomer Relations in Canadian History
HIS475H1 Race, Segregation, and Protest: South Africa and the United States
HIS476H1 Voices From Black America
HIS478H1 Hellhound on my Trail: Living the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
HIS480H1 Modernity and its Others: History and Postcolonial Critique

Innis College

INI327Y1 Screening Race
INI380Y1 Contemporary World Cinema
INI385Y1 Canadian Cinema

Innis College – Urban Studies

JGI216H1 Urbanization and Global Change
INI308H1 The City of Toronto

Italian Studies

ITA334H1 Italian-Canadian Literature I: Life in a New World
ITA493H1 Italian-Canadian Literature II: Identity and Voice

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

NMC150H1 Hebrew Bible and Ancient Jewish Literature in Translation
NMC151H1 The Bible and Its Interpreters
NMC250H1 Dead Sea Scrolls
NMC254H1 Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation
NMC256Y1 Literature and Culture of Modern Israel
NMC257Y1 Introduction to the Literature of Jewish Sages
NMC274Y1 Steppe Frontier in Islamic History
NMC275H1 Muslims and Jews: The Medieval Encounter
NMC281H1 Prophets: Ancient Jewish Prophecy and Inspired Exegesis
NMC284H1 Judaism And Feminism
NMC287H1 Mystical Dimensions of Islam and Judaism
NMC352H1 Faith and Doubt in Modern Hebrew Poetry
NMC357H1 Mass Media and/in the Middle East
NMC370Y1 Ancient Israel
NMC384H1 Life Cycle and Personal Status in Judeism
NMC385H1 Intellectuals of the Arab World
NMC475H1 Orientalism and Occidentalism

New College - African Studies

NEW250Y1 Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
NEW296Y1 Black Freedom
NEW351Y1 African Systems of Thought

New College - Caribbean Studies

NEW223Y1 Caribbean Literature and Society
NEW224Y1 Caribbean Thought I
NEW324Y1 Caribbean Thought II
NEW325H1 Caribbean Women Thinkers
NEW326Y1 Indenture, Survival, Change
NEW327Y1 The Hispanic Caribbean: Insights and Images of Cuba
NEW422Y1 Performing and Transforming the Caribbean

New College – Equity Studies

NEW341H1 Theories and Histories in Equity Studies
NEW343H1 The Romani Diaspora in Canada
NEW449H1 Contemporary Theories in Disability Studies

Portuguese

PRT252H1 Portuguese Island Culture
PRT255H1 The Brazilian Puzzle: Culture and Identity

Religion

RLG202Y1 The Jewish Religious Tradition
RLG220H1 Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust
RLG221H1 Religious Ethics: the Jewish Tradition
RLG243H1 Diasporic Religions
RLG280Y1 World Religions: A Comparative Study
RLG319H1 Reconception of Biblical Figures in Early Jewish and Christian Sources
RLG325H1 Visions and Revelations in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
RLG326H1 Judaism and the Roots of Christianity
RLG340Y1 Classical Jewish Theology
RLG341H1 Dreaming of Zion: Exile and Return in Jewish Thought
RLG342Y1 Judaism in the Modern Age
RLG344Y1 Antisemitism
RLG345H1 Social Ecology and Judaism
RLG346H1 Time and Place in Judaism
RLG432H1 Natural Law in Judaism and Christianity
RLG430H1 Jewish Culture in Medieval Latin, Greek, and Arabic Europe
RLG434H1 Modern Jewish Thought
RLG453H1 Christianity and Judaism in Colonial Context

Slavic Languages and Literature

SLA202H1 Jewish Communities in Slavic Countries
SLA238H1 Literature of the Ukrainian-Canadian Experience
SLA302H1 The Imaginary Jew

South Asian Studies

SAS215H1 Colonial Thought and Postcolonial Practice In Bengal
SAS217H1 Tamil Studies in South Asia and the Diaspora

St. Michael’s College

SMC413H1 The Irish in Canada
SMC414H1 The Scots in Canada
SMC416H1 Irish Nationalism in Canada and the United States
SMC421H1 Jews and Judaism in Christian Traditions

Spanish

SPA480H1 Theories of Culture in Latin America
SPA486H1 Contemporary Caribbean Literatures and Identities

Victoria College

VIC350Y1 Creative Writing: A Multicultural Approach

Women and Gender Studies

WGS366H1 Gender and Disability
WGS368H1 Gender and Cultural Difference: Transnational Perspectives
WGS369Y1 Studies in Post-Colonialism
WGS375H1 Colonialism, Sexuality, Spirituality and the Law
WGS380H1 Aboriginal, Black and Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
WGS430H1 Queer Diasporas
WGS440H1 Gender and the Sacred
WGS445H1 Migrations and the Sacred


Group B (Social Sciences) courses

Anthropology

ANT318H1 The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory
ANT324H1 Tourism & Globalization
ANT341H1 China in Transition
ANT345H1 Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
ANT346H1 Anthropology of Food
ANT347Y1 Metropolis: Global Cities
ANT348H1 Anthropology of Health
ANT350H1 Globalization and the Changing World of Work
ANT351H1 Contested Environments
ANT354H1 Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
JAL355H1 Language and Gender
ANT356H1 Anthropology of Religion
ANT357H1 Cultures of U.S. Empire
ANT359H1 Culture and Difference
ANT366H1 Anthropology of Social Movements: Theory and Method
ANT370H1 Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
ANT375H1 Reading Ethnography: Classic Ethnographies
ANT426H1 Orientalism: Western Views of Muslims and Jews
ANT427H1 Language, Ideology, & Political Economy
ANT475H1 Reading Ethnography: Contemporary Ethnographies
ANT467H1 Ethnographies of Contemporary South Asia
ANT426H1 Orientalism: Western Views of the Other
ANT440Y1 Society in Transition
ANT448H1 Ethnicity & Nationalism
ANT452H1 Anthropology & Human Rights
ANT456H1 Sexuality, Culture and Movement
ANT466H1 The Philippines and the Filipino Diaspora

Geography

GGR216H1 Global Cities
JGI216H1 Urbanization & Global Change
GGR320H1 Geographies of Transnationalism, Migration, and Gender
GGR336H1 Urban Historical Geography of North America
GGR339H1 Urban Geography, Planning and Political Processes
JGI346H1 The Urban Planning Process
GGR361H1 Understanding the Urban Landscape
GGR363H1 Critical Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas on Space, Society and Culture
GGR366H1 Historical Toronto
GGR452H1 Space, Power, Geography: Understanding Spatiality
GGR457H1 The Post-War Suburbs

New College – Equity Studies

NEW342H1 Theory and Praxis in Food Security

Political Science

POL215Y1 Politics and Transformation of Asia-Pacific
POL311Y1 Ideas and Ideologies in Canadian Politics
POL321H1 Ethnic Politics in Comparative Perspective
POL345H1 Becoming Israel: War, Peace, and the Politics of Israel’s Identity
POL349Y1 Globalization and Urban Politics
JPR364Y1 Religion and Politics
POL403H1 Colonialism/Post-Colonialism: The Colonial State and Its Forms of Power
POL421H1 Maimonides and His Modern Interpreters
POL429Y1 Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Democracy
POL430Y1 Comparative Studies in Jewish and non- Jewish Political Thought
POL443H1 The Colonial State and its Forms of Power
JPF455Y1 Cities

Sociology

SOC214Y1 Sociology of Families
SOC215Y1 Socialization
SOC218Y1 Asian Communities in Canada
SOC220Y1 Social Inequality in Canada
SOC243H1 Sociology of Health and Illness
SOC244H1 Sociology of Health Care
SOC246H1 The Sociology of Aging
SOC247H1 The Sociology of Aging II
SOC250H1 Sociology of Religion
SOC257H1 Lives in Canada
SOC270H1 Comparative Social Inequality
SOC279H1 Contentious Politics
SOC306H1 Sociology of Crime and Delinquency
SOC327Y1 Families and Health
SOC330Y1 Comparative Ethnic Relations
SOC336H1 Immigration and Race Relations in Canada
SOC341Y1 The Jewish Community in Europe and North America
SOC344Y1 Contemporary International Migration
SOC358H1 Cities and Social Pathology
SOC360Y1 Sociology of Cultural Studies
SOC364H1 Urban Health
SOC367H1 Race, Class, and Gender
SOC370Y1 Sociology of Labour
SOC381Y1 Culture and Social Structure
SOC383H1 The Sociology of Women and International Migration
SOC386H1 Urbanization
SOC388H1 Sociology of Everyday Life
SOC483Y1 Methods and Models of Demography

University College – Canadian Studies

JWU200H1 Toronto in the Canadian Context
UNI220Y1 Understanding Canada Today: Re-imaging the Nation
UNI280H1 Canadian Jewish History
UNI307Y1 Asian Cultures in Canada
UNI320Y1 Canadian Quesitions: Issues and Debates
UNI380H1 Socio-Cultural Perspective of the Canadian Jewish Community

Victoria College

VIC183H1 Individuals and the Public Sphere: Shaping Memory
VIC184H1 Individuals and the Public Sphere: History, Historiography and Making Cultural Memory

Woodsworth College - Criminology

WDW383H1 Immigration and Crime

Women and Gender Studies
WGS425Y1 Women and Issues of International Development

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