IDS鈥慉pproved Courses from other Departments

Department of International Development Studies

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IDS鈥慉pproved Courses from other Departments

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Arabic

ARBC 2100.03: A Cultural Introduction to the Arab World

Arts and Social Sciences

ASSC 3150. 03: Intercultural Communication

Black and African Diaspora Studies

BAFD 3500.03 : The Politics of Reparation
BAFD 3600.03: Black Radical Thought

Biology

The importance of an understanding of biology for informed contribution to sustainable development cannot be over-emphasized.

BIOL 3065.03: Conservation Biology
BIOL 3226.03: Plants and Civilization
BIOL 3601.03: Nature Conservation
BIOL 4065.03: Sustainability and Global Change
BIOL 4160.03: Political Ecology

Canadian Studies

CANA 2050.03: Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies
CANA 2052.03: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Studies
CANA 3050.03: Indigenous Research & Methodology
CANA 3052.03: Indigenous Social Health & Enviornmental Issues
CANA 3400.03: Contemporary Indigenous Art
CANA 3401.03: Indigenous Representation in Film

Contemporary Studies

CTMP 2115.03: Conception of Race in Philosophy, Literature and Art
CTMP 2322.03: The Experience of Others in Philosophy, History and Literature
CTMP 3103.03: Critiques of Modernity
CTMP 3130.03: The Thought of Michel Foucault
CTMP 3311.03: Culture, Politics and the Post Colonial Condition
CTMP 4125.03: Hannah Arendt: Terror, Politics, Thought

Economics

A grasp of economic frameworks whereby societies allocate resources (human resources and capital) is a prerequisite for understanding development plans and national prospects, development projects and foreign aid, and the constraints and possibilities for sustainable development.

ECON 2213.03: Emerging Giants: The Economic rise of China and India
ECON 2216.03: Economics of Global Warming
ECON 2334.03: Perspectives on Economic Development
ECON 2336.03: Regional Development
ECON 2850.06: The Science and Economics of Climate Change
ECON 3310.03: Economic Growth in Historical Perspective
ECON 3317.03: Poverty and Inequality
ECON 3330.03: International Trade
ECON 3331.03: International Finance
ECON 3332.03: Resource Economics
ECON 3333.03: Theories of Economic Development
ECON 3335.03: Environmental Economics
ECON 3349.03: History of Economic Thought
ECON 4317.03: Poverty and Inequality
ECON 4360.03: Ethics, Justice and Economics

English

Language skills are obviously important for effective communication for those wishing to pursue international development studies; but through the study of languages and literature, important insights about culture and development experience are also to be gleaned. The IDS program encourages students minimally to study one additional (relevant) language to English.

ENGL 2005.03: World Literature
ENGL 2090.03: Literature, Multiculturalism, and Identity
ENGL 3086.03: Post-Colonial Literatures
ENGL 3087.03/CHIN 3080.03: Literature of the Asian Diaspora: Language and Identity in Asian North American Literature

Environmental Studies

Most environmental scientists have primary expertise in a particular discipline and work cooperatively with specialists from other disciplinens to solve environmental problems. AV俱乐部 now offers a minor in both environmental studies and science. However, current programs that also provide courses emphasizing environmental subjects include Earth Sciences (geology and hydrogeology), marine biology and POLI 3585.03.

ENVS 3220.03: International Environmental Law for Scientists
ENVS 3501.03: Environmental Problem Solving I
ENVS 3502.03: Environmental Problem Solving II: The Campus as a Living Laboratory
ENVS 4001.03: Environmental Impact Assessment
ERTH 2410.03: Environmental and Resource Geology
ERTH 3410.03: Enhanced Environmental Geology
GEOG 2070.03: Area Studies on Mexico and Central America
GEOG 2201.03: Intro to Development Studies
GEOG 2202.03: Intro to Development Studies II
GEOG 2206.03: Africa: An Introduction
GEOG 2800.03: Climate Change
GEOG 3165.03: Peoples and Cultures of the World: Selected Area Studies

French

FREN 3125.03: Le Monde francophone/The French-Speaking World
FREN 3150.03: Aspects de la francophonie/Aspects of the Francophone World
FREN 3175.03: Topical Issues in Francophone/Th茅mes de la francophonie

Gender and Women's Studies

It is important to recognize the implications of gender issues and to be sensitive to how these are viewed in different cultural circumstances. Hence, students are strongly encouraged to participate in at least one of the following GWST courses.

GWST 2412.03: Human Sexuality
GWST 3006.03: Comparataive Perspectives on Gender and Work
GWST 3168.03: Issues in Latin American Society
GWST 3426.03: Sex and the State
GWST 3503.03: Human Rights Foundations
GWST 3600.03: Sexualization of Western Political Thought
GWST 4116.03: Contemporary Issues in Gender and Development
GWST 4211.03: Gender and Development: Theory, Concepts and Methods
GSWT 4400.03: Indigenous Women and The State

History

Just as people need to know who they are and how they arrived there, groups, races, courses, states and nations need a sense of their own past as part of their culture and to guide their future development choices.

HIST 2006.03: The Atlantic World, 1450-1650: European Colonization of the Americas
HIST 2007.03: The Atlantic World, 1650-1800: European Empires in the Americas
HIST 2021.03: Soviet Russia
HIST 2205.03: Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies
HIST 2381.03: Latin America
HIST 2382.03: Central America to 1979
HIST 2383.03: Areas Studies on Mexico and Central America
HIST 2384.03: Cuba from Colonial Times
HIST 2385.03: The Cuban Revolution
HIST 2386.03: Colonial Latin America
HIST 2387.03: Latin America since Independence
HIST 2388.03: Latin American Dictators in Novel
HIST 2392.03: Introduction to Caribbean History (1540 to present)
HIST 2425.03: Africa Before 1900
HIST 2426.03: Africa Since 1900
HIST 2502.03: The Ottoman Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East, 1750-1923
HIST 2503.03: Medieval Islamic Civilization
HIST 2504.03: A History of the Modern Middle East
HIST 2505.03: Turbans and Berets: A Modern History of Iraq
HIST 2510.03: Modern History of South Asia
HIST 2711.03: Struggles that Shaped the Modern World: 1600-1900
HIST 2712.03: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
HIST 3090.03: Russian Society
HIST 3092.03: Russian Topics
HIST 3380.03: Slavery and Freedoms in the America
HIST 3390.03: Latin America: Revolution and Repression
HIST 3393.03: Indigenous Movements in Latin America
HIST 3430.03: The Making of Colonial Africa, c. 1850-1930
HIST 3431.03: Struggles in the City: Labour, Migration and Urban Life in Colonial Africa
HIST 3435.03: The Rise and Fall of African Slavery
HIST 3451.03: Southern Africa to 1860
HIST 3452.03: Southern Africa since 1860
HIST 3470.03: Wars and Revolutions in Nineteenth Century Africa
HIST 3471.03: Wars and Revolutions in Twentieth Century Africa
HIST 3500.03: Topics in Global History
HIST 3509.03: Arab Caliphs, Turkish Commanders, and Persian Viziers: Islamic History, 750-1200
HIST 3510.03: Sultans and Shahs: Politics and Religion in the Islamic Gunpowder Age (1500-1800)
HIST 3511.03: Ancient and Medieval History of the Persianate World
HIST 3512.03: Modern History of Iran
HIST 3513.03: From Cairo to Cape Town: Religious Revival, Identity and Colonialism in Muslim Africa
HIST 3515.03: Food for Thought: History and the Culinary Cultures of the Islamic World
HIST 3520.03: Empire, War and Resistance in Sri Lanka
HIST 4300.03: Topics in Latin American Study
HIST 4355.03: Becoming the State
HIST 4360.03: Slavery and American Political Culture
HIST 4400.03: Topics in African History
HIST 4401.03: State Violence Communal Conflict and Criminology in Modern South Africa
HIST 4404.03: Crime and Punishment in Modern South Africa
HIST 4475.03: African Intellectuals and the Modern Experience
HIST 4510.03: Topics in Islamic and Middle East History
HIST 4545.03: Scripture and Strategy: History of Islamic Political Thought
HIST 4550.03: Orientalism and Occidentalism
HIST 4555.03: A Dream Palace or Bitter Reality: Arab Intellectuals and their Ideologies in the Modern Period
HIST 4614.03: Sex, Conquest and Power, Sex and Gender in Latin America - 1492 to the present

Indigenous Studies

Indigenous authors, experts and scholars deliver an in-depth introduction to historical and contemporary perspectives about topics ranging from treaties to residential schools to land and resource issues. (

INDG 2050.03: Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies (HIST 2205.03, CANA 2050.03)
INDG 2052.03: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Studies (CANA 2052.03, SOSA 2052.03)
INDG 3050.03: Indigenous Research & Methods (CANA 3050.03)
INDG 3052.03: Indigenous Social Health & Environmental Issues (CANA 3052.03, SOSA 3052.03)
INDG 3400.03: Contemporary Indigenous Art (CANA 3400.03)
INDG 3401.03: Indigenous Representation in Film (CANA 3401.03)
INDG 4400.03:Indigenous Women and The State

Philosophy

Issues in International Development are fundamentally concerned with principles of ethics and justice. Philosophy provides students with the necessary foundation to think about these principles and apply them to international issues in an informed way.

PHIL 2081.03: Ethics in the World of Business
PHIL 2160.03: Philosophical Issues of Feminism
PHIL 2165.03: Philosophy and the Black Experience
PHIL 2450.03: Democracy, Difference and Citizenship
PHIL 2475.03: Justice in Global Perspective
PHIL 2480.03: Environmental Ethics
PHIL 2485.03: Technology and the Environment
PHIL 3470.03: Human Rights: Philosophical Issues
PHIL 3476.03: Liberalism and Global Justice
PHIL 4700.03: Philosophy of Race

Political Science

Political Science is critical for individuals who want to know more about the values, laws, institutions and policy mechanisms that govern their lives in society, and, as well, the differences between their systems of government and those in other countries.

POLI 2215.03: Canadian Aboriginal Politics: An Institutional Perspective
POLI 2301.03: Comparative Politics I: Developed Democracies under Presuure
POLI 2302.03: Comparative Politics II: The Developing World.
POLI 2350.03: Governance and Globalization
POLI 2520.03: World Politics
POLI 2530.03: Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice
POLI 3311.03: Sport and Politics
POLI 3315.03: African Politics
POLI 3350.03: Governance and Globalization
POLI 3360.03: Politics in Latin America
POLI 3365.03: Politics of the Middle East
POLI 3385.03: Politics of the Environment
POLI 3420.03: The International Politics of Mobility
POLI 3426.03: Sex and the State
POLI 3427.03: Sexualization and Western Political Thought
POLI 3446.03: Politics of Crime
POLI 3505.03: Human Rights Foundations
POLI 3520.03: Building Democracy and Peace
POLI 3525.03: Comparative Foreign Policy Simulation
POLI 3531.03: The UN in World Politics
POLI 3532.03: Model UN
POLI 3535.03: Wealth, power and poverty in the Global South
POLI 3540.03: Foreign Policies in the Third World
POLI 3544.03: Political Economy of Southern Africa
POLI 3560.03: Issues in Global Security and Development
POLI 3565.03: Contemporary Security Studies
POLI 3567.03: International Organizations
POLI 3568.03: Canada and the World
POLI 3581.03: Diplomacy and Negotiation
POLI 3587.03: International Political Economy
POLI 3596.03: Exploring Global Conflict and Violence
POLI 4302.03: Governance and Administration in Developing Countries: Issues and Controversies
POLI 4303.03: Human Rights: Political Issues
POLI 4340.03: Approaches to Development
POLI 4355.03: Comparative Perspectives on the Development State
POLI 4380.03: Politics of Climate Change
POLI 4403.03: Human Rights: Philosophical Issues
POLI 4481.03: Theories of Violence, Persecution, Genocide
POLI 4569.03: Canadian Foreign Policy
POLI 4587.03: International Political Economy
POLI 4636.03: Nationalism and Statecraft

Religious Studies

Understanding religion and its influences on human behaviour involves grasping both the meaning of faith in the lives of participants and the critical analysis of outside observers. It has important implications for international cultures and development questions.

RELS 2001.03: Judaism
RELS 2003.03: Islam
RELS 2011.03: Hinduism
RELS 2012.03: Chinese & Japanese Religions
RELS 2013.03: Buddhism
RELS 2281.03: Christian Beginnings: The Orthodox and Oriental Churches
RELS 2509.03: Hindu, Muslim, Sikh: Identity, Culture and State in Pre-Colonial South Asia
RELS 2510.03: Hindu, Muslim, Sikh: Locating the Trauma of Modern South Asia
RELS 3009.03: Christianity in the Land of Islam
RELS 3012.03: Mystics of the Middle East Religions
RELS 3113.03: The Mahabharata: India鈥檚 Great Epic of Strife and Salvation
RELS 3101.03: The Self and the World in Indian Story
RELS 3112.03: Buddhism in India and Tibet
RELS 3113.03: The Mahabharata: India's Great Epic of Strife and Salvation
RELS 3282.03: Christian Beginnings: Catholicism
RELS 4010.03: Islamic Philosophy: al-Ghazali
RELS 4018.03: Christian Theology in the Lands of Islam: John of Damascus

Russian

Russia and the Soviet Union have been important players on the world stage for many centuries. The history and current situation of this region has had profound importance for the development of both Europe and Asia, as well as the developing regions. The study of this region is increasingly important to development theory, practice and planning.

RUSN 2023.03: Soviet Russia
RUSN 2046.03: East European Cinema: War, Love, and Revolutions
RUSN 2081.03: Contemporary Russian Culture - The Seven Deadly Sins

Sociology and Social Anthropology

Sociology provides a context within which students learn to think critically about their social environment. Social Anthropology aims at generalizations by comparing structures and processes in major institutions within societies (kinship, political, economic and religious) as well as between societies.

SOSA 2006.03: Global Migration: Transnational Lives
SOSA 2012.03: Thinking through Anthropology
SOSA 2013.03: Anthropology in Practice
SOSA 2041.03: Describing Social Inequality
SOSA 2042.03: Explaining Social Inequality
SOSA 2045.03: Indian Society: Change & Continuity
SOSA 2052.03: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Studies
SOSA 2101.03: Environment and Culture
SOSA 2102.03: Political Ecology
SOSA 2115.03: African Canadian Society, Culture and Resistance
SOSA 2140.03: Going Global: Geogrphy, Economy and Work in the 21st Century
SOSA 2191.03: Gender Across Cultures
SOSA 2292.03: Goblins, Ghosts, Gods, Gurus I
SOSA 2293.03: Goblins, Ghosts, Gods, Gurus II
SOSA 2402.03: Food Through Time and Space
SOSA 2403.03: Food Activism
SOSA 2933.03: Health and Culture
SOSA 2966.03: Health and Illness through Culture and Space
SOSA 3002.03: Native Peoples of Canada
SOSA 3005.03: Knowledge, Work and Culture in the Contemporary World
SOSA 3006.03: Comparative Perspectives on Gender and Work
SOSA 3014.03: Rethinking Culture and Class
SOSA 3031.03: Social Problems and Social Policy
SOSA 3052.03: Indigenours Social Health & Environmental Issues
SOSA 3060.03: Social Change and Development
SOSA 3143.03: Health, Illness and the World System
SOSA 3149.03: Childhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SOSA 3165.03: Peoples and Cultures of the World: Selected Area Studies
SOSA 3168.03: Issues in Latin American Society
SOSA 3185.03: Indigenous Peoples of North America
SOSA 3190.03: Social Movements
SOSA 3206.03: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Race
SOSA 3211.03: Continuity and Change in Rural Societies
SOSA 3214.03: Living in a Globalized World
SOSA 3215.03: Migration and Identity
SOSA 3225.03: Culture, Rights & Power
SOSA 3228.03: Belief Systems: Symbols, Myth and Meaning
SOSA 3283.03: Globalized Security and Justice: The Challenges of Global Crime and Terrorism
SOSA 3310.03: Indian Society: Change and Continuity
SOSA 3403.03: Qualitative Field Methods
SOSA 4001.03: Quantitative Analysis for the Social Sciences I
SOSA 4002.03: Quantitative Analysis for the Social Sciences II
SOSA 4003.03: Contemporary Perspectives in Ethnography
SOSA 4004.03: Issues in Economy, Work and Development
SOSA 4005.03: Issues in Social Injustice and Social Inequality

Spanish

SPAN 2069.03:Central America to 1979: From Conquest to Revolution
SPAN 2070.03: Mexico and Central America - Revolution to Drug Wars
SPAN 2109.03: Cuba from Colonial Times to 1961
SPAN 2110.03: Cuba in Revolution, 1961 - the present
SPAN 2130.03: Latin American Dictators: From Fact to Fiction
SPAN 2200.03: Latin American Culture: From the Maya to the 21st Century
SPAN 3310.06: Cuban Culture & Society
Span 3408.03: The Cuban Development Model.

Sustainability

Complex global issues like water and energy security, climate change, environmental degradation touch virtually every person, every profession, everywhere. Solutions require passion, commitment and real knowledge.

SUST 2000.06 : Local Governance, Citizen Engagement and Sustainability
SUST 2001.06: Global Environmental Governance
SUST 3101.03 : Food and Sustainabilty
SUST 3104.03: Sustainability and the Non-Profit Sector
SUST 4125: Conflict Negotiation & Sustainability

Theatre

THEA 2346.03: East European Cinema: War, Love and Revolutions
THEA 4932.03: Cross-Cultural Theatres

Health Promotion

HPRO 4412.03 : Human Sexuality