RELEVANT COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS | 2025-2026
updated July 31, 2025
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
FAH1462H Photography and Scientific Representation in the 19th Century
FAH1488H The Nature of Landscape
FAH1927H Rethinking Utopias: Art, Architecture and the Anticipation of Futures
FAH1870H The Visual Arts in Canada in International Perspective: Ideas of Far North
FAH1970H Art History x Black Studies
CINEMA STUDIES INSTITUTE
CIN1101H Theories and Practices of the Cinema
CIN1102H Key Developments in Film History
CIN3006H Media and Philosophy
CIN3008H Topics in Film and Media History
CIN3107H Topics in Politics and the Moving Image
CIN6153H Race and Cinema
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
CLA5023H The Rhetoric of Empire
CENTRE FOR DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
DRA3904H Special Topics: Contemporary African Drama
DRA3907H Theatre and Emerging Technologies
DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAS1469H Militarized Aesthetics: War, Image, Asia
EAS1550H Hong Kong Literature
EAS1541H A Comparative History of Reading in East Asia
EAS1335H Violence, Justice and the Human
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ENG1200 Topics in African Canadian Literature
ENG1300 Topics in Asian Canadian Literature
ENG4100 Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
ENG5100 Topics in Medieval Literature
ENG5200 Topics in Early Modern Literature
ENG5300 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENG5400 Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature
ENG5500 Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
ENG6552 Law and Literature
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH
FRE2035H Autour de l’intime en France : les écrits contemporains des femmes
JFC5129H Performative Autobiographical Acts: Personal and Political Testimonials
JFF1102H Animages/Animots/Animotions (Animals in Theory)
DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
GER1000H German Studies Seminar: Culture, Theory, Text
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
HIS1001H/HIS406H1F Topics in History: Transnational Gender Histories
HIS1031H Images of History
HIS1555H/HIS446H1F Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 17th to 19th Century
HIS1265H Atrocities and Memory in Postwar Europe and North America
HIS1289H/HIS401H1S The Cold War Through its Archives
HIS1724H Writing Bondage & Freedom
HIS1806H Histories of the Carceral State
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES
ITA1540H/425H1S Renaissance Italian Theatre
ITA1560H Fakes, Forgeries, Authenticity, and the Making of Modernity
ITA1737H/ITA426H1F Reading Black Italy: Decolonizing the Canon
ITA1728H/426H1F New Trends in the Italian Novel from 1957 to the Present
ITA1820H/425H1F The Mediterranean Noir: A Transnational Approach
ITA 830H/426H1S Editing 900: Leonardo Sciascia, his World, his Archive
CENTRE FOR JEWISH STUDIES
TBD
CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES
MST 3301H Themes in Medieval Philosophy: Augustine’s Confessions
MST 3346H Medieval Islamic Philosophy
MST 3321H Philosophy of Mind in the Middle Ages
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
PHL2018H South Asian Philosophy: Sanskrit Philosophy
PHL2051H 17th Century European Philosophy: Spinoza’s “Ethics”
PHL2076H Hegel: Formal and Absolute Idealism
PHL2115H Topics in Epistemology: The Self and Self-Awareness
PHL2151H Aesthetics: Aesthetic Diversity and Aesthetic Value
PHL2172H Seminar in Philosophy of Mind: Biological and Artificial Intelligence
PHL2131H Ethics: Theories of the Good
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL2038H Studies in Comparative Political Theory
POL2780H Workshop Seminar for MA and PhD students: The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada
POL2418H1S Topics in Middle East Politics: Comparative Urbanisms in the Middle East & North Africa
JPF2430HF Conceptualizing Cities in a Global Context
POL2702HS Core Topic 2: Constituent Power in Comparative Perspective: Identity, Contention, and Mobilization
POL2520HF Comparative Indigenous Methodologies and Research Approaches
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RLG2014H Digital Religion: Mediation and Method
JPR2051H/RLG459H1F Fanaticism: A Political History
RLG3114H/RLG453H1F Christianity and Judaism in a Colonial Context
RLG3621H/RLG434H1F Modern Jewish Thought
RLG3746H Women and South Asian Religions
RLG2002H Material and Sensory Cultures and Religious Practice
RLG2016H/RLG417H1S Radical Evil
RLG3425H/RLG468H1S Special Topics in Buddhism: Transnational Buddhism
DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
SLA1226H Dostoevsky in Literary Theory and Criticism
SLA1050H Theatricality and Spectacle in the History of Russian Culture. From Jesters to Meyerhold.
SLA1229H Russian Literature Between Tradition and Modernity
DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
SPA2400H Topics in Latin American Culture and Literary Cultures
SPA2412H Disease Stories: Race and Fears of Contagion in Latin America
MST3603H Society and Literature in Medieval Spain
SPA2121H Politics of Affect
SPA2291H The Urban Experience in Spain
WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES INSTITUTE
WGS1009H Against and Beyond Carcerality: Abolitionist Worldmaking
WGS1023H Aesthetics of Radical Hope
WGS1030H Indigenous Feminism
WGS1031H Gendering Racial Capitalism
RELEVANT COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS | 2024-2025
updated August 13, 24
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
FAH1224: Renaissance Miniatures
FAH1490: Photography and the Occult
FAH2020: Connectivity and Mobility: Networks in the Ancient World
FAH3014: Modern and Contemporary Art in the Museum
FAH1122: Early Medieval Art
FAH1205: Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1960: Indigenous Art, Land, and Material Relations in the Great Lakes
FAH1965: The Sixties Revisited
FAH2042: Sex, Gender, and Subjectivity in Ancient Art
CINEMA STUDIES INSTITUTE
CIN1101HF: Theories and Practices of the Cinema
CIN3006HS: Media and Philosophy: Rethinking Italian Neorealism: On the Making of Film Philosophy
CIN3010HF: Topics in Film and Media Theory: Oceanic Imaginaries: The Black Atlantic, Migration and the Planetary
CIN3105HF: Topics in Film Aesthetics: Captive Cinema: Prison Films and Abolitionist Imaginaries
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
CLA5012HS: Elemental Investigations
CENTRE FOR DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
DRA3902HS: Contemporary African Drama
DRA3903HF: Asian Theatre and Performance
DRA3903HS: Intercultural Theatre and Performance
DRA3905HS: Theatrical Machines. Imitation games. A/I – Queer-feminist investigations of performative thinking/making
DRA3906HS: Performing Fascism
DRA3908HS: Theatre and Performance in Africa
DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAS1151: Chinese Poetry I
EAS1336: Memory, Trauma, History
EAS1430: Hong Kong Cinema & Adaptation
EAS1475: Contemporary Cultural Theories
EAS1531: Ocean Media
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ENG7105HF: Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods Destroying the City: Vandalism Past & Present
ENG6999YF: Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English
ENG7101HF: Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods Literature and Medicine: Corpus, Theory, Praxis
ENG5200HF: Topics in Early Modern Literature Early Modern Critical Race Studies
ENG3100HS: Topics in Indigenous Literature Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty
ENG4100HS: Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature Postcolonial Ecocriticism
ENG5103HS: Topics in Medieval Literature Writing the Self in Late-medieval England: Thomas Hoccleve and Margery Kempe
ENG4400HS: Topics in South Asian Literature in English Modern South Asia in Literature and Media
ENG7104HS: Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods Land, Myth and Translation in a Time of Crisis
ENG5401HS: Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature Aesthetics and Ethics: The Late Victorians
ENG1200HS: Topics in African Canadian Literature Assembling the Afro-Métis Syllabus
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH
TBD
DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
GER1750HS: Colonialism and After in German Literature
GER1661HS: Modernism in Context
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
HIS1013: Intellectuals and Decolonization
HIS1022: Animals, Culture, and History
HIS1118: Canada By Treaty
HIS1268: The Holocaust: History and Historiography
HIS1278: The Two Germanies in the Postwar Period
HIS1289: The Cold War Through Its Archives
HIS1702: Colonial Violence: Comparative Histories
HIS1710: Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic Worls
HIS1820: Law, Space, and History
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES
ITA1540: Renaissance Italian Theatre
ITA1737: Reading Black Italy
ITA1820: The Mediterranean Noir
ITA1830: Editing 900: Leonardo Sciscia
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
MST3301: Themes in Medieval Philosophy
PHL2009: Seminar in Greek Philosophy
PHL2013: Topics in Chinese Philosophy
PHL2019: Topics in South Asian Philosophy
PHL2057: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
MST4011: Medieval Islamic Philosophy
PHL2002: Plato’s Later Dialogues
PHL2084: Kant and Heidegger
PHL2089: The Art of Revolution
PHL2151: Aesthetics: On Criticism and the Standard of Taste
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL2024H1S: Feminist Political Thought
POL2080H1S: Workshop Seminar for MA and PhD Students: Approaches to Indigenous Politics
POL2418H1S: Topics in Middle East Politics: Comparative Urbanisms in the Middle East & North Africa
JPF2430H1F: Conceptualizing Cities in a Global Context
POL2702H1S: Core Topic 2: Constituent Power in Comparative Perspective: Identity, Contention, and Mobilization
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RLG1006: South Asian Religions Gateway Seminar
RLG2041: Decolonizing Philology: Asian Textual Traditions
RLG2066: Great Critics of Religion
RLG2460: Sanskrit Readings I
RLG3622: Maimonides
RLG2045: Modern Buddhist Fiction
RLG1005: Jewish Studies Gateway
RLG1003: Islamic Studies Gateway
RLG3202: The Talking Book
RLG3744: Hindu Epics
RLG3800: The Anthropocene: Indigenous Perspectives
JPR2058: Postsecular Political Thought
NMC2055: The Qur’an and Its Interpretation
DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
SLA1225: Russian Literature in the Age of Empire
SLA1231: Russian Modernism
SLA1240: Tolstoy
SLA1210: Medieval Russian Literature
SLA1239: Nabokov
SLA1421: Women in East European Fiction
SLA1700: The World Revealed: Cinema, Authenticity, and Theory
DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
SPA2400: Topics in Latin American Culture and Literary Cultures
SPA2412: Disease Stories
SPA2121: Politics of Affect
SPA2291: The Urban Experience in Spain
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RELEVANT COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS | 2023-2024
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
FAH1130H:Architecture of the Otherworld: Islamic Architecture and the Immaterial
FAH1210H: Chinese Painting: Objects, Theories, Methods
FAH1416H: Art History and the Digital
FAH1870H: The Visual Arts in Canada in an International Perspective
FAH2037H: Empathy, Embodiment and Emotion in Ancient Art
FAH1127H: Early Medieval Art
FAH1205H: Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1410H: Artwriting
FAH1960H: Indigenous Art, Land, and Material Relations in the Great Lakes
FAH1965H: The Sixties Revisited
CINEMA STUDIES INSTITUTE
CIN1005H Special Studies in Cinema: Sensing Cinema: Theorizing Affect, Emotions, and Feelings
CIN1005H Special Studies in Cinema: Issues in Feminist Filmmaking
CIN3002H Cinema and Nation: World Cinema, Cinematic Worlds
CIN3006H Media and Philosophy: Adorno and Media Theory
CIN3008H Topics in Film and Media History: Cinema, Modernity, and the Global South
CENTRE FOR DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
DRA3908H Black Performance Studies
DRA3907H Theatre and Emerging Technologies
DRA3905H Play.Learn—Brecht’s Apparatus and Interactive Performance
DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAS1176H Comparative Historical Socialisms in East Asia and Beyond
EAS1427H The Production of Difference and the Logic of Capital
EAS1538H Writing Women in Premodern China
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ENG5078H Postcolonial Ecocriticism
ENG6494H Psychogeography and the Mapping of Literary Space
ENG6492H Speaking of What’s Next: Climate and Dystopia in Near Future Fiction
ENG6552H Law and Literature
ENG6365H Diasporic Englishes
ENG6848H Representing Vandalism
ENG4973H Marx and the American Renaissance
ENG6064H Theory of the Novel
ENG3707H Literature and Censorship, 1640-1860
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH
TBD
DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
GER1722H Kafka
GER1540H Revolutions
GER1680H Earth Readings
JGC1855H Critical Theory
GER1750H Colonialism and After in German Literature
GER6000H Reading German for Graduate Students
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
HIS1010H New Historiographies of Capitalism
HIS1012H Indigenous and Decolonial Science and Technology Studies
HIS401H1 The Cold War Through Its Archives
HIS1013H Intellectuals and Decolonization
HIS485H1 Historical Readings in Gender and Sexuality: History of Sexuality in China
JIH460H1 Indigenous History of North America
HIS446H1 Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 17th to 19th Century
HIS496H1 Trends in Women and Gender History in the Global South
HIS1810H Indigenous Economies and Empire
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES
ITA1200H Dante
ITA1553H Renaissance Crossroads: Tales of Exchange in Premodern Italy
ITA1735H Ill Gattopardo come romanzo del trauma
ITA1737H Reading Black Italy
ITA1755H Italian Modernism
ITA1830H Editing 900: Leonardo Sciascia, His World, His Archive
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
PHL2005H Plato’s Metaphysics
PHL2019H Topics in South Asian Philosophy: Seeing and Subjects
PHL2057H Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: Early Modern Naturalisms – Spinoza and Hume
PHL2115H Topics in Epistemology: The Self and Normativity
PHL2172H Seminar in Philosophy of Mind: The Structure of Consciousness
PHL2111H Seminar in Epistemology: Knowledge Attribution and Knowledge Itself
PHL2151H Aesthetics: Beyond the Beautiful and the Sublime
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL2024H1 Feminist Political Thought
POL2027H1 Topics in Political Thought II: Nietzsche’s Beyond
POL2344H1 Land and Indigenous Politics
POL2205H1 Topics in International Politics I: Postcolonial Debates
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RLG3200H Politics if Bible Translation
RLG763H Readings in Sanskrit Philosophy
RLG2060H Religion and Philosophy in the European Enlightenment
RLG3280H Christianities of South Asia
RLG3401H Reading Buddhist Texts
RLG3623H Thought of Leo Strauss
RLG3823H Buddhism and Indigeneity
DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
SLA1335H Race, Empire, Gender in Eastern Europe
SLA1241H Narrative and History
SLA1405H Contemporary Eastern European Cinema
JLV5134H Theories of the Novel
DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
SPA2947H Transparency and Politics in Contemporary Mexican Literature
SPA2406H Latin American Narratives of Resistance
SPA2152H Cervantes’s Don Quixote
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RELEVANT COURSES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS | 2022-2023
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
FAH1486H Bloomsbury and Vorticism
FAH1935H Contemporary Art Practices and the Modernist Archive
FAH3000H Art of the Caribbean and its Diasporas
FAH1205H Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1232H Liquescent Art and Cultures
FAH1476H Surrealism and Art
FAH1961H Art and Activism
CINEMA STUDIES INSTITUTE
CIN1101H Theories and Practices of the Cinema
CIN3006H Media and Philosophy: Cinema and Moral Pleasure
CIN3010H Topics in Film and Media Theory: Sensing Cinema, Theorizing Affect
SLA1700H Docufictions: Cinema, Authenticity, Theory
CENTRE FOR DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
DRA3905H The Aestheticization of Reality: Art and Activism; Art As Activism
DRA3906H Black Playwrights: Resistance, Resilience and Transformation
DRA3907H Theatre and Emerging Technologies
DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES
EAS1336H Memory, History, Trauma
EAS1426H Subjectivity, Transition, Revolution
EAS1541HS Comparative History of Reading in East Asia and Beyond
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ENG2017H Early Modern Asexualities
ENG4211H Romanticism and Translation
ENG6822H Critical Theory & Science and Technology Studies
ENG5042H Justice and Form in Contemporary Canadian Ecopoetry
ENG8000H Texts, Theories, and Archives
ENG6818H Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination
ENG6552H Law and Literature
ENG6999Y Critical Topographies
ENG5021H Black Forms: Critical Race Theory and Diasporic Literature
ENG6498H Dystopian Fiction and Unsettled Space
ENG6544H Queer, Trans and Feminist Historiographies
ENG6560H Visual Media and Human Rights Work
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH
FRE2007H Littérature et éthique : nouveaux textes, nouvelles problématiques
DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
TBA
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES
ITA1735H Multilingualism in the Global World: Educational Issues on Creativity
ITA1535H From Lombroso to the DDL Zan. Discourses of Gender and Sexuality in Italian Culture, 1870s – present day
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
PHL2089H Hegel and Heidegger
PHL2140H Feminist Philosophy: Ethics and Social Philosophy
PHL2142H Colonialism
HPS4020H Postcolonialism and the Global Turn in Science and Technology Studies
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL2026H Topics in Political Thought I: The Political Thought of Frantz Fanon
POL2027H Topics in Political Thought II: Comparative Topics in Jewish and Non-Jewish Political Theory I
POL2027H Topics in Political Thought II: Comparative Topics in Jewish and Non-Jewish Political Theory II
POL2322H Topics in Comparative Politics II: Land and Indigenous Politics
POL2205H Topics in International Politics I: Postcolonial Debates
POL2392H Topics in Comparative Politics IV: Identities
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
TBA
DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
SLA1700H Cinema, Authenticity, & Theory
DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
SPA2428H Latin America Visual Cultures
SPA2160H Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque
SPA2415H Disability and Latin American Cultural Production
