FASS Special Topics: Fall 2014 and Winter 2015

FASS Special Topics Course 2014-2015
Academic
Unit
Course Subject
and Number
African
Studies
AFRI 4050
Term Offered
(eg. Summer
2014)
Winter 2015
Canadian
Studies
CDNS 4901A
Fall 2014
CDNS 4901 F2014 Selected Topics in Canadian Studies
CDNS 3901A
Winter 2015
CDNS 3901 W2015 Selected Topics in Canadian Studies
What’s the matter with suburbia?
Using a rich literature on domesticity, gender, public space and materiality, this
course will challenge suburban and urban students to intervene in the matter of
suburbia. Students will gain an understanding of the political and architectural
history of metropolitan expansion, and produce multidisciplinary surveys of
Ottawa’s suburbs.
Cognitive
Science
None – March 27
English
None – March 27
Cross listed? Course
Subject and Number of
cross listed course
Topic/Title
Ethnophilosophy and African Indigenous Knowledge Production
Heritage conservation and sustainability
Exploration of the recent shift in heritage conservation discourse that embraces
objectives of environmental social, and economic sustainability. Analysis of synergies and
gaps between environmental and cultural conservation ideas. Introduction to principles
and practices through discussion of Canadian and international research and projects.
Pre-requisites: CDNS 2400, or permission of the instructor.
French
Geography
FREN 4212
Fall 2014
FREN 5600
Littératures francophones : Voix féminines de la francophonie Étude approfondie de la
production romanesque des femmes de la Caraïbe francophone (Haïti, Guadeloupe,
Martinique, Guyane) depuis 1940, son évolution ainsi que ses tendances. Romans et
textes théoriques. Éléments formels. Discussions sur l’écriture, la société et l’histoire.
FREN 4214
Fall 2014
FREN 5405
Imaginaire des Amériques dans la littérature française (17e-18e s.) À partir du 16 siècle,
dans la foulée des découvertes, s’est construit en France un imaginaire des Amériques.
Analyse d’œuvres françaises inspirées de la littérature de voyage, notamment en
Nouvelle-France (Arlequin sauvage, Aventures de Robert Chevalier, Les mariages de
Canada, La jeune Indienne et L’ingénu).
FREN 4215
Winter 2015
FREN 5700
Littérature et journalisme : le contemporain à l’épreuve des écritures du réel Étude des
convergences entre journalisme et littérature caractérisant, en France, la production
narrative contemporaine. Le séminaire considérera sous divers angles le rapport
journalisme-littérature (historiographie, études de cas, analyse formelle) et le
problématisera en référence aux enjeux de société interpelant l’écriture du
contemporain.
FREN 4413
Fall 2014
FREN 5200
LING 4413
Diachronie : La lexicologie canadienne. Nous verrons d’abord les principes de base de la
lexicologie, les courants idéologiques, les méthodes et la terminologie propres à la
discipline. Ensuite, nous survolerons l’histoire de la lexicologie française et les ouvrages
marquants avant d’aborder les sources lexicographiques canadiennes et les particularités
du lexique.
FREN 4414
Fall 2014
FREN 5001
LING 4414
Analyse du français : Explorations du système phonique. Examen de la phonétique et la
phonologie du français. Étude approfondie de la prononciation dans les variétés standards
du français de France et du Canada, ainsi que dans des vernaculaires français
sélectionnés. Théorie et analyse des problèmes phonologiques tels que schwa et liaison.
FREN 4415
Winter 2015
FREN 5002
LING 4415
Variation du français : Initiation à l’analyse variationiste. Dans ce cours, théorie et
pratique seront développés en parallèle. A l’aide d’exemples concrets tirés de la
littérature, les étudiants appliqueront chaque étape d’un projet sur la langue (parlée ou
écrite) : choix des sources, extraction et codification des données, calcul et analyse des
résultats.
None – March 27
e
History
HIST 3902A
Summer
2014
Topics in European History – “History of the Future”
History cont.
HIST 3902B
Summer
2014
Topics in European History – “Global Cold War Cultures”
HIST 3903A
Summer
2014
Topics in Canadian History – “History of Canada on Film”
HIST 3906A
Summer
2014
Topics in World History – “Canada-Africa Relations”
HIST 4700A
Summer
2014
Seminar in World History – “The invention of ‘Race’, The History of Racism”
FYSM 1405A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Turning Points in History – “Imperialism and Its Legacies”
FYSM 1405B
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Turning Points in History – “The American Civil War, 1861-1865”
History cont.
FYSM 1405C
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Turning Points in History – “Revolution and War in the Making of Canada”
FYSM 1405D
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Turning Points in History – tba
FYSM 1405E
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Turning Points in History – tba
HIST 2910A
Fall 2014
Special Subject in History – “Modern South Asia”
HIST 2910B
Fall 2014
Special Subject in History – “Histories of the First World War”
HIST 2910C
Fall 2014
Special Subject in History – “Empire and Globalization”
HIST 2910D
Winter 2015
Special Subject in History – “Indian Ocean World”
History cont.
HIST 2910E
Winter 2015
Special Subject in History – “Memories of the First World War”
HIST 2910F
Winter 2015
Special Subject in History – “The French Revolution and Napoleon”
HIST 3009A
Winter 2015
CLCV 3201A
Greek History and Institutions – “Greek Warfare”
HIST 3101A
Fall 2014
CLCV 3202A
Roman History & Institutions – “From Stilicho to Charlemagne: Rome and the
Barbarian Kingdoms”
HIST 3902A
Fall 2014
Topics in European History – “Terrorism in History”
HIST 3902B
Winter 2015
Topics in European History – “History of Central Europe”
HIST 3902C
Winter 2015
Topics in European History – “The Two Germanies: East and West in Cultural
Comparison”
History cont.
HIST 3902D
Winter 2015
Topics in European History – tba
HIST 3903A
Fall 2014
Topics in Canadian History – tba
HIST 3903B
Winter 2015
Topics in Canadian History – “Canada in the 1960s”
HIST 3904A
Fall 2014
Topics in U.S. History – “The U.S. West and its Borderlands”
HIST 3905A
Winter 2015
Topics in International History – tba
HIST 3906A
Winter 2015
Topics in World History – tba
HIST 3907A
Winter 2015
Transnational or Thematic Topic – “Black Freedom: From Lincoln to Obama”
History cont.
HIST 3907B
Winter 2015
Transnational or Thematic Topic – “Historian’s Macroscope: Data Mining and
Visualization for History”
HIST 4006A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in Medieval History – “Citadel of the Church: the social and spiritual power of the
abbey of Cluny, 10th-13th centuries”
HIST 4100A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in Early Modern European History – “Travel and Mobilization in Early
Modern Europe”
HIST 4200A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in European History – “Europe from War to War: Politics, Culture, and
Society, 1914-1939”
HIST 4210A
Fall 2014
HIST 4302A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Canada: Ideas & Culture – “Nationalism, Internationalism and Political Culture,
1919-2014”
HIST 4302B
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Canada: Ideas & Culture – “Making Documentary History”
CLCV 4210A
Topics in Ancient History – “The Turbulent Seventh Century: Rome, Persia and
Islam”
History cont.
HIST 4304A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Canada: Politics & Society – “The Canadian Brewing Industry”
HIST 4400A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in U.S. History – “Popular Culture in the nineteenth- century United
States”
HIST 4500A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in British History – “British Society and the Experience of the First World
War”
HIST 4505A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in Women’s & Gender History – “Gender and Victorian Culture”
HIST 4700A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in World History – “The Power of the Past: History in the Present”
HIST 4802A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar in International History – “The U.S. and the collapse of the European
order, 1898-1920”
HIST 4805A
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar on a Transnational or Thematic Topic – “Beastly Histories: Considering
the Animal Kingdom”
History cont.
Humanities
HIST 4805B
Fall/Winter
2014-15
Seminar on a Transnational or Thematic Topic – Looted Heritage: The illicit
antiquities trade”
HIST 4915A
Fall 2014
Topics in History – “Heritage Tourism”
HIST 4915B
Fall 2014
Topics in History – “Global Intellectuals”
HIST 4915C
Winter 2015
Topics in History – “The Galileao Affair”
HIST 4915D
Winter 2015
Topics in History – “British Empire, 1851-1902”
RELI 2842
CI
Summer
2014
July/August
Topics in Judaism: Judaism on the Fringe: Historical and Contemporary Judaisms
RELI 3850
Butler
Summer
2014
May/June
RELI 5850
Topics in the Study of Religion Abroad: God in Israel
HUMS 4901
Stephenson
Winter 2015
Research Seminar
Moses Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed
HUMS 4902
Beecher
Fall 2014
RELI 2842
CI
Winter 2015
Topics in Judaism: Jewish Culture and History Through Film
RELI 2843
Geissinger
Fall 2014
Topics in Islam: Varieties of Islam in North America
RELI 3733
CI
FALL 2014
RELI 3840C
CI
Winter 2015
RELI 4850
CI
Winter 2015
ENGL 4301
CLCV 3307
ARTH 3105
Research Seminar: Studies in Renaissance Literature
On the Paradoxes of Human Nature: Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies and the
Discomposure of a Genre
See CLCV 3307
Topics in Religion: Christianity Outside the Canon
RELI 5850
Seminar in Study of Religion: Sex and the Bible
RELI 4851A
Butler
Fall 2014
RELI 5851
Seminar in Western Religions: Holocaust Responses
RELI 4851B
Geissinger
Winter 2015
RELI 5851
Seminar in Western Religions: Islam, Gender and Public Life
RELI 4852
Sumegi
Fall 2014
RELI 5852
Seminar in Asian Religions: Buddhism in the Modern World
CLCV 2906
Banducci
Fall 2014
CLCV 3201
Downie
Winter 2015
HIST 3009
Studies in Greek History: Greek Warfare
CLCV 3202
Fisher
Fall 2014
HIST 3101
Studies in Roman History: From Stilicho to Charlemagne: Rome and the Barbarian
Kingdoms
CLCV 3307
CI
Fall 2014
RELI 3733
ARTH 3105
Studies in Roman Art: Art, Architecture, and Propaganda in the Reign of the JulioClaudian Emperors
Studies in Classical Civilization: Eating and Drinking in Classical Antiquity
CLCV 3702
Blockley
Winter 2015
ENGL 3009
Studies in Roman Literature: Roman Satirical Writing
CLCV 4210
Fisher
Fall 2014
HIST 4210
Topics in Ancient History: The Turbulent Seventh Century: Rome, Persia and Islam
CLCV 4801
CI
Winter 2015
Seminar in Greek and Roman Studies: The History and Archaeology of the Ancient
City of Rome
Philosophy
None – Mach 27
Psychology
PSYC 4001 A
Summer
2014
Qualitative Analysis
PSYC 4001 A
Fall 2014
The Transition from University to Career
PSYC 4001 A
Winter 2015
Solitude
Sociology &
Anthropology
PSYC 4001 B
Winter 2015
Human Sexuality
PSYC 4001 C
Fall 2014
PSYC 5800
Children’s Representational Development
PSYC 4001 D
Fall 2014
PSYC 5800
Investigative Psychology
PSYC 4001 E
Fall 2014
PSYC 5800
Positive Psychology
PSYC 4001 F
Winter 2015
PSYC 5800
Life Span Health
PSYC 4001 G
Winter 2015
PSYC 5800
Buddhism
ANTH 3215
(L. de la
Gorgendiere)
Winter 2015
Photography as a Research Method: Anthropological Debates and Dilemmas
ANTH 3225
D. Rosenblatt
Fall 2014
ANTH 5708
Indigenous Futures: The Maori Renaissance
ANTH 4215
D. Patrick
Winter 2015
SOCI 4702
M. Vallee
Summer
2014
SOCI 4850
Z. Lin
Fall 2014
Understanding Chinese Society
SOCI 4850
G. Pollard
Winter 2015
Media Sociology: media and truth
SOCI 4850
W. Walters
Fall 2014
The Sociology of Secrecy and Revelation
SOCI 4860
A. Doyle
Winter 2015
Community Based Learning in Sociology
Language, culture and power
LAWS 4702/SOWK
4702
Advanced Studies in Youth, Culture and Juvenile Justice
Women’s &
Gender
Studies
SOCI 4860
G. Pollard
Winter 2015
Pop culture: entertainment
SOCI 4860
P. Van
Veldhoven
Fall 2014
Work, Occupations and Professions: Women, Work and Health
WGST
3812A
Summer
2014
N/A
Sexuality, Sexual Violence and the Internet
WGST 2812A
Winter 2015
N/A
Feminisms and Pornography
WGST 2812B
Winter 2015
N/A
Unknown
WGST 3812A
Fall 2014
N/A
The Sex Industry
WGST 3812A
Winter 2015
CDNS 3400A
Feminists and Feminism in Canada
IIS
WGST 4812A
Fall 2014
WGST 5901A
Gender, Confinement and Creativity
WGST 4812B
Fall 2014
WGST 5901C
Transnational Workers
WGST 4812A
Winter 2015
WGST 5902A
Unknown – possibly Gender and Violence
LING 4009A
Fall 2014
No
Language, poetry, and music
LING 3801A
Winter 2015
No
Structure of a Specific Language.
Language for 2014-15 is Spanish.
LING 4009B
Winter 2015
Cross-listed with ALDS
4906B
Statistics for Language Research
Application of statistical procedures to analysis of language data and to problems
of measurement in experimental linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics,
and related fields.
None – March 27
SLALS
An advanced course covering current approaches within linguistic theory to the
linguistics-poetics interface. Special focus on rhythmic patterning of written and sung
verse, textsetting, and some aspects of musical grammar. Assignments include reading
primary research articles, analysis-based homework, and a research term paper.
Prerequisite: LING 3002
Prerequisite: 3rd year standing in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics and Discourse
Studies, or permission of the instructor
SSAC
ALDS 4906B
Winter 2015
Cross-listed with ALDS
4009B
Statistics for Language Research
Application of statistical procedures to analysis of language data and to problems
of measurement in experimental linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics,
and related fields.
Prerequisite: 3rd year standing in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics and Discourse
Studies, or permission of the instructor
LING 4009C
Winter 2015
Mako
ALDS 4906A
Fall 2014
ALDS 4906C
Winter 2015
Description tba - New hire
ARTH 4000
Fall 2014
Topics in Canadian Art: CI – topic TBD.
Psycholinguistic Research Methods
Introduction to experimental methodologies of current psycholinguistic studies.
Topics include experimental designs and techniques, descriptive statistics, and
interpreting and reporting research findings.
Prerequisite: LING 3601 or PSYC 3709
Piggybacked with
ALDS 5606F
Adult Literacy Practices and Learning
Literacy as text-mediated practices through which people engage in communities
and institutions. Literacy learning within that active engagement, and teaching
coherent with it. Focus on adults in Canada with limited literacy, but participants
may investigate literacy practices and learning in any situation.
ARTH 4005
Fall 2014
Topics in Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Creative Engagement with Aboriginal SelfPortraits: A Discourse on the Nature of Self-Representation
ARTH 4305
Winter 2015
ARTH 5113
Topics in Renaissance Art: Renaissance Venice
ARTH 4809
Fall 2014
ARTH 5115
Topics in Art History and Criticism: 1960s Art in France
ARTH 4809
Winter 2015
ARTH 5218
Topics in Art History and Criticism: Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices: The
Art of Curating
ARTH 4809
Winter 2015
Topics in Art History and Criticism: CI – topic TBD.
FILM 3301
Winter 2015
Topics in Cinema and Gender: Cinema and Gender
FILM 3608
Fall 2014
Topics in Film History: CI – topic TBD.
FILM 3608
Winter 2015
Topics in Film History : African Cinema
FILM 3701
Fall 2014
Topics in Animation: CI - topic TBD.
FILM 3701
Winter 2015
Topics in Animation, Video and Exp.: Contemporary Japanese Animation
FILM 4002
Winter 2015
FILM 4201
Winter 2015
FILM 4501
Fall 2014
FILM 4901
Fall 2014
FILM 5205
Topics in Audio-Visual Culture: Passing and Masquerade in Cinema
Topics in National Cinema: Revisiting Third Cinema: Med Hondo and Nelson
Pereira dos Santos
FILM 5500
Topics in Film Theory: Film, Theory, and the Philosophy of Art
Special Topic: CI – topic TBD.
MUSI 4200
Winter 2015
MUSI 5201
Special Topics: Sonic Style in Cinema
MUSI 4201
Fall 2014
Special Topics: Contemporary Songwriting (taught by the FASS Artist-InResidence)
MUSI 4201
Winter 2015
Special Topics: Contemporary Songwriting (taught by the FASS Artist-InResidence)
MUSI 4702
Winter 2015
Topics in Music Perception and Cognition: Music Perception and Cognition