Students undertake research projects designed to meet the knowledge needs of ethics-oriented organizations in the broader community.
Students undertake research projects designed to meet the knowledge needs of ethics-oriented organizations in the broader community.
Selected Topics in International Studies
Selected Topics in International Studies
This course allows students with majors in International Relations to apply some of the techniques and skills they have developed during their undergraduate careers to an original research project. The course introduces several theoretical and methodological tools that are used to understand and analyze a variety of major developments affecting contemporary international relations. Students will examine the strengths and weaknesses of each research method and apply those that are most appropriate to their own IR study.
Selected Topics in International Studies
Capstone Seminar in Ethics, Society, and Law. Students must be in their final year of registration in the Major Program: Ethics, Society and Law. For detailed description of topics, please visit https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/study-arts-science/ethics-society-law/courses-program-requirements/.
Students are not eligible to enrol in this course more than once, for credit.
The origins and evolution of American, British and Canadian foreign policy from the late 18th century to the present. Policies are compared in order to understand the development of these countries as nations and actors in the international community.
Since the end of the Cold War, fragile and conflict-affected states have been widely viewed in the international relations field as one of the preeminent challenges to international security and global governance. Western countries have typically responded to this challenge by launching interventions aimed at building new states that can be integrated into the global, liberal order. This course will dissect the liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding project and explore its broader impact and implications for the international system.
Students attend workshops in the Faculty of Law, meet for related discussion and complete related assignments. Enrolment is restricted to qualified fourth-year students registered in the Major Program Ethics, Society, and Law.
The preparation of a publication quality review article typically involves extensive editing. Students are individually mentored by faculty experts to take the review paper generated in TRN377Y1 and edit the structure, content and style to produce a publication quality review article. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
The course aims to train senior-level science students in a wide range of writing genres, focusing on a diversity of non-scientific audiences and writing styles. In addition, students learn to read and analyze texts in order to understand rhetorical strategies and devices.
Who belongs? Who governs? Who decides? In this course, you will examine the concepts of citizenship, public space, political membership, civic responsibility, and belonging. You will address topics such as Indigenous sovereignty claims, urban multiculturalism, public housing, and greening the city. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
In this course we learn about different practices of performative engagement with the city and experiment with them through exercises and creative activities. The goal is to gain, through this mode of embodied engagement with the city, a critical understanding of urban space as a diverse social, cultural, and physical environment. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
In this course, you will examine how Toronto’s varied communities access and use health care, and how they may encounter barriers in doing so. You will study how economic disparities, shifting demographics, and government policies affect health policy and the right to access resources. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
You will learn about the sexual politics of the city and how cities and their neighbourhoods become sexualized and desexualized spaces. In Sex in the City, you will examine what “sex” means to Toronto’s varied, multicultural communities by looking at urban space, cultural productions, law enforcement, safety and health resources and more. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Further exploration of connections between the performing arts, urban spaces, and cultural diversity; complementing UNI102H1. How does theatrical performance affect how people perceive the city? What are the alternatives to established theatres, and how does community activism inform performing arts in Toronto? Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
This course examines the American revolution and its reception in the musical “Hamilton.” The American revolution generated multiple stories that included and excluded actors, peoples, perspectives, and more. This course delves into the American revolution and the diversity of those engaged in it and affected by it. The songs, performances, and reception of the musical “Hamilton” are a key resource for exploring the events and role of the American Revolution. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Is higher education about job preparation or about giving students an opportunity to learn about themselves and the world around them? Can higher education in Canada achieve both these aims? This course engages with the spirited conversations and scholarly debates about the ideals of a liberal arts education and how these connect with ancient and contemporary arguments about citizenship. We explore the impact on higher education of globalization and what some call the “corporatization” of universities. Students will be encouraged to think, read, research and write about various models of higher education and explore questions suggested by these debates. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
The course will explore the origins of racial categories in America. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, film, and government records as well as writings by scholars, we will examine how beliefs about these categories changed over time and with what consequences for the unfolding of American history. Arriving at the present day, we will consider such contradictory developments as the accelerating influence of Black Lives Matter and the headline-grabbing white nationalism on display at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August, 2017. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
An opportunity to design an independent research course of study at the 300 level not otherwise available within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Students must be registered at UC or in a UC-affiliated program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Students must submit an application form that includes a written proposal and confirms that a faculty member has agreed to supervise. Applications must be submitted to the UC Programs Office (UC 173) for approval by the Vice-Principal. Applications are due before the first day of course enrolment. Application form is available at the University College website at https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/programs-study-academic-programs-independent….
An opportunity to design an independent research course of study at the 300 level not otherwise available within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Students must be registered at UC or in a UC-affiliated program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Students must submit an application form that includes a written proposal and confirms that a faculty member has agreed to supervise. Applications must be submitted to the UC Programs Office (UC 173) for approval by the Vice-Principal. Applications are due before the first day of course enrolment. Application form is available at the University College website at https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/programs-study-academic-programs-independent….
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
An opportunity to design an independent research course of study at the 400 level not otherwise available within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Students must be registered at UC or in a UC-affiliated program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Students must submit an application form that includes a written proposal and confirms that a faculty member has agreed to supervise. Applications must be submitted to the UC Programs Office (UC 173) for approval by the Vice-Principal. Applications are due before the first day of course enrolment. Application form is available at the University College website at https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/programs-study-academic-programs-independent….
An opportunity to design an independent research course of study at the 400 level not otherwise available within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Students must be registered at UC or in a UC-affiliated program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Students must submit an application form that includes a written proposal and confirms that a faculty member has agreed to supervise. Applications must be submitted to the UC Programs Office (UC 173) for approval by the Vice-Principal. Applications are due before the first day of course enrolment. Application form is available at the University College website at https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/programs-study-academic-programs-independent….
By exploring different popular culture phenomena such as the emergence of hip-hop in the Bronx, Batman's Gotham, and Nollywood, this course works to examine the contributions of popular culture in shaping our understandings of cities (as well as providing different perspectives of the city and the urban experience than is generally captured in scholarly/academic literature). Popular culture becomes a vehicle by which we will explore different aspects of urban life and urban representation.
Focuses on the theoretical foundations of urbanization, urban change, and city building, with particular attention on global urban growth, history of contemporary urbanization, urban planning, governance, built form, and economic development. These topics are explored through a multidisciplinary lens, with an emphasis on understanding urban transitions over time and their meaning for contemporary urban experience.
Cities are centres of innovation and creative energy, but they also face significant and pressing challenges. This course explores various urban issues including inequality, eroding infrastructure, and concerns arising from globalization, while also examining the ways in which municipal governments and urban citizens are imagining and implementing potential solutions to these challenges.
How do power and dominance consolidate in urban settings? How do individuals and communities contest this consolidation, and claim spaces and rights in the city? These questions will be taken up through a range of critical approaches, including Indigenous, critical race feminist, political economy, queer, and anarchist perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to carry out interview-based research on an issue of equality and social justice that matters to them.
Students will have the opportunity to travel to a destination city for a week-long examination of specific social, economic, physical, and/or environmental issues. The trip will include meetings with municipal representatives and other decision-makers (public and possibly private). The findings of the trip supplemented by bibliographic research and in-class discussion will form the basis of a major research essay. Each student is required to pay the cost of transportation and accommodation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.