This course builds on CLT141Y1 Introduction to the Irish Language. It will provide further expansion of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This course is a continuation of CLT251H1 Intermediate Irish Language I. It will provide further expansion of language skills. We will examine literary texts, both prose and poetry.

An advanced course in the Irish language, this builds on the speaking, listening, reading and writing competencies developed in CLT251H1 and CLT252H1 (Intermediate Irish Language I and II).

An advanced course in the Irish language, this builds on the speaking, listening, reading and writing competencies developed in CLT331H1 (Advanced Irish Language I).

Various topics are taken up each year, the content of which depends on the instructor. Students should check the college web site for details.

Sport in Ireland is a course designed to investigate the role sport has had since the inception of the Irish Free State in 1922 up until the present day. The course aims to explore the position of sport at a regional level in Ireland as well as the differences existing between certain sporting organizations at a regional and national level. The course will also determine sport’s contribution to the identity of Ireland in its first one hundred years as a nation state.

The history of the insular Celtic nation groups from the post-Roman period to the end of the first millennium, the course will trace settlement history and social organization, the making of Celtic nations, the process of Christianization, the impact of the Vikings, and the rise of paramount kings.

Later medieval development of Ireland, Scotland and Wales: development of kingship, trade and urban settlement, arrival and colonizing patterns of the Normans, role of English administration and aggression, resurgence of native elites, development of frontier zones, beginning of the more complete English conquest of Ireland and Wales

This course examines the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland between the civil rights movement of 1968 and the peace settlement of 1998, with special reference to colonial legacies, ethno-religious hostilities, loyalist and nationalist ideologies, guerrilla warfare, state security and civil liberty, and the peace process.

In 1948, Ireland was a rural, socially conservative, deeply religious and economically impoverished country. Today, it is an urban, socially progressive, secular and wealthy society – and one that is experiencing new sets of problems. This course examines how and why these changes came about, the nature of contemporary Ireland, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Over 70 million people in the world can claim Irish descent. Since the 17th century, Irish people have voluntarily migrated and have been forcibly transported to a variety of global destinations. This course explores the "push and pull" factors that prompted these migrations and focuses on the diasporic communities created by Irish Catholics and Protestants in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Continental Europe, the Caribbean, Argentina, South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

This course looks at some of the major literary figures of Ireland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writing in both Irish and English. Authors examined may include W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Seán Ó Riordáin, Seamus Heaney and Claire Keegan. Through a close reading of poetry, prose and critical texts, students will examine how Ireland's past, present and future are variously figured in its greatest modern literature. All Irish-language works will be read in English translation.

This course examines the relationship between folklore and national identity in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with special emphasis on storytelling traditions.

From Medieval harp playing to the emergence of reels and jigs during the eighteenth century, this course explores the changes and continuities in traditional music, and its place in contemporary culture.

This course focuses on Irish history from the early seventeenth century to the Great Famine of the mid nineteenth century. Topics include the Ulster plantation, Catholic resistance, the Penal Laws, the United Irishmen, the Act of Union, Catholic Emancipation and the Famine.

The religious culture of the early and mediaeval Celtic Church as manifested in the material and written record, and its significance for contemporary religious movements. Texts studied include the Patrician dossier, early monastic Rules and Liturgies, selected hagiographical, homiletic, devotional and lyric texts.

This course will explore various aspects of witchcraft accusations in Scotland and place them within the European context. A major focus of the course will be exploring the questions that historians have raised about the European witch-hunts and how this has influenced the historiography of the Scottish witch-hunts. The course will also involve several different kinds of primary sources and include discussions of their value and limitations.

A study of the production of manuscripts, books and tracts that played a crucial role in the historical evolution of a national culture or cultures in the Celtic world.

This course examines the relationship between nationalism and unionism in post-Famine Ireland, with particular emphasis on the debates over Home Rule, the Irish Revolution and Civil War of 1916-23, the effects of partition, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

A research project chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty supervisor and approved by the Program Coordinator. A full proposal including a course description, working bibliography, marking scheme, and approval from your academic supervisor must be submitted for approval by the Program Coordinator and Director. More information and application forms are available at https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/smc-ind-study-form or from the SMC Principal's Office, smc.programs@utoronto.ca. Completed forms must be submitted to the Principal's Office by the first day of classes in September/May for F courses, or January/July for S courses. Meeting times are determined in consultation with your supervisor, and may be in person or online as appropriate. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

A research project chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty supervisor and approved by the Program Coordinator. A full proposal including a course description, working bibliography, marking scheme, and approval from your academic supervisor must be submitted for approval by the Program Coordinator and Director. More information and application forms are available at https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/smc-ind-study-form or from the SMC Principal's Office, smc.programs@utoronto.ca. Completed forms must be submitted to the Principal's Office by the first day of classes in September/May for F courses, or January/July for S courses. Meeting times are determined in consultation with your supervisor, and may be in person or online as appropriate. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Various topics are taken up each year, the content of which depends on the instructor. Students should check the St. Michael's College website for details.

This course explores the history of Irish migration and settlement in Canada with a special emphasis on political, social, economic and religious themes.

This course provides an in-depth exploration of the origins and development of Romantic constructions of Scotland – its history, culture, language, and landscape – in literature, theatre, music, historiography, and art. The course will focus in particular on the Romantic movement in Scotland and its relationship to European Romanticism and nationalism. It will also explore the enduring legacy of that movement in more contemporary representations of Scottish identity (both within and outside of its national borders) in the arts and in political discourse. Offered in alternate years.

This course examines the extent to which the Irish can be understood as a colonized and racialized people, and the degree to which they participated in the colonization and racialization of Blacks and Indigenous peoples in the British and American empires. It encompasses debates about whether the Irish were victims of genocidal policies during the Famine, and their role in what one historian calls the “casual genocide” of imperial expansion. It also discusses the character and limitations of anti-colonialism in Irish nationalist discourse, and attitudes of racialized minorities and Indigenous peoples towards the Irish. This course is jointly offered with the graduate course, HIS1441H.

Middle Welsh, the native Celtic language of medieval Wales, was for centuries the language in which the Welsh celebrated their medieval princes and ancestral heroes, was the medium for the preservation of native British legend and Welsh law, and was the vehicle for the earliest narratives of Arthur. Students will be introduced to reading and translating Middle Welsh, and by the course’s end will have read one complete text of Middle Welsh literature in the original. Students will learn Welsh specifically but will also learn the characteristic linguistic features of a Celtic language. No prior knowledge of Welsh or any other Celtic language is assumed.

This course will introduce students to Old Irish, the language of Western Europe’s earliest vernacular literature. The course will focus on bringing students to a reading knowledge of Classical Old Irish, drawing on the most recent teaching aids and incorporating translation exercises and prepared reading passages from the early literature. The course will also teach the linguistic vocabulary for describing a Celtic language. No prior knowledge of Irish is assumed.

A scholarly project chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty supervisor and approved by the Program Coordinator. A full proposal including a course description, working bibliography, marking scheme, and approval from your academic supervisor must be submitted for approval by the Program Coordinator and Director. More information and application forms are available at https://stmikes.utoronto.ca/smc-ind-study-form or from the SMC Principal's Office, smc.programs@utoronto.ca. Completed forms must be submitted to the Principal's Office by the first day of classes in September/May for F courses, or January/July for S courses. Meeting times are determined in consultation with your supervisor, and may be in person or online as appropriate. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

An introduction to the problems, theories and research [strategies central to the interdisciplinary field focusing on the nature and organization of the human mind and other cognitive systems. Interrelations among the philosophical, psychological, linguistic and computer science aspects of the field are emphasized.

How does the human mind work? We explore this question by analyzing a range of data concerning such topics as human rationality and irrationality, human memory, how objects are represented in the mind, and the relation of language and cognition. This class provides critical thinking and practical computational skills that will allow students to work with data in cognitive science and related disciplines.