Diaspora and Transnational Studies


Faculty List

Professors 
K. Clarke, MA, PhD 
K. O'Neill, MA, PhD 
N. Seidman, MA, PhD 
A. Shternshis, MA, PhD 

Associate Professor 
K. MacDonald, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 

Assistant Professors 
A. Allen, MA, PhD 
S. Kassamali, MA, PhD 
A. Pesarini, MA, PhD 
E. Sammons, MA, PhD (CLTA) 
P.X. Scanlan, MA, PhD 

Introduction

Interdisciplinary program

Where is home? Need it be in one place? Is it always attached to territory? Diaspora and transnational studies examines the historical and contemporary movements of peoples and the complex problems of identity and experience to which these movements give rise as well as the creative possibilities that flow from movement. The program is comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from the social sciences, history and the arts. Students are required to take a yearlong course that offers an introduction to a broad array of themes and disciplinary methodologies. The program offers a wide selection of additional courses, giving students the opportunity to learn about a range of diasporic communities as well as key debates in the field.

Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
170 St. George Street, room 230
Toronto, ON  M5R 2M8
Phone: 416-946-7177
Email: cdts.admin@utoronto.ca
Website: www.cdts.utoronto.ca
 

Diaspora and Transnational Studies Programs

Diaspora & Transnational Studies Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1407

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

(7.0 credits, including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level)

1. DTS200Y1
2. DTS300H1
3. 4.5 credits from Group A and B courses, with at least two credits from each group. Coverage must include at least two diasporic communities or regions, to be identified in consultation with the program advisor.
4. 1.0 DTS credit at the 400-level

Group A: Humanities Courses

AFR250Y1, AFR351Y1, CAR324H1, CAR325H1, CAR328H1, CAR429H1, CAR428H1, CJS200H1, CJS201H1, CJS220H1, CJS230H1, CJS389H1, CJS401H1, CLT413H1, CLT416H1, CRE350Y1, CSE341H1, CSE449H1, DTS305H1, DTS310H1, DTS311H1, DTS312H1, DTS314H1, DTS410H1, DTS411H1, DTS412H1, DTS413H1, DTS414H1, DTS415H1, DTS416H1, DTS417H1, EAS105H1, EAS247H1, EAS251H1, EAS271H1, EAS289Y1, EAS314H1, EAS315H1, EAS333H1, EAS374H1, EAS420H1, EAS439H1, EAS474H1, EAS484Y1, EAS497H1, ENG270H1, ENG285H1, ENG367H1, ENG368H1, ENG369H1, ENG370Y1, FIN320H1, FRE438H1, FRE332H1, FRE334H1, FRE336H1, GER361H1, GER367H1, HIS106Y1, HIS202H1, HIS208Y1, HIS282Y1, HIS283Y1, HIS291H1, HIS295Y1, HIS303H1, HIS305H1, HIS312H1, HIS330H1, HIS336H1, HIS338H1, HIS346H1, HIS359H1, HIS360H1, HIS361H1, HIS366H1, HIS369H1, JHA384H1, HIS385H1, HIS391Y1, HIS392Y1, HIS402H1, HIS403H1, HIS413H1, HIS415Y1, HIS429H1, HIS433H1, HIS439H1, HIS444H1, HIS445H1, HIS446H1, HIS467H1, HIS472H1, HIS474H1, HIS480H1, HIS494H1, JGI216H1/​ JGU216H1, ITA233H1, ITA345H1, NMC252H1, NMC351H1, NMC274H1, NMC284H1, NMC370H1, NMC384H1, NMC473H1, NMC475H1, JQR360H1, RLG280Y1, RLG319H1, RLG326H1, RLG341H1, RLG345H1, RLG346H1, RLG386H1, RLG434H1, RLG453H1, SAS114H1, SAS318H1, SLA202H1, SLA222H1, SLA238H1, SLA302H1, SLA303H1, SLA312H1, SLA318H1, SLA325H1, SLA357H1, SLA380H1, SPA258H1, SPA259H1, SPA375H1, SPA385H1, SPA467H1, SPA480H1, SPA488H1, UNI101H1, UNI103H1, WGS369H1, WGS420H1, WGS426H1

Group B: Social Sciences Courses

ANT204H1, ANT318H1, ANT324H1, ANT340H1, ANT341H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT349H1, ANT351H1, JAL355H1, ANT356H1, ANT358H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT372H1, ANT426H1, ANT427H1, ANT440H1, ANT450H1, ANT452H1, ANT456H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT472H1, ANT475H1, ANT477H1, CSE342H1, DTS305H1, DTS310H1, DTS311H1, DTS312H1, DTS314H1, DTS410H1, DTS411H1, DTS412H1, DTS413H1, DTS414H1, DTS415H1, DTS416H1, DTS417H1, ENT391H1, ENT392Y1, GGR112H1, JGI216H1/​ JGU216H1, GGR241H1, GGR246H1, GGR320H1, JGE321H1, GGR326H1, GGR336H1, GGR339H1, GGR341H1, GGR342H1, GGR343H1, JGI346H1/​ JGU346H1, GGR360H1, GGR363H1, GGR430H1, GGR452H1, GGR457H1, LCT304H1, NUS251H0, NUS252H0, NUS253H0, NUS254H0, NUS255H0, NUS256H0, NUS351Y0, NUS352H0, NUS353H0, JLN327H1, POL201Y1, POL207Y1, POL215Y1, POL224Y1, POL301Y1, POL305Y1, POL324H1, POL345Y1, JPR364H1, JPR374H1, POL409H1, POL413H1, POL417Y1, JPR419H1, POL421H1, POL424H1, POL430Y1, POL442H1, JPF455Y1, POL467H1, POL480H1, SOC210H1, SOC214H1, SOC218H1, SOC220H1, SOC246H1, SOC250Y1, SOC256H1, SOC304H1, SOC311H1, SOC314H1, SOC315H1, SOC355H1, SOC360H1, SOC364H1, SOC367H1, SOC370H1, SOC381H1, SOC382H1, SOC383H1, SOC388H1, SOC465H1, SOC479H1, SOC481H1, SOC484H1, UNI101H1, UNI103H1, VIC183H1, VIC184H1, WGS450H1

Notes:

  • Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses in Groups A and B.
  • Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with New College's African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity programs will have the new "AFR," "CAR," and "CSE" designators respectively. Courses associated with St. Michael's College's Celtic Studies program will have the new "CLT" designator. Courses associated with Victoria College's Creative Expression and Society, and Literature and Critical Theory programs will have the new "CRE" and "LCT" designators respectively.
  • Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with the Centre for Entrepreneurship (formerly Impact Centre) will have the new "ENT" designator.

Diaspora & Transnational Studies Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1407

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits, including at least 1.0 credit at the 300+ level)

1. DTS200Y1
2. DTS300H1
3. 2.0 credits from Group A and B courses, with at least 1.0 credit from each group.
4. 0.5 DTS credit at the 400-level

Group A: Humanities Courses

AFR250Y1, AFR351Y1, CAR324H1, CAR325H1, CAR328H1, CAR429H1, CAR428H1, CJS200H1, CJS201H1, CJS220H1, CJS230H1, CJS389H1, CJS401H1, CLT413H1, CLT416H1, CRE350Y1, CSE341H1, CSE449H1, DTS305H1, DTS310H1, DTS311H1, DTS312H1, DTS314H1, DTS410H1, DTS411H1, DTS412H1, DTS413H1, DTS414H1, DTS415H1, DTS416H1, DTS417H1, EAS105H1, EAS247H1, EAS251H1, EAS271H1, EAS289Y1, EAS314H1, EAS315H1, EAS333H1, EAS374H1, EAS420H1, EAS439H1, EAS474H1, EAS484Y1, EAS497H1, ENG270H1, ENG285H1, ENG367H1, ENG368H1, ENG369H1, ENG370Y1, FIN320H1, FRE438H1, FRE332H1, FRE334H1, FRE336H1, GER361H1, GER367H1, HIS106Y1, HIS202H1, HIS208Y1, HIS282Y1, HIS283Y1, HIS291H1, HIS295Y1, HIS303H1, HIS305H1, HIS312H1, HIS330H1, HIS336H1, HIS338H1, HIS346H1, HIS359H1, HIS360H1, HIS361H1, HIS366H1, HIS369H1, JHA384H1, HIS385H1, HIS391Y1, HIS392Y1, HIS402H1, HIS403H1, HIS413H1, HIS415Y1, HIS429H1, HIS433H1, HIS439H1, HIS444H1, HIS445H1, HIS446H1, HIS467H1, HIS472H1, HIS474H1, HIS480H1, HIS494H1, JGI216H1/​ JGU216H1, ITA233H1, ITA345H1, NMC252H1, NMC351H1, NMC274H1, NMC284H1, NMC370H1, NMC384H1, NMC473H1, NMC475H1, JQR360H1, RLG280Y1, RLG319H1, RLG326H1, RLG341H1, RLG345H1, RLG346H1, RLG386H1, RLG434H1, RLG453H1, SAS114H1, SAS318H1, SLA202H1, SLA222H1, SLA238H1, SLA302H1, SLA303H1, SLA312H1, SLA318H1, SLA325H1, SLA357H1, SLA380H1, SPA258H1, SPA259H1, SPA375H1, SPA385H1, SPA467H1, SPA480H1, SPA488H1, UNI101H1, UNI103H1, WGS369H1, WGS420H1, WGS426H1

Group B: Social Sciences Courses

ANT204H1, ANT318H1, ANT324H1, ANT340H1, ANT341H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT349H1, ANT351H1, JAL355H1, ANT356H1, ANT358H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT372H1, ANT426H1, ANT427H1, ANT440H1, ANT450H1, ANT452H1, ANT456H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT472H1, ANT475H1, ANT477H1, CSE342H1, DTS305H1, DTS310H1, DTS311H1, DTS312H1, DTS314H1, DTS410H1, DTS411H1, DTS412H1, DTS413H1, DTS414H1, DTS415H1, DTS416H1, DTS417H1, ENT391H1, ENT392Y1, GGR112H1, JGI216H1/​ JGU216H1, GGR241H1, GGR246H1, GGR320H1, JGE321H1, GGR326H1, GGR336H1, GGR339H1, GGR341H1, GGR342H1, GGR343H1, JGI346H1/​ JGU346H1, GGR360H1, GGR363H1, GGR430H1, GGR452H1, GGR457H1, LCT304H1, NUS251H0, NUS252H0, NUS253H0, NUS254H0, NUS255H0, NUS256H0, NUS351Y0, NUS352H0, NUS353H0, JLN327H1, POL201Y1, POL207Y1, POL215Y1, POL224Y1, POL301Y1, POL305Y1, POL324H1, POL345Y1, JPR364H1, JPR374H1, POL409H1, POL413H1, POL417Y1, JPR419H1, POL421H1, POL424H1, POL430Y1, POL442H1, JPF455Y1, POL467H1, POL480H1, SOC210H1, SOC214H1, SOC218H1, SOC220H1, SOC246H1, SOC250Y1, SOC256H1, SOC304H1, SOC311H1, SOC314H1, SOC315H1, SOC355H1, SOC360H1, SOC364H1, SOC367H1, SOC370H1, SOC381H1, SOC382H1, SOC383H1, SOC388H1, SOC465H1, SOC479H1, SOC481H1, SOC484H1, UNI101H1, UNI103H1, VIC183H1, VIC184H1, WGS450H1

Notes:

  • Students are responsible for checking the co- and prerequisites for all courses in Groups A and B.
  • Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with New College's African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity programs will have the new "AFR," "CAR," and "CSE" designators respectively. Courses associated with St. Michael's College's Celtic Studies program will have the new "CLT" designator. Courses associated with Victoria College's Creative Expression and Society, and Literature and Critical Theory programs will have the new "CRE" and "LCT" designators respectively.
  • Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with the Centre for Entrepreneurship (formerly Impact Centre) will have the new "ENT" designator.

 

Regarding Diaspora and Transnational Studies Courses

University of Toronto Mississauga courses that can be applied to the program

https://utm.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Diaspora-and-Transnational-Studies

 

Diaspora and Transnational Studies Courses

DTS199H1 - Superman and Other Migrants

Hours: 24S

From the 1938 debut of Superman until the spate of recent autobiographical graphic novels by immigrants and children of immigrants, the development of the comic and graphic novel form has been intricately bound up with the diaspora experience. In this course, we will explore the emergence of the superhero from the immigrant experience; trace the depiction of migrants, immigrants and refugees in recent graphic novels; and study visual strategies for representing migration and displacement. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS200Y1 - Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I

Hours: 48L

What is the relationship between place and belonging, between territory and memory? How have the experiences of migration and dislocation challenged the modern assumption that the nation-state should be the limit of identification? What effect has the emergence of new media of communication had upon the coherence of cultural and political boundaries? All of these questions and many more form part of the subject matter of Diaspora and Transnational Studies. This introductory course ex-amines the historical and contemporary movements of peoples and the complex issues of identity and experience to which these processes give rise as well as the creative possibilities that flow from movement and being moved. The area of study is comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from the social sciences, history, the arts and humanities. Accordingly, this course provides the background to the subject area from diverse perspectives and introduces students to a range of key debates in the field, with particular attention to questions of history, globalization, cultural production and the creative imagination.

Exclusion: DTS201H1, DTS202H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS300H1 - Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning

Hours: 24L

Focuses on research design and training in methods from history, geography, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, and other disciplines appropriate to Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Prepares students to undertake primary research required in senior seminars.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: DTS200Y1/ CJS200H1/ CJS201H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

DTS305H1 - Special Topics in Diaspora and Transnational Studies

Hours: 24L

An upper level course. Topics of study vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS310H1 - Transnational Toronto

Hours: 24L

Toronto is a city increasingly configured through transnational connections and practices. It is a city defined by the scale at which its residents live their lives; a scale that is no longer (if it ever was) parochial, but extends across time and space to connect people and practice across a multitude of locales. Contemporary understandings of Toronto can only be reached through adopting a transnational lens. This course will examine the processes that have produced Toronto as a transnational city over time, including the dynamics of immigration and mobility, experiences of alienation, the global extension of capitalism, and the (re)formation of communities grounded in the complex dynamics of identities produced in a space that is both ‘home’ and away’. We will also explore the specific practices, and connections that produce “Toronto” as a space that transcends its physical geographic boundaries and is continually reproduced in and through the flows of people, capital, objects, ideas, - and the many forces that reproduce and reconfigure these flows.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS311H1 - Fun in Diaspora

Hours: 24L

From parkour to “Baby Shark” remixes, concepts and practices surrounding fun, entertainment, and pleasure transcend cultural boundaries, reveal the reach of globalization, and help facilitate the maintenance of transnational communities through shared activities. This course will examine these relationships with fun, and we will also assess cases where concepts of fun diverge and clash in intercultural contexts. Additionally, the class will consider the relationship between entertainment practices and politics, marketing, and social movements. Cases examined will include K-pop fandom, bucket challenges, social media memes, and global YouTube phenomena.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

DTS312H1 - Exile

Hours: 24S

Historically used to describe both voluntary departure and enforced banishment from a city, today, "Exile" is perhaps most famously associated with both the Jewish and the Palestinian condition. But exile is also a state of being, one that is creative, critical, and full of meaning-making. This class posits “Exile” as a conceptual framework through which to think through the 21st-century condition of migration and diaspora. Through foundational texts and historic case studies, particularly drawn from East Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, we will consider how exile has been deployed in order to bring together diverse situations under a unifying theory of both individual and collective experience.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS314H1 - Citizenship and Multiculturalism

Hours: 24S

This course examines approaches to belonging and distinction that accompany different models of citizenship. What are some historical and recent trends in the intersections of place, custom, and rights? How have governments related social diversity to social justice in theory and in practice? Areas of emphasis will vary, but may include topics such as authenticity and assimilation; ethno-nationalism; immigration and naturalization policy; indigeneity; insurgency; legacies of colonialism; mass media and popular culture; policing and surveillance; racial stratification; transnational markets; and xenophobia.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

JQR360H1 - The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics

Hours: 24L/12T

Examines the Canadian population census through the experience of diasporic groups in Canada. Approaches the census as a statistical tool, an historical source and an ideological project of citizenship and nationalism. Uses census data to explore mathematical and statistical concepts and to integrate numerical ways of thinking with qualitative analysis. (Jointly sponsored by African Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Caribbean Studies, Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity, and Latin American Studies).

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1/ HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ LAS200H1/ LAS201H1/ CAR120Y1/ AFR150Y1/ CAR220H1/ CAR221H1/ NEW224Y1/ CAR225H1/ CAR226H1/ CSE240H1/ NEW240Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS390H1 - Independent Study

A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult with the Diaspora and Transnational Studies Program Office for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science

DTS390Y1 - Independent Study

A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult with the Diaspora and Transnational Studies Program Office for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science

DTS401H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism

Hours: 24S

An in-depth investigation of topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Refer to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies website (https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-program/current-undergraduate-courses) for more information.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS402H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism

Hours: 24S

An in-depth investigation of topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Refer to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies website (https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-program/current-undergraduate-courses) for more information.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS403H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism

Hours: 24S

An in-depth investigation of topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Refer to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies website (https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-program/current-undergraduate-courses) for more information.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS404H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism

Hours: 24S

An in-depth investigation of topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Refer to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies website (https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-program/current-undergraduate-courses) for more information.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1/ CJS200H1/ CJS201H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS405H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism

Hours: 24S

An in-depth investigation of topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Refer to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies website (https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-program/current-undergraduate-courses) for more information.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS406H1 - Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism

Hours: 24S

An in-depth investigation of topics in Diaspora and Transnationalism. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Refer to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies website (https://www.cdts.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/undergraduate-program/current-undergraduate-courses) for more information.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS410H1 - Diasporic Foodways

Hours: 24S

Food links people across space and time. As it spirals outward from parochial sites of origin to articulate with new sites, actors and scales, it assumes new substance and meaning in new locales. This movement of food gives rise to new ‘foodways’ to help us to understand the past in terms of temporally connected sites of intense interaction. Food also plays a strong role in shaping translocal identities. As peoples have moved in the world, food has played a central role in (re)defining who they are, reproducing myth and ritual, and bounding diasporic communities. This course seeks to address questions surrounding the dynamics of the food ‘we’ eat, the ways in which ‘we’ eat, the meaning ‘we’ give to eating, and the effect of eating in a transnational world. Recognizing that culinary culture is central to diasporic identifications, the focus is on the place of food in the enduring habits, rituals, and everyday practices that are collectively used to produce and sustain a shared sense of diasporic cultural identity.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS411H1 - Transnational Justice

Hours: 24S

This course explores the intersection between local conceptions of justice and their transnational and institutional circulations. It interrogates competing meanings of justice and examines the varied practices of actors engaged in justice making domains. From international human rights, to transitional justice and truth and reconciliation, to international legal and traditional justice formulations, the course offers students an opportunity to learn about and critically reflect on the processes and purposes through which justice conceptions are structured, implemented and being contested in the contemporary period. Topics include: theories of transnationalism, transnational justice, social injustice, law and culture, universalism, racism and social inequality.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS412H1 - The Diasporic Imagination

Hours: 24S

This course focuses on echoes of diasporic and transnational life in artistic work, and on the significance of aesthetic production to the formation of diasporic and transnational worlds. How have practices, producers, and works of art illuminated the particularities of diasporic life? How do conventions of genre, performance, and tradition shape experiences of borders and crossings? Areas of emphasis will vary but may spotlight particular historical and geographic contexts, and may foreground one or more form, including film, poetry, fiction, music, and dance.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

DTS413H1 - Global Sexualities

Hours: 24S

Sexuality is a complex interplay of desires, attractions, interests, and modes of behavior and has diverse meanings in different societies and cultures. In this course, we will examine the notion of sexuality as well as gender identity and expression from an interdisciplinary perspective that is rooted in ethnography. A cross-cultural study of sexuality and gender identity within global and transnational contexts will provide students with an understanding of how the intersections of culture, community, as well as social and political factors affect individuals’ sexual choices and understandings of gender. A particular focus in this course will be experiences of sexuality and gender within diasporic communities.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1/ SDS380H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS414H1 - Money on the Move

Hours: 24S

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, industry and finance matured together, pushing people into motion around the world. The instruments of long-distance trade, like insurance, credit and debt, connected cities and continents in new and sometimes unsettling ways. The free movement of goods and cash was mirrored by restrictions on migration to some parts of the world and by forced or coerced migration to others. This course explores the history of the rise of global capitalism at a human scale, exploring how financialization, industrialization and imperialism overlapped and intertwined, and how the remaking of the world in the image of capital weighed on human lives.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS415H1 - Diaspora at Home

Hours: 24S

What is the relationship between diaspora and domesticity? What does it mean to inhabit the position of the stranger not in the public life of the city, but in the private sphere of the household? This course approaches questions of migration, labour, and foreignness through the prism of the home. We consider the international phenomenon of migrant domestic labour and how it shapes social and family relations, both in countries of origin such as the Philippines and Ethiopia, as well as in countries of employment such as Canada and Lebanon. But we also reflect on how migration radically transforms life inside the home, affecting what it means to be a parent, a child, or a partner. In doing so we draw upon diverse representations of “the family”, kinship, and intimacy across both the humanities and the social sciences.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS416H1 - Wars, Diaspora and Music

Hours: 24S

The course explores how composers, performers, songwriters and audiences made sense of traumatic and violent events that they experienced, such as ethnic conflicts, wars, exile and displacement, through music. We will also look at how government ideologies employ music during wars. The case studies will include stories of Jewish, Palestinian, Afghan, Romani, Korean, Rwandan and other diasporas severely affected by wars and violence.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

DTS417H1 - 9 to 5: A Transnational History of the Working Day

Hours: 24S

Work is a central preoccupation in human life and culture, and the working day – measured in daylight, in shifts, or in tasks and ‘gigs’ – is, for most people, the basic unit of work. A ‘day’s work’ is so ubiquitous that it seems natural – but it is not – the offices, worksites, hourly wages and everyday forms of discipline and surveillance that shape working lives have a history. This course explores the transnational and diasporic histories of working life, from plantations to factories to offices to informal work at the margins of global industrial capitalism.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

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