List C: Area Studies
Africa
Asia
Canada and the Americas
Europe and Eurasia
Middle East
Comparative, Cross-Regional, Global, and Varying Topics
***Please note that not all courses are offered every session. Please refer to the course timetable for current offerings.***
Africa
Code |
Subject |
Course |
Credits |
Course Name |
Pre-requ |
AFST |
African Studies |
351 |
3 |
Perspectives in African Studies: Literary and Theoretical Approaches |
n |
AFST |
African Studies |
352 |
3 |
Perspectives in African Studies: A Social Science Approach |
n |
AFST |
African Studies |
450 |
3 |
African Diasporic Culture in African Canadian Communities |
n |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
308 |
3 |
Ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
423 |
3 |
Ethnography of East Africa and the Swahili Coast |
y |
GEOG |
Geography |
496 |
3 |
Geography of Africa |
y |
GRSJ |
Gender, Race, and Social Justice |
311 |
3 |
African/Black Women in the Americas |
n |
HIST |
History |
309 |
3 |
Topics in Sub-Saharan African History |
n |
HIST |
History |
312 |
3 |
Southern Africa |
n |
HIST |
History |
313 |
3 |
Africa from Imperialism to Independence |
n |
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Asia
Code |
Subject |
Course |
Credits |
Course Name |
Pre-requ |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
302 |
3 |
Ethnography of South Asia |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
307 |
3 |
Ethnography of Korea |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
315 |
3 |
Japanese Culture and Society |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
350 |
3 |
Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Polynesia and Micronesia |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
351 |
3 |
Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Melanesia |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
402 |
3 |
Ethnography of China |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
416 |
3 |
The Ethnography of Japan |
y |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
309 |
3 |
South Asians Beyond South Asia |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
310 |
3 |
Studies in the History of a Major Asian Civilization |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
313 |
3 |
Tibetan and Himalayan Culture and Society |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
315 |
3 |
Japan from Feudal to Modern State |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
319 |
3 |
Contemporary Chinese Popular Cultures |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
329 |
3 |
Gender in South and Southeast Asia |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
330 |
3 |
Islam in South Asia |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
333 |
3 |
Issues in Contemporary South Asian Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
337 |
3 |
The Korean People in Modern Times (1600 to the present) |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
338 |
3 |
Modern India: From Conquest to Raj |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
339 |
3 |
The Construction of South Asian Communities in the Diaspora |
y |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
373 |
3 |
History of Hong Kong |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
380 |
6 |
The Making of Modern China: Nationalism, War, Revolution |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
390 |
3 |
History of the Indian Ocean World |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
393 |
3 |
History of Iran from the Sasanians to the Safavids |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
418 |
3 |
Social History of India |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
434 |
6 |
History of South East Asia since 1800 |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
438 |
3 |
Twentieth Century South Asia |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
456 |
3 |
History and Culture of Taiwan |
n |
ASIA |
Asian Studies |
484 |
3 |
The History of the Choson Dynasty |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
380 |
3 |
Geography of Asia |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
481 |
3 |
Geography of Japan |
y |
GEOG |
Geography |
484 |
3 |
Geography of Southeast Asia |
y |
GEOG |
Geography |
485 |
3 |
Geography of China |
y |
HIST |
History |
373 |
3 |
History of Hong Kong |
n |
HIST |
History |
376 |
6 |
Modern Japanese History Since 1800 |
n |
HIST |
History |
380 |
3 |
The Making of Modern China: Nationalism, War, Revolution |
n |
HIST |
History |
381 |
3 |
Imperialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia |
n |
HIST |
History |
382 |
3 |
Post-Colonial Southeast Asia |
n |
HIST |
History |
385 |
3 |
India from Raj to Republic |
n |
HIST |
History |
386 |
3 |
Korea since 1860 |
n |
HIST |
History |
388 |
3 |
India in the Early Modern World: Mughals, Merchants, and Marauders |
n |
HIST |
History |
480 |
6 |
Social History of Modern China |
n |
HIST |
History |
482 |
3 |
Chinese Migration |
n |
HIST |
History |
483 |
3 |
Asian Migrations to the Americas |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
321 |
3 |
Chinese Politics and Development |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
322 |
3 |
Japanese Government and Politics |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
323 |
3 |
South Asian Government and Politics |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
324 |
3 |
Southeast Asian Government and Politics |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
330 |
3 |
Japanese Political Economy |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
365 |
3 |
Asian International Relations |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
368 |
3 |
Japan’s Foreign Relations |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
379 |
3 |
China in World Politics |
n |
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Canada and the Americas
Code |
Subject |
Course |
Credits |
Course Name |
Pre-requ |
AFST |
African Studies |
450 |
3 |
African Diasporic Culture in African Canadian Communities |
n |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
304 |
3 |
Ethnography of the Northwest Coast |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
353 |
3 |
Ethnography of Latin America |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
401 |
3 |
First Peoples of North America |
y |
ECON |
Economics |
336 |
3 |
Economic History of Canada |
y |
ECON |
Economics |
337 |
3 |
Economic History of the United States |
y |
GEOG |
Geography |
395 |
3 |
Culture, Nature, and Coloniality in Latin America |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
497 |
3 |
The Arctic |
n |
GRSJ |
Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice |
311 |
3 |
African/Black Women in the Americas |
n |
HIST |
History |
302 |
6 |
History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America |
n |
HIST |
History |
325 |
3 |
Canada 1896-1945: Boom, Bust and War |
n |
HIST |
History |
338 |
3 |
American Modernity: The United States, 1890-1945 |
n |
HIST |
History |
339 |
3 |
The United States Since 1945: The Limits of Power |
n |
HIST |
History |
357 |
3 |
History of Mexico |
n |
HIST |
History |
358 |
3 |
State and Society in 20th century Cuba |
n |
HIST |
History |
396 |
3 |
Environmental History of North America |
n |
HIST |
History |
411 |
6 |
Development of Canadian External Policy Since Confederation |
n |
HIST |
History |
412 |
6 |
The American Impact on Canada |
n |
HIST |
History |
444 |
3 |
Slave Societies in the Americas |
n |
HIST |
History |
450 |
3 |
Selected Topics in Latin American History |
n |
HIST |
History |
451 |
3 |
Family and Community in Latin America |
n |
HIST |
History |
453 |
3 |
Class and Culture in Latin America |
n |
HIST |
History |
456 |
3 |
Race in the Americas |
n |
HIST |
History |
467 |
3 |
Topics in Indigenous History of the United States |
n |
HIST |
History |
468 |
3 |
Topics in Comparative Indigenous History |
n |
HIST |
History |
469 |
3 |
Aboriginal Title in British Columbia: History and Legacy |
n |
LAST |
Latin American Studies |
301 |
3 |
Human and Civil Rights in Latin America |
n |
LAST |
Latin American Studies |
303 |
3 |
Indigenous Peoples of Latin America |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
309 |
3 |
Canadian Perspectives on Human Rights |
y |
POLI |
Political Science |
320 |
3 |
Government and Politics of the United States of America |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
332 |
3 |
Politics and Government of Latin America |
n |
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Europe and Eurasia
Code |
Subject |
Course |
Credits |
Course Name |
Pre-requ |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
301 |
3 |
Ethnography of Eurasia |
y |
CENS |
Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies |
303 |
3 |
Representations of the Holocaust |
n |
CENS |
Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies |
404 |
3 |
Gender and Nation: Women’s State in Modern Central, Eastern and Northern European Literatures and Culture |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
391 |
3 |
Modern Europe: Places and Borders |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
493 |
3 |
Contemporary Europe: Identity and Geopolitics |
y |
HIST |
History |
315 |
3 |
Britain 1750-1850 |
n |
HIST |
History |
318 |
3 |
Early Twentieth-Century Britain |
n |
HIST |
History |
319 |
3 |
Britain, 1945 to the Present |
n |
HIST |
History |
323 |
3 |
Empires, Wars, and Revolutions in Europe and the Americas, 1763, 1838 |
n |
HIST |
History |
346 |
6 |
France Since the Revolution |
n |
HIST |
History |
349 |
3 |
Imperial Russian History, 1800 to 1917 |
n |
HIST |
History |
350 |
6 |
The Soviet Union |
n |
HIST |
History |
351 |
6 |
East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
n |
HIST |
History |
355 |
3 |
Nineteenth Century Germany |
n |
HIST |
History |
356 |
3 |
Twentieth-Century Germany |
n |
HIST |
History |
366 |
3 |
Europe During the Reformation |
n |
HIST |
History |
368 |
3 |
Europe in the 19th Century |
n |
HIST |
History |
369 |
3 |
Europe, 1900 – 1950 |
n |
HIST |
History |
370 |
3 |
Europe Since 1950 |
n |
HIST |
History |
439 |
3 |
Politics and Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (1890-1914) |
n |
ITST |
Italian Studies |
345 |
3 |
Italian Fascism in Interdisciplinary Perspective |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
326 |
3 |
European Politics: Selected Cases |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
327 |
3 |
European Integration |
n |
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Middle East
Code |
Subject |
Course |
Credits |
Course Name |
Pre-requ |
GEOG |
Geography |
498 |
3 |
Geographies of the Middle East |
n |
HIST |
History |
352 |
3 |
Modern Middle Eastern History |
n |
HIST |
History |
353 |
3 |
Special Topics in Middle Eastern History |
n |
HIST |
History |
354 |
3 |
The Ottoman Empire |
n |
MES |
Middle Eastern Studies |
300 |
3 |
The Middle East: Critical Questions and Debates |
n |
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Comparative, Cross-Regional, Global, and Varying Topics
Code |
Subject |
Course |
Credits |
Course Name |
Pre-requ |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
303 |
3 |
Ethnography of Special Areas |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
403 |
3 |
Ethnography of Special Areas |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
404 |
3 |
Ethnography in Circumpolar North: Comparative Perspectives |
y |
ANTH |
Anthropology |
414 |
3 |
Anthropology of Globalization |
y |
FNH |
Food, Nutrition, and Health |
460 |
3 |
International Nutrition Field Studies |
y |
GEOG |
Geography |
350 |
3 |
Urban Worlds |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
390 |
3 |
Geography of Selected Regions |
n |
GEOG |
Geography |
497 |
3 |
The Arctic |
n |
HIST |
History |
327 |
3 |
Colonial America: Encounter and Settlement, 1607-1763 |
n |
HIST |
History |
334 |
3 |
Senegambia to South Carolina, Ghana to Georgia: African-American History, 1450 – 1850 |
n |
HIST |
History |
401 |
3 |
Seafaring in the Age of Sail |
n |
HIST |
History |
464 |
3 |
First Contacts in the Pacific |
n |
HIST |
History |
485 |
3 |
Asian Migrant Communities in Vancouver |
n |
KIN |
Kinesiology |
364 |
3 |
The Modern Olympics: Power, Politics, and Performance |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
325 |
3 |
Communist and Post-Communist Politics |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
335 |
3 |
Comparative Federalism |
n |
POLI |
Political Science |
336 |
3 |
Associations and the State in Comparative Perspective |
n |
PPGA |
Public Policy and Global Affairs |
591P |
1.5 |
Ethics and Public Service in Democratic Systems |
n |
PPGA |
Public Policy and Global Affairs |
591Q |
1.5 |
Policymaking and Democratic Deliberation in Global Politics |
y |
SOCI |
Sociology |
303 |
3 |
Sociology of Migration |
y |
SOCI |
Sociology |
435 |
3 |
International Service Learning |
y |
SPPH |
School of Population and Public Health |
409 |
3 |
International Indigenous Experiences of Colonization |
n |
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