Here are other courses offered in prior years that could fulfill the Certificate.
Please note that this list is for reference only and does not guarantee future offerings.
ANTH 540B: Migration, Empire, and Social Movements
Instructor: Zeweri, Helena
This graduate seminar will explore the connections between empire, displaced peoples, and political consciousness. Rather than view empire as a territorially fixed project, we will treat it as a geographically dispersed formation whose impact endures in the everyday lives, relationships, and identities of displaced peoples. Through ethnography, film, and visual art, we will explore how migrants encounter empire—how they get pulled into its grip, how they participate in it, resist it, and refuse it. Content will cover a range of contexts, including the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean region, Oceania, North America, and South West Asia.
AMNE 575C: Topics in Greek Archaeology - Topics in Greek Archaeology
Instructor: Daniels, Megan
With the turn to models of connectivity to understand the historical and cultural trajectories of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, approaches drawn from network science have increasingly found a home amongst archaeological and historical research of these regions. This seminar will introduce students to (1) concepts and theories of networks as applied to the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East; (2) basic network analytical techniques for structuring, analyzing, and visualizing archaeological and historical data; and (3) case studies applying network theories and methods to archaeological and historical data. Students will learn to be conversant with network concepts and the basics of network analysis, while also learning to be critical of their application to archaeology and history.
GMST 506A: Intercultural Competence - Intercultural Competence
Instructor: Hallensleben, Markus
This course is open to graduate students from all fields and focuses on literary and visual narratives of belonging and migration from a transdisciplinary cultural studies perspective. How do people relate to place? Does the question “Where are you from?” assume a linear narrative and sedentarist perspective of exclusion? How do we narratively create and perform belonging, cultural spaces, phenomenological borders, national and ethnic identities? We will critically discuss concepts and theories of (post)coloniality, Black ecology, diaspora, immigration, multiculturality, postmigration, Radical diversity, super-diversity, transnationality and relational epistemologies. Within the educational framework of decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies we will further practically apply Storywork (Archibald) as scholarly method of building “non-colonial” relations (Garneau) in a land-, people- and story-centred way. Our goal is to question Eurocentric notions of belonging, culture, identity, author- and ownership, literature, story and text from a critical diversity literacy perspective.
POLI 521B: Political Theory - Contested Territory
Instructor: Jurkevics, Anna
This course surveys and challenges Western approaches to land, place, and territory. We begin with surveys of the concept of place, the history of territory, and the political economy of land. Part II covers theories of territorial rights and will address issues related to land attachment, nationalism, and the property-territory distinction. In Part III, we explore the Westphalian system of territorial sovereignty, including its relationship to migration, borders, colonialism, and empire. In the concluding section of the course, Part IV, we will consider alternatives to the Western approach to territory by reading Indigenous scholarship on land, including Glen Coulthard’s Red Skins, White Masks and Audra Simpson's Mohawk Interruptus.