Courses

Students may take ONE half-course reading course as part of their Master of Arts’ studies with the permission of the graduate program director and the Instructor.

Students may take ONE half-course reading course as part of their Master of Arts’ studies with the permission of the graduate program director and the Instructor.

Offers an overview of the major contemporary theoretical perspectives on law and society. Among the different approaches we consider are those that define law as a source of social and moral regulation, as ideology, and as discourse, respectively.

The course surveys the various ways in which data are conceptualized, collected and analysed in research in socio-legal studies. It aims to ensure that all students on the degree program have mastered social science methodology including historical and documentary research methods, survey methods and questionnaire design, interview techniques, observational methods, and the interpretation of official statistics. A distinctive feature of this course is the emphasis on the dynamic relationships between problems, theories, methods and politics.

This graduate level seminar course critically examines current perspectives on hate crime and hate speech with a focus on theoretical debates, media representation, including that of social media platforms, and legal knowledge.

Examines the socio-legal tradition of legal pluralism – or the study of normative orders that impact on social behaviour. State law is one such normative order that interacts with and competes with other non-state orders.

This graduate level seminar course critically examines current perspectives on law, crime and exclusion in terms of conceptual innovations, empirical research and theoretical debates within criminology, socio-legal studies and related fields.

The objective of this course is to provide students with theoretical and methodological tools to critically examine and explore the relationship between race and processes of racialization and contemporary legal order.

This course consists of a series of meetings in which students discuss how to develop their Major Research Paper proposal, research their topic, and write their MRP. Students present their MRP proposals to their fellow students as well as faculty.