Courses

M.A. students wishing to strengthen their background in a particular area may take one 4000-level Sociology course in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies or Glendon, with the approval of the Instructor. They should enrol in GS/SOCI 5900 3.00 and expect to undertake additional work. The available courses are listed each year in the Sociology Program Manual.

M.A. students wishing to strengthen their background in a particular area may take one 4000-level Sociology course in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies or Glendon, with the approval of the Instructor. They should enrol in GS/SOCI 5900 3.00 and expect to undertake additional work. The available courses are listed each year in the Sociology Program Manual.

This course, designed for MA students in the Graduate Program in Sociology, consists of a survey of some of the key questions and concepts in classical and contemporary sociological theory, with a specific emphasis on critical modes of theorizing.

Based on a cohort model, this course provides a supportive environment that allows master’s students to rapidly accrue sociological reading, writing and revising skills. The curriculum moves students through the initial research/writing stages to completion of the RRP/thesis proposal.

The overall objectives of this workshop-based course are: (i) the development of professional skills for the academic and non-academic labour market; (ii) to facilitate timely progress through the program; and (iii) to contribute to the development of a research culture in the cohort and beyond.

The objectives of this workshop-based course are: (i) the development of professional skills for the academic and non-academic labour markets; (ii) to facilitate academic progress after completion of the comprehensive exams; and (iii) to contribute to the development of a research culture in the cohort. Pre-requisite: Completion of Sociology 6001 3.0: Doctoral Seminar 1, and registration in the second year of the Sociology PhD program.

This course is intended to introduce students to a range of methods currently being used in sociological field research. It will include interviewing techniques, content analysis and selected ethnographic techniques. Instruction will be through demonstration, role-playing and field study experience, as well as the critical reading of selected texts.

The course focuses on the use of regression models to analyze surveys and other social data. Assuming no prior background, it covers the statistical basics, model building strategies, model assumptions and the interpretation of results.

Examines classical and contemporary social theory, from the enlightenment to post-modernism, from the point of view of gender, as well as providing a survey of recent debates in feminist social theory. Course credit exclusions: GS/SPTH 6623 3.00, GS/WMST 6505 3.00 (prior to Winter 2015).

This course explores how power and knowledge shape intertwined social and ecological relationships, drawing on theoretically-informed ethnographies and other empirical studies, with an emphasis on global south research.

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This course examines the contemporary articulation and organization of sexual identities and rights in the developing world, and considers how interventions by international agencies, nation-states and advocacy groups have informed/been informed by racial and gender politics, and notions of citizenship.

This course analyzes new theory and research on the social experience of institutional and political violence in a comparative perspective. It investigates the transformation of everyday life worlds by focusing on both, collective and subjective processes of identity formation.

Cross-border movements of people, capital, goods, and ideas raise challenging theoretical, methodological and policy questions about the social, political, economic and cultural organization of life lived in multiple national contexts. This course will explore social, economic, cultural, and political transnational processes. Topics may include: nation-building and membership, theories of migration and incorporation, transnationalism, diasporas, citizenship and legal status, racialization, identity, gender, remittances, second generation, and cross-border political participation.

Examines a range of social theories and empirical research pertaining to the category of ‘the political’. Emphasis is placed on the foundations of contemporary political sociology and on development of the field through the 20th century.

This course is designed to engage students in the critical analysis of transformations in Canadian social policy from colonization to present day.

This course offers a historical examination of the multiple, overlapping processes through which Asian identities and regions were constituted. It will also examine new directions in Asian studies in an era of intensified global flows, transnationalism, and the presence of Asian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.

Undertakes the comparative study of race and ethnic relations in modern societies, with particular reference to cultural pluralism, ethnic stratification and the significance of race and ethnicity in social conflict and change.

This course examines the political economy of capitalism from a geographical angle. It looks at the spatial and environmental aspects of capitalism employing Marx’s ‘mature’ works as well as more contemporary literature on political economy in geography and cultural studies.

This course is designed to consider current debates about health and care within a feminist political economy framework. The focus will be Canada but a Canada located within an international context. Of course students will be invited to introduce other perspectives and other countries into the readings, discussions and their papers.

The objective of this course is to provide students with theoretical and methodological tools to critically examine and explore how race and processes of racialization are constituted, exercised, lived and contested in law, through law and by law. This course examines the relationship between race, colonization and the contemporary legal order. The course will address the intersections of law, modernity and liberalism in order to address the role that law plays in the constitution of racialized, gendered and classed subjects. The course will address how legal processes of racialization contribute to the politics of nation-building and to the development of national subjectivities.