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Previous Course Number: NEW120Y1
Hours: 48L/24T
Explores the complex and diverse languages, geographies, regional and national histories, cultural practices, intellectual traditions and political and economic landscapes of the Caribbean region, its people and its diasporas. Students will be introduced to the main questions, themes, and debates in Caribbean Studies. Lectures and readings develop the skills to take an interdisciplinary approach to Caribbean Studies. This is a team taught course.
Exclusion: NEW120Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)
Previous Course Number: CAR315H1
Hours: 24L
Examines the historical roots of regional Caribbean food from the colonial period to the present day, and then moves to study Caribbean food in the global and Caribbean-Canadian diasporas, in the literary imagination, as a marker of personal, group and national identity, and as cultural expression.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: NEW315H1, CAR315H1
Recommended Preparation: HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ CAR120Y1/ CAR220H1/ CAR221H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Previous Course Number: NEW220H1
Hours: 24L
Introduction to the rich and multi-linguistic literary traditions of the Caribbean and its diaspora, focusing on both canonical and emergent texts of Caribbean literature. Texts not originally written in English are read in translation.
Exclusion: NEW220H1, NEW222H1, NEW222Y1, NEW223Y1
Recommended Preparation: CAR120Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Previous Course Number: NEW225H1
Hours: 24L/12T
Offers an interdisciplinary introduction to Caribbean sociology, focusing on the writings of thinkers and scholars from the era of decolonization to the more contemporary period. Themes may include: colonial encounters in the making of Caribbean societies; the role of religion; popular consciousness; histories of capitalism and exploitation; the relationship between political institutions and the wider society; "development", dependency and "underdevelopment".
Exclusion: NEW225H1, NEW224Y1
Recommended Preparation: CAR120Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Previous Course Number: NEW226H1
Hours: 24L/12T
Examines currents of Caribbean political thought from the Haitian Revolution to the present. Themes may include: struggles for independence and liberation, particularly the Haitian and Cuban Revolutions; theories of dependency; Caribbean political systems; regional integration; contemporary political issues facing Caribbean societies today; analyses of capitalism by Caribbean thinkers.
Exclusion: NEW226H1, NEW224Y1
Recommended Preparation: CAR120Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Previous Course Number: NEW316H1
Hours: 24L
Explores the complex and dynamic practices, philosophies and political and cultural contexts of Caribbean religions. Topics may include the profound impact - in both the Caribbean and its diasporas - of Caribbean Christianities, Hinduism and Islam as well as Afro-Creole religions such as Vodun, Rastafari and Santeria.
Prerequisite: HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ CAR120Y1/ CAR220H1/ CAR221H1/ NEW224Y1/ CAR225H1/ CAR226H1
Exclusion: NEW316H1, NEW329H1 (Special Topics in Caribbean Studies: Caribbean Religions), offered in Fall 2014 and Fall 2015
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Previous Course Number: NEW321H1
Hours: 24L
Explores themes relating to visual arts, social media and theatre in the Caribbean. Topics may include: theatre, film, mixed media arts, the role of the internet and online publishing in the arts and the relationship between artists, the state and wider society.
Prerequisite: HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ CAR120Y1/ CAR220H1/ CAR221H1/ NEW224Y1/ CAR225H1/ CAR226H1
Exclusion: NEW321H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Previous Course Number: NEW328H1
Hours: 24L
Explores indentured migration and its legacies from the 17th century through to the present. Encourages students to think comparatively and transnationally about indentureship and diaspora, as well as indentured migration's relationship to contract and labour law.
Prerequisite: HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ CAR120Y1/ CAR220H1/ CAR221H1/ NEW224Y1/ CAR225H1/ CAR226H1
Exclusion: NEW328H1, NEW326Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Hours: 24S
Explores, in depth, a country in the Hispanic Caribbean or a theme relating to the Hispanic Caribbean. Topics vary each year and may include: Cuban society; Hispanic Caribbean revolutions; Hispanic Caribbean music, art and popular cultures; Hispanic Caribbean diasporas.
Prerequisite: HIS230H1/ HIS231H1/ JLN327H1/ LAS200H1/ LAS201H1/ CAR120Y1/ CAR220H1/ CAR221H1/ NEW224Y1/ CAR225H1/ CAR226H1
Exclusion: NEW427H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)