| Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HHUM | 222 | 001 | Health, Illness, and Narrative |
What stories do we tell ourselves about our bodies, relationships, and lives as we try - individually and as a culture - to be "healthy"? And how do stories help us cope with the uncertain, often scary, and sometimes tragic scenarios when illness replaces health? In this course students will pursue these questions by exploring the role narrative plays in our broader perceptions of health and illness. Through discussion and writing, students will analyze a range of media and genres to gain insight into the larger cultural discourses and social institutions that shape our understanding of these topics.
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HHUM | 263 | 001 | Contagion, Disease, and Illness in Italian Literature and Film |
This course will focus on representations of contagion and illness in Italian literature and film. Covering such topics as the portrayal of the Bubonic Plague in 14th-century novelle, Renaissance descriptions of syphilis, Verist and Neo-realist stories about contagion and poverty, and the projection of social malaise in art films, students will assess the ways in which disease is depicted in primary texts. Students will gain familiarity with contemporary contagion theories, as well as historicization and cultural criticism of literary and cinematic accounts of disease. In this course students will consider the psycho-social impact of contagion and disease from multiple perspectives - near and far, past, and present.
Held with ITALST 263
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HHUM | 288 | 001 | Health, Medicine, and Spirituality |
This course examines how spirituality and religion have informed approaches to health and medicine from the 19th century to the present, including understandings of disease, illness, health, sexuality, and the body. Topics may include spiritual and/or religious concepts of health and sickness; meditation, prayer, and healing; "alternative" medicine; Indigenous approaches to health and medicine; mental health and spiritual practice; and religion and health care justice. Students are introduced to a variety of research methods that will help them identify, understand, and critically assess the complex boundaries that exist between modern medicine and spirituality.
Held with RS 288
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HHUM | 311 | 001 | Culture, Mental Health, and Wellness |
This course investigates the objective and subjective realms of mental well-being, ill-being, and illness across diverse societies and cultures, as expressed through literature, film, and other media. Students will investigate the theories and methodologies employed in humanities-based mental health research; understand bibliotherapy both developmentally and therapeutically; and evaluate how texts, images, and performances shape different perspectives of mental illness and mental health. To enhance awareness of subjective aspects of human nature and prejudices, and to appreciate arts-based mental health research, students will engage in experiential learning with a rich-pictures exercise and reflective practice.
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HIST | 115 | 001 | Crusading in the Middle Ages |
This course examines the historical events and cultural assumptions that led to the European phenomenon of crusading, or holy war, between 1095 and 1453.
Held with MEDVL 115
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HIST | 236 | 001 | Law and Society in the Middle Ages |
A study of the laws and legal procedures of the Middle Ages. This course examines the relationship between legal procedures and institutions and the medieval societies that produced them.
Held with LS 236
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HIST | 254 | 001 | Canada Since 1867: A New Nation |
This course examines Confederation, the rise of political parties, Canadian external relations, western discontent, the impact of both World Wars, and political and economic changes in Canada since 1867.
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HIST | 260 | 001 | Medieval Europe c.300-c.1500 |
The political, cultural, economic, and ecclesiastical development of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the high middle ages.
Held with MEDVL 260
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HIST | 304 | 001 | Heresy and Religious Crises in Late Medieval Europe |
An exploration of the impact of social crises on late medieval religious modes of expression. Topics will include the Great Famine, the Black Death, the Avignon Papacy and Western Schism, the development of heretical movements, and the eventual disintegration of European religious unity.
Held with MEDVL 304, RS 342
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 | ||
| HIST | 318 | 001 | History of Sexuality: The Modern Period |
This seminar introduces students to the history of sexuality. The course focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Held with SMF 318
Offered on campus |
Winter 2024 |