This course examines the relationship between planning and colonialism and considers the theories and practices that might be applied in the development of an anti-colonial approach to planning. This course looks to make visible how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, works through planning to produce dispossession and inequality, with a focus on the experience of Indigenous peoples in Canada. A key intention of this course will be to examine planning policies or methods to uncover how planning’s core conceptual tools and methods — including property, growth, participation, sustainability — often hinge on the production of racial statuses and hierarchies. This course will also provide an overview of how planning scholars are grappling with the question of how to decolonize planning theory through a variety of discursive, ethical, and rights-based approaches. Through an engagement with Indigenous and anti-racist scholarship as well as community-led examples of counter planning, this course will also consider how core planning assumptions, concepts, and practices might be challenged and reformulated.

This course provides an intensive introduction to fundamental geographic information system (GIS) theory, as well as practical, hands-on experience with state-of-the-art software. The course is designed to accommodate students from a variety of research backgrounds, and with no previous GIS experience. The goal is to provide students with a theoretical understanding of spatial data and analysis concepts, and to introduce the practical tools needed to create and manage spatial data, perform spatial analysis, and communicate results including (but not limited to) the form of a well-designed map. Assignments require the use of the ArcInfo version of ESRI's ArcGIS software and extensions, and are designed to encourage proper research design, independent analysis, and problem solving. By the end of the course, successful students should be able to apply what they have learned to their own research, to learn new functions on their own, and have the necessary preparation to continue in more advanced GIS courses should they wish to do so. Classes consist of a two-hour lecture each week, which integrate live software demonstrations to illustrate the linkages between theory and practice.

This course is designed for graduate students in a workshop format with a focus on both theories and applications of space-time data analysis and visualization. Topics may include space-time data collection, processing, analysis, and visualization, as well as theories and applications of up-to-date GIS analysis methods and the newly developed data mining techniques. Gaining practical experience using real-world datasets, students will learn the necessary knowledge and various tools for space-time data analysis and visualization. The course encompasses theoretical instruction and practical training in GIS programming and software with the use of multiple space-time datasets that may include GPS trajectory data, Geotagged social media data, and others.

This is a self-directed research project Geographic Information Systems. Consult the Department for eligibility and enrolment procedures.

Special Topics course that can be completed with any Geography and Planning faculty.

Special Topics course that can be completed with any Geography and Planning faculty.

This seminar seeks first to explore issues related generally to understanding the relationship of religious belief and practice to the politics of a liberal state and second to apply these understandings to understanding the place of Islam and Muslims in liberal states.

This seminar will explore the regulatory framework governing international trading relations. It will begin with the economic theory of international trade and in particular the case for free trade, then examine the politics of trade policy and objections and sources of opposition to free trade. The following topics will be examined: international economic institutions, the GATT/WTO multilateral trade law regime, the principles of non-discrimination (most favoured nation and national treatment), preferential trade agreements, special and differential treatment for developing countries, antidumping regulation, subsidies and countervailing duties, safeguards, adjustment assistance, trade and agriculture, trade in services and migration, trade-related investment measures, trade-related intellectual property rights, trade and health and safety standards, trade and the environment, trade and labour standards, and human rights.

This seminar will examine the role of law and institutions in promoting development in less developed countries. The topics that will be addressed include: competing conceptions of development: economic, political, and social; theories of economic growth; the New Institutional Economics; democracy and development; public administration and development; competing theories of the role of law in development; ethnic diversity; corruption; land and property rights reform; infrastructure and development; state-owned enterprises: privatization and reform; foreign investment and trade policy; and the role of foreign aid and international institutions in development.

This seminar in theory will explore the modern history of the concept of 'fanaticism' and its role in the development of political modernity. A focus on the concept of the "fanatic" (and its cognates) from the perspective of its various uses in political and religious thought from the Early Modern period through the Enlightenment and up to the present day, provides a fascinating opportunity for a critical review of the secular, rationalist, and scientific assumptions underwriting modern political forms and concepts, especially those of liberal democracy. At the same time, the course will offer critical insight into the ways in which religious and political differences among colonial "others" were, and continue to be, central to the elaboration of Western theoretical discourse on fanaticism and extremism as forms of "political pathology."

This seminar in theory examines the postsecular as a series of questions opened by the so-called return of religion to public debate, the rise of politicized religious movements, and the limits of liberal democracy's ability to respond to the challenge of religion and religious otherness. The course will examine the debates on religion’s public, political role as articulated by thinkers such as Habermas, Rawls, Brown, Zizek, et al by focusing on politically radical or revolutionary challenges to liberalism that are grounded upon or draw their inspiration from religious traditions, doctrines and practices. We will focus especially on challenges emerging from the colonial and post-colonial world in response to colonialism and the globalization of liberal democracy and capitalism, from thinkers such as Ghandi, Qutb, Ali Shariati, Gutierrez, recent contributions by postcolonial theorists to a 'postsecular' debate that is dominated by Western thought, as well as examining forms of globalized 'fundamentalist' thought.

Specialty courses taught by rotating instructors on topics in Comparative Politics. Consult the departmental website for details on annual offerings.

Law in the governance of Russia, in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, including constitutional development, courts, business disputes, crime and criminal justice, corruption, cultural obstacles to legal order, and legal transition in comparative perspective. Given by the Department of Political Science and the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.

Specialty courses taught by rotating instructors on topics in Comparative Politics. Consult the departmental website for details on annual offerings.

This joint course offered by the Graduate Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Public Health Sciences provides an overview of foundational principles in the field of pharmacoepidemiology, from drug development and drug utilization research to drug safety and effectiveness studies that employ common pharmacoepidemiologic study designs. Students will develop foundational knowledge and skills in the field of pharmacoepidemiology. Each topic will include discussions that consider views from multiple perspectives from academia, government, healthcare professionals, industry, and patients. Experience will be gained through practice exercises and assignments, class discussions, and small group exercises.

This is an advanced-level graduate seminar course in the ethics of public health. This is distinct from the ethics in public health, and the course attempts to give students some familiarity with some of the most important ethical issues facing those engaged in public health research (health promotion, disease prevention, and epidemiological and biostatistical research). Students will be able to identify, articulate and analyze ethical issues arising from public health, and to formulate critical and well-reasoned ethical arguments.

This course is designed to introduce students to laboratory approaches to phonetics and phonology using examples from Romance, particularly French and Spanish. We will begin by providing the necessary theoretical background to undertake experimental studies via an overview of laboratory phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface, and phonetic theories of speech production and perception. Once presented, these theories will be illustrated with topics in first and second language acquisition, language contact, and sound variation and change.

This graduate course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and practice of qualitative inquiry in health research. Learners will examine the philosophical assumptions and paradigms underpinning qualitative research, common methods of data generation, elements of study design, and reflexive data analysis. Attention will be paid throughout to the intersection between ontology, epistemology, methodology, and method. The course provides opportunities to attain practical, hands-on experience with critical evaluation, reflexivity, developing research questions, data generation, and data analysis.

The purpose of this course is to examine the relationship between ideologies and practices of language and nation, from the period of the rise of the nation-State in the 19th century to current social changes related to the globalized new economy which challenge prevailing ideas about language and nation. We will focus in particular on language as a technique of regimentation, which helps produce and police populations; and as a terrain of struggle over access to and legitimation of relations of authority, power and inequality. We will examine European nationalism and its ties to colonialism, industrial capitalism, liberal democracy and modernity. We will then move to reactions to it in the form of linguistic minority movements, international auxiliary languages, fascism (in particular Nazism), and Communism. We will then touch briefly on the post WWII period, and focus the rest of the course on contemporary conditions of late capitalism, since the late 1980s, with a focus on the commodification of language and identity in the current economy; language and globalization; and current debates on the ecology of language and language endangerment. Throughout we will also examine the role of linguists, anthropologists and other producers of discourse about language, nation and State in the construction of theories of nation, ethnicity, race and citizenship.

This course will examine how attitudes towards human nature and non-human nature have changed over the period from Mesolithic times until the present, in Western society. By reading and discussing historical arguments and contemporary documents we will attempt to uncover the underlying assumptions about the world that were characteristic of different periods in the history of Western culture. The underlying question is whether contemporary concerns about sustainability require fundamental changes in the way we conceive of ourselves and our environment.

This course covers basic surface physical chemistry relevant to applied science and engineering materials. Among the topics covered are: Surface structures of both crystalline and non-crystalline materials — relaxation, surface electronic structure — work function, band structure, interfacial phenomena, surface thermodynamics, the Gibbs construct, double layer theory, micellular structure, surface kinetics, catalysis, adsorption, adhesion and wetting. This is a companion course to JTC1135H, which covers analytical techniques for the study of surfaces and interfaces.

There is no single or simple analytical technique for the study of surfaces and interfaces. Multiple techniques are available, each limited in what it can reveal. A knowledge of most current analytical techniques, their strengths and limitations, is the main material delivered in this course. The fundamentals of the techniques will be presented sufficient to understand the techniques; the material will be presented in the context of relevant technological problems, including individual projects.

This course presents an introduction to the science of biomaterials, focusing on polymeric biomaterials and biocompatibility. Topics include biomaterial surface analysis, hydrogel rheology and swelling, protein adsorption, cell adhesion and migration, and the foreign body response. Primary focus is on implantable biomaterials but some attention will be given to applications of biomaterials in biotechnology and drug delivery. Specific device or other examples as well as the research literature will be used to illustrate the topic at hand.

The anthropological perspective of the ethnography of communication will be adopted to study the relationship between language use, social relations, culture and learning in and out of schools. The course will deal with the nature and origin of cultural differences in language use and patterns and social interactional styles; with the consequences of those differences for school performance; and with the usefulness of the ethnography of communication as both a research and a pedagogical tool in the development of curricula and teaching practices that account for such differences. The ethnography of communication will also be interpreted in the light of political economic perspectives on the issue of sociolinguistic diversity and educational success.

The course examines psychological and psychosocial issues related to sport concussion. It reviews the development of sport neuropsychology, and identifies theory, research, and best practice in the management of sport-related concussions from its roots to the latest consensus statement. Current trends in empirical research and its implications for clinical practice and return to play are emphasized.

The objective of the course is for students to develop of a comprehensive knowledge of the neural networks underlying the processes of perception and action from the micro to the macroscopic levels. Topics include: neural anatomy and physiology, neurotransmitters, cortical and subcortical structures of the central nervous system, and neurophysiological techniques employed to study the structure and function of the human nervous system. Students will then use the principles and theories uncovered during the course to develop an appreciation of neural dysfunctions leading to a cognitive or motor disorder of their choosing.

Skeletal muscle is an extremely plastic tissue capable of altering its structure and function to a range of physiological stimuli. This course will discuss how changes in activity (either exercise or disuse) contribute to the remodelling of skeletal muscle. An emphasis will also be placed on understanding the role nutrition plays in enhancing the recovery from and/or adaptation to exercise. Populations to be discussed may include recreationally active individuals, elite and sub-elite athletes, and/or special populations (e.g. older adults). Focus will be placed on understanding the role protein metabolism plays in the dynamic remodeling of this tissue.

This course seeks to further our understanding of psychosocial aspects of sport participation and competition. Main outcomes include: a) developing an awareness of the foundational areas of sport psychology research and theory; b) critically examining the theory and methods used in sport psychology research; c) understanding the theoretical bases of sport psychology intervention/applications; and d) developing skills related to academic writing, presentation, and critical thinking. The course will consist of faculty-led sessions and student-led sessions. All sessions will include some lecturing, however, the emphasis will be placed on student participation and discussion of assigned readings.