Black and African Diaspora Studies Selectives
In addition to the required courses identified for each program (Honours, Major and Minor) students are required to take selectives from three groupings or buckets. Not all selectives may be offered every year, but given the number of options, students will have more than an adequate selection, choosing selectives aligned with their interests, and in meeting their degree requirements.
Group A: African Diaspora and the Black Atlantic Experience
To expose students to diverse experiences of people of African descent living within the diaspora.
ENGL 2210.03: Introduction to the African Diaspora
ENGL/GWST 3088.03: African Caribbean Women Writers
ENGL 4885.03: Afrofuturism
ENGL 4946.03: The Black Atlantic Goes Pop
FILM 3353.03: Topics in Black and African Diaspora Cinema
FREN 2022.03: Langue et culture: Litérature et cinema des Antilles
FREN 3150.03: Aspects de la Francophonie
HIST 2714.03: Slaving and Slavery in Global History
HIST 3380.03: Slavery and Freedom in the Americas
HLTH 2000.03: Centering Black Canadian Health
MUSC 2020.03: History of Jazz
MUSC 4375.03: African American Music
PHIL 2165.03: Philosophy and the Black Experience
B: History, Society and Cultures of Africa
To educate students about the multifaceted experience of peoples and nations in Africa, in the past and present.
HIST 2425.03: Africa Disclosed: The Patterns of Africa’s Early History
HIST 2426.03: Africa Since 1900: Disruption and Innovation
HIST 3430.03: The Making of Colonial Africa
HIST 3435.03: The Rise and Fall of African Slavery
HIST 3452.03: Apartheid and After
HIST 3470.03: Wars and Revolutions in 19th Century Africa
HIST 3471.03: Wars and Revolutions in Modern Africa
HIST 4400.03: Topics in African History: Independence and Nationalism
HIST 4401.03: State Violence, Communal Conflict, and Criminality in Modern South Africa
HIST 4475.03: African Intellectuals and the Modern Experience
INTD 2106.03: Africa: An Introduction
POLI 3315.03: African Politics
C: Race, Ethnicity and Migration
To provide important context because studies of race, ethnicity and migration inform and are informed by the study of these phenomena in the Black and African Diaspora.
CTMP 2115.03: The Idea of Race in Philosophy, Literature, and Art
ENGL 2090.03: Literature, Migration and Citizenship
ENGL 3086.03: Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 4803.03: Race and Gender in American Fiction
HIST 2006.03: The Atlantic World, 1450-1650
HIST 2007.03: The Atlantic World, 1650-1800
MUSC 2018.03: The Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll
MUSC 2019.03: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Era and Beyond
PHIL 2450.03: Democracy, Difference and Citizenship
PHIL 4700.03: Philosophy of Race
SOSA 3016.03: Colonialism and the Body
SOSA 3206.03: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Race
SOSA 3215.03: Migration and Identity