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DEVS-G-BA
Subject: Administered by the Department of Global Development Studies.
Plan: Consists of 30.00 units as described below
Program: The Plan, with sufficient electives to total 90.00 units, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Note: Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2023-2024 Calendar for the previous requirements.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Core | ||
| A. Complete 6.00 units from the following: | 6.00 | |
| Canada and the "Third World" | ||
| or | ||
| Development Studies in Global Perspective and Canada in the World | ||
| or | ||
DEVS 105/3.00* and 3.00 units from DEVS at the 200-level or above | ||
| B. Complete 3.00 units of the following: | 3.00 | |
| Introduction to Indigenous Studies | ||
| Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives | ||
| C. Complete 6.00 units from the following: | 6.00 | |
| The Global Political Economy of Development | ||
| Decolonizing Development | ||
| Environmental Transformations | ||
| Globalization, Gender, and Development | ||
| 2. Option | ||
| A. Complete 9.00 units from the following: | 9.00 | |
DEVS at the 200-level or above | ||
| B. Complete 6.00 units from the following: | 6.00 | |
DEVS at the 200-level or above | ||
DEVS_Eligible at the 200-level or above | ||
| Electives | ||
| Elective Courses | 60.00 | |
| Total Units | 90.00 | |
3. Notes
A. Non-DEVS courses from the DEVS_Eligible course list are offered through other departments and may be subject to availability; DEVS students may not have enrolment priority.
B. A maximum of 6.00 units from courses offered by other Faculties and Schools may be counted toward the program and/or Plan requirements. This includes courses in BMED, COMM, GLPH, HSCI, LAW, NURS, and courses offered by Smith Engineering.
Global Development Studies Course List
The following lists contain courses offered through other Departments. Most courses have more than thematic or regional connection to Global Development Studies. Students are encouraged to consult course outlines and course descriptions for more information. In accordance with Academic Regulation 2.6 (Access to Classes), students do not have enrolment priority in all of these courses. Access to these courses may be made available during the Open Enrolment period, and then only if space permits.
DEVS_Eligible
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Courses Eligible for Global Development Studies Plans | ||
| ARTH 260 | Culture and Conflict | 3.00 |
| ARTH 272 | Latin American Art | 3.00 |
| ARTH 277 | Artists and Artisans in South Asia | 3.00 |
| ARTH 348 | Arts of the Artic | 3.00 |
| ARTH 372 | Art of Colonial Latin America | 3.00 |
| ARTH 378 | Global Textiles | 3.00 |
| ARTH 383 | The City | 3.00 |
| ARTH 420 | Art and Activism | 3.00 |
| ARTH 434 | Non-Western Art in Western Collections | 3.00 |
| ARTH 472 | Art and Global Encounter in Asia, the Americas and Africa, 1492-1850 | 3.00 |
| BADR 200 | 3.00 | |
| CLST 309 | Caravan Cities of the Ancient Near East | 3.00 |
| COMM 407 | Critical Perspectives on Business: The Limits of Capitalism | 3.00 |
| DRAM 303 | Indigenous Playwrights | 3.00 |
| ECON 239 | Economic Development | 3.00 |
| ECON 244 | Economics of Indigenous Communities | 3.00 |
| ECON 280 | Population and Economic Change | 3.00 |
| ECON 290 | Environmental Economics and Assessment | 3.00 |
| ECON 325 | International Trade Policy | 3.00 |
| ECON 390 | Natural Resource Economics | 3.00 |
| ECON 425 | International Trade Theory and Policy | 3.00 |
| ECON 426 | International Macroeconomics | 3.00 |
| ECON 435 | Development Economics | 3.00 |
| ENGL 217 | Postcolonial Literatures | 3.00 |
| ENGL 218 | Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada | 3.00 |
| ENGL 259 | Global Shakespeare | 3.00 |
| ENGL 467 | Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature II | 3.00 |
| ENGL 476 | Topics in Postcolonial Literature I | 3.00 |
| ENGL 477 | Topics in Postcolonial Literature II | 3.00 |
| ENGL 481 | Topics in Indigenous Literatures I | 3.00 |
| ENGL 482 | Topics in Indigenous Literature II | 3.00 |
| ENSC 290 | Introduction to Ecological Economics | 3.00 |
| ENSC 315 | Sustainable Food Systems | 3.00 |
| ENSC 321 | Environmental Justice in Global Context | 3.00 |
| ENSC 390 | Sustainability | 3.00 |
| ENSC 407 | Global Water Resources: Challenges and Opportunities | 3.00 |
| FILM 303 | World Cinemas | 3.00 |
| FREN 351 | Ecrits de la Francophonie | 3.00 |
| GLPH 271 | Global and Population Health | 3.00 |
| GLPH 471 | Advanced Global and Population Health | 3.00 |
| GNDS 211 | Feminist Histories | 3.00 |
| GNDS 212 | Racism, Colonialism, and Resistance | 3.00 |
| GNDS 215 | Introduction to Sexual and Gender Diversity | 3.00 |
| GNDS 311 | Feminist Thought | 3.00 |
| GNDS 312 | Black Feminist Thought: An Introduction | 3.00 |
| GNDS 320 | HIV/AIDS Movements: Histories of Community Health Activism | 3.00 |
| GNDS 325 | Indigenous Meanings of Reproduction and Health | 3.00 |
| GNDS 330 | Gender and the Global South | 3.00 |
| GNDS 340 | Indigenous Women, Feminism, and Resistance | 3.00 |
| GNDS 352 | Gender, Cloth, and Globalization | 3.00 |
| GNDS 375 | Queer/Race Studies | 3.00 |
| GNDS 401 | Debates on Feminism and Islam | 3.00 |
| GNDS 432 | Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Politics | 3.00 |
| GPHY 228 | Geographies of the Global Political Economy | 3.00 |
| GPHY 254 | The Caribbean in Globalizing World | 3.00 |
| GPHY 327 | The Geographical Imagination | 3.00 |
| GPHY 351 | Geographies of Indigenous and Settler Relations | 3.00 |
| GPHY 365 | Geography, Development, and Environment in the 'Third World' | 3.00 |
| GPHY 368 | Environments and Society | 3.00 |
| HIST 200 | India and the World | 3.00 |
| HIST 207 | Global Indigenous Histories | 3.00 |
| HIST 214 | Food in Global History | 3.00 |
| HIST 217 | Indigenous Peoples and New France, 1534-1800 | 3.00 |
| HIST 252 | Africa in the Modern World | 3.00 |
| HIST 258 | Slavery in North America from the Colonial Era to 1865 | 3.00 |
| HIST 267 | The (Un) Making of the Modern Middle East | 3.00 |
| HIST 270 | Contemporary China | 3.00 |
| HIST 273 | New Imperialism | 3.00 |
| HIST 285 | Latin America to 1850: The Colonial Experience | 3.00 |
| HIST 286 | Latin America from 1850 to Today: The Modern Era | 3.00 |
| HIST 288 | The Rise of the British Empire | 3.00 |
| HIST 294 | Arab-Israeli Conflict and Regional Security | 3.00 |
| HIST 296 | The Making of the Muslim Middle East (550-1350 C.E.) | 3.00 |
| HIST 298 | Imperial China | 3.00 |
| HIST 299 | China Since 1800 | 3.00 |
| HIST 318 | Modern East Asia | 6.00 |
| HIST 337 | Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire | 3.00 |
| HIST 344 | Insiders/Outsiders: Jewish Identity in the New World | 3.00 |
| HIST 442 | New World Societies | 3.00 |
| HIST 446 | Gender, Sexuality, and Race in South Asia | 3.00 |
| HIST 461 | Race and Ethnicity in Latin America | 3.00 |
| HIST 462 | Social History of Modernizing Latin America 1860 to 1960 | 3.00 |
| HIST 467 | First Nations of North America | 3.00 |
| HIST 498 | China's Revolutions, 1911-1949 | 3.00 |
| HIST 499 | China Since 1949 | 3.00 |
| HLTH 350 | Topics in Global Health | 3.00 |
| IDIS 302 | Race and Racism | 3.00 |
| INDG 301 | Indigenous Ways of Knowing | 3.00 |
| INDG 302 | Indigenous Theories and Methodologies: Learning through Indigenous Worldviews | 3.00 |
| LAW 202 | Aboriginal Law | 3.00 |
| LLCU 205 | Investigating Cultures | 3.00 |
| LLCU 206 | Rebel Cities | 3.00 |
| LLCU 209 | Rio de Janeiro: the Marvelous City | 3.00 |
| LLCU 244 | Hips Don't Lie? Music and Culture in Latin America | 3.00 |
| LLCU 248 | Introduction to Latin American Cultures | 3.00 |
| LLCU 249 | Latin Lovers: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture | 3.00 |
| LLCU 270 | Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics | 3.00 |
| LLCU 302 | Unsettling: Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Settler Colonialism | 3.00 |
| LLCU 326 | Film in the New Europe | 3.00 |
| LLCU 328 | Gender, Development, and Film in Latin America | 3.00 |
| LLCU 354 | Women's Voices in Latin America | 3.00 |
| LLCU 358 | Film and Politics in Argentina | 3.00 |
| LLCU 370 | Indigenous Women and Power | 3.00 |
| LLCU 432 | Field Research Practicum at Fudan University | 6.00 |
| MECH 333 | Gender, Engineering and Technology | 3.00 |
| MUSC 289 | Global Musics | 3.00 |
| MUSC 486 | Area Studies in Ethnomusicology | 3.00 |
| PHIL 247 | Practical Ethics | 3.00 |
| PHIL 324 | Africana Philosophy II | 3.00 |
| POLS 241 | Comparative Politics: Transformations | 3.00 |
| POLS 242 | Comparative Politics: Contemporary Regimes | 3.00 |
| POLS 261 | International Politics | 3.00 |
| POLS 262 | International Political Economy | 3.00 |
| POLS 320 | Indigenous Politics | 3.00 |
| POLS 341 | Chinese Politics | 3.00 |
| POLS 342 | Latin American Politics | 3.00 |
| POLS 346 | Development Theory | 3.00 |
| POLS 347 | The Politics of Africa | 3.00 |
| POLS 348 | Middle East Politics | 3.00 |
| POLS 358 | Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalism | 3.00 |
| POLS 361 | Regional International Organization | 3.00 |
| POLS 364 | International Peace and Security | 3.00 |
| POLS 366 | The United Nations | 3.00 |
| POLS 395 | Topics in International Political Economy | 3.00 |
| POLS 440 | The Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism | 3.00 |
| POLS 442 | Latin American Politics | 3.00 |
| POLS 443 | Gender and Globalization | 3.00 |
| POLS 445 | Dialectics of Development | 3.00 |
| POLS 457 | Issues in Global Justice | 3.00 |
| POLS 461 | International Regimes | 3.00 |
| POLS 466 | Politics of War in Africa | 3.00 |
| POLS 467 | International Political Economy | 3.00 |
| POLS 468 | The International Relations of the Middle East | 3.00 |
| POLS 471 | Politics and Science in Technological Societies | 3.00 |
| POLS 484 | The Politics of Globalization | 3.00 |
| RELS 200 | Religion and Global Development | 3.00 |
| RELS 212 | Mythology of the Ancient Near East | 3.00 |
| RELS 222 | The Hindu World | 3.00 |
| RELS 223 | Buddhism | 3.00 |
| RELS 224 | Taoism | 3.00 |
| RELS 226 | Islam | 3.00 |
| RELS 227 | Indigenous Religious Traditions | 3.00 |
| RELS 229 | Confucianism | 3.00 |
| RELS 257 | Indigenous Sages and Wisdoms | 3.00 |
| RELS 322 | Yoga in India and the West | 3.00 |
| RELS 326 | Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies | 3.00 |
| RELS 332 | Race, Ethnicity, and Religion | 3.00 |
| RELS 393 | Buddhism in the Modern World | 3.00 |
| RELS 394 | Religion and Politics in Contemporary China | 3.00 |
| RELS 396 | Islam in the Modern World | 3.00 |
| SOCY 225 | Sociology of Globalization | 3.00 |
| SOCY 235 | Race and Racialization | 3.00 |
| SPAN 351 | Panorama literario latinoaméricano I | 3.00 |
| SPAN 352 | Panorama literario latinoaméricano II | 3.00 |
| SPAN 354 | Voces femeninas en America Latina | 3.00 |
| SPAN 428 | Gender, Development and Film in Latin America | 3.00 |
| SPAN 458 | Film y Politica en Argentina | 3.00 |