Arts

McGill University

4 / 3 years
Duration (years)
4 years from U0; 3 years from U1 with sufficient advanced standing
McGill Arts OASIS: U0 four-year and U1 three-year BA routes
Work experience details
Work experience
Optional supervised Arts internships; Science IP is restricted to six named BA majors.
McGill Arts · actual supervised internship structure
~High 80s to low 90s
Entering average
Published approximate guidance: High 80s to low 90s. Guidance checked November 2026. Typical minimum Top 6 and English or French marks for Ontario high-school Arts entry.
McGill undergraduate admissions: Ontario high-school requirements

Deadlines

November 2026

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun

2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30

Next deadlineSunday, November 1, 2026

Arts January intake applications
Winter 2027 entry · Eligible CEGEP applicants only
Official deadline

Other deadline details

March 1Advanced Level supporting documentsFall 2027 entry

Applicants using the Advanced Level route
March 1

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

March 1International Baccalaureate supporting documentsFall 2027 entry

Applicants using the standalone IB Diploma route
March 1

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

April 1 to May 15Ontario mandatory grade self-reportingFall 2027 entry

Ontario high-school applicants in Canada
April 1 to May 15
Unless already admitted or refused in the first round, or exempt from self-reporting

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

May 4Ontario supporting documentsFall 2027 entry

Ontario high-school applicants in Canada
May 4
Upload items requested in the Applicant Portal
Grade self-reporting has a separate window

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

May 4Other Canadian high-school supporting documentsFall 2027 entry

Canadian high-school applicants in Canada outside Ontario and Quebec
May 4

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

March 1 to May 1Other Canadian mandatory grade self-reportingFall 2027 entry

Canadian high-school applicants in Canada outside Ontario and Quebec
March 1 to May 1

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

April 15Quebec supporting documentsFall 2027 entry

Quebec CEGEP, college and high-school applicants, where documents are requested
April 15

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

March 1U.S. supporting documentsFall 2027 entry

U.S. high-school applicants, where documents are requested
March 1

SourceChecked Nov 9, 2026

Requirements

Admission requirements

High-school prerequisites

ENG4U / FRA4UGrade 12 core English or French

Obtain the Ontario Secondary School Diploma before classes begin.
Complete at least six 4U, DU or 4M courses, including at least four 4U/DU courses. All prerequisites must be 4U/DU; at most two 4M courses may count.
Include a core Grade 12 U English or French course. English/French second-language courses do not satisfy this prerequisite.
Required mathematics and science courses must have been completed within five years.
Required prerequisites count in the top-six admission calculation. Only the published eligible technology, physical education and performing arts courses may count.
Complete the Ontario Secondary School Diploma and six Grade 12 4U, DU or 4M courses. At least four and all prerequisites must be 4U or DU. McGill includes prerequisites in its Top 6 calculation.

Application steps

Entry terms · Fall / Winter

September 2027 entry. January 2027 BA entry was limited to eligible CEGEP applicants.

Step 1Check the admission requirements
- Check the published entry route for your applicant category.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines
Step 2Apply through McGill admissions
- Create your application and select this program.
McGill admissionsMcGill admissions
Step 3Ontario applicants: self-reported grades and transcript
- Ontario high school applicants in Canada normally self-report through the Applicant Portal and upload an unofficial transcript. Exceptions include Ontario schooling outside Canada, high school completed over five years ago and specified partial Canadian-school histories. The portal gives the applicable route.
McGill Ontario applicant documentationMcGill Ontario applicant documentation
Step 4English proficiency results when no exemption applies
- Applicants who have lived and attended school for at least four years in a country where English is the acknowledged primary language are exempt. Otherwise submit official accepted test results unless another published exemption applies.
McGill Ontario applicant English-proof conditionsMcGill Ontario applicant English-proof conditions
Step 5Apply through McGill’s undergraduate application.
- Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines
Step 6Upload an unofficial transcript; provide official results when required by your checklist.
- Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines
Step 7Check whether English proficiency evidence is required. Programme-specific extras, scholarship/financial-aid requests and extenuating circumstances have separate documentation.
- Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines
Step 8The central page names Population & Global Health, Dietetics, Education, Global Engineering, Music, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Religious Studies and Social Work as choices with extra requirements. This common review does not certify their separate checklists or imply a universal CASPer, French test, reference or personal statement.
- Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines
Step 9Apply directly through McGill’s undergraduate application.
- Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines
Step 10Choose Arts or the applicable Science group and pay the application fee.
- Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
McGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlinesMcGill Ontario high-school requirements and deadlines

Applicant pathways

Ontario diploma and admission calculation

Ontario high-school applicants completing school in Canada; faculty and programme-specific exceptions below

Obtain the Ontario Secondary School Diploma before classes begin.
Complete at least six 4U, DU or 4M courses, including at least four 4U/DU courses. All prerequisites must be 4U/DU; at most two 4M courses may count.
Include a core Grade 12 U English or French course. English/French second-language courses do not satisfy this prerequisite.
Required mathematics and science courses must have been completed within five years.
Required prerequisites count in the top-six admission calculation. Only the published eligible technology, physical education and performing arts courses may count.

Required grade self-reporting and transcript upload

Ontario high-school applicants completing school in Canada; faculty and programme-specific exceptions below

All applicants are required to self-report their grades using the designated form accessible through your McGill Applicant Portal . You will also be required to upload an unofficial copy of your transcript. See the 'Self-reporting your grades' section below. You will NOT be asked to submit your OUAC number unless you have been offered admission.
Proof of English proficiency Applicants who have lived and attended school, for at least four years, in a country where English is the acknowledged primary language, are not required to provide further proof of English proficiency. If this is not the case, official test results will be required by the supporting document deadline. Please consult Proof of English Proficiency for accepted tests and other exemptions.

Self-reporting exceptions

Applicants meeting one of these specifically published exceptions

You are completing (or have completed) an Ontario high school diploma from outside Canada.
You completed high school more than 5 years ago.
You are completing (or have completed) only one year of high school in Canada.
You are completing (or have completed) one year of high school in Ontario and previously attended high school in Quebec.
You are completing (or have completed) Ontario Grade 12 in Quebec.
You have completed or are completing less than a total of ten academic courses in Grade 11 and 12.

English-language proof

Applicants who do not meet a published exemption

Applicants who have lived and attended school, for at least four years, in a country where English is the acknowledged primary language, are not required to provide further proof of English proficiency.
If this is not the case, official test results will be required by the supporting document deadline. Please consult Proof of English Proficiency for accepted tests and other exemptions.
Additional supporting documents Certain programs will require additional supporting documents . These could be proof of French proficiency, CASPer test results, recommendation letters, personal statement, or other documents; the requirements will be different depending on the program you are applying to. If your program choice is listed below, please carefully verify the additional requirement(s): You have applied to B.A. Population & Global Health, Education, Global Engineering, Music, Nursing, and/or Religious Studies You have applied for a Major Entrance Scholarship and/or Financial Aid You selected ‘ Extenuating Circumstances ’ on the application for admission If none of the above apply, additional supporting documents are not considered in the admission review and should not be submitted.

Arts: required Ontario subjects

Ontario high-school applicants completing school in Canada; faculty and programme-specific exceptions below

4U English or French

Arts Ontario subjects and historical grades

Ontario high-school applicants in Canada

Complete Grade 12 core English or French. Second-language English or French does not satisfy this requirement.
McGill’s Ontario admissions page reports High 80s to low 90s in the Top 6 and core language as past admission guidance. McGill does not publish a guaranteed Fall 2027 cutoff.

Canadian high school outside Ontario and Quebec

Canadian high-school applicants completing school in Canada outside Ontario and Quebec

Complete a high-school diploma and present the top five academic Grade 12 courses. Include English or French according to the school’s language of instruction.
McGill’s Canadian admissions page reports High 80s to low 90s in the Top 5 and mid to high 80s in core language as past admission guidance. McGill does not publish a guaranteed Fall 2027 cutoff.

Full International Baccalaureate Diploma

Applicants assessed on the full IB Diploma

McGill reviews the full Diploma with the school transcript and predicted or final IB results.
McGill’s IB admissions page reports 33–36 of 42 subject points as past admission guidance. McGill does not publish a guaranteed Fall 2027 cutoff.

U.S. high school

U.S. high-school applicants assessed on their U.S. diploma

Complete high-school English.
For Fall 2027, applicants to this degree may choose to exclude SAT and ACT results. Eligible U.S. high-school applicants studying in the U.S. self-report grades in the Applicant Portal.

Advanced Levels

Applicants assessed on Advanced Levels or equivalent

Present three A-Levels in different subjects or the eligible two A-Level and two AS subject combination. Maths and Further Maths count as one subject.

University transfer

Applicants assessed on prior university study

Transfer admission is competitive. No specific prerequisite courses are listed for the general BA.

Quebec CEGEP

Applicants completing a Quebec pre-university DEC

Complete the DEC and English 603, or French 601 for applicants from a French CEGEP. McGill publishes 27.5 overall and 26.0 core language R-scores as admissions guidance.
McGill recommends additional courses for some Arts routes, including Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics and Psychology. Psychology and Population and Global Health have separate applications.

Separate Arts applications

Applicants pursuing BA Psychology or Population and Global Health

Apply separately to these routes. Population and Global Health also requires supplementary documentation. McGill does not list that supplement for general Arts.

January 2027 Arts intake

Eligible CEGEP applicants only

January 2027 BA applications were open to eligible CEGEP applicants only. The deadline was November 1, 2026.

Degree requirements

Credits and degree requirements

BA degree: 120 credits including advanced-standing credit. U0 entrants have fewer than 24 advanced-standing credits; U1 entrants have at least 24.
Complete at least 60 credits at McGill and at least two-thirds of each departmental program at McGill.

References

Grades and academic standing

Graduate with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. Individual honours routes may require more.
Complete the Foundation Program if entering in U0. Foundation core courses require a grade of C or better.

References

Program facts

Entering average~High 80s to low 90s

Typical minimum Top 6 and English or French marks for Ontario high-school Arts entry.

InternshipWork experience details

Check work experience options

Majors & specializations

Apply to the Faculty of Arts. Major concentrations are selected within the BA.

African Studies

Published requirements

Courses

Separate study choices within this entry program. Each course block belongs to its named choice; it is not required of every student in the degree.

Anthropology5 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Anthropology Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ANTH 352History of Anthropological Theory3 credits
Exploration in the history of anthropological theory; schools, controversies, intellectual history, sociology of knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 355Theories of Culture and Society3 credits
Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 357Archaeological Methods3 credits
The collection of materials in field investigations and their analysis to yield cultural information. The processes of inference and reconstruction in archaeological interpretation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 358The Process of Anthropological Research3 credits
The nature of anthropological research as evidenced in monographs and articles; processes of concept formation and interpretation of data; the problem of objectivity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 359History of Archaeological Theory3 credits
A systematic investigation of the theories that have guided the interpretation of prehistoric archaeological data since the Middle Ages; the relationship between these theories and theoretical developments in the other social sciences.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Art History46 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Art History Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ARTH 302Aspects of Canadian Art3 credits
An examination of selected subjects relevant to a specific period of art in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 305Methods in Art History3 credits
An introduction to the main methodologies used in the analysis of the work of art: formalism, iconography/iconology, semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism and postcolonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 315Indigenous Art and Culture3 credits
An examination of the work of selected First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 339Critical Issues - Contemporary Art3 credits
A critical examination of contemporary art from Abstract Expressionism to Pop art, Minimalism, Conceptual art, Land art, and Body art. Focuses on the development and critique of modernism, the dematerialization or art, the blurring of art and popular culture, the artist as shaman, temporality, and aesthetic redefinitions of subjectivity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 357Early Chinese Art3 credits
Survey of Chinese art and visual culture during the pre-imperial and early imperial periods (1500BCE-900CE). A wide range of visual images and media (painting, architecture, inscription, funerary art) will be examined in the historical context of the rise and development of the empire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 200Introduction to Art History 13 credits
Selected introductory survey of the history of art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 202Introduction to Contemporary Art3 credits
A critical survey of contemporary art and theory, from 1945 to the present focusing on pivotal issues such as anti-war politics, feminism, sexual diversity, AIDS awareness, discourse of multiculturalism, debates about modernism and postmodernism, post colonialism, technology, and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 204Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture3 credits
Surveys the arts from late Antiquity to the fourteenth century in Western Europe. Focuses on the body and space to introduce artistic and architectural concepts, practices, and styles from the late Roman, Byzantine and Carolingian empires to monastic and royal patronage of the French Kings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 205Introduction to Modern Art3 credits
The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 207Introduction Early Modern Art 1400-17003 credits
Surveys visual culture of early modern Europe across various social spheres and geographical locations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 209Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture3 credits
Survey of ancient art and architecture: pre-historic Europe, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Focus is on issues of political power, gender, sexuality, race, the formation of individual and group identities, and the relation between the body and social space.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 215Introduction to East Asian Art3 credits
Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 223Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-15003 credits
Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 225Introduction to Seventeenth - Century Art3 credits
Examines the functions and uses of a wide range of visual forms in relation to the European and global expansion of urbanism, absolutism, colonialism, capitalism, diplomacy, slavery, missionary activity, and religious conflict in the seventeenth century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 226Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture3 credits
Paintings, prints, sculpture and architecture produced in Europe in the 'long' eighteenth century, with an emphasis on major artists. Themes include the teaching of art and its display, the emergence of 'publics' for art, and eighteenth-century aesthetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 300Canadian Art to 19143 credits
Canadian art from the pre-contact period through the colonial and nation-building centuries until the onset of the First World War. Emphasis will be placed on the diverse cultural influences that have been brought into contact in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 310Postcolonialism3 credits
Examines selected art historians who respond to postcolonial theorists and analyse how paintings, sculpture, buildings, and visual culture participated in or resisted European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 314The Medieval City3 credits
Towns and cities in the Middle Ages as architectural entities, their urban planning and development; main building types, profane and ecclesiastical: castle, defence works, town halls, houses, cathedrals, churches and monasteries; the role architecture played in forming a society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 321Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic3 credits
Examination of the functions of visual culture in merchant capitalist society, and the changing status of art, artists and patrons after the Protestant reformation. A wide range of visual imagery (from Rembrandt and Vermeer to popular culture) will be linked with 17th-century economic, historic, religious, colonial, scientific and literary developments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 323Realism and Impressionism3 credits
The course is an investigation into Realism and Impressionism, the principal artistic movements between ca. 1840 - 1880.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 325Visual Culture Renaissance Venice3 credits
Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 326Studies in Manuscript and Print Culture3 credits
Positing a dynamic relationship between manuscript and print culture and social experience, this course focuses on new forms and uses for printed imagery before the electronic age. Issues to be addressed include: the relationship between word and image, reading and viewing practices and visual and textual transmission, the history of the book and the consequences of technological change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 336Art Now3 credits
Recent art practices from the 1980's to the present - installation art, new media arts (video, digital and internet art), recent developments in performance, photography, and painting. Introduces students to the key fields of research of current art: postmodernism, representation, visuality, identity, embodiment, sexuality, memory, (bio)technology, intermedia, and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 352Feminism in Art and Art History3 credits
A consideration of the impact of feminism on recent art history, focusing on the examination of gender constructions in art and theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 353Selected Topics in Art History 13 credits
Study of a special field in the History of Art and Architecture taught by a visiting scholar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 354Selected Topics Art History 23 credits
Study of a special field in the History of Art and Communications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 360Studies in the Photographic3 credits
The course provides an introduction to the history of photography while considering its relation to major movements in the history of painting from the time of the invention of photography, in 1839, to the present day.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 368Studies in Northern Renaissance Art 013 credits
ARTH 411Canadian Art and Race3 credits
Examination of impact of colonialism on Canadian art and visual culture from contact to the present. Emphasis will be placed on role of racial marginalization and privilege in issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 420Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 13 credits
An advanced study of selected topics in the History of Art and Architecture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 421Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 23 credits
Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 422Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 33 credits
Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 425Arts of Medieval Spain3 credits
This course examines the arts of medieval Spain from the late antique 'barbarian' invasions through the fifteenth century. Within this broad span, particular attention will be paid to key themes, including historiography, the centrality of pilgrimage for shaping artistic practice, and the concept of 'convivencia' among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 430Concepts - Discipline Art History3 credits
Methodologically focused examination of critical concepts for art historical study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 435Early Modern Visual Culture3 credits
A study of the works of Rubens, Van dick and Velasquez.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 440The Body and Visual Culture3 credits
An examination of modern and contemporary redefinitions of corporeality in art, theory and visual culture. The course focuses on the dissemination of the body in the context of late capitalism and ongoing developments of image, information and biotechnologies. Interdisciplinary perspective establishing a dialogue between art and science.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 447Independent Research Course3 credits
Supervised independent research on an approved topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 473Studies in 17th and Early 18th Century Art 043 credits
Studies in 17th and early 18th century art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 474Studies in Later 18th and 19th Century Art 033 credits
Studies in later 18th and early 19th-century art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 490Museum Internship3 credits
The Museum Internship is intended to provide direct exposure to museum collections and practical experience in the museum setting for students interested in museum professions. Individually designed in consultation with the professor in charge of internships and the appropriate personnel at one of the Montreal museums.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 501Advanced Topics in Art History and Visual Culture3 credits
Focused investigation of a special topic in the history of art and visual culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 502Advanced Topics in Art and Architectural History3 credits
Focused investigation of a special topic in the history of art and architecture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 250Architectural History 13 credits
The study of architecture and cities from ancient times to 1750.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 251Architectural History 23 credits
The study of North American architecture and cities from 1950 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 336Aesthetics3 credits
An introduction to issues central to aesthetic theory; the nature of aesthetic judgment, perception of the aesthetic object, the nature of the art object.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 436Aesthetics 23 credits
An advanced discussion of issues in aesthetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Computer Science17 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Computer Science Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

COMP 202Foundations of Programming3 credits
Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 206Introduction to Software Systems3 credits
Comprehensive overview of programming in C, use of system calls and libraries, debugging and testing of code; use of developmental tools like make, version control systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 250Introduction to Computer Science3 credits
Object oriented programming in Java: classes and objects, interfaces, inheritance. Data structures and abstract data types: arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary trees,binary search trees, heaps, hash tables, graphs. Recursive and non-recursive algorithms and their asymptotic complexity: searching and sorting, tree and graph traversal. Mathematical tools: induction, recurrence relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 251Algorithms and Data Structures3 credits
Data Structures: priority queues, balanced binary search trees, hash tables, graphs. Algorithms: topological sort, connected components, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, bipartite matching, network flows. Algorithm design: greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, randomization. Mathematicaltools: proofs of asymptotic complexity and program correctness, Master theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 273Introduction to Computer Systems3 credits
Number representations, combinational and sequential digital circuits, MIPS instructions and architecture datapath and control, caches, virtual memory, interrupts and exceptions, pipelining.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 240Discrete Structures3 credits
Introduction to discrete mathematics and applications. Logical reasoning and methods of proof. Elementary number theory and cryptography: prime numbers, modular equations, RSA encryption. Combinatorics: basic enumeration, combinatorial methods, recurrence equations. Graph theory: trees, cycles, planar graphs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 222Calculus 33 credits
Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 323Probability3 credits
Sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, Bayes' Theorem. Basic combinatorial probability, random variables, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions. Independence of random variables. Inequalities, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 324Statistics3 credits
Sampling distributions, including Normal, Chi-squared, Student’s t, and F distributions. Sampling properties of the sample mean and variance. Point estimation: bias, variance, mean squared error, consistency, sufficiency, UMVUE. Method of moments and maximum likelihood estimation. One- and two-sample inference. Confidence intervals and sample size determination. Hypothesis testing, Type 1 and Type 2 errors, power, and p-values. The Neyman Pearson framework and likelihood ratio tests. Linear models used as illustrative examples, linking them to topics in estimation and hypothesis testing. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and contingency tables.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 223Linear Algebra3 credits
Review of matrix algebra, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, linear operators and their matrix representations, orthogonality. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of Hermitian matrices. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 318Mathematical Logic3 credits
Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, Gödel's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 340Discrete Mathematics3 credits
Discrete Mathematics and applications. Graph Theory: matchings, planarity, and colouring. Discrete probability. Combinatorics: enumeration, combinatorial techniques and proofs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 330Theory of Computation3 credits
Finite automata, regular languages, context-free languages, push-down automata, models of computation, computability theory, undecidability, reduction techniques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 350Numerical Computing3 credits
Computer representation of numbers, IEEE Standard for Floating Point Representation, computer arithmetic and rounding errors. Numerical stability. Matrix computations and software systems. Polynomial interpolation. Least-squares approximation. Iterative methods for solving a nonlinear equation. Discretization methods for integration and differential equations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 360Algorithm Design3 credits
Advanced algorithm design and analysis. Linear programming, complexity and NP-completeness, advanced algorithmic techniques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 302Programming Languages and Paradigms3 credits
Programming language design issues and programming paradigms. Binding and scoping, parameter passing, lambda abstraction, data abstraction, type checking. Functional and logic programming.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 303Software Design3 credits
Principles, mechanisms, techniques, and tools for object-oriented software design and its implementation, including encapsulation, design patterns, and unit testing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Software Engineering18 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Software Engineering Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

COMP 202Foundations of Programming3 credits
Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 206Introduction to Software Systems3 credits
Comprehensive overview of programming in C, use of system calls and libraries, debugging and testing of code; use of developmental tools like make, version control systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 250Introduction to Computer Science3 credits
Object oriented programming in Java: classes and objects, interfaces, inheritance. Data structures and abstract data types: arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary trees,binary search trees, heaps, hash tables, graphs. Recursive and non-recursive algorithms and their asymptotic complexity: searching and sorting, tree and graph traversal. Mathematical tools: induction, recurrence relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 251Algorithms and Data Structures3 credits
Data Structures: priority queues, balanced binary search trees, hash tables, graphs. Algorithms: topological sort, connected components, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, bipartite matching, network flows. Algorithm design: greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, randomization. Mathematicaltools: proofs of asymptotic complexity and program correctness, Master theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 273Introduction to Computer Systems3 credits
Number representations, combinational and sequential digital circuits, MIPS instructions and architecture datapath and control, caches, virtual memory, interrupts and exceptions, pipelining.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 302Programming Languages and Paradigms3 credits
Programming language design issues and programming paradigms. Binding and scoping, parameter passing, lambda abstraction, data abstraction, type checking. Functional and logic programming.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 303Software Design3 credits
Principles, mechanisms, techniques, and tools for object-oriented software design and its implementation, including encapsulation, design patterns, and unit testing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 421Database Systems3 credits
Database Design: conceptual design of databases (e.g., entity-relationship model), relational data model, functional dependencies. Database Manipulation: relational algebra, SQL, database application programming, triggers, access control. Database Implementation: transactions, concurrency control, recovery, query execution and query optimization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 223Linear Algebra3 credits
Review of matrix algebra, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, linear operators and their matrix representations, orthogonality. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of Hermitian matrices. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 240Discrete Structures3 credits
Introduction to discrete mathematics and applications. Logical reasoning and methods of proof. Elementary number theory and cryptography: prime numbers, modular equations, RSA encryption. Combinatorics: basic enumeration, combinatorial methods, recurrence equations. Graph theory: trees, cycles, planar graphs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECSE 326Software Requirements Engineering3 credits
Techniques for eliciting requirements; languages and models for specification of requirements; analysis and validation techniques, including feature-based, goal-based, and scenario-based analysis; quality requirements; requirements traceability and management; handling evolution of requirements; requirements documentation standards; requirements in the context of system engineering; integration of requirements engineering into software engineering processes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECSE 437Software Delivery3 credits
Design, development, and implementation of code integration processes, release pipelines, and deployment strategies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECSE 539Advanced Software Language Engineering4 credits
Practical and theoretical knowledge for developing software languages and models; foundations for model-based software development; topics include principles of model-driven engineering; concern-driven development; intentional, structural, and behavioral models as well as configuration models; constraints; language engineering; domain-specific languages; metamodelling; model transformations; models of computation; model analyses; and modeling tools.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 322Introduction to C++1 credits
Basics and advanced features of the C++ language. Syntax, memory management, class structure, method and operator overloading, multiple inheritance, access control, stream I/O, templates, exception handling.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 361D1Software Engineering Project3 credits
Software development process in practice: requirement elicitation and analysis, software design, implementation, integration, test planning, and maintenance. Application of the core concepts and techniques through the realization of a large software system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 361D2Software Engineering Project3 credits
See COMP 361D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 529Software Architecture4 credits
Development, analysis, and maintenance of software architectures, with special focus on modular decomposition and reverse engineering.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 533Model-Driven Software Development3 credits
Model-driven software development; requirements engineering based on use cases and scenarios; object-oriented modelling using UML and OCL to establish complete and precise analysis and design documents; mapping to Java. Introduction to meta-modelling and model transformations, use of modelling tools.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

East Asian Studies117 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit East Asian Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

EAST 211Introduction: East Asian Culture: China3 credits
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 212Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan3 credits
An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 213Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea3 credits
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 215Introduction to East Asian Art3 credits
Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 216Introduction to Global Asia3 credits
Explores Asia as a global force shaped by migration, exchange, and transnational networks. Traces movements of people, ideas, and media;from Buddhist pilgrims and overseas students to diasporas and pop culture;revealing Asia’s central role in world history and contemporary globalization. Examines themes of nation, identity, race, gender, and translation through literature, history, theory, and film, highlighting how Asia has both shaped and been shaped by global interactions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 250Introduction to Asian Media Studies3 credits
The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 220D1First Level Korean4.5 credits
Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 220D2First Level Korean4.5 credits
See EAST 220D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 230D1First Level Chinese4.5 credits
Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 230D2First Level Chinese4.5 credits
See EAST 230D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 240D1First Level Japanese4.5 credits
Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 240D2First Level Japanese4.5 credits
See EAST 240D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 241Japanese Writing Beginners 13 credits
Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 242Japanese Writing Beginners 23 credits
Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 320D1Second Level Korean4.5 credits
The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 320D2Second Level Korean4.5 credits
See EAST 320D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 330D1Second Level Chinese4.5 credits
The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 330D2Second Level Chinese4.5 credits
See EAST 330D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 340D1Second Level Japanese4.5 credits
Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 340D2Second Level Japanese4.5 credits
See EAST 340D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 341Japanese Writing Intermediate 13 credits
Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 342Japanese Writing Intermediate 23 credits
Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 420Third Level Korean 13 credits
grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 430D1Third Level Chinese3 credits
A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 430D2Third Level Chinese3 credits
See EAST 430D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 440D1Third Level Japanese3 credits
More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 440D2Third Level Japanese3 credits
See EAST 440D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 530D1Fourth Level Chinese3 credits
Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 530D2Fourth Level Chinese3 credits
See EAST 530D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 533Classical Chinese 13 credits
An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 535Chinese for Business 13 credits
This course aims to provide advanced students of Chinese with training in the terminology and syntax necessary for business communications. Topics will include many different aspects of business negotiations, such as price negotiation, methods of payment, etc.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 536Chinese for Business 23 credits
This course is a continuation of EAST 535 . It is designed to further develop students' linguistic competence for business communication, and to provide students with some knowledge on China's trade policies as well as on different methods of trading with China.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 540D1Fourth Level Japanese3 credits
Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 540D2Fourth Level Japanese3 credits
See EAST 540D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 279Introduction to Film History3 credits
An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 303Current Topics: Chinese Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 304Current Topics: Chinese Studies 23 credits
Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 305Current Topics: Japanese Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 306Current Topics: Japanese Studies 23 credits
Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 307Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 13 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 308Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 23 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 313Current Topics: Korean Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 314Current Topics: Korean Studies 23 credits
Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 328Archaeology East Asian Empires3 credits
An examination of utilitarian and elite objects, art, architecture, cities and tombs from the early to medieval period dynastic states (ca. 221 BCE1-279 CE) to gain understandings of developments and changes in economic organization, art, religion, political orgranization, internal interactions, and external connections, along with both elite and commoner life based on recent archaeological discoveries and research. Issues in archaeological practices and theories, and the use of received texts to understand the past will also be examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 350Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature3 credits
Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 351Women Writers of China3 credits
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 352Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature3 credits
This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 353Approaches to Chinese Cinema3 credits
Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 361Animation and New Media3 credits
Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 362Japanese Cinema3 credits
This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 363Early and Medieval Japan3 credits
This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 364Mass Culture and Postwar Japan3 credits
This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 369Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media3 credits
In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 370History of Sexuality in Japan3 credits
Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 372Topics in Television: Asia3 credits
This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 375Korean Media and Popular Culture3 credits
This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 377Topics: Transnational Asian Culture3 credits
Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 388Asian Migrations and Diasporas3 credits
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 410Martial Tradition in Chinese Literature and Culture3 credits
China's martial tradition; themes such as war, revenge, justice, and the use of violence, alongside martial arts. Topics include: philosophical discourses on war, literary nationalism, and representations of these themes in literature, film, digital media, and games. Spanning from the 6th century BCE to the 20th century, the key periods and genres of Chinese literature and martial traditions beyond popular media.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 453Topics: Chinese Literature3 credits
Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 445Late Imperial China3 credits
Examination of Chinese society in the Ming and Qing eras (1368-1912) through the exploration of themes like gender and sexuality, family, law, ethnicity and borderlands, education, literary production, and political organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 454Topics: Chinese Cinema3 credits
Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 461Inventing Modern Japanese Novel3 credits
An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 462Japan in Asia3 credits
This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 464Image, Text, Performance3 credits
Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 467Topics: Japanese Cinema3 credits
Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 468Science and Technology: Asia3 credits
History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 477Media and Environment in Asia3 credits
The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 478Topics: Korean Film and Media3 credits
Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 491Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 13 credits
Advanced reading course in language or literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 492Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 23 credits
Advanced reading course in language or literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 493Special Topics: East Asian Studies 13 credits
Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 494Special Topics: East Asian Studies 23 credits
Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 501Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 13 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 502Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 23 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 503Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 13 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 504Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 23 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 505Advanced Topics in Korean Studies3 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 515Seminar: Beyond Orientalism3 credits
Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 525Critical Area Studies in Asia3 credits
The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 550Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres3 credits
A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 551Technologies of Self in Early China3 credits
Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 559Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature3 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 564Structures of Modernity: Asia3 credits
This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life; questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 569Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature3 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LLCU 279Introduction to Film History3 credits
An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 331Prehistory of East Asia3 credits
Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 500Chinese Diversity and Diaspora3 credits
Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 408Geography of Development3 credits
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 208Introduction to East Asian History3 credits
An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 218Modern East Asian History3 credits
An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 308Formation of Chinese Tradition3 credits
An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 338Twentieth-Century China3 credits
Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 358China's Middle Empires3 credits
Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 439History of Women in China3 credits
This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 441Topics: Culture and Ritual in China3 credits
An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 442Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas3 credits
The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 443Topics: Modern Japan3 credits
An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 445Late Imperial China3 credits
An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 508The Art of War in China3 credits
A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 568D1Topics in Chinese History3 credits
A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 568D2Topics in Chinese History3 credits
See HIST 568D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 578D1Seminar in Japanese History3 credits
Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 578D2Seminar in Japanese History3 credits
See HIST 578D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ORGB 380Cross Cultural Management3 credits
Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 349Foreign Policy: Asia3 credits
An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 253Religions of East Asia3 credits
This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 264Introductory Tibetan 13 credits
An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 265Introductory Tibetan 23 credits
A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 344Mahayana Buddhism3 credits
Investigation of Mahayana schools of thought based on reading of key sutras and commentarial literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 352Japanese Religions: History and Thought3 credits
This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 354Chinese Religions3 credits
Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 364Intermediate Tibetan 13 credits
Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 365Intermediate Tibetan 23 credits
Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 451Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art3 credits
A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 464Advanced Tibetan 13 credits
Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 465Advanced Tibetan 23 credits
Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Economics6 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Economics Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ECON 227D1Economic Statistics3 credits
Distributions, averages, dispersions, sampling, testing, estimation, correlation, regression, index numbers, trends and seasonals.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 227D2Economic Statistics3 credits
See ECON 227D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 230D1Microeconomic Theory3 credits
The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 230D2Microeconomic Theory3 credits
See ECON 230D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 332Macroeconomic Theory: Majors 13 credits
A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: the measurement of economic aggregates, economic growth, and the consumption-savings decision and other basic elements of a business cycle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 333Macroeconomic Theory - Majors 23 credits
A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: money and banking and business cycles, stabilization policy, and international finance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

English - Literature60 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit English - Literature Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ENGL 202Departmental Survey of English Literature 13 credits
A survey of English literature before 1750 for students registered in English programs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 203Departmental Survey of English Literature 23 credits
A survey of English literature after 1750 for students registered in English programs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 311Poetics3 credits
Discussion and application of basic critical tools for analysis of literature. Study of such features of poetry and prose fiction as prosody, diction, voice, tone, imagery, figurative language, point of view, narrative form, and character.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 228Canadian Literature 13 credits
A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 1.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 229Canadian Literature 23 credits
A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 2. A continuation of ENGL 228 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 327Canadian Prose Fiction 13 credits
A survey of Canadian prose fiction in English, from 19th century historical romance and realist fiction to the emergence of the modernist novel in the decades following the Second World War.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 328Development of Canadian Poetry 13 credits
A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the 18th century to the end of the Second World War.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 333Development of Canadian Poetry 23 credits
A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the end of the Second World War to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 409Studies in a Canadian Author3 credits
Advanced study of a significant author in Canadian literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 410Theme or Movement Canadian Literature3 credits
Advanced study of a significant theme or movement in Canadian Literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 411Studies in Canadian Fiction3 credits
Advanced study of works of Canadian fiction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 317Literary and Cultural Theory3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 318Literary and Cultural Methods3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural methods.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 319Literary and Cultural Criticism3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural criticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 322Theories of the Text3 credits
A course focusing on textuality (as opposed to, say, intentionality and interpretation) and on how specific effects are made - how texts work and produce meaning, including rhetoric and form.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 346Materiality and Sociology of Text3 credits
Writing, printing, distribution, marketing, and placement within canon-making institutions; the influence of material forms of production and transmission on the creation and reception of literature, film, and theatre.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 352Theories of Difference3 credits
Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 347Great Writings of Europe 13 credits
A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 348Great Writings of Europe 23 credits
A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 349English Literature and Folklore 13 credits
A study of representative texts from Beowulf to the late Renaissance period in relation to their background in folk tradition. A focus on the origin and development of folklore motifs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 342Introduction to Old English3 credits
An introduction to grammar and basic vocabulary in Old English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 452Studies in Old English3 credits
Study of an aspect of Old English Literature which presupposes a grounding in the language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 337Theme or Genre in Medieval Literature3 credits
Study of a particular theme or genre of significance to the development of medieval literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 356Middle English3 credits
A study of works in Middle English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 357Chaucer 3 credits
ENGL 456Middle English3 credits
A study of works in Middle English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 305Renaissance English Literature 13 credits
A study of major non-dramatic works of the earlier Renaissance in England.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 307Renaissance English Literature 23 credits
A study of major non-dramatic works of the later Renaissance in England.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 308English Renaissance Drama 13 credits
An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 315Shakespeare3 credits
A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 316Milton3 credits
A study of the works of Milton.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 400Earlier English Renaissance3 credits
A study of earlier English Renaissance works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 401Studies in the 17th Century3 credits
A study of 17th century works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 416Studies in Shakespeare3 credits
A study of the works of Shakespeare.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 302Restoration and 18th C. English Literature 13 credits
A study of the major writers of the late 17th and earlier 18th centuries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 444Studies in Women Authors3 credits
Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 301Earlier 18th Century Novel3 credits
Study of the English novel to c. 1750.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 304Later Eighteenth Century Novel3 credits
A study of later 18th century novels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 403Studies in the 18th Century3 credits
A study of 18th century works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 331Literature Romantic Period 13 credits
A survey of representative literature of the earlier Romantic period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 332Literature Romantic Period 23 credits
A survey of representative literature of the later Romantic period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 405Studies in 19th Century Literature 23 credits
A study of 19th century works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 329English Novel: 19th Century 13 credits
A study of representative novelists of the earlier 19th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 330English Novel: 19th Century 23 credits
A study of representative novelists of the later 19th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 334Victorian Poetry3 credits
A study of the major Victorian poets.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 404Studies in 19th Century Literature 13 credits
A study of 19th century works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 32619th Century American Prose3 credits
A study of some of the major prose writers of the 19th Century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 422Studies in 19th Century American Literature3 credits
A study of literary works of the 19th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 361Poetry of the 20th Century 13 credits
A critical survey of major British and North American poetry, c. 1890 - 1940.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 414Studies in 20th Century Literature 13 credits
Study of works of literature of the 20th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 335The 20th Century Novel 13 credits
The Novel from the last years of the 19th century to World War II.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 418A Major Modernist Writer3 credits
Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 320Postcolonial Literature3 credits
A study of postcolonial literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 443Contemporary Women's Fiction3 credits
Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 29521C and 20C Literature and Culture3 credits
A survey of literary and cultural productions from the contemporary period. Introduction to contemporary literature and culture, from the 20 Century and 21Century, as well as major schools of thought in how to approach them. Theoretical frameworks for visual and literary culture and, as appropriate, methodologies facilitated by digital humanities and increasing availability of digital creative editions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 336The 20th Century Novel 23 credits
A study of 20th century novels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 407The 20th Century3 credits
A study of 20th century works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 408The 20th Century3 credits
A study of 20th century works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 419Studies in 20th Century Literature3 credits
Study of works of literature of the 20th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 417A Major English Poet3 credits
A study of the works of a mahor English poet.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

English - Cultural Studies29 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit English - Cultural Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ENGL 275Introduction to Cultural Studies3 credits
A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 277Introduction to Film Studies3 credits
An introduction to key concepts in film studies. Exemplary works from the history of film will be studied to introduce students to such topics as the aesthetics of film; sound's production of meaning; film as narrative; film and genre; period and national cinemas; film's role in culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 359The Poetics of the Image3 credits
This course examines contemporary debates about the aesthetic dimensions as well as social roles of pictorial, theatrical, cinematic, and other representations, the meanings, effects, and aesthetic significance of which depend on their having visually recognizable features.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 315Shakespeare3 credits
A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 381A Film-Maker 13 credits
Studies in the history of film: the works of a major director. Topic varies each year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 418A Major Modernist Writer3 credits
Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 444Studies in Women Authors3 credits
Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 481A Film-Maker 23 credits
Studies in the history of film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 393Canadian Cinema3 credits
A study of Canadian cinema.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 440First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media3 credits
An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 441Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies3 credits
Advanced study of a specific area of Canadian culture or Canadian cultural theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 317Literary and Cultural Theory3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 318Literary and Cultural Methods3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural methods.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 319Literary and Cultural Criticism3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural criticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 322Theories of the Text3 credits
A course focusing on textuality (as opposed to, say, intentionality and interpretation) and on how specific effects are made - how texts work and produce meaning, including rhetoric and form.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 346Materiality and Sociology of Text3 credits
Writing, printing, distribution, marketing, and placement within canon-making institutions; the influence of material forms of production and transmission on the creation and reception of literature, film, and theatre.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 352Theories of Difference3 credits
Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 454Topics in Cultural Studies and Gender3 credits
Current studies focusing on the gendered dimensions of cultural life, including the production and reception of mainstream, avant-garde, and alternative cultures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 479Philosophy of Film3 credits
Philosophical approaches to and topics in the study of cinema.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 484Seminar in the Film3 credits
In-depth study of specific topics related to the film, which vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 489Culture and Critical Theory 13 credits
Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 490Culture and Critical Theory 23 credits
Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 492Image and Text3 credits
Study of the relationship between verbal and visual aspects of a range of cultural artifacts. Topics may include iconography; illuminated manuscripts; book illustrations; cartoons and caricature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 350Studies in the History of Film 13 credits
Developments in proto-cinema and early cinema through the silent era.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 351Studies in the History of Film 23 credits
Developments in the Hollywood Studio Era, including rivals, imitators, and alternatives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 363Studies in the History of Film 33 credits
Developments in post-1958 cinema, from the European New Waves to contemporary global and independent cinemas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 374Film Movement or Period3 credits
Study of a significant movement or period in film history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 451A Period in Cinema3 credits
In-depth examination of a significant historical period in cinema's development, early silent era to present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 480Studies in History of Film 13 credits
Studies in the history of film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

English - Drama and Theatre33 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit English - Drama and Theatre Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ENGL 230Introduction to Theatre Studies3 credits
An introduction to global dramatic literature, theatre history, and criticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 355The Poetics of Performance3 credits
A study of the aims, methods, functions, and characteristics of drama, theatre, and performance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 269Introduction to Performance3 credits
The performer as the communicator; techniques for skills and confidence to inspire the voice and body in performance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 365Costuming for the Theatre 13 credits
Introduction to costume-making for the theatre, covering fabrics, textiles and costume decoration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 368Stage Scenery and Lighting 13 credits
An introduction to the technical aspects of stage settings and theatrical lighting.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 372Stage Scenery and Lighting 23 credits
Aspects of stage scenery and theatrical lighting.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 377Costuming for the Theatre 23 credits
Advanced topics in costume-making for the theatre, including millinery, dyeing, costume breakdown, and silk painting techniques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 367Acting 23 credits
ENGL 376Scene Study3 credits
ENGL 396Theatre Practicum 13 credits
Training in acting and other on-stage roles in theatrical performance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 397Theatre Practicum 23 credits
Training in acting and other on-stage roles in theatrical performance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 465Theatre Laboratory9 credits
ENGL 466Directing for the Theatre6 credits
ENGL 469Acting 33 credits
Advanced training in acting involving study of some of the major European and North American acting theories and practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 313Canadian Drama and Theatre3 credits
Dramatic forms and theatrical practices in Canada from beginnings to the present day.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 413Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre3 credits
Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Canadian drama and/or theatre history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 317Literary and Cultural Theory3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 318Literary and Cultural Methods3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural methods.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 319Literary and Cultural Criticism3 credits
A survey of recent literary and cultural criticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 322Theories of the Text3 credits
A course focusing on textuality (as opposed to, say, intentionality and interpretation) and on how specific effects are made - how texts work and produce meaning, including rhetoric and form.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 346Materiality and Sociology of Text3 credits
Writing, printing, distribution, marketing, and placement within canon-making institutions; the influence of material forms of production and transmission on the creation and reception of literature, film, and theatre.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 352Theories of Difference3 credits
Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 306Theatre History: Medieval and Early Modern3 credits
A study of works of Mediaeval and Tudor drama.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 310Restoration and 18th Century Drama3 credits
A study of works of Restoration and 18th century drama.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 312Victorian and Edwardian Drama 13 credits
ENGL 370Theatre History: The Long Eighteenth Century3 credits
A survey of dramatic forms and genres and theatrical practices from the Restoration through the 18th century to the Romantic period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 371Theatre History: 19th to 21st Centuries3 credits
History of predominantly Western theatre practices from circa 1830 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 444Studies in Women Authors3 credits
Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 467Advanced Studies in Theatre History3 credits
Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Theatre history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 486Special Topics in Theatre History 3 credits
A research seminar on selected topics in theatre history and theatre historiography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 308English Renaissance Drama 13 credits
An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 315Shakespeare3 credits
A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 416Studies in Shakespeare3 credits
A study of the works of Shakespeare.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies115 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

GSFS 200Feminist and Social Justice Studies3 credits
Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 250Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies3 credits
Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 300Research Inquiry in GSFS3 credits
Practices and methods of research inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies with a particular emphasis on feminist epistemologies, research methodologies and methods in interdisciplinary contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 400Capstone: Engaging Fields of GSFS3 credits
Examines the current state and debates within the interdisciplinary fields of Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies. Emphasis will be placed on how students can situate their knowledge and scholarship within and beyond these fields.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 301Current Topics 13 credits
Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 302Current Topics 23 credits
Consideration of contemporary issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topic and approach will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 303Gender and Disability3 credits
Focus on critical theories of impairment and visions of social justice from gender and disability studies perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 304Postcolonial Feminist Theories3 credits
Critically examines bodies of postcolonial feminist theories from a variety of cross-disciplinary and transnational perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 305Critical Race and Social Justice Theories3 credits
An examination of critical race feminisms and social justice theories in historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring how critical race, transnational, and indigenous feminist theorizing inform social justice, liberation struggles, and other activism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 306Queer Theory3 credits
Examines the emergence of queer theory in the context of major social movements and key bodies of theory such as women of color feminisms, poststructuralism, performativity, affect and psychoanalysis. Engages with contemporary queer critiques such as queer of colour, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 307Indigenous Feminisms3 credits
Explores Indigenous feminisms in historical and contemporary contexts, with a critical focus on the tensions between feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. The relationships between feminisms, settler-colonialism, nation-building, and Indigenous social justice struggles will be emphasized.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 308Sex and Gender Minority Cultures3 credits
Examination of cultural expression associated with non-normative and minoritarian gender, sex, and sexualities as shaped by local, regional, and global ideologies, economies, and social practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 401Special Topics 13 credits
Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 402Special Topics 23 credits
Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. Topics and theoretical or disciplinary approach will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 403Feminisms and the Law3 credits
Examines the relationship between feminisms and the law by drawing on feminist legal theory, feminist theories of jurisprudence, post coloniality, critical race epistemologies, and decolonizing methodologies for studying legal culture and law as a site of social struggles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 404Politics of Identity3 credits
Examines the emergence of identity politics as a corrective to the erasures of gender, sexed, and raced differences in class-based struggles, and to feminist complicities with racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and transphobia. The course engages contemporary debates on identity politics and subjectivity formation, the psychic life of power, struggles for recognition, and solidarity politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 405Social Justice and Activism3 credits
Develops frameworks for understanding the relationships between critical knowledge production, activism, and social justice. Emphasis on activist strategies, social change initiatives, and their underlying theories and methodologies. Explores the emergence of social justice frameworks in response to ongoing histories of colonization, imperialism, and alternative world making.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 406Trans*Feminisms3 credits
Contemporary debates in the field of trans*feminist studies, with an emphasis on the historical emergence of trans studies in relation to feminist and queer scholarship and activism. Consideration of the politics of sex/gender transformation vis-à-vis race-racism, sexuality, class, culture, nation, and social justice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 407Sexuality and Gender: New Directions3 credits
Examines the latest critical scholarship in sexual and gender diversity studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 227Medical Anthropology3 credits
Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 327Anthropology of South Asia3 credits
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 381Special Topic 23 credits
Supervised reading in special topics under the direction of a member of the staff.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 407Anthropology of the Body3 credits
This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 413Gender in Archaeology3 credits
Relationship between the structure of the archaeological discipline and construction of gender roles in past human societies; division of tasks between men and women in subsistence activities, organization of the household and kin groups; and creation of power and prestige in a larger community.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 480Special Topic 53 credits
Supervised reading in advanced special topics under direction of a member of staff.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 555Advanced Topics in Ethnology3 credits
Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in ethnology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 533New Approaches to Architectural History3 credits
An exploration of the aims, tools, and methods of architectural history as a discipline.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 205Introduction to Modern Art3 credits
The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 353Selected Topics in Art History 13 credits
Study of a special field in the History of Art and Architecture taught by a visiting scholar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 354Selected Topics Art History 23 credits
Study of a special field in the History of Art and Communications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 421Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 23 credits
Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 440The Body and Visual Culture3 credits
An examination of modern and contemporary redefinitions of corporeality in art, theory and visual culture. The course focuses on the dissemination of the body in the context of late capitalism and ongoing developments of image, information and biotechnologies. Interdisciplinary perspective establishing a dialogue between art and science.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 405Canadian Studies Seminar 53 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 308Gender in the Ancient World3 credits
An exploration of gender roles in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 310Media and Feminist Studies3 credits
Introduction to feminist studies of the media. Impact of feminist and queer theory on media studies; current issues about gender in the media. Emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of media representations of gender in relation to other social differences, such as race, class and sexuality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 400Critical Theory Seminar3 credits
This course builds on the foundations of critical social thought to engage students in intensive study of emerging and contemporary themes in social and cultural theory related to media and communication studies. Focus will be on current texts and debates of significance in the field, and will include prominent work in areas including political economy, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial and critical race theory, radical democracy, environmentalism, and media and cultural studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 411Disability, Technology and Communication3 credits
Explores communication, technology and culture from the perspective of disability. Topics may included identity, stigma, representation and art; design, access and accessibility; normalization and classification; contrasting models of disability; interfaces between bodies and technologies; the disabling dimensions of environments and technologies; disability policy and activism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 490Special Topics in History and Theory of Media3 credits
Emergent themes in media history and media theory, and their application to current issues in communications studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 492Power, Difference and Justice3 credits
Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 541Cultural Industries3 credits
The convergence of computerized technologies and cultural industries and how these have produced entire new forms of cultural expression in film, TV, and the Internet.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 313Current Topics: Korean Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 350Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature3 credits
Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 351Women Writers of China3 credits
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 369Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media3 credits
In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 370History of Sexuality in Japan3 credits
Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 453Topics: Chinese Literature3 credits
Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EDPC 503Intersectional Relationships and Sexualities3 credits
Situated in sexuality studies and education this course explores intra and interpersonal relationships through examining the intersections of sexuality with a diversity of identities, expressions and communities. The course addresses the ways in which current and emerging technologies influence and inform understandings of sexuality and the resulting effect on how people negotiate sexual relationships.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EDPE 515Gender Identity Development3 credits
Theoretical models and empirical findings relevant to the development of gender identity. Special attention is given to the influence of peers in school settings. Psychological, physiological, parental, peer and cultural influences on gender identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 275Introduction to Cultural Studies3 credits
A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 290Postcolonial and World Literatures in English3 credits
A critical introduction to the field of postcolonial and world literature studies, drawing on a selection texts from South and East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 320Postcolonial Literature3 credits
A study of postcolonial literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 371Theatre History: 19th to 21st Centuries3 credits
History of predominantly Western theatre practices from circa 1830 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 388Studies in Popular Culture3 credits
History and development of important forms of popular culture. Topics may include traditional ballads; fairs; carnivals and popular festivity; material culture; popular fiction; mainstream television.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 413Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre3 credits
Advanced study focused on a period or issue in Canadian drama and/or theatre history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 418A Major Modernist Writer3 credits
Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 440First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media3 credits
An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 443Contemporary Women's Fiction3 credits
Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 444Studies in Women Authors3 credits
Study of a particular topic related to literary, dramatic, or cultural productions by female-identified authors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 489Culture and Critical Theory 13 credits
Intensive study of advanced theoretical topics in the study of culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 516Shakespeare3 credits
A seminar on the works of Shakespeare.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 331Urban Social Geography3 credits
Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 507Advanced Social Geography3 credits
Current theories and themes in social geography, such as relations between society and space, social and spatial relations of inequality, difference and diversity, situated and embodied identities, social issues and problems, connections between society and nature, all within a spatial framework.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 364Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture3 credits
In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 450Independent Reading and Research3 credits
Advanced reading course and independent research project under the supervision of an instructor on aspects of gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GSFS 499GSFS Internship3 credits
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 340Latin American Cinema3 credits
A study of representative films, directors and movements of the region. Topic specified by instructor.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 358Gender and Textualities3 credits
Historical development and literary tendencies regarding gender and sexuality in Hispanic literature, film, and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 201Modern African History3 credits
While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 323History and Sexuality 13 credits
Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. The cultural meanings and social institutions that create the historical context for sexual behaviours. Possible topics include: Greek homosocial and homosexual culture; sex and citizenship; wives and concubines in the ancient world; Christianity and aestheticism; misogyny and gender in Medieval Europe; adultery and lineage.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 343Women in Post-Confederation Canada3 credits
This course examines women's contribution to the economic and social development of Canada as well as the changes in the image and status of women. Special emphasis will be on the relationship between women's roles in the private sphere and the public domain.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 344The Chinese Family in History3 credits
Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 347History and Sexuality 23 credits
1700 to the present, with a particular focus on Europe and North America. Possible topics include: patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology; gay liberation movements; queer politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 354Women in Europe 1700-20003 credits
An overview of the history of women in modern continental Europe, focusing on women's changing roles in the family and society at large, in the context of work, family life, education, and culture, and the changing notions of citizenship, femininity, and masculinity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 380The Medieval Mediterranean 3 credits
Thematic history of the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, covering elements of Latin, Byzantine and Islamic civilizations and their interactions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 382History of South Africa3 credits
History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 408Selected Topics in Indigenous History 3 credits
HIST 412Women and Gender in Modern Britain3 credits
Women and gender in modern Britain (1850 on). Topics include early feminist political agitation, including the suffrage movement; working-class women; changing notions of gender, sexuality and women's role; women and empire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 420Gender and Sexuality in Modern China3 credits
The history of gender and sexuality in modern China. Topics include Chinese femininities and Chinese masculinities, theories of sexuality, and changing conceptions of gender identity under Confucianism, Western Imperialism, and socialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 424Gender, Sexuality and Medicine3 credits
Gender, sexuality, and medicine since the colonial era, with a focus on North American experience. Topics will include reproductive medicine (puberty, childbirth, fertility control, menopause), changing perceptions of men's and women's health needs and risks, and ideas about sexual behaviour and identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 433British Queer History3 credits
An investigation of the changing historical construction of "deviant" and "normal" sexualities in Britain since 1700, and how queer women and men discovered ways of surviving and perhaps even flourishing in the face of persecution and hostility from the state, the churches and the medical profession.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 525Women, Work and Family in Global History3 credits
The shifting historical context of female labour and family in selected western and non-western countries; the interaction between labour and gender relations with special focus on women's experiences on the shop floor and in the family.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 526Women and War3 credits
Examines the impact of war on individuals, families and societies. Studies the experiences of women and children in exile, mass persecutions, and punishments associated with social unrest, revolution or wars during twentieth century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HSEL 308Issues in Women's Health3 credits
Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HSEL 309Women's Reproductive Health3 credits
Concepts of health and medicalization. Canadian and international perspectives. Topics include contraception, abortion, infertility, menstruation, menopause, new reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbirth. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INDG 401Interdisciplinary Seminar in Indigenous Studies3 credits
The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches.Capstone seminar course offering an in-depth focus on one or more issues in Indigenous Studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 310Women in Islam3 credits
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 375Sufi Women3 credits
The lives and contributions of famous female Muslim mystics. Historical and literary analysis of gender discourse in male-authored representations of these mystical Sufi women, as well as developments in theologies of the cosmic feminine in Sufi philosophical texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 585Arab Women's Literature3 credits
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 375Cinema and Society in Modern Italy3 credits
A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 383Women's Writing since 18803 credits
A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 477Italian Cinema and Video3 credits
Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MUHL 250Women Making Music3 credits
Repertoire composed and/or performed by women since 1920, with a focus on North America and women's participation in music in a variety of roles. Special attention will be paid to the different challenges faced by women of different races and classes, in both avant-garde and popular music traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MUHL 299Music and Queer Identity3 credits
A survey of notable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer composers and musicians in both art music and popular music, and an exploration of musical meaning from queer perspectives, covering topics such as coded expression, subcultural music-making, the value of mainstream visibility, and minority versus 'universal' aesthetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 242Introduction to Feminist Theory3 credits
An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 442Topics in Feminist Theory3 credits
Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 446Current Issues in Political Philosophy3 credits
Selected issues in contemporary political philosophy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 366Topics in Political Theory 13 credits
A specific problem area in Political Theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 422Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 13 credits
A specific problem area in comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 423Politics of Ethno-Nationalism3 credits
Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 432Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 23 credits
Topics in comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 444Topics in International Politics 23 credits
A specific problem area in International Politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PSYC 436Human Sexuality and Its Problems3 credits
This course will deal with typical sexual behavior and its variations. Topics will include the history of sex research, the sexual response cycle, sexual dysfunction, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc. Current research and theory will be emphasized.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 336Contemporary Theological Issues3 credits
A study of contemporary theological issues. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 338Women and the Christian Tradition3 credits
Survey of women's involvement in the Christian tradition. Topics include feminist interpretation of scripture, ideas of virginity, marriage and motherhood, mysticism, asceticisms, European witchhunts, contemporary women's liberation theories.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 372Hindu Goddesses3 credits
The mythology, theology, soteriology, history, ritual, and texts of the goddess-centred (Sakta) branches of Hinduism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 399Christian Spirituality3 credits
Seminar exploring the phenomena of internal religious experience in their relation to received formularies of Christian thought and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 247Family and Modern Society3 credits
Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 270Sociology of Gender3 credits
This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 321Gender and Work3 credits
Focus on men's and women's work in North American societies, historically and contemporarily, in order to understand the dynamisms of gender (in)equality in and outside of the home. Topics explored include: housework; the relationship(s) between gender, organizations and bureaucracy; emotional labour; occupational segregation and stratification; sexual harassment; and work-family policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 370Sociology: Gender and Development3 credits
Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 386Contemporary Social Movements3 credits
This course will focus on contemporary social movements in Canada, the U.S., and Western Europe, such as the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the environmental movement. Empirical studies of movements will be used to explore such general issues as how social movements emerge, grow, and decline.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 489Gender, Deviance and Social Control3 credits
This seminar examines how the definition of deviance, reactions to deviance and explanations of deviance are gendered. Specific topics vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 519Gender and Globalization3 credits
Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 530Sex and Gender3 credits
This seminar critically reviews theoretical perspectives and research on sex and gender in various domains of social life. It gives special emphasis to work which considers the meaning of gender and how it differs across time and place.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 535Sociology of the Family3 credits
This seminar reviews literature on major research areas in family. The course examines families in the past, the study of family using a life course approach, and considers selective areas which may have had significant influences on contemporary family such as work and family, family violence, and cultural variation in families.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Geography22 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 37-credit Geography Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 37 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

GEOG 201Introductory Geo-Information Science3 credits
An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 216Geography of the World Economy3 credits
The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 290Local Geographical Excursion1 credits
Introduction to landscape interpretation and geographical site analysis in physical and human geography. A three-day fall excursion with preparatory and concluding seminars.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 203Environmental Systems3 credits
An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 272Earth's Changing Surface3 credits
Introduction to the study of landforms as products of geomorphic and geologic systems acting at and near the Earth's surface. The process geomorphology approach will be used to demonstrate how landforms of different geomorphic settings represent a dynamic balance between forces acting in the environment and the physical properties of materials present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 373Biometry3 credits
Elementary statistical methods in biology. Introduction to the analysis of biological data with emphasis on the assumptions behind statistical tests and models. Use of statistical techniques typically available on computer packages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 202Statistics and Spatial Analysis3 credits
Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 203Principles of Statistics 13 credits
Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PSYC 204Introduction to Psychological Statistics3 credits
The statistical analysis of research data; frequency distributions; graphic representation; measures of central tendency and variability; elementary sampling theory and tests of significance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 350Statistics in Social Research3 credits
This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 425Southeast Asia Urban Field Studies3 credits
This course allows students to experience some of the urban changes taking place in Southeast Asian cities, a dynamic region, while providing the opportunity to connect recent scholarship with field observations. We will explore various current themes in urban studies and urban geography including globalization, the transnational circulation of urban policies, interpretations of culture and heritage / new built heritage, gentrification, migrant labour, public housing, creative clusters, and new cities as national economic strategies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 475Contested Cities and Urban Activism3 credits
Introduction to key themes in contested cities and urban activism, including struggles over urban space for LGBTQ communities; racial, gender, and environmental justice; housing and anti-gentrification movements; and contestations over the use of roads and public spaces. Examination of how urban geographers and other academics working in urban fields merge scholarship and activism. Included is a hands-on component that focuses on fieldwork skills and direct engagement with communities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 494Urban Field Studies3 credits
Geographical research in urban public and semi-public spaces. Demonstration of techniques of mapping, sampling, measurement, photography, interviewing. Attention to research design.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 495Field Studies - Physical Geography3 credits
Field research projects in physical geography. Held locally in Monteregian or Eastern Township regions. The course is organised around field projects designed to formulate and test scientific hypotheses in a physical geography discipline. May Summer session.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 496Geographical Excursion3 credits
Lecture course on the geography of a region and excursion through the selected country or region including landscape interpretation and field study projects.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 308Remote Sensing for Earth Observation3 credits
A conceptual view of remote sensing and the underlying physical principles. Covers ground-based, aerial, satellite systems, and the electromagnetic spectrum, from visible to microwave. Emphasis on application of remotely sensed data in geography including land cover change and ecological processes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 314Geospatial Analysis3 credits
Overview of both the theoretical and applied aspects of geographic information science and systems. Topics will include spatial analysis techniques, geographic models as abstractions of the real world, spatial data manipulation and management, and conceptual issues related to geographic data and technology. Introduction to a number of leading commercial software including ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 333Introduction to Programming for Spatial Sciences3 credits
Introduction to conceptual and practical aspects of programming for the spatial sciences, focusing on programming concepts and techniques irrespective of the specific programming language, framework, or software. Topics include spatial data structures, flow control, classes and objects, and basics of geospatial data modeling and analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 351Quantitative Methods3 credits
Multiple regression and correlation, logit models, discrete choice models, gravity models, facility location algorithms, survey design, population projection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 414Advanced Geospatial Analysis3 credits
Advanced techniques in geospatial analysis. Geospatial methods and using geospatial information systems. Topics: geodatabases, interpolation techniques, spatial classification methods, data mining and machine learning, including working with a number of leading commercial software including ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop/Pro.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 506Advanced Geographic Information Science3 credits
Critically analyse major themes in geographic information science and draw out the practical ramifications for spatial technologies and research. Topics such as spatial interoperability, data quality, scale, visualization, location based services and ontologies are covered.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 512Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Field Research3 credits
How does one collect data to quantitatively assess research questions in human geography or other social sciences, and what methods are available to analyze those data? This course introduces students to advanced statistical techniques commonly confronted in field-based social science studies. The course is divided into four major topics: research design, evaluating impacts of policies or programs, time-series data, and spatial interactions. For the techniques investigated, the course will highlight major technical assumptions, field considerations for data collection, and how each does or does not account for geographic factors that may influence outcomes of interest.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Geography (Urban Studies)61 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Geography (Urban Studies) Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

GEOG 201Introductory Geo-Information Science3 credits
An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 217Cities in the Modern World3 credits
An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 351Quantitative Methods3 credits
Multiple regression and correlation, logit models, discrete choice models, gravity models, facility location algorithms, survey design, population projection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 373Biometry3 credits
Elementary statistical methods in biology. Introduction to the analysis of biological data with emphasis on the assumptions behind statistical tests and models. Use of statistical techniques typically available on computer packages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 202Statistics and Spatial Analysis3 credits
Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 203Principles of Statistics 13 credits
Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PSYC 204Introduction to Psychological Statistics3 credits
The statistical analysis of research data; frequency distributions; graphic representation; measures of central tendency and variability; elementary sampling theory and tests of significance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 350Statistics in Social Research3 credits
This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 425Southeast Asia Urban Field Studies3 credits
This course allows students to experience some of the urban changes taking place in Southeast Asian cities, a dynamic region, while providing the opportunity to connect recent scholarship with field observations. We will explore various current themes in urban studies and urban geography including globalization, the transnational circulation of urban policies, interpretations of culture and heritage / new built heritage, gentrification, migrant labour, public housing, creative clusters, and new cities as national economic strategies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 494Urban Field Studies3 credits
Geographical research in urban public and semi-public spaces. Demonstration of techniques of mapping, sampling, measurement, photography, interviewing. Attention to research design.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 475Contested Cities and Urban Activism3 credits
Introduction to key themes in contested cities and urban activism, including struggles over urban space for LGBTQ communities; racial, gender, and environmental justice; housing and anti-gentrification movements; and contestations over the use of roads and public spaces. Examination of how urban geographers and other academics working in urban fields merge scholarship and activism. Included is a hands-on component that focuses on fieldwork skills and direct engagement with communities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 210Global Places and Peoples3 credits
Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 216Geography of the World Economy3 credits
The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 221Environment and Health3 credits
Key chemical, physical, and social stressors in the environment, and how these affect the health of people and ecosystems. Hazards in air, water, food, and work environments. Historic, current, and future need for environmental health science, from scientific, personal, and practical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 303Health Geography3 credits
Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 310Development and Livelihoods3 credits
Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 311Economic Geography3 credits
Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 314Geospatial Analysis3 credits
Overview of both the theoretical and applied aspects of geographic information science and systems. Topics will include spatial analysis techniques, geographic models as abstractions of the real world, spatial data manipulation and management, and conceptual issues related to geographic data and technology. Introduction to a number of leading commercial software including ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 315Urban Transportation Geography3 credits
Discusses the history and development of urban transportation systems, as well as problems and potential solutions from a geographic perspective. Specific topics include analysis of the social, economic, and environmental impacts; interaction of land use and transportation systems; the analysis of urban travel behaviour; and the implications of various policy alternatives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 316Political Geography3 credits
The study of the spatial dimensions of political activities and developments at the regional, national and global levels in historical and contemporary perspective. Presentation of case studies relating to the theoretical framework of political geography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 325New Master-Planned Cities3 credits
This course examines the origins, designs, motivations and cultural politics of planned cities, focusing primarily on those currently under construction in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A variety of themes will be explored including design responses to urban pollution and over-crowding, 'new' cities from earlier decades, totalitarianism and the city, utopianism, 'green' cities, and 'creative' cities. The course examines the various motivations underlying the design and construction of planned cities and how they are shaped by power, religion, and political ideologies. There will be a focus on evolving concepts used in city design as well as the continuities and cultural revivalism expressed through urban design and architecture. Students interested in urban and cultural geography, cities, architecture and planning in different cultural contexts will enjoy this course.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 331Urban Social Geography3 credits
Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 333Introduction to Programming for Spatial Sciences3 credits
Introduction to conceptual and practical aspects of programming for the spatial sciences, focusing on programming concepts and techniques irrespective of the specific programming language, framework, or software. Topics include spatial data structures, flow control, classes and objects, and basics of geospatial data modeling and analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 408Geography of Development3 credits
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 409Geographies of Developing Asia3 credits
Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 414Advanced Geospatial Analysis3 credits
Advanced techniques in geospatial analysis. Geospatial methods and using geospatial information systems. Topics: geodatabases, interpolation techniques, spatial classification methods, data mining and machine learning, including working with a number of leading commercial software including ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop/Pro.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 417Urban Geography3 credits
Classic and contemporary perspectives in urban geography. Range of topics including effects of capitalism, gender, suburbanism, segregation and inequality, property, urban landscapes, and urban space. Emphasizes theoretical issues but includes empirical and/or case studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 418Geographies of Race3 credits
Exploration of some ways race and racism manifest spatially, including how race and racism shape vast built environments in addition to intimate experiences of space. Historical, political, and cultural insight for the ongoing racial politics of place.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 420Memory, Place, and Power3 credits
This interdisciplinary class explores the relationships among memory, place, and political power. The course begins with an introduction to key classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary texts on memory and place-making. It then uses this foundation to examine the symbolic transformation of public space, in particular the construction, alteration, and destruction of monuments, memorials, and museums in postcommunist states and in North America. This approach emphasizes the social quality of memory, exploring the ways in which political interests, economic resources, and social practices can shape something as ostensibly personal and individual as memory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 503Advanced Topics in Health Geography3 credits
A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with an emphasis on housing as a place-based determinant of health and as a setting for intervention, i.e. how changes in housing conditions can translate into improvements in health and well-being. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography and related disciplines.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 504Advanced Economic Geography3 credits
The objective of this seminar course is to develop an understanding of the geographical dimensions of a variety of new forms of economic and social organization that are emerging across the globe. Key themes focus on innovation, technological and managerial change, evolutionary economic geography, globalization, and changing geographies of inequality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 507Advanced Social Geography3 credits
Current theories and themes in social geography, such as relations between society and space, social and spatial relations of inequality, difference and diversity, situated and embodied identities, social issues and problems, connections between society and nature, all within a spatial framework.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 511Advanced Political Geography3 credits
Questions of space and power in contemporary political geography. Range of topics, including territoriality, the state, the politics of space, critical geopolitics, symbolic landscapes, and GIS and mapping. Emphasizes theoretical issues but includes empirical and/or case studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 525Asian Cities in the 21st Century3 credits
This course examines current themes relating to mass urbanization in Asia in a range of contexts and the forces that shape the built environment of Asian cities. Various approaches to understanding Asian cities and current theoretical debates will be investigated, including recent critiques of western-centric theorizations of urban change in the region. The course examines a variety of themes through which students will gain familiarity with some of the major strands relating to urban change in Asia: national identity, neoliberalism, social exclusions, migration, religion, ethnicity and sustainability.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 517Sustainable Residential Development3 credits
Design strategies of sustainable residential environments at the community and the unit levels. Historic references, siting principles, high density, healthy developments, green homes, urban renewal, circulation and parking, open spaces and implementation approaches.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 528History of Housing3 credits
Indigenous housing both transient and permanent, from the standpoint of individual structure and pattern of settlements. The principal historic examples of houses including housing in the age of industrial revolution and contemporary housing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 204Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture3 credits
Surveys the arts from late Antiquity to the fourteenth century in Western Europe. Focuses on the body and space to introduce artistic and architectural concepts, practices, and styles from the late Roman, Byzantine and Carolingian empires to monastic and royal patronage of the French Kings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 425Urban Culture and Everyday Life3 credits
Explores how popular and artistic cultural texts interrogate the dimensions of urban culture that shape everyday life, such as transnationalization/ globalization; gentrification, migration and other displacements; the proliferation of mobile media and communication technologies; and the political mobilization of fear and anxiety about violence and terrorism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CIVE 540Urban Transportation Planning3 credits
Process and techniques of urban transportation engineering and planning, including demand analysis framework, data collection procedures, travel demand modelling and forecasting, and cost-effectiveness framework for evaluation of project and system alternatives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 353History of Montreal3 credits
The history of Montreal from its beginnings to the present day. Montreal's economic, social, cultural and political role within the French and British empires, North America, Canada, and Quebec; the city's linguistic and ethnic diversity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 397Canada: Ethnicity, Migration3 credits
Immigration, ethnicity and race in Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics will include the migration process, government policy and legislation, urban and rural migration, acculturation, nativism and multiculturalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 311History of the City-Islamic World3 credits
Cities and urban cultures throughout Islamic history, studying social organization and cultural history from the medieval to the colonial period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 395Melancholic Migrants3 credits
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FINE 445Real Estate Finance3 credits
Fundamentals of mortgages from the viewpoint of both consumer and the firm. Emphasis on legal, mathematical and financial structure, provides a micro basis for analysis of the functions and performance of the mortgage market, in conjunction with the housing market.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 318Comparative Local Government3 credits
An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 321Issues: Canadian Public Policy3 credits
The Canadian political process through an analysis of critical policy issues in community development, welfare state, education, and institutional reforms in public service delivery systems. Diagnostic and prescriptive interpretations of public choices in a federal-parliamentary regime.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
QCST 200Introduction to the Study of Quebec3 credits
Introduction to the ideas and approaches that scholars have used and developed to study Quebec, including some of the foremost issues that have shaped Quebec historically and continue to influence contemporary life. The changing notions about territory, identity, language, citizenship and belonging, the complexity and diversity of Quebec (11 Aboriginal nations, multilingual, multiethnic and religious communities, minority status within Canada) will also be explored from a comparative perspective to identify characteristics that Quebec shares with other nations and those that are different.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 222Urban Sociology3 credits
Comparative analysis of the process of urbanization in Europe, North America and the Third World; effects of urbanization upon social institutions and individuals; theories of urbanization and urbanism; the Canadian urban system; urban problems in comparative view.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 230Sociology of Ethnic Relations3 credits
An introduction to the sociological study of minority groups in Canada. The course will explore the themes of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, ethnic and racial inequalities, cultural identities, multiculturalism, immigration. Theoretical, empirical, and policy issues will be discussed. While the focus will be primarily on Canada, comparisons will be made with the United States.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 333Social Stratification3 credits
The pattern, causes and consequences of social inequality. Among the inequalities considered are those of economic class, sex (gender), race, ethnicity and age. Competing theories of the causes of social inequalities are compared and assessed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 366Neighborhoods and Inequality 3 credits
The causes and consequences of neighbourhood-based social inequalities in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Forms of inequality covered include poverty, segregation, ethnic enclaves, unemployment, educational attainment, crime, and health. Methodological issues and social policy will also be examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 388Crime3 credits
Introductory course on methods and theories in criminology. Exploration of the nature and distribution of crime; and critical evaluation of definitions and the measurement of crime; review of theoretical approaches used to understand such a phenomenon; a comparative overview of the criminal justice system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 201Planning the 21st Century City3 credits
The study of how urban planners respond to the challenges posed by contemporary cities world-wide. Urban problems related to the environment, shelter, transport, human health, livelihoods and governance are addressed; innovative plans to improve cities and city life are analyzed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 501Principles and Practice 12 credits
This six-week intensive course exposes students to issues and techniques that are applicable in diverse professional planning contexts. The subject matter, geographic area, scale of intervention and institutional location of planning varies from semester to semester. The course focuses on a specific case study and is taught by a visiting lecturer with professional experience in the selected subject matter.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 504Planning for Active Transportation3 credits
The importance of transit, walking, and cycling as modes of transportation in sustainable urban environments. Planning, design, and operation of mass transit systems, bikeways, and footpaths.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 506Environmental Policy and Planning3 credits
Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 530Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context 3 credits
Issues of practical and theoretical importance in relation to urban infrastructure and services in the international context: science and technology, political economy, policy analysis, policy implementation, public finance, and institutions and governance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 536Current Issues in Transportation 12 credits
Current transportation issues and topics are addressed from practitioner and academic perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 537Current Issues in Transportation 22 credits
Current transportation issues and topics are addressed from the perspectives of both professional practitioners and academics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 551Urban Design and Planning3 credits
Fundamentals of city-building in Canada relative to municipal, regional, and provincial actions used to guide urban growth and development. Contemporary urban design in major metropolitan centres as shaped by legal, political, and cultural realities. Current preoccupations in city-building: reurbanisation and adaptive reuse of infrastructure, collaborative multi-stakeholder projects, strategic initiatives, changing relationships between professional experts and grassroots actors. Introduction to specific aspects of practice: public participation and community engagement; land development and real estate; project feasibility and implementation; policy monitoring and evaluation; emergent city-building regimes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 556Urban Economy: A Spatial Perspective3 credits
Economic functions played by cities; economic processes governing city formation, city growth, and the internal spatial organization of cities. Describing and understanding how cities can be interpreted as economic phenomena. Economic origins of cities, the industrial revolution, city systems and networks, the role of mobility and telecommunications, innovation and creativity as urban phenomena, the internal spatial logic of metropolitan areas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

History46 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit History Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ARTH 302Aspects of Canadian Art3 credits
An examination of selected subjects relevant to a specific period of art in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 305Methods in Art History3 credits
An introduction to the main methodologies used in the analysis of the work of art: formalism, iconography/iconology, semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism and postcolonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 315Indigenous Art and Culture3 credits
An examination of the work of selected First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 339Critical Issues - Contemporary Art3 credits
A critical examination of contemporary art from Abstract Expressionism to Pop art, Minimalism, Conceptual art, Land art, and Body art. Focuses on the development and critique of modernism, the dematerialization or art, the blurring of art and popular culture, the artist as shaman, temporality, and aesthetic redefinitions of subjectivity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 357Early Chinese Art3 credits
Survey of Chinese art and visual culture during the pre-imperial and early imperial periods (1500BCE-900CE). A wide range of visual images and media (painting, architecture, inscription, funerary art) will be examined in the historical context of the rise and development of the empire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 200Introduction to Art History 13 credits
Selected introductory survey of the history of art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 202Introduction to Contemporary Art3 credits
A critical survey of contemporary art and theory, from 1945 to the present focusing on pivotal issues such as anti-war politics, feminism, sexual diversity, AIDS awareness, discourse of multiculturalism, debates about modernism and postmodernism, post colonialism, technology, and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 204Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture3 credits
Surveys the arts from late Antiquity to the fourteenth century in Western Europe. Focuses on the body and space to introduce artistic and architectural concepts, practices, and styles from the late Roman, Byzantine and Carolingian empires to monastic and royal patronage of the French Kings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 205Introduction to Modern Art3 credits
The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 207Introduction Early Modern Art 1400-17003 credits
Surveys visual culture of early modern Europe across various social spheres and geographical locations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 209Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture3 credits
Survey of ancient art and architecture: pre-historic Europe, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Focus is on issues of political power, gender, sexuality, race, the formation of individual and group identities, and the relation between the body and social space.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 215Introduction to East Asian Art3 credits
Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 223Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-15003 credits
Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 225Introduction to Seventeenth - Century Art3 credits
Examines the functions and uses of a wide range of visual forms in relation to the European and global expansion of urbanism, absolutism, colonialism, capitalism, diplomacy, slavery, missionary activity, and religious conflict in the seventeenth century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 226Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture3 credits
Paintings, prints, sculpture and architecture produced in Europe in the 'long' eighteenth century, with an emphasis on major artists. Themes include the teaching of art and its display, the emergence of 'publics' for art, and eighteenth-century aesthetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 300Canadian Art to 19143 credits
Canadian art from the pre-contact period through the colonial and nation-building centuries until the onset of the First World War. Emphasis will be placed on the diverse cultural influences that have been brought into contact in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 310Postcolonialism3 credits
Examines selected art historians who respond to postcolonial theorists and analyse how paintings, sculpture, buildings, and visual culture participated in or resisted European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 314The Medieval City3 credits
Towns and cities in the Middle Ages as architectural entities, their urban planning and development; main building types, profane and ecclesiastical: castle, defence works, town halls, houses, cathedrals, churches and monasteries; the role architecture played in forming a society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 321Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic3 credits
Examination of the functions of visual culture in merchant capitalist society, and the changing status of art, artists and patrons after the Protestant reformation. A wide range of visual imagery (from Rembrandt and Vermeer to popular culture) will be linked with 17th-century economic, historic, religious, colonial, scientific and literary developments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 323Realism and Impressionism3 credits
The course is an investigation into Realism and Impressionism, the principal artistic movements between ca. 1840 - 1880.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 325Visual Culture Renaissance Venice3 credits
Distinctive visual culture in the context of Venice's singular topography and reputation for licentiousness and toleration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 326Studies in Manuscript and Print Culture3 credits
Positing a dynamic relationship between manuscript and print culture and social experience, this course focuses on new forms and uses for printed imagery before the electronic age. Issues to be addressed include: the relationship between word and image, reading and viewing practices and visual and textual transmission, the history of the book and the consequences of technological change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 336Art Now3 credits
Recent art practices from the 1980's to the present - installation art, new media arts (video, digital and internet art), recent developments in performance, photography, and painting. Introduces students to the key fields of research of current art: postmodernism, representation, visuality, identity, embodiment, sexuality, memory, (bio)technology, intermedia, and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 352Feminism in Art and Art History3 credits
A consideration of the impact of feminism on recent art history, focusing on the examination of gender constructions in art and theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 353Selected Topics in Art History 13 credits
Study of a special field in the History of Art and Architecture taught by a visiting scholar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 354Selected Topics Art History 23 credits
Study of a special field in the History of Art and Communications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 360Studies in the Photographic3 credits
The course provides an introduction to the history of photography while considering its relation to major movements in the history of painting from the time of the invention of photography, in 1839, to the present day.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 368Studies in Northern Renaissance Art 013 credits
ARTH 411Canadian Art and Race3 credits
Examination of impact of colonialism on Canadian art and visual culture from contact to the present. Emphasis will be placed on role of racial marginalization and privilege in issues of cultural access, representation, production and reception.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 420Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 13 credits
An advanced study of selected topics in the History of Art and Architecture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 421Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 23 credits
Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 422Selected Topics in Art and Architecture 33 credits
Selected topics in art and architecture. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 425Arts of Medieval Spain3 credits
This course examines the arts of medieval Spain from the late antique 'barbarian' invasions through the fifteenth century. Within this broad span, particular attention will be paid to key themes, including historiography, the centrality of pilgrimage for shaping artistic practice, and the concept of 'convivencia' among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 430Concepts - Discipline Art History3 credits
Methodologically focused examination of critical concepts for art historical study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 435Early Modern Visual Culture3 credits
A study of the works of Rubens, Van dick and Velasquez.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 440The Body and Visual Culture3 credits
An examination of modern and contemporary redefinitions of corporeality in art, theory and visual culture. The course focuses on the dissemination of the body in the context of late capitalism and ongoing developments of image, information and biotechnologies. Interdisciplinary perspective establishing a dialogue between art and science.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 447Independent Research Course3 credits
Supervised independent research on an approved topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 473Studies in 17th and Early 18th Century Art 043 credits
Studies in 17th and early 18th century art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 474Studies in Later 18th and 19th Century Art 033 credits
Studies in later 18th and early 19th-century art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 490Museum Internship3 credits
The Museum Internship is intended to provide direct exposure to museum collections and practical experience in the museum setting for students interested in museum professions. Individually designed in consultation with the professor in charge of internships and the appropriate personnel at one of the Montreal museums.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 501Advanced Topics in Art History and Visual Culture3 credits
Focused investigation of a special topic in the history of art and visual culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 502Advanced Topics in Art and Architectural History3 credits
Focused investigation of a special topic in the history of art and architecture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 250Architectural History 13 credits
The study of architecture and cities from ancient times to 1750.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 251Architectural History 23 credits
The study of North American architecture and cities from 1950 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 336Aesthetics3 credits
An introduction to issues central to aesthetic theory; the nature of aesthetic judgment, perception of the aesthetic object, the nature of the art object.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 436Aesthetics 23 credits
An advanced discussion of issues in aesthetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Classics14 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Classics Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

CLAS 201Greece and Rome3 credits
Introduction to ancient Greek and Roman civilization, focusing on key themes, problems, and methods of the discipline of classical studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 410Advanced Latin: Authors3 credits
Translation and discussion of selections from ancient Latin literature written by a single author or several authors closely linked by genre or historical period. Emphasis on developing reading proficiency. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 412Advanced Latin: Themes3 credits
Examination of a theme or problem in Roman literature, culture or history through the translation and discussion of ancient Latin texts. Emphasis on close reading and analysis of ancient Latin. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 420Advanced Ancient Greek: Authors3 credits
Translation and discussion of selections from ancient Greek literature written by a single author or several authors closely linked by genre or historical period. Emphasis on developing reading proficiency. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 422Advanced Ancient Greek: Themes3 credits
Examination of a theme or problem in ancient Greek literature, culture or history through the translation and discussion of ancient Greek texts. Emphasis on close reading and analysis of ancient Greek. Texts change from year to year. Course may be taken more than once.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 429Medieval Greek3 credits
Readings by Greek authors writing during the Late Imperial through Byzantine periods.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 301Ancient Greek Literature and Society3 credits
Survey of ancient Greek literature in translation, covering the key genres and texts in their social and historical contexts. The material to be discussed includes Archaic epic, lyric, and elegy; Classical tragedy, comedy, and historiography; Hellenistic poetry, and literature of the Roman Imperial period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 302Roman Literature and Society3 credits
An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 310Intermediate Latin 13 credits
Review of Latin grammar, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary while introducing students to techniques and strategies for reading Latin poetry and prose.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 312Intermediate Latin 23 credits
Continued mastery of the language, with emphasis on translation of Latin texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 315Intermediate Latin 2: Selections3 credits
A study of selected works in Latin. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 320Intermediate Ancient Greek 13 credits
Review of grammar, vocabulary, and syntax of Ancient Greek through translation of selected ancient texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 322Intermediate Ancient Greek 23 credits
Continued mastery of the language, with emphasis on translation of ancient Greek texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 326Intermediate Ancient Greek 2: Selections3 credits
Translation of ancient Greek texts selected from a given topic, theme, genre, or author. Texts and authors change from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

African Studies42 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit African Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

AFRI 200Introduction to African Studies3 credits
The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 598Research Seminar in African Studies3 credits
An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the African Studies Program. As part of their contribution, students will prepare a research paper under the supervision of one or more members of staff.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 322Social Change in Modern Africa3 credits
The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 200Introduction to African History3 credits
This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 201Modern African History3 credits
While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 324Comparative Politics of Africa3 credits
The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 401Swahili Language and Culture3 credits
Basic knowledge of the Swahili language and culture with emphasis on handling circumstances that might be encountered in field research: everyday conversation, developing aural and oral skills and mastering basic grammar rules, understanding cultural norms and practices, issues of culture sensitivity and appropriateness.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 480Honours Thesis3 credits
Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a staff member.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 481Special Topics 13 credits
Supervised reading in advanced special topics in African Studies under the direction of a member of staff.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 499Arts Internships: African Studies3 credits
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 579D1Seminar: African History3 credits
Readings in and discussion of a theme in African history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 579D2Seminar: African History3 credits
See HIST 579D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 212Anthropology of Development3 credits
Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 416Environment/Development: Africa3 credits
Study of environmental effects of development in East Africa, especially due to changes in traditional land tenure and resource use across diverse ecosystems. Models, policies and cases of pastoralist, agricultural, fishing, wildlife and tourist development will be examined, across savanna, desert, forest, highland and coastal environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 208Microeconomic Analysis and Applications3 credits
A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 313Economic Development 13 credits
Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 416Topics in Economic Development 23 credits
This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 320Postcolonial Literature3 credits
A study of postcolonial literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 352Theories of Difference3 credits
Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 421African Literature3 credits
A study of African literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 216Geography of the World Economy3 credits
The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 403Global Health and Environmental Change3 credits
Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 404Environmental Management 23 credits
Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 408Geography of Development3 credits
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 416Africa South of the Sahara3 credits
A synthetic overview of physical and cultural geography examining particularly the relation of African peoples to their landscapes, the causes and consequences of environmental changes, and the idea of sustainable development as it applies to African landscapes, resource systems and economies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 381Colonial Africa3 credits
An overview of the history of foreign intervention and anticolonial resistance in 19th and 20th century Africa. Topics include: theories of colonialism, the scramble for Africa, colonialism and disease, indirect rule, labour, nationalism and resistance, and changing gender roles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 382History of South Africa3 credits
History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 498Independent Research3 credits
Exceptionally, and under the direction of a member of staff, advanced and highly qualified students who have an extensive background in the proposed area of study, may pursue this independent study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 528Indian Ocean World Slave Trade3 credits
The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 221D1Introductory Arabic4.5 credits
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 221D2Introductory Arabic4.5 credits
See ISLA 221D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 360Islam and Politics in Africa3 credits
ISLA 375Sufi Women3 credits
The lives and contributions of famous female Muslim mystics. Historical and literary analysis of gender discourse in male-authored representations of these mystical Sufi women, as well as developments in theologies of the cosmic feminine in Sufi philosophical texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 410History: Middle-East 1798-19183 credits
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 530Advanced Sufism3 credits
Advanced explorations of various specialized texts and topics in Sufi history and thought. Focus on specific Sufi thinkers, Sufi texts and literary works in the original and translation, Sufism and gender, aspects of Sufi practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 227Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South3 credits
An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 522Seminar: Comparative Politics 1 3 credits
Seminar on comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 365Health and Development3 credits
Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 370Sociology: Gender and Development3 credits
Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 446Colonialism and Society3 credits
Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 484Emerging Democratic States3 credits
Focus on the sociological aspects of recent transitions to democracy within developing countries - particularly within Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Exploration of why democratization has taken place, to what extent it has been successful and the implications of democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 550Developing Societies3 credits
Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

World Islamic and Middle East Studies113 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit World Islamic and Middle East Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ISLA 221D1Introductory Arabic4.5 credits
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 221D2Introductory Arabic4.5 credits
See ISLA 221D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 322Lower Intermediate Arabic6 credits
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 322D1Lower Intermediate Arabic3 credits
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 322D2Lower Intermediate Arabic3 credits
See ISLA 322D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 423D1Higher Intermediate Arabic3 credits
Introduction to advanced grammatical constructions and vocabulary through readings of longer texts in Arabic, as well as conversation, and exposure to video/audio cultural materials. Continued exposition of Arabic grammar, including active and passive participles, conjunction of irregular verbs, and active and passive voices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 423D2Higher Intermediate Arabic3 credits
See ISLA 423D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 524Advanced Arabic 13 credits
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 525Advanced Arabic 23 credits
Advanced level of the Arabic language study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 526Colloquial Arabic3 credits
Dialectical vocabulary and grammar structures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 241D1Introductory Persian3 credits
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 241D2Introductory Persian3 credits
See ISLA 241D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 342D1Lower Intermediate Persian3 credits
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, embedded within a variety of short authentic Persian texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 342D2Lower Intermediate Persian3 credits
See ISLA 342D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 443D1Upper Intermediate Persian3 credits
Introduction to authentic texts about Persian culture, history, geography, politics, arts, and other topics relevant to Iran, as well as canonical poems of various modern and classical poets, and selected Persian proverbs and their meanings and connotations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 443D2Upper Intermediate Persian3 credits
See ISLA 443D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 545Advanced Persian 13 credits
Advanced level of Persian language study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 546Advanced Persian 23 credits
Advanced level of Persian language study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 232D1Introductory Turkish3 credits
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 232D2Introductory Turkish3 credits
See ISLA 232D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 333D1Lower Intermediate Turkish3 credits
Listening comprehension, reading, and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 333D2Lower Intermediate Turkish3 credits
See ISLA 333D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 434D1Higher Intermediate Turkish3 credits
Contemporary cultural texts in Turkish, including literature and media. Reading materials supported by audio visual media featuring modern spoken Turkish.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 434D2Higher Intermediate Turkish3 credits
See ISLA 434D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 535D1Advanced Turkish3 credits
Language acquisition - advanced Turkish.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 535D2Advanced Turkish3 credits
See ISLA 535D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 560Ottoman Turkish3 credits
Ottoman Turkish language, including the Ottoman script, grammar, vocabulary, and calligraphy styles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 251D1Introductory Urdu-Hindi3 credits
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 251D2Introductory Urdu-Hindi3 credits
See ISLA 251D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 352D1Intermediate Urdu-Hindi3 credits
Speech, comprehension, and reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the subjunctive, future, and past tenses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 352D2Intermediate Urdu-Hindi3 credits
See ISLA 352D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 553Advanced Urdu-Hindi 13 credits
Builds upon Intermediate Urdu-Hindi to introduce students to advanced grammatical constructions through reading of longer texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 554Advanced Urdu-Hindi 23 credits
Advanced study of grammatical constructions through reading long texts in the Urdu or Hindi script, conversation, and video/audio cultural materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 555Urdu Poetry3 credits
Interpretation of Urdu poetry for students with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of Urdu-Hindi language. Includes advanced grammar topics, cultural and historical background, and interpretation and analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 200Islamic Civilization3 credits
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 210Muslim Societies3 credits
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 300Special Topics 73 credits
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 305Topics in Islamic History3 credits
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 310Women in Islam3 credits
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 311History of the City-Islamic World3 credits
Cities and urban cultures throughout Islamic history, studying social organization and cultural history from the medieval to the colonial period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 315Ottoman State and Society to 18393 credits
The emergence and development of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings around 1300 until the Tanzimat Edict of Reform in 1839. A trajectory of Ottoman history from a small principality to a centralized empire, then to a decentralized governmental structure. In addition to chronological developments, questions of imperialideology and the management of ethnically and religiously diverse communities across a vast territory. Exploration of the place of the Ottomans in the early modern world, and their ideological and diplomatic rivalry with other major empires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 320Art of Islam3 credits
The visual culture of the Islamic world from the origins of the Muslim faith to the present. Focus on a variety of objects across a wide range of media, from well-known and significant buildings, lavish illustrated manuscripts, and courtly objects to everyday textiles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 325Introduction to Shi'i Islam3 credits
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 330Islamic Mysticism: Sufism3 credits
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 355Modern History of the Middle East3 credits
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 360Islam and Politics in Africa3 credits
ISLA 365Middle East Since the 1970's3 credits
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 370The Qur’an: History and Interpretation3 credits
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur’anic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur’ān.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 375Sufi Women3 credits
The lives and contributions of famous female Muslim mystics. Historical and literary analysis of gender discourse in male-authored representations of these mystical Sufi women, as well as developments in theologies of the cosmic feminine in Sufi philosophical texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 380Islamic Philosophy and Theology3 credits
A survey of the most important philosophers and theologians in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on the theories they articulated and the movements they engendered. The impact of European thought on 19th and 20th century Islamic intellectual history is also examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 383Central Questions in Islamic Law3 credits
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 385Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature3 credits
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 388Persian Literature3 credits
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 390Islamic Reform and Radicalism: Middle East3 credits
The process of modernization and reform in the late Ottoman period in Greater Syria, including Lebanon, Iran and Iraq leading up to the rise of modern nation states and the call for secularization in several Middle Eastern countries through the lens of Shi`ite Muslim citizens. The tensions that characterize the interface between the secular state and Islamic law in modern times. The voices of religious modernists, liberal secularists, leftists, and Islamists. Diverse Arab and Iranian thinkers and the historical forces, the political and socio-economic conditions that shaped their approaches to religious modernism, secularism, public religion and the Shari`a.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 392Arabic Literature as World Literature3 credits
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 395Melancholic Migrants3 credits
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 499World Islamic and Middle East Studies Internship. 13 credits
ISLA 410History: Middle-East 1798-19183 credits
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 411History: Middle-East 1918-19453 credits
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 415Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach3 credits
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 420Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval3 credits
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 421Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent3 credits
Survey of Islamicate legacies in South Asia from circa 1000;1947 Common Era, with a focus on the beginnings of Muslim political power in South Asia, the meaning of conversion to Islam before British colonialism, Muslim interactions with the non-Muslim majority, and Islamicate aesthetic legacies in the subcontinent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 430Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba 3 credits
ISLA 488Tales of Wonder-Islamic World3 credits
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 489Special Topics 63 credits
Selected topics in Islamic and Middle East studies. Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 502Art in the Age of Empires3 credits
This course offers a wide-ranging survey of visual culture under the three Muslim superpowers of the early modern period: the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids of Iran, and the Mughals of India. The course will examine the nature of these states and their distinctive and vibrant artistic idiom on a comparative basis. Topics include the formation of imperial ideology and its visual articulation; palaces and court culture; artistic organization, authorship, and agency; patronage, gender, piety, as well as cross-cultural interaction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 505Islam: Origin and Early Development3 credits
The Qur'an, Hadith, the Shari'a and their major themes. The early development of law, theology and Sufism. The development and formation of an Islamic "orthodoxy", the development and nature of competing interpretations of Islam during the Classical Period. Topics: God, revelation, prophecy, the community and the individual and the meaning of history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 506Revolutions: Arab Middle East and North Africa3 credits
The post-Ottoman Arab world; major socio-political transformations and revolutions in the 20th century Middle Eastern and North African Arab countries; the historical contexts that shaped them and their implications. Interdisciplinarity (anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, law), effects of revolutionson individuals and societies; the cause of these revolutions; the impact of the modernization/reforms, colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements on them; the diverse compositions and aims of these revolutions; types of social groups and political organizationsand societies that were drawn to these revolutions and why; and the role colonial and postcolonial powers played in them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 511Medieval Islam, 10th-12th Century3 credits
Socio-political, religious and intellectual developments in Muslim societies following the weakening of the Arab-Sunni Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad during the tenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation and features of the Seljuq and Buyid dynasties as well as the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 512Art of the Ottoman Empire3 credits
This course examines artistic production of the large and long-lived empire of the Ottomans. Focusing on key monuments of art and architecture, discussion will revolve around issues relating to imperial identity, patronage, court-culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 515The Medieval School in Islam3 credits
Schooling in medieval Islamic society particularly in Iraq, Greater Syria, Persia, and Egypt. Sheds light on the structure of learning, aims of education, the life of students including women, and their relationship to their teachers. Illuminates forms of academic evaluation, and looks closely at the "scholarly license" as an accrediting tool delineating its function and scope. Through a set of representative studies on the medieval school, it brings attention to the heated debates surrounding the academic rigor of this form of learning, and the place of scientific learning in it, as well as the historical connection between it and the early European college.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 516Medieval Islam, 13th-15th Century3 credits
The historical circumstances surrounding the Crusades against Muslims in Greater Syria and Egypt. The socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation of Muslim society following the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the rise of the Ikl-Khanid Mongols in Iran and Iraq, as well as the Mamluks in Syria and Egypt. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of new Persian, Turkish, and Indian populations into Islamic imperial culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 530Advanced Sufism3 credits
Advanced explorations of various specialized texts and topics in Sufi history and thought. Focus on specific Sufi thinkers, Sufi texts and literary works in the original and translation, Sufism and gender, aspects of Sufi practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 580Ottoman Institutions3 credits
ISLA 581Special Topics 13 credits
Selected topics in Islamic studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 582Special Topics 23 credits
Selected topics in Islamic Studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 585Arab Women's Literature3 credits
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 209Anthropology of Religion3 credits
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 318Globalization and Religion3 credits
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 327Anthropology of South Asia3 credits
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 209Introduction to South Asian History3 credits
Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 240Modern History of Islamic Movements3 credits
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 305Themes in Middle East History3 credits
Exploration of a theme in the history of the Middle East.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 340History of Modern Egypt3 credits
Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 341Themes in South Asian History3 credits
Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 435Topics in South Asian History3 credits
In-depth discussion and research on a topic in the history of South Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 446Topics in Middle East History3 credits
Examination of a selected topic in the history of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 591D1Modern Middle East History3 credits
Topics in the history of the modern Middle East.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 591D2Modern Middle East History3 credits
Topics in the history of the modern Middle East.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 220D1Introductory Hebrew3 credits
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 220D2Introductory Hebrew3 credits
See JWST 220D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 245Jewish Life in the Islamic World3 credits
Until the early modern period, most of the world’s Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 261History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought3 credits
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 312Modern Jewish History3 credits
Exploration of major transformations to Jewish society and identity in the modern period. Topics include nationalism, emancipation, acculturation, modernity, relations with non-Jews, popular culture, and literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 320D1Intermediate Hebrew3 credits
This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 320D2Intermediate Hebrew3 credits
See JWST 320D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 323The Israeli Novel3 credits
In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 334Jews and Muslims: A Modern History3 credits
This course examines the modern history of Jewish-Muslim relations beyond just conflict. We will look at the experience of Jews and Muslims -- as individuals and communities -- who charted new cultural territory while navigating colonialism, nationalism, war, and decolonization, through close readings of a wide variety of primary sources (including letters, memoirs, fiction, music, film, and photography) and historical scholarship.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 338Jewish Philosophy and Thought 23 credits
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 340D1Advanced Hebrew3 credits
Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 340D2Advanced Hebrew3 credits
See JWST 340D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 348Modern Jewish Studies3 credits
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 366History of Zionism3 credits
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 367Hebrew through Israeli Cinema3 credits
An opportunity to analyze Israeli cinema from different periods, spanning 1948 to the present. While participating primarily in Hebrew with some assignments in English, students in this course will be invited to engage actively with the social, political, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of these films.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 370Israeli Popular Culture3 credits
Israel's multifaceted contemporary culture including music, theatre and the visual arts, as well as stand-up comedy, dance, film and TV series, and contemporary Israeli society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 356Early Medieval Philosophy3 credits
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 340Comparative Politics of the Middle East3 credits
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 341Foreign Policy: The Middle East3 credits
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 347Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace3 credits
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 204Judaism, Christianity and Islam3 credits
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 307Bible, Quran and Interpretations3 credits
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 309World Religions and Cultures They Create3 credits
RELG 440Global Islam3 credits
Western scholarship has oscillated between orientalizing Islam and co-opting it into the Western (Abrahamic) fold of religious traditions. The course will challenge both perspectives by exploring Islam’s dynamic unfolding across a variety of civilizational regions and during subsequent epochs. Its patterns of premodern globalization are nowadays retrieved, sometimes by fitting Islamic cultures into neoliberal patterns of globalization, more often by sidelining or overlaying the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. The course will show how Islamic traditions have, both in history and in the present, developed unique intellectual tools and practical resources to interface both with ‘radical’ (Abrahamic) and ‘dialogic’ (non-Abrahamic) religious traditions: from the West (also via labor-based migration), through Central and South Asia, to East and Southeast Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Canadian Studies56 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Canadian Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

CANS 200Understanding Canada3 credits
Key cultural, economic, social and political institutions and their evolution over time.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 420Shaping Public Affairs in Canada3 credits
Exploration of key aspects of public affairs and leadership in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 306Topics in Indigenous Public Affairs 3 credits
INDG 200Introduction to Indigenous Studies3 credits
The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches. Introduction to the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous life in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 413Canada and Quebec Seminar3 credits
Comparison of Canada and Quebec.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
QCST 200Introduction to the Study of Quebec3 credits
Introduction to the ideas and approaches that scholars have used and developed to study Quebec, including some of the foremost issues that have shaped Quebec historically and continue to influence contemporary life. The changing notions about territory, identity, language, citizenship and belonging, the complexity and diversity of Quebec (11 Aboriginal nations, multilingual, multiethnic and religious communities, minority status within Canada) will also be explored from a comparative perspective to identify characteristics that Quebec shares with other nations and those that are different.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
QCST 440Contemporary Issues in Quebec3 credits
Seminar on a selected theme or topic concerning Quebec society with the goal of integrating social, economic, cultural, political and historic aspects.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 203Making Canada3 credits
An investigation of specific material objects and cultural phenomena, to explore past and present Canadian cultures and to place them in their broader social and historical contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 219Current Economic Problems: Topics3 credits
This course will deal with topical issues of importance to the Canadian economy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 228Canadian Literature 13 credits
A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 1.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 229Canadian Literature 23 credits
A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 2. A continuation of ENGL 228 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 252Littérature québécoise3 credits
Introduction à la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 202Survey: Canada to 18673 credits
A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 203Survey: Canada since 18673 credits
A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 221Government of Canada3 credits
An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 222Political Process and Behaviour in Canada3 credits
An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 230Sociology of Ethnic Relations3 credits
An introduction to the sociological study of minority groups in Canada. The course will explore the themes of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, ethnic and racial inequalities, cultural identities, multiculturalism, immigration. Theoretical, empirical, and policy issues will be discussed. While the focus will be primarily on Canada, comparisons will be made with the United States.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 300Topics in Canadian Studies 13 credits
An historical explanation of the Canadian experience of nationalism from the Patriotes to the First Nations, with reference to politics, economics, iconography, ideology and multicultural experience.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 301Topics in Canadian Studies 23 credits
An interdisciplinary course on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 307Canada in the World3 credits
Canada's interaction with other countries and regions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 308Sex and Gender in Canada3 credits
Sex and gender in Canada in the past and the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 310Canadian Cultures: Context and Issues3 credits
This course traces the history of Canadian cultures from the middle of the 19th century to the present. It focuses on the diversity of Canadian cultural identities through literature, drama, art and the mass media.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 311Topics in Canadian Public Affairs 13 credits
An interdisciplinary selected topic dealing with Canadian public affairs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 312Topics in Canadian Public Affairs 23 credits
An interdisciplinary selected topic dealing with Canadian public affairs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 315Indigenous Art and Culture3 credits
An examination of the work of selected First Nations, MÃ©tis and Inuit artists in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 401Canadian Studies Seminar 13 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 402Canadian Studies Seminar 23 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 404Canadian Studies Seminar 43 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 405Canadian Studies Seminar 53 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 406Canadian Studies Seminar 63 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar on a Canadian Studies topic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 408Individual Reading Course3 credits
Supervised reading on an explicitly multidisciplinary topic under the direction of a professor working in the field of Canadian Studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 499Internship - Canadian Studies3 credits
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 338Indigenous Studies of Anthropology3 credits
Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 302Aspects of Canadian Art3 credits
An examination of selected subjects relevant to a specific period of art in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 303Canadian Economic Policy3 credits
Major theories of how economic policy is made and goes on to use economic tools of analysis to investigate selected policy problems of current interest.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 305Industrial Organization3 credits
The course analyzes the structure, conduct, and performance of industries, particularly but not exclusively in Canada. Topics include effects of mergers, barriers to entry, product line and promotion policies, vertical integration, and R & D policies of firms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 308Governmental Policy Towards Business3 credits
Covers the major public policies toward business in Canada, such as competition policy, regulation, public ownership and privatization, industrial policies, and trade policies. Includes comparison with policies of other countries, especially the U.S. Readings will include some legal decisions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 313Canadian Drama and Theatre3 credits
Dramatic forms and theatrical practices in Canada from beginnings to the present day.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 393Canadian Cinema3 credits
A study of Canadian cinema.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 315Cinéma québécois3 credits
Étude thématique du cinéma québécois à travers ses principaux films.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 303History of Quebec3 credits
Covering Quebec history from New France to contemporary times, this course will include themes like ethnic relations, citizenship, gender and material culture. It is of particular interest to students in Education who foresee teaching about Quebec.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 342Canada and the World3 credits
Explores the relationships between the societies of Northern North America, including what is now Canada, and the wider world, from c. 1500 to the present. Key themes include migration, diplomacy, empire, colonialism, business, trade, war, international development, and the circulation of culture and ideas. Attention is paid not only to European empires and the Canadian state but also to Indigenous peoples, nongovernmental organizations, migrants, workers, and activists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 343Women in Post-Confederation Canada3 credits
This course examines women's contribution to the economic and social development of Canada as well as the changes in the image and status of women. Special emphasis will be on the relationship between women's roles in the private sphere and the public domain.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 357Cultural Diversity in Canada3 credits
Selected topics in cultural diversity, society and the state in 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 363Canada 1870-19143 credits
This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 364Canada 1914-19453 credits
This course will examine Canada and Canadian society between 1914 and 1945. It will focus on the social, political, economic and cultural impact of the two World Wars and the economic crisis of the 1930s. Among the topics will be Canadian external relations, political and social protest, popular culture, demographic changes and prohibition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 367Canada since 19453 credits
Elements of Canada's political, social, economic, and cultural history since World War II. Topics will include constitutional questions, gender and class issues, the role of the state, regionalism, consumer society, the Quiet Revolution, and nationalism in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 395Melancholic Migrants3 credits
The histories, cultures, and racial politics of South Asians and Muslims of North America and the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present. Focusing on South Asians (regardless of religious identity), Black Muslims, Latine Muslims, Arabs and Berbers, Turks and other post-/Ottoman peoples, Iranians, and white Muslims, with special attention to the Montreal context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LING 325Canadian English3 credits
A diverse, interdisciplinary set of perspectives on the English language in Canada, including its status as one of many Canadian languages and as the expressive medium of English-Canadian culture, the history of English-speaking settlement in Canada, and linguistic analysis of its main distinguishing features, regional variation and changes in progress.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 336Le Québec et le Canada3 credits
Comment les Canadiens anglais et les Québécois se perçoivent-ils? Les différences culturelles entre les deux groupes. Les relations politiques et économiques entre les deux groupes. L'impact de la Révolution Tranquille. La place des francophones et des anglophones dans la vie collective. Les projets de réaménagement du cadre politique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 372Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State3 credits
The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 417Health Care in Canada3 credits
This course analyzes the theory and politics of health policy and institutions, comparing provincial models and contextualizing Canadian systems with international perspectives from the U.S. and Europe. Current health reform debates will be explored, particularly those involving federal-provincial relations, sustainable financing and the role of the state in social protection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 426Partis politiques et comportements électoraux au Québec3 credits
QCST 300Quebec Culture and Society3 credits
A multidisciplinary course that looks at Quebec's key social, economic, cultural, political and historical aspects.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 375Suspect Minorities in Canada3 credits
This course will address the challenge of diverse, liberal societies like Canada, of dealing with "suspect" minorities of various types --racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic -- from the perspective of the minority group, and majority group, and the society and polity at large.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 475Canadian Ethnic Studies Seminar3 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on current social sciences research and public policies in areas relating to Canadian ethnic studies. Topics will include ethnic and racial inequalities, prejudice and discrimination, ethnic identities and cultural expressions, the structure and organization of minority groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

International Development Studies181 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit International Development Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ECON 208Microeconomic Analysis and Applications3 credits
A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 313Economic Development 13 credits
Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 200Introduction to International Development3 credits
An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 202Socio-Cultural Anthropology3 credits
An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 207Ethnography Through Film3 credits
This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 212Anthropology of Development3 credits
Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 216Geography of the World Economy3 credits
The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 217Cities in the Modern World3 credits
An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 350Culture and Development3 credits
This is a general survey course intended to familiarize students with the complexities surrounding the interaction between culture and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific themes may include religion, democracy, gender, diaspora communities and the environment, using relevant case studies from the developing world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 227Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South3 credits
An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 243International Politics of Economic Relations3 credits
An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 244International Politics: State Behaviour3 credits
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 245Introduction aux relationsinternationales3 credits
Introduction aux principales composantes des relationsinternationales contemporaines–guerre, souveraineté,diplomatie, droit international, gouvernance mondiale,développement, droits humains, mondialisation, à traversune approche historique et relationnelle héritée de lasocio-histoire, de la sociologie politique, de l’histoiremondiale et des études postcoloniales telles quedéveloppées dans le monde francophone.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 254Development and Underdevelopment3 credits
Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 358The Process of Anthropological Research3 credits
The nature of anthropological research as evidenced in monographs and articles; processes of concept formation and interpretation of data; the problem of objectivity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 227D1Economic Statistics3 credits
Distributions, averages, dispersions, sampling, testing, estimation, correlation, regression, index numbers, trends and seasonals.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 227D2Economic Statistics3 credits
See ECON 227D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 437Methods for Causal Inference3 credits
Foundations for empirical methods in causal inference in empirical economics. Standard Ordinary Least Squares model and its limitations, counterfactual analysis, including randomized experiments, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 356Quantitative Methods for Development 3 credits
Introduction to quantitative methods for impact evaluation. Builds from fundamental concepts in statistics; introduction of an intuitive conceptual framework to think about causal effects. Simple but rigorous data analytics, design and implement randomized controlled trials, regression analysis, or implement other main methods for impact evaluation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 358Ethnographic Approaches to Development 3 credits
POLI 210Political Science Research Methods3 credits
This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 350Statistics in Social Research3 credits
This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 461Quantitative Data Analysis3 credits
This course blends theory and applications in regression analysis. It focuses on fitting a straight line regression using matrix algebra, extending models for multivariate analysis and discusses problems in the use of regression analysis, providing criteria for model building and selection, and using statistical software to apply statistics efficiently.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 477Qualitative Methods in Sociology3 credits
Introduction to qualitative research methods. Students will be exposed to various types of data collection (e.g., textual, observational) and data analysis techniques (e.g., in vivo coding) for qualitative data in an experiential, hands-on fashion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 200Introduction to African Studies3 credits
The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 325Sustainable Agriculture Field Course3 credits
Exposure to a foreign rural and agricultural context, to observe a variety of types of farm operations, cropping systems and techniques. The sustainability of these is discussed within their local social, environmental and economic landscapes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 411Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture3 credits
International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 430Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy3 credits
Examination of North American and international agriculture, food and resource policies, policy instruments, programs and their implications. Economic analysis applied to the principles, procedures and objectives of various policy actions affecting agriculture, and the environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 442Economics of International Agricultural Development3 credits
The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 206Environment and Culture3 credits
Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 209Anthropology of Religion3 credits
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 214Violence, Warfare, Culture3 credits
Cultural diversity and comparative perspectives on violence and warfare; sociological, political, materialist, psychological, and ideological explanations of conflict. Examines historical and contemporary cases of warfare in state and pre-state societies; 'ethnic', civil, nationalist secessionist and genocidal forms of conflicts; processes of conflict avoidance and resolution, peace-making and -keeping.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 222Legal Anthropology3 credits
Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 227Medical Anthropology3 credits
Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 302New Horizons in Medical Anthropology3 credits
Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 304Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film3 credits
Uses both ethnography and film to examine 20Ih century Chinese society and popular culture in the context of the revolution and its aftermath.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 308Political Anthropology 013 credits
The study of political systems and political processes. Conflict and its resolution. The emphasis of the course will be on local-level politics and non-industrial societies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 318Globalization and Religion3 credits
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 322Social Change in Modern Africa3 credits
The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 326Anthropology of Latin America3 credits
Central themes in the anthropology of Latin America, including colonialism, religiosity, sexuality and gender, indigeneity, social movements, and transnationalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 327Anthropology of South Asia3 credits
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 338Indigenous Studies of Anthropology3 credits
Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 339Ecological Anthropology3 credits
Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 343Anthropology and the Animal3 credits
This course explores through the ethnographic study of human-animal relations how the question of "the animal" helps us examine our central assumptions about what it means to be human.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 355Theories of Culture and Society3 credits
Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 418Environment and Development3 credits
Advanced study of the environmental crisis in developing and advanced industrial nations, with emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management and environmental change. Each year, the seminar will focus on a particular set of issues, delineated by type of resource, geographic region, or analytical problem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 438Topics in Medical Anthropology3 credits
Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 512Political Ecology3 credits
Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 575Concepts of Race3 credits
Examination of the evolution of the idea of race within anthropology, and the impact which the discipline's debates have had on society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CANS 315Indigenous Art and Culture3 credits
An examination of the work of selected First Nations, MÃ©tis and Inuit artists in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 211Introduction: East Asian Culture: China3 credits
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 213Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea3 credits
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 388Asian Migrations and Diasporas3 credits
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 515Seminar: Beyond Orientalism3 credits
Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 209Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications3 credits
A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 223Political Economy of Trade Policy3 credits
The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 314Economic Development 23 credits
Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 326Ecological Economics3 credits
Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 347Economics of Climate Change3 credits
The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 416Topics in Economic Development 23 credits
This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 473Income Distribution3 credits
Economics of income and wealth distribution, and the study of inequality. The dynamics of income, saving and wealth and their determinants. Macroeconomic implications. Effects of fiscal and redistributive programmes. The role of unemployment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 290Postcolonial and World Literatures in English3 credits
A critical introduction to the field of postcolonial and world literature studies, drawing on a selection texts from South and East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 440First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media3 credits
An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PPHS 511Fundamentals of Global Health3 credits
GEOG 221Environment and Health3 credits
Key chemical, physical, and social stressors in the environment, and how these affect the health of people and ecosystems. Hazards in air, water, food, and work environments. Historic, current, and future need for environmental health science, from scientific, personal, and practical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 302Environmental Management 13 credits
An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 303Health Geography3 credits
Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 310Development and Livelihoods3 credits
Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 311Economic Geography3 credits
Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 325New Master-Planned Cities3 credits
This course examines the origins, designs, motivations and cultural politics of planned cities, focusing primarily on those currently under construction in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A variety of themes will be explored including design responses to urban pollution and over-crowding, 'new' cities from earlier decades, totalitarianism and the city, utopianism, 'green' cities, and 'creative' cities. The course examines the various motivations underlying the design and construction of planned cities and how they are shaped by power, religion, and political ideologies. There will be a focus on evolving concepts used in city design as well as the continuities and cultural revivalism expressed through urban design and architecture. Students interested in urban and cultural geography, cities, architecture and planning in different cultural contexts will enjoy this course.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 360Analyzing Sustainability3 credits
Examines challenges to sustainability through a series of case studies to illustrate the analytical approaches used to understand the linkages between scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural aspect of systems. Includes cases that are thematic and place-based, national and international, spanning from the local to global scales.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 403Global Health and Environmental Change3 credits
Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 408Geography of Development3 credits
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 409Geographies of Developing Asia3 credits
Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 418Geographies of Race3 credits
Exploration of some ways race and racism manifest spatially, including how race and racism shape vast built environments in addition to intimate experiences of space. Historical, political, and cultural insight for the ongoing racial politics of place.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 425Southeast Asia Urban Field Studies3 credits
This course allows students to experience some of the urban changes taking place in Southeast Asian cities, a dynamic region, while providing the opportunity to connect recent scholarship with field observations. We will explore various current themes in urban studies and urban geography including globalization, the transnational circulation of urban policies, interpretations of culture and heritage / new built heritage, gentrification, migrant labour, public housing, creative clusters, and new cities as national economic strategies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 510Humid Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 200Introduction to African History3 credits
This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 201Modern African History3 credits
While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 206Indian Ocean World History3 credits
An introduction to the “global” system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 208Introduction to East Asian History3 credits
An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 209Introduction to South Asian History3 credits
Charts the making of South Asian civilization, 2500 BCE- 1707 CE, through a selection of key themes and major trends. Focus on the transformation of local kinship ties into regional kingdoms and empires, the evolution of religion and the legacy of the expansion of Islam and consequent rise of Turkish, Afghan and Mughal empires in this area.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 210Introduction to Latin American History 3 credits
Historical development of Latin America’s peoples through the pre-Columbian, colonial and national periods, c. 1300-2000. Introduces key historiographical debates of the subfield and emphasizes the interpretation of primary source texts (in translation).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 213World History, 600-20003 credits
A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 218Modern East Asian History3 credits
An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 223Indigenous Peoples and Empires3 credits
History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 240Modern History of Islamic Movements3 credits
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 317Themes in Indian Ocean World History3 credits
Examination of a selected theme or topic in the history of the Indian Ocean World.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 326History of the Soviet Union3 credits
The history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991, examining its origins in the collapse of autocracy, early Soviet utopianism, the rise of Stalin, the Second World War, Khrushchev’s reforms, the Cold War and the decline and eventual collapse of the USSR, as well as its legacies in the post-Soviet period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 328Themes in Modern Chinese History3 credits
Exploration of a theme in Modern Chinese history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 333Indigenous Peoples and French3 credits
Encounters between Indigenous Peoples and French newcomers in Canada and other parts of North America, 16th - 18th century. Through an examination of exploration, Catholic missions, trade, military alliances and colonization, the course focuses on the motives, outlooks and actions of both Indigenous Peoples and Europeans.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 338Twentieth-Century China3 credits
Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 340History of Modern Egypt3 credits
Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 341Themes in South Asian History3 credits
Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 363Canada 1870-19143 credits
This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 366Themes in Latin American History3 credits
Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 382History of South Africa3 credits
History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 408Selected Topics in Indigenous History 3 credits
HIST 439History of Women in China3 credits
This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 528Indian Ocean World Slave Trade3 credits
The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INDG 200Introduction to Indigenous Studies3 credits
The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches. Introduction to the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous life in Canada.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INDG 420Indigenous Food Sovereignty3 credits
Examination of food sovereignty as it relates to First Nation, Inuit, and Métis and their connection to the land as sustenance. The focus is on natural food sources and practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 250History of Development3 credits
A history of development, focusing on the ideologies as well as the practices that have shaped how empires, governments, corporations, and individuals have sought to 'improve' the world;most often, but not exclusively, in the global south. Themes will include colonialism, gender, race, economic growth, poverty, geopolitics, multilateralism, foreign aid, south-south relations, philanthropy, and the environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 352Disasters and Development 3 credits
Examines how disasters shape and are shaped by socio-economic conditions, inequalities and development processes through interdisciplinary investigation and a wide range of case studies. Analyzes disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts from the global to local levels, as well as survivors’ perspectives and experiences.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 354Civil Society and Development 3 credits
INTD 360Environmental Challenges in Development3 credits
Examination of some of the great environmental challenges of our times, and some of the ways in which the development community has tackled them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 490Development Research Project3 credits
Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 499Internship: International Development Studies3 credits
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 200Islamic Civilization3 credits
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 210Muslim Societies3 credits
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 305Topics in Islamic History3 credits
Subject matter will vary year to year, according to the instructor. Topic will be made available in Minerva.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 310Women in Islam3 credits
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 311History of the City-Islamic World3 credits
Cities and urban cultures throughout Islamic history, studying social organization and cultural history from the medieval to the colonial period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 325Introduction to Shi'i Islam3 credits
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 330Islamic Mysticism: Sufism3 credits
The varieties of "mystical" thought in Islam, primarily as seen in Sufism, its historical development and its place in Islamic culture. Analytical study of major authors, their writings and their central problems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 355Modern History of the Middle East3 credits
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 360Islam and Politics in Africa3 credits
ISLA 365Middle East Since the 1970's3 credits
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 370The Qur’an: History and Interpretation3 credits
It examines the history of the codification of the text, its form, and modes of interpretation in both the modern and pre-modern periods. Presentation of different schools of Qur’anic exegesis, including traditional hermeneutical approaches, and modern approaches such as feminist interpretations of the Qur’ān.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 383Central Questions in Islamic Law3 credits
An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 385Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature3 credits
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 388Persian Literature3 credits
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 390Islamic Reform and Radicalism: Middle East3 credits
The process of modernization and reform in the late Ottoman period in Greater Syria, including Lebanon, Iran and Iraq leading up to the rise of modern nation states and the call for secularization in several Middle Eastern countries through the lens of Shi`ite Muslim citizens. The tensions that characterize the interface between the secular state and Islamic law in modern times. The voices of religious modernists, liberal secularists, leftists, and Islamists. Diverse Arab and Iranian thinkers and the historical forces, the political and socio-economic conditions that shaped their approaches to religious modernism, secularism, public religion and the Shari`a.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 392Arabic Literature as World Literature3 credits
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 411History: Middle-East 1918-19453 credits
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 415Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach3 credits
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 421Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent3 credits
Survey of Islamicate legacies in South Asia from circa 1000;1947 Common Era, with a focus on the beginnings of Muslim political power in South Asia, the meaning of conversion to Islam before British colonialism, Muslim interactions with the non-Muslim majority, and Islamicate aesthetic legacies in the subcontinent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 430Islamdom: Baghdad to Cordoba 3 credits
LACS 497Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean3 credits
Counts toward International Development Studies when the topic is relevant to IDS.
McGill 2026–27 exact native course identity and credits: LACS 497
MGCR 382International Business3 credits
An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ORGB 380Cross Cultural Management3 credits
Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MGPO 435The Origins of Capitalism3 credits
This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization."
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MGPO 438Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation3 credits
Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MGPO 440Strategies for Sustainability3 credits
This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MGPO 469Managing Globalization3 credits
This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MGPO 475Strategies for Developing Countries3 credits
Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MSUS 402Systems Thinking and Sustainability3 credits
Examines interconnected dynamics of organizations and social, economic, and ecological systems. Introduces systems thinking principles to foster learning, inform organizational decision-making, and solve real-world problems. Covers problem diagnosis and resolution of organizational and societal sustainability issues through causal loop diagrams, stock-and-flow mapping, group model building, computational simulations and case studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NUTR 501Nutrition in the Majority World3 credits
Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 319Politics of Latin America3 credits
This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 322Political Change in South Asia3 credits
Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 324Comparative Politics of Africa3 credits
The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 338Topics in Comparative Politics 13 credits
Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 340Comparative Politics of the Middle East3 credits
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 341Foreign Policy: The Middle East3 credits
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 345International Organizations3 credits
The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 347Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace3 credits
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 349Foreign Policy: Asia3 credits
An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 350Global Environmental Politics3 credits
Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 352International Policy/Foreign Policy: Africa3 credits
A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 359Topics in International Politics 13 credits
A specific problem area in International Relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 369Politics of Southeast Asia3 credits
Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 372Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State3 credits
The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 380Contemporary Chinese Politics3 credits
This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 381Politics in Japan and South Korea3 credits
An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 422Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 13 credits
A specific problem area in comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 423Politics of Ethno-Nationalism3 credits
Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 435Identity and Inequality3 credits
Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 441International Political Economy: Trade3 credits
Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 442International Relations of Ethnic Conflict3 credits
Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 445International Political Economy: Monetary Relations3 credits
Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 450Peacebuilding3 credits
An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 476Religion and Politics3 credits
The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 253Religions of East Asia3 credits
This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 309World Religions and Cultures They Create3 credits
RELG 331Religion and Globalization3 credits
An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 353Gandhi: His Life and Thought3 credits
A study of the life and thought of Gandhi.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 370Religion and Human Rights3 credits
Social justice and human rights issues as key aspects of modem religious ethics. Topics include: the relationship of religion to the modem human rights movement; religious perspectives on the universality of human rights; the scope and limits of religious freedom; conflicts between religion and rights.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 375Religion, Politics and Society3 credits
A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 212International Migration3 credits
Introduction to social science research on international migration. Covers theories about why people migrate, constraints to migration, and various aspects of immigrant integration. Will explore key theoretical debates of the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 234Population and Society3 credits
Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 307Globalization3 credits
Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 309Health and Illness3 credits
Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 370Sociology: Gender and Development3 credits
Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 400Comparative Migration and Citizenship3 credits
Advanced course on international migration, belonging and diversity in contemporary societies. Will examine dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, the accommodation of cultural diversity, the adaptation of immigrants and how global international migration challenges and re-shapes citizenship. Will cover key theoretical debates in the field and the data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 446Colonialism and Society3 credits
Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 519Gender and Globalization3 credits
Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 520Migration and Immigrant Groups3 credits
Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 550Developing Societies3 credits
Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SWRK 400Policy and Practice for Refugees3 credits
Refugee-generating conflicts, international and national responses are considered. Canadian policy, history and response to refugees are analyzed. Theory-grounded practice with refugees is examined, including community organizing and direct service delivery to individuals and families.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SWRK 532International Social Work3 credits
Discussion based upon intensive study and reports on problems in selected countries. Emphasis on identifying major social problems, understanding the social forces bearing on those problems and considering appropriate professional approaches to aid in their solution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
URBP 530Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context 3 credits
Issues of practical and theoretical importance in relation to urban infrastructure and services in the international context: science and technology, political economy, policy analysis, policy implementation, public finance, and institutions and governance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Jewish Studies68 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Jewish Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

HIST 207Jewish History: 400 B.C.E. to 10003 credits
An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 219Jewish History: 1000 - 20003 credits
The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 211Jewish Studies 1: Biblical Period3 credits
The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 216Jewish Studies 2: 400 B.C.E. - 10003 credits
The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 217Jewish Studies 3: 1000 - 20003 credits
The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 327A Book of the Bible3 credits
One book of the Bible will be studied in its entirety in Hebrew. Emphasis on the contributions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (archaeology, comparative literature and Semitic linguistics) to understanding the text.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 330Topics in the Hebrew Bible3 credits
A selected topic of current interest in the Hebrew Bible will be studied in depth. Emphasis on the contributions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (archaeology, comparative literature, and Semitic linguistics) to understanding the text. Students may read the text in Hebrew or in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 340D1Advanced Hebrew3 credits
Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 340D2Advanced Hebrew3 credits
See JWST 340D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 367Hebrew through Israeli Cinema3 credits
An opportunity to analyze Israeli cinema from different periods, spanning 1948 to the present. While participating primarily in Hebrew with some assignments in English, students in this course will be invited to engage actively with the social, political, psychological and aesthetic dimensions of these films.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 370Israeli Popular Culture3 credits
Israel's multifaceted contemporary culture including music, theatre and the visual arts, as well as stand-up comedy, dance, film and TV series, and contemporary Israeli society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 510Jewish Bible Interpretation 13 credits
The issues, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation between the Biblical and Talmudic eras: Bible interpretation in the Bible; in Greco-Roman Jewish literature; in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Targumim, and Talmudim; early Samaritan interpretation, Bible interpretation in ancient synagogue art, and in the massoretic literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 511Jewish Bible Interpretation 23 credits
The issues, problems, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval, renaissance, early modern, and modern times. Interpretation in the Geonic, Ashkenazi, Sefardic, North African, Italian, European, Yemenite, North American and Israeli centres of Jewish Learning.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 520Bible Interpretation in Antiquity3 credits
Studies in bible interpretation in Antiquity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 538Early Rabbinic Parshanut 13 credits
Advanced level work on one aspect of Jewish Bible interpretation in late antiquity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 307Bible, Quran and Interpretations3 credits
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 307Jews in Poland3 credits
Analyses of primary sources (in translation) related to the social, economic and institutional history of the Jews in Poland and their place in the East European Jewish community. Topics include: the Jews during "The Flood'' (1648 - 1667), the communal crisis of the late 17th century, the Frankist movement, and Hasidism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 427The Hasidic Movement3 credits
A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 206Introduction to Yiddish Literature3 credits
A survey of Yiddish literature with a particular focus on the modern period (the 1860s to the present). As we read major works of Yiddish literature, we will discuss the main factors in its development, including its position as a minority literature, Ashkenazi civilization’s religious foundations and multilingualism, the rise of political movements, and the trauma of the Holocaust. In his Nobel lecture, Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer described Yiddish as “the idiom of the frightened and hopeful humanity.” We will explore both the reasons behind and the effects of such universalization of Yiddish language, literature, and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 240The Holocaust3 credits
Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 351Studies in Modern Jewish Literature3 credits
Within a comparative framework, this course examines cultural, thematic and artistic developments in the works of modern Jewish literature written in both Jewish and non-Jewish languages. For those without reading knowledge of the original, all works are available in English translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 361The Shtetl: 1500-18973 credits
Using historical, sociological, literary and cultural sources, this course will examine various aspects of communal and individual life in the shtetl, the Jewish - or largely Jewish - town in Eastern Europe.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 365Modern Jewish Ideologies3 credits
The rise and development of the various ideologies which attempt to define the Jews in historical, national and socio-cultural terms will be analyzed within the context of modern European nationalism. Selected texts of the Jewish Enlightenment, Science of Judaism, Peretz Smolenskin, Leon Pinsker, Simon Dubnow, Chaim Zhitlowsky and Ahad Ha-Am.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 366History of Zionism3 credits
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 381God and Devil in Modern Yiddish Literature3 credits
An exploration of some of the central themes in Yiddish literature: religious faith and doubt; the nature of good and evil; and the role of fear - both awe of the divine and terror of the demonic. We will discuss Yiddish writers’ use of East European Jewish folklore, the influence of Christian culture, as well as the effects of secularization, mass emigration, and the Holocaust. Readings will include works by major Yiddish writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including I. L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 383Holocaust Literature3 credits
Readings from Holocaust literature in English translation. Writers include Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Elie Wiesel, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, U.Z. Greenberg and others.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 485Tutorial in Yiddish Literature3 credits
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 486Tutorial in Yiddish Literature3 credits
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 585Tutorial: Eastern European Studies 13 credits
Individualized guided research on an approved topic in East European studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 586Tutorial: Eastern European Studies 23 credits
Indivisualized guided research on an approved topec in East European studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 572D1Seminar in Jewish History3 credits
Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 572D2Seminar in Jewish History3 credits
Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 230Antisemitism and Jewish Responses3 credits
Exploration of the history of enduring prejudice, starting with its origins in antiquity, including the diverse Jewish responses throughout history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 306The American Jewish Community3 credits
Issues affecting American Jewry in the post-World War I era until today and the American Jewish community's responses to those issues. Special emphasis on understanding the community responses and reactions to developments in both the American society and in the Jewish world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 314Denominations in North American Judaism3 credits
A survey of Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism in North America. Emphasis is placed on the ideology forwarded by the movements since their inception.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 315Modern Liberal Jewish Thought3 credits
The work of Mordecai Kaplan, followed by a study of several contemporary authors following feminist, mystical and postmodernist tendencies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EDER 318Teaching the Jewish Liturgy3 credits
An examination of curriculum developed for teaching prayer and fostering spirituality within Jewish educational frameworks. Excerpts from the liturgy of the Jewish people are studied with an emphasis on the theological, moral, and philosophical issues that they raise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 201Jewish Law3 credits
The nature and history of Jewish law; literary and legal sources; selections in English from the Mishnah and Talmud, as well as selected post-Talmudic Texts, on such subjects as Contracts, Torts, Public Law and Family Law.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 261History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought3 credits
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 337Jewish Philosophy and Thought 13 credits
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. Contemporary Muslim and Christian theologians and philosophers.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 338Jewish Philosophy and Thought 23 credits
Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 358Topics in Jewish Philosophy 13 credits
Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 359Topics in Jewish Philosophy 23 credits
Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 474Maimonides' Mishneh Torah3 credits
Study of the Moses Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, including such subjects as idolatry, repentance, and sacrifices, to torts, contracts, and public law.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 558Topics: Modern Jewish Thought3 credits
Studies of topics in Modern Jewish thought. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 199FYS: Images - Jewish Identities3 credits
A seminar devoted to literary portrayals of Jews by Jews and non-Jews from Biblical times to the present. Both positive and negative understandings of Jewish identity and Judaism will be studied.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 220D1Introductory Hebrew3 credits
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 220D2Introductory Hebrew3 credits
See JWST 220D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 225Literature and Society3 credits
A panoramic analysis of Israeli society through poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and testimonial narratives reflecting the country's historical, ideological and ethnic complexity. In English translation, we will read Oz, Amichai, Habibi, Har-Even and Yehoshua, as well as new authors from divergent ethnic, religious and ideological positions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 320D1Intermediate Hebrew3 credits
This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 320D2Intermediate Hebrew3 credits
See JWST 320D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 323The Israeli Novel3 credits
In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 325Israeli Literature in Translation3 credits
Survey of contemporary Israeli fiction that reflects Israel's cultural, political, and historical concerns. Authors may include Yehoshua, Oz, Librecht, Michael, Shamir, Castel-Bloom, and others.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 403Contemporary Hebrew Literature3 credits
Israeli literature in its original language with emphasis on in-depth literary analysis. Texts read in Hebrew; assignments may be written in English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 281Introductory Yiddish 13 credits
An introduction to Yiddish, the millennium-old language of Ashkenazic Jews. This course will cover basic grammar and vocabulary and will include practice in speaking, reading, and writing. The course materials draw on Yiddish literature, humor, songs, and films, and will thus allow students to combine the acquisition of practical language skills with an exploration of Yiddish culture;from its beginnings in medieval Germany through its past and present in Central and Eastern Europe, the Americas, Israel, and all over the world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 282Introductory Yiddish 23 credits
This course is designed for students with a basic command of Yiddish who wish to improve their knowledge of the language and to further explore the culture behind it. Further development of the four language skills - speaking, reading, writing, and listening - with a particular emphasis on expanding vocabulary and improving grammar. Basic overview of the main Yiddish dialects. Course materials include selections from Yiddish literature, humor, songs, and films of Jewish life past and present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 387Modern Jewish Authors3 credits
Introduction to representative novels written in America by Jews from the 1950s to the present. Issues of Jewish identity, ethnicity will inform our discussions. Focus on contemporary Jewish authors; consideration of the ways in which the complexities of American life are re-scripted in these novels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 480Advanced Yiddish 13 credits
Development of advanced Yiddish language skills in conversation and discussion, composition, and oral presentation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the reading and paraphrasing of a variety of literary texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 481Advanced Yiddish 23 credits
Additional development of advanced Yiddish language skills in conversation and discussion, composition, and oral presentation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the reading and paraphrasing of a variety of literary texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EDER 319Teaching the Holocaust3 credits
An examination of approaches, strategies, and techniques of teaching the Holocaust, including methodologies for using the Holocaust as a basis for teaching about prejudice, cultural identity, racism, human rights and moral responsibility.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 309Jews in Film3 credits
An introduction to the portrayal of Jews in film from the 1920s to the present. Films to be studied will usually be based on literary texts in English, which will form part of the required study. Films in languages other than English will be subtitled.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 346Modern Jewish Studies3 credits
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 348Modern Jewish Studies3 credits
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 349Modern Jewish Studies3 credits
Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 386American Jewish Literature3 credits
An intensive study of American Jewish novels from the 1900s to the present. Attention to representations of gender, class and Jewishness as seen in relation to changing notions of America. Focus on ways novels represent and wrestle with Jewish difference.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 347Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace3 credits
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 316Social and Ethical Issues Jewish Law 13 credits
A brief introduction to the nature and history of Jewish law. Topics include: redemption of hostages; abortion; death and dying.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 345Introduction to Rabbinic Literature3 credits
An introduction to the study of Rabbinic texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

German Studies43 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit German Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

GERM 200German Language, Intensive Beginners6 credits
An intensive language course designed to develop communicative skills; covers the first level ( GERM 202D1 / GERM 202D2 ) in one term. Required for program students.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 202German Language, Beginners'6 credits
A comprehensive first-level course designed to develop communicative skills.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 202D1German Language, Beginners'3 credits
A comprehensive first level course designed to develop communicative skills.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 202D2German Language, Beginners3 credits
See GERM 202D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 300German Language Intensive Intermediate6 credits
Continuation of GERM 200 ; covers the second level ( GERM 307D1 / GERM 307D2 ) in one term.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 307German Language - Intermediate6 credits
Review of grammar, further development of basic skills; literary and cultural readings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 307D1German Language - Intermediate3 credits
Review of grammar, further development of basic skills; literary and cultural readings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 307D2German Language - Intermediate3 credits
See GERM 307D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 325German Language - Intensive Advanced6 credits
This course aims at developing post-intermediate proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, with emphasis on oral and written expression. Special attention is given to word formation and to the proper choice of grammatical structures, vocabulary, and phraseology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 255German Holocaust Memory3 credits
Exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of German Holocaust memory through the examination of texts, artworks, monuments, and debates on memory politics. Delves into the intricate interplay between history, culture, and remembrance in the aftermath of one of the darkest chapters in human history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 259Introduction to German Literature 13 credits
Introduction to the major authors, genres, and topics of German literature from the Middle Ages to the Age of Goethe, including the Nibelungenlied, Faust, classical tragedy, and the rise of the novel.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 260Introduction to German Literature 23 credits
Introduction to the major authors, genres, and topics of German literature from the 19th century to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 326Topics: German Language and Culture3 credits
This course aims to both improve students’ speaking and writing skills at the intermediate and advanced levels and to deepen their understanding of German culture through contemporary short texts and films. Topics include migration and national identity, memory and history, gender roles, and intergenerational conflicts. Students develop their transcultural competencies through critical engagement with the course materials. Selected grammatical topics will be reviewed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 331Germany after Reunification3 credits
The events which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the changing cultural, social, political and economic landscape of the 'New Germany'. Highlighting issues of cultural and social politics, texts discussed include historical, literary and film material.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 332Topics in Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Culture3 credits
Study of specific topics as they relate to eighteenth-century German literature and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 335Science and Literature3 credits
This course examines the complex exchanges between science and literature across German literature and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 336German Language, Media and Culture3 credits
Introduction to German culture through literary and non-literary texts, film, multimedia, commercials, painting and photography. By learning how to read these cultural productions, students will refine their communication skills, expand reading strategies, build vocabulary, and review selective grammatical structures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 337Literature and Revolution3 credits
Seminar on the relationship between literature and political, social and aesthetic change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 340Romanticism3 credits
This course examines one of the pivotal moments of cultural transition in German literary history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 344Realism3 credits
What are the different ways social life has been represented in German literature and culture?
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 348Nature and Ecopoetics3 credits
This course examines how German literature and culture engage with and construct an understanding of nature and the environment
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 350Modernism and the Avant-Garde3 credits
This course will focus on the variety of German modernisms and their schools of thought.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 351Berlin3 credits
Interdisciplinary study of the quintessential modern centers within Germanic speaking Europe.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 355Nietzsche and Wagner3 credits
This course examines the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the composer Richard Wagner. It explores their intellectual kinship, their view of art, music, and philosophy in the context of Nietzsche's critique of modernity and decadence and analyzes the Third Reich's and Hollywood's appropriation of Nietzsche and Wagner.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 357German Culture in European Context3 credits
A comparative examination of selected moments in German literary, artistic and cultural history in relation to broader European movements; focus on influences, exchanges and dialogues across national boundaries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 358Franz Kafka3 credits
This course will look at the works on Franz Kafka, a "classic" modernist author, in three characteristic genres: the story, the novel, and the short prose piece. A selection of Kafka's letters and diary entries as well as critical approaches to his work will also be studied.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 36220th Century Literature Topics3 credits
Introduction to selected topics and genres in twentieth century literature and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 364Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture3 credits
In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 365Modern Short Fiction3 credits
A study of short prose forms in German throughout history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 366Lyric Poetry3 credits
Introduction to the study of German Poetry from the Middle Ages to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 368Fin-de-Siècle Vienna3 credits
Interdisciplinary study of one of the formative periods of modern European culture; examination of literature, art, thought, culture and politics in Vienna around 1900.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 369The German Novel3 credits
Sustained engagement with the major texts of the German novel from Grimmelshausen to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 371German Cinema3 credits
Survey of German cinema from its inception to the present
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 372Topics in German Cinema3 credits
This course investigates a special topic related to the history of German cinema.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 373Weimar German Cinema3 credits
Weimar Cinema brought to the screen a world populated by monsters, lunatics, workers, vamps, strangers, and doubles. These figures embodied the tensions and fears of the Weimar period (1919-1933) in a manner that continues to attract audiences today. This course explores the cultural and political history of the Weimar period through Weimar cinema. It aims to introduce the student to the fundamentals of film analysis, especially formal analysis and textual analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 375German Media Studies3 credits
Introduction to the history of German media studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 379German Visual Culture3 credits
This course engages with the different strands of German visual culture across media.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 381Topics in German Thought3 credits
Special topics on German intellectual history and its contributions to major philosophical traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 385Critical Theory3 credits
Engagement with the history of critique from Kant to Adorno.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 388Post-Wall Culture3 credits
Upper level seminar exploring topics in German culture after unification.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 390Topics in 21st Century German Literature and Culture3 credits
Study of pressing contemporary themes within German literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 397Individual Reading Course 013 credits
Given solely at the discretion of the instructor.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 580Topics in German Literature and Culture3 credits
Topics in eighteenth-century German literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Hispanic Studies35 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Hispanic Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

HISP 210D1Spanish Language: Beginners3 credits
A comprehensive first-level course focusing on all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 210D2Spanish Language: Beginners3 credits
See HISP 210D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 218Spanish Language Intensive - Elementary6 credits
A comprehensive first-level course focusing upon all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 219Spanish Language Intensive - Intermediate6 credits
A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 220D1Spanish Language: Intermediate3 credits
A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 220D2Spanish Language: Intermediate3 credits
A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and cultural aspects of Spain and Spanish America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 225Hispanic Civilization 13 credits
A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 226Hispanic Civilization 23 credits
A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 245Introduction to Hispanic Literature3 credits
Topics in Spanish and Latin American narrative, essay, poetry, theater and art, including advanced skills in Spanish reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 246Contemporary Issues in the Hispanic World3 credits
Topics in current social, political, and cultural issues in Latin America and Spain, including advanced skills in Spanish reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 247Introduction to Hispanic Popular Cultures3 credits
Topics in Spanish and Latin American popular music, art, film, textual, fashion, food and digital cultures, including advanced skills in Spanish reading, listening, speaking,and writing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 248Introduction to Hispanic Cinema3 credits
Topics in Spanish and Latin American film, including advanced skills in Spanish reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 320Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Film3 credits
This course introduces students to Brazilian literature and film from the early 20th century to the present day. Students will examine literary works and films from a historical perspective, studying the social, political and regional processes in which they are embedded. From the barren Northeast, to an analysis of gender and race, to urban violence and its manifestations to the contemporary cityscape, this course covers a range of visual and textual material. Students will engage works from major Brazilian authors and filmmakers in conjunction with theoretical texts to better understand some of the main developments in contemporary cultural production.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 325Spanish Novel of the 19th Century3 credits
The Romantic, Realist and Naturalist novel in Spain, with special emphasis on the development of the Spanish novel in relation to contemporary trends in other European countries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 326Spanish Romanticism3 credits
The aesthetic and historical development of Romanticism, with special emphasis on lyric poetry and drama.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 328Literature of Ideas: Latin America3 credits
Critical reading and discussion of works of outstanding thinkers as a key to understanding the cultural development of a continent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 332Latin American Literature of 19th Century3 credits
An intensive study of representative authors from the period of Independence to the advent of Modernism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 333Theatre, Performance and Politics in Latin America3 credits
A study of the outstanding works of the theatre from the colonial period to the present, including pre-Columbian works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 335Politics and Poetry in Latin America3 credits
An examination of Latin American poetry as ithas been used for the expression of racialpolitics, government and economic oppression,identity and gender politics, revolution andactivism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 340Latin American Cinema3 credits
A study of representative films, directors and movements of the region. Topic specified by instructor.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 341Spanish Cinema3 credits
A study of representative films, directors and movements of the region. Topic specified by instructor.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 345Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies3 credits
This course examines contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies looking at both cultural artifacts and diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. In doing so, it will introduce students to the frameworks necessary for approaching contemporary culture in the Hispanic World. The course will be mindful of issues including ideology, class, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Students will come into contact with the major cultural theorists in the Hispanic World and those issues pertinent to the study of culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 352Latin American Novel3 credits
Critical reading and discussion of contemporary Spanish-American fiction writers.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 356Latin American Short Story3 credits
Study of style, tendencies and types as reflected in the evolution of this genre, and seen against the background of a developing continent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 357Latin American Digital Literature and Culture3 credits
This course will examine digital cultural production in Latin America from 1990 to the present day. This course introduces students to theoretical frameworks necessary for approaching new media and web-based cultural artifacts, both literary and visual. Students will come into contact with the major writers, artists and web-based cultural producers in Latin America and issues pertinent to the study of the Web in the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 358Gender and Textualities3 credits
Historical development and literary tendencies regarding gender and sexuality in Hispanic literature, film, and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 432Literature - Discovery and Exploration Spain New World3 credits
A study of the primary literary and intellectual developments stemming from Spain's discovery of the Americas. Special attention will be given to the changing perception of the New World's natural resources and indigenous peoples as this is reflected in the literature of the period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 437Colonial / Postcolonial Latin America3 credits
A study of the dialogue between colonial and postcolonial Latin American texts and theories.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 438Topics: Spanish Literature3 credits
Specific topics of interest in Spanish literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 439Topics: Latin American Literature3 credits
Specific topics of interest in Spanish-American literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 451Don Quixote3 credits
Course on the canonical work by Cervantes, Don Quixote. The course will focus on the first modern novel as well as on a number of critical readings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 454Major Figures: Spanish Literature and Culture3 credits
Specific figures of interest in Spanish literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 455Major Figures: Latin American Literature and Culture3 credits
Specific figures of interest in Spanish-American literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 458Golden Age Literature: Renaissance3 credits
A comprehensive examination of the poetry, prose and drama of the Renaissance in Spain through representative authors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 505Seminar in Hispanic Studies 013 credits
A team-taught seminar examining major issues in Hispanic letters that transcend national literatures and historical periods. Although the specific topics will vary, each will address broad questions of a diachronic nature, thereby permitting an understanding of literary schools and movements, genres or ideologies present throughout the Hispanic world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Italian Studies34 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Italian Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

ITAL 205D1Italian for Beginners3 credits
Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 205D2Italian for Beginners3 credits
See ITAL 205D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 206Beginners Italian Intensive6 credits
Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1 / ITAL 205D2 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 210D1Italian for Advanced Beginners3 credits
Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 210D2Italian for Advanced Beginners3 credits
See ITAL 210D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 215D1Intermediate Italian3 credits
Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1 / ITAL 205D2 . Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 215D2Intermediate Italian3 credits
See ITAL 215D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 216Intermediate Italian Intensive6 credits
Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1 / ITAL 215D2 . Direct continuation of ITAL 206 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 250Italian Literary Composition3 credits
Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 255Advanced Reading and Composition6 credits
The understanding of grammatical structures through a variety of exercises; paraphrasing, translating, composition and discussion. Particular emphasis will be placed on syntax through the study of contemporary texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 260Reading Italian Literature3 credits
A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 290Commedia Dell'Arte3 credits
Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 295Italian Cultural Studies3 credits
A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 310The Invention of Italian Literature3 credits
The course presents Italian's major texts and authors over the ages, by critically exploring how the invention of Italian literature impacts the formation of a national identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 329Italian Cinematic Tradition3 credits
Italian films in original language. Films are examined from a wide historical and cultural perspective. Introduction to issues and preoccupations central to the Italian cultural tradition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 332Italian Theatrical Traditions3 credits
An overview of the major works and genres of Italian theatre from the Renaissance to the present, analyzing their reception and influence on Italian society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 345Romanticism in Italy3 credits
The course introduces key figures in early-19th century Italian culture (Leopardi, Foscolo, Manzoni), and problematizes both the notion of Romanticism in Italy, and its relationship to the movement for Italian unification.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 356Medieval Discourses on Love3 credits
Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 360Contemporary Italian Prose3 credits
A study of Italian fiction, docu-fiction and non-fiction published since 1990, examined in the context of the debates on post-modernism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 371The Italian Baroque3 credits
An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dellâ•Žarte, opera, still life)
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 383Women's Writing since 18803 credits
A study of Italian women writers and their search for literary identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 400Italian Regional Identities3 credits
The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 410Italian Modernism3 credits
A study of representative works of major Italian authors from the fin-de-siècle to WWII.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 560Topics in 19th and 20th Century Literature3 credits
Exploration of individual authors, genres, and literary or cultural movements that have marked Italian culture in the 19th and 20th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 199FYS: Italy's Literature in Context3 credits
The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 230Understanding Italy3 credits
An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 307Topics in Italian Culture3 credits
Selected topics in Italian culture (topics may vary and may concentrate on one or more of the following areas: geography, history, music, art history, political science, and/or literature).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 355Dante and the Middle Ages3 credits
An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 363Gender, Literature and Society3 credits
Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 365The Italian Renaissance3 credits
A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 374Classics of Italian Cinema3 credits
Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 375Cinema and Society in Modern Italy3 credits
A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 464Machiavelli3 credits
Machiavelli, the political thinker and man of letters. A portrait of Machiavelli as political strategist, playwright and observer of his times. Reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 477Italian Cinema and Video3 credits
Different Italian film maker or videomaker every year, presenting a selection of his/her significant works. Discussions will include script analysis, interviews, articles and books by the director in focus, in addition to theoretical and critical statements by scholars. Established and new directors will be considered alternately.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Latin American and Caribbean Studies51 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Latin American and Caribbean Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

HIST 210Introduction to Latin American History 3 credits
Historical development of Latin America’s peoples through the pre-Columbian, colonial and national periods, c. 1300-2000. Introduces key historiographical debates of the subfield and emphasizes the interpretation of primary source texts (in translation).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LACS 497Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean3 credits
An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the Latin-American and Caribbean Studies Program.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 319Politics of Latin America3 credits
This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 212Anthropology of Development3 credits
Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 307Andean Prehistory3 credits
Questions related to social inequality, ritual practice, monumental space, and urban landscapes within the context of the Pre-Columbian Andes and sections on the Inkas, as well as earlier groups, such as the Nazca, Wari, Moche, Tiwanaku, and Chimu.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 319Inka Archaeology and Ethnohistory3 credits
In-depth study of material and symbolic manifestations of power and identity in the Pre-Columbian Inka state, drawing on both archaeological and ethnohistoric sources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 326Anthropology of Latin America3 credits
Central themes in the anthropology of Latin America, including colonialism, religiosity, sexuality and gender, indigeneity, social movements, and transnationalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 428Saints and Mediation in Latin America3 credits
This course examines religion in Latin America by means of a focus on the cult of the saints, a phenomenon central to religious, cultural and social life across the continent and key to the endurance of the institutional Catholic Church. Material in the course addresses various interpretive frames (e.g., historical, political economic, psychoanalytic, semiotic) in exploring how worship of the saints has marked Latin American society and culture, shaping sensibilities, sociality, nationalism, race, class, gender, and sexuality. The course also enables a comprehensive examination of Catholicism as both 'lived religion' and as shaped by the institutional Catholic Church.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 313Economic Development 13 credits
Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 314Economic Development 23 credits
Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 431Studies in Drama3 credits
A study of a period or genre of drama. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 310Development and Livelihoods3 credits
Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 404Environmental Management 23 credits
Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 408Geography of Development3 credits
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 498Humans in Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on understanding of inter-relations between humans and neotropical environments represented in Panama. Study of contemporary rural landscapes, their origins, development and change. Impacts of economic growth and inequality, social organization, and politics on natural resource use and environmental degradation. Site visits and field exercises in peasant/colonist, Amerindian, and plantation communities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 510Humid Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 202Portuguese Language: Beginners6 credits
A comprehensive first-year course in speaking, reading and writing. Selected readings in Portuguese and Brazilian literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 210D1Spanish Language: Beginners3 credits
A comprehensive first-level course focusing on all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 210D2Spanish Language: Beginners3 credits
See HISP 210D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 218Spanish Language Intensive - Elementary6 credits
A comprehensive first-level course focusing upon all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 219Spanish Language Intensive - Intermediate6 credits
A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 220D1Spanish Language: Intermediate3 credits
A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 220D2Spanish Language: Intermediate3 credits
A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and cultural aspects of Spain and Spanish America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 225Hispanic Civilization 13 credits
A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 226Hispanic Civilization 23 credits
A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 301Hispanic Literature and Culture in English 13 credits
A topic in the literatures and/or cultures of the Hispanic world will be studied, with all readings and discussion in English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 320Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Film3 credits
This course introduces students to Brazilian literature and film from the early 20th century to the present day. Students will examine literary works and films from a historical perspective, studying the social, political and regional processes in which they are embedded. From the barren Northeast, to an analysis of gender and race, to urban violence and its manifestations to the contemporary cityscape, this course covers a range of visual and textual material. Students will engage works from major Brazilian authors and filmmakers in conjunction with theoretical texts to better understand some of the main developments in contemporary cultural production.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 328Literature of Ideas: Latin America3 credits
Critical reading and discussion of works of outstanding thinkers as a key to understanding the cultural development of a continent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 332Latin American Literature of 19th Century3 credits
An intensive study of representative authors from the period of Independence to the advent of Modernism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 333Theatre, Performance and Politics in Latin America3 credits
A study of the outstanding works of the theatre from the colonial period to the present, including pre-Columbian works.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 340Latin American Cinema3 credits
A study of representative films, directors and movements of the region. Topic specified by instructor.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 352Latin American Novel3 credits
Critical reading and discussion of contemporary Spanish-American fiction writers.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 356Latin American Short Story3 credits
Study of style, tendencies and types as reflected in the evolution of this genre, and seen against the background of a developing continent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 357Latin American Digital Literature and Culture3 credits
This course will examine digital cultural production in Latin America from 1990 to the present day. This course introduces students to theoretical frameworks necessary for approaching new media and web-based cultural artifacts, both literary and visual. Students will come into contact with the major writers, artists and web-based cultural producers in Latin America and issues pertinent to the study of the Web in the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 358Gender and Textualities3 credits
Historical development and literary tendencies regarding gender and sexuality in Hispanic literature, film, and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 432Literature - Discovery and Exploration Spain New World3 credits
A study of the primary literary and intellectual developments stemming from Spain's discovery of the Americas. Special attention will be given to the changing perception of the New World's natural resources and indigenous peoples as this is reflected in the literature of the period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 437Colonial / Postcolonial Latin America3 credits
A study of the dialogue between colonial and postcolonial Latin American texts and theories.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 439Topics: Latin American Literature3 credits
Specific topics of interest in Spanish-American literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 455Major Figures: Latin American Literature and Culture3 credits
Specific figures of interest in Spanish-American literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 505Seminar in Hispanic Studies 013 credits
A team-taught seminar examining major issues in Hispanic letters that transcend national literatures and historical periods. Although the specific topics will vary, each will address broad questions of a diachronic nature, thereby permitting an understanding of literary schools and movements, genres or ideologies present throughout the Hispanic world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 223Indigenous Peoples and Empires3 credits
History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 360Latin America since 18253 credits
Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 366Themes in Latin American History3 credits
Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 409Topics in Latin American History3 credits
In-depth discussion and research on a circumscribed topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 564D1Seminar: Latin American History3 credits
Exploration of a selected topic in Latin America history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 564D2Seminar: Latin American History3 credits
See HIST 564D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 580D1European and Native-American Encounters3 credits
This seminar will examine European and Native encounters throughout the Americas, from the late 15th century to the mid-nineteenth century. The aim is to introduce students to key primary sources related to contact, and to the methods used to interpret them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 580D2European and Native-American Encounters3 credits
See HIST 580D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LACS 480Latin American and Caribbean Studies Reading Course3 credits
Supervised reading in advance special topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies under the direction of member of faculty.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LACS 499Internship: Latin America and Caribbean Studies3 credits
Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 227Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South3 credits
An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Liberal Arts187 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Liberal Arts Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

LIBA 202Introduction to Liberal Arts3 credits
An introduction to the compass and significance of a Liberal Arts education, focusing on contemporary developments and challenges in the humanities. It considers the contribution of a range of disciplines and approaches across a wide range of linguistic traditions, geographical areas and time periods and pays particular attention to the global dimension of contemporary humanistic culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LIBA 402Seminar in Liberal Arts3 credits
Readings and discussions on liberal arts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 204Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture3 credits
Surveys the arts from late Antiquity to the fourteenth century in Western Europe. Focuses on the body and space to introduce artistic and architectural concepts, practices, and styles from the late Roman, Byzantine and Carolingian empires to monastic and royal patronage of the French Kings.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 205Introduction to Modern Art3 credits
The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 207Introduction Early Modern Art 1400-17003 credits
Surveys visual culture of early modern Europe across various social spheres and geographical locations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 209Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture3 credits
Survey of ancient art and architecture: pre-historic Europe, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Focus is on issues of political power, gender, sexuality, race, the formation of individual and group identities, and the relation between the body and social space.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 203Greek Mythology3 credits
A survey of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 301Ancient Greek Literature and Society3 credits
Survey of ancient Greek literature in translation, covering the key genres and texts in their social and historical contexts. The material to be discussed includes Archaic epic, lyric, and elegy; Classical tragedy, comedy, and historiography; Hellenistic poetry, and literature of the Roman Imperial period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 302Roman Literature and Society3 credits
An exploration of Roman texts written during the Republican and Imperial periods (200 BCE-400 CE) and the study of social contexts in which they were written.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 211Introduction: East Asian Culture: China3 credits
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 212Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan3 credits
An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 213Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea3 credits
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 215Introduction to East Asian Art3 credits
Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 202Departmental Survey of English Literature 13 credits
A survey of English literature before 1750 for students registered in English programs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 203Departmental Survey of English Literature 23 credits
A survey of English literature after 1750 for students registered in English programs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 215Introduction to Shakespeare3 credits
A study of a selection of plays, in their intellectual and theatrical context, with an emphasis on the interplay of text and performance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENGL 230Introduction to Theatre Studies3 credits
An introduction to global dramatic literature, theatre history, and criticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 250Littérature française avant 18003 credits
Introduction à la littérature française des origines à la fin du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 251Littérature française depuis 18003 credits
Introduction à la littérature française des 19e et 20e siècles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 252Littérature québécoise3 credits
Introduction à la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 259Introduction to German Literature 13 credits
Introduction to the major authors, genres, and topics of German literature from the Middle Ages to the Age of Goethe, including the Nibelungenlied, Faust, classical tragedy, and the rise of the novel.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 225Hispanic Civilization 13 credits
A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 200Islamic Civilization3 credits
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 210Muslim Societies3 credits
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 230Understanding Italy3 credits
An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 295Italian Cultural Studies3 credits
A cultural studies approach to contemporary Italian society. Focus on distinctive traits of Italian popular culture through literature, film, television and other media.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LLCU 220Introduction to Literary Analysis3 credits
A literary analysis course that introduces the tools and critical terms needed for studying poetry and prose fiction, discussing formal and stylistic differences, organizing and writing critical essays.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 203Bible and Western Culture3 credits
To provide students of the humanities with knowledge of the Bible as a tool for interpreting religious references in Western literature, art and music. Biblical stories (e.g. Creation, Exodus), key figures (e.g. David, Job, Mary), and common motifs (e.g. Holy City, Pilgrimage, Bride) are explored, then illustrated by later cultural forms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 223Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 13 credits
The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors’ relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 224Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 23 credits
This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AFRI 401Swahili Language and Culture3 credits
Basic knowledge of the Swahili language and culture with emphasis on handling circumstances that might be encountered in field research: everyday conversation, developing aural and oral skills and mastering basic grammar rules, understanding cultural norms and practices, issues of culture sensitivity and appropriateness.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 250Architectural History 13 credits
The study of architecture and cities from ancient times to 1750.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 251Architectural History 23 credits
The study of North American architecture and cities from 1950 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 354Architectural History 33 credits
The study of Modern European architecture from 1750 to 1950.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 355Architectural History 43 credits
The study of cities and world architecture from 1900 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 531Architectural Intentions Vitruvius - Renaissance3 credits
Architectural intentions embodied in buildings and writings of architects from antiquity to the Renaissance. Special emphasis is placed on the cultural connections of architecture to science and philosophy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARCH 532Origins of Modern Architecture3 credits
Examination of architectural intentions (theory and practice) in the European context (especially France, Italy and England), during the crucial period that marks the beginning of the modern era.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 352Feminism in Art and Art History3 credits
A consideration of the impact of feminism on recent art history, focusing on the examination of gender constructions in art and theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 307Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 13 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 308Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 23 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 350Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature3 credits
Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 351Women Writers of China3 credits
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 352Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature3 credits
This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 353Approaches to Chinese Cinema3 credits
Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 362Japanese Cinema3 credits
This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 453Topics: Chinese Literature3 credits
Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 454Topics: Chinese Cinema3 credits
Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 461Inventing Modern Japanese Novel3 credits
An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 464Image, Text, Performance3 credits
Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 467Topics: Japanese Cinema3 credits
Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 550Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres3 credits
A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 569Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature3 credits
Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 345History of Italian Renaissance3 credits
An introduction to the economy, society, politics and intellectual developments in Italy from approximately 1300 to the early 16th century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 405Topics in Intellectual History3 credits
In depth analysis of a selected subject or topic in intellectual history and/or the history of ideas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 411Topics in African History3 credits
In depth examination of a specific topic or individual in African or African diasporic history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 426Topics: British Cultural History3 credits
Selected topics in intellectual and cultural history of Britain and Ireland, focusing on discussion of primary texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 385Poetics and Politics in Arabic Literature3 credits
Major issues in classical and modern Arabic literature; how poetics and politics interact in classical and modern, popular folktales and high literature, novels and poetry. The politics of translation from Arabic into English.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 388Persian Literature3 credits
Examination of literature produced in the Persian-speaking world from the mid 10th to the late 20th century C.E. A broad selection of texts (prose and poetry) will be studied in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 390Islamic Reform and Radicalism: Middle East3 credits
The process of modernization and reform in the late Ottoman period in Greater Syria, including Lebanon, Iran and Iraq leading up to the rise of modern nation states and the call for secularization in several Middle Eastern countries through the lens of Shi`ite Muslim citizens. The tensions that characterize the interface between the secular state and Islamic law in modern times. The voices of religious modernists, liberal secularists, leftists, and Islamists. Diverse Arab and Iranian thinkers and the historical forces, the political and socio-economic conditions that shaped their approaches to religious modernism, secularism, public religion and the Shari`a.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 392Arabic Literature as World Literature3 credits
Consideration of Arabic literature as part of world literature, including exploration of tensions between reading Arabic literature as local, discrete and self-contained and as part of larger global phenomena.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 488Tales of Wonder-Islamic World3 credits
Reading of literary masterpieces of Islamic world focused on three collections of marvelous tales in Arabic, Persian and Urdu: The Arabian Nights, the Shahnameh, and the Adventures of Amir Hamza. May include film screenings, visual art, viewing of rare materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 585Arab Women's Literature3 credits
Explorations of writings by Arab women. Issues include: translation/reception, gender and genre, categories of knowledge about Arab women, feminist and post-colonial theories/methodologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LIBA 395Individual Reading Course3 credits
Individual reading course in any topic pertinent to Liberal Arts as approved by the Director of the Liberal Arts program.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 336Aesthetics3 credits
An introduction to issues central to aesthetic theory; the nature of aesthetic judgment, perception of the aesthetic object, the nature of the art object.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 436Aesthetics 23 credits
An advanced discussion of issues in aesthetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 210Jesus of Nazareth3 credits
A critical study of selected ancient and modern accounts of the aims and person of Jesus. Attention will be given also to the question of the historical sources and to the relationship between faith and history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 302Literature of Ancient Israel 13 credits
An introduction to the literature of Ancient Israel in English translation. Reading and interpreting representative selections.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 303Literature of Ancient Israel 23 credits
Approaches to historical-critical scholarship and to the historical background of the Old Testament. Part of the course will be an examination of methods of biblical analysis through the use of learning cells.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 307Bible, Quran and Interpretations3 credits
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 311Formation of the New Testament3 credits
An introduction to the formation and interpretation of the New Testament, excluding the Gospels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 312The Gospels3 credits
An introduction to the critical study of the Gospels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 455Religion, Performance and Agency in South Asia3 credits
Exploration of the place of religion in historical representations and performance practices of "classical" South Asian performing arts such as Bharatanatyam dance and Karnatak music. Emphasis on politics of the twentieth-century reinvention of these arts by elites in the Tamil and Telugu-speaking regions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 200Introduction to Catholicism3 credits
This course offers an exploration of the Roman Catholic tradition in its intellectual, religious, moral, and cultural dimensions. It provides an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which Catholicism has shaped Western civilization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 200History of Communication3 credits
The social and cultural implications of major developments in communications from prehistory to the electronic era. Thematic and conceptual introduction to the underlying media technologies and to some key issues and practices of historical thinking about their role in society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 210Introduction to Communication Studies3 credits
The social and cultural implications of media. Surveys theory and case studies relevant key issues such as the ownership, structure and governance of media industries; the significance of emergent media technologies; and the roles of media as cultural forms and practices.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMS 230Communication and Democracy3 credits
Introduction to investigation of the relationship between communication, media practices and democracy. Examines the role of media and communication in existing and emerging democratic contexts, and the challenges of constructing and maintaining a democratic media and communication environment on the domestic and international levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 200Introduction to African History3 credits
This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 201Modern African History3 credits
While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 202Survey: Canada to 18673 credits
A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 203Survey: Canada since 18673 credits
A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 205Ancient Mediterranean History3 credits
An introduction to the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing on Greek and Roman civilization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 207Jewish History: 400 B.C.E. to 10003 credits
An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 208Introduction to East Asian History3 credits
An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 213World History, 600-20003 credits
A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 214Early Modern Europe3 credits
Survey of European history from the Late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 215Modern Europe3 credits
Survey of European history from the eighteenth century to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 375Sufi Women3 credits
The lives and contributions of famous female Muslim mystics. Historical and literary analysis of gender discourse in male-authored representations of these mystical Sufi women, as well as developments in theologies of the cosmic feminine in Sufi philosophical texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 530Advanced Sufism3 credits
Advanced explorations of various specialized texts and topics in Sufi history and thought. Focus on specific Sufi thinkers, Sufi texts and literary works in the original and translation, Sufism and gender, aspects of Sufi practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 212Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/ North America3 credits
POLI 227Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South3 credits
An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 231Introduction to Political Theory3 credits
The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 243International Politics of Economic Relations3 credits
An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 244International Politics: State Behaviour3 credits
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 210Sociological Perspectives3 credits
Major theoretical perspectives and research methods in sociology. The linkages of theory and method in various substantive areas including: the family, community and urban life, religion, ethnicity, occupations and stratification, education, and social change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 211Sociological Inquiry3 credits
An introductory review of methods of sociological research including research design, elementary quantitative data analysis, observation, and use of official statistics. Detailed examination of published examples of the use of each of the major techniques of data analysis and collection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 202Socio-Cultural Anthropology3 credits
An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 206Environment and Culture3 credits
Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 212Anthropology of Development3 credits
Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 318Globalization and Religion3 credits
The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 322Social Change in Modern Africa3 credits
The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 327Anthropology of South Asia3 credits
An introduction to anthropological research in India and greater South Asia. Topics include politics, caste, class, religion, gender and sexuality, development and globalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 338Indigenous Studies of Anthropology3 credits
Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 355Theories of Culture and Society3 credits
Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ARTH 310Postcolonialism3 credits
Examines selected art historians who respond to postcolonial theorists and analyse how paintings, sculpture, buildings, and visual culture participated in or resisted European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 340Catholicism and Public Policy3 credits
An examination of Catholic social thought, including intellectual and institutional engagement with a wide range of key public policy issues in spheres such as politics, law, economics, diplomacy, and international development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 308Gender in the Ancient World3 credits
An exploration of gender roles in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 404Classical Tradition3 credits
Examines the evolution of Classical Antiquity's social and cultural status from the 17th c. to the present day. Particular consideration is given to the processes of the ongoing professionalization of history and archeology as academic disciplines, the emergence of new political usages of the past, the transformation of cultural practices from the Grand Tour to the modern museum and tourism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 406Greek and Roman Historiography3 credits
Seminar on the works of the Greek and Roman historians (in translation) who founded a new literary genre for the exploration of past and present events; interpretation of their approaches towards history and theories for their study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 303Current Topics: Chinese Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 304Current Topics: Chinese Studies 23 credits
Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 305Current Topics: Japanese Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 306Current Topics: Japanese Studies 23 credits
Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 313Current Topics: Korean Studies 13 credits
Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 314Current Topics: Korean Studies 23 credits
Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 364Mass Culture and Postwar Japan3 credits
This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 370History of Sexuality in Japan3 credits
Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 462Japan in Asia3 credits
This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 493Special Topics: East Asian Studies 13 credits
Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EAST 494Special Topics: East Asian Studies 23 credits
Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 336Histoire de la langue française3 credits
Histoire de la langue française, du bas-latin à la langue moderne. Étude de l'évolution phonétique, syntaxique, sémantique. Étude de textes des différentes époques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 331Germany after Reunification3 credits
The events which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the changing cultural, social, political and economic landscape of the 'New Germany'. Highlighting issues of cultural and social politics, texts discussed include historical, literary and film material.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 357German Culture in European Context3 credits
A comparative examination of selected moments in German literary, artistic and cultural history in relation to broader European movements; focus on influences, exchanges and dialogues across national boundaries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 364Gender and Society in German Literature and Culture3 credits
In connection with notions of identity, nationhood, political change, and cultural difference, this course investigates concepts and issues of gender in contemporary German Society. The readings include critical essays and literary texts by writers, scholars, philosophers, journalists, politicians, and political activists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 365Modern Short Fiction3 credits
A study of short prose forms in German throughout history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 368Fin-de-Siècle Vienna3 credits
Interdisciplinary study of one of the formative periods of modern European culture; examination of literature, art, thought, culture and politics in Vienna around 1900.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HISP 437Colonial / Postcolonial Latin America3 credits
A study of the dialogue between colonial and postcolonial Latin American texts and theories.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 310Women in Islam3 credits
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 311History of the City-Islamic World3 credits
Cities and urban cultures throughout Islamic history, studying social organization and cultural history from the medieval to the colonial period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 325Introduction to Shi'i Islam3 credits
Developments in doctrines, legal school, rituals and political thought of Twelver Shi'ite Muslims during early and late medieval periods (centuries VII-XIII). The emergence of the earliest Shi'ite communities in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Iran stressing the relationship of the Shi'ite Imams and their religious scholars to the Sunnite Caliphates.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 355Modern History of the Middle East3 credits
Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 360Islam and Politics in Africa3 credits
ISLA 365Middle East Since the 1970's3 credits
Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 410History: Middle-East 1798-19183 credits
A study of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the end of WWI. Emphasis will be on the emergence of nationalisms in the context of European imperialism; political, social, and economic transformation; religion and ideology; and changing patterns of alliances.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 411History: Middle-East 1918-19453 credits
The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 415Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach3 credits
The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 420Indo-Islamic Civilization: Medieval3 credits
The rise of Islam in South Asia in the 8th Century and its subsequent expansion; evolution of Indo-Islamic civilization and its apogee during Mughal rule up to 1707. Themes include state and religion; ruling institutions; political theory, Sufism and the process of conversion, as well as the formation of a composite culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 421Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent3 credits
Survey of Islamicate legacies in South Asia from circa 1000;1947 Common Era, with a focus on the beginnings of Muslim political power in South Asia, the meaning of conversion to Islam before British colonialism, Muslim interactions with the non-Muslim majority, and Islamicate aesthetic legacies in the subcontinent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 580Ottoman Institutions3 credits
ITAL 356Medieval Discourses on Love3 credits
Medieval ideas, attitudes and behaviour surrounding love as represented in literature: readings will include excerpts from early Italian love lyrics, Dante's Vita Nuova, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Boccaccio's Decameron.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 363Gender, Literature and Society3 credits
Questions of gender identity and literary representation as they emerge from women's texts or from comparisons of women's and men's texts, in relation to specific social and historical conditions. May focus on any time period in Italian history, from medieval to contemporary.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 365The Italian Renaissance3 credits
A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 371The Italian Baroque3 credits
An analysis of the Italian Baroque period through an interdisciplinary overview of its major figures (Caravaggio, Bernini, Galileo, Marino, Vico) and cultural genres (commedia dellâ•Žarte, opera, still life)
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 400Italian Regional Identities3 credits
The course explores tensions between national and regional narratives in Italy's literature, culture, language, and society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 211Jewish Studies 1: Biblical Period3 credits
The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 216Jewish Studies 2: 400 B.C.E. - 10003 credits
The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 217Jewish Studies 3: 1000 - 20003 credits
The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 240The Holocaust3 credits
Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 306The American Jewish Community3 credits
Issues affecting American Jewry in the post-World War I era until today and the American Jewish community's responses to those issues. Special emphasis on understanding the community responses and reactions to developments in both the American society and in the Jewish world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 361The Shtetl: 1500-18973 credits
Using historical, sociological, literary and cultural sources, this course will examine various aspects of communal and individual life in the shtetl, the Jewish - or largely Jewish - town in Eastern Europe.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 365Modern Jewish Ideologies3 credits
The rise and development of the various ideologies which attempt to define the Jews in historical, national and socio-cultural terms will be analyzed within the context of modern European nationalism. Selected texts of the Jewish Enlightenment, Science of Judaism, Peretz Smolenskin, Leon Pinsker, Simon Dubnow, Chaim Zhitlowsky and Ahad Ha-Am.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 366History of Zionism3 credits
An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LLCU 212Understanding Digital and Social Media3 credits
Lectures will explore a range of topics related to technologies of contemporary digital and social media, with particular attention to understanding technical, historical, ethical and legal issues. Tutorials will help students to express themselves effectively with digital media, and especially on the web (HTML, images, audio, video).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 201Religions of the Ancient Near East3 credits
Introduction to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria-Palestine (excluding Israelite religion) from the fourth to first millennium B.C.E. Themes that will be discussed include: gods and goddesses, divine kingship, deification of kings, temple cult, death and afterlife, magic, piety, oracles, prayer, lament, myth and epic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 204Judaism, Christianity and Islam3 credits
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 270Religious Ethics and the Environment3 credits
Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 322Church and Empire to 1300 3 credits
RELG 323Church and State since 13003 credits
Significant events and persons in the history of Western Christendom from 1300 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 326Christians in the Roman World3 credits
A social-historical examination of Christians within the complex cultural, political, ethnic and religious contexts of later Greco-Roman antiquity, focusing on changing relations among different varieties of Christian, as well as on interactions and conflicts among Christians, Jews and polytheists. Other topics to be considered include martyrdom, orthodoxy and heresy, and Gnosticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 331Religion and Globalization3 credits
An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 334Theology of History3 credits
A study of Christian readings of history, and especially of the present age, including apocalyptic literature and political theology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 338Women and the Christian Tradition3 credits
Survey of women's involvement in the Christian tradition. Topics include feminist interpretation of scripture, ideas of virginity, marriage and motherhood, mysticism, asceticisms, European witchhunts, contemporary women's liberation theories.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 375Religion, Politics and Society3 credits
A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 217Russia's Eternal Questions3 credits
Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 229Introduction to Russian Folklore3 credits
An introduction to Russian folklore and folk belief: "dual-faith," traditional mentality, fairy tales, calendar rituals, folk songs, witches, healers and house spirits. The course will explore classic approaches to folklore studies as well as the influence of folk culture on Russian "high art."
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 427Russian Fin de Siècle3 credits
Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 428Russian Avantgarde3 credits
Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 430High Stalinist Culture 13 credits
Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 230Introduction to Moral Philosophy 13 credits
A survey of a number of historically important and influential theories. Philosophers to be discussed may include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 240Political Philosophy 13 credits
An introduction to contemporary philosophy of politics by concentrating on a number of contested concepts, such as freedom, justice and equality, in contemporary political philosophy and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 207Introduction to the Study of Religions3 credits
This course is an introduction to classic and contemporary approaches to the academic study of religions. This includes perspectives from philosophy, theology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, phenomenology, and feminism. Students are also exposed to applications of these perspectives from visiting scholars who treat some aspect of a religious tradition in light of current-day interests and events. The primary objective is to introduce students to the principal theories and methods that have shaped our understanding of religion, its various meanings as well as its roles and functions in society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 252Hinduism and Buddhism3 credits
The interaction of Hinduism and Buddhism in India with special reference to the law of Karma, caste, women, ritual, death, yoga, and liberation. Determination of interpretative principles for understanding the religious psychology of Hindus and Buddhists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 253Religions of East Asia3 credits
This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 321Western Intellectual Tradition3 credits
Introduces essential sources in western philosophy and theology; examines the interdependence of these disciplines in their historical development; exposes students to the means and methods of argumentation that will allow them to compare and contrast these sources, and to develop and defend their own positions with respect to them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 341Introduction: Philosophy of Religion3 credits
Introduction to the subject. Faith and reason, theistic arguments, values and destiny, the problem of evil, religious language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 373Christian Ethics of Love3 credits
This course will focus on the philosophical sources of love and on their uses by Christian authors. By comparing both their premises and methods, we will see how different authors in a particular tradition (Christianity) offer various answers to the themes of love, friendship and charity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 380Religion, Philosophy, Modernity3 credits
Through primary source readings, this class will examine the intellectual history of this change, will identify the agents of this change, both philosophical and theological, and will consider the significance and implications of inhabiting a 'modernity' that is, and understands itself as, 'secular.' Charles Taylor's recent book, A Secular Age, narrates a historical development, from a 'pre-modern' condition, in which it was 'virtually impossible not to believe in and encounter God,' to a modern and contemporary situation in which 'faith is an embattled option.' Within the 'context of our self-understanding,' 'secularism' has become a 'default option.'.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 209Anthropology of Religion3 credits
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 303Ancient Greek Religion3 credits
Focus on the history of Greek religion in the Classical Period. Particular attention will be paid to the Greek concept of divinity, local pantheons, civic festival calendars, the topography of myth and ritual, ideas concerning the afterlife, mystery cults, oracles and games and the literary representations of religion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 203Knowledge, Ethics and Environment3 credits
Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 400Environmental Thought3 credits
Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 355Nietzsche and Wagner3 credits
This course examines the relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the composer Richard Wagner. It explores their intellectual kinship, their view of art, music, and philosophy in the context of Nietzsche's critique of modernity and decadence and analyzes the Third Reich's and Hollywood's appropriation of Nietzsche and Wagner.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GERM 367Topics in German Thought3 credits
A variety of issues significant to the development of German cultural and intellectual life.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 320Themes in Intellectual History3 credits
Examination of a selected theme or subject in intellectual history and/or the history of ideas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 350Science and the Enlightenment3 credits
Explores the relationship between the natural sciences and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Examination of works in post-Newtonian science as well as their broader cultural meaning, the history of material practices, the origins of social science, and the role of geography and international context beyond Western Europe.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 440Fiction and History3 credits
This course examines why and how books are classified as fiction or history. Topics include: social expectations and uses of literature; evidence and verification; the author as authority. Readings include history and fiction from various historical periods, and relevant scholarship.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ITAL 355Dante and the Middle Ages3 credits
An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LLCU 301Topics in Culture and Thought3 credits
Special topics focusing on European or transatlantic intellectual traditions and movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Russian42 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Russian Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

RUSS 210Elementary Russian Language 13 credits
Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 211Elementary Russian Language 23 credits
Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 215Elementary Russian Language Intensive 16 credits
An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 210 / RUSS 211 in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 301Russian for Heritage Speakers 23 credits
For native speakers of Russian who have not had full academic instruction in the language. Focus on complex grammatical structures, syntax, and stylistically differentiated uses of vocabulary in written and spoken Russian. Multi-media approach including excerpts from literary works, current newspapers, Internet sources, and films.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 310Intermediate Russian Language 13 credits
Reading, translation, conversation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 311Intermediate Russian Language 23 credits
Reading, translation, conversation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 316Intermediate Russian Language Intensive 26 credits
Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 this course covers the second year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 310 / RUSS 311 , in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 327Reading Russian Poetry3 credits
Introduction to Russia's major poets and bards of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected works from Pushkin to Brodsky and 20th century bards will be read in Russian.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 328Readings in Russian3 credits
A general introduction to Russian prose, poetry and drama in the 19th Century. Selected texts will be read in the original and discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 415Advanced Russian Language Intensive 16 credits
Continuing the Intensive program of RUSS 215 and RUSS 316 , students will complete their study of the fundamental structure of modern literary Russian, including the morphology and syntax of the nominal and verbal systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 453Advanced Russian Language and Syntax3 credits
Prose composition, translation, essay writing. An introduction to Russian stylistics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 217Russia's Eternal Questions3 credits
Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 218Russian Literature and Revolution3 credits
The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary café, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 223Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 13 credits
The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors’ relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 224Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 23 credits
This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 229Introduction to Russian Folklore3 credits
An introduction to Russian folklore and folk belief: "dual-faith," traditional mentality, fairy tales, calendar rituals, folk songs, witches, healers and house spirits. The course will explore classic approaches to folklore studies as well as the influence of folk culture on Russian "high art."
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 213Introduction to Soviet Film3 credits
This course aims to familiarize undergraduates with the topics, figures, and concerns of Soviet film history. Students will watch and analyze films by Soviet directors including Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, and many others in the context of their historical periods, movements, and writings. Students will learn to analyze images and cinematic techniques, as well as assess their historical, ideological, and cultural significance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 250The Central European Novel3 credits
Examination of the culture of Central Europe through the lens of novels, including the history, culture, and literature of the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 330Chekhov without Borders3 credits
Chekhov’s short stories and plays. The genre of the short story and its relationship to realist, modernist, and postmodernist aesthetics. Chekhov’s influence in Russia and abroad.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 333Petersburg: City of Myth3 credits
In Russian culture, the two major cities, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, represent the two sides of Russian culture: its past in Orthodoxy and Russianness and its future in European culture and internationalism. The culture of Saint-Petersburg both reflects the city and redefines the meaning of the city for the future. This class will examine Russian culture within the context of the city itself, providing students with a holistic look at an embedded culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 337Vladimir Nabokov3 credits
Cross sampling of short stories and major novels by Vladimir Nabokov; his life-long love affair with language and "aesthetic bliss"; his flouting of convention from Russia's Silver Age to post-McCarthy America. Lolita in and beyond the Russian context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 340Russian Short Story3 credits
Russian stories that encompass the major aesthetic and thematic concerns of the short story genre. Recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual, and artistic memory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 347Late and Post-Soviet Culture3 credits
The re-invention of Russian culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Featuring Soviet beatniks, dissidents, and cultural iconoclasts; covering pop-culture, Pepsi and PR, perestroika, and the encounter with Western postmodernism. In literature, the emergence of 'new’ voices (women’s prose, émigré writers), new or newly rediscovered genres (detective fiction, sci-fi, bard or sung poetry, the essay). In the visual arts, points of contact, overlap and competition with film, conceptualist or concrete poetry, installations, memes). For over two and a half centuries, Russian literature was seen as the cornerstone of cultural identity and national pride. How does it confront today the challenges of a post-literary age and, tenuously, post-Soviet age?.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 350Central European Film3 credits
The development of film in the Central European area, alongside the history and culture of the region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 357Leo Tolstoy3 credits
An in-depth exploration of the literature and thought of Leo Tolstoy. This course will cover his major works of fiction as well as non-fiction essays, diary entries, and letters, with the majority of the semester devoted to his great masterpiece, War and Peace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 358Fyodor Dostoevsky3 credits
An in-depth study of the writing and thought of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through reading Dostoevsky's major novels as well as some of his short fiction and journalism in the context of his times, this course will explore Dostoevsky's contributions to literature and philosophy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 365Supernatural and Absurd in Russian Literature3 credits
Themes of absurd, bizarre, surreal, supernatural, and fantastic in works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kharms, Bulgakov, Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, and others. Focus on the Russian literary imagination and the historical and political conflicts which haunt it. Theories of the gothic, fantastic, and absurd.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 369Narrative and Memory in Russian Culture3 credits
Exploration of literary and cinematic representations of the themes of memory, trauma, nostalgia, family history, and war in modern Russian culture. Exploration of narrative approaches to war and trauma, their effects on cultural identity, Post-Soviet nostalgia, family and childhood, and related subjects.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 381Russia's Utopia Complex3 credits
From Zamiatin's We (1921), and Dostoevskii's "Grand Inquisitor" (1880), an examination of the Russian creation of and imprint on the dystopian genre. From prototypes in Russian romanticism and folklore, to dissident masterpieces of the Stalinist era, to sci-fi as rediscovered in the post-Soviet experience. Literature, film, and beyond.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 382Russian Opera3 credits
This course traces the development of the Russian opera tradition from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s. It explores opera's role in Russia's quest for national identity and its place in musical, literary, and political life, as well as responses to European opera trends. No knowledge of music theory required.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 385Staging Russianness: From Pushkin to Chekhov3 credits
Masterpieces of the Russian stage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emergence of a uniquely Russian dramatic sensitivity against prevailing European trends; the literary word in a public, political and/or avant-garde forum.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 390Special Topics in Russian3 credits
Exploration of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 395Soviet Cinema: Art and Politics3 credits
This course explores the relationship between art and politics in the cinema of the Soviet Union. Students taking this course will gain a familiarity with the films and writings of Soviet directors. They will also learn the basics of formal, textual, and historical film analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 397Tarkovsky: Cinema and Philosophy3 credits
Considered by many critics to be one of the greatest directors of all time, Tarkovsky directed such luminary films as Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). Since their first appearance, these films have challenged viewers with their deep philosophical questions and stunning visual style. This course equips students with the tools necessary to understand and interpret these films including a basis in film theory and Soviet history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 398Soviet Women Filmmakers3 credits
Dedicated to the study of under-represented female directors in Soviet cinema, particularly the films of Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepitko. The work of these two directors is nothing short of stunning; in many ways, it surpasses that of their most well-known contemporary - Andrei Tarkovsky. Explores the ways in which these films represent gender, sexuality, and women's issues in the Soviet Union.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 427Russian Fin de Siècle3 credits
Russian poetry, prose, drama, book design and the visual arts from the Silver Age to WWI, from Chekhov to Blok and Belyi. The crisis of realism, decadence, symbolism, and its waning traced through the eternal feminine, the devil, the city, poetry as pure creation, and millennial crisis. Not open to students who have taken or are taking RUSS 465 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 428Russian Avantgarde3 credits
Russian poetry, prose, drama, the manifesto, street festivals and the explosion of experiment in the visual arts from WW1 to 1930. The avant-garde anticipates, transcends, responds and then succumbs to revolution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 430High Stalinist Culture 13 credits
Novels, films, art, architecture, pageantry, rhetoric and routine of the Stalinist 1930s-40s, including socialist realism as an aesthetic doctrine, utopian blueprint, target of parody, amalgam of a submerged avant-garde and state-controlled pop culture, precursor of the postmodernist simulacrum, self-proclaimed international style and/or uniquely Russian 20th-century project.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 440Russia and Its Others3 credits
In-depth historical approach to cultural construction of Russian national identity and to the concept of the Other as a condition of self-representation: East, West, America, class enemies, dissidents, ethnic and sexual minorities, etc. Introduction to theoretical tools for approaching issues of national identity, alterity, (post)colonialism, exoticism, and orientalism. Not open to students who have taken RUSS 475 in 201301.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 475Special Topics in Russ Culture3 credits
Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Russian culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 500Special Topics3 credits
Focus on a critical theme, author or work, as determined by the current research interests of faculty and visiting faculty.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RUSS 501Topics in Slavic Culture3 credits
Examination of a significant author, trend, theme or theory in modern Slavic culture, including but not limited to the interface between literary works, the graphic and performing arts, ideology and national identity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Linguistics9 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Linguistics Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

LING 201Introduction to Linguistics3 credits
General introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Covers the core theoretical subfields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also provides background on other subfields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, linguistic variation, and language acquisition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LING 330Phonetics3 credits
Transcription, identification, and production of speech sounds. Introduction to the acoustic properties of speech sounds, acoustic analysis of speech, and auditory phonetics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LING 331Phonology 13 credits
Introduction to phonological theory and analysis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LING 360Introduction to Semantics3 credits
Introduction to the rudiments of semantics, focusing on those aspects of meaning that are invariant across contexts and the ways in which the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituents.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LING 371Syntax 13 credits
Introduction to the study of generative syntax of natural languages, emphasizing basic concepts and formalism: phrase structure rules, transformations, and conditions on rules.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 230Logic and Computability3 credits
Propositional Logic, predicate calculus, proof systems, computability Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, unsolvable problems, completeness, incompleteness, Tarski semantics, uses and misuses of Gödel's theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 318Mathematical Logic3 credits
Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, Gödel's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 210Introduction to Deductive Logic 13 credits
An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INLG 411Linguistics of Indigenous Languages3 credits
Grammatical properties of Canadian Indigenous languages, focusing on sounds and the sound systems (phonetics and phonology), word formation(morphology), sentence structure and meaning (syntax and semantics), as wellas language in use (discourse and pragmatics), and the applications of these topics to language description, documentation, and language pedagogy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Statistics30 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 46-credit Statistics Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 46 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

MATH 133Linear Algebra and Geometry3 credits
Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 140Calculus 13 credits
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 141Calculus 24 credits
The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 203Principles of Statistics 13 credits
Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 204Principles of Statistics 23 credits
The concept of degrees of freedom and the analysis of variability. Planning of experiments. Experimental designs. Polynomial and multiple regressions. Statistical computer packages (no previous computing experience is needed). General statistical procedures requiring few assumptions about the probability model.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 208Introduction to Statistical Computing3 credits
Basic data management. Data visualization. Exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics. Writing functions. Simulation and parallel computing. Communication data and documenting code for reproducible research.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 222Calculus 33 credits
Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 223Linear Algebra3 credits
Review of matrix algebra, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, linear operators and their matrix representations, orthogonality. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of Hermitian matrices. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 242Analysis 13 credits
A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 323Probability3 credits
Sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, Bayes' Theorem. Basic combinatorial probability, random variables, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions. Independence of random variables. Inequalities, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 324Statistics3 credits
Sampling distributions, including Normal, Chi-squared, Student’s t, and F distributions. Sampling properties of the sample mean and variance. Point estimation: bias, variance, mean squared error, consistency, sufficiency, UMVUE. Method of moments and maximum likelihood estimation. One- and two-sample inference. Confidence intervals and sample size determination. Hypothesis testing, Type 1 and Type 2 errors, power, and p-values. The Neyman Pearson framework and likelihood ratio tests. Linear models used as illustrative examples, linking them to topics in estimation and hypothesis testing. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and contingency tables.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
COMP 551Applied Machine Learning4 credits
Selected topics in machine learning and data mining, including clustering, neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees. Methods include feature selection and dimensionality reduction, error estimation and empirical validation, algorithm design and parallelization, and handling of large data sets. Emphasis on good methods and practices for deployment of real systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 308Fundamentals of Statistical Learning3 credits
Theory and application of various techniques for the exploration and analysis of multivariate data: principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, and other visualization and dimensionality reduction techniques; supervised and unsupervised learning; linear discriminant analysis, and clustering techniques. Data applications using appropriate software.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 410Majors Project3 credits
A supervised project.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 420Independent Study3 credits
Reading projects permitting independent study under the guidance of a staff member specializing in a subject where no appropriate course is available. Arrangements must be made with an instructor and the Chair before registration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 423Applied Regression3 credits
Multiple regression estimators and their properties. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Analysis of variance. Prediction and prediction intervals. Model diagnostics. Model selection. Introduction to weighted least squares. Basic contingency table analysis. Introduction to logistic and Poisson regression. Applications to experimental and observational data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 427Statistical Quality Control3 credits
Introduction to quality management; variability and productivity. Quality measurement: capability analysis, gauge capability studies. Process control: control charts for variables and attributes. Process improvement: factorial designs, fractional replications, response surface methodology, Taguchi methods. Acceptance sampling: operating characteristic curves; single, multiple and sequential acceptance sampling plans for variables and attributes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 447Introduction to Stochastic Processes3 credits
Conditional probability and conditional expectation, generating functions. Branching processes and random walk. Markov chains, transition matrices, classification of states, ergodic theorem, examples. Birth and death processes, queueing theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 523Generalized Linear Models4 credits
Exponential families, link functions. Inference and parameter estimation for generalized linear models; model selection using analysis of deviance. Residuals. Contingency table analysis, logistic regression, multinomial regression, Poisson regression, log-linear models. Multinomial models. Overdispersion and Quasilikelihood. Applications to experimental and observational data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 524Nonparametric Statistics4 credits
Distribution free procedures for 2-sample problem: Wilcoxon rank sum, Siegel-Tukey, Smirnov tests. Shift model: power and estimation. Single sample procedures: Sign, Wilcoxon signed rank tests. Nonparametric ANOVA: Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman tests. Association: Spearman's rank correlation, Kendall's tau. Goodness of fit: Pearson's chi-square, likelihood ratio, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. Statistical software packages used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 525Sampling Theory and Applications4 credits
Simple random sampling, domains, ratio and regression estimators, superpopulation models, stratified sampling, optimal stratification, cluster sampling, sampling with unequal probabilities, multistage sampling, complex surveys, nonresponse.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 527D1Statistical Data Science Practicum3 credits
The holistic skills required for doing statistical data science in practice. Data science life cycle from a statistics-centric perspective and from the perspective of a statistician working in the larger data science environment. Group-based projects with industry, government, or university partners. Statistical collaboration and consulting conducted in coordination with the Data Science Solutions Hub (DaS^2H) of the Computational and Data Systems Initiative (CDSI).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 527D2Statistical Data Science Practicum3 credits
See MATH 527D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 545Introduction to Time Series Analysis4 credits
Stationary processes; estimation and forecasting of ARMA models; non-stationary and seasonal models; state-space models; financial time series models; multivariate time series models; introduction to spectral analysis; long memory models.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 556Mathematical Statistics 14 credits
Distribution theory, stochastic models and multivariate transformations. Families of distributions including location-scale families, exponential families, convolution families, exponential dispersion models and hierarchical models. Concentration inequalities. Characteristic functions. Convergence in probability, almost surely, in Lp and in distribution. Laws of large numbers and Central Limit Theorem. Stochastic simulation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 557Mathematical Statistics 24 credits
Sufficiency, minimal and complete sufficiency, ancillarity. Fisher and Kullback-Leibler information. Elements of decision theory. Theory of estimation and hypothesis testing from the Bayesian and frequentist perspective. Elements of asymptotic statistics including large-sample behaviour of maximum likelihood estimators, likelihood-ratio tests, and chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 558Design of Experiments4 credits
Introduction to concepts in statistically designed experiments. Randomization and replication. Completely randomized designs. Simple linear model and analysis of variance. Introduction to blocking. Orthogonal block designs. Models and analysis for block designs. Factorial designs and their analysis. Row-column designs. Latin squares. Model and analysis for fixed row and column effects. Split-plot designs, model and analysis. Relations and operations on factors. Orthogonal factors. Orthogonal decomposition. Orthogonal plot structures. Hasse diagrams. Applications to real data and ethical issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 559Bayesian Theory and Methods4 credits
Subjective probability, Bayesian statistical inference and decision making, de Finetti’s representation. Bayesian parametric methods, optimal decisions, conjugate models, methods of prior specification and elicitation, approximation methods. Hierarchical models. Computational approaches to inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Metropolis;Hastings. Nonparametric Bayesian inference.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 598Topics in Probability & Statistics4 credits
WCOM 314Communicating Science3 credits
Production of written and oral assignments (in English) designed to communicate scientific problems and findings to varied audiences Analysis of the disciplinary conventions of scientific discourse in terms of audience, purpose, organization, and style; comparative rhetorical analysis of academic and popular genres, including abstracts, lab reports, research papers, print and online journalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Mathematics39 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 46-credit Mathematics Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 46 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

MATH 133Linear Algebra and Geometry3 credits
Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 140Calculus 13 credits
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 141Calculus 24 credits
The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 222Calculus 33 credits
Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 235Algebra 13 credits
Sets, functions and relations. Methods of proof. Complex numbers. Divisibility theory for integers and modular arithmetic. Divisibility theory for polynomials. Rings, ideals and quotient rings. Fields and construction of fields from polynomial rings. Groups, subgroups and cosets; homomorphisms and quotient groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 236Algebra 23 credits
Linear equations over a field. Introduction to vector spaces. Linear mappings. Matrix representation of linear mappings. Determinants. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Diagonalizable operators. Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Bilinear and quadratic forms. Inner product spaces, orthogonal diagonalization of symmetric matrices. Canonical forms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 242Analysis 13 credits
A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 243Analysis 23 credits
Definition and properties of Riemann integral, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Taylor's theorem. Infinite series: alternating, telescoping series, rearrangements, conditional and absolute convergence, convergence tests. Power series and Taylor series. Elementary functions. Introduction to metric spaces.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 323Probability3 credits
Sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, Bayes' Theorem. Basic combinatorial probability, random variables, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions. Independence of random variables. Inequalities, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 249Honours Complex Variables3 credits
Functions of a complex variable; Cauchy-Riemann equations; Cauchy's theorem and consequences. Taylor and Laurent expansions. Residue calculus; evaluation of real integrals; integral representation of special functions; the complex inversion integral. Conformal mapping; Schwarz-Christoffel transformation; Poisson's integral formulas; applications. Additional topics if time permits: homotopy of paths and simple connectivity, Riemann sphere, rudiments of analytic continuation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 314Advanced Calculus3 credits
Derivative as a matrix. Chain rule. Implicit functions. Constrained maxima and minima. Jacobians. Multiple integration. Line and surface integrals. Theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss. Fourier series with applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 315Ordinary Differential Equations3 credits
First order ordinary differential equations including elementary numerical methods. Linear differential equations. Laplace transforms. Series solutions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 316Complex Variables3 credits
Algebra of complex numbers, Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex integral, Cauchy's theorems. Taylor and Laurent series, residue theory and applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 317Numerical Analysis3 credits
Error analysis. Numerical solutions of equations by iteration. Interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Introduction to numerical solutions of differential equations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 318Mathematical Logic3 credits
Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, Gödel's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 324Statistics3 credits
Sampling distributions, including Normal, Chi-squared, Student’s t, and F distributions. Sampling properties of the sample mean and variance. Point estimation: bias, variance, mean squared error, consistency, sufficiency, UMVUE. Method of moments and maximum likelihood estimation. One- and two-sample inference. Confidence intervals and sample size determination. Hypothesis testing, Type 1 and Type 2 errors, power, and p-values. The Neyman Pearson framework and likelihood ratio tests. Linear models used as illustrative examples, linking them to topics in estimation and hypothesis testing. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and contingency tables.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 340Discrete Mathematics3 credits
Discrete Mathematics and applications. Graph Theory: matchings, planarity, and colouring. Discrete probability. Combinatorics: enumeration, combinatorial techniques and proofs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 346Number Theory3 credits
Divisibility. Congruences. Quadratic reciprocity. Diophantine equations. Arithmetical functions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 378Nonlinear Optimization 3 credits
MATH 417Linear Optimization3 credits
An introduction to linear optimization and its applications: Duality theory, fundamental theorem, sensitivity analysis, convexity, simplex algorithm, interior-point methods, quadratic optimization, applications in game theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 451Introduction to General Topology3 credits
This course is an introduction to point set topology. Topics include basic set theory and logic, topological spaces, separation axioms, continuity, connectedness, compactness, Tychonoff Theorem, metric spaces, and Baire spaces.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 329Theory of Interest3 credits
Simple and compound interest, annuities certain, amortization schedules, bonds, depreciation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 338History and Philosophy of Mathematics3 credits
Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 208Introduction to Statistical Computing3 credits
Basic data management. Data visualization. Exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics. Writing functions. Simulation and parallel computing. Communication data and documenting code for reproducible research.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 308Fundamentals of Statistical Learning3 credits
Theory and application of various techniques for the exploration and analysis of multivariate data: principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, and other visualization and dimensionality reduction techniques; supervised and unsupervised learning; linear discriminant analysis, and clustering techniques. Data applications using appropriate software.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 319Partial Differential Equations 3 credits
MATH 326Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos3 credits
Linear systems of differential equations, linear stability theory. Nonlinear systems: existence and uniqueness, numerical methods, one and two dimensional flows, phase space, limit cycles, Poincare-Bendixson theorem, bifurcations, Hopf bifurcation, the Lorenz equations and chaos.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 327Matrix Numerical Analysis3 credits
An overview of numerical methods for linear algebra applications and their analysis. Problem classes include linear systems, least squares problems and eigenvalue problems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 335Groups, Tilings and Algorithms3 credits
Transformation groups of the plane. Inversions and Moebius transformations. The hyperbolic plane. Tilings in dimension 2 and 3. Group presentations and Cayley graphs. Free groups and Schreier's theorem. Coxeter groups. Dehn's Word and Conjugacy Problems. Undecidability of the Word Problem for semigroups. Regular languages and automatic groups. Automaticity of Coxeter groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 348Euclidean Geometry3 credits
Points and lines in a triangle. Quadrilaterals. Angles in a circle. Circumscribed and inscribed circles. Congruent and similar triangles. Area. Power of a point with respect to a circle. Ceva’s theorem. Isometries. Homothety. Inversion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 352Problem Seminar1 credits
Seminar in Mathematical Problem Solving. The problems considered will be of the type that occur in the Putnam competition and in other similar mathematical competitions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 410Majors Project3 credits
A supervised project.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 420Independent Study3 credits
Reading projects permitting independent study under the guidance of a staff member specializing in a subject where no appropriate course is available. Arrangements must be made with an instructor and the Chair before registration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 423Applied Regression3 credits
Multiple regression estimators and their properties. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Analysis of variance. Prediction and prediction intervals. Model diagnostics. Model selection. Introduction to weighted least squares. Basic contingency table analysis. Introduction to logistic and Poisson regression. Applications to experimental and observational data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 427Statistical Quality Control3 credits
Introduction to quality management; variability and productivity. Quality measurement: capability analysis, gauge capability studies. Process control: control charts for variables and attributes. Process improvement: factorial designs, fractional replications, response surface methodology, Taguchi methods. Acceptance sampling: operating characteristic curves; single, multiple and sequential acceptance sampling plans for variables and attributes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 430Mathematical Finance3 credits
Introduction to concepts of price and hedge derivative securities. The following concepts will be studied in both concrete and continuous time: filtrations, martingales, the change of measure technique, hedging, pricing, absence of arbitrage opportunities and the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 447Introduction to Stochastic Processes3 credits
Conditional probability and conditional expectation, generating functions. Branching processes and random walk. Markov chains, transition matrices, classification of states, ergodic theorem, examples. Birth and death processes, queueing theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 463Convex Optimization3 credits
Introduction to convex analysis and convex optimization: Convex sets and functions, subdifferential calculus, conjugate functions, Fenchel duality, proximal calculus. Subgradient methods, proximal-based methods. Conditional gradient method, ADMM. Applications including data classification, network-flow problems, image processing, convex feasibility problems, DC optimization, sparse optimization, and compressed sensing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 478Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics 3 credits

Philosophy40 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Philosophy Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

PHIL 210Introduction to Deductive Logic 13 credits
An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 306Philosophy of Mind3 credits
A survey of major positions of the mind-body problem, focusing on such questions as: Do we have minds and bodies? Can minds affect bodies? Is mind identical to body? If so, in what sense "identical"? Can physical bodies be conscious.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 310Intermediate Logic3 credits
A second course in Logic. NB. The course will be technical in nature, and some mathematical aptitude is essential. The emphasis is on the expressive properties of standard logical systems, including implications for the philosophy of mathematics. We will study the Completeness of First-Order Logic, then the 'limitative' theorems of Tarski and Gödel.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 311Philosophy of Mathematics3 credits
This course provides an historically informed introduction to philosophy of mathematics. It gives the student an overview of prominent issues and arguments, to enable her to follow and discuss contemporary research in philosophy of mathematics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 341Philosophy of Science 13 credits
A discussion of philosophical problems as they arise in the context of scientific practice and enquiry. Such issues as the philosophical presuppositions of the physical and social sciences, the nature of scientific method and its epistemological implications will be addressed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 411Topics in Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics3 credits
A course focusing on some philosophical issue (e.g., the nature of numbers or the relation of truth to provability) as it arises in the study of mathematics and logic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 415Philosophy of Language3 credits
An examination of central notions in the philosophy of language (reference, meaning, and truth, e.g.), the puzzles these notions give rise to, and the relevance of these notions to such questions as: What is language? How is communication possible? What is understanding? Is language rule-governed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 419Epistemology3 credits
A discussion of central topics in the theory of knowledge. The questions addressed in the course may include: What is knowledge? Do we have any knowledge? What is the relation between knowledge and belief? When is belief justified? Is all knowledge conscious knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 421Metaphysics3 credits
An examination of central questions in metaphysics in their historical and contemporary forms. Topics may be chosen from such issues as: personal identity, the nature of space and time, the nature of events and properties, possible worlds, and the problem of realism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 441Philosophy of Science 23 credits
An analysis of some key philosophical ideas in science and technology, e.g. problem, explanation, forecast, testability and truth.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 470Topics in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy3 credits
An advanced discussion of major themes in the analytic tradition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 375Existentialism3 credits
This course will examine the nature of existentialist thought as represented in various philosophical and literary texts. Particular themes to be examined include freedom, alienation, responsibility and choice, and the nature of self.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 474Phenomenology3 credits
A study of phenomenology from a historical and thematic perspective. The course will typically involve the study of central thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty, with an examination of the nature and development of the phenomenological movement.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 475Topics in Contemporary European Philosophy3 credits
Advanced discussion of selected themes in contemporary European philosophy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 344Medieval and Renaissance Political Theory3 credits
A study of Medieval and Renaissance political theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 345Greek Political Theory3 credits
An examination of the ethical and political theories of ancient Greece, especially those of Plato and Aristotle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 350History and Philosophy of Ancient Science3 credits
Topics in ancient pure mathematics (geometry and number theory), "mixed mathematics" (astronomy, music theory, optics, mechanics), and/or natural science (including medicine), studied with a view to philosophical issues raised by the content of ancient science and/or by the logic of scientific argument.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 353The Presocratic Philosophers3 credits
An examination of the surviving fragments of the presocratic philosophers and schools of philosophy, as well as later reports of their views.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 354Plato3 credits
An examination of some of the philosophical problems (those in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, e.g.) found in a selection of Plato's dialogues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 355Aristotle3 credits
An examination of selected works by Aristotle. The course considers issues in moral philosophy as well as those found in the logical treatises, the Physics and Metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 356Early Medieval Philosophy3 credits
An examination of selected works in the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. Topics in moral and political philosophy, logic and metaphysics, philosophical psychology and epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology may be discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 452Later Greek Philosophy3 credits
An examination of some of the major post-Aristotelian schools of philosophy. Texts from the Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean, Sceptical, Platonic, and medical traditions may be considered. Problems in logic, ethics, physics, epistemology, and metaphysics will be addressed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 453Ancient Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy3 credits
An examination of central themes of ancient metaphysics and/or natural philosophy as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly including some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 454Ancient Moral Theory3 credits
An examination of central themes of ancient moral theory as treated by two or more contrasting philosophers or philosophical traditions - probably including Plato and/or Aristotle, and possibly some Hellenistic or post-Hellenistic schools.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 36017th Century Philosophy3 credits
An examination of the work of such seventeenth-century philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Cambridge Platonists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 36118th Century Philosophy3 credits
A survey of eighteenth century philosophy, especially British philosophy. Attention is given to fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and moral issues as reflected in the work of such philosophers as Locke, Shaftesbury, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Butler, Hume and Reid.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 36618th and Early 19th Century German Philosophy3 credits
An examination of the works of such philosophers as Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, Schelling, and Hegel.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 36719th Century Philosophy3 credits
An examination of the works of such 19th century philosophers as Mach, Helmholtz, Dedekind, Frege, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Mill and Bradley.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 444Early Modern Political Theory3 credits
A survey of political and moral theory from the Reformation to the French Revolution including Luther, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Smith.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 44519th Century Political Theory3 credits
An examination of various strands of political theory since Rousseau, concentrating on such themes as the understanding of modernity and theories of liberal society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 230Introduction to Moral Philosophy 13 credits
A survey of a number of historically important and influential theories. Philosophers to be discussed may include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 237Contemporary Moral Issues3 credits
An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 240Political Philosophy 13 credits
An introduction to contemporary philosophy of politics by concentrating on a number of contested concepts, such as freedom, justice and equality, in contemporary political philosophy and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 242Introduction to Feminist Theory3 credits
An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 334Ethical Theory3 credits
A course focusing on central questions in ethical theory such as the nature of the good and the right and the factors which determine moral rightness and wrongness.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 343Biomedical Ethics3 credits
An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 348Philosophy of Law 13 credits
A discussion of the nature of justice and law, and of the relationship between them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 427Topics in Critical Philosophy of Race3 credits
An advanced discussion of topics in the critical philosophy of race.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 434Metaethics3 credits
A study of the status of sentences containing moral terms, judgements about moral claims, and the nature of moral facts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 442Topics in Feminist Theory3 credits
Advanced discussion of topical and central themes in feminist theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Religious Studies157 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Religious Studies Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

RELG 207Introduction to the Study of Religions3 credits
This course is an introduction to classic and contemporary approaches to the academic study of religions. This includes perspectives from philosophy, theology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, phenomenology, and feminism. Students are also exposed to applications of these perspectives from visiting scholars who treat some aspect of a religious tradition in light of current-day interests and events. The primary objective is to introduce students to the principal theories and methods that have shaped our understanding of religion, its various meanings as well as its roles and functions in society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 456Theories of Religion3 credits
The history of the academic study of religion from its beginnings in the 19th century until the present. Key texts by figures such as Max Muller, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, Claude Levi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz will be studied.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 209Anthropology of Religion3 credits
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 200Introduction to Catholicism3 credits
This course offers an exploration of the Roman Catholic tradition in its intellectual, religious, moral, and cultural dimensions. It provides an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which Catholicism has shaped Western civilization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 220Selected Topics in Catholic Studies3 credits
A review of selected topics in Catholic studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 207Jewish History: 400 B.C.E. to 10003 credits
An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 219Jewish History: 1000 - 20003 credits
The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 200Islamic Civilization3 credits
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 210Muslim Societies3 credits
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 201Jewish Law3 credits
The nature and history of Jewish law; literary and legal sources; selections in English from the Mishnah and Talmud, as well as selected post-Talmudic Texts, on such subjects as Contracts, Torts, Public Law and Family Law.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 211Jewish Studies 1: Biblical Period3 credits
The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 216Jewish Studies 2: 400 B.C.E. - 10003 credits
The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 217Jewish Studies 3: 1000 - 20003 credits
The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 245Jewish Life in the Islamic World3 credits
Until the early modern period, most of the world’s Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 254The Jewish Holy Days3 credits
An exploration of the Jewish holy days. Emphasis is placed on their historical development, philosophical messages, and ritual forms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 261History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought3 credits
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 201Religions of the Ancient Near East3 credits
Introduction to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria-Palestine (excluding Israelite religion) from the fourth to first millennium B.C.E. Themes that will be discussed include: gods and goddesses, divine kingship, deification of kings, temple cult, death and afterlife, magic, piety, oracles, prayer, lament, myth and epic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 202Religion of Ancient Israel3 credits
An examination of the religion of Ancient Israel by a study of selected texts (narratives, laws, prophetic sayings, wisdom traditions, and psalms) from the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament in translation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 203Bible and Western Culture3 credits
To provide students of the humanities with knowledge of the Bible as a tool for interpreting religious references in Western literature, art and music. Biblical stories (e.g. Creation, Exodus), key figures (e.g. David, Job, Mary), and common motifs (e.g. Holy City, Pilgrimage, Bride) are explored, then illustrated by later cultural forms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 204Judaism, Christianity and Islam3 credits
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 205Death and Dying3 credits
How people in contemporary North America use traditional religious concepts and rituals, scientific understandings and medical procedures, or innovative combinations of both, to cope with, and make sense of, the concept of death. Exploration of how culture, politics, and other societal infrastructure interact in/through the bodily fact of death.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 210Jesus of Nazareth3 credits
A critical study of selected ancient and modern accounts of the aims and person of Jesus. Attention will be given also to the question of the historical sources and to the relationship between faith and history.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 211Theology through Fiction3 credits
Fiction of Christian provenance, in a variety of subgenres, including famous works by the likes of Dostoevsky, Undset, Chesterton, Mauriac, Lewis, Tolkien, Waugh, Greene, Percy, and O’Connor, is both theologically informed and theologically informative. Works selected from such literature will be read and discussed with a view to probing the notions of redemption in play.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 212Introduction to African Religions and Cultures3 credits
Introduction to the varied and diverse peoples and cultures of Africa, taking religion as the starting point for understanding their ways of life. Focus on themes and categories such as cosmology, family and social structure, history, arts, gender and sexuality, and mythology. Examination of the ways traditional forms of religion, Christianity, and Islam have played a fundamental role in shaping the realities of African societies as well as African diaspora traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 252Hinduism and Buddhism3 credits
The interaction of Hinduism and Buddhism in India with special reference to the law of Karma, caste, women, ritual, death, yoga, and liberation. Determination of interpretative principles for understanding the religious psychology of Hindus and Buddhists.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 253Religions of East Asia3 credits
This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 254Introduction to Yoga Traditions3 credits
This course is an historical and thematic investigation into yoga, including its classical formulations, esoteric practices, and contemporary developments and debates. It explores early yoga traditions as well as the development of modern yoga in India and “the West,” along with themes such as the body, asceticism, secularism, and cultural exchange.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 257D1Introductory Sanskrit3 credits
To develop basic language and reading skills.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 257D2Introductory Sanskrit3 credits
See RELG 257D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 270Religious Ethics and the Environment3 credits
Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 271Religion and Sexuality3 credits
Exploration of intersections between religion, gender and sexuality in diverse cultural, historical and contemporary contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 279New Testament Greek 13 credits
An introduction to the basic morphology, grammar, and syntax of New Testament Greek. Analysis of simple sentences from the New Testament and Septuagint.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 288Introduction to Sikhism3 credits
An introduction to the historical and religious contexts relevant to understanding Sikh religious traditions, including its principal doctrines, practices and institutions and its evolution from its origins in South Asia to the present, with particular attention to Sikh-Canadian transnational connections.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 210Introductory Latin 13 credits
A course designed for beginners with little or no background in Latin. Introduction to basic grammar, vocabulary, morphology. Reading of simple sentences and connected passages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 212Introductory Latin 23 credits
Continued introduction to Latin grammar, vocabulary, and morphology. Reading of more complex sentences and longer connected passages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 215Intensive Introductory Latin6 credits
A course designed for beginners with little or no background in Latin. Intensive introduction to grammar, vocabulary, morphology; the reading of sentences and connected passages. Equivalent to CLAS 210 and CLAS 212 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 220Introductory Ancient Greek 13 credits
A course designed for beginners with little or no background in ancient Greek. Introduction to basic grammar, vocabulary, morphology. Reading of simple sentences and connected passages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 222Introductory Ancient Greek 23 credits
Continued introduction to ancient Greek grammar, vocabulary, and morphology. Reading of more complex sentences and longer connected passages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 225Intensive Introductory Ancient Greek6 credits
A course designed for beginners with little or no background in ancient Greek. Intensive introduction to grammar, vocabulary, morphology; the reading of sentences and connected passages. Equivalent to CLAS 220 and 222 .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 310Intermediate Latin 13 credits
Review of Latin grammar, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary while introducing students to techniques and strategies for reading Latin poetry and prose.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 312Intermediate Latin 23 credits
Continued mastery of the language, with emphasis on translation of Latin texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 315Intermediate Latin 2: Selections3 credits
A study of selected works in Latin. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 320Intermediate Ancient Greek 13 credits
Review of grammar, vocabulary, and syntax of Ancient Greek through translation of selected ancient texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 322Intermediate Ancient Greek 23 credits
Continued mastery of the language, with emphasis on translation of ancient Greek texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CLAS 326Intermediate Ancient Greek 2: Selections3 credits
Translation of ancient Greek texts selected from a given topic, theme, genre, or author. Texts and authors change from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 322D1Lower Intermediate Arabic3 credits
Speech, comprehension, reading and writing of more complex grammatical structures, including the conditional sentence, case endings, and verbs and verbal constructions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 322D2Lower Intermediate Arabic3 credits
See ISLA 322D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 264Introductory Tibetan 13 credits
An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 265Introductory Tibetan 23 credits
A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 357D1Sanskrit 23 credits
Advanced grammar and vocabulary with readings in epic and similar texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 357D2Sanskrit 23 credits
See RELG 357D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 364Intermediate Tibetan 13 credits
Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 365Intermediate Tibetan 23 credits
Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 381Advanced New Testament Greek3 credits
A review of grammar and syntax with an emphasis on rapid reading of sections chosen from different parts of the New Testament.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 390D1Elementary Biblical Hebrew3 credits
An introduction to the grammar and syntax of Biblical Hebrew. Emphasis is placed on both the oral and the written language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 390D2Elementary Biblical Hebrew3 credits
See RELG 390D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 457D1Advanced Sanskrit3 credits
Critical reading of selected Sanskrit texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 457D2Advanced Sanskrit3 credits
See RELG 457D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 464Advanced Tibetan 13 credits
Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 465Advanced Tibetan 23 credits
Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 491Biblical Hebrew Narratives3 credits
Exegesis and translation of certain narratives from the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 492Biblical Hebrew Poetry3 credits
Translation and exegesis of certain poetic passages of the Masoretic Hebrew Bible and or Qumran corpus.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 310Catholic Intellectual Traditions3 credits
This course examines Catholic intellectual perspectives, schools of thought, and major thinkers, with focus on topics such as God, faith and reason, the human person, history, culture and community. Will also examine the interaction between Catholicism and other perspectives and traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 320Catholicism and Modernity3 credits
An exploration of major historical developments in modern Catholicism. The course will examine broad historical trends as well as regional contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 325Mystery and the Imagination3 credits
An exploration of Catholic perspectives on faith, reason, meaning and mystery through literature, art, music, and film.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 330Catholicism in a Global Context3 credits
An exploration of Catholicism as a global phenomenon through case studies of its multiple expressions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Topics include transnational Catholic movements and interreligious engagement.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 335Confessions of Saint Augustine3 credits
A close reading of Augustine's monumental Confessions- the odyssey of a restless soul seeking rest in God alone (conf. 1.1.)
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 340Catholicism and Public Policy3 credits
An examination of Catholic social thought, including intellectual and institutional engagement with a wide range of key public policy issues in spheres such as politics, law, economics, diplomacy, and international development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 460Catholic Studies Seminar3 credits
A research seminar on a major theme and/or thinker. The seminar will evolve around primary source materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 370Topics in Catholic Studies3 credits
A review of selected topics in Catholica studies. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CATH 375Topics in Catholic Theology3 credits
A review of selected topics in Catholic Theology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 427The Hasidic Movement3 credits
A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 310Women in Islam3 credits
The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 375Sufi Women3 credits
The lives and contributions of famous female Muslim mystics. Historical and literary analysis of gender discourse in male-authored representations of these mystical Sufi women, as well as developments in theologies of the cosmic feminine in Sufi philosophical texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 390Islamic Reform and Radicalism: Middle East3 credits
The process of modernization and reform in the late Ottoman period in Greater Syria, including Lebanon, Iran and Iraq leading up to the rise of modern nation states and the call for secularization in several Middle Eastern countries through the lens of Shi`ite Muslim citizens. The tensions that characterize the interface between the secular state and Islamic law in modern times. The voices of religious modernists, liberal secularists, leftists, and Islamists. Diverse Arab and Iranian thinkers and the historical forces, the political and socio-economic conditions that shaped their approaches to religious modernism, secularism, public religion and the Shari`a.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 421Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent3 credits
Survey of Islamicate legacies in South Asia from circa 1000;1947 Common Era, with a focus on the beginnings of Muslim political power in South Asia, the meaning of conversion to Islam before British colonialism, Muslim interactions with the non-Muslim majority, and Islamicate aesthetic legacies in the subcontinent.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ISLA 530Advanced Sufism3 credits
Advanced explorations of various specialized texts and topics in Sufi history and thought. Focus on specific Sufi thinkers, Sufi texts and literary works in the original and translation, Sufism and gender, aspects of Sufi practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 334Jews and Muslims: A Modern History3 credits
This course examines the modern history of Jewish-Muslim relations beyond just conflict. We will look at the experience of Jews and Muslims -- as individuals and communities -- who charted new cultural territory while navigating colonialism, nationalism, war, and decolonization, through close readings of a wide variety of primary sources (including letters, memoirs, fiction, music, film, and photography) and historical scholarship.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
JWST 382Jews, Judaism and Social Justice3 credits
A study of North American Jewish activists, thinkers and organizations whose social justice work is deeply rooted in Jewish text and in the lessons of Jewish historical experience.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 300Second Temple Judaism3 credits
A survey of Jewish history and thought from Ezra to the Mishnah; religious developments and groups, e.g., apocalypticism, Hellenistic Judaism, Essenes, Pharisees, Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism; and Biblical Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Paul, Mishnah and Midrashim.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 302Literature of Ancient Israel 13 credits
An introduction to the literature of Ancient Israel in English translation. Reading and interpreting representative selections.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 303Literature of Ancient Israel 23 credits
Approaches to historical-critical scholarship and to the historical background of the Old Testament. Part of the course will be an examination of methods of biblical analysis through the use of learning cells.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 307Bible, Quran and Interpretations3 credits
Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 309World Religions and Cultures They Create3 credits
RELG 310Canadian Church History3 credits
A survey of the major Christian traditions in Canada from the settlement of New France to the present. Lectures and seminars with use, where possible, of primary source materials.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 311Formation of the New Testament3 credits
An introduction to the formation and interpretation of the New Testament, excluding the Gospels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 312The Gospels3 credits
An introduction to the critical study of the Gospels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 315Special Topics in Religion 13 credits
Topics of current interest in or between world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 316New Religious Movements3 credits
A critical analysis of the origins, character and influence of one or more religious movements of the 19th C. and beyond, with special attention to their religious principles and social function.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 317Special Topics in Religion 23 credits
Topics of current interest in, or between, world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 318Special Topics in Religion 33 credits
Topics of current interest in, or between, world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 319Special Topics in Religion 43 credits
Topics of current interest in, or between, world religions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 322Church and Empire to 1300 3 credits
RELG 323Church and State since 13003 credits
Significant events and persons in the history of Western Christendom from 1300 to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 325Varieties Religious Experience in Christianity3 credits
A survey of varieties of religious experience in Christianity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 326Christians in the Roman World3 credits
A social-historical examination of Christians within the complex cultural, political, ethnic and religious contexts of later Greco-Roman antiquity, focusing on changing relations among different varieties of Christian, as well as on interactions and conflicts among Christians, Jews and polytheists. Other topics to be considered include martyrdom, orthodoxy and heresy, and Gnosticism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 331Religion and Globalization3 credits
An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 332Conversations Across World Religions3 credits
Exploration of various themes across the world's religions, including a range of living faith traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 333Principles of Theology3 credits
An introduction to the central questions, claims, and categories of Christian thought, considered in their narrative and credal context, with discussion of the nature of theology and the relation between faith and reason.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 334Theology of History3 credits
A study of Christian readings of history, and especially of the present age, including apocalyptic literature and political theology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 336Contemporary Theological Issues3 credits
A study of contemporary theological issues. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 337Themes in Buddhist Studies3 credits
A focused examination of major themes within a branch of Theravada, Mahayana or Vajrayana Buddhism. Emphasis will be placed on both the close study of primary texts (in translation) in historical context and the application of recent methods to fundamental Buddhist concepts, ritual practices and community institutions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 338Women and the Christian Tradition3 credits
Survey of women's involvement in the Christian tradition. Topics include feminist interpretation of scripture, ideas of virginity, marriage and motherhood, mysticism, asceticisms, European witchhunts, contemporary women's liberation theories.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 341Introduction: Philosophy of Religion3 credits
Introduction to the subject. Faith and reason, theistic arguments, values and destiny, the problem of evil, religious language.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 344Mahayana Buddhism3 credits
Investigation of Mahayana schools of thought based on reading of key sutras and commentarial literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 348Classical Hinduism3 credits
Surveys classical Hinduism through Sanskrit learning traditions. Topics include: Vedic literature, fables, ethics, statecraft, erotics, liberation, and epic literature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 350Bhakti Hinduism3 credits
Foundation of theism in the Upanisads, Epics, Gita and puranas; image worship and temple religion in the Agamas; Vaisnavism, Saivism, Saktism, and competition with Buddhism and Jainism; the relation of Bhakti and Tantra; interaction of Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 352Japanese Religions: History and Thought3 credits
This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 353Gandhi: His Life and Thought3 credits
A study of the life and thought of Gandhi.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 354Chinese Religions3 credits
Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 358Religion and Cinema in India3 credits
Surveys religion in India through key films, assuming no prior knowledge of South Asian cinema. Discussions will focus on issues of religion, visual culture, and representation in the study of Indian film. Thematic focus will vary from year to year, on a range of topics such as nationalism, devotion, secularism, and censorship.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 366Rivers, Religion, and Environment in South Asia3 credits
This class explores the significance of major South Asian river systems, including Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Yamuna, in classical and contemporary terms. In Hindu scriptures, rivers may be incarnate, emplaced goddesses; in contemporary South Asia, rivers are central to Hindu pilgrimage while facing environmental pressures from pollution, overuse, flooding, and drought. Finally, rivers of the Indian subcontinent cross and delineate international boundaries, creating friction between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. As key lifelines shared in multi-religious South Asia, are rivers vulnerable wards of the state;or valuable ‘citizens’ who must be recruited to do their part?.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 368Japanese Religions in Pop Culture3 credits
Explores the representation of religion in today’s Japanese popular culture. Through the exploration of religious narratives, symbolism and concepts in manga, anime, film and short novels, students will study the way religion is perceived in contemporary Japan. The distinction between the secular and the sacred, and the clash between modernity and Japan’s pre-modern religious traditions will be examined from an historical, anthropological and literary point of view.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 369Tibetan Buddhism3 credits
Buddhism has been central to Tibetan culture and identity since the 7th century CE. This course introduces key aspects of the history and practices of Tibetan Buddhism, including: early history, political and sectarian developments, the spread of Tibetan Buddhism outside of Tibet, and the myth of "Shangri-La".
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 370Religion and Human Rights3 credits
Social justice and human rights issues as key aspects of modem religious ethics. Topics include: the relationship of religion to the modem human rights movement; religious perspectives on the universality of human rights; the scope and limits of religious freedom; conflicts between religion and rights.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 372Hindu Goddesses3 credits
The mythology, theology, soteriology, history, ritual, and texts of the goddess-centred (Sakta) branches of Hinduism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 373Christian Ethics of Love3 credits
This course will focus on the philosophical sources of love and on their uses by Christian authors. By comparing both their premises and methods, we will see how different authors in a particular tradition (Christianity) offer various answers to the themes of love, friendship and charity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 375Religion, Politics and Society3 credits
A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 376Religious Ethics3 credits
A discussion of ethical theory will provide the background for an analysis of the relationship between religious world views and moral reason. Attention will be given to the way in which the dominant religious traditions view the exemplars of religious virtue, and to how the virtues exemplified are related to and justified by the faith tradition in which they operate.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 378Pilgrimage, Heritage, and Tourism3 credits
Explores the history of pilgrimage and emergence of religious tourism in global contexts. Introduces the religious heritage of Montreal and its history as a Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre (St. Joseph’s Oratory) and adopts thematic approaches to pilgrimage and tourism in interreligious perspectives (Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 379Eastern Orthodox Christianity3 credits
Topics in the history, theology, spiritual practices, liturgical arts, and literatures of the Greek, Slavonic, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and related Christian traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 380Religion, Philosophy, Modernity3 credits
Through primary source readings, this class will examine the intellectual history of this change, will identify the agents of this change, both philosophical and theological, and will consider the significance and implications of inhabiting a 'modernity' that is, and understands itself as, 'secular.' Charles Taylor's recent book, A Secular Age, narrates a historical development, from a 'pre-modern' condition, in which it was 'virtually impossible not to believe in and encounter God,' to a modern and contemporary situation in which 'faith is an embattled option.' Within the 'context of our self-understanding,' 'secularism' has become a 'default option.'.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 382Contemporary Theory of Religion 3 credits
RELG 398North American Christianity3 credits
Introduction to four centuries of Christian history in North America, covering grassroots practices and public culture. Focus on key historical moments and movements, including Puritanism, evangelical revivalism, slavery and Civil Rights, modernism and fundamentalism, Mormonism, anti-Communism, and Pentecostalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 399Christian Spirituality3 credits
Seminar exploring the phenomena of internal religious experience in their relation to received formularies of Christian thought and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 407The Writings3 credits
A study of Job with some attention to Proverbs and Ecclesiastes (in English translation).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 408The Prophets3 credits
A study of significant texts selected from the prophetic tradition in the Old Testament.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 410Paul and His Legacy3 credits
An in-depth study of Paul and his letters in their primary historical context, and the legacy of both in the early history of Christianity. Exegesis of the authentic epistles in conversation with relevant scholarship; Pauline letter collections; Pauline influence in/on New Testament andother early Christian literature; early competition over Paul; and interpretive problems and defining hermeneutics in the reception of the Pauline Epistles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 419Religious Heritage and Tourism3 credits
Introduction to heritage studies through the lens of religious studies, including spiritual, socio-economic, and political aspects of the expanding heritage phenomena, along with the contestations it can provoke. Topics include tourism, museums, intangible heritage practices, ritualization, the repatriation and destruction of heritage objects.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 422Medieval Religious Texts3 credits
Investigation of the interaction of Neoplatonic, Peripatetic, and Aristotelian schools of thought with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the early medieval period down to the Renaissance and early stages of the western Enlightenment traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 423Reformation Thought3 credits
An examination of issues and persons in Europe and the British Isles that contributed to ecclesiastical and social change during the 16th and early 17th centuries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 434Advanced Theology3 credits
Examination of the nature of theology, and particular theological loci, through readings in major theologians. The Lord’s Prayer is added to the Nicene Creed as a second lens for theological study.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 440Global Islam3 credits
Western scholarship has oscillated between orientalizing Islam and co-opting it into the Western (Abrahamic) fold of religious traditions. The course will challenge both perspectives by exploring Islam’s dynamic unfolding across a variety of civilizational regions and during subsequent epochs. Its patterns of premodern globalization are nowadays retrieved, sometimes by fitting Islamic cultures into neoliberal patterns of globalization, more often by sidelining or overlaying the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. The course will show how Islamic traditions have, both in history and in the present, developed unique intellectual tools and practical resources to interface both with ‘radical’ (Abrahamic) and ‘dialogic’ (non-Abrahamic) religious traditions: from the West (also via labor-based migration), through Central and South Asia, to East and Southeast Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 444Indian Ocean Religious Networks3 credits
RELG 445Modern Buddhism3 credits
Examination of how Buddhist doctrines, practices, and texts are (re)interpreted in the process of rapid modernization and globalization, and how Buddhism plays a role in shaping societies, economics, and politics.The intellectual trends and ideologies that have shaped the representation of Buddhism as a philosophical, rational, and scientific world religion. How Buddhist ethics and doctrines are transformed in facing the challenges of modernity, including the Buddhist response to environmentalism, gender and sexuality, race, social activism, and war and peace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 449The Religion of the Samurai3 credits
The religious and philosophical developments within the samurai class throughout the Edo (1600-1868) and early Meiji periods (1868-1912), including: an inquiry into the rise of new Buddhist and Shinto schools, the influence of Neo-Confucianism, the development of nativism and finally the invention of the Bushido.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 450The Way of the Kami3 credits
A historical and phenomenological approach to the study of Shinto, a Japanese Indigenous tradition. Analysis of the tradition’s pre-modern and modern history, how Shinto changed over its long history and in what way the modern version of the tradition is different from or similar to its pre-modern counterpart. Exploration of the changing meaning and perception of the tradition. The significance of the kami for the pre-modern practitioner, and how the tradition is viewed today.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 451Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art3 credits
A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 453Vajrayana Buddhism3 credits
A study of Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism, approached predominantly through the genre of life writing/sacred biography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 455Religion, Performance and Agency in South Asia3 credits
Exploration of the place of religion in historical representations and performance practices of "classical" South Asian performing arts such as Bharatanatyam dance and Karnatak music. Emphasis on politics of the twentieth-century reinvention of these arts by elites in the Tamil and Telugu-speaking regions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 459Bhagavadgita and Mahabharata 3 credits
RELG 470Theological Ethics3 credits
Examines ancient and modern sources of Christian moral thought against a backdrop of contemporary alternatives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 479Christianity in Global Perspective3 credits
Examines varied expressions of Christianity as a global religion with a particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America from the 18th century to the present.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 502Greco-Roman Judaism3 credits
The religion and literature of wisdom and apocalyptic traditions, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo and Josephus, with special attention to the Jewish matrix of Early Christianity.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 532History of Christian Thought 13 credits
The development of Christian theology in the Patristic and Medieval periods. Focus on the controversial development of Christian doctrines and disciplines through intensive exposure to primary texts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 544Ethnography as Method in Religious Studies3 credits
Ethnography as method informs disciplines from Area Studies and anthropology to linguistics and religious studies. Students will acquire a critical perspective on emic/etic subjectivity in Religious Studies, and a framework to apply ethnography in their research. Coursework covers classic ethnographies, new interventions, and ethnographies of particular relevance for religious traditions in a given year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 545Ramayana: Multiple Lives3 credits
Focus on the Rama story in South Asia. Exploration of the multiple versions of the narrative from classical Sanskrit textual versions, to rural vernacular retellings, to contemporary TV versions, and examination of the various religious, social, cultural and political significations of the narrative in these contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 547Special Topics in Hinduism3 credits
A research-oriented seminar dealing with topics in Hindu studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 548Indian Buddhist Philosophy3 credits
The rise of buddhist schools of philosophy, especially the Theravada and Sauntrantika, as an attempt to systematize the canonical teachings and defend Buddhism against its critics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 551Special Topics in Buddhism3 credits
A research-oriented seminar dealing with topics in Buddhist studies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 552Advaita Vedanta3 credits
The relation of Nyaya-Vaisesika and Mimamsa to Kevaladvaita with concentration on Sankara's Brahmasutrabhasya, Pada 1 and 2.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 556Issues in Buddhist Studies3 credits
A graduate seminar taught by the Numata Visiting Professor on critical issues in contemporary Buddhist Studies. Emphasis will be placed on the intensive application of different methods - philological, philosophical or social scientific - to some area of modern Buddhist research.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 558Indian Tantric Traditions3 credits
Study of esoteric Tantric culture (philosophy, ritual, pilgrimage, art, and iconography) with focus on either Hindu or Buddhist Tantric traditions.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 560Buddhist Poetry3 credits
Since the time of Buddha, poetry has been used by Buddhist to express devotion, to compose philosophical treatises, and to communicate insight into the experience of awakening. The seminar's content will vary, treating the history, poetics, esthetics, roles and genres of Buddhist poetry in India, Tibet, China and Japan.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 570Research in Interfaith Studies3 credits
Exploration of the complex entanglements ofreligious and cultural traditions. The intersectinguniverses of practice and meaning originating from different inflections of the tension betweenimmanence and transcendence, combininghistorical and theoretical approaches.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 571Ethics, Medicine and Religion3 credits
The seminar will discuss a variety of topics related to medicine and religion from the point of view of ethics, such as the pact of care between a patient and a physician, the Hippocratic oath, the notions of autonomy and vulnerability, the definitions of personhood and human dignity, the question of rights for people with cognitive disabilities, the debate about the role of religion in bioethics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 572Religion and Global Politics3 credits
An exploration of the resurgence of global religions in geo-political and international relations in the post Cold-War era. It examines the complex roles that religious traditions play in democratization, human rights, conflict, and development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Sociology77 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Sociology Major Concentration (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

SOCI 210Sociological Perspectives3 credits
Major theoretical perspectives and research methods in sociology. The linkages of theory and method in various substantive areas including: the family, community and urban life, religion, ethnicity, occupations and stratification, education, and social change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 211Sociological Inquiry3 credits
An introductory review of methods of sociological research including research design, elementary quantitative data analysis, observation, and use of official statistics. Detailed examination of published examples of the use of each of the major techniques of data analysis and collection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 330Sociological Theory3 credits
Major themes in sociological theory as developed by key classical and contemporary theorists. Uses and limitations of social theory for understanding the social world. Themes may include inequality/power; culture/structure/values; strategic action; and social construction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 350Statistics in Social Research3 credits
This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 341Current Problems in Sociology 023 credits
Intended for students who are adequately prepared to undertake advanced work and have an explicit proposal to submit.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 342Independent Study 13 credits
Intended for students who are adequately prepared to undertake advanced work and have an explicit proposal to submit.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 343Independent Study 23 credits
Intended for students who are adequately prepared to undertake advanced work and have an explicit proposal to submit.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 441Current Problems in Sociology 033 credits
Intended for students who are adequately prepared to undertake advanced work and have an explicit proposal to submit.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 442Independent Reading and Research 013 credits
Intended for students who are adequately prepared to undertake advanced work and have an explicit proposal to submit.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 443Independent Reading and Research 023 credits
Intended for students who are adequately prepared to undertake advanced work and have an explicit proposal to submit.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 213Deviance3 credits
Introduction to the sociological study of deviance. The course examines biological, psychological and sociological explanations for deviance. Topics covered include sexual deviance, mental disorders, and drug use.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 225Medicine and Health in Modern Society3 credits
Socio-medical problems and ways in which sociological analysis and research are being used to understand and deal with them. Canadian and Québec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 247Family and Modern Society3 credits
Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 250Social Problems3 credits
Contrasting theoretical approaches to social problems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 305Socialization3 credits
The effects of early childhood experiences upon adult personality, and the transmission of social roles and values. Topics include: social reinforcement theories, modeling theories, maternal deprivation, culture and personality studies, cognitive development and infantile sexuality. The processes of sex role socialization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 309Health and Illness3 credits
Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 310Sociology of Mental Health3 credits
Three broad areas of sociological research on mental health and illness: definitions and measurement; social origins; and societal responses. Mental health and illness as a product of social circumstances.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 318Sociology of the Media3 credits
A survey course; examines various topics, theories, and research related to the sociological and cultural study of the media, both traditional and new.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 322Sociology of Literature3 credits
A review of sociological research on the production, readership, and broader social implications of literature. Topics will include: the issue of whether literature "reflects" society, the use of literature in establishing collective identities, and reading as a social practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 325Sociology of Science3 credits
A review of sociological research on science as an institution. Topics include the culture and practice of science, societal influences on scientific processes, the use of scientific output and technology in media and society, and the impact of cultural and institutional forces on the evolution of scientific knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 388Crime3 credits
Introductory course on methods and theories in criminology. Exploration of the nature and distribution of crime; and critical evaluation of definitions and the measurement of crime; review of theoretical approaches used to understand such a phenomenon; a comparative overview of the criminal justice system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 430Sociology of Citizenship3 credits
Advanced course on theoretical approaches to citizenship. Focus will be on multiple dimensions of citizenship: legal status, rights, participation and belonging. Examines how class, race, ethnicity, gender and immigrant status inform the relationship between individuals and states. Will address contemporary debates about the reconfiguration of citizenship.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 488Punishment and Prisons3 credits
An overview of research on prison "communities" and prison riots. An assessment of incapacitation, deterrence and labelling effects of incarceration. A conceptual framework for analyzing variations (across societies) and changes (over time) in the overall aggregate rates of punishment that social systems impose on their offender populations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 489Gender, Deviance and Social Control3 credits
This seminar examines how the definition of deviance, reactions to deviance and explanations of deviance are gendered. Specific topics vary from year to year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 495Social Problems and Conflicts3 credits
This course explores the social construction of "social problems". It focuses on the social conflicts involved in the definition of social issues and on how and why "problems" change over time. Issues such as drinking, smoking, drug use, pornography, abortion, and homosexuality will be discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 503Surveillance in Modern Society3 credits
This course traces the historical evolution, contemporary tactics, objectives, and social effects of government surveillance and examines how people perceive and respond to surveillance in a post-9/11 world. Through this empirically grounded study, the course takes on a broader sociological question, asking how new surveillance technologies have influenced the relationship between states and citizens.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 515Medicine and Society3 credits
The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 525Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective3 credits
Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 535Sociology of the Family3 credits
This seminar reviews literature on major research areas in family. The course examines families in the past, the study of family using a life course approach, and considers selective areas which may have had significant influences on contemporary family such as work and family, family violence, and cultural variation in families.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 538Selected Topics in Sociology of Biomedical Knowledge3 credits
The seminar will examine recent work in the sociology of biomedical knowledge. It will focus on the technological shaping of biomedical knowledge, i.e., on the impact of new technologies and equipments on the development of biomedical knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 571Deviance and Social Control3 credits
This seminar focuses on how social groups enforce rules (and maintain social order) through coercion and socialization. It reviews current research and critiques key theoretical approaches to social control. Included are discussions of regulating institutions such as prisons and mental asylums, and the roles of gossip, manners and etiquettes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 595Migration Governance and Stratification3 credits
Examination of how states and other actors govern the movement of people across international borders, and how this governance contributes to new and ongoing patterns of stratification by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality. Topics include: theoretical paradigms for understanding migration governance and its relation to inequalities; the economic, social, and political factors that influence immigration and refugee policy making; the social construction of migrant categories in historical perspective; the role of international organizations and non-state actors in migration governance; and the relationship between migration governance and migrants' experiences of economic, social, and political stratification.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 212International Migration3 credits
Introduction to social science research on international migration. Covers theories about why people migrate, constraints to migration, and various aspects of immigrant integration. Will explore key theoretical debates of the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 222Urban Sociology3 credits
Comparative analysis of the process of urbanization in Europe, North America and the Third World; effects of urbanization upon social institutions and individuals; theories of urbanization and urbanism; the Canadian urban system; urban problems in comparative view.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 234Population and Society3 credits
Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 245The Sociology of Emotions3 credits
Introduction to the sociology of emotions. Exploration of how social relations and emotions affect one another, focusing on the social determinants of emotions, the social construction of emotions, and the effects of emotions on social consensus and conflict. The sociological study of emotions intersects with psychology and neuroscience, and this course helps to situate sociology in these related disciplines.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 254Development and Underdevelopment3 credits
Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 255Gender and the State3 credits
How is political participation, representation, and mobilization within existing democracies gendered? This course provides an introduction to social scientific literature on gender and politics. Using theoretical and empirical work in sociology, political science, and history, this course helps students identify gender disparities in political processes and debate their causes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 307Globalization3 credits
Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 326Political Sociology 013 credits
An examination of the social changes that underlie the emergence of modern politics. An outline and empirical critique of the principal alternative models of political functioning in industrial societies. Empirical analysis of elite and mass political behaviour.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 345Topics in Sociology3 credits
Topics in Sociology. Topic varies by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 354Dynamics of Industrial Societies3 credits
Theories of social, economic, and political change in the industrialized societies. Causes of cycles in economic growth; imperialism and war; and in ethnic, religious, and industrial conflict. Causes of long run trends in social inequality, crime, family stability, and the position of women. Comparison of North America, Europe, Russia, and Japan.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 365Health and Development3 credits
Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 370Sociology: Gender and Development3 credits
Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 386Contemporary Social Movements3 credits
This course will focus on contemporary social movements in Canada, the U.S., and Western Europe, such as the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the environmental movement. Empirical studies of movements will be used to explore such general issues as how social movements emerge, grow, and decline.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 400Comparative Migration and Citizenship3 credits
Advanced course on international migration, belonging and diversity in contemporary societies. Will examine dynamics of exclusion and inclusion, the accommodation of cultural diversity, the adaptation of immigrants and how global international migration challenges and re-shapes citizenship. Will cover key theoretical debates in the field and the data and case studies on which these debates hinge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 424Networks and Social Structures3 credits
Relational and network-analytical approaches to social structure. The theory and methods of network analysis. Subjects will include communication networks, online community structure, social support, influence processes, and overlapping networks.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 446Colonialism and Society3 credits
Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 455Post-Socialist Societies3 credits
The demise of Communist Party rule between 1989 - 1991 throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The societal implications (e.g. class formation, gender relations, nationalism, corruption, religious freedom) of these dramatic economic and political changes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 484Emerging Democratic States3 credits
Focus on the sociological aspects of recent transitions to democracy within developing countries - particularly within Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Exploration of why democratization has taken place, to what extent it has been successful and the implications of democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 507Social Change3 credits
An examination of the major sociological theories of long term macro social change. Topics include why industrialization began in Europe instead of Asia, the divergence among societies in systems of class, gender, ethnic and racial inequality, and whether industrial society has entered a new post-industrial or post-modern phase.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 519Gender and Globalization3 credits
Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 545Sociology of Population3 credits
The classic literature of sociology of population. Drawing reciprocal linkages between social and population processes: Historical, family and labour force demography, demographic and fertility transitions, mortality, ethnic and race relations, gender, macro-structural interaction theory, and the relation of population and the environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 550Developing Societies3 credits
Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 227Jews in North America3 credits
An introduction to the study contemporary North American Jewry using findings of sociology and other social sciences. Social, cultural, and political issues of concern to the Jewish community. Specific characteristics of Jewish life in Canada, and Québec in particular, in comparison to the American Jewish experience.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 230Sociology of Ethnic Relations3 credits
An introduction to the sociological study of minority groups in Canada. The course will explore the themes of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, ethnic and racial inequalities, cultural identities, multiculturalism, immigration. Theoretical, empirical, and policy issues will be discussed. While the focus will be primarily on Canada, comparisons will be made with the United States.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 270Sociology of Gender3 credits
This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 300Sociology of Sexualities3 credits
Topics covered include sexual diversity, historical and cross-cultural perspectives on sexuality, sex work, pornography, non-monogamy, and casual sex.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 321Gender and Work3 credits
Focus on men's and women's work in North American societies, historically and contemporarily, in order to understand the dynamisms of gender (in)equality in and outside of the home. Topics explored include: housework; the relationship(s) between gender, organizations and bureaucracy; emotional labour; occupational segregation and stratification; sexual harassment; and work-family policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 333Social Stratification3 credits
The pattern, causes and consequences of social inequality. Among the inequalities considered are those of economic class, sex (gender), race, ethnicity and age. Competing theories of the causes of social inequalities are compared and assessed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 335Sociology of Aging and the Life Course3 credits
This class will introduce students to the growing body of interdisciplinary research suggesting social factors strongly influence healthy and successful aging. Topics will include the impact of stratification (race, class, gender), neighborhood processes, social networks, family and partnerships, and bio-social interactions, on life trajectories and the aging process.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 355Rural Life in a Global Society3 credits
Focus on rural life in North America in the context of rapid globalization and accompanying social, demographic, economic, and cultural change. Topics include rural identity, persistent poverty, gender, race/ethnicity, environmental issues, politics, economic development strategies, education, demographic decline and aging, internal migration, health, and family dynamics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 366Neighborhoods and Inequality 3 credits
The causes and consequences of neighbourhood-based social inequalities in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Forms of inequality covered include poverty, segregation, ethnic enclaves, unemployment, educational attainment, crime, and health. Methodological issues and social policy will also be examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 375Suspect Minorities in Canada3 credits
This course will address the challenge of diverse, liberal societies like Canada, of dealing with "suspect" minorities of various types --racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic -- from the perspective of the minority group, and majority group, and the society and polity at large.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 410Urban Ethnography3 credits
This course surveys the tradition of urban ethnography in sociology. Students will read, discuss, and assess major classic and modern urban ethnographies as well as theoretical and methodological debates that pertain to urban ethnography. Special attention will be paid to scholarship that illuminates race and ethnicity, crime, and poverty as social phenomena.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 415Education and Inequality3 credits
Focuses on the mechanisms by which educational institutions foster and maintain equalities and inequalities around the world, considers the kinds of inequalities which exist in our society, their bases and sources, and analyzes educational practices and structures related to the production and maintenance of equalities and inequalities. Considers the consequences of educational opportunity of recent reform proposals, and the relation of education to occupational opportunities. Engages with multidisciplinary theories of social stratification and examines empirical and theoretical studies from both low-and high-income societies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 475Canadian Ethnic Studies Seminar3 credits
An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on current social sciences research and public policies in areas relating to Canadian ethnic studies. Topics will include ethnic and racial inequalities, prejudice and discrimination, ethnic identities and cultural expressions, the structure and organization of minority groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 505Sociology of Digital Intimacy3 credits
Exploration of the rise of digitally mediated romantic connections and their influence on contemporary dating and relational practices. How technology's encroachment into the private sphere implicates discourses around culture, gender, sexuality, economics, and selfhood through the lens of online dating and human-artificial intelligence relationships.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 520Migration and Immigrant Groups3 credits
Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 526Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare 3 credits
SOCI 530Sex and Gender3 credits
This seminar critically reviews theoretical perspectives and research on sex and gender in various domains of social life. It gives special emphasis to work which considers the meaning of gender and how it differs across time and place.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 235Technology and Society3 credits
An examination of the extent to which technological developments impose constraints on ways of arranging social relationships in bureaucratic organizations and in the wider society: the compatibility of current social structures with the effective utilization of technology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 301Artificial Intelligence and Society3 credits
A critical approach to dissecting artificial intelligence's (AI) origin, proliferation, and ubiquity. Examinations of its impact on societal norms and institutions. A dynamic look at AI's promises and limits in delivering a utopic technological future.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 304Sociology of the Welfare State3 credits
The origins and history of the welfare state and the differences between types of welfare state regimes; debates about and empirical evidence for current developments in welfare state programs. Special attention will be paid to the interconnections between the evolution of the labour market and the resulting pressures on the welfare state.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 312Sociology of Work and Industry3 credits
The development of the world of work from the rise of industrial capitalism to the postindustrial age. Responses of workers and managers to changing organizational, technological and economic realities. Interrelations between changing demands in the workplace and the functioning of the labour market. Canadian materials in comparative perspective.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 420Organizations3 credits
A survey of theories of organization with particular reference to problems of growth, technology, centralization and decentralization, and organizational environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 470Topics in Economic Sociology3 credits
Topics in economic sociology. Topics vary by year.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Langue et littérature françaises - Études et pratiques littéraires69 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Baccalauréat ès Arts (B.A.) - Concentration majeure Langue et littérature françaises - Études et pratiques littéraires. This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

FREN 222Introduction aux études littéraires3 credits
Présentation d'un aperçu global de la littérature de langue française, de ses enjeux et des grandes préoccupations qui y ont cours. Initiation aux grands principes de la lecture littéraire et à l'utilisation des principaux outils de consultation et de recherche.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 333Questions de littérature du Moyen Âge et de l'Ancien Régime3 credits
Cours à contenu variable sur la littérature française du Moyen Âge et de l'Ancien Régime.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 444Questions de littérature moderne3 credits
Cours à contenu variable portant sur la littérature française moderne (19e - 20e siècles).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 450Questions de littérature québécoise3 credits
Cours à contenu variable portant sur la littérature québécoise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 245Grammaire normative3 credits
Révision des principales difficultés de la langue française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 356Grammaire du texte littéraire3 credits
Étude du fonctionnement de la grammaire dans les textes littéraires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 420Enjeux de l’écriture littéraire3 credits
Exploration, sous différents angles (philosophique, sociologique, psychanalytique, féministe) des problèmes et enjeux de l'écriture littéraire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 422Le métier d'écrivain-e3 credits
Réflexion sur les problèmes et les enjeux de l'écriture littéraire à partir d'expériences concrètes du métier d'écrivain-e.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 250Littérature française avant 18003 credits
Introduction à la littérature française des origines à la fin du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 251Littérature française depuis 18003 credits
Introduction à la littérature française des 19e et 20e siècles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 252Littérature québécoise3 credits
Introduction à la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 253Oeuvres culture occidentale3 credits
L’introduction aux oeuvres étrangères qui ont marqué durablement la culture et la littérature occidentales. Les oeuvres au programme seront étudiées en traduction française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 310Cinéma français3 credits
Étude d’oeuvres ou de courants du cinéma français.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 311Cinéma francophone3 credits
Étude d’oeuvres ou de courants du cinéma francophone.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 315Cinéma québécois3 credits
Étude thématique du cinéma québécois à travers ses principaux films.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 355Littérature du 20e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française depuis 1900.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 360La littérature du 19e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 19e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 362La littérature du 17e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 17e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 364La littérature du 18e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 366Littérature de la Renaissance 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 16e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 372Littérature québécoise 13 credits
Étude d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 380Littératures francophones 13 credits
Étude d’une ou de plusieurs littératures francophones autres que les littératures québécoise et française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 381Littératures francophones 23 credits
Étude d’œuvres, d’auteurs ou de courants d’une ou de plusieurs littératures francophones autres que les littératures québécoise et française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 382Littérature québécoise 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature québécoise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 453Littérature du 20e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs et de thèmes importants de la littérature française du 20e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 455La littérature médiévale 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du moyen-âge (des origines au 15e siècle).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 456La littérature médiévale 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du moyen-âge (des origines au 15e siècle).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 457La littérature de la Renaissance 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 16e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 458La littérature du 17e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 17e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 459La littérature du 18e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 461Enjeux littéraires et culturels 13 credits
Cours à contenu variable: un enjeu (question, thème, auteur, genre, période, etc.) de littérature, ou de culture, française ou francophone.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 472Enjeux littéraires et culturels 23 credits
Cours à contenu variable: un enjeu (thème, question, auteur, genre, période, etc.) de littérature, ou de culture, québécoise ou francocanadienne.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 480Littérature québécoise contemporaine3 credits
Histoire de la littérature québécois récente ou actuelle. Étude d'oeuvres représentatives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 482La littérature du 19e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 19e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 485Littérature française contemporaine3 credits
Études d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de thèmes importants de la littérature française récente et actuelle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 498Questions de littérature 33 credits
Cours à contenu variable: un thème de théorie ou de critique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 231Linguistique française3 credits
Bref historique de la linguistique française de F. de Saussure à nos jours. Description linguistique du français moderne (éléments de phonologie, de phonétique normative, de lexicologie, de sémantique évolutive et synchronique, de syntaxe et de morphologie).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 313Langage et littérature 13 credits
Analyse critique des théories du langage en les mettant à l'épreuve des textes littéraires; réflexion sur le statut de la langue littéraire, en liant l'évolution du français aux représentations qu'en donnent les écrivains.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 336Histoire de la langue française3 credits
Histoire de la langue française, du bas-latin à la langue moderne. Étude de l'évolution phonétique, syntaxique, sémantique. Étude de textes des différentes époques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 434Sociolinguistique du français3 credits
Éléments de sociolinguistique et leur application aux pays francophones. Rapports entre les aspects phonologiques, grammaticaux et lexicologiques du parler et le milieu social. Langues en contact, planification linguistique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 491Langage et littérature 23 credits
Analyse critique des théories du langage en les mettant à l'épreuve des textes littéraires; réflexion sur le statut de la langue littéraire, en liant l'évolution du français aux représentations qu'en donnent les écrivains.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 334L'oeuvre au miroir de la critique3 credits
Ce cours aborde systématiquement les méthodes, notions et modèles théoriques susceptibles de s'appliquer à l'analyse descriptive des textes littéraires de genres et époques divers.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 335Théories littéraires 13 credits
Introduction aux grands courants de la théorie et de la critique littéraires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 337Textes, imaginaires, sociétés3 credits
Application d'une approche critique à plusieurs textes littéraires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 375Théories littéraires 23 credits
Étude d’un grand courant de la théorie et de la critique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 391Savoirs de la littérature 13 credits
Étude de doctrines, de perspectives critiques ou d'enjeux théoriques permettant d'interpréter certaines des littératures de langue française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 394Théories de la traduction 3 credits
FREN 425Traduction et culture3 credits
Étude traductologique de l’interrelation entre traduction et culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 496Savoirs de la littérature 23 credits
Étude de doctrines, de perspectives critiques ou d'enjeux théoriques permettant d'interpréter certaines des littératures de langue française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 240Atelier d'écriture poétique3 credits
Pratique des formes et des techniques de la création poétique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 320Traduire, écrire, expérimenter3 credits
Production de textes littéraires par le biais d'exercices liés aussi bien à la traduction qu'à des explorations diverses (détournements, pastiches, écriture à contraintes).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 340Atelier d'écriture narrative3 credits
Pratique des formes et des techniques de la narration littéraire (nouvelle, roman, récit).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 440Atelier d'écriture dramatique3 credits
Pratique des formes et des techniques de la création théâtrale et cinématographique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 460Atelier d'écriture3 credits
Initiation à l’expérience littéraire par la production d’un texte littéraire d’une vingtaine de pages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 376Correction et révision3 credits
Principes et pratiques de la révision et de la correction de textes en vue de la publication.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 377Pratiques de l'édition littéraire3 credits
Initiation aux techniques et aux règles de l'édition de textes littéraires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 476Le livre3 credits
Histoire du livre. Le livre dans le monde contemporain. La chaîne du livre, du manuscrit à l'oeuvre éditée.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 239Stylistique comparée3 credits
Initiation aux principes de la traduction par une étude systématique des contrastes entre les structures linguistiques de l'anglais et du français. Une bonne connaissance des deux langues est nécessaire au départ.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 244Traduction générale3 credits
Exercices portant sur les éléments syntaxiques et lexicaux qui présentent des problèmes de traduction simples mais fréquents. Traduction de textes courts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 324Traduction littéraire3 credits
Problèmes pratiques que pose la transposition en français de qualité d'un texte originellement rédigé en anglais littéraire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 341Traduction et recherche3 credits
Cours à contenu variable. Pratique de la traduction à partir de certaines questions de recherche qui y sont reliées.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 346Traduction pragmatique3 credits
Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais; étude de procédés de traduction. Traduction de textes variés.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 347Terminologie générale3 credits
Étude empirique des différents stades dans le travail du terminologue: collection de données, production de fiches terminologiques, recherches ponctuelles et thématiques. Les problèmes terminologiques de la traduction. Étude de problèmes pratiques posés par la terminologie bilingue ou multilingue et ses répercussions dans un domaine particulier des connaissances humaines.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 349Traduction et actualité 3 credits
Pratique de la traduction à partir d'enjeux traductologiques actuels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 431Traduction et révision3 credits
Révision de textes, principes et pratiques de la révision unilingue et bilingue. lnitiation au contrôle de la qualité. La profession de réviseur. Travaux pratiques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 441Traduction français-anglais3 credits
Traduction de textes généraux du français vers l'anglais.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 443Traduire la littérature3 credits
Traduction vers le français de textes originellement rédigés en anglais littéraire. Réflexion sur les enjeux de la traduction littéraire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 492Histoire de la traduction3 credits
Histoire des pratiques et des théories de la traduction de l'Antiquité à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 494Traduction spécialisée3 credits
Ce séminaire a pour but d'approfondir les connaissances dans une perspective d'exercice pratique de la traduction. Il ne s'agit pas de former les étudiants dans une langue de spécialité quelconque, mais plutôt de faciliter la compréhension de textes portant sur les différentes disciplines ou faisant intervenir les notions propres à celles-ci.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Langue et littérature françaises - Traduction58 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 36-credit Baccalauréat ès Arts (B.A.) - Concentration majeure Langue et littérature françaises - Traduction. This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 36 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

FREN 222Introduction aux études littéraires3 credits
Présentation d'un aperçu global de la littérature de langue française, de ses enjeux et des grandes préoccupations qui y ont cours. Initiation aux grands principes de la lecture littéraire et à l'utilisation des principaux outils de consultation et de recherche.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 244Traduction générale3 credits
Exercices portant sur les éléments syntaxiques et lexicaux qui présentent des problèmes de traduction simples mais fréquents. Traduction de textes courts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 245Grammaire normative3 credits
Révision des principales difficultés de la langue française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 239Stylistique comparée3 credits
Initiation aux principes de la traduction par une étude systématique des contrastes entre les structures linguistiques de l'anglais et du français. Une bonne connaissance des deux langues est nécessaire au départ.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 320Traduire, écrire, expérimenter3 credits
Production de textes littéraires par le biais d'exercices liés aussi bien à la traduction qu'à des explorations diverses (détournements, pastiches, écriture à contraintes).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 324Traduction littéraire3 credits
Problèmes pratiques que pose la transposition en français de qualité d'un texte originellement rédigé en anglais littéraire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 341Traduction et recherche3 credits
Cours à contenu variable. Pratique de la traduction à partir de certaines questions de recherche qui y sont reliées.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 346Traduction pragmatique3 credits
Stylistique comparée du français et de l'anglais; étude de procédés de traduction. Traduction de textes variés.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 347Terminologie générale3 credits
Étude empirique des différents stades dans le travail du terminologue: collection de données, production de fiches terminologiques, recherches ponctuelles et thématiques. Les problèmes terminologiques de la traduction. Étude de problèmes pratiques posés par la terminologie bilingue ou multilingue et ses répercussions dans un domaine particulier des connaissances humaines.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 349Traduction et actualité 3 credits
Pratique de la traduction à partir d'enjeux traductologiques actuels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 431Traduction et révision3 credits
Révision de textes, principes et pratiques de la révision unilingue et bilingue. lnitiation au contrôle de la qualité. La profession de réviseur. Travaux pratiques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 441Traduction français-anglais3 credits
Traduction de textes généraux du français vers l'anglais.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 443Traduire la littérature3 credits
Traduction vers le français de textes originellement rédigés en anglais littéraire. Réflexion sur les enjeux de la traduction littéraire.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 494Traduction spécialisée3 credits
Ce séminaire a pour but d'approfondir les connaissances dans une perspective d'exercice pratique de la traduction. Il ne s'agit pas de former les étudiants dans une langue de spécialité quelconque, mais plutôt de faciliter la compréhension de textes portant sur les différentes disciplines ou faisant intervenir les notions propres à celles-ci.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 231Linguistique française3 credits
Bref historique de la linguistique française de F. de Saussure à nos jours. Description linguistique du français moderne (éléments de phonologie, de phonétique normative, de lexicologie, de sémantique évolutive et synchronique, de syntaxe et de morphologie).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 313Langage et littérature 13 credits
Analyse critique des théories du langage en les mettant à l'épreuve des textes littéraires; réflexion sur le statut de la langue littéraire, en liant l'évolution du français aux représentations qu'en donnent les écrivains.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 336Histoire de la langue française3 credits
Histoire de la langue française, du bas-latin à la langue moderne. Étude de l'évolution phonétique, syntaxique, sémantique. Étude de textes des différentes époques.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 356Grammaire du texte littéraire3 credits
Étude du fonctionnement de la grammaire dans les textes littéraires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 394Théories de la traduction 3 credits
FREN 425Traduction et culture3 credits
Étude traductologique de l’interrelation entre traduction et culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 434Sociolinguistique du français3 credits
Éléments de sociolinguistique et leur application aux pays francophones. Rapports entre les aspects phonologiques, grammaticaux et lexicologiques du parler et le milieu social. Langues en contact, planification linguistique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 491Langage et littérature 23 credits
Analyse critique des théories du langage en les mettant à l'épreuve des textes littéraires; réflexion sur le statut de la langue littéraire, en liant l'évolution du français aux représentations qu'en donnent les écrivains.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 492Histoire de la traduction3 credits
Histoire des pratiques et des théories de la traduction de l'Antiquité à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 250Littérature française avant 18003 credits
Introduction à la littérature française des origines à la fin du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 251Littérature française depuis 18003 credits
Introduction à la littérature française des 19e et 20e siècles.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 252Littérature québécoise3 credits
Introduction à la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 253Oeuvres culture occidentale3 credits
L’introduction aux oeuvres étrangères qui ont marqué durablement la culture et la littérature occidentales. Les oeuvres au programme seront étudiées en traduction française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 310Cinéma français3 credits
Étude d’oeuvres ou de courants du cinéma français.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 311Cinéma francophone3 credits
Étude d’oeuvres ou de courants du cinéma francophone.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 315Cinéma québécois3 credits
Étude thématique du cinéma québécois à travers ses principaux films.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 355Littérature du 20e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française depuis 1900.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 360La littérature du 19e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 19e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 362La littérature du 17e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 17e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 364La littérature du 18e siècle 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 366Littérature de la Renaissance 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 16e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 372Littérature québécoise 13 credits
Étude d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 380Littératures francophones 13 credits
Étude d’une ou de plusieurs littératures francophones autres que les littératures québécoise et française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 381Littératures francophones 23 credits
Étude d’œuvres, d’auteurs ou de courants d’une ou de plusieurs littératures francophones autres que les littératures québécoise et française.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 382Littérature québécoise 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature québécoise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 453Littérature du 20e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs et de thèmes importants de la littérature française du 20e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 455La littérature médiévale 13 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du moyen-âge (des origines au 15e siècle).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 456La littérature médiévale 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du moyen-âge (des origines au 15e siècle).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 457La littérature de la Renaissance 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 16e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 458La littérature du 17e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 17e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 459La littérature du 18e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 18e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 461Enjeux littéraires et culturels 13 credits
Cours à contenu variable: un enjeu (question, thème, auteur, genre, période, etc.) de littérature, ou de culture, française ou francophone.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 472Enjeux littéraires et culturels 23 credits
Cours à contenu variable: un enjeu (thème, question, auteur, genre, période, etc.) de littérature, ou de culture, québécoise ou francocanadienne.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 480Littérature québécoise contemporaine3 credits
Histoire de la littérature québécois récente ou actuelle. Étude d'oeuvres représentatives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 482La littérature du 19e siècle 23 credits
Étude d'oeuvres, d'auteurs ou de courants de la littérature française du 19e siècle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 485Littérature française contemporaine3 credits
Études d'ceuvres, d'auteurs ou de thèmes importants de la littérature française récente et actuelle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 498Questions de littérature 33 credits
Cours à contenu variable: un thème de théorie ou de critique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 240Atelier d'écriture poétique3 credits
Pratique des formes et des techniques de la création poétique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 340Atelier d'écriture narrative3 credits
Pratique des formes et des techniques de la narration littéraire (nouvelle, roman, récit).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 440Atelier d'écriture dramatique3 credits
Pratique des formes et des techniques de la création théâtrale et cinématographique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 460Atelier d'écriture3 credits
Initiation à l’expérience littéraire par la production d’un texte littéraire d’une vingtaine de pages.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 376Correction et révision3 credits
Principes et pratiques de la révision et de la correction de textes en vue de la publication.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 377Pratiques de l'édition littéraire3 credits
Initiation aux techniques et aux règles de l'édition de textes littéraires.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FREN 476Le livre3 credits
Histoire du livre. Le livre dans le monde contemporain. La chaîne du livre, du manuscrit à l'oeuvre éditée.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Environment - Ecological Determinants of Health in Society102 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 54-credit Faculty Program Environment - Ecological Determinants of Health in Society (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 54 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

MATH 139Calculus 1 with Precalculus4 credits
Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 140Calculus 13 credits
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 120General Biology3 credits
BIOL 111Principles: Organismal Biology3 credits
An introduction to the phylogeny, structure, function and adaptation of unicellular organisms, plants and animals in the biosphere.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 200The Global Environment3 credits
A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 201Society, Environment and Sustainability3 credits
This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 202The Evolving Earth3 credits
Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 203Knowledge, Ethics and Environment3 credits
Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 301Environmental Research Design3 credits
Techniques used in design and completion of environmental research projects. Problem definition, data sources and use of appropriate strategies and methodologies. Principles underlying research design are emphasized, including critical thinking, recognizing causal relationships, ideologies and bias in research, and when and where to seek expertise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 400Environmental Thought3 credits
Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 427Barbados Interdisciplinary Project6 credits
The planning of projects and research activities related to tropical food, nutrition, or energy at the local, regional, or national scale in Barbados. Projects and activities designed in consultation with university instructors, government, NGO, or private partners, and prepared by teams of 2-3 students working cooperatively with these mentors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 401Environmental Research3 credits
Students work in an interdisciplinary team on a real-world research project involving problem definition, methodology development, social, ethical and environmental impact assessment, execution of the study, and dissemination of results to the research community and to the people affected. Teams begin defining their projects during the preceding summer.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 451Research in Panama6 credits
Research projects will be developed by instructors in consultation with Panamanian universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Project groups will consist of four to six students working with a Panamanian institution. Topics will be relevant to Panama: e.g., protection of the Canal watershed, economical alternatives to deforestation, etc.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FSCI 444Barbados Research Project6 credits
A research project that is supervised by McGill academic staff and is conducted in collaboration with local partners. The project topic must relate to the field of sustainability relating to the Caribbean or Barbados specifically.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 221Environment and Health3 credits
Key chemical, physical, and social stressors in the environment, and how these affect the health of people and ecosystems. Hazards in air, water, food, and work environments. Historic, current, and future need for environmental health science, from scientific, personal, and practical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 303Health Geography3 credits
Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NRSC 221Environment and Health3 credits
Key chemical, physical, and social stressors in the environment, and how these affect the health of people and ecosystems. Hazards in air, water, food, and work environments. Historic, current, and future need for environmental health science, from scientific, personal, and practical perspectives.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 403Global Health and Environmental Change3 credits
Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 493Health and Environment in Africa3 credits
Exploration of key diseases of development, as well as patterns and determinants of health and disease in East Africa. Topics will focus on population and environmental health.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 503Advanced Topics in Health Geography3 credits
A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with an emphasis on housing as a place-based determinant of health and as a setting for intervention, i.e. how changes in housing conditions can translate into improvements in health and well-being. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography and related disciplines.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PARA 410Environment and Infection3 credits
Infectious pathogens of humans and animals and their impact on the global environment are considered. The central tenet is that infectious pathogens are environmental risk factors. The course considers their impact on the human condition and juxtaposes the impact of control and treatment measures and environmental change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PPHS 529Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease3 credits
This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 200Principles of Microeconomics3 credits
The field of economics as it relates to the activities of individual consumers, firms and organizations. Emphasis is on the application of economic principles and concepts to everyday decision making and to the analysis of current economic issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 208Microeconomic Analysis and Applications3 credits
A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 225Economics of the Environment3 credits
A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EDKP 292Nutrition and Wellness3 credits
This course will examine the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water in a balanced diet. Students will be introduced to the affects of nutrition on exercise, sport performance and wellness. The validity of claims concerning nutrient supplements will be studied.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NUTR 207Nutrition and Health3 credits
Provides students who have a basic biology/chemistry background with the fundamental information on how macronutrients, vitamins and minerals are metabolized in the body, followed by application to evaluate current issues of maximizing health and disease prevention at different stages of the lifecycle.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEMA 310Statistical Methods 13 credits
Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial and Poisson distributions; normal, chi-square, Student's t and Fisher-Snedecor F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance for simple experimental designs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 202Statistics and Spatial Analysis3 credits
Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 203Principles of Statistics 13 credits
Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 350Statistics in Social Research3 credits
This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. The course is designed to help students develop a critical attitude toward statistical argument. It serves as a background for further statistics courses, helping to provide the intuition which can sometimes be lost amid the formulas.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 225Medicine and Health in Modern Society3 credits
Socio-medical problems and ways in which sociological analysis and research are being used to understand and deal with them. Canadian and Québec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 234Population and Society3 credits
Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 309Health and Illness3 credits
Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 331Population and Environment3 credits
Main topics and controversies linking population processes and the environment. Topics include how population processes influence the environment, population responses to changing environments, policies related to these effects, variation across and within developed and developing countries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 515Medicine and Society3 credits
The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 452Water Resources in Barbados3 credits
Physical environment challenges, centered on water, being faced by an island nation. Guest speakers, field study tours and laboratory tests. Private, government and NGO institutional context of conservation strategies, and water quantity and quality analyses for water management specific to Barbados.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BREE 217Hydrology and Water Resources3 credits
Introduction to water resources and hydrologic cycle. Precipitation and hydrologic frequency analysis. Soil water processes, infiltration theory and modeling. Evapotranspiration estimation methods and crop water requirements. Surface runoff estimation as a function of land use modifications. Estimation of peak runoff rates. Unit hydrograph. Design of open channels and vegetated waterways.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 321Climatic Environments3 credits
The earth-atmosphere system, radiation and energy balances. Surface-atmosphere exchange of energy, mass and momentum and related atmospheric processes on a local and regional scale. Introduction to measurement theory and practice in micrometeorology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 322Environmental Hydrology3 credits
Quantitative, experimental study of the principles governing the movement of water at or near the Earth's surface and how the research relates to the chemistry and biology of ecosystems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 425Tropical Energy and Food3 credits
Tropical biofuel crops, conversion processes and final products, particularly energy and greenhouse gas balances and bionutraceuticals. Topics include effects of process extraction during refining on biofuel economics, the food versus fuel debate and impact of biofuels and bioproducts on tropical agricultural economics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 340Principles of Ecological Agriculture3 credits
Focus on low-input, sustainable, and organic agriculture: the farm as an ecosystem; complex system theory; practical examples of soil management, pest control, integrated crop and livestock production, and marketing systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 411Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture3 credits
International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 550Sustained Tropical Agriculture3 credits
Contrast theory and practice in defining agricultural environmental "challenges" in the Neotropics. Indigenous and appropriate technological means of mitigation. Soil management and erosion, water scarcity, water over-abundance, and water quality. Explore agro-ecosystem protection via field trips and project designs. Institutional context of conservation strategies, NGO links, and public participation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NUTR 341Global Food Security3 credits
Food insecurity is one of the most critical issues humanity has faced in history. The magnitude of this phenomenon, reflected in its worldwide presence and in the number of individuals affected, makes it an imperative component of all nations' and of all internaltional agencies' agendas. Its complexity of determinants and its numerous consequences require the involvement of multipe disciplines and sectors. McGill undergraduate students as future professionals tackling global issues require an integrated and multidisciplinary training on food security.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 333Resource Economics3 credits
The role of resources in the environment, use of resources, and management of economic resources within the firm or organization. Problem-solving, case studies involving private and public decision-making in organizations are utilized.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 440Health Economics3 credits
The organization and performance of Canada's health care system are examined from an economist's perspective. The system is described and its special features analyzed. Much attention is given to the role of government in the system and to financing arrangements for hospital and medical services. Current financial problems are discussed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHIL 343Biomedical Ethics3 credits
An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)
MCGILL complete current official course definition
RELG 270Religious Ethics and the Environment3 credits
Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 210Organisms 13 credits
The biology of plants and plant-based systems in managed and natural terrestrial environments. The interactions between autotrophs and soil organisms and selected groups of animals with close ecological and evolutionary connections with plants (e.g., herbivores and pollinators) will be explored in lecture and laboratory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 211Organisms 23 credits
Introduction to the biology of heterotrophs, focusing on animal diversity from the perspectives of phylogenetics, physiology, and ecology. Introduction to major animal taxa, comparing and contrasting these taxa, and exploration of the relationships among them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 200Molecular Biology3 credits
The physical and chemical properties of the cell and its components in relation to their structure and function. Topics include: protein structure, enzymes and enzyme kinetics; nucleic acid replication, transcription and translation; the genetic code, mutation, recombination, and regulation of gene expression.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 308Ecological Dynamics3 credits
Principles of population, community, and ecosystem dynamics: population growth and regulation, species interactions, dynamics of competitive interactions and of predator/prey systems; evolutionary dynamics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 305Population and Community Ecology3 credits
Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
LSCI 211Biochemistry 13 credits
Biochemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids; enzymes and coenzymes. Introduction to intermediary metabolism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 212Anthropology of Development3 credits
Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 339Ecological Anthropology3 credits
Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 512Political Ecology3 credits
Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 421Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability3 credits
This course will focus on the role of place and history in the cities in which we live and in our understanding of sustainability. Each year, students will work to develop a historical reconstruction of the natural environment of Montreal and of its links to the cultural landscape, building on the work of previous cohorts of students.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 300Human Ecology in Geography3 credits
The course will examine research approaches in human ecology since its inception early in this century. Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical shifts that have led to its emergence as an important social science perspective. The course will also involve case studies to evaluate the methodological utility of the approach.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 310Development and Livelihoods3 credits
Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 254Development and Underdevelopment3 credits
Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 365Health and Development3 credits
Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 421Tropical Horticultural Ecology3 credits
A comprehensive survey of the major fruit, vegetable, turf, and ornamental crops grown in Barbados. Effect of cultural practices, environment, pests and pathogens, social and touristic activities, and importation of horticultural produce on local horticulture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 451Research in Ecology and Development in Africa3 credits
Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 465Conservation Biology3 credits
Discussion of relevant theoretical and applied issues in conservation biology. Topics: biodiversity, population viability analysis, community dynamics, biology of rarity, extinction, habitat fragmentation, social issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 553Neotropical Environments3 credits
Ecology revisited in view of tropical conditions. Exploring species richness. Sampling and measuring biodiversity. Conservation status of ecosystems, communities and species. Indigenous knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 410Ecosystem Ecology3 credits
Biotic and abiotic processes that control the flows of energy, nutrients and water through ecosystems; emergent system properties; approaches to analyzing complex systems. Labs include collection and multivariate analysis of field data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 500Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology3 credits
Exploring the impact of environmental chemicals on biological organisms in an ecological context. Basic topics in ecotoxicology, such as source and fate, routes of exposure, bioavailability, dose-response, biomarkers, and risk assessment will be covered from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The processes by which pollutants are tested, regulated, and monitored will be critically examined.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NRSC 451Research in Ecology and Development in Africa3 credits
Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENTO 352Biocontrol of Pest Insects3 credits
Modern concepts of integrated control techniques and principles of insect pest management, with emphasis on biological control (use of predators, parasites and pathogens against pest insects), population monitoring, and manipulation of environmental, behavioral and physiological factors in the pest's way of life. Physical, cultural, and genetic controls and an introduction to the use of non-toxic biochemical controls (attractants, repellents, pheromones, antimetabolites).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NRSC 333Pollution and Bioremediation3 credits
The environmental contaminants which cause pollution; sources, amounts and transport of pollutants in water, air and soil; waste management.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NRSC 515Water and Health3 credits
Anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control water-related hazards such as: biological, chemical, and physical. Considerations for public health and environmental management.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 423Sustainable Land Use3 credits
Management, preservation, and utilization of forage crops in sustainable tropical environments; examination of their value as livestock feed in terms of nutritional composition and impact on animal performance; land use issues as it pertains to forage and animal production in insular environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 529GIS for Natural Resource Management3 credits
Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to the presentation and analysis of ecological information, including sources and capture of spatial data; characterizing, transforming, displaying spatial data; and spatial analysis to solve resource management problems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 422Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis3 credits
Applied and experience-based learning opportunities are employed to critically assess Montreal as a sustainable city through research, discussion, and field trips. The urban environment is considered through various specific dimensions, ranging from: waste, energy, urban agriculture, green spaces and design, or transportation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 201Introductory Geo-Information Science3 credits
An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 302Environmental Management 13 credits
An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 404Environmental Management 23 credits
Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
WILD 421Wildlife Conservation3 credits
Study of current controversial issues focusing on wildlife conservation. Topics include: animal rights, exotic species, ecotourism, urban wildlife, multi-use of national parks, harvesting of wildlife, biological controls, and endangered species.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 227Medical Anthropology3 credits
Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 430The Economics of Well-Being3 credits
Definition, measurement, and determinants of subjective well-being and their implications for policy, growth, and the environment
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 340Sustainability in the Caribbean3 credits
The local environmental, social, historical, political and economic context of Barbados and the Caribbean. The small island developing States (SIDS), and why those nations are more vulnerable to global environmental challenges. The 17 Sustainability Development Goals of the United Nations, with a focus on the leadership role played by Barbados for the entire Caribbean region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 514Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation3 credits
A critical examination of: the theoretical and conceptual evolution of climate change vulnerability and adaptation research; methodological developments from the role of model-driven assessments to the rise of participatory case study research, and the integration of vulnerability research into adaptation planning.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 249Health and the Healer in Western History3 credits
The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 307Globalization3 credits
Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MIMM 214Introductory Immunology: Elements of Immunity3 credits
Basic immunology, organs and cells, elements of innate immunity, phagocytes, complement, elements of adaptive immunity, B-cells, T-cells, antigen presenting cells, MHC genes and molecules, antigen processing and presentation, cytokines and chemokines. Emphasis on anatomy and the molecular and cellular players working together as a physiological system to maintain human health.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MIMM 314Intermediate Immunology3 credits
An intermediate-level immunology course covering the cellular and molecular basis of lymphocyte development and activation in immune responses in health and disease.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MIMM 324Fundamental Virology3 credits
A study of the fundamental properties of viruses and their interactions with host cells. Bacteriophages, DNA- and RNA-containing animal viruses, and retroviruses are covered. Emphasis will be on phenomena occurring at the molecular level and on the regulated control of gene expression in virus-infected cells.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MIMM 413Parasitology3 credits
A study of the biology, immunological aspects of host-parasite interactions, pathogenicity, epidemiology and molecular biological aspects of selected parasites of medical importance. Laboratory will consist of a lecture on techniques, demonstrations and practical work.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PARA 424Fundamental Parasitology3 credits
Systematics, morphology, biology and ecology of parasitic protozoa, flatworms, roundworms and arthropods with emphasis on economically and medically important species.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PARA 438Immunology3 credits
An in-depth analysis of the principles of cellular and molecular immunology. The emphasis of the course is on host defence against infection and on diseases caused by abnormal immune responses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PPHS 501Population Health and Epidemiology3 credits
This course presents concepts and methods of epidemiology at the introductory level. The use of epidemiologic methods for population and public health research and practice will be illustrated. A review of selected population health questions such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the cardiovascular disease epidemic, cigarette smoking, or screening for disease will be presented.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 451Research in Society and Development in Africa3 credits
Instruction focuses on three goals: 1) existing research in selected core thematic areas, 2) participating in interdisciplinary team research, 3) developing powers of observation and independent inquiry. Students will be expected to develop research activities and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to become conversant with advances in local research in their field.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EDKP 204Health Education3 credits
A study of the teacher's role in the total school health program at both elementary and high school levels; current issues in contemporary health education.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 451Research in Society and Development in Africa3 credits
Three intersecting components: 1) core development themes including culture change, environmental conservation, water, health, development (urban and rural), governance and conflict resolution, 2) research techniques for topics related to core themes, including ethics, risk, field methods and data analysis, 3) field documentation, scientific recording and communication.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 498Humans in Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on understanding of inter-relations between humans and neotropical environments represented in Panama. Study of contemporary rural landscapes, their origins, development and change. Impacts of economic growth and inequality, social organization, and politics on natural resource use and environmental degradation. Site visits and field exercises in peasant/colonist, Amerindian, and plantation communities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 335Science and Medicine in Canada3 credits
The social and intellectual history of science and medicine in Canada, from early exploration, through the rise of learned societies, universities and professional organizations, to World War II.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 510Environmental History of Latin America (Field)3 credits
Human-nature interactions over different scales of time in Latin America (with an emphasis on neo-tropical environments) and the application of the historical perspective to contemporary environmental issues, including historiography and methodology; cultures of environmental knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 520Migration and Immigrant Groups3 credits
Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 525Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective3 credits
Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 550Developing Societies3 credits
Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Environment - Economics and the Earth's Environment61 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 54-credit Faculty Program Environment - Economics and the Earth's Environment (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 54 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

MATH 139Calculus 1 with Precalculus4 credits
Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 140Calculus 13 credits
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AECH 110General Chemistry 14 credits
The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CHEM 110General Chemistry 14 credits
A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 200The Global Environment3 credits
A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 201Society, Environment and Sustainability3 credits
This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 202The Evolving Earth3 credits
Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 203Knowledge, Ethics and Environment3 credits
Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 301Environmental Research Design3 credits
Techniques used in design and completion of environmental research projects. Problem definition, data sources and use of appropriate strategies and methodologies. Principles underlying research design are emphasized, including critical thinking, recognizing causal relationships, ideologies and bias in research, and when and where to seek expertise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 400Environmental Thought3 credits
Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 427Barbados Interdisciplinary Project6 credits
The planning of projects and research activities related to tropical food, nutrition, or energy at the local, regional, or national scale in Barbados. Projects and activities designed in consultation with university instructors, government, NGO, or private partners, and prepared by teams of 2-3 students working cooperatively with these mentors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 401Environmental Research3 credits
Students work in an interdisciplinary team on a real-world research project involving problem definition, methodology development, social, ethical and environmental impact assessment, execution of the study, and dissemination of results to the research community and to the people affected. Teams begin defining their projects during the preceding summer.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 451Research in Panama6 credits
Research projects will be developed by instructors in consultation with Panamanian universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Project groups will consist of four to six students working with a Panamanian institution. Topics will be relevant to Panama: e.g., protection of the Canal watershed, economical alternatives to deforestation, etc.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FSCI 444Barbados Research Project6 credits
A research project that is supervised by McGill academic staff and is conducted in collaboration with local partners. The project topic must relate to the field of sustainability relating to the Caribbean or Barbados specifically.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 230D1Microeconomic Theory3 credits
The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 230D2Microeconomic Theory3 credits
See ECON 230D1 for course description.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 405Natural Resource Economics3 credits
Topics include: Malthusian and Ricardian Scarcity; optimal depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources; exploration, risk and industry structure, and current resources, rent and taxation. Current public policies applied to the resource industries, particularly those of a regulatory nature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EPSC 210Introductory Mineralogy3 credits
Elementary crystallography, chemistry and identification of the principal rock-forming and ore minerals, in hand specimens and using optical microscopy. Demonstrations of other techniques applied to the identification of minerals and to the analysis of their composition and structure. Optional 2-day field trip.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EPSC 240Geology in the Field3 credits
Lectures and field-based exercises, held locally on campus and in the Montreal area, introduce students to the reading and interpretation of a topographic map, the basic description of a stratigraphic section and the inference of its depositional environment, the nature of intrusive contacts, and the field measurement of some structural features and geophysical properties. Students plot geological information on a map, identify landforms in aerial views and learn the tectonic features diagnostic of plate margins. By the end of the course, the students relate a geological map to the geological history of Quebec.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEMA 310Statistical Methods 13 credits
Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial and Poisson distributions; normal, chi-square, Student's t and Fisher-Snedecor F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance for simple experimental designs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 202Statistics and Spatial Analysis3 credits
Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 203Principles of Statistics 13 credits
Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 333Resource Economics3 credits
The role of resources in the environment, use of resources, and management of economic resources within the firm or organization. Problem-solving, case studies involving private and public decision-making in organizations are utilized.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 209Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications3 credits
A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 326Ecological Economics3 credits
Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 347Economics of Climate Change3 credits
The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 416Topics in Economic Development 23 credits
This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 511Energy, Economy and Environment3 credits
Interdisciplinary study of the short-term and long-term interactions between economic activity, energy usage and the environment. Implications of rising fossil fuels usage for environmental damage and its consequences for the future. The political economy of energy in national politics and international relations; the interface of energy and financial flows; the challenge of globally managing toxic residues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 423Sustainable Land Use3 credits
Management, preservation, and utilization of forage crops in sustainable tropical environments; examination of their value as livestock feed in terms of nutritional composition and impact on animal performance; land use issues as it pertains to forage and animal production in insular environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 550Sustained Tropical Agriculture3 credits
Contrast theory and practice in defining agricultural environmental "challenges" in the Neotropics. Indigenous and appropriate technological means of mitigation. Soil management and erosion, water scarcity, water over-abundance, and water quality. Explore agro-ecosystem protection via field trips and project designs. Institutional context of conservation strategies, NGO links, and public participation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 451Research in Society and Development in Africa3 credits
Instruction focuses on three goals: 1) existing research in selected core thematic areas, 2) participating in interdisciplinary team research, 3) developing powers of observation and independent inquiry. Students will be expected to develop research activities and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to become conversant with advances in local research in their field.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 451Research in Ecology and Development in Africa3 credits
Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 305Industrial Organization3 credits
The course analyzes the structure, conduct, and performance of industries, particularly but not exclusively in Canada. Topics include effects of mergers, barriers to entry, product line and promotion policies, vertical integration, and R & D policies of firms.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 313Economic Development 13 credits
Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 314Economic Development 23 credits
Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 408Public Sector Economics 13 credits
Theoretical and empirical economic analysis of the public sector with an emphasis on public goods and government spending. Study of Canadian institutions in international perspective.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 409Public Sector Economics 23 credits
Theoretical and empirical economic analysis of the public sector with an emphasis on taxation. Study of Canadian institutions in international perspective.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 437Assessing Environmental Impact3 credits
Principles and practice of Environmental Assessment (EA) in Canada and internationally. Exploration of issues surrounding impact assessment for sustainable development in different sectors, including their limitations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 529GIS for Natural Resource Management3 credits
Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques to the presentation and analysis of ecological information, including sources and capture of spatial data; characterizing, transforming, displaying spatial data; and spatial analysis to solve resource management problems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 421Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability3 credits
This course will focus on the role of place and history in the cities in which we live and in our understanding of sustainability. Each year, students will work to develop a historical reconstruction of the natural environment of Montreal and of its links to the cultural landscape, building on the work of previous cohorts of students.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 422Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis3 credits
Applied and experience-based learning opportunities are employed to critically assess Montreal as a sustainable city through research, discussion, and field trips. The urban environment is considered through various specific dimensions, ranging from: waste, energy, urban agriculture, green spaces and design, or transportation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 201Introductory Geo-Information Science3 credits
An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 302Environmental Management 13 credits
An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 340Sustainability in the Caribbean3 credits
The local environmental, social, historical, political and economic context of Barbados and the Caribbean. The small island developing States (SIDS), and why those nations are more vulnerable to global environmental challenges. The 17 Sustainability Development Goals of the United Nations, with a focus on the leadership role played by Barbados for the entire Caribbean region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 404Environmental Management 23 credits
Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 451Research in Society and Development in Africa3 credits
Three intersecting components: 1) core development themes including culture change, environmental conservation, water, health, development (urban and rural), governance and conflict resolution, 2) research techniques for topics related to core themes, including ethics, risk, field methods and data analysis, 3) field documentation, scientific recording and communication.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 498Humans in Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on understanding of inter-relations between humans and neotropical environments represented in Panama. Study of contemporary rural landscapes, their origins, development and change. Impacts of economic growth and inequality, social organization, and politics on natural resource use and environmental degradation. Site visits and field exercises in peasant/colonist, Amerindian, and plantation communities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 510Environmental History of Latin America (Field)3 credits
Human-nature interactions over different scales of time in Latin America (with an emphasis on neo-tropical environments) and the application of the historical perspective to contemporary environmental issues, including historiography and methodology; cultures of environmental knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MIME 320Extraction of Energy Resources3 credits
The extraction of energy resources, i.e. coal, gas, oil and tar sands. After a brief geological review, different extraction techniques for these substances will be discussed. Emphasis on problems such as northern mining and offshore oil extraction with reference to Canadian operations. Transportation and marketing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NRSC 451Research in Ecology and Development in Africa3 credits
Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ATOC 341Caribbean Climate and Weather3 credits
The climate system and ongoing global change, ocean and atmosphere circulation and future trends in the tropics; local climate variability and dynamics, extreme weather events in the Caribbean .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 308Ecological Dynamics3 credits
Principles of population, community, and ecosystem dynamics: population growth and regulation, species interactions, dynamics of competitive interactions and of predator/prey systems; evolutionary dynamics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 343Biodiversity in the Caribean3 credits
Biodiversity loss and the measure of ecological integrity of ecosystems, patterns of diversification and evolution of terrestrial and oceanic biotas in the Caribbean.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BREE 217Hydrology and Water Resources3 credits
Introduction to water resources and hydrologic cycle. Precipitation and hydrologic frequency analysis. Soil water processes, infiltration theory and modeling. Evapotranspiration estimation methods and crop water requirements. Surface runoff estimation as a function of land use modifications. Estimation of peak runoff rates. Unit hydrograph. Design of open channels and vegetated waterways.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 305Population and Community Ecology3 credits
Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EPSC 325Environmental Geochemistry3 credits
The basic concepts and calculations needed to quantitatively understand the geochemical processes occurring between minerals and waters in Earth’s near-surface environment. The important concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics will be exemplified using examples that concentrate on reactions between minerals and water and their impact on the environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EPSC 355Sedimentary Geology3 credits
The origin, classification, diagenesis and economic importance of sedimentary rocks. The physical properties of sedimentary rocks, the processes by which sediments are transported and deposited, and the environments in which they accumulate. Introduction to techniques for describing and analyzing sedimentary rocks in thin section, hand specimen, and on the outcrop.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
EPSC 549Hydrogeology3 credits
Introduction to groundwater flow through porous media. Notions of fluid potential and hydraulic head. Darcy flux and Darcy's Law. Physical properties of porous media and their measurement. Equation of groundwater flow. Flow systems. Hydraulics of pumping and recharging wells. Notions of hydrology. Groundwater quality and contamination. Physical processes of contaminant transport.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 305Soils and Environment3 credits
Discussion of the major properties of soils; soil formation, classification and mapping; land capability assessment; the role and response of soils in natural and disturbed environments (e.g. global change, ecosystem disturbance).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 322Environmental Hydrology3 credits
Quantitative, experimental study of the principles governing the movement of water at or near the Earth's surface and how the research relates to the chemistry and biology of ecosystems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOIL 300Geosystems3 credits
Interactions between Earth's various geologic systems and how these interactions lead to mineral and rock formation. Geomorphic processes and how various landforms are created by the interactions at the Earth's surface between the various geologic systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Environment - Environment and Development81 listed

Published required and complementary course choices for the 54-credit Faculty Program Environment - Environment and Development (B.A.). This is a program within the degree, not the complete degree or a term-by-term timetable. Some requirements specify course levels or subjects rather than naming courses. 54 credits for this program; faculty-wide degree and foundation requirements apply separately.

MATH 139Calculus 1 with Precalculus4 credits
Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 140Calculus 13 credits
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 111Principles: Organismal Biology3 credits
An introduction to the phylogeny, structure, function and adaptation of unicellular organisms, plants and animals in the biosphere.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
CHEM 110General Chemistry 14 credits
A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PHYS 101Introductory Physics - Mechanics4 credits
An introductory course in physics without calculus, covering mechanics (kinematics, dynamics, energy, and rotational motion), oscillations and waves, sound, light, and wave optics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 339Ecological Anthropology3 credits
Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 313Economic Development 13 credits
Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 314Economic Development 23 credits
Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 200The Global Environment3 credits
A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 201Society, Environment and Sustainability3 credits
This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 202The Evolving Earth3 credits
Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 203Knowledge, Ethics and Environment3 credits
Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 301Environmental Research Design3 credits
Techniques used in design and completion of environmental research projects. Problem definition, data sources and use of appropriate strategies and methodologies. Principles underlying research design are emphasized, including critical thinking, recognizing causal relationships, ideologies and bias in research, and when and where to seek expertise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 400Environmental Thought3 credits
Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 302Environmental Management 13 credits
An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 427Barbados Interdisciplinary Project6 credits
The planning of projects and research activities related to tropical food, nutrition, or energy at the local, regional, or national scale in Barbados. Projects and activities designed in consultation with university instructors, government, NGO, or private partners, and prepared by teams of 2-3 students working cooperatively with these mentors.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 401Environmental Research3 credits
Students work in an interdisciplinary team on a real-world research project involving problem definition, methodology development, social, ethical and environmental impact assessment, execution of the study, and dissemination of results to the research community and to the people affected. Teams begin defining their projects during the preceding summer.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 451Research in Panama6 credits
Research projects will be developed by instructors in consultation with Panamanian universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Project groups will consist of four to six students working with a Panamanian institution. Topics will be relevant to Panama: e.g., protection of the Canal watershed, economical alternatives to deforestation, etc.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
FSCI 444Barbados Research Project6 credits
A research project that is supervised by McGill academic staff and is conducted in collaboration with local partners. The project topic must relate to the field of sustainability relating to the Caribbean or Barbados specifically.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 451Research in Society and Development in Africa3 credits
Three intersecting components: 1) core development themes including culture change, environmental conservation, water, health, development (urban and rural), governance and conflict resolution, 2) research techniques for topics related to core themes, including ethics, risk, field methods and data analysis, 3) field documentation, scientific recording and communication.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 200Principles of Microeconomics3 credits
The field of economics as it relates to the activities of individual consumers, firms and organizations. Emphasis is on the application of economic principles and concepts to everyday decision making and to the analysis of current economic issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 208Microeconomic Analysis and Applications3 credits
A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEMA 310Statistical Methods 13 credits
Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial and Poisson distributions; normal, chi-square, Student's t and Fisher-Snedecor F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance for simple experimental designs.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 202Statistics and Spatial Analysis3 credits
Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
MATH 203Principles of Statistics 13 credits
Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PSYC 204Introduction to Psychological Statistics3 credits
The statistical analysis of research data; frequency distributions; graphic representation; measures of central tendency and variability; elementary sampling theory and tests of significance.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 442Economics of International Agricultural Development3 credits
The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 411Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture3 credits
International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 408Geography of Development3 credits
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 409Geographies of Developing Asia3 credits
Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 423Dilemmas of Development3 credits
Africa seems beset by development problems. Some of these appear to have no clear answer. Such dilemmas present significant barriers to moving forward with durable, effective development in Africa. This course will examine two primary and frequently interlocked dilemmas in East Africa with wide ranging impact - food security, and conflict.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 514Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation3 credits
A critical examination of: the theoretical and conceptual evolution of climate change vulnerability and adaptation research; methodological developments from the role of model-driven assessments to the rise of participatory case study research, and the integration of vulnerability research into adaptation planning.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 525Asian Cities in the 21st Century3 credits
This course examines current themes relating to mass urbanization in Asia in a range of contexts and the forces that shape the built environment of Asian cities. Various approaches to understanding Asian cities and current theoretical debates will be investigated, including recent critiques of western-centric theorizations of urban change in the region. The course examines a variety of themes through which students will gain familiarity with some of the major strands relating to urban change in Asia: national identity, neoliberalism, social exclusions, migration, religion, ethnicity and sustainability.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 421Tropical Horticultural Ecology3 credits
A comprehensive survey of the major fruit, vegetable, turf, and ornamental crops grown in Barbados. Effect of cultural practices, environment, pests and pathogens, social and touristic activities, and importation of horticultural produce on local horticulture.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGRI 550Sustained Tropical Agriculture3 credits
Contrast theory and practice in defining agricultural environmental "challenges" in the Neotropics. Indigenous and appropriate technological means of mitigation. Soil management and erosion, water scarcity, water over-abundance, and water quality. Explore agro-ecosystem protection via field trips and project designs. Institutional context of conservation strategies, NGO links, and public participation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ATOC 341Caribbean Climate and Weather3 credits
The climate system and ongoing global change, ocean and atmosphere circulation and future trends in the tropics; local climate variability and dynamics, extreme weather events in the Caribbean .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 308Ecological Dynamics3 credits
Principles of population, community, and ecosystem dynamics: population growth and regulation, species interactions, dynamics of competitive interactions and of predator/prey systems; evolutionary dynamics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 343Biodiversity in the Caribean3 credits
Biodiversity loss and the measure of ecological integrity of ecosystems, patterns of diversification and evolution of terrestrial and oceanic biotas in the Caribbean.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 451Research in Ecology and Development in Africa3 credits
Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 465Conservation Biology3 credits
Discussion of relevant theoretical and applied issues in conservation biology. Topics: biodiversity, population viability analysis, community dynamics, biology of rarity, extinction, habitat fragmentation, social issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BIOL 553Neotropical Environments3 credits
Ecology revisited in view of tropical conditions. Exploring species richness. Sampling and measuring biodiversity. Conservation status of ecosystems, communities and species. Indigenous knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
BREE 217Hydrology and Water Resources3 credits
Introduction to water resources and hydrologic cycle. Precipitation and hydrologic frequency analysis. Soil water processes, infiltration theory and modeling. Evapotranspiration estimation methods and crop water requirements. Surface runoff estimation as a function of land use modifications. Estimation of peak runoff rates. Unit hydrograph. Design of open channels and vegetated waterways.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 210The Biophysical Environment3 credits
With reference to the ecosystems in the St Lawrence lowlands, the principles and processes governing climate-landform-water-soil-vegetation systems and their interactions will be examined in lecture and laboratory. Emphasis on the natural environment as an integrated system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVB 305Population and Community Ecology3 credits
Interactions between organisms and their environment; historical and current perspectives in applied and theoretical population and community ecology. Principles of population dynamics, feedback loops, and population regulation. Development and structure of communities; competition, predation and food web dynamics. Biodiversity science in theory and practice.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 305Soils and Environment3 credits
Discussion of the major properties of soils; soil formation, classification and mapping; land capability assessment; the role and response of soils in natural and disturbed environments (e.g. global change, ecosystem disturbance).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 322Environmental Hydrology3 credits
Quantitative, experimental study of the principles governing the movement of water at or near the Earth's surface and how the research relates to the chemistry and biology of ecosystems.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NRSC 451Research in Ecology and Development in Africa3 credits
Development of observation and independent inquiry skills through: 1) participation in short-term project modules in collaboration with existing researchers; 2) participation in interdisciplinary team research on topics selected to allow comparative analysis of field sites; 3) active and systematic observation, documentation, and integration of field experience in ecology and development issues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NUTR 501Nutrition in the Majority World3 credits
Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
NUTR 505Public Health Nutrition3 credits
This course focuses on the nutrition status of populations, communities and groups of people using a public health lens. It identifies and assesses human nutrition issues and problems, their causes, influencing factors and social conditions using a social determinants of health framework. Offers opportunities to design and conduct needs assessments, design and plan programs and plan for their evaluation. The purpose and role of participatory approaches with diverse populations and Indigenous populations in particular will be analyzed. Health systems, public health and political influence in Canada, as related to nutrition will be addressed.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
PARA 410Environment and Infection3 credits
Infectious pathogens of humans and animals and their impact on the global environment are considered. The central tenet is that infectious pathogens are environmental risk factors. The course considers their impact on the human condition and juxtaposes the impact of control and treatment measures and environmental change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
WILD 421Wildlife Conservation3 credits
Study of current controversial issues focusing on wildlife conservation. Topics include: animal rights, exotic species, ecotourism, urban wildlife, multi-use of national parks, harvesting of wildlife, biological controls, and endangered species.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 423Sustainable Land Use3 credits
Management, preservation, and utilization of forage crops in sustainable tropical environments; examination of their value as livestock feed in terms of nutritional composition and impact on animal performance; land use issues as it pertains to forage and animal production in insular environments.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AEBI 425Tropical Energy and Food3 credits
Tropical biofuel crops, conversion processes and final products, particularly energy and greenhouse gas balances and bionutraceuticals. Topics include effects of process extraction during refining on biofuel economics, the food versus fuel debate and impact of biofuels and bioproducts on tropical agricultural economics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
AGEC 333Resource Economics3 credits
The role of resources in the environment, use of resources, and management of economic resources within the firm or organization. Problem-solving, case studies involving private and public decision-making in organizations are utilized.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 322Social Change in Modern Africa3 credits
The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 451Research in Society and Development in Africa3 credits
Instruction focuses on three goals: 1) existing research in selected core thematic areas, 2) participating in interdisciplinary team research, 3) developing powers of observation and independent inquiry. Students will be expected to develop research activities and interdisciplinary perspectives, and to become conversant with advances in local research in their field.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ANTH 512Political Ecology3 credits
Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 326Ecological Economics3 credits
Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 347Economics of Climate Change3 credits
The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 405Natural Resource Economics3 credits
Topics include: Malthusian and Ricardian Scarcity; optimal depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources; exploration, risk and industry structure, and current resources, rent and taxation. Current public policies applied to the resource industries, particularly those of a regulatory nature.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ECON 511Energy, Economy and Environment3 credits
Interdisciplinary study of the short-term and long-term interactions between economic activity, energy usage and the environment. Implications of rising fossil fuels usage for environmental damage and its consequences for the future. The political economy of energy in national politics and international relations; the interface of energy and financial flows; the challenge of globally managing toxic residues.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 421Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability3 credits
This course will focus on the role of place and history in the cities in which we live and in our understanding of sustainability. Each year, students will work to develop a historical reconstruction of the natural environment of Montreal and of its links to the cultural landscape, building on the work of previous cohorts of students.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
ENVR 422Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis3 credits
Applied and experience-based learning opportunities are employed to critically assess Montreal as a sustainable city through research, discussion, and field trips. The urban environment is considered through various specific dimensions, ranging from: waste, energy, urban agriculture, green spaces and design, or transportation.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 201Introductory Geo-Information Science3 credits
An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 311Economic Geography3 credits
Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 331Urban Social Geography3 credits
Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 340Sustainability in the Caribbean3 credits
The local environmental, social, historical, political and economic context of Barbados and the Caribbean. The small island developing States (SIDS), and why those nations are more vulnerable to global environmental challenges. The 17 Sustainability Development Goals of the United Nations, with a focus on the leadership role played by Barbados for the entire Caribbean region.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 404Environmental Management 23 credits
Practical application of environmental planning, analysis and management techniques with reference to the needs and problems of developing areas. Special challenges posed by cultural differences and traditional resource systems are discussed. This course involves practical field work in a developing area (Kenya or Panama).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 496Geographical Excursion3 credits
Lecture course on the geography of a region and excursion through the selected country or region including landscape interpretation and field study projects.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 498Humans in Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on understanding of inter-relations between humans and neotropical environments represented in Panama. Study of contemporary rural landscapes, their origins, development and change. Impacts of economic growth and inequality, social organization, and politics on natural resource use and environmental degradation. Site visits and field exercises in peasant/colonist, Amerindian, and plantation communities.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 510Humid Tropical Environments3 credits
Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
GEOG 530Global Land and Water Resources3 credits
Linkage of physical processes (hydrology and ecosystems) with issues of societal and socio-economic relevance (land, food, and water use appropriation for human well-being). Application of a holistic perspective on land, food and water issues in an international setting, highlighting linkages, feedbacks and trade-offs in an Earth system context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 292History and the Environment3 credits
Sketch of the history of the material aspects of human interaction with the rest of nature. Included will be a historian's view of the social, technical, and ecological implications of the great variety of activities devised by our species. Though global in outlook, this course will emphasize the relevant historiography of France, England and North America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
HIST 510Environmental History of Latin America (Field)3 credits
Human-nature interactions over different scales of time in Latin America (with an emphasis on neo-tropical environments) and the application of the historical perspective to contemporary environmental issues, including historiography and methodology; cultures of environmental knowledge.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
INTD 360Environmental Challenges in Development3 credits
Examination of some of the great environmental challenges of our times, and some of the ways in which the development community has tackled them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 345International Organizations3 credits
The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 350Global Environmental Politics3 credits
Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 445International Political Economy: Monetary Relations3 credits
Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 254Development and Underdevelopment3 credits
Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
SOCI 331Population and Environment3 credits
Main topics and controversies linking population processes and the environment. Topics include how population processes influence the environment, population responses to changing environments, policies related to these effects, variation across and within developed and developing countries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
WCOM 314Communicating Science3 credits
Production of written and oral assignments (in English) designed to communicate scientific problems and findings to varied audiences Analysis of the disciplinary conventions of scientific discourse in terms of audience, purpose, organization, and style; comparative rhetorical analysis of academic and popular genres, including abstracts, lab reports, research papers, print and online journalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Political Science91 listed

Political Science BA 36-credit Major Concentration, distinct from its Honours and Joint Honours routes. BA overall degree/foundation requirements apply separately. Concentration (B.A.) (36 credits) Complementary Courses (36 credits) 36 credits of courses selected from the four main fields of political science (Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International No more than one-half of the credits (18 credits) may be taken in a single field of political science, unless the field is Comparative Politics in which case the maximum is 21 credits. 12 of the 36 credits must be taken at the 200 level. No more than 3 credits at the 200 level may be in any given group - the groups being Political Theory, and Methods. All other 24 credits must come from 300- or 400-level POLI courses. 3 credits must be taken at the 400 level at McGill rather than as transfer credits. This requirement cannot be fulfilled with POLI 599 To take a 300- or 400-level POLI course, students must have taken a 200-level POLI course in the same field. Students are therefore expected to take all their 200-level courses in their first two years. No more than 12 POLI transfer credits can be used toward the program requirements. POLI Methods courses at McGill do not have equivalencies from courses taken elsewhere.

POLI 221Government of Canada3 credits
An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 222Political Process and Behaviour in Canada3 credits
An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 226La vie politique québécoise3 credits
Une introduction à la vie politique québécoise à travers l'étude des institutions, des idéologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la structure et aux changements dans le système politique québécoise.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 318Comparative Local Government3 credits
An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 336Le Québec et le Canada3 credits
Comment les Canadiens anglais et les Québécois se perçoivent-ils? Les différences culturelles entre les deux groupes. Les relations politiques et économiques entre les deux groupes. L'impact de la Révolution Tranquille. La place des francophones et des anglophones dans la vie collective. Les projets de réaménagement du cadre politique.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 342Canadian Foreign Policy3 credits
The development and articulation of Canadian foreign policy. Theoretical approaches. The environmental setting. Historical perspectives. Trans-Atlantic linkages. The American connection. The Common Market. The United Nations. Military security. Developing relations with Asia, Africa, Latin America. Canada in global society.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 348Gender and Canadian Politics3 credits
An examination of a variety of key thinkers and debates around gender in Canadian politics. Aims to give students the critical tools to examine the complexity of Canadian political society and gain a firm grasp on both the limits and possibilities of analyzing “gender” as it intersects and interlocks with other facets of identity and ideology.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 371Challenge of Canadian Federalism3 credits
An analysis of the origins, evolution and nature of federalism in Canada. Topics and themes will include the impact of federalism on political institutions, the effect of different regional perspectives, and the issues and conflicts that currently confront Canadian federalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 372Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State3 credits
The relationship of Indigenous politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, key policy frameworks, and Indigenous political development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 379Topics in Canadian Politics3 credits
Topics in Canadian politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 410Canadian Political Parties3 credits
This course examines Canadian political parties and party systems, stressing patterns of historical development, party organization and finance, relationships with social movement, and the impact of Canadian federalism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 412Canadian Voting/Public Opinion3 credits
A critical examination of major debates within the literature on Canadian voting behaviour and public opinion.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 417Health Care in Canada3 credits
This course analyzes the theory and politics of health policy and institutions, comparing provincial models and contextualizing Canadian systems with international perspectives from the U.S. and Europe. Current health reform debates will be explored, particularly those involving federal-provincial relations, sustainable financing and the role of the state in social protection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 424Media and Politics3 credits
The role of media in domestic and international politics, with reference to recent studies in political science. Themes in the study of mass media and politics in democracies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 426Partis politiques et comportements électoraux au Québec3 credits
POLI 427Selected Topics: Canadian Politics3 credits
Selected problem areas in Canada's political process, political culture, constitutional development, and machinery of government.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 436Aboriginal Rights in the Canadian Constitution3 credits
This course explores the inclusion, impact, and interpretation of s.35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. In s.35, "the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed". What does it mean for Canada to recognize, affirm, define, justify, and implement such rights? The course sets out how one might think about the constitutional promise of s.35, and challenges us to address whether this promise has been realized. It sets out how s.35 has structured Indigenous-settler politics since 1982.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 212Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/ North America3 credits
POLI 227Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South3 credits
An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 316Black Lives Matter and American Democracy3 credits
Explores the history, ideological origins, and contemporary politics of the Black Lives Matter movement and its relationship to American democracy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 319Politics of Latin America3 credits
This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 322Political Change in South Asia3 credits
Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 324Comparative Politics of Africa3 credits
The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 325U.S. Politics3 credits
The founding of the American political system, with emphasis on the major documents, the Constitutional Convention, and the Federalist Papers, as well as the development of the constitutional system. Other fundamental characteristics, including political thought and federalism, will be examined. The main institutions, including the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court, will receive attention.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 328Comparing European Democracies3 credits
An introduction to the study of contemporary European politics. The course presents the basic concepts and approaches used in the field of European comparative politics and examines patterns of similarity and difference across Europe, as well as some current political debates in Europe.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 329Russian Politics3 credits
Broad introduction to contemporary Russian politics. Examination of the Soviet system and its collapse. Exploration of key elements of Russian politics such as formal and informal political institutions; economic transformation and statebusiness relations; nationalism, memory, and identity; civil society and social movements; and Russian foreign policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 330Law and Courts in Europe3 credits
Judicial politics in continental Europe, including theoretical accounts of the rule of law, judicial independence, power, and accountability, and the judicialization of politics. Empirical examples will be drawn from both Western and Eastern Europe countries, as well as the constitutional and the ordinary judiciaries.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 331Politics in East Central Europe3 credits
Analysis of recent dramatic changes in East Central Europe in light of the historical development and current structure of these states, their relationship to their societies, with emphasis on diversity and its sources.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 338Topics in Comparative Politics 13 credits
Selected aspects of the Third World. In any given year the course will concentrate either on a particular region or on a relevant thematic problem.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 339Topics in Comparative Politics 23 credits
Selected aspects of comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 340Comparative Politics of the Middle East3 credits
An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 357Politics: Contemporary Europe3 credits
An examination of political institutions and processes in today's Europe, concentrating on the member-states of the European Union and on the Union itself. The course is organized thematically rather than on a country-by-country basis.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 361Political Participation in Comparative Perspective3 credits
Exploration of how citizens engage in politics. Theories and examples of current forms of political participation and mobilization will be introduced, including voting, party membership, transnational movements, political consumerism, culture jamming and internet activism. Examples are drawn from Europe and North America and sometimes from the developing world.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 369Politics of Southeast Asia3 credits
Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 380Contemporary Chinese Politics3 credits
This course provides an introduction to key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution through the Maoist (1949-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present). Topics include both domestic politics and foreign policy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 381Politics in Japan and South Korea3 credits
An introduction to key issues of contemporary politics in Japan and South Korea, covering the politics and economic development of Post-WWII Japan and Post-Korean War South Korea. Themes include: How were the contemporary political systems established in Japan and South Korea? How have these systems changed over time? What are the impacts of political institutions on the political and economic development in the two countries? How do social actors and political and economic institutions interact with each other? What are the foreign policymaking strategies in the two countries?
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 420Memory, Place, and Power3 credits
This interdisciplinary class explores the relationships among memory, place, and political power. The course begins with an introduction to key classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary texts on memory and place-making. It then uses this foundation to examine the symbolic transformation of public space, in particular the construction, alteration, and destruction of monuments, memorials, and museums in post-communist states and in North America. This approach emphasizes the social quality of memory, exploring the ways in which political interests, economic resources, and social practices can shape something as ostensibly personal and individual as memory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 422Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 13 credits
A specific problem area in comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 423Politics of Ethno-Nationalism3 credits
Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 430Politics of Art3 credits
Drawing on political and aesthetic theory, as well as on a wide range of artworks, artistic practices, and art criticism, exploration of the ways in which art and politics intersect. In addition to analyzing artworks’ subject-matter, examination of their conditions of production, dissemination, and reception. Examination of how art is deployed politically and pressing political issues such as democratic representation, free speech, and structural inequality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 431Nations and Nationalism3 credits
The role of nationalism in the political development of modern nation-states. Topics include: the origins of nationalism, nationalism and state-formation, anti-colonial nationalism, secession and sub-state nationalism, war and nationalism, federal and consociational arrangements in multi-national societies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 432Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 23 credits
Topics in comparative politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 435Identity and Inequality3 credits
Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 450Peacebuilding3 credits
An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 452Conflict Simulation3 credits
An introduction to the use of serious games for conflict analysis. The course will address the history of wargaming, the professional use of gaming techniques by governments and other organizations, and conflict simulation design.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 473Democracy and the Market3 credits
The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 476Religion and Politics3 credits
The relationship between religion and politics in the world, including the relationship between religion and the state, and specific topics in which religion plays a salient role: political parties; social movements; democratization; fundamentalism and democracy; violence; and capitalism and economic development.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 243International Politics of Economic Relations3 credits
An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 244International Politics: State Behaviour3 credits
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 341Foreign Policy: The Middle East3 credits
An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 345International Organizations3 credits
The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 346American Foreign Policy3 credits
An exploration of American foreign policy from 1945 to the present. Topics to be addressed are the origins of the Cold War, deterrence, strategy and arms control, American intervention in Latin America and Vietnam, U.S. policy in the Post Cold War era - Gulf War, Haiti, Somalia, Yugoslavia and relations with Japan.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 347Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace3 credits
Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 349Foreign Policy: Asia3 credits
An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 350Global Environmental Politics3 credits
Environmental problems like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and ocean acidification transcend national borders. Solving these problems will require global cooperation on an unprecedented level. This course will explore the challenges of contemporary global environmental governance and the innovative solutions being advanced at the community, municipal, provincial, national, and international levels.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 352International Policy/Foreign Policy: Africa3 credits
A study of international politics in Africa; including Africa in the U.N., the Organization of African Unity, African regional groupings and integration, Africa as a foreign policy arena and African inter-state conflict and diplomacy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 353Politics of the International Refugee Regime3 credits
This course explores the causes and consequences of displacement, and international responses to this issue, focusing on forced migration linked to conflict, persecution and human rights abuses. It examines key actors, interests and norms that shape the international refugee regime, and international responses to other forms of displacement. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which displaced persons themselves navigate and shape the regime, and to challenges including the resolution of displacement crises, and accountability for forced migration.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 354Approaches to International Political Economy3 credits
The course presents theoretical approaches to understanding change in the international political economy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 358Political Economy of International Organizations3 credits
The course focuses on the main issues in international cooperation and on the role of economic international institutions in world politics. The first part addresses the main debates related to international cooperation. The second part covers the international trade institutions such as the World Trade Organization. The third part covers the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, and environmental and energy organizations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 359Topics in International Politics 13 credits
A specific problem area in International Relations.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 360Security: War and Peace3 credits
Focuses on international security and strategies of war and peace in historical and comparative frameworks. Topics include case studies of 20th century wars, conventional and nuclear strategy, and various approaches to peace.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 362Political Theory and International Relations3 credits
Key contributions of political theory to the study and practice of international relations. Three prevailing theoretical traditions will be examined: realism, 'international society', and cosmopolitanism. Key practical issues to be explored from these perspectives include war, humanitarian intervention, economic globalization, environment, and gender.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 441International Political Economy: Trade3 credits
Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 442International Relations of Ethnic Conflict3 credits
Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 443Intervention in World Politics3 credits
Examination of the history, theory and politics of intervention, focusing on the 19th century onward. It examines interventions for humanitarian purposes and interventions in civil wars in the 19th century, critical cases of non-intervention from the first half of the 20th century, intervention and resistance in the Cold War and decolonization periods, and interventions since the end of the Cold War. Legal, ethical and political frameworks for assessing the legitimacy and effects of intervention as a contemporary practice, the ways in which it has been contested, and its relationship to core principles, such as state sovereignty.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 444Topics in International Politics 23 credits
A specific problem area in International Politics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 445International Political Economy: Monetary Relations3 credits
Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 446International Law and Politics of Human Rights3 credits
The relationship between state behaviour and individual rights recognized by international law. Introduction and critiques of the concept of human rights, and exploration of the institutional framework of human rights law. Surveys of the current international human rights regime’s most important entitlements for individuals and groups. The politics of human rights, highlighting the challenges to their effective protection.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 447Political Economy of Multinationals3 credits
Exploration of the economic and political behaviour of one of the most important non-state actors in the international system: multinationals. The main models in international trade, including the New New Trade Theory. The main issues related to the political economy of foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of FDI on development as well as the role of MNCs in emerging markets.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 448Gender and International Relations3 credits
The course will help students deepen their understanding of international relations by introducing them to gender analysis of global politics and feminist approaches to international relations. Part one examines gender-sensitive and feminist theories in international relations research. The second part then applies these approaches to a range of substantive issues including security, violence, peacebuilding, international law and political economy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 449Diplomacy in Practice3 credits
An examination of the evolution of diplomatic practices over time, with a special emphasis on emerging trends in the 21st century. It focuses on key sites of diplomacy, from foreign ministries to international organizations, and evaluates the role of new technologies and non-states actors in shaping global intercourse.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 231Introduction to Political Theory3 credits
The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 333Western Political Theory 13 credits
The major themes and writers in the political theory of classical antiquity. The political ideas of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic philosophers will be explored through the significant texts of this period.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 334Western Political Theory 23 credits
Medieval and renaissance political philosophy, from Saint Augustine to Sir Thomas More. Scholastic and neo-scholastic political thought, natural law and natural rights, as well as civic and northern humanism, republicanism and liberty. Twentieth century work on similar concepts will be used.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 363Contemporary Political Theory3 credits
This course explores fundamental currents of thought in political philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year, and may include issues such as classical liberalism and its opponents, the foundations of socialism and Marxism, rational choice theory and its critics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 364Radical Political Thought3 credits
Radical themes in contemporary political thought and action.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 365Democratic Theory3 credits
A series of lectures and seminars on democratic theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 366Topics in Political Theory 13 credits
A specific problem area in Political Theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 367Liberal Political Theory3 credits
The development of liberal political thought and theories of justice, including a selection of authors from: Locke, Montesquieu, Smith, Constant, Kant, Mill, Tocqueville, Berlin, Hayek, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, and Kymlicka, as well as some of their critics.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 368Political Theory and Indigeneity3 credits
Engages with diverse approaches in political theory that address the political situation of Indigenous peoples in multiple settler colonial contexts. Explores how indigeneity requires transformations in the conduct of political theory and in our understanding of the history of political thought, including Indigenous political thoughts as articulated by Indigenous scholars.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 433History of Political/Social Theory 33 credits
Early modern political philosophy, from Luther to Rousseau and Burke. Resistance theories of the 16th century, Hobbes and Locke, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Twentieth century work on concepts developed in this period such as rights, revolution, legitimacy, democracy, authority and liberty.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 434History of Political/Social Theory 43 credits
A consideration of selected writers and themes of late 19th and 20th century political theory. Writers include Hegel, Clausewitz, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Lenin, Rowis, Foucault, and Habermas. The rise of industrial society, scientism, the romantic revolt, revolutionary movements, socialism and liberal-democracy.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 458(De-) Coloniality3 credits
Explores the theorization of colonialism, including settler colonialism, as a political phenomenon. Explores the connection between colonialism and political thought, with both an historical and contemporary focus. Explores how political thinkers have and are responding to, resisting, and undermining coloniality.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 459Topics in Political Theory 23 credits
This course will deal with a specific problem area in Political theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 470Philosophy, Economy and Society3 credits
The application of normative political theory and the history of political thought to state-society and state-market relations and governance. The justice and ethics of economic policies and modes of production; social-theoretic and economic examinations of the state and the state system from social theory and economic theory.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 210Political Science Research Methods3 credits
This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 311Introduction to Quantitative Political Science3 credits
Building on POLI 210 (or equivalent), this course will introduce students to modern quantitative political science methods and teach them the requisite programming skills for data analysis. The course will provide students the foundational statistical skills to apply to their own research projects and to become more informed consumers of quantitative data in and outside of the academic context.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 312Intermediate Quantitative Political Science3 credits
Building on POLI 311 (or equivalent), this course will deepen students’ understanding of modern quantitative political science tools as well as deepen their statistical programming skills.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 313Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Political Science3 credits
Introduction to the basic concepts, approaches, and techniques of qualitative research methods in political science. It covers both positivist and interpretivist approaches, and techniques such as interviewing, focus groups, case studies, comparative historical analysis, discourse analysis, archival research, and ethnographic research.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 490Independent Reading and Research 13 credits
Final year Major, Joint Honours and Honours students wishing to pursue a specialized interest will be allowed to undertake a program of independent reading and/or research in that area under the supervision of a member of staff. Students will not be permitted to register for this course until they obtain consent from a Political Science professor to supervise them.
MCGILL complete current official course definition
POLI 599Internship: Political Science3 credits
The internship shall consist of a minimum of 150 hours of work over a period of 12 weeks, plus a major research project based on the internship. The major project will ordinarily consist of a major research paper, plus a substantial written record of the work conducted during the internship.
MCGILL complete current official course definition

Elective choices

Normally up to 12 elective credits may be completed outside Arts and Science. Remaining elective space depends on the declared program.

Study locations

Published academic-unit location: Arts OASIS, the Office of Advising and Student Information Services for undergraduate Arts students, lists its office in Dawson Hall, room 110, at 853 Sherbrooke Street West. This is an academic-support office; individual BA course rooms are separate.Mcgill: named ba academic-unit location

References

Careers

Career examples

Diplomat
Political scientist
Political consultant
Government official
Policy analyst

Scope and qualifications

The university publishes these career examples. They are not employment rates or guaranteed outcomes. Professional, clinical and specialist roles may require further education, registration or experience.

Political Science option within the broad BA entry. These are examples published for this specific Arts programme, not every Arts major.