May 11, 2010 To - Faculty of Humanities - McMaster University

School of Graduate Studies 1280 Main Street West Phone 905.525.9140 

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Ext. 23679 

L8S 4M2 Fax 905.521.0689 

http://www.mcmaster.ca/graduate 

May 11, 2010 

To : Dr. Suzanne Crosta 

Dean, Faculty of Humanities 

From : 

Medy Espiritu 

Assistant Secretary and SynApps System Administrator 

At its meeting on April 12, 2010, the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate 

Curriculum and Policy Committee approved the following graduate curriculum revisions for 

2010-2011. 

Please note that these recommendations were also submitted and approved at the Graduate 

Council meeting on May 3, 2010. 

These items are now forwarded for approval to the Faculty of Humanities for its meeting on 

May 27, 2010. 

(1) Classics 

New courses: 

*714 – Origins of the Polis 

*715 – Speech, Performance, and Power in the Athenian Democracy 

*723 – Greek Comedy 

*738 – Greek Colonization 

*742 – Tacitus and Tiberius 

*743 – Roman Slavery 

*744 – Death and Commemoration in the Roman World 

*752 – Roman Comedy 

*774 – Greek & Roman Domestic Architecture 

Change in course titles: 

*721 – Greek Epic Poetry 

*722 – Greek Tragedy 

*733 – Greek Lyric Poetry 

*734 – Latin Epigraphy 

*736 – Topography of Athens 

*767 – Roman Campania

Course cancellations: 

*713 – Greek & Roman Religion 

*730 – Greek Philosophy 

*758 – Roman Philosophy 

*773 – Roman North Africa 

(2) Cognitive Science of Language 

Ph.D. program: Change to the description of the Cognitive Sociolinguistics field 

Ph.D. program: Adding a second language requirement 

New courses: 

*6EL3 – Experimental Lab in Cognitive Science of Language 

*6LC3 - Advanced Syntax and Semantics 

*6M03 – Pidgins and Creoles 

*6ML3 – Mathematics for Linguists 

*6R03 – Cross-Cultural Communication 

*6S03 – Interpersonal Communication 

#712 – Reading Course (Linguistics) 

#713 – Reading Course (Cognitive Science) 

*723 – Bilingual Language Processing 

*724 – Human Sentence Processing 

*732 – Contemporary Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics 

*733 – Intonational Phonology 

*734 – Contemporary Issues in Syntax 

*735 – Contemporary Issues in Linguistic Theory 

*736 – Cognitive Aspects of Thought Manipulation 

*737 – The Evolution of Language and Cognition 

(3) Communication and New Media 

New courses: 

*6F03 – Topics in Multimedia Production 

*799 – Pro-Seminar 

Change in course descriptions: 

*6C03 – Issues in Performance Studies 

*6D03 – International Communication 

*6E03 – Media and Promotionalism 

*6M03 – Communication, Culture and Technology 

*6N03 – News Analysis: Theory and Practice 

*6P03 – Social Activism and the Media 

*6Q03 – Advanced Topics in Communication I 

*6QQ3 – Advanced Topics in Communication II 

(4) English and Cultural Studies 

New courses: 

*705 – Music, Gender & Sexuality 

*741 – The Sexuality of Genre 

*754 – The Cultures of Modernism 

*797 – Politics for our Times 

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Change in course title and description 

*719 – Public Intellectuals and Their Work: Intellectual Practices in Culture 

Studies and Politics 


*708 – Marxist Cultural Criticism 

*709 – Globalization and Culture 

*743 – The Eighteenth Century Novel 

*773 – American “Minority” Writing 

*777 – Karl Marx 

(5) French 

New course: 

*722 – De l'anticipation à l'utopie : la science-fiction canadienne-française et québécoise 

(6) Gender Studies and Feminist Research 

Calendar copy : M.A. and Graduate Diploma in Gender Studies and Feminist Research 

New courses : 

*700 – Current Debates in Feminist and Gender Theory 

*701 – Doing Research in Gender Studies and Feminist Studies 

*702 – Knowledge in Action 

*703 – Queer/Trans Theory and Literature : Counting Past 2 

(7) Globalization 

New courses: 

*766 – Islamic Fundamentalism (to be cross-listed as Religious Studies *766) 

*767 – Islam in a Global World (to be cross-listed as Religious Studies *767) 


*6J03 – Global Feminism 

*709 – Globalization and Culture 

(8) History 

M.A. program: Dropping the requirement of demonstrating competence in a foreign 

language 

New courses: 

*766 – Imperialism and Medicine 

*767 – War and Society in East Asian History 

*768 – Canadian Gender History 

Change in course title and description: 

*761 – Race and Gender in the African Diaspora 

(9) Philosophy 

New course: 

*6P03 – Feminist Epistemologies: Gender, Knowledge, Science 

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SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES 

RECOMMENDATION FOR CHANGE IN GRADUATE 

CURRICULUM - FOR CHANGE(S) INVOLVING COURSES 

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING NOTES BEFORE COMPLETING THIS FORM: 

1. This form must be completed for ALL course changes. All sections of this form must be completed. 

2. An electronic version of this form must be emailed to the Assistant Secretary and SynApps System Administrator 

(Email: espiritu@mcmaster.ca). 

3. A representative from the department is required to attend the Faculty Curriculum and Policy Committee meeting during which this 

recommendation for change in graduate curriculum will be discussed. 

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM 

Classics 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 714 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 

S. Corner 

Origins of the Polis 

COURSE CREDIT 

FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( X ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( ) 

PREREQUISITE(S) 

Admission to MA or PhD program 

NEW 

COURSE 

X 

NATURE OF RECOMMENDATION (PLEASE CHECK APPROPRIATE BOX) 

DATE TO BE OFFERED: 

WAS THE PROPOSED COURSE OFFERED ON DEAN’S APPROVAL? 

IF YES, PROVIDE THE DATE: 

WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? NA IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH 

THE OTHER DEPARTMENT(S). NOTE: CROSS-LISTING OF COURSES REQUIRES APPROVAL FROM EACH DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY CONCERNED. 

CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 

PROVIDE THE CURRENT COURSE TITLE: 

CHANGE IN COURSE 

DESCRIPTION 

600-LEVEL COURSE (Undergraduate course for graduate credit) Please 

see #4 on page 2 of this form 

CHANGE TO FULL COURSE 

CHANGE TO HALF COURSE 

CHANGE TO QUARTER 

COURSE 

PROVIDE THE REASON FOR COURSE CANCELLATION: 

COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 

BRIEF DESCRIPTION FOR CALENDAR - Provide a brief description (maximum 6 lines) to be included in the Graduate 

Calendar. 

The organization of society as a polis (citizen-state) was the distictive and defining turn of ancient Greek civilization. In this course, we 

shall examine the origins and early development of the polis, and ask what exactly a polis was, considering new perspectives and 

current debates. 

CONTENT/RATIONALE - Provide a brief description, i.e., outline the topics or major sub-topics, and indicate the principal 

texts to be used. 

We shall consider: evolutionary theories of state-formation; the archaeology of early Greece; ancient Greek political thought; the status 

of Homer as an historical source; Hesiod and the middling farmer; the origins of hoplite warfare; and feasting in early Greek society.

1. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE (How does the course fit into the department’s program?) 

The topic is foundational in the study of ancient Greece and is currently the object of much reappraisal and debate. It draws on all the 

subfields of the discipline: history, literature and philology, art and archaeology, classical philosophy. 

2. EXPECTED ENROLMENT: 

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3. DESCRIBE IN DETAIL THE METHOD OF PRESENTATION OF COURSE MATERIAL (i.e., lectures, seminars): 

Seminars, some led by the instructor and some by students. 

4. DESCRIBE IN DETAIL THE METHOD OF EVALUATION: (For 600-level course, indicate the Extra Work to be required of 

graduate students, i.e., exams, essays, etc.) 

Research proposal and minor presentation: 25%; major presentation: 25%; major research paper: 50% 

5. TO PREVENT OVERLAP, IS A COURSE IN THE SAME OR A RELATED AREA OFFERED IN ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? 

IF YES, PLEASE ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENT(S). 

6. IF THE COURSE IS INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR STUDENTS OUTSIDE YOUR DEPARTMENT, DO YOU HAVE THE 

SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM CONCERNED? 

PLEASE PROVIDE THE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE: 

Name: M. George georgem@mcmaster.ca Email: Extension: 23452 Date: 1/02/2010 

If you have any questions regarding this form, please contact the Assistant Secretary and SynApps System Administrator, School of 

Graduate Studies, extension 24204. 

SGS/December 2006 

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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

S. Corner 

Speech, Performance, and Power in the Athenian Democracy 

COURSE CREDIT 




NEW 

COURSE 

X 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course will examine the distribution of power and the process of political decision-making in Classical Athens, asking how the 

Athenian democracy functioned and how democratic it actually was. 



We shall consider the constitution of Athenian democracy, understood in the sense of a legal, institutional apparatus of government, but 

also in the broader sense emphasized in much recent scholaarship: as a negotiation of power between mass and elite effected through 

persuasive speech. Thus we shall move from consideration of the assembly and law courts (reading works of ancient constitutional 

history and oratory) to consideration of the theatre and the power of gossip (reading tragedy and comedy), before finally turning to the 

analyses of Athenian political theorists (including Thucydides and Plato).


The course examines current perspectives and debate on a central topic in ancient history, treating a broad variety of ancient sources. 


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Seminars, some led by the instructor and some by students. 



Research proposal and minor presentation: 25%; major presentation: 25%; major research paper: 50% 






Name: Michele George Email: georgem Extension: 23542 Date: 2010/02/01 




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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Daniel McLean 

Greek Comedy 

COURSE CREDIT 



Admission to MA or PhD programme in Classics. 

NEW 

COURSE 

X 





WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? NO IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH 


CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course will survey the surviving texts and fragments of the Greek comic poets, along with testimonia and modern and ancient 

criticism, with a view towards developing an understanding of the sources, influence and methods of analysis of Greek comic poetry. 

Concentration will be on the works of Aristophanes, though additional readings will be from the fragments of other Old Comic authors, 

the scholiastic and interpretive traditions, and may extend to works of Middle and New Comedy. This course may be taken by MA or 

PhD students. 



Topics: The origin, development, influence of Greek comedy; the staging and theatrical devices of Greek drama and its role in the civic 

and social world of classical Athens. Texts to be drawn from the works of Aristophanes and other Greek comic poets.


Greek comedy is a central participant in the "contest of public voices" in democratic Athens, and 5th-century Athenian comedy is both a 

highly-developed and allusive literary genre and an important source of knowledge for historical and political developments in Athens. 

This course will reinforce departmental strengths in the combination of literary, historical and social approaches to ancient Greece. 


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This graduate seminar will proceed through a combination of instructor- and student-led discussion; activities include translations of 

original texts with discussion of primary and secondary sources, student presentations. 



Translation exams or quizzes (20%); student presentations (20%); final graduate-level research paper (60%). 



No 



N / A 


Name: Michele George Email: georgem@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23452 Date: 01/02/2010 




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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 


S. Pope 

Greek Colonization 

COURSE CREDIT 


NEW 

COURSE 

X 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This seminar will examine the expansion of the Greek world and the diffusion of Greek culture that culminated with new foundations 

from the Black Sea to the western Mediterranean. Beginning with the 8th century BC, we will examine the process of creating a new 

Greek city and its social, cultural and political ramifications. The archaeology of the colonial cities will be given principal consideration 

as the means through which the Greeks expanded their territory. Interactions with the indigenous population and the pursuant 

questions of ethnic identity in Western Greece will be addressed as well. 



This seminar investigates the process of the expansion of the Greek world and the cultural, social and political ramifications of new 

Greek settlements abroad, and means through which previously foreign territory was incorporated into the Greek world. The 

archaeology of western Greece encompasses questions of ethnic identity and the interaction of different culture groups. For this 

reason, indigenous cultures, namely Sikel, Sikan, Campanian and Etruscan, will be examined in the context of Greek acculturation. Key 

bibliography includes: G. Pugliese-Carratelli, ed., The Greeks in the West; T.J. Dunbabin, The Western Greeks; D. Ridgway, The First 

Western Greeks, I. Malkin, The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity.


This course examines the archaeology of the Greek world at a crucial point in its development as Greek culture spread across the 

Mediterranean. The course investigates prominent questions and fundamental material in Greek archaeology. It will introduce students 

to key methods and sources in Greek archaeology; it is open to Ma and PhD students. 


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a combination of instructor and student -led seminars will be used 



Two in-class presentations (25% each) one major research paper (50%) 



No 



No 






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CLASSICS 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 


C. EILERS 

TACITUS AND TIBERIUS 

COURSE CREDIT 


NEW 

COURSE 

X 



Winter 2011 (est.) 





CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course will consider Tacitus’ narrative of the reign of Tiberius (Annals I-VI), especially focussing on the first three books. 



The primary text to be used is the Teubner edition of Tacitus' Annals. Important readings will come from Syme's Tacitus and 

Woodman's Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition. Some of the topics to be considered with be: Prefaces in historical writing; the death of 

Agrippa Postumus; Tacitus on Tiberius’ accession; Tacitus and the Annalistic tradition of history writing; Tacitus and Germanicus; 

Tacitus and Piso. Other potential topics include: Tacitus' use of sources; characterization in Tacitus; Tacitus on Germanicus; the 

criminal courts under Tiberius; treason trials under Tiberius; senatorial politics and Sejanus; nostalga for the Republic in Tacitus.


At McMaster, graduate education in Classics typically tries to bring together the various different sub-disciplines of Classics. In this 

case, the seminar aims to bring together a consider of the important historical developments of the reign of Tiberius (emperor AD 14- 

37) with their literary depiction, especially in the work of the Roman historian Tacitus, whose account is an important source of evidence 

for Tiberius' reign. Students may also consider the epigraphy, numismatics, and contemporary literature of the period. 


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The course will be conducted in a series of seminar-meetings, each focusing on various aspects of Tacitus’ text or Tiberius’ reign. 



Latin translation test -- 25% 

2 Minor Presentations -- 10% each 

Major Presentation -- 20% 

Research paper -- 25% 

Participation -- 10% 



NO OVERLAP 



n/a 


Name: M. George georgem@mcmaster.ca Email: ee Extension: 23452 Date: February 1, 2010 




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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

M. George 

Roman Slavery 

COURSE CREDIT 



admission to MA or PhD program in Classics 


NEW 



X 

COURSE 


WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE 

WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENT(S). NOTE: CROSS-LISTING OF COURSES REQUIRES APPROVAL FROM EACH DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY 

CONCERNED. 

PROVIDE THE CURRENT COURSE 

CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

Roman slavery is examined, taking into account its unique characteristics and its role in the Roman social structure. Source material includes 

conventional texts, funerary inscriptions and juridical material (e.g., the Roman law code and rescripts), as well as archaeological remains. By 

considering a wide range of evidence, it is possible to analyze the mechanics of Roman slavery as a social institution, its significance to the Roman 

economy, and attitudes toward slaves and their effect on slave life. 



Topics to be examined include juridical status definitions, quality of slave life, the hierarchy within slavery, slave family formation, slave 

labour, elite theories of slave management; the cultural value of occupational title, and slaves in Roman literature and visual culture.


The course provides coverage of slavery, a critical element in the society and economy of ancient Rome, and introduces students to 

sources and methods for its analysis. It can be taken by MA or PhD students. 


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a combination ofinstructor and student -led seminars will be used. 



two presentations (worth 20% each), one major research paper (worth 60%) 






Name: M. George Email: georgem@mcmaaster.ca Extension: 23452 Date: 1/02/2010 




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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

M. George 

Death and Commemoration in the Roman world 

COURSE CREDIT 




NEW 

COURSE 

X 







CHANGE IN 


COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course covers the various modes by which the Romans commemorated their dead and Roman attitudes to mourning and remembrance. 



Issues shall include: funerary practices; written commemorations; tomb types; funerary relief (altars, stelae, sarcophagi); the 

iconography of funerary memorials; the consequences of ancient demography on cultural attitudes.


The course provides coverage of a wide range of kinds of evidence from ancient Rome and uses them to consider attittudes to death 

and commemoration. It can be taken by MA or PhD students. 


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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

K.Mattison 

Roman Comedy 

COURSE CREDIT 




NEW 

COURSE 

X 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course examines Roman comedy focusing primarily on reading from the comedies of Plautus or Terence (or both) in Latin. 



Topics to be examined include language and metre; stagecraft and performance; comedy's place in contemporary Rome; Roman 

comedy's place in the history and development of comedic drama.


This course focuses on the comedies of Plautus and Terence in Latin and examines their place in the development of the comedic 

drama. 


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A combination of instructor and student -led seminars will be used 



Two presentations (worth 20% each ), one major research paper (worth 60%) 



No 




Name: M. George Email: georgem@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23452 Date: 1/02/2010 




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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

M. George 

Greek & Roman Domestic Architecture 

COURSE CREDIT 





NEW 



X 

COURSE 




CONCERNED. 


CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

COURSE TITLE 

a 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course examines evidence for Greek and Roman domestic architecture, drawing primarily on excavated material, but also using 

written sources as appropriate. 



Topics to be examined include house typologies across the Greek world; gender in the Greek house; artifact distribution and spatial 

function; domestic décor at Pompeii; villa types; provincial vernacular architecture.


The course provides coverage of domestic architecture, a key corpus of archaeological evidence from the ancient world, and introduces 

students to sources and methods for its analysis. It can be taken by MA or PhD students. 


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a combination of instructor and student -led seminars will be used. 



two presentations (worth 20% each , one major research paper (worth 60%) 






Name: M. George Email: georgem@mcmaaster.ca Extension: 23452 Date: 01/02/10 




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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Greek Epic Poetry 

COURSE CREDIT 


Daniel McLean OR Kathryn Mattison 


Admission to MA or PhD programme in Classics. 

NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 

X 


Homer 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course examines selected Greek epic poems, and introduces students to sources and methods for its analysis. Readings may 

include such texts as the works of Homer, Hesiod, or Apollonius. This course may be taken by MA or PhD students. 



Topics include: the origin, development, style, influence and literary, historical and cultural significance of Greek epic poetry, and 

theories of oral-formulaic composition. Texts may include Hesiod, 'Works and Days' and 'Theogony,' Homer, 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey,' 

Apollonius 'Argonautica.' 

The new name broadens the list of authors who might be included in this course beyond Homer.


Epic poetry is foundational to Greek literature and culture. 


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No 



N/A 






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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

K.Mattison 

Greek Tragedy 

COURSE CREDIT 




NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 

X 


Greek Drama 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course examines Greek tragedy focusing primarily on readings from the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides in Greek. 



Topics to be examined include language and metre; stagecraft and performance; tragedy's connection to its contemprary society; 

reception. 

The rubirc 'Greek drama' is now being broken down into two course offerings, this one (Greek tragedy) and Greek comedy.


This course examines Greek tragedy and its central role in Greek society. 


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A combination of instructor and student -led seminars will be used 



Two presentations (worth 20% each ), one major research paper (worth 60%) 



No 








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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER Greek 733 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Greek Lyric Poetry 

COURSE CREDIT 


Daniel McLean OR Kathryn Mattison 


Admission to MA or PhD Programme in Classics 

NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 

X 


Pindar 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course will survey the surviving texts and fragments of the major Greek lyric poets, along with testimonia and modern and ancient 

criticism, with a view towards developing an understanding of the sources, influence and methods of analysis of Greek lyric poetry. 

Readings will include works by and about such poets as Archilochus, Sappho, Pindar and Bacchylides. This course may be taken by 

MA or PhD students. 



Primary Texts: D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection. Topics: The development of lyric poetry, its cultural and literary impact 

and influence. 

This name change broadens the list of authors who might be taught in this course beyond Pindar.


Greek lyric poetry is foundational to the literary development of both Greece and Rome. The change in course title will allow the 

department to broaden its focus from the late-6th / earth-5th Century poet Pindar to the full range of lyric poets whose collective 

influence upon Greek tragedy and upon the culture of the city-state was arguably as great as Homer's. 


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N/A 






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CLASSICS 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

EVAN HALEY 

LATIN EPIGRAPHY 

COURSE CREDIT 



Admission to MA or PhD classes 

NEW 

COURSE 

A 





WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? YES IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE 


CONCERNED. 


CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

X 

COURSE TITLE 

Sources & Methods in Ancient History 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course provides a broad introduction to Latin inscriptions from roughly 500 B.C. to A.D. 500, and examines the technical aspects of 

reading, editing, and understanding Latin epigraphy in its broad social and cultural context. 



The name change identifies the specific methodology taught in this course.


Latin inscriptions are a central and vital gateway to the understanding of the Greco-Roman world. This course (Classics 734) is a main 

component in the formation of well-rounded graduate students in Classics. 


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We begin first with the presentation of main reference works and collections of inscriptions pertaining to the Greco-Roman world. 

Students learn to reconstruct and interpret Latin inscriptions through an actual inscriptions from the city of Rome (in the form of a 

squeeze of a Latin funerary inscription). Then, students present the reading and interpretation of a select Latin honorific inscription, 

which raises core issues relevant to the understanding of Latin onomastics, Roman social structure, and Roman administration. 

Subsequently, students present and elaborate a problem deriving from Latin epigraphy in the form of a 20-25 page research paper. The 

course is rounded out by a final exam testing the students on their comprehension of assigned readings. 



30% of the course mark derives from the student presentation and write-up of a selected Latin inscription. 

50% of the course mark derives from the student's term research paper. 

Finally, 20% of the mark derives from a final examination, drawing on assigned readings and classroom discussion. 



NA 



NA 


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COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) Pope 

Classics 

Topography of Athens 

COURSE CREDIT 



NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 

X 


Ancient Athens 



X 

DESCRIPTION 





COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This seminar will examine the city of Athens and trace its development from the Bronze Age through to the Hellenistic Period. We will 

focus on the major monuments of the city and the political, religious and civic influences behind them as the city grew from a 

Mycenaean citadel into an imperial power. Emphasis will be placed on the study of the Athenian Acropolis due to its religious 

importance in the city, its architectural importance in Greece and its archaeological importance for modern scholars. 



This seminar will examine the city of Athens and trace its development from the Bronze Age through to the Hellenistic Period. We will 

focus on the major monuments of the city and the political, religious and civic influences behind them as the city grew from a 

Mycenaean citadel into an imperial power. Emphasis will be placed on the study of the Athenian Acropolis due to its religious 

importance in the city, its architectural importance in Greece and its archaeological importance for modern scholars. Scholarship 

includes: J.Camp, The Archaeology of Athens; J. Hurwit, The Athenian Acropolis ; A. Stewart, “The Persian and Carthaginian Invasions 

of 480 B.C.E. and the Beginning of the Classical Style: Part 1, The Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Significance of the Acropolis 

Deposits,” AJA 112, 2008, pp. 377-412. 

This name change reflects the course content more accurately than the previous title.


This course examines the archaeology of one of the most important cities of the Greek world, and introduces students to the 

methodology of classical archaeology as well as principal data for understanding Greek archaeology 


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This course is a seminar; lectures and class discussions will be the principal methods employed 



In-class presentations (30%); seminar paper presentation (30%); seminar paper (40%) 



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N/A 






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Classics 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

M. George 

Roman Campania 

COURSE CREDIT 




NEW 

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COURSE TITLE 

X 


Topics in Roman Campania 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course examines the region of Campania in ancient Italy using textual, archaeological, and literary sources. 



Topics to be examined include Campania & Rome; Naples, Cumae, and Baia; villa culture; the regional military presence; philosophical 

schools.Campanian as a Greek cultural base within Italy. The course name does not require a 'topics' heading as it is all about Roman 

Campania.


The course allows a regional study of an important cultural centre in peninsular Italy in the Roman era. It can be taken by MA or PhD 

students. 


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INSTRUCTOR(S) NA 

Classics 

Greek & Roman Religion 

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NA 

NEW 

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DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 

COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

X 


There is no faculty to teach this course and it hasn't been taught in recent memory. 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 


texts to be used.















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COURSE TITLE 



Classics 

Greek Philosophy 

COURSE CREDIT 



NA 

NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 

COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

X 


There is no faculty to teach this course and it hasn't been offered in recent memory. 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 


texts to be used.















2











COURSE TITLE 



Classics 

Roman Philosophy 

COURSE CREDIT 



NA 

NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 

COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

X 



OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 


texts to be used.











Name: M. George georgem@mcmaster.ca Email: Extension: 23452 Date: 1/02/2010 




2











COURSE TITLE 



Classics 

Roman North Africa 

COURSE CREDIT 



NA 

NEW 

COURSE 







CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 

COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

X 



OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 


texts to be used.















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RECOMMENDATION FOR CHANGE IN GRADUATE CURRICULUM 

- FOR CHANGE(S) INVOLVING DEGREE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS / 

PROCEDURES 


1. This form must be completed for ALL changes involving degree program requirements/procedures. All sections of this form 

must be completed. 



3. A representative from the department is required to attend the Faculty Curriculum and Policy Committee meeting during which 

this recommendation for change in graduate curriculum will be discussed. 

DEPARTMENT 

Linguistics & Languages 

NAME OF 

PROGRAM 

PROGRAM 

DEGREE 

Cognitive Science of Language 

Ph.D. ( X ) M.A. ( ) 

M.A.Sc. 

( ) 

M.B.A. 

( ) 

M. Eng. 

( ) 

M.Sc. ( ) 

Diploma 

Program 

( ) 

Other 

(Specify) 

CHANGE IN ADMISSION 

REQUIREMENTS 

CHANGE IN THE DESCRIPTION OF A 

SECTION IN THE GRADUATE CALENDAR 

OTHER 


EXPLAIN: 

DESCRIBE THE EXISTING REQUIREMENT/PROCEDURE: 

CHANGE IN COMPREHENSIVE 

EXAMINATION PROCEDURE 

X 


REQUIREMENTS 

EXPLAIN: 

The Description of the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Field of Study has been 

expanded to better reflect what areas students could expect to 

Cognitive Sociolinguistics 

This field examines cognitive aspects of bilingual upbringing of children, second language learning and attrition in immigrant 

populations across the life span, etc. 

PROVIDE A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE (Attach additional pages if space is not 

sufficient.) 

Cognitive Sociolinguistics [change of description] 

This field examines cognitive aspects of language varieties and use in diverse social contexts. Using methods from varied theoretical 

frameworks, it investigates pragmatic and sociocultural phenomena, including bilingual education/ upbringing of children, second 

language learning, first & second language attrition, contact languages, pidgins and creoles. In addition, cognitive aspects of the use 

of language for persuasion, advertising, propaganda and politics are also studied.

RATIONALE FOR THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE: 

The original description of the field gave a very narrowed view of what could be studied under this frame. The new description 

highlights the areas of expertise that exist in the department and among the potential associate members, and gives potential students 

a clearer idea of potential research topics. 

PROVIDE IMPLEMENTATION DATE: (Implementation date should be at the beginning of the academic year) 

September 2010 

ARE THERE ANY OTHER DETAILS OF THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE THAT THE CURRICULUM AND POLICY COMMITTEE 

SHOULD BE AWARE OF? IF YES, EXPLAIN. 

PROVIDE A DESCRIPTION OF THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CALENDAR: 

Cognitive Sociolinguistics [change of description] 

This field examines cognitive aspects of language varieties and use in diverse social contexts. Using methods from varied theoretical 

frameworks, it investigates pragmatic and sociocultural phenomena, including bilingual education/ upbringing of children, second 

language learning, first & second language attrition, contact languages, pidgins and creoles. In addition, cognitive aspects of the use of 

language for persuasion, advertising, propaganda and politics are also studied. 

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE: 

Name: Vikki Cecchetto Email: cecchett@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24474 Date: Feb.18, 2009 




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PROCEDURES 








DEPARTMENT 

Linguistics & Languages 

NAME OF 

PROGRAM 

PROGRAM 

DEGREE 

Cognitive Science of Language 

Ph.D. ( X ) M.A. ( ) 

M.A.Sc. 

( ) 

M.B.A. 

( ) 

M. Eng. 

( ) 

M.Sc. ( ) 

Diploma 

Program 

( ) 

Other 

(Specify) 


REQUIREMENTS 






EXPLAIN: 


REQUIREMENTS 

OTHER 

X 

EXPLAIN: 

The Department is adding a Second Language requirement to the Ph.D. 


There is none. 


sufficient.) 

Language Requirement 

In order to ensure language diversity and breadth, the Department has a second-language requirement for the Ph.D. degree, in 

addition to the general Graduate School requirement of English proficiency. Candidates should have, as a minimum, intermediate 

knowledge of a language other than English. Candidates admitted without this requirement will be expected to take the equivalent of 

two (2) full year courses or to take a Qualifying Exam. The Department will evaluate each student’s language preparation at the 

Admission stage.


Because of the nature of the discipline, the knowledge of a language other than English is important. Although this view underlay our 

proposal for the Ph.D. program, the articulation of this requirement was missing from the original submission. The Department feels it 

is vital to have this requirement added without delay to reflect what is actually required in the discipline. 






Language Requirement 

In order to ensure language diversity and breadth, the Department has a second-language requirement for the Ph.D. degree, in addition 

to the general Graduate School requirement of English proficiency. Candidates should have, as a minimum, intermediate knowledge of 

a language other than English, defined as having passed the equivalent of two (2) full year courses. Candidates admitted without this 

requirement will be expected to pass the equivalent of two (2) full year courses or to pass a Qualifying Exam. The Department will 

evaluate each student’s language preparation at the Admission stage. 


Name: Vikki Cecchetto Email: cecchett@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24474 Date: Feb.18, 2009 




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Linguistics and Languages/ Cognitive Science of Language [COGSIL] 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


6EL3 

Elisabet Service 

Experimental lab in cognitive science of language 

COURSE CREDIT 

FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( x ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( ) 

One of LINGUIST 3B03, 3C03, 4B03 or 4F03 or equivalent courses and LINGUIST 2D03 or equivalent research 

methods 


NEW 


WAS THE PROPOSED COURSE OFFERED ON DEAN’S APPROVAL? YES 

X 

COURSE Term 2, Jan. 2011 

IF YES, PROVIDE THE DATE: Jan. 2010 



CONCERNED. 


CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

N/a 

x 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 

N/a 


Calendar. 

Students will collaborate to plan, carry out, analyse and report an experiment addressing a cognitive aspect of language processing or acquisition. 



Students will practice searching for literature in particular content areas, designing an experimental language study and writing a 

research plan for it, creating well-controlled language stimuli, recording behavioural responses, analysing the data statistically and 

writing up a report. Not textbook will be used.


The course offers opportunity to acquire and practise experimental skills as applied to language research. These skills are an essential 

component of the Cognitive Science of Language graduate program. 


Capped at 15 


The class will involve a major collaborative assignment divided into components:research plan, experiment implementation, data 

analysis and written report. 



Students will be evaluated on the research plan, a powerpoint presentation of the results and the final report. Graduate students have 

to additionally write a more extensive literature review on the study topic, providing practice for thesis writing. Individual graduate 

students will use literature to develop research proposals for oral presentation in class and in written form to instructor. The written 

proposals are worth 20% of the class grade. The proposed experiments will be run and the results presented in written reports, 

contributing 40%, and at a poster session with posters (20%). Graduate students have to additionally write a more extensive literature 

review on the study topic, providing practice for thesis writing. This will contribute 20% to their grade. 



Other lab courses are offered but there is no reason for a student not to take multiple lab classes if they have the good fortune to get in 

in these small classes. This class will have its special cognitive angle on manipulation of linguistic variables . 




Name: Elisabet Service Email: eservic Extension: 21352 Date: April 6, 2010 




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Linguistics & Languages/ Cognitive Science of Language [COGSIL] 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


6LC3 

Ivona Kucerova 

Advanced Morphology and Syntax 

COURSE CREDIT 


Completion of an upper-level undergraduate course in syntax and semantics 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 



2011-12 

WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? NO 



IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENT(S). NOTE: CROSS-LISTING OF COURSES 

REQUIRES APPROVAL FROM EACH DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY CONCERNED. 


CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

COURSE TITLE 

Linguistics 4LC3/Advanced Morphology and Syntax 



Yes 

DESCRIPTION 





COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

x 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course will examine advanced issues in syntax and semantics, seeking to evaluate current theory and to address data that fall beyond the 

explanatory capacities of those paradigms. The course is strongly data oriented, with material taken from several languages of the Caucasus. 

CONTENT/RATIONALE - Provide a brief description, i.e., outline the topics or major sub-topics, and indicate the principal texts 

to be used. 

Advanced concepts of locality and structure building by combination of lectures and problem solving; topics to be covered include the X-bar theory 

and bare structure theory; A- versus A’-movement; binding and reflexivity; syntactic and semantic islands, the notion of compositionality; 

entailment; quantifiers and what they teach us about syntax; NPI licensing (syntactic structure and entailment). The reading would be a combination 

of primary literature, and lecture notes.


This course will include a discussion of advanced topics in syntax and semantics, which are necessary both for advanced study of the core theoretical 

linguistics and other applied linguistics disciplines. The course is most directly related to the theoretical linguistics stream of the graduate program 

and provides theoretical backround for the cogntive stream of the graduate program. 


30 (including undergraduate students) 


The course will be a combination of lectures delivered by the instructor and students presentations. A significant part of the course will proceed 

through seminar discussions based on theoretical readings. 



Above the requirements of the undergraduate course (short presentation, paper, final exam, participation), graduate students will be expected to 

complete a more substantial paper than undergraduate students (20-25 pages) and substantial presentation (co-teaching a class). 



no 



n/a 


Name: I. Kucerova Email: ivona@alum.mit.edu Extension: Date: April 6, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 

6M03 

A. Moro 

Pidgins and Creoles 

COURSE CREDIT 


PREREQUISITE(S) LINGUIST 3X03. 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 








CHANGE IN 


COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

Y 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

A survey of the structure, genesis, evolution and social history of the languages that developed as a result of European expansion to 

Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Emphasis will be placed on the Atlantic (Caribbean and West African) creoles. 



Major topics will be considered from the perspective of current dominant and controversial theoretical approaches in contact linguistics, 

variation studies, language change, and second language acquisition (particular our understanding of language transfer). Readings will 

include selections of authoritative surveys/texts of pidgins and creoles (volumes by Holm, Romaine, and more recently (2009) Siegel), 

as well as important articles from several international journals, including the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Studies


This course will include a discussion of advanced principles and approaches in language contact phenomena, which are necessarily 

informed by dominant theoretical frameworks in core linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics (particularly second language 

acquisition theories). The course is most directly related to the cognitive sociolinguistics stream of the graduate program. 


15 undergraduate students + 10 graduate students 


The first part of the course (about 1/4 of course) -- foundational considerations -- will be delivered lecture-style by the instructor; most 

of the course will proceed through seminar discussions based on theoretical readings and student presentations. 



Above the requirements of the undergraduate course (presentation 20%, paper 25%, final exam 20%, participation 15%), graduate 

students will be expected to complete a more substantial essay than undergraduate students (20-25 pages), in addition to a report that 

is based on a significant literature review (20%). 



NO 



N/A 


Name: Moro, A. Email: moroal Extension: 23762 Date: April 6, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


6ML3 

John Colarusso 

Mathematics for Linguists 

COURSE CREDIT 


LINGUIST 3II3 and registration in Level III or IV of a program in LInguistics or Cognitive Science of Language 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 



term 1, 2010 

WAS THE PROPOSED COURSE OFFERED ON DEAN’S APPROVAL? N 


WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? N IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH 


CHANGE IN 


COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

Y 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course will introduce the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate student to aspects of linguistics that lend themselves to 

mathematical analysis. The goal is to prepare the student either for further pursuit of mathematical techniques useful in linguistics or for 

applied work in computer modelling of language and linguistics problems. 



This course will introduce the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate student to aspects of linguistics that lend themselves to 

mathematical analysis. The goal is to prepare the student either for further pursuit of mathematical techniques useful in linguistics or for 

applied work in computer modelling of language and linguistics problems.


This course will prepare the student for more advanced topics in mathematical linguistic techniques. 


15 undergaduate + 10 graduate 


3 lectures a week 



For the graduate students, their assignments will cover roughly twice as much detail as the undergraduate ones: 100 % class 

assignments (5 at 20% each) 



N 



N 


Name: John Colarusso Email: colaruss@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23902 Date: April 6, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


6R03 

Cross-Cultural Communication 

Dr. Magda Stroinska 

COURSE CREDIT 

FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( Y ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( ) 

Linguistics 1A03, 1AA3 and six units of Linguistics above level I; or permission of the Department 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 





IF YES, PROVIDE THE DATE: Sept. 2009 

WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? Y IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH 


CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

Y 

N 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course explores the links between language and culture and allows students to develop skills necessary to be intermediaries 

between cultures. Students will become aware of the role of their own cultural filters, i.e. how their own culture affects the way they 

perceive the world and they should become better equipped to interpret other cultures. They will learn to analyse how linguistic 

behaviour reflects complex cultural values and how to deconstruct culture-specific rituals in order to represent them in terms of another 

culture. 



On completion of the course students should be aware of the role of their own cultural filters and they should become better equipped 

to interpret other cultures. They will learn to analyse how linguistic behaviour reflects complex cultural values and how to deconstruct 

culture-specific rituals in order to represent them in terms of another culture. Topics include communication within family, 

communication between genders, cognitive role of metaphors, language and perception (using colour terms as an example), emotions 

across cultures, the role of culture in advertising, significance of personal space and body language, the importance of language in 

identity construction, and cultural stereotyping. 

TEXT: 

Suderman, Jane (2007) Understanding Intercultural Communication. Toronto: Thomson/Nelson; WebCT site


This course will fit into the clinical sociolinguistics part of our graduate programme and will be useful to students who need to 

understand intercultural aspects of communication in a variaty of social settings, especially in multicultural countries like Canada. The 

materialmay also be helpful in conducting qualitative research and interviews involving members of other cultures. 


15 undergraduate; 10 graduate students 


The course has a seminar format with elements of lectures by the instructor, discussion, student presentations of individual and group 

projects. 



Students who wish to work with human subjects (through interviews, surveys or focus groups) will be instructed about principles of 

ethical research and will need to familiarize themselves with the guidelines prepared by the Ethics Board of the Office of Research 

Services. 

For graduate students,70% of the mark (instead of 10% for attendence) will go to the written assignments (2 x 35%). The requirements 

for the graduate students' written work will also be more rigoreous (10 instead of 5-7 pages per paper and a l 

Attendance and class participation 10% 

Self-assessment 2 x 5% 10% 

2 small written projects (2 x 20%) 40% 

Final project proposal 10% 

Final project 30% 

For graduate students, the final project will be worth 40% (instead of 10% attendence). The requirements for the graduate students' 

written work will also be more rigorous (10 instead of 5-7 pages per paper and a literature review for the topic selected). 



N/A 



N/A 


Name: Magda Stroinska Email: stroinsk@mcmaster.ca Extension: 27067 Date: April 6, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


6S03 

Interpersonal Communication 

Dr. Magda Stroinska 

COURSE CREDIT 


LINGUIST 1A03, 1AA3 and six units of Linguistics above Level I; or permission of the Department 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 






WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? YES IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE 


CONCERNED. 


CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

Y 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

This course offers an introduction to contemporary interpersonal communication theories and research. Topics include: small group 

communication, persuasive communication, argumentation strategies, conflict resolution and computer mediated, intercultural, 

international and political communication. 

Seminar (two hours); one term 



This course reviews contemporary interpersonal communication theories and research. The course will help students understand the 

role of language (verbal communication) in interpersonal relations and will explain connection between theory and practice. Individual 

and group projects will help to understand and – hopefully - improve a range of interpersonal skills and to apply these to personal, 

social, and workplace relationships. The course themes range from basic principles of interpersonal communication to topics that are 

rarely covered in depth in traditional academic courses, such as feedback, gossip, and communication mediated through machines (email, 

msn, facebook, voicemail or speech recognition systems). The students will identify basic factors that influence human relations 

(anger, envy, love, fear), along with their verbal and non-verbal expressions, and will analyze them at various levels of communication 

(from the micro level of individual exchange to inter-group communication, and to thethe macro level of international conflicts). 

TEXT: 

Joseph A. DeVito. The interpersonal communication book. Pearson. WebCT


This course will fit into the clinical sociolinguistics part of our graduate programme and will be useful to students who need to 

understand intra-group relations and principles of interpersonal communication useful in conducting interviews or dealing with conflicts. 


15 undergraduate; 10 gradaute 


The course has a seminar format with elements of lectures by the instructor, discussion, student presentations of individual and group 

projects. 



Regular Attendance and Class participation 10% 

Written assignments (2 x 30) 60% 

Self-assessments (2 x 10%) 20% 

Class (group) presentation 10% 

Total 100% 

There will be a penalty of 5% of the final grade per day for late assignments. 

For graduate students,70% of the mark (no 10% for attendence) will go to the written assignments (2 x 35%). The requirements for the 

graduate students' written work will also be more rigorous (10 instead of 5-7 pages per paper and a literature review for the topoic 

selected). Their class presentation will be individual. 



NO 



N/A 


Name: Magda Stroinska Email: stroinsk@mcmaster.ca Extension: 27067 Date: April6, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER # 712 

INSTRUCTOR(S) Staff 

Linguistics & Languages/ Cognitive Science of Language (COGSIL) 

Reading Course (Linguistics) 

COURSE CREDIT 

FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( X ) 


NEW 

COURSE 

Y 



Term 1 / 2, '10- 


IF YES, PROVIDE THE DATE: Jan. .2010 



CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

Directed reading course or intensive research module on advanced level topics in Linguistics. The course may be repeated once on a 

different topic or module or a combination of reading course and module. 



The course is designed to give students the opportunity of expanding their knowledge base within the discipline. This course will allow 

students to pursue directed reading under the supervision of a faculty member on individual topics that might not be covered in existing 

graduate courses. This course could also allow students to engage in an intensive research module under the supervison of a faculty 

member on a topic that might not normally be covered by their plan of study.


This course would expand our graduate offerings and allow some flexibility in individualizing the student's plan of study. 


1 -2 per year. 


A syllubus of readings or research goals would be worked out by the student and the faculty member supervising the reading course or 

module. 



The student would present a paper based on the readings covered or present a report of the research findings to the faculty member 

supervising the courseThe mark breakdown is as follows: Regular meetings and discussion of readings 50%; Final report or paper 

50%. 



NO 



N/A 


Name: Vikki Cecchetto Email: cecchett@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24474 Date: April 6, 2010 




2











COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER # 713 

INSTRUCTOR(S) Staff 

Cognitive Science of Language (COGSIL) 

Reading Course (Cognitive Science) 

COURSE CREDIT 

FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( X ) 


NEW 

COURSE 

X 



Term 1/2 '10-'11 

WAS THE PROPOSED COURSE OFFERED ON DEAN’S APPROVAL? NO 




CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

Directed reading course or intensive research module on advanced level topics in Cognitive Science. The course may be repeated 

once on a different topic or module or a combination of reading course and module. 



The course is designed to give students the opportunity of expanding their knowledge base within the discipline. This course will allow 

students to pursue directed reading under the supervision of a faculty member on individual topics that might not be covered in existing 

graduate courses. This course could also allow students to engage in an intensive research module under the supervison of a faculty 

member on a topic that might not normally be covered by their plan of study.


This course would expand our graduate offerings and allow some flexibility in individualizing the student's plan of study. 


1 -2 per year. 


A syllubus of readings or research goals would be worked out by the student and the faculty member supervising the reading course or 

module. 



The student would present a paper based on the readings covered or present a report of the research findings to the faculty member 

supervising the course. The mark breakdown is as follows: Regular meetings and discussion of readings 50%; Final report or paper 

50%.. 



NO 



N/A 


Name: Vikki Cecchetto Email: cecchett@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24474 Date: April 6, 2010 




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Linguistics & Languages / Cognitive Science of Language 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Bilingual Language Processing 

COURSE CREDIT 


Catherine Anderson or Elisabet Service 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 








CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

The course studies the psycholinguistic research on the processes and mental representations involved in language processing in 

bilinguals. The central question is the extent to which a bilingual's two languages influence each other at the levels of phonological, 

lexical, syntactic and semantic processing. 



There is no textbook; rather, journal articles and book chapters from the primary literature will address bilingual language 

comprehension and production at the level of sound, word, sentence and discourse. The course also deals with research methods in 

bilingualism with a focus on experimental methods.


The course investigates a key area in the Cognitive Science of Language, addressing issues of how multiple languages are 

represented in the mind of a single speaker, how real-time comprehension occurs in each language, and how the languages influence 

each other in the mind of the bilingual. 


10 


The material is presented primarily via student-led seminars, supplemented occasionally by lectures. 



Students give two seminar presentations (20% each for a total of 40%) and write a final paper consisting of a review of the relevant 

literature (30%) and a proposal for an experiment investigating some aspect of human sentence processing (30%). 



no 




Name: Catherine Anderson Email: canders@mcmaster.ca Extension: 26241 Date: January, 2010 




2











Linguistics & Languages/ Cognitive Science of Language 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Human Sentence Processing 

Catherine Anderson 

COURSE CREDIT 



Linguistics 3B03 (Psycholinguistics) or equivalent 

NEW 

COURSE 

Y 








CHANGE IN 

COURSE TITLE 



DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

The course studies current theories of how the human mind parses and interprets sentences in real-time, contrasting symbolic 

computation models with non-symbolic connectionist accounts . Readings are drawn from the primary literature investigating linguistic 

and psychological factors that play a role in real-time comprehension. 



Topics include the major theories of human sentence processing, focusing on the contrast between symbolic and associationist 

approaches and on issues of modularity vs. interactivity and serial vs. parallel processing. There is no textbook; readings from journal 

articles address the role of linguistic factors such as prosody, parallelism, semantic plausibility, discourse context, etc. and of 

psychological factors such as working memory, visual attention, etc. on real-time interpretive decisions.


Human Sentence Processing is one of the key areas of study in the Cognitive Science of Language, employing experimental 

psycholinguistic methods to investigate theoretical proposals from both Linguistics and Psychology. 


10 


The material is presented primarily via student seminars, supplemented occasionally by lectures. 



Students give two seminar presentations (20% each for a total of 40%) and write a final paper consisting of a review of the relevant 

literature (30%) and a proposal for an experiment investigating some aspect of human sentence processing (30%). 



no 



N/A 


Name: Catherine Anderson Email: canders@mcmaster.ca Extension: 26241 Date: February 11, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 


Linguistics and Languages 

Contemporary issues in semantics and pragmatics 

COURSE CREDIT 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Staff 

COGSCI 731 or equivalent 


NEW 

COURSE 

Y 





WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? NO 

IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT 

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENT(S). NOTE: CROSS-LISTING OF COURSES REQUIRES APPROVAL FROM EACH DEPARTMENT 

AND FACULTY CONCERNED. 


TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 




CHANGE TO FULL COURSE CHANGE TO HALF COURSE CHANGE TO QUARTER COURSE 

COURSE 

CANCELLATION 


OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

The course elaborates on the foundations of formal semantics and pragmatics introduced in COGSCI 731. It introduces 

intensional semantics and investigates the relation between formal semantics and formal pragmatics. 



Building on previous courses on extensional semantics, the course introduces intensional semantics and addresses how 

extensional and intensional semantics interacts with formal pragmatics. Topics to be covered may include higher-order quantification, 

Tense, conditionals, semantic parallelism in ellipsis, presuppositions, common ground vs. common belief, focus etc. The reading will 

be a combination of primary literature and lecture notes.


The course is most directly related to the theoretical linguistics stream of the graduate program and provides theoretical 

background for the cognitive stream of the graduate program. It will include a discussion of topics in semantics and pragmatics, which 

are necessary for advanced study of theoretical linguistics and useful for other applied disciplines offered in the program. 

2. EXPECTED ENROLLMENT: 

10 


The course will be a combination of lectures and seminars. Students will be required to work with advanced primary literature and 

write a research paper. The mark breakdown is as follows: 15% - active participation in class discussions; 15% - class 

presentation; 40% - several (typically four) critical reviews of an assigned paper (10% each); 30% - final paper or final 

exam 



The students will be evaluated for active class participation, critical evaluation of primary literature, and a research project (final 

paper). 



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Linguistics and Languages/ Cognitive Science of Language 

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INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Tae-Jin Yoon 

Intonational Phonology 

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Intonational phonology is the study of the suprasegmental features of an utterance (e.g. F0, duration, and amplitude) that contribute to 

its meaning. This course aims to ensure students are familiar with current approaches and issues in the areas of intonational 

phonology. Topics will include, among others, the analysis, representation and processing of intonational structure within the 

autosegmental/ metrical model of intonational phonology. 



The course will be a combination of lectures, seminars and research projects that will give the students an opportunity to research on 

intonational phonology. Topics include stress and stress shift, transcription systems of intonation, intonational meaning, pitch accents 

and boundary tones, tonal alignment, and psycholinguistic processing of intonation.


Intonational phonology is interdisciplinary in nature, which encompasses knolwedges on different linguistic components and which is 

studied through multidisciplinary research methods employed from linguistics, psychology, and computer science. Thus, this course fits 

to graduate students who are interested in interdisciplinary research. 


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The course will combine lectures, seminars and small scale research projects related to topics on intonational phonology. 



The students will participate in seminars, present papers, and work on projects that would prepare them for writing a final research 

paper. Active and constructive participation in seminars will contribute 20% to the final grade; paper presentations, 30%, and term 

paper based on small-scale experimental work on any aspect of linguistic intonation, 50%. Note that the number of papers presented 

will depend on the number of students enrolled in the class. 



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COURSE TITLE 



Contemporary issues in syntax 

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Staff 

COGSCIL *731, Ling 3I03 or equivalent 

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The course extends the basics of syntactic theory introduced in LING 3I03 and COGSCIL 731. The course uses detailed investigation of topics 

in syntactic theory to familiarizes students with tools and methods used in current syntactic frameworks, such as Minimalist Program. 



This course will be a combination of lectures and seminars that will allow students to investigate in detail several topics in syntactic 

theory. The reading will be a combination of primary literature and lecture notes and it will concentrate on aspects of open research 

questions. The topics to be covered may include economy in syntax, linearization issues, fine structure of the left periphery, A vs. A-bar 

movement, Binding theory, and the structure of relative clauses.


During this course students will become familiar with tools and methods used in the current syntactic frameworks and they will further 

develop their ability to critically evaluate competing theoretical approaches and to develop their own research questions. 

2. EXPECTED ENROLLMENT: 

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The course will be a combination of lectures and seminars. 



The students will be required to actively participate in the class, critically evaluate primary literature, and write a research paper 

based on their own research question and data. The breakdown is as follows: 15% - active participation in class discussions; 

15% - class presentation; 40% - several (typically four) critical reviews of an assigned paper (10% each); 30% - final 

paper or final exam 



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COURSE TITLE 



Contemporary issues in linguistic theory 

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Ivona Kucerova or Anna Moro 


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The course offers a detailed investigation of current topics in linguistic theory. The class will concentrate on current research 

issues related to Spell-out interfaces (syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, phonology-morphology, syntax-phonology). Students will 

critically evaluate current open research questions related to inter-modular interactions. Offered topics will include Analogy in the 

grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax), Markedness in the grammar (morphology, syntax, semantics), and Information structure 

(syntax, semantics, phonology). 



This course will be a combination of lectures and seminars that will allow students to investigate in detail a particular linguistics 

topic. The course will be based on current primary literature and it will concentrate on open research questions. Whenever applicable, 

the topic will be investigated from a variety of linguistic and cognitive approaches.


This course will give students a chance to investigate in detail a linguistics topic distinct from their thesis and extend their research 

experience. 


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The course will be a combination of lectures and seminars. 



The students will be required to actively participate in the class, critically evaluate primary literature, and write a research paper. 

The mark breakdown is as follows: 15% - active participation in class discussions; 15% - class presentation; 40% - several 

(typically four) critical reviews of an assigned paper (10% each); 30% - final paper or final exam. 



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COURSE TITLE 


Cognitive Aspects of Thought Manipulation 

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INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Magda Stroinska 

Introductory Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics and Semantics or equivalent courses 

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The course offers an in depth review of linguistic and psychological mechanisms of argumentation and persuasion and thought manipulation used in 

politics, science and advertising. A historical and sociological perspective helps to appreciate the role of context, in a very broad sense, in the 

formation and maintenance of beliefs. 

CONTENT/RATIONALE - Provide a brief description, i.e., outline the topics or major sub-topics, and indicate the principal texts 

to be used. 

The course will use a combination of seminars and research projects that will give the interested students an 

opportunity to investigate various types of thought manipulation, from various examples of advertising and 

moral panics in the media to pseudo-scientific debates and finally to nationalistic, racist, and totalitarian 

propaganda, their linguistic mechanisms and their psychologica effects. Students will use Speech Act Theory, 

Critical Discourse Analysis and other methods of textual research when analyzing written, visual and spoken 

discourse.


This course will allow the students to apply their knowledge of cognitive linguistics, pragmatic and sociolinguistics to real life 

instances of thought manipulation, giving them tools to evaluate the effects of persuasion. 


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The course will combine seminars and working on small scale research projects related to various types of persuasion. Research 

outcomes will be presented in class. 



The students will participate in seminars and work on projects that would prepare them for writing a final research paper. 

The course will be a combination of lectures and seminars. Students will be required to work with advanced primary and secondary 

literature and write a research paper. The mark breakdown is as follows: 15% - active participation in class discussions; 15% - 

class presentation; 30% - Self-assessment (15% each); 40% - final paper. 



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Linguistics & Languages/ Cognitive Sciuence of Language [COGSIL] 

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INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Colarusso, John 

The Evolution of Language and Cognition 

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This course will examine the theories of the phylogenetic origin of language and its accompanying cognition, covering the recent works 

of Bickerton, Jackendoff, Pinker, Hauser, Chomsky, Fitch, Lieberman, and Colarusso. 



The course will have a coursepack with writings of DuBrul, Pinker and Moody, Hauser, Fitch and Chomsky, and Colarusso. 

The textbooks will be: 

Lieberman, Philip. (1984), The Biology and Evolution of Language. Harvard. 

Bickerton, Derek (2009) Adam's Tongue. Hill and Wang


The course will examine the issues and evidence for the evolution of speech and the cognitive apparatus that it presupposes. 


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There will be three sections to the course: anatomical evidence, linguistics evidence, cognitive issues. Each section will be roughly four 

weeks long. The first three weeks will be lectures and the last dicsussion in a seminar setting. 



Each section will end in an examination, each worth a third (33%) of the grade. 



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Communication Studies and Multimedia/Communication and New Media 

COURSE TITLE 

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6F03 

Topics in Multimedia Production 

Dr. Andrew Mactavish 

N/A 

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Advanced multimedia production in a topic to be determined by instructor. Topics may include: mobile application development, digital game 

design, autonomic computing, visualization, interactive installation art, video, animation, photography. Permission of the course instructor is 

required. 



Same as MM-4F03. As a topics course, the content is likely to change significantly from year to year.


Multimedia 4F03 is an advanced Multmedia course, generally for 3rd or 4th year Multimedia students. Graduate students in the M.A. in 

Communication Studies & New Media can request special permission to take 6F03. Factors that will determine the permission include 

whether or not propsective students have the background technical skills and whether or not the current iteration of the course is 

sufficiently different from other courses the student has taken (like MM-4F03 – as a topics course, the content is likely to change 

significantly from one year to the next). Offering this 600-level course in Multimedia provides good balance with the 600-level 

Communication Studies courses current available. 


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Courses are delivered as a mix of lectures and tutorials in the Multimedia computer lab. 



As a topics course, the methods of evaluation change from year to year, though typically include both a Multimedia work and a written 

component. It is anticipated that 600-level students will produce an extended research paper that provides additional scholarly framing 

for the multimedia project. 



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Name: Dr. Stefan Sinclair Email: sgs@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23930 Date: Feb. 8, 2010 




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Dept. of Communication Studies and Multimedia, M.A. in Communication and New Media 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Pro-Seminar 

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FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( ) 

All Graduate course coordinators in CSMM 


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This graduate proseminar provides a broad examination of theories and practices in the areas of Communication Studies and New Media. Weekly 

one-hour seminars will be led by different faculty members associated with the graduate programme. There will be no assignments but attendance is 

mandatory and a pass/fail grade will be assigned based on attendance. 



Topics and readings will be determined by the faculty members leading the weekly meetings. Faculty members will be encouraged to 

present aspects of their own research and creation, especially where they are not already represented in the graduate courses offered 

during that year.


The proseminar is intended to provide students with an exposure to a wide range of theories and practices related to communication 

studies and new media. This course will be a valuable addition to the existing offerings as it will provide an opportunity for students to 

better understand both areas beyond what is possible in their selection of 5 courses. 


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Name: Dr. Stefan Sinclair Email: sgs@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23930 Date: January 25, 2010 




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6C03 

Issues in Performance Studies 

Dr. Christina Baade 

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6D03 

International Communication 

Dr. Christine Quail 

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6E03 

Dr. Faiza Hirji 

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Media and Promotionalism 

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6M03 

Communication, Culture and Technology 

Dr. Laurence Mussio 

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6N03 

Dr. Alex Sevigny 

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News Analysis: Theory and Practice 

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6P03 

Social Activism and the Media 

Dr. Graham Knight 

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6Q03 

Dr. Philip Savage 

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Advanced Topics in Communication I 

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6QQ3 

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Advanced Topics in Communication II 

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English & Cultural Studies / CSCT 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Dr. Susan Fast 

Music, Gender & Sexuality 

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Fall 2010 





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This course was previously approved for the CSCT MA and then deleted. It is to be assigned its original course 

number (705*) and cross-listed with the new MA and PhD concentration in Gender Studies and Feminist Theory. 


Calendar. 

This course considers how gender and sexuality are constituted through music. A range of scholarly work that has laid the theoretical 

groundwork for the fields of feminist music studies, queer studies in music, and music and masculinities will be examined; case studies 

from across the spectrum of pop, jazz, “world” and classical musics will also be taken up, both through readings and through recorded 

and live performances. 



The relationship between music, gender and sexuality, as these intersect with other categories of social difference, such as race and 

class, has become a major field of scholarly inquiry in the past twenty years; studies have ranged from those that reclaim forgotten 

histories, to the creation of new and alternative genealogies, and to ways in which classical music forms have been heard as gendered 

narratives. The course will survey scholarly work that has laid the theoretical groundwork for the fields of feminist music studies, queer 

studies in music, and music and masculinities, but will also take up a number of case studies from across the spectrum of pop, jazz, 

“world” and classical musics. We will study what artists, journalists, fans and others say about the music, as well as how artists present 

themselves in performance (style, fashion, gesture); but the sound of the music will remain a central concern: especially important will 

be issues concerning vocality, the particular uses and sound of instruments (long gendered), conventions around song design, record 

production, and so on. No musical training is required. Texts will include: Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality; Musicology 

and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship; Gender and the Musical Canon; and Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist 

Perspectives on Music and Gender.


This course offers MA students in CSCT an analysis of the relation between music and its cultural context, and it rounds out the 

program’s offerings on various fields of cultural production. 


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lectures & seminars 



Response Papers and their presentation 30% 

Three over the course of the term, 500-750 words each; posted on ELM prior to class and presented/discussed in class. 

Paper Proposal 5% 

Written in the style of a conference paper abstract. 

Conference Paper 20% 

Essentially like a class presentation, only formalized and presented as a 20-minute conference paper, with questions afterwards. 

Research paper: 25% 

Related to the conference paper presentation: 20-25 pagess 



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Name: Mary O'Connor Email: moconnor@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23731 Date: February 16, 2010 




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Proposed texts for Music, Gender and Sexuality ‐ Susan Fast CSCT 705* 

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality, second edition. 

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 

Ruth Solie, ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. 

University of California Press, 1993. 

Marcia Citron. Gender and the Musical Canon. University of Illinois Press, 2000. 

Susan Cook and Judy Tsou, eds. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Music and 

Gender. University of Illinois Press, 1994. 

Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary Thomas, eds. Queering the Pitch: the New Gay and 

Lesbian Musicology second ed. Routledge, 2006. 

Sheila Whiteley and Jennifer Rycenga, eds. Queering the Popular Pitch. Routledge, 2006 

Sheila Whiteley, ed. Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. Routledge, 1997. 

Freya Jarmen‐Ivens, ed. Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music. Routledge, 2007. 

Angela V. Davis. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, 

and Billie Holiday. Pantheon Books, 1998. 

Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley, eds. Audible Traces: Gender, Identity and Music, 

Carciofoli Verlaghaus, 1999. 

Robert Walser. Running With the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. 

Wesleyan University Press, 1993. 

Laurie Stras, ed. She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class 

in 1960’s Music. Ashgate, 2010 

Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Music Dandy. Ashgate, 2009 

Sara Cohen. ʺPopular Music, Gender, Sexuality.ʺ The Cambridge Companion to Pop and 

Rock, eds. Simon Frith, Will Straw, and John Street. Cambridge University Press, 2001, 

109‐142 

Sue Wise, “Sexing Elvis,” On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word. Routledge, 1990. 

Judith Halberstam, “Queer Voices and Musical Genders,” in Oh Boy! Masculinities and 

Popular Music, ed. Freya Jarman‐Ivens. 

Mitchell Morris, “Reading as an Opera Queen,” in Musicology and Difference, ed. Solie.











English 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER ENG 741 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 

The Sexuality of Genre 

Dr. Eugenia Zuroski-Jenkins 

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This course provides an introduction to the diverse range of fiction that flourished in eighteenth-century Great Britain—including travel narratives, 

oriental tales, prostitution narratives, and the Gothic. It also covers topics and methodologies in the history of sexuality and studies of the novel genre 



Recent studies of 18th-century fiction tend to follow the paradigm of the “rise of the novel.” This course takes the inverse approach, 

focusing on those texts popular in the 18th century that have been omitted from the critical narrative of the novel’s rise. Excluded from 

or marginalized within the category of the novel as it became the dominant genre of British fiction, these texts have since been 

categorized as either children’s literature (Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels) or pornography (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). 

Some genres, such as the oriental tale and the gothic, have split along this line, classed as simultaneously too juvenile and too erotic to 

belong to the novel proper. The course will attend to questions such as: What do these categorizations suggest about the genealogy of 

the reading subject? How do the emergent categories of childhood and sexuality come to define not only this subject, but the genre of 

the novel? What does it suggest about modern definitions of literature that so much of eighteenth-century culture has been 

remembered as either the childhood or the sexual unconscious of the canon? Other major texts will include: The Arabian Nights’ 

Entertainments, Vathek , Roxana, Castle of Otranto, The Monk, and Northanger Abbey.”


The course adds to the current English and CSCT offerings in the field of Eighteenth-Century British Literature, historical cultural 

studies, and gender theory for the 2010 


12 students 


Seminars and presentations 



Participation and online reading journals (25%) 

One in-class presentation (25%): 15% written talk and discussion questions, 10% oral presentation 

Final paper proposal and annotated bibliography (20%) 

Final research paper (30%) 



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Name: Dr. Mary O'Connor Email: moconnor@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23731 Date: February 16, 2010 




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Proposed texts for The Sexuality of Genre – Dr. Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins 

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Penguin) 

Defoe, Roxana (Penguin) 

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin) 

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (Oxford) 

Beckford, Vathek and Other Stories (Penguin) 

Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford) 

Cleland, Memoirs of a Coxcomb (Broadview) 

Walpole, Castle of Otranto (Broadview) 

Lewis, The Monk (Penguin) 

Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest (Oxford) 

Austen, Northanger Abbey (Penguin) 

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English and CSCT 

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The Cultures of Modernism 

ENG/CSCT 

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754 FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( X ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( ) 

Dr. Nadine Attewell 

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The Department of English & Cultural Studies requests that this course be cross-listed with the CSCT MA 

program which is housed in the Department of English & Cultural Studies 


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A critical examination of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, criticism, and ethnography. Explores the formal, generic, and thematic 

contours of modernist thinking about culture. 



In recent years, modernism, often caricatured as an elitist, apolitical literary movement concerned primarily with problems of aesthetic 

practice and the mysteries of selfhood, has undergone a comprehensive critical reevaluation. This course, an exercise in rereading 

modernism, draws on the New Modernist Studies in foregrounding and problematizing the culture(s) of modernism. We will reflect on 

the tension between culturalist/historicist and textualist/formalist models of reading, a tension that, in animating modernist thinking 

about culture, literature, and literary criticism, has also shaped the study of literary modernism (and literature more broadly). We will 

also examine the culture of modernist production, investigating how, where, and by whom modernist literary texts were produced, 

circulated, and read. Our focus, however, will be on modernist thinking about culture. Through readings of objects, encyclopedias, 

collections, poems, ethnographies, anthologies, photography, documentary film, essays, detective fictions, and experimental narratives, 

we will explore early twentieth-century attempts to think culture in the abstract – what is culture? where is culture? how is culture made 

and reproduced? how can culture be read, understood, and represented? – as well as representations of particular cultures and cultural 

formations.


The course adds to the current English and CSCT offerings in the field of Early Twentieth-Century British Literature for the 2010-11 

Academic Year 


12 students 





Essay 1: 15% 

Essay 2: 45% 

Discussion Starters: 20% 

Presentation and Précis: 10% 

Participation: 10% 



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Name: Dr. Mary O'Connor Email: moconnor@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23731 Date: February 16, 2010 




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Proposed texts for The Cultures of Modernism – Dr. Nadine Attewell 

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts (1922) 

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr. Fortune’s Maggot (1927) 

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1930) 

Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935) 

Alain Locke ed., The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (1925) 

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 

Custom courseware, including many of the following primary – 

Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry” (1944) 

Bataille, Georges, ed., selections from Documents (1927 – 1930) 

Benedict, Ruth, excerpts from Patterns of Culture (1934) 

Benjamin, Walter, “Unpacking My Library” (1931) 

Brooks, Cleanth, “The Formalist Critics” (1951) 

Eliot, T. S., excerpt from “Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919) 

Eliot, T. S., excerpts from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) 

Joyce, James, excerpts from Ulysses (1922) 

Malinowski, Bronislaw, excerpt from Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) 

Rotha, Paul, excerpts from Documentary Film (1935) 

Sapir, Edward, “Culture, Genuine and Spurious” (1924) 

Shklovsky, Viktor, “Art as Technique” (1917) 

Williams, Raymond, excerpts from Culture and Society (1958) 

Woolf, Virginia, “Solid Objects” (1920) 

Woolf, Virginia, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own (1929)











English & Cultural Studies 

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Politics for Our Times 

Dr. Petra Rethman 

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The goal of this graduate seminar is to tackle the question of “the political,” especially the ways in which it is used, conceptualized, and 

understood in the present. Drawing on critical theory and thought, the course aims to interrogate the historical and epistemological 

conditions from which politics emerge. In marking these conditions, it also aims to map alternative orientations for the crafting of (our) 

futures. 



This course seeks to interrogate historical and cultural conditions from which new political & epistemological possibilities can emerge. 

What, other than anarchy or free fall, is harbored by the devastation of constitutive cultural/political narratives? When fundamental 

premises of an order begin to erode, or simply begin to be exposed as fundamental premises, what reactive political formations emerge 

& what anxieties, tensions, or binds do they carry? The readings suggested seek to attenuate reactionary and melancholic responses 

by considering possible alternatives to what has been destabilized: how might we conceive and chart power in terms of other than logic, 

develop historical political consciousness in terms of other than progress, articulate our political investments without notions of teleology 

and naturalized desire, and affirm political judgment in terms that depart from moralism? Such speculations cannot and do no result in 

comprehensive or stable substitutes for their predecessors. Rather, they mark partial and provisional orientations for a different 

inhabitation of the political world; they name different genres of politics consciousness and political purpose. They issue from an 

appreciation of the need for reprieve from a low-lying despair in late modern life, a despair about the very capacity to grasp our 

condition and craft our future.


The course adds to the current English and CSCT offerings in the field of cultural studies. 


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Agamben, Giorgio. 2003. State of Exception. Excerpts. 

--------. Year. Bare Life. Excerpts. 

Adorno, Theodor. 1992. Commitment. In Notes to Literature II. 

--------. 1991. Looking Back on Surrealism. In Notes to Literature I. 

Benjamin, Walter. 1969. Illuminations. Excerpts. 

Bloch, Ernst. 1986. Principle of Hope. Excerpts. 

--------. Year. Heritage of our Times. Excerpts. 

Buck-Morss, Susan. 2000. Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in 

East and West. 

Brown, Wendy. 2003. Left Melancholia. In Loss. 

-------. 2001. Politics out of History. Excerpts. 

Caruth, Cathy. 1991. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History. Yale 

French Studies. 

Crimp, Douglas. 1989. Militancy and Mourning. October. 

Derrida, Jacques. 1994a. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, 

and the New International. 

-------.1994b. The Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority. Cardozo Law 

Review. 

Debord, Guy. Year. The Society of the Spectacle. 

Foucault, Michel. 1977. Language, Counter-memory, Practice. Excerpts. 

Graeber, David. 2007. Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. 

Excerpts. 

--------. 2004. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. 

Rethmann, Petra. 2007. On Militancy, Sort of. Cultural Critique. 

Ross, Kristin. 2002. May ’68 and its Afterlives. 

Stewart, Kathleen. 2009. Ordinary Affects. 

Wenzel, Jennifer. 2007. Remembering the Past’s Future: Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia 

and Some Versions of the Third World. Cultural Critique.












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Public Intellectuals &Their Work: Intellectual Practices in Culture Studies & Politics 

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This course will examine the role of a select group of cultural studies theorists who have attempted to link theory with important social 

issues and in doing so have provided a deeper understanding of the purpose and meaning of the role of public intellectuals. The course 

will focus on the political rationale for their work, the institutional conditions that make such work possible, and how the work functions 

as a particular form of intellectual practice and mode of cultural politics. The work of a number of cultural studies intellectuals will be 

examined, including that of Richard Johnson, Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, Paul Gilroy, Edward Said and Angela McRobbie. 


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Marxist Cultural Criticism 

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Globalization & Culture 

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American "Minority" Writing 

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French 

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Nicholas Serruys 

De l'anticipation à l'utopie : la science-fiction canadienne-française et québécoise 

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Science fiction extrapolates on past and present tendencies in order to both teach and delight. This, through a questioning of scientific 

and social progress, expressing the hopes and fears of humanity based on the potential or impossible evolution of its technoculture. We 

will examine the importance of this literary discourse in French Canada and Québec according to the dominant historic, literary and 

sociopolitical preoccupations (Allard, Lemire, Monière, Paterson, Pelletier). Texts will also be analyzed in the theoretical framework of 

genre poetics (Angenot, Bozzetto, Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Fitting, Lord, Jameson, Sargent, Suvin) and cognitive poetics (Stockwell). 



An in-depth analysis of the criteria and productivity of the poetics of science fiction and of its sub-genres (anticipation, utopia and 

uchronia) in French-Canada and Québec, according to the theoretical work of the researchers enumerated above (in the calendar 

description), applied to the literary texts of Élisabeth Vonarburg, Sylvie Bérard and Jean-Pierre April, among others.


This course falls under the "Literature, science, arts" field of our current masters and soon-to-be proposed doctoral program, 

"Francophonie et diversité". 


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COURSE OUTLINE/DESCRIPTION 

FRENCH 722 

SEMESTER I – FALL 2010 

De l’anticipation à l’utopie : la science-fiction canadienne-française et québécoise 

(From Anticipation to Utopia : French-Canadian and Québécois Science Fiction) 

Professor: Dr. Nicholas Serruys 

Office: Togo Salmon Hall (TSH) 504 

Office Hours: by appointment 

E-mail: serruys@mcmaster.ca 

Telephone: x23756 

Classroom: TSH 501 

Class Hours: to be determined 

Science fiction extrapolates on past and present tendencies in order to both teach and delight. These 

objectives are achieved through a questioning of scientific and social progress, expressing the hopes 

and fears of humanity based on the potential or impossible evolution of its techno-culture. We will 

examine the importance of this literary discourse according to some of the dominant historic, literary 

and sociopolitical preoccupations of French Canada and Québec (Allard, Lemire, Monière, Paterson, 

Pelletier). Texts will also be analyzed in the theoretical framework of genre poetics (Angenot, 

Bozzetto, Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Fitting, Lord, Jameson, Sargent, Suvin) and cognitive poetics 

(Stockwell). The course will thus constitute an in-depth analysis of the criteria and productivity of the 

poetics of science fiction and of its sub-genres (anticipation, utopia and uchronia), according to the 

theoretical work of the researchers listed above, applied to the literary texts of Élisabeth Vonarburg, 

Sylvie Bérard and Jean-Pierre April, among others. 

TEXTS 

Novels: 

April, Jean-Pierre. Les Voyages thanatologiques de Yan Malter, Montréal : Éditions 

Québec/Amérique inc., 1995. 

Bérard, Sylvie. Terre des Autres. Lévis : Les Éditions Alire inc., 2004. 

Vonarburg, Elisabeth. Les Voyageurs malgré eux. Lévis : Les Éditions Alire inc., [1994] 2009. 

Short Stories (chosen from among those listed below): 

April, Jean-Pierre. « La Survie en Rose » ([1985] 1991) 

Bérard, Sylvie. « Un nouveau corps ou une nouvelle tête ? » (2008) 

Carpentier, André. « Carnet sur la fin possible d’un monde » (1990) 

Côté, Denis. « 1534 » (1985) 

Ducharme, Alain. « Montréal : Trois uchronies » (2005) 

Guitard, Agnès. « Coineraine » ([1982] 1988) et « Les Virus ambiance » (1982) 

Piette, Isabelle. « Éternelle jeunesse » (2009) 

Sernine, Daniel. « La Planète malade d’humanité » (1979) et « Fin de règne » (1981) 

Sévigny, Marc. « Le train » (1982) 

Vonarburg, Élisabeth. « Cogito » ([1988] 1991)

OBJECTIVES 

This course seeks to cultivate a critical appreciation of the evolution and state of the art of science 

fiction in French Canada and Québec through the study of a variety of texts (novels, short stories and 

learned journal articles). Of critical importance to the determining of a text’s overall meaning will be 

a consideration of the socio-cultural and political contexts of the works. Through directed readings 

and discussions, in addition to a number of written and oral assignments, the students will improve 

their analytical aptitudes in literary studies and will gain an in-depth understanding of the science 

fiction genre and its sub-genres, this in the context of the French-Canadian and Québécois corpus. 

METHOD 

Our contextual study of the chosen works will be enhanced through theoretical approaches such as 

narratology and genre poetics, as well as key concepts such as modernity, ideology, intertextuality 

and alterity or otherness. The seminar will take place once per week and will range from 2 to 3 hours 

in length, according to our collective needs, to be determined weekly. Throughout these sessions, we 

will discuss various periods and key texts in the evolution of science fiction in French Canada and 

Québec. The presentation of the historical and theoretical content will be followed by in-depth 

discussions on the meaning of the literary texts, within and without their contexts and particular 

formal paradigms. Students must arrive in class having completed all readings and having prepared 

talking points in order to contribute to the discussion. 

GRADE BREAKDOWN 

Attendance and Participation 15% 

Oral Presentation 25% 

(Presentation 10%; Text 15%) 

Outline of Final Paper and Annotated Bibliography 20% 

Final Paper 40%

RESOURCES 

Andrès, Bernard (dir.). Utopies en Canada, 1545-1845. Montréal, PQ : Département d’Études 

littéraires, UQAM, 2001. 

Angenot, Marc. « Le paradigme absent. » Poétique, vol. 33 (fév. 1978) : 74-89. 

April, Jean-Pierre. « Perspectives sur la science-fiction québécoise. » dans La Machine à 

explorer la fiction. Longueuil, PQ : Le Préambule, 1980. 229-246. 

Beaulé, Sophie. « ‘Il n’y a que des cauchemars et des angoisses, des délires…’: Lecture de la 

nouvelle fantastique et de science fiction québécoise depuis 1980. » University of 

Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 69.4 (automne 2000) : 871-90. 

Bouchard, Guy. Bouchard, Guy. Les 42 210 mondes de la science-fiction. Sainte-Foy : Le 

Passeur, 1993 

–––. « Science-fiction, utopie et philosophie : l’art de s’étonner. » dans Philosophie et 

science-fiction. Gilbert Hottois, dir. Paris : Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2000. 43-66. 

Bozzetto, Roger. La science-fiction. Paris : Armand Colin, 2007. 

Carpentier, André. « Aspects des genres littéraires appliqués à la science-fiction. » dans Les 

ailleurs imaginaires : les rapports entre le fantastique et la science-fiction. Boivin, 

Aurélien, Maurice Émond et Michel Lord (dirs.), Québec : Nuit Blanche Éditeur, Les 

Cahiers du CRELIQ, série « colloques », 1993. 15-37. 

–––. « Avant-propos. » dans Dix nouvelles de science-fiction. Montréal : Quinze, 1985. 9-16. 

Colas de la Noue, Hélène. « Sciences, techniques et sociétés dans les dystopies québécoises 

(1963-1973). » imagine… 53 (septembre 1990) : 71-98. 

Colas-Charpentier, Hélène. « Four Québec Dystopias, 1963-1972. » Science Fiction Studies 61 

(novembre 1993): 383-393. 

Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Istvan. « SF and Empire. » Science Fiction Studies 90 (juillet 2003) : 

231-45. 

Fitting, Peter. « Ideological Foreclosure and Utopian Discourse. » Sociocriticism Vol. IV, 1 

(No. 7) : 1988. 11-25. 

–––. « Fredric Jameson and Anti-Anti-Utopianism. » dans Imagining the Future: Utopia and 

Dystopia. Andrew Milner, Matthew Ryan et Robert Savage (dirs.), North Carlton, 

Austral. : Arena Publications Association, Arena Journal 25/26 (janvier 2006) : 37-51. 

–––. « Positioning and Closure: On the "Reading-Effect" of Contemporary Utopian Fiction. » 

Caliban, nº XXII : L’esthétique de la science-fiction, Toulouse, 1985. 43-55. 

–––. « Utopies / Dystopie / Science-fiction : l’interaction de la fiction et du réel. » Revue 

Alliage, Culture – Science – Technique no. 60 / Science-fiction (2005) : n.p. 

 

Gouanvic, Jean-Marc. « Québec uchronique. » Imagine… 14 vol. 4, no. 1 (automne 1982a) : 

26-27. 

–––. « La Science-fiction, une poétique de l’altérité. » imagine… 14 vol. 4, no. 1 (automne 

1982b) : 105-111. 

–––. « Rational Speculations in French Canada, 1839-1974. » Trad. Martin Gauthier et Renée 

Lallier. Science-Fiction Studies 44 (mars 1988): 71-81. 

–––. « L’Uchronie, histoire alternative et science-fiction. » (Rencontre entre Marc Angenot, 

Darko Suvin et Jean-Marc Gouanvic [animateur]) Imagine… 14, Vol. 4, No. 1 (automne 

1982c) : 28-34 

Hellekson, Karen. « Towards a Taxonomy of the Alternate History Genre. » Extrapolation, 

Vol. 41, No. 3 (2000) : 248-256.

Henriet, Éric. L’histoire revisitée : Panorama de l’Uchronie sous toutes ses formes. Paris et 

Amiens : Les Belles lettres et Encrage, 2 e ed., 2004. 

–––. L’uchronie. Préface d’Emmanuel Carrère. Paris : Klincksieck, 2009. 

Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other 

Science Fictions. [2005]. Londres : Verso, 2007. 

–––. « Cognitive Mapping. » dans Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Nelson, Cary et 

Lawrence Grossberg (dirs.), Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1988. 347-357. 

–––. « Third-World Literature in an Era of Multinational Capitalism. » Social Text 15 

(automne 1986) : 65-88. 

Janelle, Claude, et al. (dirs.). L’Année de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois. 

Québec : Le Passeur, 1984 à 1992 et 1997 à 2000. 

Levitas, Ruth. « The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society: Utopia as Method. » dans Moylan et 

Baccolini 47-68. 

Lord, Michel. « Un feu roulant en perpétuelles mutations : la science-fiction québécoise. » 

Licorne 27 (1993) : 155-166. 

–––. « Une science-fiction en devenir. » dans Anthologie de la science-fiction québécoise 

contemporaine. Montréal, PQ : BQ, 1988. 7-25. 

Moylan, Tom. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. Boulder : 

Westview, 2000. 

Moylan, Tom et Raffaella Baccolini (dirs.). Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social 

Dreaming. Oxford et Berne : Peter Lang, 2007. 

Ransom, Amy. « Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science-Fiction. » Science Fiction 

Studies 99 (juillet 2006): 291-312. 

–––. Science Fiction from Québec: A Postcolonial Study. Jefferson, NC : McFarland 

Publishers, 2009. 

–––. « Territoires hors du commun : La souveraineté nationale et l'identité individuelle dans la 

science-fiction québécoise contemporaine. » Traduit par Élisabeth Vonarburg, Exclusif 

au supplément Web de Solaris 138 (été 2001): 

Saint-Gelais, Richard. L’Empire du pseudo : modernités de la science-fiction. Montréal, PQ : 

Nota Bene, 1999. 

–––. « La science-fiction diagonale : signes d’altérité en science-fiction contemporaine. » dans 

Novelli, Novella (dir.), Au Coeur de l’avenir: Littérature d’anticipation dans les textes et 

à l’écran. Actes du Séminaire international de l’Aquila (29-30 septembre 2000). 

L’Aquila, IT : Angelus Novus, 2002. 113-131. 

Sargent, Lyman Tower. « The Three Faces of Utopia Revisited. » Utopian Studies 5.1 (1994) : 

1-37. 

Sirois, Guy. « La Science-fiction au Québec. » Différentes saisons 21 (automne 2003) : n.pag. 

octobre 2007 . 

Stockwell, Peter. Cognitive Poetics. An Introduction. Londres et New York : Routledge, 2002. 

–––. The Poetics of Science Fiction. Londres : Longman, 2000. 

Suvin, Darko. Pour une poétique de la science-fiction : Études en théorie et en histoire d’un 

genre littéraire. Montréal, PQ : Les Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1977. 

Trudel, Jean-Louis. « La Science-fiction d’expression française au Canada, 1839-1989. » dans 

Visions d’autres mondes : la littérature fantastique et de science-fiction canadienne. 

Ottawa, ON : Quarry Press / Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. 54-68. 

Weiss, Allan. « Separations and Unities: Approaches to Québec Separatism in English- and 

French-Canadian Fantastic Literature. » Science-Fiction Studies 74 (mars 1998): 53-60.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY 

You are expected to exhibit honesty and use ethical behaviour in all aspects of the learning process. 

Academic credentials you earn are rooted in principles of honesty and academic integrity. 

Academic dishonesty is to knowingly act or fail to act in a way that results or could result in 

unearned academic credit or advantage. This behaviour can result in serious consequences, e.g. the 

grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: 

“Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty”), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university. 

It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the 

various types of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, located at 

. 

The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty: 

1. Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one’s own or for which other credit has been 

obtained. 

2. Improper collaboration in group work. 

3. Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations. 

POLICY ON E-MAIL COMMUNICATION 

“It is the policy of the French Department that all Email communication between students and 

instructors (including TAs) must originate from their official McMaster University Email accounts. 

This policy protects the confidentiality and sensitivity of information and confirms the identities of 

both the student and instructor. Messages that do not originate from McMaster Email accounts will 

be deleted.”

Gender Studies and Feminist Research 

Candidates may be accepted for graduate work leading to an MA degree or a Graduate 

Diploma (PhD) in Gender Studies and Feminist Research (pending OCGS approval). 

Both programs are dedicated to furthering understandings of the importance of gender as 

a category of analysis in scholarly inquiry. Our work is interdisciplinary and draws 

together those who study women and gender issues from across campus and the larger 

community. 

The following four themed areas provide a focus for the program: literature, culture, 

and the arts; ethics, spirituality, and eco-feminism; work, politics, social movements, and 

public policy; and sexuality studies. 

Enquiries: 

Dr. Susan Fast (Graduate Coordinator) English and Cultural Studies 

fastfs@mcmaster.ca 

Office of Interdisciplinary Studies 

Togo Salmon Hall 313 

McMaster University 

1280 Main St. West 

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M2 

Email: gsfr@mcmaster.ca 

Tel: 905-525-9140, ext. 23112 

Fax: 905-570-1167 

Website: http://gsfr.mcmaster.ca 

Participating Faculty 

Professors 

Maroussia Ahmed, French 

Jane Aronson, Social Work 

Roy Cain, Social Work 

David Clark, English and Cultural Studies 

Daniel Coleman, English and Cultural Studies 

Nancy Doubleday, Philosophy and Peace Studies 

Don Goellnicht, English and Cultural Studies 

Mary O’Connor, English and Cultural Studies 

Helen Ostovich, English and Cultural Studies 

Eileen Schuller, Religious Studies 

Lorraine York, English and Cultural Studies 

Associate Professors 

Christina Baade, Communication Studies and Multimedia 

Donna Baines, Labour Studies

Karen Balcom, History 

Nancy Bouchier, History 

Sarah Brophy, English and Cultural Studies 

Juanita DeBarros, History 

Diane Enns, Philosophy 

Ruth Frager, History 

Elisabeth Gedge, Philosophy 

Susan Searls Giroux, English and Cultural Studies 

Melinda Gough, English and Cultural Studies 

Cathy Grise, English and Cultural Studies 

Janice Hladki, School of the Arts (Theatre and Film) 

Grace Kehler, English and Cultural Studies 

Tracy McDonald, History 

Susie O’Brien, English and Cultural Studies 

Liss Platt, Communication Studies and Multimedia 

Celia Rothenberg, Religious Studies 

Brigitte Sassen, Philosophy 

Christina Sinding, Health, Aging and Society 

Robert Storey, Labour Studies 

John Stout, French 

Jean Wilson, Linguistics and Languages 

Assistant Professors 

Chandrima Chakraborty, English and Cultural Studies 

Shayne Clarke, Religious Studies 

Helene Strauss, English and Cultural Studies 

MA Degree 

The one year Master's program leads to the degree of Master of Arts in Gender Studies 

and Feminist Research. 

To be eligible for the Master's Program students must have an undergraduate honours 

degree or equivalent with a minimum B+ average. Eligible students will indicate in a 

statement of interest what in their academic or experiential background prepares them for 

graduate level work in the program. 

For a full description of application materials and procedures see the GSFR website 

 

Part-Time Studies 

Applications for part-time studies in the MA Program will be considered. Applicants for 

part-time studies will provide a brief written explanation of the special circumstances that 

make it impracticable for them to complete the degree on a full-time basis. 

The program requirements for the part-time Master's are the same as those for the full-

time Master's, but may becompleted over a maximum timeframe of 5 years, in 

accordance with McMaster's School of Graduate Studies policy). Coursework may be 

completed in any sequence, but the three core courses must be completed prior to the 

independent research project. 

Program Requirements 

The M.A. Program requirements include the following mix of course work, experiential 

learning, and independent research: 

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three compulsory core courses (GSFR 700, 701 and 702) (9 units) 

three additional elective courses in gender studies and feminist research 

(from an approved list) (9 units) 

an independent research project (6 units). 

For the independent research project, students may choose from three possible options: 

• a major research project (resulting in a 20-25 page publishable article and oral 

presentation; 

• a project in pedagogical research 

• a knowledge in action project (based in work with a community organization) 

Independent project proposals must be approved by the Program's Graduate Committee. 

Graduate Diploma (PhD) 

The Graduate Diploma (Ph.D.) in Gender Studies and Feminist Research aims to enhance 

the intellectual development and training of students already enrolled in doctoral 

programs by allowing them to combine disciplinary research with interdisciplinary 

scholarship from the fields of Gender and Feminist Studies. 

The Graduate Diploma option is available to incoming and in-course Ph.D. students in 

McMaster's Departments of English and Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Religious 

Studies and Social Work. 

Students completing the diploma will receive the notation Completed Graduate Diploma 

in Gender Studies and Feminist Research on their academic transcript in addition to the 

doctorate degree from their home graduate unit. 

The primary requirement for admission to the Graduate Diploma program (beyond 

admission to the home department's stand-alone Ph.D. program) is distinction in a 

Master's degree with sufficient academic background and preparation (at the 

undergraduate and/or Master's level) in women's, gender, and/or feminist studies. The 

University requires that applicants' previous graduate work be equivalent to at least a

McMaster B+ (77-79%), but higher standards may be set in practice by the diploma 

student's home department. 

For a full description of application materials and procedures see the GSFR website 

http://gsfr.mcmaster.ca 

Part-Time Studies 

Doctoral students who wish to pursue a doctorate in their home department together with 

the GSFR Graduate Diploma will normally be admitted full-time to both. In the 

occasional instance when the home department and the GSFR Program admits, or 

converts a student, to part-time studies, the requirements for the diploma program (as for 

the home department) will remain the same but will be spread out over a longer time 

period. 

Program Requirements 

Program requirements for the Graduate Diploma (Ph.D.), in addition to those of the 

student's home department, are: 

• one compulsory core course (GSFR 700) (3 units): (also required for Master's 

students) 

• one additional elective course in gender studies and feminist research (3 units) 

(from an approved list) 

• participation in the Program's Research Symposium, including 

o regular attendance at symposium events, and 

o an oral presentation based on the doctoral student's own research, 

normally in the third or fourth year of study; and 

• a doctoral thesis on a topic related to Gender and/or Feminist Studies. 

Students will normally complete the 6 units of diploma coursework during their second 

year. In order to ensure timely degree completion, diploma students will be encouraged to 

choose an elective course likely to directly enhance and move forward their thesis 

research. 

Diploma students will normally give their Research Symposium presentation during their 

third or fourth year. 

Language requirements: To be determined by individual home departments. 

Thesis evaluation procedures: Students in the Graduate Diploma Program must have 

their thesis topics approved by both the home department and the Program in Gender 

Studies and Feminist Research. The thesis must be on a topic related to the broad fields 

of Gender Studies and Feminist Research. Approval is granted by the program's Graduate 

Committee and occurs in conjunction with the home department's regular schedule for 

doctoral thesis proposal submission and approval. After this point, thesis evaluation for

Ph.D. students is entirely at the discretion of the home department. Members of the 

Gender Studies and Feminist Research program may sit on doctoral thesis supervisory 

committees, or serve as external examiners of doctoral theses. Such arrangements are at 

the discretion of the home department. 

Courses 

Core Courses 

All M.A. students must take the following half-courses: 

• GSFR 700 - Current Debates in Feminist and Gender Theory 

An investigation of current feminist and gender theorizing at the intersection of 

gender with race, sexuality, ability, and other categories of social difference. This 

course offers sustained attention to the intellectual skills of reading feminist and 

gender theory. It also considers implications of applying theory to feminist and 

related forms of activism. Specific topics will vary depending on the instructor's 

area of expertise. 

• GSFR 701 - Doing Research in Feminist and Gender Studies 

This seminar introduces students to faculty researchers from across the McMaster 

campus to consider exciting new scholarship that engages feminist and gender 

studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. As part of the course 

requirements, students will attend Gender Studies and Feminist Research 

Symposium events. Readings, assignments, and discussion will consider topics 

relating to research ethics, epistemologies and methodologies, including questions 

of theoretical framing and socio-political praxis. Coursework will include 

assignments designed to help students prepare effective proposals for independent 

research. 

• GSFR 702 - Knowledge in Action 

This seminar takes up local community outreach and participatory action research 

within the framework of Gender and Feminist Studies. Readings will theorize 

experiential education as well as the ethics of advocacy and activism. Students 

will complete an experiential learning project involving a community 

organization with a mandate linked to one or more of the program's four thematic 

research clusters and with which the Gender Studies and Feminist Research 

program has ongoing experiential education arrangements. 

Elective courses may be selected from a list of approved courses. For the current list of 

elective courses, see the website: http://gsfr.mcmaster.ca.











Gender Studies and Feminist Research (GSFR) 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Current Debates in Feminist and Gender Theory 

COURSE CREDIT 


Melinda Gough 2010-11; future course instructors will rotate from an approved list 


Registration in a GSFR Graduate Program or permission of the instructor 


NEW 



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EXPLAIN: 

This course is a required course for students in the new GSFR MA and GSFR Graduate Diploma Programs. 


Calendar. 

An investigation of current feminist and gender theorizing at the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, ability, and other categories of social 

difference. This course offers sustained attention to the intellectual skills of reading feminist and gender theory; it also considers implications of 

applying theory to feminist and related forms of activism. Specific topics will vary depending on the instructor's area of expertise. 



In 2010, this course will take up intersections between academic feminist theory, on the one hand, and queer and trans theory on the 

other. How might contemporary theorists working at the intersections of feminist with queer and trans theory offer narratives and 

arguments that account for difference along the axes of gender, race, class, and sexuality? What solutions, if any, do these theorists 

propose in order to best counter racism, heterosexism, transphobia, and other exclusionary norms, assumptions, and practices both 

outside and within feminist movements and activisms? And how might feminist, queer, and trans theorists separately and together 

make effective interventions across the fields of race and postcolonial studies, gender theory, and theories of sexuality? 

Selected Texts: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (selected essays); Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind; E. Weed and N. Schor, Feminism 

Meets Queer Theory; Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Bodies that Matter, and more recent articles; Gayle Rubin, selected essays; 

Diacritics 24.2-3 (1994) -- special volume on feminist queer and trans crossings; “Queer Utilities: Textual Studies, Theory, Pedagogy, 

Praxis” College Literature 24.1 (1997); Susan Stryker, ed. The Transgender Studies Reader; "Trans-" special issue of Women’s Studies 

Quarterly 36.3 (December 2008).


One major purpose of the course is to familiarize students with key issues and debates that engage recent feminist and gender theory, 

defined here as the past twenty years, with particular focus on the last five to ten years. A second goal is to ensure that all MA and 

Graduate Diploma (PhD) students are able to assimilate, analyze, and synthesize complex theoretical arguments and in turn contribute 

to emerging theoretical conversations. 


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Seminar meetings, including oral presentations by students and large group discussion. 



Oral report 30%; Weekly Discussion Assignments (including 2 position papers) 20%; Paper Proposal and Workshop, including Peer 

Response Forms 10%; Term Paper 40% 



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Name: Melinda Gough Email: goughm@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23716 Date: February 4, 2010 




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From: "Melinda Gough" 

Subject: GSFR 700 Current Debates in Feminist and Gender Theory 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:58:59 -0400 

To: espiritu@mcmaster.ca 

Dear Medy: 

As requested, I'm writing to clarify the relationship between our proposed 

course GSFR 7??, Current Debates in Feminist and Gender Theory, and John 

Stout's new proposed graduate seminar for GSFR in Queer and Trans Theory and 

Literature. 

As noted in the calendar description, Current Debates in Feminist and Gender 

Theory focuses on current debates in gender and feminist theory and topics 

covered will vary from year to year, depending on the instructor's area of 

expertise. The faculty members who have volunteered to teach this course on 

rotation over the next 5 years include myself, Elisabeth Gedge, Don 

Goellnicht, Janice Hladki, Christina Baade, Sarah Brophy, and Celia 

Rothenberg. This means that in a given year, this course might focus on, say, 

intersections between critical race studies and feminist theory, or on 

intersections between gender theory and affect theory, for example. 

Next year, I am scheduled to teach this course for the GSFR program, and will 

be taking up questions of tension and affiliation between feminist, queer, 

and trans theories. There are some points of connection with Dr. Stout's 

course, but whereas his seminar focuses on theory and literature, including 

trans poetry, my proposed topic is entirely based in theoretical debates. In 

addition, while the two courses may discuss one or two theorists in common, 

overlap in content and approach will be very minimal. For example, I propose 

to discuss one short essay by Judith Butler, whereas students in Dr. Stout's 

course will be reading her work at length. 

I attach a draft outline for the GSFR 7?? Current Debates in Feminist and 

Gender Theory as I imagine it next year, to give a more detailed sense of the 

kinds of theoretical conversations and texts I expect it will take up. 

I hope this is helpful. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any 

additional questions or concerns. 

Sincerely, 

Melinda 

Melinda Gough 

Associate/Managing Editor, Early Theatre 

Associate Professor, English & Cultural Studies/Women's Studies 

McMaster University












COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Doing Research in Gender Studies and Feminist Studies 

COURSE CREDIT 


Karen Balcom (for 2010-11; instructors rotate from approved list) 

PREREQUISITE(S) Registration in the GSFR MA Program or permission of the instructor , 

NEW 

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January 2011 





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EXPLAIN: 

This course is a required course for students in the new GSFR MA Program. 


Calendar. 

This seminar introduces students to faculty researchers from across the McMaster campus to consider exciting new scholarship that engages feminist 

and gender studies from a range of disciplinary perspectives. As part of the course requirements, students will also attend the Gender Studies and 

Feminist Research Symposia and Speakers Series events. Readings, assignments, and discussion will consider the research presentations in relation 

to research ethics, epistemologies, and methodologies, including questions of theoretical framing and socio-political praxis. MA students in this class 

will prepare their proposals for the MA independent research project as the major assingment for the semester; PhD students will work on research 

design related to their dissertations. 



Topics and readings will vary with instructor and with the research presentations made to the class by McMaster faculty members and 

by visiting scholars participating in the GSFR Research Symposia and Speaker Series. Students will read material published by the 

speakers, paired with related discussions of ethics, methodologies and theoretical framing. Students will also read each other's 

research proposals, with supporting methodological and theoretical works.


This course is one of three required courses for the new MA in Gender Studies and Feminist Research. It will also serve as an elective 

course for students in the PhD Certificate in GSFR. The course is explictly designed to build on the work students do in the other 

required courses - GSFR 700 (Current Debates in Feminist Theory) and GSFR 702 (Knowledge in Action) - and to prepare students for 

their independent research projects to be completed (in the normal course ) during the summer term. The course will give students 

advanced exposure to methods and ethics in research in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, using the work of McMaster faculty 

and visiting scholars to launch the enquiry. 


In the first five years of the MA in GSFR, the expected programme enrollment is 4-6 students per year, who will take this class. We 

expect to attract additional students from amongst the porjected 4-6 students enrolled each year in the PhD Graduate Diploma. As 

space allows, we will open seats in this class to PhD and MA students from other disciplines. 


The students will attend research presentations from faculty working in the bradly defined field of feminist and gender studies. Some of 

these presentations will be made directly to this class, and others will be presented to a larger audience through the GSFR Research 

Symposium. The students will read additional material by the presenters, paired with reading on related theoretical, ethical and 

methodological issues, and discuss both the presentations and the readings in seminar-style weekly meetings. The students will also 

prepare presentations on their own graduate research, to be critiqued by the class. 



Evaluation will be based on attendance and participation in seminar meetings (25%), as well as 2 written papers on metholdogical 

debates (30%), the written research proposal for the summer project (30%), and an oral presentation and defense of the research 

proposal (15%). 



This course has been designed specifically to meet the needs of students in the GSFR MA and certificate programs, and designed to 

connect the students with on campus faculty and visiting researchers. There is no overlapping course in the Hum and Soc Sciences 



This course is intended for students in the GSFR MA, and for students in the certificate programme. Departments participating in the 

certificate programme are English and Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Social Work, and Religious Studies 


Name: Karen Balcom Email: balcomk@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24152 Date: Feb. 10, 2010 




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COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Knowledge in Action 

COURSE CREDIT 


Elisabeth Gedge (for 2010-11; instructors rotate from approved list) 

PREREQUISITE(S) Registration in the GSFR MA Program or permission of the instructor , 


NEW 



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CONCERNED. 


CHANGE IN 

TITLE: 

COURSE TITLE 


DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

x 

EXPLAIN: 

This course is a required course for students in the new GSFR MA Program. 


Calendar. 

This seminar takes up local community outreach and participatory action research within the framework of Gender Studies and Feminism. Readings 

will theorize experiential education as well as the ethics of advocacy and activism. Students will complete an experiential learning project involving a 

community organization with a mandate linked to one or more of the program’s four thematic research clusters and with which the Gender Studies 

and Feminist Research program has ongoing experiential education arrangements. 



Topics and readings will vary with instructors. Texts will theorize experiential education as well as the ethics of advocacy and activism. 

.


This seminar will support an understanding of grounded knowledge through local community outreach and participatory action research 

within the framework of Gender and Feminist Studies. As a core course of the Program, it offers students a unique opportunity for 

experiential learning, and introduces them to research contexts in which they may elect to fulfill their Major Research Project. 


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The course will be a mix of seminar discussion and community outreach//participatory research. Students will choose a venue for their 

participatory research from a list of approved community organisations linked to the themes of the Gender Studies and Feminist 

Research Program. Learning and research objectives will be identified colloaboratively in light of both text-based discussions and the 

aims and activities of the organisation in question. 



Analytic paper on the epistemological and ethical dimensions of participatory action research/advocacy 30%; Collaborative 

development of project objectives 10%; Weekly progress reports 10%; Oral project presentation 20% ; Final paper 30%. 



NA 



NA 


Name: Elisabeth Gedge Email: gedge@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23459 Date: Feb 3, 2010 




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Gender Studies and Feminist Research (GSFR) 

COURSE TITLE Queer/Trans Theory and Literature: Counting Past 2 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

John Stout 

COURSE CREDIT 


PREREQUISITE(S) Registration in a GSFR Graduate or permission of the instructor , 


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CONCERNED. 


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CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

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EXPLAIN: 

This course is an elective course for students in the new GSFR MA and PhD Diploma Programs. 


Calendar. 

An introduction to some key queer and transgender theories, with emphasis on connections between these theories and the 

representation of transgender identities in selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts. 



The course will focus, first, on close study of major queer/trans theoretical texts: _Gender Trouble_ and _Bodies that Matter_ by Judith 

Butler, _Gender Outlaw_ by Kate Bornstein, and _Transgender Warriors_ by Leslie Feinberg, in particular. In conjunction with these 

theoretical texts, we will read literary texts(for example, Woolf's _Orlando_ or Yann Martel's _Self_) which explore transsexual and/or 

transgender identities.


Queer and trans theory have important links to feminist theory and research through their radicalization of the study of gender., 


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The instructor will present the course material in detail. There will also be considerable emphasis on in-class discussion. Each student 

will make a 20-minute presentation, followed by questions. 



Each student will make an oral presentation, worth 25% of the final grade. He/she will also write one short paper(worth 15%) and a 15- 

page essay(worth 50% of the final grade), to be turned in near the end of the course. Participation will be worth 10%. 



NO 




Name: Dr. John Stout Email: stoutj@mcmaster.ca Extension: 23634 Date: January 25, 2010 




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Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Liyakat Takim 

Islamic Foundatalism 

COURSE CREDIT 



n/a 


NEW 



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COURSE 2010 




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EXPLAIN: 

To be cross-listed as Religious Studies 766 


Calendar. 

The courses will examine the rise and appeal of Islamic Fundamentalism. Why and when did the fundamentalist movements begin? Why do many 

Muslims find the fundamentalist movements appealing? In documenting the growth and appeal of fundamentalist religious tanets among segments 

of the Islamic community, it becomes apparent that the fundamentalist enterprise has become or argued that there are more differences than 

simlarities between the fundamentalist movements. Students will read primary souces and recent secondary studies of the topic. 


texts to be used.


This course is part of the Institute's Global Studies. It will be taught by the recently-hired Sharjah Chair in Global Islam. 


5-10 


Seminar discussion of assigned materials, with presentations by the instructor as well as by the students 



Evaluation wll be based on 1 class presentation (10%), participation in seminar discussion (10%), a major research paper (25%) and/or 

shorter written assignments include 2 video reports (5% each), 1 quiz (10%) and final take hom exam (35%). 



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n/a 


Name: Diane Enns Email: ennsd@mcmaster.ca Extension: 26259 Date: Feb 11, 2010. 




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Institute on Globalizaion and the Human Condition 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Dr. Liyakat Takim 

Islam in a Global World 

COURSE CREDIT 



n/a 


NEW 



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COURSE 2010 




CONCERNED. 


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DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


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CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 

To be cross listed as Religious Studies 767 


Calendar. 

The course will explore how Islam and Muslims have been affected by the process of globalization. It will initially define globalization and its 

salient traits and then discuss how globalization impacts Muslimas all over the world. It will also examine the various modes through which 

globalization has touched on the lives of Muslims. We will see that whereas globalization has destroyed territorial boundaries, it has brought to light 

cultural, ethnic, and ideological boundaries that have created tensions within the American Muslim community. The course will also examine hwo 

Muslim fundamentalists have used globalization in their desire to universalize their ideology. Students will read primary sources and recent 

recondary studies of the topic. 


texts to be used.


This course is part of the department's globalization field. It will be taught by the recently-hired Sharjah Chair in Global Islam. 


5-10 


Seminar disucssion of assigned materials, with presentations by the instructor as well as the students. 



Evaluation will be based on 1 class presentation (10%), participation in seminar discussions (10%), 1 major research paper (15%) 

and/or shorter written assignments include 2 video reports of 5% each, 1 site visit report (10%), 1 quiz (10%), final take home exam 

(35%). 



n/a 



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COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 

6J03 

Diane Enns 

Global Feminism 

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NEW 

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COURSE 


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x The professor will not be teaching this course. Also there is another similar course 'Gender nad 

CANCELLATION Globalization' (717) in the course list. 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 


texts to be used.















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COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Imre Szeman 

Globalization and Culture 

COURSE CREDIT 



n/a 


NEW 

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The professor is now teaching at University of Alberta 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 


texts to be used.











Name: Diane Enns Email: ennsd@mcmaster.ca Extension: 26259 Date: Feb 16,2010 




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PROCEDURES 








DEPARTMENT 

History 

NAME OF 

PROGRAM 

PROGRAM 

DEGREE 

Master of Arts in History 

Ph.D. ( ) M.A. ( X ) 

M.A.Sc. 

( ) 

M.B.A. 

( ) 

M. Eng. 

( ) 

M.Sc. ( ) 

Diploma 

Program 

( ) 

Other 

(Specify) 


REQUIREMENTS 



OTHER 




EXPLAIN: 


REQUIREMENTS 

EXPLAIN: 

We are droping the requirement of demonstrating competency in a foreign language as one of the non-course 

requirements of the degree. 


Currently we require all MA candidates to demonstrate facililty in a foreign language (usually French or German, although other 

languages can be substituted when relevant to the candidate's research or if we have on faculty someone with the ability to set a test 

and mark it a particular language). To complete this requirement MA candidates write a translation test over two hours with the aid of 

a dictionary. Students who fail on their first attempt may retake the comprehension test periodically over the course of the year until 

they are successful. 


sufficient.) 

We are recommending removing the requirement that a foreign language comprehension be passed during the course of the degree. 

Thus there would be no formal foreign language requirement for the MA at all. PhD foreign language requirements would remain 

unchanged.


The foreign language requirement is currently a deterrent to the recruitment of otherwise eligible MA candidates most of whom do not 

need another language for the completion of their MA courses or research, and it generates tremendous anxiety amongst those 

students in program with little or no foreign language background. The department is also understandably reluctant to prevent an MA 

candidate from getting their degree when in every other academic requirement they have excelled. It seems increasingly unjust to deny 

students a degree due to lack of prior language training that has no direct bearing on their MA studies. With more and more of our 

potential and actual students now completing their BA degrees with distinction yet having had no foreign language training since high or 

even elementary school, the standard for passing the test has, over the past two decades, consquently decreased to the point that it is 

now little more than an obstcle rather than a meaningful requirement. Currently, about half of the MA programs in History across 

Ontario do not have a foreign language requirement at all, and every year we lose some good students to these schools primiarly for 

that reason. Eliminating the requirement should improve recruitment and reduce unnecessary anxiety -- both for the students and for 

the faculty who currently mark the tests and wonder what standard they are really upholding. For the time being we will continue our 

existing language requirements for the PhD and we will counsel students thinking of applying to the PhD from the MA about their 

necessity to upgrade their language facilities. We are, however, studying our PhD language requirements. 


Sept. 2010 




Remove requirement number 3 'A comprehension test in French or German or a language acceptable to the History Department' in 

both MA by course and MA by Thesis descriptions. 


Name: Stephen Heathorn Email: heaths@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24150 Date: 28 January 2010 




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History 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Imperialism and Medicine 

Dr Projit B Mukharji 

COURSE CREDIT 

FULL COURSE ( ) HALF COURSE ( ) QUARTER (MODULE) ( ) 


None 

NEW 

COURSE 

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IF YES, PROVIDE THE DATE: Sept 2009 



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CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

Empire and modern medicine are both independently acknowledged as having played an important part in shaping our contemporary 

world. Indeed, in many ways, they continue to do so. Instead of studying them separately, this course explores how these two important 

institutions of modern world history were related to each other and the legacies that their relationship left behind. 



History of medicine is one of the fastest growing areas of historical research. As the importance of medicine in contemporary societies 

grows, scholars increasingly discern the progressive medicalization of society. For historians, one of the crucial concerns of the this 

growing medicalization of society is its imbrication with the operation of social and state power. Increasingly, medicine has come to 

inform, mediate, legitimise and fashion regimes of identification, control, surveillance and violence. This medicalized face of power 

cannot be understood without reference to the experience of empire. Modern medicine both enabled the rise of modern global empires, 

as well as being in turn shaped by the latter. It is in the colonies that medicine had its tryst with power. To understand the medicalization 

of power in modern societies therefore we must revisit the relationships between empire and medicine. The topics of study will therefore 

include: historiographic debates on imperialism and medicine, the practial role of medicine in enabling long sea-voyages and controlling 

mortality in unfamiliar environments, its operational use in mapping unknown lands and peoples, its ideological role in Othering peoples, 

its implication in imperial regimes of surveillance and finally its appropriation and re-deployment by liberationist and nationalist agendas.


The course directly contributes to the History Department's graduate offerings in Health and Medicine. Elements within it will also 

resonate with other fields offered by the department particularly those of Gender and British History 1688-2000. 


6-8 


The course will be case-study oriented and therefore encourage students to develop multi-dimensional understandings of single events, 

areas and phenomenon. Due to the nature of the themes covered it will also encourage students to think critically about the social and 

political dimensions of many contemporary institutions and ideologies. The discussion-based format of the classes is intended to 

develop the student's powers of articulation alongside his/her critical faculties. The emphasis through out the course will be to 

encourage students to think critically and originally. Originality and critical engagement will be further accented through assessment 

excercises. Students will also be encouraged to argue and defend their opinions in class through debates. 



articipation 15 % 

Research Paper 30 % 

Book Review 20 % 

Written Assignment 35% 



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Name: Stephen Heathorn Email: heaths@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24150 Date: 25 January 2010 




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History 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Dr. Jaeyoon Song 

War and Society in East Asian History 

COURSE CREDIT 



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Calendar. 

An in-depth topically arranged inquiry into various forms of armed conflict in East Asian history. 



This course examines the diverse forms of 'armed conflict' in East Asian History (China, Japan, Korea), taking discrete examples 

across the period 1200 to the 1950s. The course is not a survey, but will examine specific conflicts in order to ask the questions of 

when, why people have resorted to armed conflict and with what consequences. The course will thus engage with our graduate focus 

on war and society. Topics include the rise of nomadic empires, civil wars, popular revolts, foreign invasions, warlordism, the long-term 

miltarization of Chinese society, and the Korean War.


The course adds to the department's graduate focus in world history, will feed our war and society PhD field, and will be of interest to 

students of political, social, and diplomatic history 


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As a seminar, the course will focus on student-centred work to identify historical problems and create research strategies for their 

solution. We will search out the needed information to analyze, problematize and intepret data, and to reach and report on conclusions 

in written, verbal and other forms. Students will be introduced to the subject matter through their reading of the most current literature 

on the topic. Students will take turns acting as facilitators of discussion, generating reading questions, and conducting peer-review of 

assignments. Students will research and write research papers under the supervision of the instructror. 



Evaluation: MA PhD Minor Field 

Participation (including presentations) 35% 35% 

Historiographical Paper 20% 20% 

Research Paper 45% ---- 

Exam (PhD only) ----- 45% 



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N/A 


Name: Stephen Heathorn Email: Heaths@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24150 Date: 1 Feb. 2010 




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History 

COURSE TITLE 


INSTRUCTOR(S) 

Canadian Gender History 

COURSE CREDIT 


Ruth A. Frager and Nancy Bouchier 


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Calendar. 

Focusing mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course examines the historical development of gender roles within a 

wide range of Canadian groups, while investigating the significance of changes and continuities in these roles. Canadian gender 

history will be examined in the context of key works in the development of gender history more broadly. 



As indicated above, the course will focus on examining the historical development of gender roles within a wide range of Canadian 

groups, while situating this examination of Canadian gender history in the context of key works in the development of gender history 

more broadely. Historical topics will include: women and social movements, women and work, masculinity and the labour movement, 

racialized women and men, gender roles in sports and recreation, women's health, and women and the law. 

Key texts include: 

Laura Lee Downs, Writing Gender History (London: Hodder Arnold, 2004). 

Karen Anderson, Chain Her By One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France (New York: 

Routledge, 1991). 

Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (Toronto: University of Toronto 

Press, 2001). 

Kathryn McPherson et al., eds., Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada (Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford 

University Press, 1999). 

Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (Toronto: University of Toronto 

Press, 1990).


This course will enhance the department's offerings in gender history, as well as enhancing the offerings in Canadian history. In 

addition, if the proposed graduate programme in Gender Studies and Feminist Research is approved, this course will provide an option 

for students in this new programme. 


10-15 


seminars 



Weekly Seminar Participation: 25% 

Small Essay: 20% 

Long Essay: 30% 

Final Exam: 25% 



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Name: Stephen Heathorn Email: heaths@ Extension: 24150 Date: 1 Feb 2010 




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History 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER HIS 761 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


Race and Gender in the African Disapora 

Juanita De Barros 

COURSE CREDIT 



NEW 

COURSE 






CONCERNED. 


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TITLE: 

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COURSE TITLE 

Race and Gender in the Atlantic World 



x 

DESCRIPTION 





COURSE 


COURSE 

CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 


Calendar. 

Race and Gender in the African Diaspora examines the intersection of race and gender in the nineteenth and twentieth century African 

diaspora. 



The course will examine the intersection of race and gender in the African diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will 

explore the legacy of slavery as well as nationalism and anti-colonialism throughout the African diaspora. We will consider such topics 

as work; family; sexuality; health; philanthropy; participation in the public sphere. Some of the texts to be used would include: Glenda 

Gilmour, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-12920; Harvey Neptune, Caliban 

and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation; Ann Macpherson, From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the 

Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982; Eileen Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870- 

1920.


Gender is one of the graduate fields in the Department of History. This course would complement the department’s offerings in the 

gender field. It also offers students an opportunity to explore this subject within the newly-emerging area of African diasporic history. 


10-12 


discussion of readings and presentations 



Seminar Presentations: 15% 

Weekly Participation: 20% 

Historiographical Essay: 25% 

Research Essay: 40% 



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Name: Juanita De Barros Email: debarr@mcmaster.ca Extension: 24149 Date: January 18, 2010 




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Philosophy 

COURSE TITLE 

COURSE NUMBER 

INSTRUCTOR(S) 


6P03 

Brigitte Sassen 

Feminist Epistemologies: Gender, Knowledge, Science 

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Registration in a Philosophy graduate program or permission of the Department 

NEW 

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x 



Winter 2011 



WILL THE COURSE BE CROSS-LISTED WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT? X IF YES, ATTACH TO THIS FORM ANY RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH 


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DESCRIPTION 






COURSE 


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CANCELLATION 

OTHER 

EXPLAIN: 

This course will expand the Philosophy Department offerings in the area of feminist philosophy, and support the new MA 

and PhD Diploma Programs in Gender Studies and Feminist Research. 


Calendar. 

In this course, we will consider the relevance of gender to the natural and social sciences. 



Questions to be considered are as follows: 

Does it matter who knows, who sets the projects and who develops the methodologies? Does it matter what is known, how the objects 

of our knowledge are conceptualized and what functions as the norm? 

Texts to be unsed include: 

Kournay, Janet A. ed. _The Gender of Science_. Prentice Hall, 2002 

Schiebinger Londa ed. _Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering_. Stanford University Press, 2008


The proposed course will serve to round out existing courses in epistemology and in feminist philosophy. 


20 


seminars 



undergraduate evaluation: 2 short (5 pages each) papers (or 1 five page paper and one presentation) in the course of the semester; 

one term paper (15 pages) 

graduate evaluation: 1 presentation and one 20 to 25 page paper. 



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Name: B. Sassen Email: sassenb Extension: 23475 Date: Jan 15, 2010 




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From: Brigitte 

Subject: Re: Fwd: Philosophy *6P03 

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:17:45 -0400 

To: Medy Espiritu 

Hi Medy, 

The undergraduate version of 6P03 is 4P03 and will happen on a Dean's letter 

next year. If you still need evalautions for the ug (probably some 

combination of 2 papers or one paper/one presentation during the term and a 

final paper), let me know. 

Best, 

Brigitte Sassen

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