Excerpt Examines global urbanization processes and the associated transformation of governance, social, economic, and environmental structures particularly in the global south. Themes include theories of development, migration, transnational flows, socio-spatial polarization, postcolonial geographies of urbanization.Area of focus: Urban Geography
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Divisions University of Toronto Scarborough
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Excerpt Transportation systems play a fundamental role in shaping social, economic and environmental outcomes in a region. This course explores geographical perspectives on the development and functioning of transportation systems, interactions between transportation and land use, and costs and benefits associated with transportation systems including: mobility, accessibility, congestion, pollution, and livability.Area of focus: Urban Geography
Course Code GGRC12H3
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+3Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureLife on LandSustainable Cities and Communities
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Excerpt Deals with two main topics: the origins of environmental problems in the global spread of industrial capitalism, and environmental conservation and policies. Themes include: changes in human-environment relations, trends in environmental problems, the rise of environmental awareness and activism, environmental policy, problems of sustainable development.Area of focus: Environmental Geography
Course Code GGRC44H3
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Excerpt An introduction to the history of Africans and people of African descent in the Americas generally, and the United States in particular. Major themes include modernity and the transatlantic slave trade; capitalism and reparations; Atlantic crossings; African women, gender, and racial formations; representation, resistance, and rebellion; nation-building; abolitionism and civil war; historical method and the […]
Course Code HIS221H1
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+2Reduced InequalitiesResponsible Consumption and Production
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Excerpt This course introduces students to the historiographical and theoretical debates in women’s and gender history from a global perspective, with emphasis on the local histories of women in the non-western world. Students will study the themes in women’s history as articulated by first and second wave feminists. The second part of the class deconstructs the […]
Course Code HIS198H1
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Excerpt Examines concepts of resilience as a way of building the capacity of communities to (a) respond to predicted disruptions/shocks associated with climate change, global pandemics, anticipated disruptions in global food supply, energy insecurity, and environmental degradation; and (b) nurture the development of alternative spaces that support the emergence of more life-sustaining structures and practices. Includes […]
Course Code GGR434H1
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+5Life on LandPeace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsReduced InequalitiesSustainable Cities and CommunitiesZero Hunger
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Excerpt This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed knowledge of geography and have studied its research methods the chance to work as part of a research team, under the direction of a professor, in exchange for course credit. Students have the opportunity to be involved in original research, enhance their research skills and participate […]
Course Code GGR399Y5
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Divisions University of Toronto Mississauga
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Excerpt This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of history by exploring processes of remembering and forgetting intrinsic to every society. Topics include the ideas of history and memory, memory cultures and narratives and counternarratives and the study of legal trials, museums, monuments, novels and films as popular vehicles of historical knowledge. The course analyzes […]
Course Code HIS195H1
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Excerpt This course examines the history of black people in the United States after the abolition of slavery. Major themes include the promise and tragedy of Reconstruction; gender and Jim Crow; race and respectability; migration, transnationalism, and 20th century black diasporas; black radical traditions and freedom movements; intersectionality and black feminisms; the drug war and mass […]
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Excerpt This course offers an introduction to history as a discipline – to the history of the discipline itself, to the questions, categories, and methodologies that constitute it, to the ways these interrogations and methods have evolved in varied times and places, and to the methodologies students need to acquire to engage in historical inquiry and […]
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