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Program Requirements

Canadian Studies

Enrollment in these programs requires the completion of 4.0 full courses or their equivalent.

1
Program Type

Specialist

Must complete 11.0 FCEs in Canadian Studies approved courses with at least 3.0 FCEs at the 300+ level and 1.0 FCE at the 400+ level
11
Total FCEs Required
Year 1

Recommended

No specific first-year requirements. Students are advised to take introductory courses that will serve as prerequisites for optional courses of interest to them later in the program. For example: 

Year 2

Required

2 FCE

(CDN267H1, CDN268H1)

Plus 1.0 FCE of the following: FAS248H1/​ DRM268H1/​ ENG215H1/​ ENG252H1/​ ENG254H1/​ FOR200H1/​ FRE210H1/​ GGR240H1/​ GGR246H1/​ HIS262H1/​ HIS264H1/​ INS201H1/​ INS210H1/​ INS220H1/​ INS231H1/​ LIN201H1/​ POL214Y1/​ POL224Y1/​ SLA238H1/​ SOC218H1/​ SOC220H1/​ TRN235H1

Year 3

Required

1.5 FCE

(CDN367H1, CDN368H1)

Plus 0.5 FCE of any one of the following: CDN307H1/​ CDN335H1/​ CDN380H1/​ CDN390H1/​ JSU325H1

Year 4

Required

1 FCE

(CDN420Y1  / CDN435Y1 ) or another fourth-year Canadian Studies course approved by the Program Director, such as CDN406, CDN420Y, CDN425H

Upper Year

Required

6.5 FCE

6.5 other FCEs in courses offered by the Canadian Studies program. Please see the current Canadian Studies course listing.

Major

(Must complete 7.0 FCEs in Canadian Studies approved courses with 1.5 FCEs at the 300+ level and 0.5 FCE at the 400+ level)
7
Total FCEs Required
Year 1

Recommended

First year: No specific first-year requirements. Students are advised to take introductory courses that will serve as prerequisites for optional courses of interest to them later in the program. For example:

Year 2

Required

2 FCE

(CDN267H1, CDN268H1)

Plus 1.0 FCE of the following: FAS248H1/​ DRM268H1/​ ENG215H1/​ ENG252H1/​ ENG254H1/​ FOR200H1/​ FRE210H1/​ GGR240H1/​ GGR246H1/​ HIS262H1/​ HIS264H1/​ INS201H1/​ INS210H1/​ INS220H1/​ INS231H1/​ LIN201H1/​ POL214Y1/​ POL224Y1/​ SLA238H1/​ SOC218H1/​ SOC220H1/​ TRN235H1

Year 3

Required

1.5 FCE

(CDN367H1, CDN368H1)

Plus 0.5 FCE of any one of the following: CDN307H1/​ CDN335H1/​ CDN380H1/​ CDN390H1/​ JSU325H1

Year 4

Required

0.5 FCE

CDN405H1 or another fourth-year Canadian Studies course approved by the Program Director

Minor in Canadian Studies

(Must complete 4.0 FCEs in Canadian Studies approved courses with at least 1.0 FCE at the 300+ level)
4
Total FCEs Required
Year 1

Recommended

First year: No specific first-year requirements. Students are advised to take introductory courses that will serve as prerequisites for optional courses of interest to them later in the program. For example

Year 2

Required

0.5 FCE
Year 3

Required

0.5 FCE
Upper Year

Required

2 FCE

2.0 additional FCEs from the Canadian Studies course listing.

Minor in Asian Canadian Studies

(Must complete 4.0 FCEs in Canadian Studies approved courses, including at least 1.0 FCEs at the 300+ level)
4
Total FCEs Required
Year 1

Recommended

First year: No specific first-year requirements. Students are advised to take introductory courses that will serve as prerequisites for optional courses of interest to them later in the program.

Subsequent Years

Required

1.0 FCE
Subsequent Years

Required

Additionally, 3.0 FCE from the two categories below, with at least 1.0 FCE in each category.

Students can also nominate a course not on this list, as long as they can verify that the course deals with Asian Canadian issues to a significant extent (about 30%) —which could include a First Year Foundations or Special Topics course.

3.0 FCE

Asian Canadians and Asian Diasporas in Canada

Contexts of Asian Canadian Studies

CDN202H1CDN205H1CDN218H1CDN221H1
CDN267H1CDN268H1CDN280H1CDN335H1CDN355H1CDN367H1CDN368H1
CDN380H1CDN405H1CDN406H1CDN420Y1
CDN425H1CDN435Y1

Or any of the external courses listed below:

Anthropology

Dr. David Chu Program In Contemporary Asian Studies

Cinema Studies

Computer Science

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

Diaspora and Transnational Studies

Economics

Finnish

Geography and Planning

Hungarian

Innis College

Italian

Linguistics

Music

New College

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Public Policy

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Sociology

Trinity College

UC One

Victoria College

Women and Gender Studies

Certificate In Black Canadian Studies

3
Total FCEs Required
Core Course

Required

1.0 FCE

All students will be required to take one foundational course worth 1.0 FCE: HIS265Y: Black Canadian History

Other Courses

Required

Students are also required to take at least 0.5 FCE from a selection of four 3rd-year courses in Canadian Studies, Equity Studies, the English Department, or Women and Gender Studies; or one course at the 4th year, from Caribbean Studies. See the list below:

0.5 FCE

·       CAR429H1: Caribbean Diaspora in Canada
·       CDN335H1: Black Canadian Studies
·       CSE347H1: Critical Race and Anti-Racism Studies
·       ENG356Y1: African Canadian Literature
·       WGS390H1: Land-ing: Indigenous and Black Futurist Spaces

Other Courses

Required

Students will take an additional 1.0 FCE, either drawing from the above courses in list B, or another 40-or-so courses from more than 20 units across FAS (see the list below).

Students can also nominate a course not on this list, as long as they can verify that the course deals with Black Canada or Black Canadians to a significant extent (about 30%) —which could include a First Year Foundations or Special Topics course.

    1.0 FCE

    AFR150Y1: Introduction to African Studies
    AFR353H1: International Relations of Africa

    CAR120Y1: Introduction to Caribbean Studies
    CAR315H1: Caribbean Foodways Across History, Culture and Diaspora
    CAR316H1: Caribbean Religions
    CAR428H1: Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas

    CIN337H1: Black Cinemas (NEW) 

    CRI210H1: Criminal Justice
    CRI322H1: Inequality and Criminal Justice
    CRI383H1: Immigration, Ethnicity and Crime

    CSE240H1: Introduction to Critical Equity and Solidarity Studies
    CSE340H1: Abolition in the Global Context: Theorizing Uprisings and Youth Activism against Policing and Prisons (NEW)
    CSE341H1: Theorizing Settler Colonialism, Capitalism and Race
    CSE344H1: Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
    CSE344Y1: Body Matters: Oppression, Solidarity and Justice
    CSE447H1: Race, Ethnicity and Educational Praxis

    DRM463H1: Black Playwrights: Resistance, Resilience and Transformation (NEW) 

    DTS200Y1: Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies

    GGR456H1: Entanglements of Power: Race, Sexuality and the City 

    HIS106Y1: The African Diaspora in the Americas, 1492-1804 
    HIS312H1: Immigration to Canada
    HIS391Y1: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World  
    HIS429H1: Canada and Empire in the Twentieth Century  
    HIS446H1: Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World 

    JQR360H1: The Canadian Census: Populations, Migrations and Demographics 

    POL467H1: The Politics of Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada 

    SDS382H1: Intro to Queer of Colour Critique

    SOC210H1: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
    SOC311H1: Immigration and Race Relations in Canada 
    SOC347H1: Immigration and Race Relations in Canada 
    SOC367H1: Race, Class and Gender 
    SOC484H1: Children of Immigrants  

    URB339H1: Divided City / United City

    WGS463H1: Black Diasporic Feminist Intellectual Traditions
    WGS481H1: Gender, Sexuality and Black Liberation from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter 

    Notes:

    An elective course (maximum of 1.0 credit) dealing with some aspect of Black Canadian Studies not captured in the above list may be accepted with approval of the Canadian Studies program director at University College.

    Where applicable, students may also count up to 0.5 credit from courses at UTM and UTSC towards the certificate, in accordance with the regulations of the Faculty of Arts & Science and those at UTM and UTSC, and with approval of the Canadian Studies program director at University College.

    Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with New (NEW) College's African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity programs will have the new "AFR," "CAR," and "CSE" designators respectively. In addition, courses associated with Innis (INI) College's Urban Studies program will have the new "URB" designator.