Graduate Course Listing

Please visit the Academic Timetable to see which courses are presently being offered and in which location(s). Not all courses listed below run every term or in all locations. For specific details about program requirements and degree regulations, please refer to the Academic Calendar.

  • CAST-6000Y: Interdisciplinarity in Canadian Studies Concepts, Theories & Methods

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course will examine the complex theoretical and methodological issues associated with the discourse on an interdisciplinary study of Canada. This course is mandatory for all Ph.D. students.

  • CAST-6070H: Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Available only to Ph.D. students. Students will receive a grade of Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory or Pass with Distinction.

  • CAST-6080H: Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Available only to Ph.D. Students. Students will receive a grade of Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory or Pass with Distinction.

  • CAST-6090Y: Ph.D. Dissertation

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    To meet program requirements Trent students must take at least one of the half-credit courses from the Canadian Studies courses listed above. All graduate courses must be approved by the Director of the Frost Centre at Trent University.

  • CAST-6102H: Culture, Heritage & the Arts

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course will critically explore selected theoretical, empirical, and creative constructions, contestations and celebrations of Canadian culture(s). Course content ranges from the national to the local, examining cultural communities and identities, intellectual traditions, cultural policies, museums and galleries, and cultural expression in film, theatre and literature.

    Cross-listed: CSID-5202H, ENGL-5306H

  • CAST-6171H: Indigenous Settler Relations

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course explores the evolution of Indigenous settler relations in Canada, tracing how they are are shaped by economic, social, cultural, religious, political and military factors, and how they differ across regions and First Nations. Themes include comparative imperial policies; treaties, land and space; law and Aboriginal- settler relations; education; religion; the state and policy development; political organization and resistance; gender, familial and sexual relations. Not open to students with credit for INDG 4801H.

    Cross-listed: CSID-5171H, SUST-5171H, HIST-5171H

  • CAST-6201H: Environment & Place

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course explores human-environmental relationships from a variety of perspectives using both academic and public policy debates as source material. Selected topics will draw from historical and political ecology, environmental protection and activism, heritage law, land tenure and land rights, tourism, public parks, and notions of wilderness in Canadian identities.

    Cross-listed: CSID-5401H, CUST-5512H, SUST-5401H

  • CAST-6210H: Perspectives on the Canadian North

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course explores historical and contemporary perspectives on the Canadian North, focusing on aspects of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples experience and frame the region. It critically examines how environmental, economic, social, cultural, political, legal, and military factors have (re)shaped the region. Themes include Indigenous and Euro-Canadian concepts of North; the frontier/homeland dichotomy; legal systems; sovereignty and security issues; colonialism and state control; land claims and co-management; climate change; and Canada's Northern strategies.

    Cross-listed: CSID-5210H

  • CAST-6301H: Policy, Economy & the State

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course explores the political economy tradition in Canada, and specifically the complex relationship between the state, economy, society, politics, and culture. The course content will provide essential grounding in the approaches, methods,and themes that have been critical to the ongoing development of this Canadian tradition.

    Cross-listed: CSID-5301H, HIST-5301H

  • CAST-6501H: Feminist, Gender & Women's Studies

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    This course explores the scholarly interpretations, debates, and theories that have shaped our understanding of women and gender in the Canadian and North American context. The historical and social construction of gender identity, culture, and sexualities are explored, and topics such as work, reproduction, 'race, ' colonialism, political engagement and social movements.

    Cross-listed: CSID-5701H, CUST-5503H, SUST-5701H, HIST-5105H

  • CAST-6606H: Ph.D. Directed Reading Course

    Offered:

    • Peterborough

    Reading and research tutorials. A program of research and written work in an area not covered by an existing graduate seminar. Approval of Program Director required.

To meet program requirements Trent students must take at least one of the half-credit courses from the Canadian Studies courses listed below. Students can also choose from approved graduate courses at the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Students should consult with the Graduate Studies Administrator for the complete listing of acceptable graduate courses available at Carleton University in any given year.

Students may also register in graduate courses offered outside Canadian Studies. Trent students are urged to consider, in particular, graduate courses offered by the Ph.D. Program Indigenous Studies. All graduate courses must be approved by the Director of the Frost Centre at Trent University.

Trent University respectfully acknowledges it is located on the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishnaabeg. We offer our gratitude to First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. May we honour those teachings.

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