8 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2021–22 (Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2122/COURSE/course-CI.html
This course examines the influence of cultural background and affiliations on personal identity. Students gain fundamental skills in understanding, analyzing, and interpreting the role that culture plays in the world today, with special attention paid to the Canadian context.
Selected topics on the construction of cultural identities and their representation through language, discourse, literature, film, and other means of expression, explored from diverse disciplinary perspectives. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of three times.]
This course provides an introduction to transcultural views of literature, film, language, and literature and media culture (e.g., fairy tales and their adaptation in other cultures, authors who work in multiple languages, transcultural comics, multilingual and transcultural films, local cultures' interaction with global arts and media scenes, etc.). [Note: Lectures and readings in English. No knowledge of German required.]
Modern societies have had to confront terrible histories of human rights abuses, where one group has sought to oppress and/or eliminate another because of ethnic, religious, or political differences. Truth and reconciliation commissions, or similar mechanisms, have shown the power stories have to honour people's experiences and integrate them into dominant narratives of identity. This course will examine how cultural production (film, literature, and the arts) helps to make sense of these violent histories and the cultural values and practices that allowed them to happen.
Selected topics on the construction of cultural identities and their representation through language, discourse, literature, film, and other means of expression, explored from diverse disciplinary perspectives. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of three times.]
CI 267Exploring Cultural Identities Through Experiential Learning
Through field trips and study abroad opportunities this course allows students to critically examine the construction of cultural identities to gain valuable experience and apply concepts from cultural identity courses beyond the classroom. [Note: This course might incur additional costs for the student above the registration fee in the form of travel, room and board, and incidental costs. This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of three times.]
Students examine the work of various theorists, both historical and modern, who have contributed to the intellectual framework within which culture and cultural expression can be studied in order to deepen their ability to conduct critical inquiry into the formation of cultural identity.
In this seminar students work on an interdisciplinary term-long knowledge mobilization project under the direction of a faculty member. The seminar aims to help students to integrate their knowledge of cultural identities with personal and/or professional interests.