HUST-6000E - Thesis

Under the direction of a thesis supervisor, the student will undertake an in-depth investigation of an interdisciplinary topic related to social sciences and/or humanities. The student will be expected to complete and successfully defend the thesis. Please note that students must register for this course for the Fall/Winter and Spring terms for the duration of their Ph.D. studies. cr 6

HUST-6004E - Seminar on Interdisciplinarity 

The Seminar in Interdisciplinarity provides students and faculty with the opportunity of meeting on a regular basis throughout the academic year to address issues central to interdisciplinary human study. Intended to be a lively, ongoing forum for the exchange of ideas central to Humanities and Social Sciences, the Seminar in Interdisciplinarity gives students exposure to a wide range of methodological and theoretical issues and problems fundamental to human studies and provides them with a common context of discussion and interaction. The Seminar will meet during the fall and the winter terms at least three times by term. The Seminar in Interdisciplinarity is a non-credit course. It is required of all PhD students in their first year of study. All other students are encouraged to continue their participation in the Seminar as are all faculty. Non credit

HUST-6016E - Seminar in Regional and Cultural Studies

This seminar will begin with a review of the concepts of region and regional and cultural studies from an interdisciplinary perspective, then teach students both theoretical and methodological skills helpful to the study of environmental, human, economic, sociological and political regional themes. Examples and illustrations will be drawn primarily from the region of North-eastern Ontario. The course will examine the question of regional study in ways that bear relevance to other regions of the province, the country and world. Seminar presentations will be made by students, followed by discussion. Students will be given selected readings and be called upon to develop critical analyses of a given theme (chosen by students in consultation with faculty responsible for the seminar). Students will produce a research paper. cr 3

HUST-6026E - Seminar in Human Development 

The seminar in Human Development will focus on issues in the area of Human Development, broadly defined. The course will focus on the Social Sciences and engage other areas such as Philosophy, Linguistics and English. Students will be exposed to major theoretical perspectives, multiple methods for investigating issues (both qualitative and quantitative), and real-world application of theories and research. Grading will involve participation in the seminar and a research proposal of such quality that it could serve as the basis for the students’ thesis proposals. cr 3

HUST-6056E - Interpretation and Values 

In this seminar the insights and interpretive practices of at least three humanities and social science disciplines will be brought to bear on specific social, political or human rights questions. Policy and policy-making as this occurs in the context of government, business, and not-for-profit organizations will be examined. Case studies from these contexts will be used not only to illustrate the essential components of policy and of the policy-making process but also to ground in practice the various theoretical and interpretive perspectives brought to bear in the course. cr 3

HUST-6076E - Seminar in Gender and Sexuality Studies

How did gender and sexuality become social and cultural facts? What difference do gender and sexuality make to one’s experience of self and the world? What are the connections between the physiological, personal identity, and broad cultural patterns of social and personal relationships? How do gender and sexuality affect intellectual inquiry and how are both produced within academic and other discourses?

This seminar will address some of these questions by engaging advanced critiques of gender and sexuality scholarship. It will focus on various historical, theoretical, behavioral, philosophical, scientific, and multi- and cross-cultural perspectives on gender and sexuality, their shifting meanings, exploring their disciplinary and interdisciplinary uses and implications. Attention is given to the emergence of the categories “gender” and “sexuality”, their variable applications to different fields of knowledge, experience, cultural production, institutional regulation, and social/cultural activism. cr 3

HUST-6126E - Interdisciplinary Research Methods

This course is designed to help doctoral students solve the research problems that characterize a variety of disciplines. After being exposed to several approaches, students will be required to build connections between a problem, the methodologies which address it, the data generated by the methodologies, and the interpretation of results. Research designs will be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will be directed to analyze and report on the quantitative and qualitative data typically encountered in interdisciplinary research efforts and to design interdisciplinary research. cr 3

HUST-6156E - Theories in Interdisciplinarity 

In this course we will consider both theories about interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary theories. Without denying the importance of unidisciplinary research, this course will underscore the importance, but also the difficulty, of theoretical work that gathers together conceptual categories from diverse disciplines. Attention will be paid to its importance inasmuch as such interdisciplinary theorization may adequately account for the object of study; its difficulty, on the other hand, will be shown to be not only epistemological and analytical but also politico-scientific. cr 3

HUST-6216E - Independent Studies I

This course will allow students to undertake research in a field of study which is not covered by the courses offered and which is directly connected to the topic of the thesis. The program of study for the course will be under the supervision of a faculty member involved in the PhD with whom the student will have regular meetings. The course supervisor will direct and correct the written work submitted by the student. cr 3

HUST-6217E - Independent Studies II

This course will allow students to undertake research in a field of study which is not covered by the courses offered and which is directly connected to the topic of the thesis. The program of study for the course will be under the supervision of a faculty member involved in the PhD with whom the student will have regular meetings. The course supervisor will direct and correct the written work submitted by the student. 3 cr.

HUST-6226E - Selected Topics

The subject of the course will vary according to the course instructor and the year in which it is offered. It will depend on the current research interests of the program faculty or of visiting professors invited to offer the course. cr 3

HUST-6906E - Field Based Research Placement 

The placement will occur in an organization or practice context with which the Programme has established a relationship. It will enable students to put in practice, in a concrete context, the interdisciplinary methods and applications they have learned in the Programme. It will also serve the purpose of data collection (qualitative or quantitative) upon which the thesis proposal could be built. At the end of the placement, students will make a presentation to their peers and to Programme faculty and produce an accompanying report. Prerequisites: HUST 6126 and 6156. cr 3