Upcoming in Winter 2018 are two exciting special topics courses for students!
PACS 301 - Settler Colonial Violence
Instructor: Dr. Narendran Kumarakulasingam
Times: Monday/Wednesday- 11:30AM - 12:50PM
Are you willing to be comfortable with what is uncomfortable? If so, come learn, explore, and discuss how banal and extraordinary forms of settler colonial violence continue to shape your body, ways of thinking and feeling, relationship to land, and understanding of the past. This course aims to provide space and tools for thinking about the ways in which good, honest and well-meaning people become implicated in unintentionally reproducing colonial violence today.
This course explores the ways in which settler colonial violence is written on land, body and affect. Combining interdisciplinary scholarly writings as well as non-academic sources such as novels and movie clips, and attentive to the ways in which racialized and gendered forms of violence are produced by and productive of the settler-native relation, the course invites students to explore how current national mythologies, public debates as well as taken-for-granted ways of thinking are entangled in the colonial. The focus will be on the experiences of peoples in the states of Canada and the United States.
PACS 302 - Advocating for Justice and Peace
Instructor: Christopher Derksen-Hiebert
Times: Monday 7:00PM - 9:50PM
In an age of increasing economic and political transparency on one hand, and 'fake news' and the 'post-factual' society on the other, how can students, citizens, and civil society wage justice and peace? This course will equip you to take on that challenge.
Chris Derksen-Hiebert is the Director of External Relations (Advocacy and Justice for Children) with World Vision International. We are very excited to have Chris joining us!