Courses offered

This course introduces students to the study and practice of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) as it has emerged in North America over the past ten years. Covering best practices in EDI, the course will engage with both the pitfalls and promises of efforts to make workplaces more equitable.

Topics to be covered include: the origins of EDI, current debates, and case studies of institutional transformation. Students will also have the opportunity to apply their learning to specific work-place scenarios.

This course explores the conceptual elements that underlie the religious experience. These elements include the notion of the sacred, beliefs, cosmologies and myths, the origins and understanding of evil, ethics and salvation.

This course is cross-listed with RELI 312.

Note: Students who have received credit for RELI 211 or 312 may not take this course for credit.

This course aims to introduce students to culturally diverse Indigenous knowledge systems, experiences, and worldviews on what Indigenous sustainability means using an interdisciplinary approach to examine cross-cutting environmental issues and collective impacts on the natural world, Indigenous Peoples, and society.

Balanced with weekly discussions and critical engagement with course readings, this course will be guided by a lecture series of Indigenous experts with a focus on topics such as Rotinonhnsión:ni knowledge systems i.e., O’henton Karihwahtehkwen ‘words before all else’, Indigenous sustainability and its linkages to key topics that include Indigenous knowledge systems, self-determination, Land Back, land-based education, Indigenous food security and sovereignty, ecological restoration, Indigenous resiliency, climate adaptation, and environmental justice as community responses to on-going settler colonialism and capitalism today.

The current environmental crisis has both direct and indirect effects on human health and well-being. Using a blended strategy of lectures and discussion, this course will take an interdisciplinary approach to these cross-cutting issues from a health and natural science, social science, and humanities perspective.

Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines, the course will involve guest lectures from multiple disciplinary perspectives and the opportunity for personal projects and will address issues such as ecoanxiety and other mental health issues; plastic and other pollution; fire, flood, and other natural disturbances and their impacts; biodiversity and zoonotic disease; agricultural practices and food systems; genetically-modified organisms; environmental cancers; AI and the digital world; resource extraction; and more. Guest lecturers will be drawn from the combined networks of the School of Health and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability/Loyola Sustainability Research Centre.