Courses for Membership in the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability and Electives: 2021-2022
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All classes are being offered remotely this coming summer due to the pandemic. We do not yet know whether fall and winter classes will be online or in person.
Those classes marked "Remote" are normally offered in person; those marked "Online" are always offered online; those marked "May be remote or in person" are normally offered in person but may be offered online this year, depending on the pandemic.
Choose three courses for membership
This experiential course has been redesigned as an online course and will consider the challenges solidarities and self-care that emerge when revisioning institutions and other social environments to better face urgent societal demands affecting public health. This course welcomes students to examine, identify and respond creatively to a particular wicked social or environmental health challenge (i.e., isolation, stigma of mental illness, health effects of climate change, homelessness, lack of clean water, food insecurity, effects of colonization). Students will consider their relationship to other sentient beings (i.e., each other, animals, plants, rivers, land) in order to consider new ways of contributing to healthier communities and planetary wellbeing. Use of the creative arts, gardening, dance, theatre, and movement will provide methods and materials to develop mutual care practices that will sustain and inform final creative projects. In addition to scheduled class ties, students will engage in service learning and a public presentation.
For permission to register for this course, please contact Rebecca Tittler at rebecca.tittler@concordia.ca.
This course begins with an introduction to the science of ecology and to the concept of sustainability as an ecological principle. The concept of sustainability is then broadened to include humans, as students are introduced to ethics, economics, and resource management from an eco-centric point of view. Students are encouraged to think critically about current environmental problems and to take action on an individual project.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for BIOL 205, 208, or for this topic under a BIOL 298 number may not take this course for credit.
NOTE: Students registered in a Biology program may not take this course for credit towards their Biology program but may take it towards the Minor in Sustainability Studies.
This course focuses on the natural environment and our interactions with it as presented through selected films. Students deconstruct the visual representation of a problem or complex set of problems around the natural environment presented both as “fact” and as “entertainment”. Students generate an understanding of how the individual and one's society can operate more effectively in a global context of increased inter-cultural interaction, in unison with the environment.
This course is an anthropological approach to variations in cultural experience as they relate to communication. Students explore modes of expression and communication, including literature and film, with a view to examining questions of interpretation, aesthetics, and ethical judgment. Personal expression and communication are also discussed. This course is intended to develop an awareness of the role of imagination and creativity in expression and interpretation, and sensitivity to the role of cultural and other differences in processes of communication.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for LOYC 410 may not take this course for credit.
In 2015, the 193 members states of the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), providing a vision of a brighter future for people and the planet. They explicitly recognized the links between social, economic, and environmental sustainability, stressing the crucial need to address issues of poverty, inequality, health, education, and economic growth, while tackling the challenges of climate change and biodiversity conservation. Through this course, students will be introduced to all 17 SDGs from an interdisciplinary perspective and will examine progress towards these goals in Canada and across the globe. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe the different SDGs, understand their inter-relationships, and analyze our effectiveness at achieving these goals from different disciplinary perspectives.
The COVID 19 pandemic needs to be understood from multiple perspectives that cut across scholarly disciplines and straddle the boundary between the academy and other institutions in our society. This course will analyze the basic processes and consequences of the virus now known as the “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” and the grave sickness it causes, called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Using a blended strategy of lectures and discussion, this team-taught course will include perspectives from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Consistent with the basic ethos of Loyola College, our goal is to offer an integrative perspective on our planet’s current health crisis and its effects on multiple aspects of human life.
This course treats the intersection of gender, sexuality, spirituality and religiosity from an intersectional and queer theoretical approach. It introduces students to histories and discourses around these inter-related areas and is organized thematically. It will also consider explicitly the construction and production of queer spiritualities and the queering of religion. Topics under consideration include, as follows: global sexualities; celibacy, asexuality and queerness; queerness in history; colonial and postcolonial understandings of sexuality and religion; queer pornography; tantric practice and other forms of esoteric spirituality.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a RELI 398 number may not take this course for credit.
This online course is an introduction to the emerging field of global environmental politics. It surveys the present environmental crisis and the roles of states, international organizations, and civil society. Various case studies dealing with oceans, forests, fisheries, biodiversity, global warming, and others are used to illustrate the inherent complexity of transnational ecological issues in the era of globalization.
This course is offered every year online. This year, it is offered in the fall (2017). It may be offered in the summer of 2018 instead of in the fall of 2018.
The course recognizes that much of the city’s early Black history is unknown and that even today, the current knowledge of the Black experience in Montreal continues to be fraught with myth and misconception. Thus, this course is largely designed to introduce students to the major themes, issues, and debates in Montreal’s Black history from its origins until today. This interdisciplinary survey is organized chronologically and will determine how certain trends and critical milestones have shaped Black Montreal’s unique face and given rise to complex community building on and off the island. Our wider lens explores Blacks as their own agents, contributing to the greater society while simultaneously creating cultural resources and events that highlight the multifaceted ways Blacks made their own history while simultaneously shaping and contributing to the history of Montreal. Ultimately, students should gain an understanding of how Blacks lived, worked, socialized, and defined themselves in Montreal.
This course considers ethical issues arising in the context of personal and interpersonal relations, families and friendships, and health and medical care. These issues are discussed in relation to traditional and contemporary moral perspectives, both religious and non-religious. Topics covered may vary from year to year, but may include discussions of conscience and career, privacy, sexual relations, harassment, substance abuse, abortion, euthanasia, and gay and lesbian relations.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for RELI 310 or for this topic under a RELI 398 number may not take this course for credit.
This course examines, from a comparative and historical perspective, the interplay between religion and sexuality. It looks at the development of attitudes towards sexuality within diverse religious traditions, and religious manifestations of sexuality. Topics include, among others: human reproduction, gender roles and identity, birth control, abortion, celibacy, sexual variance, and homosexuality.
NOTE: Students who have received credit RELI 380 or for this topic under a RELI 398 number may not take this course for credit.
This course takes as its premise the idea that the nexus of gender and sexuality fundamentally shapes religious practices and belief as well as the lives of women and gender non-conforming people. The central questions guiding this course are: How do religious traditions incorporate sexual practice and/or restraint into a vision of ethical life? When does one’s gender become dangerous or unethical? What is the range of women’s experience within Hinduism and Buddhism? In pursuing these questions, students will gain a deep familiarity with practices of women’s religious asceticism, the place of erotics within religious discourse, new perspectives on queer and transgender theories, emic feminisms, and sexual ethics.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a RELI 398 number may not take this course for credit.
GPA requirement
To be eligible to graduate with Membership in the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, students must have at least a B (3.0) in at least three LOYC course.
Due to the limitation in the number of courses we can offer every year, the following LOYC courses listed in the Undergraduate Calendar are not offered this year and likely will not be offered in the 2020-2021 academic year:
- LOYC 201: The Idea of Modernity
- LOYC 202: What is the Environment?
- LOYC 210: The 20th Century
- LOYC 310: Science and the Contemporary World
- LOYC 350: Internship in Sustainability. To get credit for internships, students can take LOYC 420
