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HIST 210 The History of Sexuality in Canada Units: 3.00
An overview of the sexual past in this place we now call Canada, from Indigenous gender/sexual practices to queer and trans identities and movements. Attentive to race, class, and gender, the course employs sexuality to analyze power in Canadian history while emphasizing the connections between past and present-day sexual politics.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and discuss the central themes in the history of sexuality in Canada through the active listening and synthesis of lectures as well as course readings.
- Explain how to think about sexuality as historical, in contrast to other approaches, such as the biological or psychological.
- Differentiate and demonstrate the historical connections between sexuality and other variables, such as race, gender, class, age, economics, colonialism, and nationalism.
- Assess the public presentation of the history of sexuality in Canada through a short paper that critiques academic and popular websites, podcasts, and other social media focused on the sexual past.
- Analyze the links between the sexual past and present-day sexual politics through the research and writing of a paper that takes a current issue of sexuality as its starting point.