YEATES SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES
IMMIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT STUDIES
2015-16 COURSE SECTION FORM (UPDATE: JULY 25, 2016)
PRINT – Last name, First name
9-digit Student I.D. Number (must include)
Check one: TM001 (full-time) ____
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TM002 (part-time) ____
Ryerson E-mail address (if not available, your personal email address):
Request to add a course, circle 1st or 2nd choice. To DROP a registered course, circle DROP.
Refer to the document “Course Selection and Registration Instructions 2015-16” for detailed information and instructions:
http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/immigration/forms.html
Non-ISS students DO NOT use this form. See your program administrator for assistance in requesting ISS course
enrollment.
FALL 2015
Course
code
Title
IS8901
The Canadian Immigration Experience
Required
IS8903
Immigration Law, Policies, Politics,
Practices
Required
IS8923
IS8925
IS8930
IS8931
CC8836
IS8100A
Immigrants’ Voices in Canadian Literature
Global Migration & Population Movements
Race and Ethnic Relations
Refugee Issues
Selected Topics in Media and Culture: Our
Toronto - Our Food
Seminar & Field Placement
TENTATIVE
Schedule
Professor
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IS8902
The Settlement Experience in Canada
IS8904
Research Methods 1
IS8926
Women, Immigration & Settlement
IS8927
Immigrant Families & Intergenerational
Relations
SS8000
SS8001
S8100
Stat Analysis in Social Science Research*
IS8100B
Seminar & Field Placement
Advanced Qualitative Methods*
Urban Policy
Electives
Elective
(Non-ISS)
Course Selection
(Circle your choices)
Amina Jamal
Grace-Edward Galabuzi
Arthur Ross
Anver Saloojee
Kathleen Kellett-Betsos
Tariq Amin-Khan
Cheryl Teelucksingh
Henry Parada
Thu 14:00-17:00
Wed 18:00-21:00
Tue 13:00-16:00
Mon 18:00-21:00
Thu 18:00-21:00
Wed 11:00-14:00
Mon 12:00-15:00
Mon 9:00-12:00
1st
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1st
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1st
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Mustafa Koç
Mon 12:00-15:00
1st / 2nd / Drop
WINTER 2016
Farishta Dinshaw,
Required
f2dinsha@ryerson.ca
Sutama Ghosh
Required
TBA
Mehrunnisa Ali
Required
Carmen Schifellite
Sedef Arat-Koç
Electives
Vappu Tyyskä
Evening
[Periodic class meetings]
Day
Evening
Day
Evening
Day
Online*
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Winter term course
selection will be
available in
November after the
tentative schedules
have been released.
TBA
TBA
TBA
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TBA
SPRING/SUMMER 2016
Continuous enrollment in both W2016 and SS2016 terms is required.
Required
Periodic class meetings (6-9 pm) in May-August may or may not be scheduled to the
Electives
(Non-ISS)
same week night as it is in the Winter term.
Major Research Paper (MRP)
To request formal registration in the MRP research milestone, submit the MRP Proposal Approval form to the Program by the stated deadline. The
form must be signed by both the student & the MRP faculty supervisor. See the MRP Guidelines for further information
www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/immigration/forms.html
*Refer to information in the calendar description of the course in the pages following.
Student’s Signature
Date
Return this form to the program by email attachment (iss@ryerson.ca). Other methods of submission are indicated in the ISS
program online Student Handbook: http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/immigration/Handbook_ISS.html
Keep a copy of your course selection & the email as a record of submission.
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READ additional information in the “Course Selection/Registration Instructions” (online program’s Handbook > Forms & Guidelines – ISS
Program)
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Calendar course descriptions of courses offered in the academic year 2015-16
For a complete list of course descriptions visit the most current
Yeates School of Graduate Studies Calendar available at:
http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/currentstudents/calendarsanddates/calendars.html#cc
Major Research Paper (MRP)
As a capstone project, students will conduct specialized research on a topic of their choice. A draft proposal for this topic will be
developed through the required course IS8904 - Research Methods. The MRP research and writing will be conducted under
supervision of a faculty member selected by the student. The MRP will be evaluated by the supervisor and a second reader, and will
involve an oral review. This is a “Milestone”. Pass/Fail
Required Courses
S8100 A/B Seminar and Field Placement
This course prepares students to complete a 150-hour field placement at an organization engaged in immigration or settlement policy or
programs, allowing students to link classroom learning to work experience. During the Winter term, students attend presentations by
practitioners on policy, service delivery, and advocacy. Typically, students complete their placement during the Spring/Summer term.
Post-placement, students share their placement experiences at a symposium and submit a reflective report on their personal and
professional learning. Pass/Fail
IS 8901 The Canadian Immigration Experience
This course examines the Canadian immigration experience as an interplay of government policy towards newcomers, and the lives
immigrants have made for themselves through migration. Key themes explored in the Canadian approaches to immigrant admission
and integration include the significance of state authority, economic interests, presumptions of race and gender as drivers of
immigration policy. Transnationalism is then emphasized as central to understanding the experience of immigrants attached to both
Canada and their homeland. 1 Credit
IS 8902 The Settlement Experience in Canada
This course examines the experiences of immigrants and refugees who have settled in Canada, and the social, cultural and political
processes of their integration and/or marginalization. In this context, it explores immigrant-based institutions and social movements, and
equitable approaches to service provision and community development. Comparisons will occasionally be made to other countries.
Students will develop an understanding of the migrants’ lived experiences and the practical interventions that may reproduce or
challenge processes of marginalization. 1 Credit
IS 8903 Imm Law, Policies, Politics, & Practices
Immigration policy and law determine who is admitted to Canada. The formulation and implementation of immigration policy involves
the complex integration of factors such as demographic trends, labour market conditions, human rights and the well-being and
opportunity of immigrants. This course examines the politics of the decision-making process which defines Canadian immigration
policy. Students will be encouraged to focus on policy analysis from the perspective of the immigrant, practitioner and the critic of
immigration policy. 1 Credit
IS 8904 Research Meth. in Imm. & Sett. Studies
This course is designed to prepare students to work on their required Major Research Paper (MRP) with a faculty supervisor. The
principal components of this preparation are an articulation of one’s research topic of interest, a thorough review of the existing
literature on the topic, an overview of available methods, an explicit consideration of ethical issues in their research and student
conference-style presentations to their classmates of their research ideas and methodological choices. 1 Credit
Electives
IS8923 Immigrants’ Voices in Canadian Literature
The radical transformation of Canadian Literature into a robust body of writing occurred during the twentieth century, a period of intense
immigration to this country. This course will examine a range of work by newly arrived and not-so newly arrived writers and will consider
how identity is affected by the physical and cultural upheaval that characterizes the immigrant’s experience. Whether and how the “self”
is (re)constituted through immigration narratives will be considered. 1 Credit
IS 8925 Global Migration & Population Movements
Scholarly records demonstrate that geographic mobility, not permanence, has been dynamic in shaping human settlements around the
world. Historically the state often aimed to restrict population movements, however, sometimes it fostered migration through slavery,
deportation, and colonialism. Today, ecological factors, demographic and economic pressures, political instability, wars, and social
disruptions all precipitate voluntary and involuntary population movements. Interdisciplinary literature is reviewed, to compare patterns
of population movements and migrations, and gendered relations of displacement globally. 1 Credit
IS 8926 Women, Immigration, and Settlement
This course offers an analytical and theoretical orientation to understanding how immigrant women’s lives are shaped by the
intersection between gender, social class, race, ethnicity, and immigrant status. We will explore the history of Canadian immigrant
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women through the periods of colonization, agrarian transformation, nation state formation, industrialization, and globalization.
Through these time periods, we will uncover patterns in the shaping of immigrant women’s economic, political, and social rights,
together with the attendant changing historical images of immigrant women. Particular attention will be paid to the changing nature
of immigration policy, and immigrant women’s settlement experiences – focusing on the multiple effects of immigrant status, gender,
and race on employment and community life. 1 Credit
IS 8927 Imm. Families & Intergenerational Relations
This course will explore family and intergenerational relations in the immigration and settlement process, premised on an appreciation
of diversity in kinship and family structures. Continuities and changes in family relationships and roles are discussed, as they pertain to
family separation and reunification, and transnational family lives. The experiences of elders, adults, youth and children are analyzed, in
the light of the different sets of challenges they face in the receiving society. 1 Credit
Note: Since IS8927 is an online course, fictitious class day/hours will appear in the student’s class timetable. Information about the
course delivery will be provided by the course instructor to students who are registered in the course.
IS 8930 Race and Ethnic Relations
This course is constructed on the premise that racism and ethnocentrism have been and continue to be prominent features of Canadian
society, which have challenged the dominant institutions. The course will examine the historical roots, contemporary manifestations and
continual reproduction of racism, starting at the point of first contact between European colonizers and Aboriginal peoples, and
continuing to draw examples from the subsequent patterns of immigration including the most recent attention to racialized minority
immigrants. 1 Credit
IS 8931 Refugee Issues
Refugees are populations and individuals who have been displaced across and within borders for reasons of persecution, expulsion,
war, violence, and violations of fundamental human rights, security, and livelihood, including environmental causes. This course will
address the accommodation, protection, and assistance for refugees through asylum, settlement, resettlement and reintegration.
The policies and actions of governments and non-governmental organizations are explored critically, based on an analysis of the
multiple consequences on refugees' lives, of their displacement. 1 Credit
IS 8937 Directed Study
This course provides for individual directed study of a subject area in Immigration and Settlement Studies not available in the
curriculum. The course is carried out under the supervision of a faculty member, and requires a program of supervised study and
regular meetings between a student and a faculty member in an area of study related to the student’s area of research. 1 Credit
To request for IS8937 enrollment:
Complete the IS8937 Directed Study form available online at: ISS Handbook > Forms – ISS Program Forms
The form must be signed by the student, the course supervisor, and the Program Director before it may be submitted to the
Program Administrator for formal course enrollment
The form must be submitted to the Program Administrator before the last date to add a course in the term of course
registration
The form must have a course proposal attached.
Course Substitution
Courses below may be taken as a non-program elective course towards the MA degree in Immigration and Settlement Studies program
by way of “Course Substitution Request”. The request is subject to approval of the ISS Program Director. Course enrollment is subject
to space availability in the course. The request form must be submitted to the ISS program (iss@ryerson.ca) before the term in which
the non-program course is offered begins.
The Program Administrator will seek approval from the program director and the program that offers the course. “Course Substitution
Form – Graduate” is available for download at: ISS online Handbook > Forms – YSGS Forms.
CC8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture: Our Toronto - Our Food
This course looks at creation of cosmopolitan identity in the post-World War era in Toronto through the lens of food. During this period
Toronto’s image has been transformed from “Toronto the Good” to Toronto “the global city” and food and multicultural culinary
experiences in the city has been used extensively in commodifying and promoting this perception. This course will provide analytical
insights from literatures on multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, globalization and food studies to explore how cultural practices are
represented, how they change over time, and how differences are negotiated in diverse metropolitan settings. Students will get a
chance to work on a number of case studies on a selection of diasporic culinary traditions and their representation in the media in
Toronto. 1 credit
SS8000 Stat Analysis in Social Science Research
This course introduces students to advanced quantitative methods for generating and analyzing large social science data sets such
as those produced by Statistics Canada and other national and international statistics bureaus. Following a review of basic statistics
and probability, the course will cover topics such as the linear probability model, logistic regression, models for categorical and
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count data and factor analysis. The substantive questions and particular data sets to which these tools will be applied will be driven
by student interests. While students will gain knowledge of statistical theory, special attention will be paid to the practice of carrying
out analysis of complex data. For example, issues related to coding, missing data and the reporting and presentation of quantitative
results will be covered. 1 Credit
SS8001 Advanced Qualitative Methods
This course is specifically targeted at students who want to learn advanced qualitative research methods related to their MRPs,
theses or dissertation projects. It will provide advanced understanding and analysis of qualitative research and methods. This
course offers an opportunity to customize learning on various qualitative research methods directly related to graduate research
projects. 1 credit
SS8100 Urban Policy
This course is specifically targeted at graduate students from a number of different social science graduate programs who want to
wait an understanding of the major urban problems facing cities today and the effectiveness of alternative policy solutions to
address those problems. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on the Canadian case compared to cities around the world. 1
Credit.