Graduate Studies, Office of the Dean
York University
230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-5521
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New Course Proposal Template
The following information is required for all new course proposals. To facilitate the review/approval process, please
use the headings below (and omit the italicized explanations below each heading).
1. Programs: Graduate Program in Humanities
2. Course Number: 6500 3.0
3. Credit Value: 3 credits
4. Long Course Title: Advanced Practices and Methodologies in Humanities Research
5. Short Course Title: Advanced Humanities Research
This is the title that will appear on University documents where space is limited, such as transcripts
and lecture schedules. The short course title may be a maximum 40 characters, including punctuation
and spaces.
6. Effective Session: Winter 2016
7. Calendar (Short) Course Description:
This is the description of the course as it will appear in the University course repository and related
publications. Calendar (short) course descriptions should be written in the present tense and may be
a maximum of 60 words. Please include information with respect to any pre-/co-requisites and/or
crosslisting or integration in the course description. Please indicate if the language of instruction is
other than English.
The course provides PhD students with advanced tools for interdisciplinary Humanities
scholarship. As the only mandatory course in their degree, it ensures that students are well
versed in conducting, presenting and publishing research, with an emphasis on qualitative
methods. Students practice, and reflect on, the framing of research topics and fields as well as
the design and conducting of courses.
8. Expanded Course Description:
This is the detailed course description that will be published in course outlines, program handbooks,
etc.
The course provides PhD students with advanced tools for interdisciplinary Humanities
scholarship. As the capstone course in their degree, it ensures that students are well versed in
conducting, presenting and publishing research, with an emphasis on qualitative methods.
Students practice, and reflect on, the framing of research topics and fields as well as the design
and conducting of courses. They explore what constitutes a field of inquiry in interdisciplinary
Humanities research, investigate affordances and limitations of disciplinary traditions and
boundaries, and learn to identify approaches to scholarship that are relevant for their selected
areas. The course thus supports the preparation of comprehensive exam lists and dissertation
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York University
230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-5521
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proposals while also providing students with an advanced theoretical and methodological
apparatus for Humanities research.
9. Evaluation:
Please supply a detailed breakdown of course requirements, including the type and percentage value
of each assignment. The expectation is that course assignments can normally be accomplished
within the course period. If applicable, details regarding expectations and corresponding grading
requirements with respect to attendance and participation should be provided.
Critical literature review of a topic area in interdisciplinary Humanities –15 pages (20%)
Descriptions for general and specialized interdisciplinary areas in the Humanities – 15 pages
(30%)
Three syllabi – for a 1st year, 4th year, and graduate course (30%)
Class and online participation (20%).
10. Integrated Courses:
Graduate courses may be integrated only with undergraduate courses at the 4000-level, where it is
understood that 4000-level indicates an advanced level. Graduate students will be expected to do work
at a higher level than undergraduates. If the proposed course is to be integrated, please provide a
grading scheme that clearly differentiates between the work that undergraduate and graduate students
perform, including a description of how the work performed by graduate students is at a higher level. As
well, please indicate the course information for the undergraduate course (i.e., Faculty/unit/course
number/credit value) and include a statement from the relevant undergraduate chair or undergraduate
director indicating agreement to the integration.
N/A
11. Rationale:
Please indicate how the proposed course will contribute to the academic objectives of the program.
As well, please indicate the relationship of the proposed course to other existing options, particularly
with respect to focus/content/approach. If overlap with other existing courses exists, please indicate
the nature and extent of consultation that has taken place.
As part of their degree PhD students in Humanities are required to complete a comprehensive
examination which requires candidates to situate their primary area of research within clearly
defined fields of scholarly study in the Humanities, to demonstrate a sound knowledge of the
major scholarly works, actors, debates and methodologies that define and illuminate their fields
of scholarly study, and to present their fields as areas in which they can claim expertise, and
thus in which they will be able to conduct research and to teach. This course provides students
with experience in these areas and aid in their exam preparations. There is no overlap with
other courses. The course is only open to Humanities PhD students.
12. Faculty Resources:
Provide the names of faculty members in your program qualified to teach this course. Stipulate the
frequency with which you expect this course to be offered, including the impact that this course will have
on faculty resources.
Susan Ingram, Mark Reisenleitner, Victor Shea.
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York University
230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-5521
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The course will be offered each year as part of the Humanities program’s course offerings
(replacing a 3.0 elective). Thus, this course will not have an impact on faculty resources.
13. Crosslisted Courses:
Crosslisted courses are offered between two or more graduate programs. For crosslisted courses,
please include a statement of agreement from the director of the other graduate program(s).
N/A
14. Bibliography and Library Statement:
Please provide an appropriate and up-to-date bibliography in standard format. A statement from the
University librarian responsible for the subject area certifying that adequate library resources are
available for the new course must be provided.(Kathy will worry about the statement from the library)
Bibliography
Adorno, Theodor W., and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment. London: Verso, 1986.
Print.
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1998. Print.
Alasuutari, Pertti. Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies. London ;
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1995. Print.
Alexander, M. Jacqui, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies,
Democratic Futures. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.
Bal, Mieke. Travelling Concepts in the Humanities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Print.
Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. G. Allen & Co; Macmillan, 1929. Print.
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London; New York: Routledge, 1994. Print.
Blumenberg, Hans. Work on Myth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. Print.
Burgin, Victor. In/different Spaces Place and Memory in Visual Culture. University of California
Press, 1996. Print.
Buss, Helen M., and Marlene Kadar. Working in Women’s Archives: Researching Women’s
Private Literature and Archival Documents. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University
Press, 2001. Print.
Certeau, Michel de. The Writing of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Print.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Historiography.” Nepantla: Views
from South 1.1 (2000): 9–32. Print.
Davies, Ioan. Cultural Studies and beyond: Fragments of Empire. London ; New York:
Routledge, 1995. Print.
Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. New York: Basic Books, 2003. Print.
Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane; the Nature of Religion. New York: Harcourt, Brace,
1959. Print.
Gadamer, Hans Georg. Truth and Method. New York: Crossroad, 1989. Print.
Gallagher, Catherine, and Stephen Greenblatt. Practicing New Historicism. Chicago; London:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. Print.
Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York:
Basic Books, 1983. Print.
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York University
230 York Lanes - 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-5521
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Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. London ; New York:
Verso, 1993. Print.
Grossberg, Lawrence. Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. Durham [NC]: Duke University
Press, 2010. Print.
Hall, Stuart. “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities.” October 53
(1990): 11–23. Print.
Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. Print.
James, Allison, Jennifer Lorna Hockey, and Andrew H. Dawson, eds. After Writing Culture :
Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology. London ; New York: Routledge,
1997. Print.
LaCapra, Dominick. Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1983. Print.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques. New York: Atheneum, 1974. Print.
Lukács, György. The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of
Great Epic Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: M. I. T. Press, 1971. Print.
Marcus, George E., and Michael M. J. Fischer. Anthropology as Cultural Critique : An
Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Print.
McGuigan, Jim. Culture and the Public Sphere. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print.
Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.” Representations 26
(1989): 7–25. Print.
Payne, Michael. Life after Theory. London ; New York: Continuum, 2003. Print.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London; New York:
Routledge, 1992. Print.
Radstone, Susannah, ed. Memory and Methodology. Oxford: Berg, 2000. Print.
Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Print.
Rothberg, Michael. Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of
Decolonization. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. Print.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds : Essays in Cultural Politics. New York:
Methuen, 1987. Print.
White, Hayden V. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. Print.
Williams, Raymond. The Long Revolution. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1971. Print.
15. Physical Resources:
Please provide a statement regarding the adequacy of physical resources (equipment, space, labs,
etc.), including whether or not additional/other physical resources are required and how the need for
these additional/other physical resources will be met.
The physical resources at York are fully adequate: a seminar room equipped with internet and
a/v facilities is all that is required.
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