Courses

Course: ANTH 389: Topics in Anthropology | Anthropology of the Body
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Leslie Dawson

Beginning in the 1980s, the body, as a social and cultural artifact, became a central focus for anthropology and related fields. Moving beyond the initial refutations of “the body” as a natural, universal object, this course highlights current understandings of the body as simultaneously subject and object, meaningful and material, individual and social. We problematize the body and explore various conceptualizations from the lived experience of the individual body as self, to representative uses of the social body as a symbol of nature, society, and culture, to the surveillance, control, and regulation of political bodies and ways in which bodies resist mechanisms of power. Through the lens of embodiment, this course emphasizes the multiplicity of bodies and how lived and emplaced bodies reflect sociocultural practices, discourses, identities, images, and (unequal) relationships in a variety of ethnographic, socioeconomic, and political contexts.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in one of ANTH 206, ANTH 207, ANTH 208, or ANTH 209.

Permission Required: No

Course: ANTH 389: Topics in Anthropology | Indian Residential School Experience
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS02
Day and Time: Mondays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
Instructor: Shelby LaFramboise

This course is designed for participants to intersect with the legacy of the Canadian Indian Residential Schools’ experience. Participants will have the opportunity to explore foundational knowledge to garner deeper understandings of the legacy of colonial policy and practices on Indigenous children. These experiences have marked not only First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children but continue to have long-lasting and intergenerational effects and affects on both the lived Indigenous experience and the relational lived experience of non-indigenous Canadians. Students will consider the implications for language, culture, and ceremonial loss. This course will help participants unpack the legacy of fractured individual and familial roles and current revitalization efforts and/or sustainability towards healthy relationships. Students will understand the significance of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission towards truthful Canadian history and bringing this dark period of time to light so all Canadians might understand the false and/or void history. This knowledge is crucial towards ethical relational space/s. Participants are encouraged to get curious, interrupt their personal understandings and/or familial knowledge systems. Participants will work together to unpack learning, interrupt frameworks and work together towards cultural and historical safety telling practices.

Prerequisites: Minimum second year standing (24 credits) and department consent.

Permission Required: Yes

How to Enrol: This section of ANTH 389 is open to all degree students. Students can request a permission number from the Arts and Science Advising Office by filling out this Google form. Permission numbers will be given to students who fulfill the prerequisites in the order in which they are received.

Course: ANTH 497: Topics in Anthropology | Paleopathology
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Treena Swanston

This seminar course is an examination of ancient disease, nutrition, and activity in past populations focusing on the gross description, diagnosis, and interpretation of human skeletal and dental lesions. The first part of this course will provide background information including the history of, and current issues in paleopathology, osteobiographical methods, skeletal and dental biology, and paleopathological techniques. This will be followed by an introduction to the most common pathological conditions affecting human remains.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in ANTH 209 and a 300-level ANTH required; ANTH 390 recommended.

Permission Required: Yes

How to Enrol: Students can request a permission number from the Arts and Science Advising Office at artsandscience@macewan.ca starting at 8:30 a.m. on the morning of their enrolment appointment. Permission numbers will be given to students who fulfill the prerequisites in the order in which they are received. One permission number request per email please.

Course: ANTH 497: Topics in Anthropology | The Anthropology of Immigration
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS02
Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Long

This seminar course explores anthropological approaches to immigration and human movement. Anthropology is uniquely suited to inquire about everyday experiences of migration as they connect to national discourses, legal processes, and transnational trends concerning the movement of bodies around the globe. Ethnographic studies of migration center questions of power, access, and resources in a way to help us reflect on our assumptions about who migrates, and why? In this course, we will explore studies that have delved into questions surrounding the legality of migration and investigated the ways host communities react to the presence of non-nationals. Each class will begin with a 'framing lecture', followed by students' analysis and debate about our weekly readings and media.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in one of ANTH 206, ANTH 207, ANTH 208, or ANTH 209 and a minimum grade of C- in any 300-level ANTH course.

Permission Required: No

Course: ECON 357: Topics in Applied Economics | Introduction to Financial Economics
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Yixuan Li

This course is an introduction to financial economics. We will examine how individuals and financial firms allocate scarce resources over time, as well as the markets on which they rely to do so. The first part of the course will cover the main tenets of mean variance portfolio theory with the purpose of determining efficient portfolios and selecting the optimal portfolio. The second part will focus on standard equilibrium pricing models, such as CAPM. As a final part of the course, we will cover the pricing of debt and equity instruments in their respective markets, along with an introduction to the pricing of options and other derivatives.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in ECON 101

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 304: Topics in European Politics | Policy Making in the European Union
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Andrea Wagner

This course is designed to provide students with in-depth knowledge and foster in them a sound understanding of the achievements and challenges of the European Union (EU) specifically during the current global pandemic. The course is divided into three parts. The first part seeks to familiarize the students with the institutional structure of the EU with a heavy focus on the functioning of the institutions of the European Union and the provisions of the Treaties on which the institutional life of the EU is premised. The study of the institutional life, political dilemmas and historical background of the European integration process will allow us to critically examine policymaking in the EU. The second part of the course will observe the complex processes that underpin decision-making in the EU, the juxtaposition and harmony between supranational and intergovernmental modes of decision-making, the co-existence and interaction between European and national policies. The third part of the course covers the current developments within the European Union and will address the EU’s role in the fight of COVID-19, the problem of enlargement and the rise of right- wing/ left-wing populist parties and other Eurosceptic actors.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in POLS 200.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 349: Topics in Global Politics | International Security
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Jeffrey Rice

This course examines contemporary and emerging threats in international security, with a focus on both international and regional dynamics. The objectives of this course are three-fold: First, to familiarize students with the major theories, concepts, and debates in contemporary security studies. Second, to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing security issues facing the international system today, including: nuclear proliferation, civil wars and state fragility, civil-military relations, and military coups, among others. Third, to critically examine why some issues become ‘security issues’ as opposed to others and what the effect of securitizing an issue has on how we try to address it.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in POLS 264.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 390: Topics in Political Science | Urban Crises and Wellness
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Marielle Papin

In this course, we will identify the different environmental, social, and economic crises urban residents recurrently experience. The interconnectedness and simultaneity of these crises have forced us to reconsider municipal siloed problem-solving processes. Urban wellness offers a holistic perspective of how to deal with compound urban crises and improve the lives of urban dwellers.

We will discuss current policies and governance interventions to manage these crises and their limitations, while reflecting on the phenomenon and concept of urban wellness, which offers promising answers to the challenges of compound urban crises and their management. We will pay particular attention to how urban wellness considers questions of inclusion and social justice.

Seeking answers from a variety of fields, this course will feature interventions from diverse scholars and practitioners of urban wellness policies and governance. It is meant as an introductory course on urban wellness.

Prerequisites: Third year standing with at least 6 credits in any combination of courses from Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science.

Permission Required: Yes

How to Enrol: Students can request a permission number from the Arts and Science Advising Office at artsandscience@macewan.ca starting at 8:30 a.m. on the morning of their enrolment appointment. Permission numbers will be given to students who fulfill the prerequisites in the order in which they are received. One permission number request per email please.

Course: POLS 410: Topics in Political Philosophy | Politics of Reasonableness
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Gaelan Murphy

This course is an attempt at a return to the philosophic mode of posing practical and political questions through the art of dialectic and awareness of the ontological significance of hermeneutic consciousness, and the cultivation of phronesis, reasonableness, a non-rule governed mode of deliberation and judgement. To do this we have to understand the terms under discussion, both what they might mean and what their justification might be. This involves reading and learning what Hans-georg Gadamer has to say, from whom these ideas are drawn. However, in the spirit of practical philosophy we should also do this, that is we will attempt to cultivate and apply reasonableness to areas of common and contemporary concern.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in POLS 214 and POLS 215, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 424: Advanced Topics Can Politics | State Authority in Canada: Anti-constitutionalism, Uprisings, Separatism, and Other Challenges
Term: Winter 2023
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. John Soroski

Both recent and past history in Canada offers numerous examples of large and small, sometimes direct sometimes indirect, challenges to the constitutional authority of the state, contestation between contending authorities, or oversteps of authority by state actors. What are the implications of these different contests and what claims of morality are at issue in assessing such events? How should the state or contending governments respond to such challenges? How should citizens, groups, and courts respond when the state is the offender?

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in POLS 225.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 444: Topics in Policy Studies | Theory and Practice of Policy Evaluation
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Brendan Boyd

How do we know whether a policy has met its goals or what impact it has? This course focuses on the outputs of the political and the policy process to measure and assess the effectiveness of government policy interventions. The question is a critical, although understudied, component of public policy and democratic governance. The course includes the study of theories, approaches and models of policy evaluation and the role of evidence in policy decisions. Working with government, private or community partners, students will perform an actual evaluation on a policy, program or initiative to determine its impact and whether it has met its intended goals. Students will complete the course with practical skills and knowledge that can applied while working in the field of policy making and analysis.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in POLS 244.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 490: Advanced Topics in Political Science | Politics of Memory, Truth, Reconciliation and Beyond
Term: Winter 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Chong Su Kim

“Learning from history” or “what the past can teach us” presupposes both a solid line separating the past from the present and the out-there history assuring the stable past with archived lessons waiting to be excavated. While history served as a key architect for nation-state building since the Enlightenment, memories have emerged as a key building-block of post-colonial, -modern, and -truth eras. In recent decades, politics of memory is deeply embedded into key political and historical events such as Holocaust, Apartheid, democratic transitions, and the war in Ukraine. Politics of memory uneathes the past and buries the future, while it looks backward to move forward.

This course explore how politics of memory invervenes into the present and remember the future and how critical memory reclaims and negotiates the past. This course examines basic concepts of collective and counter-memory; key mnemonic themes including commemoration, amnesia, nostalgia, and guilt and repentance; and cases of memory practices such top-down truth and reconciliation commissions around the world including Canada and bottom-up memory activism.

Prerequisites: Minimum grades of C- in POLS 200, POLS 214, POLS 215, POLS 224, POLS 225, POLS 244, and POLS 264, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: ECON 357: Topics in Applied Economics | Inequality and Poverty in Canada
Term: Spring/Summer 2024
Section: OP01
Instructor: Dr. Abdallah Zalghout

This course focuses on the measurement and analysis of inequality and poverty in Canada. We introduce various indices for assessing inequality and poverty, exploring the estimation and interpretation of their levels and trends using Canadian microdata. The examination extends across different socio-economic groups, characterized by factors such as race, indigenous identity, immigration status and education level.

Prerequisites: Minimum grades of C - in ECON 101 or ECON 102, and one of ECON 289, MATH 114, STAT 151, or STAT 161.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 390: Topics in Political Science | 20th Century Political Thought
Term: Spring/Summer 2024
Section: OP01
Instructor: Luke Sandle

This course examines the key political thinkers and issues of the 20th Century. We will look at thinkers who articulated some of the 20th Century’s most well known political projects: totalitarianism; communism; liberalism; populism; human rights; imperialism. We will look at some of the central dilemmas to emerge from these projects, such as justifications for political violence; the ethical implications of wielding state power; whether there can be “too much” democracy; the place of religion in public life. We will also examine some of the critical and reactionary movements of the twentieth century: the birth of “social movements”; conservative reactions to liberalism or “progressivism”; and movements that declare themselves “anti-imperial”. Our main aim is to isolate the twentieth century as a century of novelty, dynamism and acceleration. Why were there so many grand and ambitious projects in the twentieth century? What do those projects – and the reactions to them – tell us about the capacities of human beings? How do we sift through and weigh up the various normative claims and projects of the twentieth century, given the totalizing and demanding claims they make on us?

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in a 200 level course in Political Science.

Permission Required: No

Course: ANTH 389: Topics in Anthropology | Oral History of the North American First Nations
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Judy Half

This course examines oral history through the understanding and perspective of story and narrative used among Treaty Six First Nations in western Canada. Within an anthropological framework, the grounded and specific oral history approach provides an alternative lens of inquiry to understand how distinct groups such as the Plains Cree use their intellectual knowledge systems as distinct identities and language systems that link to the land, animals, spirituality, and cosmos.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in ANTH 250 or permission of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: ANTH 497: Topics in Anthropology | Beaded Sexualities: Indigenous Arts-Based Resurgence
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Brittany Johnson

Beads are more than simply a part of material cultures and artistic practice - they are our relatives and teachers. This seminar course will introduce students to research-creation and how it intersects with critical Indigenous theories such as decolonization and resurgence, with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive justice. Relationality will be core to both theoretical readings and engagement with beads as teachers. Storytelling from an Indigenous perspective will be a major component. Students will learn basic and advanced beading stitches to create a few smaller and one final beaded project.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in ANTH 250, one of ANTH 206, ANTH 207, ANTH 208, or ANTH 209, and any 300-level ANTH course.

Permission Required: Yes

Course: ECON 443: Topics in Financial Economics | Risk Management and Derivatives
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Yixuan Li

This advanced financial economics course provides students with specialized knowledge of risk management and derivatives, integral components of modern financial markets. The focus will be on quantitatively evaluating the risks associated with financial investments and hedging using financial derivatives. The course is designed to prepare students for roles that necessitate effective risk management using derivatives in professional financial environments.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in one of FNCE 301 or ECON 442, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 444: Topics in Policy Studies | Theory and Practice of Policy Evaluation
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Brendan Boyd

How do we know whether a policy has met its goals or what impact it has? This course focuses on the outputs of the political and the policy process to measure and assess the effectiveness of government policy interventions. The question is a critical, although understudied, component of public policy and democratic governance. The course includes the study of theories, approaches and models of policy evaluation and the role of evidence in policy decisions. Working with government, private or community partners, students will perform an actual evaluation on a policy, program or initiative to determine its impact and whether it has met its intended goals. Students will complete the course with practical skills and knowledge that can applied while working in the field of policy making and analysis.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in POLS 244.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 461: Topics - International Politics | Human Rights Norms and Their Implementation
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Chaldeans Mensah

This course explores human rights governance in the post-Second War period, focusing on the theory and practice of human rights, tracing the evolution of human rights regimes in the UN system since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. It analyzes how our conceptions of human rights have been broadened by these regimes and contributed to the establishment of norms for a culture of human rights around the world. The course addresses the contestation of universal human rights principles by state and non-state actors using the notion of cultural relativism and the rejection of imposition of “western” notions of human rights on their societies. The course critically assesses the disconnect between the embrace of new norms of human rights expressed in the global-level regimes and the backsliding in their implementation at the state-level by looking at cases of human rights challenges in both the Global South and Global North.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in POLS 264.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 470: Selected Topics-Comp. Politics | Social Justice and Contentious Politics
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Chong-su Kim

This seminar course aims to provide students with an understanding of contentious politics outside the bounds of institutional politics that confront a wide array of social injustices. In other words, this course focuses on two types of problems. Firstly, this course examines various global social justice movements that combat social injustice, including exploitation, oppression, violence, inequality, discrimination, marginalization, and disempowerment. The second aspect of this course is that it focuses on the contentious politics that have transformed politics over the past few decades outside of the domain of institutional politics. The scope of this course will touch on several major theoretical approaches to the study of contentious politics and social justice. Furthermore, this course will address environmental justice, class justice, gender, sexual minority and indigenous justice, as well as urban justice, migration justice, and global social justice movements as concrete and empirical manifestations of these theories.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in POLS 200.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 490: Advanced Study in Political Science | Politics of Information
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Jeffery Rice

This course examines the politics of knowledge and information in the context of national and international security. Although disinformation campaigns and fake news have garnered significant attention in recent years, especially when used by foreign powers, the act of using information as a tool (or weapon) is not new. In order to better understand the present-day concerns surrounding information and disinformation, this course examines the politicization and weaponization of information in contemporary and historical settings. Some of the core topics that will be covered in the course include: the history of state-sponsored propaganda, the role of mass communications in conflict, disinformation campaigns and their impact on electoral integrity, the rise of fake news and conspiracy theories, and seemingly more benign topics, but no less consequential, such as the politics of education, music, and movies.

Prerequisites: Minimum grades of C- in POLS 200, POLS 214, POLS 215, POLS 224, POLS 225, POLS 244, and POLS 264, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: ANTH 389: Topics in Anthropology | Oral History of the North American First Nations
Term: Winter 2025
Section: AS01
Instructor: Judy Half

This course examines oral history through the understanding and perspective of story and narrative used among Treaty Six First Nations in western Canada. Within an anthropological framework, the grounded and specific oral history approach provides an alternative lens of inquiry to understand how distinct groups such as the Plains Cree use their intellectual knowledge systems as distinct identities and language systems that link to the land, animals, spirituality, and cosmos.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in ANTH 250 or permission of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: ANTH 497: Topics in Anthropology | Anthropology and Science Fiction
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS01
Instructor: Katie Biittner

In order to satisfy Anthropology’s prime directive, this course will draw on classic and contemporary anthropological themes in science fiction from a holistic, four field approach. As such, students will boldly go where few MacEwan students have gone before and examine readings from key figures in anthropological thought and theory in conversation with selections from science fiction in many of its forms (TV, literature, and film). Cross-cultural comparison will be used to illuminate various constructions of what science fiction is and could be. The topics and themes encountered may include human evolution, cyborgs and cybernetics, race and racism, gender, human environment interactions, translation, language, archaeology, culture contact, colonialism, and answers to “the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything” (Adams 1980). Spoiler: it’s not 42.

Prerequisites: Minimum of C- in one of ANTH 206, ANTH 207, ANTH 208, or ANTH 209 and a minimum grade of C- in any 300-level ANTH course.

Permission Required: No

Course: ANTH 497: Topics in Anthropology | Gender and the Body
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS02
Instructor: Leslie Dawson

Beginning in the 1980s, the body, as a social and cultural artifact, became a keen focus for anthropologists. At the same time, understandings of gender were broadening and intersecting with a variety of identities within systems of power and oppression. Through the lens of gender, we examine cross-cultural and historical variations in how societies understand and experience the human body as a site upon which socio-cultural processes are inscribed, where power relations converge and are articulated, and as sites of oppression and resistance. In this seminar, we connect major theoretical approaches to gender and the body to contemporary issues, and explore gendered bodies as naturalized, medicalized, commodified, sexualized, racialized, colonized, and nationalized.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in one of ANTH 206, ANTH 207, ANTH 208, or ANTH 209 and a minimum grade of C- in any 300-level ANTH course.

Permission Required: No

Course: ECON 357: Topics in Applied Economics | Introduction to Financial Economics
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS01
Instructor: Yixuan Li

This course provides an overview of the foundational theories in financial economics and their practical applications. It introduces key concepts related to financial markets, financial institutions, and risk management from an economics perspective, and serves as a crucial precursor to advanced-level courses in Financial Economics. The primary goal is to equip students with insights into the decision-making processes of individuals, businesses, and governments regarding financial resources and the consequential impact on resource allocation.

Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in ECON 101

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 390: Topics in Political Science | Modern Politics of East Asia
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS01
Instructor: Chong-su Kim

This course explores and compares modern politics in East Asian countries: China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Taiwan. This course aims to understand the modern political development of East Asia by appreciating the commonalities and differences of East Asian countries. It addresses themes of political institutions, political economy, political culture, political changes, recent political development and challenges, non-state political actors, and the region’s global impact and future.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in a 200 level course in Political Science.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 410: Topics in Political Philosophy | Political Theology and the Problem of Evil
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS01
Instructor: Gaelan Murphy

“But what would a disagreement be, which we could not settle, and would cause us to be enemies and to be angry with each other? Perhaps you cannot give an answer offhand; but let me suggest it. Is it not about right and wrong, noble and disgraceful, and good and bad? Are these not the questions about which you and I and other people become enemies, when we do become enemies, because we differ about them and cannot come to any satisfactory agreement?” Plato, Euthyphro Contrary to conventional accounts that understand politics variously in terms of a conflict over interest, over power, or over ideas, this course examines the suggestion that politics, human beings living together in a political community, is rooted in theological commitments that are prior to and define our differing interests, power relations, and ideas.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in POLS 214 and POLS 215, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 490: Advanced Study in Political Science | Politics of Memory
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS01
Instructor: Chong-su Kim

“Learning from history” or “what the past can teach us” presupposes a solid line separating the past from the present and the out-there history, assuring the stable past with archived lessons waiting to be excavated. While history served as a crucial architect for nation-state building since the Enlightenment, memories have emerged as an essential building block of post-colonial, -modern, and -truth eras. In recent decades, the politics of memory has been deeply embedded into critical political and historical events such as the Holocaust, Apartheid, democratic transitions, and the wars in Ukraine and Palestine. The politics of memory unearths the past and buries the future while it looks backward to move forward.

Prerequisites: Minimum grades of C- in POLS 200, POLS 214, POLS 215, POLS 224, POLS 225, POLS 244, and POLS 264, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: POLS 490: Advanced Study in Political Science | Theories of Policy Process
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS02
Instructor: Brendan Boyd

How is public policy made? How are we to make sense of the various influences that shape and constrain governments’ policy choices? In this course, we examine the different theoretical approaches that have been designed to explain the process through which policy is developed. We examine these theories’ origins and their different iterations to understand their strengths and weaknesses. We assess how these theories are used in contemporary policy making by applying them to the societal issues that policymakers are currently addressing. These include, but are not limited to, pandemics, climate change, economic development, healthcare reform and technology and innovation.

Prerequisites: Minimum grades of C- in POLS 200, POLS 214, POLS 215, POLS 224, POLS 225, POLS 264, and either POLS 244 or POLS 265, or consent of the department.

Permission Required: No

Course: URBW 497: Topics in Urban Wellness | Global Perspectives on Urban Wellness
Term: Winter 2025
Term: AS01
Instructor: Marielle Papin

In this course, we will further the analysis of urban wellness looking at how cities around the world understand and practice it. We will analyze differences between cities from developed and developing countries, or between global, large and small municipalities. We will also look at how cities work collectively on urban wellness, particularly through transnational networks and partnerships. We will discuss the involvement of private actors, including philanthropic foundations and companies, in the governance of urban wellness. We will use an interdisciplinary lens on urban wellness, building on fields such as political science, anthropology, economics, geography, or urban planning.

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in URBW 389 or permission of the Department.

Permission Required: No