Graduate Courses
Students enrolling in cross-listed courses should ensure that they select the course number designation appropriate for their degree program. For example, IGS students should enrol in the IGS version of a cross-listed course.
M.F.A | M.A. English | IGS M.A. | Ph.D.
The following courses will be offered during the 2017-18 academic year. Click on the course name below for a brief description.
2017 Term 1 & Term 2
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Instructor: Marie Loughlin
E: marie.loughlin@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Jodey Castricano
E: jodey.castricano@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Jordan Stouck
E: jordan.stouck@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Karis Shearer
E: karis.shearer@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Margaret Reeves
E: margaret.reeves@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Greg Garrard
E: greg.garrard@ubc.ca
This course will examine historical and cultural forms of domination particularly in relation to the "feminine" and nature.But most significantly, it will focus on the role of transformative ethical relations - or what Joanne Macy calls "ecocentrism" - to shape sustainable relations with the natural or, the more-than-human world. This course will also explore the "affective turn" in ecofeminism that has to do with adopting a trans-species episteme based on "the clear-sighted recognition of connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture" (Haraway, 1991) and will be predicated upon ethos of what philosopher Kelly Oliver has called "strange kinship", which is based "not on blood or on generation but on a shared embodiment and the gestures of love and friendship among living creatures made possible by bodies coexisting in a world on which we depend" (2009). Similarly, we will also examine areas areas germane to ecofeminism within the field of critical animal studies that, based on moral considerations or compassion towards the nonhuman, involve an "ethics of care", which is one that recognizes conditions of habitation and ecological principles inseparable from the larger environment.
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Instructor: Jodey Castricano
E: jodey.castricano@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Denise Kenney
E: denise.kenney@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Aleksandra Dulic
E: aleksandra.dulic@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Nancy Holmes
E: nancy.holmes@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Samuel Roy-Bois
E: samuel.roy-bois@ubc.ca
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Instructor: Samuel Roy-Bois
E: samuel.roy-bois@ubc.ca
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