Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2893H1S L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL493H1S L0101
Topics in Politics I
Writing About Politics
Themes
How does literature help us understand politics and justice? Is there a tension between literary and political goals and how have writers handled this tension? How can we convey our political ideas using narrative techniques? This class will explore these questions by examining political themes in a range of literary works (historical fiction, memoire, literary non-fiction, science fiction). In this course, students will learn about the conventions of these genres, and they will also have the opportunity to write an original piece in one of the genres.
Texts
Required readings include books and essays by George Orwell, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Kafka, and Dostoevsky.
Format and Requirements
One two-hour seminar per week. This course combines the academic analysis of political writing with the workshop method employed in creative writing courses.
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...