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Yeates School of Graduate Studies

Immigration and Settlement Studies

2015-16 Course Section Form (Update: July 13, 2015)

PRINT – Last name, First name / 9-digit Student I.D. Number (must include)
Check one: TM001 (full-time) ____ OR 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 / Professor / TENTATIVE
Schedule / Course Selection
(Circle your choices)
IS8901 / The Canadian Immigration Experience / Required / Amina Jamal / Thu 14:00-17:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
Grace-Edward Galabuzi / Wed 18:00-21:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
IS8903 / Immigration Law, Policies, Politics, Practices / Required / Arthur Ross / Tue 13:00-16:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
Anver Saloojee / Mon 18:00-21:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
IS8923 / Immigrants’ Voices in Canadian Literature / Electives / Kathleen Kellett-Betsos / Thu 18:00-21:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
IS8925 / Global Migration & Population Movements / Tariq Amin-Khan / Wed 11:00-14:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
IS8930 / Race and Ethnic Relations / Cheryl Teelucksingh / Mon 12:00-15:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
IS8931 / Refugee Issues / Henry Parada / Mon 9:00-12:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
CC8836 / Selected Topics in Media and Culture: Our Toronto - Our Food / Elective (Non-ISS) / Mustafa Koç / Mon 12:00-15:00 / 1st / 2nd / Drop
WINTER 2016
IS8100A / Seminar & Field Placement [1] / Required / Farishta Dinshaw, / Evening
[Periodic class meetings] / Winter term course selection will be available in November after the tentative schedules have been released.
IS8902 / The Settlement Experience in Canada / Required / Sutama Ghosh / Day
TBA / Evening
IS8904 / Research Methods 1 / Required / Mehrunnisa Ali / Day
Carmen Schifellite / Evening
IS8926 / Women, Immigration & Settlement / Electives / Sedef Arat-Koç / Day
IS8927 / Immigrant Families & Intergenerational Relations / Vappu Tyyskä / Online*
SS8000 / Stat Analysis in Social Science Research* / Electives (Non-ISS) / TBA / TBA
SS8001 / Advanced Qualitative Methods* / TBA / TBA
S8100 / Urban Policy / TBA / TBA
SPRING/SUMMER 2016
IS8100B / Seminar & Field Placement / Required / Continuous enrollment in both W2016 and SS2016 terms is required.
Periodic class meetings (6-9 pm) in May-August may or may not be scheduled to the 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 (). 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.
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

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 () 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

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.

[1] READ additional information in the “Course Selection/Registration Instructions” (online program’s Handbook Forms & Guidelines – ISS Program)