Date Posted: 07/16/2026 Req ID: 49440Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Munk Sch Global Affairs & Public Policy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Course number and title: EIP3000H: Coordinating Seminar: Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies

Course description: 

The course is organized around the three pillars of the Harney Collaborative Specialization: ethnicity (and other predicates of groupness), immigration, and pluralism. Academic and political debates around each of these topics are marked by antinomies: Are ethnicity, race, and nationhood substantive categories, deeply rooted in culture, or are they constructed either through the choices of individuals or the machinations of interest-seeking elites? Is immigration a specific mode of human migration, premised on the organization of the world into a sy...