Local Leadership ans Social Change in Brazil (course offered in English)

This three-week field research course brings students to Brazil’s Cacao Coast to work with rural community associations on documenting their history, activities, and networks. Local leadership (lideranças) have successfully founded grassroots associations supporting concerns such as agroecology, sustainable traditional labour (e.g. fishing), health (particularly maternal health), questions of race and gender, and migration and community tourism. Students will work in teams of four with an association and a subject matter expert / translator to put anthropological research techniques into practice. Mornings will be spent doing participant observation and interviews on site, with afternoons for fieldnotes, classroom discussion, and analysis. During the last week, the teams will produce an audio-visual or written archive of findings for the associations’ future use. These will be shared at a final community networking event for all participants.

This course is offered in English to undergraduate students from August 1 to 22 2023.

Professor Contact Information

Professor Meg Stalcup
School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies

Contact Information: [email protected], Please put ‘Brazil course’ and your name in the subject heading

Telephone number: 613-562-5800 ext. 7679, Room FSS 10008

Office Hours : Tuesdays 2:30 to 4:30 PM, and by appointment

Here you will find a video, posters and assignments of the summer 2022 class: Brazil Summer 2022 Field Research Course 

Course Outline

• 2023 (PDF)
• 2022 (PDF, 2.9 MB)
• 2021 (PDF, 6.9 MB)
• 2020 (PDF, 8.0 MB)
• 2019 (PDF, 1,083 KB)

Comparative Models of Practice and Training in Clinical Psychology: Cross National Perspectives (Course offered in English)

The goal of this three-week intensive course is to undertake a comparative analysis of the models of practice and training in clinical psychology and psychotherapy in North America and in Europe, with Italy and Canada serving as case examples. By studying and comparing diverse models of practice and training, students will gain in-depth knowledge of what constitutes clinical training in psychology and psychotherapy, the impact on the practice of clinical psychology and psychotherapy, and on access to quality mental health care. Differing models of practice and training may reflect diverse cross-national values regarding mental health and treatment, and may be affected by social, cultural, historical, and economic factors. For students completing a degree outside of the field of psychology this course will help to develop knowledge related to cross national perspectives on mental health, and to develop skills at interviewing and integrating information from various sources that can be transferred to other fields.

This course is offered in English at the undergraduate level, from May 20 to June 9 2023.

Professor Contact Information

Giorgio A. Tasca, Ph.D.
School of Psychology, room VNR4026

email: [email protected]

Office hours : by appointment

Course Outline

• 2023 (PDF)

Divisions, Reconciliation and Unity: The indigenous experience in Canada (Course offered in English only to masters and 4th year students only)

In 2021, the uncovering of 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan sparked a national uproar across Canada, pushing reconciliation to the forefront of the minds of Canadians. Reconciliation covers a broad range of current and historical issues including the recognition of legal rights, governance, land tenure and ownership, and various social issues including health, education, and policing.  First Nations, Inuit and Métis people are making considerable advances toward self-determination, the right to freely pursue their own governance and socio-economic development. Once the long road to reconciliation is finally achieved, how can Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada live in harmony with each other? To become a unified nation where all can live harmoniously, a renewed nation-to-nation relationship of legal and cultural pluralism is essential. But what does it look like in concrete terms?  From an Indigenous perspective, this course will explore the complex historical and present-day divisions and experiences of their peoples.

Examining how reconciliation can be achieved via politics, law, economics, and culture, we will then explore how future unification between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can occur through governance, decolonization, and socio-economic development. The course will also include some guest lectures from German professors from the University of Rostock, who will compare the Canadian experience of divisions, reconciliation and unity with the German experience. These guest lectures will hopefully show some avenues of learning between the two countries. 

This course is offered in English to Master's students and 4th year undergraduate students, from August 5 to 19 2023.

Professor Contact Information

Daniel Stockemer
School of Political Studies. FSS7076
[email protected]
Telephone: 613-562-5800 ext 2696

Office Hours: by appointment

Course Outline

• 2023 (PDF)

La migration des mineur.e.s non accompagné.e.s et des jeunes au Maroc (course offered in French only)

This three-week field research course will examine the phenomenon of migration of sub-Saharan and Moroccan minors and young adults through the study of public action - local and international, institutional, and community - in Morocco. The Cherifian kingdom is a privileged place for the study of irregular migration of children and young people to Europe because it is not only a place of departure, but also a place of more or less constrained and durable settlement, and a place of voluntary or forced return, both for young sub-Saharans and for young Moroccans.

In addition to formal meetings and interviews with actors in the field in Casablanca and Rabat, the course will include seminars by the professor and other Moroccan and international researchers, as well as periods of observation in some public places. In addition to acquiring knowledge on the theme of the course, opportunities will be provided for students to produce their own knowledge. Through immersive and practical experiences, the course will enable students to develop collective research skills

This course is offered in French at the undergraduate level, from May 6 to 26 2023.

Professor Contact Information

Professor Stéphanie Garneau
School of Social Work
[email protected]

Telephone: 613-562-5800 ext. 2012

Room FSS12036

Office hours: Thursday 2 to 5 p.m. (preferably by appointment)

Course Outline

• 2023 (PDF) in French only