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Many courses across the University of Edinburgh include a Canadian component. We give our students the platform to understand the world and be part of influencing positive change.
Across all our programmes of undergraduate and postgraduate study, students are encouraged to question the social, political and technological systems and structures that surround us.
Our teaching staff are some of the world’s leading experts in their fields. They bring their research into the classroom, so students’ education benefits from the latest findings. And they are dedicated to supporting the next generation of professionals and academics, to continue their work in exploring social and political life.
Undergraduate course
At the undergraduate level the Centre offers a team-taught honours level optional course:
Multiculturalism was invented in Canada. It was a way to recognize the cultural diversity of its immigrant communities, and later a means by which Canada distinguished itself from the United States' 'melting pot.' This course takes this as a starting point to critically explore the ways in which Canada has responded to its societal diversity: its troubling relationship with indigenous Inuit, First Nations and Métis, demands for national recognition from Québec and for French language rights across Canada, and calls for recognition and equality from women and LGBTQ+ communities, and the consequences of immigration and wider processes of post/decolonial. The course draws on Canadian political and social theory and theorists, notably Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka and Glen Coulthard, each of whom engage directly with these questions, as well as practice, comparing the Canadian experience with that of countries elsewhere, including the United States and Europe.
How can I study Divesities: Canada and Beyond?
You can combine Diversities: Canada and Beyond with a range of courses across the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and in the School of Geosciences.
The Centre places a particular emphasis on knowledge mobilization and actively includes undergraduate students in its research community.
Other courses with Canadian components
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- Celtic and Scottish Studies - Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland
- English Literature - Postcolonial Poetry
- Geosciences - Minorities in Multicultural Society
- Politics & IR - Comparing Scottish Devolution
- Social Anthropology - Indigenous Politics, Culture and Screen in Canada
- Sociology - Nations and Nationalism