Location:

Other

Session:

2025 Fall Semester | Trimestre d'automne

Faculty:

Faculté des arts / Faculty of Arts

Unit:

AHL Interdisciplinary Study in Arts_PT

Course Title:

Special Topics - Interdisciplinary study in the Arts

Course Code:

AHL3100

Section:

A00

Course Description:

Comprehensive study of a contemporary theme from at least two disciplinary perspectives. Themes will vary annually.

Posting limited to:

Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time Professor

Date Posted:

juin 12, 2025

Applications must be received BEFORE:

juillet 14, 2025

Expected Enrolment:

45

Approval date:

juin 12, 2025

Number of credits:

3

Work Hours:

39

Course type:

C

Posting type:

Régulier / Regular

Language of instruction:

Anglais | English

Competence in second language:

N/A

Course Schedule:

Lundi | Monday 11:30-13:00 Jeudi | Thursday 13:00-14:30 -

Requirements:

PhD required. Experience of successfully teaching university-level courses in the field of metaphysics, ethics, humanism/ posthumanism, and the study of subjectivity, including an exploration of human-nonhuman relations. Preference will be given to an instructor whose own research interests fall within these areas, and who has relevant scholarly research and publications

Theme : Exploring the Self : Renaissance Humanism to Posthumanism.

The course explores the philosophical, political, and ethical stakes involved in advancing or rejecting theories of humanism and addresses basic questions on subjectivity: What is the nature of the self? What criteria qualify a human (or a nonhuman) being as a subject: consciousness, rationality, free will, or corporeality?

Teaching mode: web conference

Additional Information and/or Comments:

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