McGill University

This course examines the main challenges that cognitive science faces today, focusing on the capacity to learn sensorimotor categories, to name and describe them verbally, and to transmit them to others, concluding with cognition distributed on the Web.

This course examines the structure and function of neurons and neural circuits, with an emphasis on how the nervous system regulates natural behaviors across various animals. Highlights from the history of the field are integrated with the recent experimental findings.

This course examines global policies, politics, industry and institutions and their neo-colonial underpinnings, and their influence on current global health theory, research and practice, with a special focus on the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and other racialized groups. It looks at the environmental and social determinants of health and health inequities, with attention to women and children’s health, communicable and non-communicable disease, and the complexities of disasters and humanitarian crises, as well as global health governance,systems, and innovations and social entrepreneurship in health.

This course examines search methods; knowledge representation using logic and probability; planning and decision making under uncertainty; and machine learning.

This course examines the significant presence of people of African descent in Canada that dates back to the 17th century. Migration and immigration will be situated as part of the renewal of Canadian identity while examining the intellectual, historical and political presence of people of African descent.

This course examines the history of the First World War while challenging the traditional West-centered narrative of a War that starts in 1914 and ends in 1918. Alternating micro and macro approaches, it examines the main aspects and events in the military, political, cultural, social, global history of the Great(er) War. The course will also serve as an introduction to an epistemology of history and its relationship with the social sciences. Topics to be addressed include: empires and nations; identity and nationalism; violence and social disciplining; logistics, technoscience and the sinews of warfare; gender and war; trauma and stigma; visual culture and propaganda; collective memory and oblivion.