Concordia Course Web Sites

ENGR 392/AA (Summer 2025): IMPACT/TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

ENGR 392/CC (Summer 2025): IMPACT/TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

ENGR 392/CF (Summer 2025): IMPACT/TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

ENGR 392/EE (Fall 2025): IMPACT/TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

How do technology and society influence one another? And why would this question be so important that it is required throughout engineering programs, not just in Canada but across the world? It turns out that there is a great deal of scholarship related to these questions – and how to teach about the relationship. That’s in part because the answers are often counter-intuitive and complex. We’ll spend the semester discussing some of the most consequential aspects of these answers.

This course emphasizes and develops the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduate attributes of Ethics & Equity, Communication Skills, and Impact of Engineering on Society and the Environment.

The Communication Skills attribute is defined by the CEAB as: An ability to communicate complex engineering concepts within the profession and with society at large. Such abilities include reading, writing, speaking and listening, and the ability to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, and to give and effectively respond to clear instructions.

ENGR 392/G (Fall 2025): IMPACT/TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

ENGR 392/Q (Winter 2025): IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

How does technology impact our lives? What is the initial intention and purpose in developing new technologies, and media? What are the social and ethical impacts of our creations? Science and Technology Studies (STS), a cross-disciplinary field, posits that science and technology always exist in relation to and are co-created by broader social forces, political contexts, and histories. We will examine how knowledge, technology, and understandings of ourselves and “the other” are produced through complex relationships, histories, biases, and social constructs and contexts.

Instead of asking whether scientific claims are true or false, objective or subjective, this course will examine the power and potential of innovative technologies and knowledge production within our broader socio-political conditions so that we might better understand the complexity, challenges, implications of our interactions. This course will focus on building students' knowledge, skills, and capacity for curiosity, inquiry, and critical evaluation in their respective disciplines so that they might apply these learnings to their field and practices.

ENGR 392/S (Winter 2025): IMPACT/TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY

FFAR 200/AA (Fall 2025): INTRO TO BLACK STDS CDN CONTXT

Introduction to Black Studies in the Canadian Context

(3 credits)

Fall, 2025

Dr. Christiana Abraham

Black and African-Diaspora Studies in the Canadian Context (Minor)

Course: Tuesdays: 5:24-8:15 pm  

Course location: H-621- SGW   

Office: ER 617, (2155 Guy St.)

Office hours: Tuesdays: 16:00-17:00 or by appointment 

Email: christiana.abraham@concordia.ca

Teaching Assistant (TA): Dalia Elsayed

Email: dalia.elsayed@concordia.ca

Course Description:

This course offers a broad introduction to Black Studies. Emphasis is placed on creative expressions within the histories and themes of Blackness in the Canadian context. This course introduces students to foundational texts, cultures, and philosophies of Black scholars in the field. Students develop critical vocabulary and frameworks to engage with Blackness in the Canadian context through the study of Canada’s diverse Black populations.

Learning Outcomes:

1.     Identify significant figures/thinkers, major themes, philosophies, movements and creative expressions in the history of Black Canadians, and Black and African-Diaspora scholars.

2.     Discuss the activism of Black Canadians and African-Diaspora communities and their contributions to the fabric of Canadian and other societies.

3.     Appraise the realities, needs and issues pertaining to local Black communities.

4.     Situate experiences of Black Canadians in relation to trans-national Black diasporic philosophies and practices, exploring both unique and shared challenges and successes.

5.     Apply acquired critical vocabulary and perspectives to examine and discuss issues related to Blackness in Canada.

Key Terms: Black political philosophy; Black radical thought; Black Canadian art;  resistive praxes; Black representations and media; the Black gaze; Caribbean popular culture; social consciousness of the post-colonial

FFAR 298/AA (Winter 2025): SPECIAL TOPICS IN FINE ARTS

My name is Yassin Alsalman. This is my 11th year teaching Hip-Hop related classes at Concordia, where I studied and graduated. I spent these last ten years, quietly touring, creating, making music and collaborating within the culture, as NARCY. Hip-hop and Rap saved my life, no jokes. At a time where the world was against my people, whether in faith or culture, I found a safe space to create and express, write story and document our truth - in Hip-Hop I trusted. And to Hip-Hop, I owe a great service. But, in truth, it’s bigger than Hip-Hop for me. 

In the 50 years of existence, the culture has changed the world around us. It has brought struggles, political, social, racial, personal to the forefront of pop culture. It has opened eyes, hearts and minds. It has invited us into spaces we would rarely visit. It has pointed its fingers at the worst in us, and brought out the best in us. It has been pimped and sold but has also brought a great deal of freedom and responsibility to multiple communities around the world. Hip-Hop, is the most important culture of our century and I don’t say that lightly. Most importantly, it brings the difficult conversations to the forefront, and sometimes, problematically. 

This course will analyze the music and fashion, activism and passion of hip hop culture. Though we will cover a “who, what, when, where and how” in hip-hop, the focus will be on practice and philosophical questions. The course will serve as a venue for exploring contemporary issues in relation to personal lived experiences of hip hop culture, while considering historical context. Within the structure of the course, students will have opportunities to pursue issues related to their interests. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and observation, while making connections between the personal and political aspects of hip hop. This is a class about process, 

A limited number of places are open to Fine Arts students.  In a BFA degree, this course can only apply as a free elective.  Students who have received credit for FFAR 256 or FFAR 398B may not take this course for credit. This class has alot of group work to do. We will attend a concert together, we will talk together, we will create together and most importantly, we will listen to each other. There is a lot to learn and understand. The core of this class is about creativity, expression and how it has freed the world at its most unjust times. Maybe it’s time we learn to learn together.  Here we go again. 

To A Great Semester.  With Solidarity. Professor NARCY.

FMST 319/A (Fall 2025): THE MOVING IMAGE AND SOCIETY

FPST 402/A (Winter 2025): FIRST PEOPLES -SOCIAL ISSUES

GEOG 290/Y (Winter 2025): ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY