Update on SJCS credit options

This pre-approved course list will be referenced officially in the 2027-2028 Calendar for SJCS Major Requirements but can be used for 2026-2027 forward by SJCS faculty, students, and BA Advising.

Contact sjcs@smu.ca or your Academic Advisor for more information.

3 SJCS Credit Hours (or One Course) at the 2000 Level

May be taken from this list of approved SJCS-related courses outside the SJCS Department:

• RELS 2323 Introduction to Islam
• ENGL 2513 Introduction to Indigenous Literature
• ENGL 2460 Indigenous Media and Literature Experience in North America
• ENGL 2461 Mi’kmaq Storytelling and Literature
• ENGL 2537 / IRST 2537 Ireland in Revolution, 1890-1922
• IRST 2539 Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution
• ENGL 2261 Postcolonial Literature: Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia
• ENGL 2323 Queer Lives and Letters
• HIST 2346 Black Heritage in Maritime Canada
• HIST 2382 China in Revolution: 1800-1949
• HIST 2441 Race and Racism in Brazil

9 SJCS Credit Hours (or 3 Courses) at the 3000 or 4000 Level

May be taken from SJCS courses or this list of approved SJCS-related courses outside the SJCS Department:

• ENGL 3791 / HIST 3470 Literatures of the Black Atlantic
• ENGL 3330 Irish Shame
• IRST 3458 Unsettling 'Ireland': Gender, Race, Class
• ENGL 3462 Post 1945 Black Brit Writing
• ENGL 3522 North American Indigenous Literature: Canada
• ENGL 4465 Indigenous Literature Seminar
• HIST 3352 Race and Racism in the United States
• HIST 3371 The Chinese Cultural Revolution in History and Memory
• HIST 4521 Constructing Race: Scientific Racism in Europe and North America
• POLI 4490 Far-Right Politics
• RELS 4333 Religion Race & Gender
• RELS 3374 Islam in North America