Walls-to-Bridges (W2B) Course Offerings Fall 2026

Tue. Jul. 21, 2026

MULT-2900(3) Parole in Canada
Instructors: TBA
Tuesdays 1300 - 1530 at Stony Mountain

This course will examine the purpose, programs, reports, barriers, and decision-markers present where one's conditional release is available to be evaluated. The course will review the various forms of conditional release conditions imposed on an individual upon release, hearing types, advocacy strategies, and community networks supporting incarcerated individuals upon release. 

For more information on this course and registration for it, please contact Hope McIntyre at h.mcintyre@uwinnipeg.ca 

 

MULT-2900(3) Community Renewal and Co-operatives
Instructors: Marty Donkervoort and Judith Harris
Tuesdays 1300 - 1530 at Stony Mountain

Community renewal solves critical problems by building on local assets. In this course, group discussions encourage us to draw on our experience of community, wherever it is that we live our lives. How important is the idea of community and the co-operative option in our changing world? We examine the roots of our sense of community and the foundations of co-operatives. Case studies of co-operative enterprise such as the Old Grace Housing Co-op, Neechi Commons and prison co-operatives provide evidence of their contributions to community renewal. A group project calls on students to design a co-operative that addresses a critical community problem building on local assets.

This is a course that includes exercises that will help you build a Co-operative Enterprise. Those who successfully complete this 3-credit course will also receive a certificate in Co-operative Development from Co-operatives First.

For more information on this course and registration for it, please contact Judith Harris at j.harris@uwinnipeg.ca

ENGL-3725(3) Topics in Cultural Studies
A Little More than Kin: Historical Understandings and Representations of Family
Instructor: Kathryn Ready
Tuesdays 1300 – 1530 at Stony Mountain

What makes a family? This course considers both critical discussions and literary representations of family from the early modern period to the present day. We will look at how family structures have changed over time as a result of different historical factors and pressures and how understandings of family have contributed to shaping actual families. As we will explore, the family is an idea (sometimes even an ideology) and institution as much as it is about kinship. Moreover, as an idea and institution it is always changing. As we think critically about family from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives, we will be interested specifically in how the family has functioned in a way that has sometimes been constraining and at other times empowering.

For more information on this course and registration for it, please contact Kathryn Ready at k.ready@uwinnipeg.ca 

Please note that the instructor is willing to consider waivers of prerequisite/corequisite requirements for students who may be coming from various degree programs.