Back in early March, as Ontario's colleges and universities scrambled to prepare for government shut-down orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Ilene Sova packed up as many art supplies as she could in anticipation of the months of isolation that would follow.
Sova, an instructor at OCAD University in Toronto, said art was her only remedy as the world became more distant and uncertain times emerged.
That's when the idea to create a course in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic was born, and Sova approached the school with her plans. Sova is among many Ontario university instructors gearing up to offer students courses revolving around the COVID-19 pandemic this upcoming school year. "We look at the different impacts of the pandemic on different groups in racialized communities, women, people with disabilities," she said. "The end goal is for students to use the pandemic and their own experience to explore what are the consequences to the legal system."
Olabanji Akinola, assistant professor of political science at Algoma University, said he is teaching a course called "Law and Politics of the COVID Pandemic" that will examine the legal and political aspects of the health crisis.
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