Course description
You’ll be introduced to the concept of the city as a creative environment promoting not only growth and wealth, but also social justice, equality, cooperation, and civility. You’ll learn to build your own blog to help you observe, interpret, and reflect upon the process of urban interaction and the relationship between creativity and justice.
Course instructor
Hamutal Dotan
Hamutal has been an editor of magazine, newspaper, digital, and book-length journalism for over 15 years. Formerly editor-in-chief of Torontoist, Focus editor at the Globe and Mail, and senior editor of The Walrus, most recently Hamutal was a William Southam Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College, where she explored the history and psychology of reading, and the cognitive biases that can influence our reading of non-fiction in particular.
Hamutal has edited National Magazine Award-winning journalism and National Newspaper Award-winning memoir, and teaches journalism and creative non-fiction at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Once, many moons ago, she was herself an undergraduate at Innis College.