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African Studies听
AFRI 200. Introduction to African Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.
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Arts Foundation Year听
AFYR 101. Complex Problems 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Arts - Dean's Office (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to an area of inquiry pertinent to multipledisciplines in Arts. Demonstrates how Arts disciplines address challenging problems or topics from distinct perspectives, employing different approaches and methodologies.
- Restrictions: Open only to U0 students.
- Note: Section 001 available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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AFYR 102. Complex Problems 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Arts - Dean's Office (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to an area of inquiry pertinent to multipledisciplines in Arts. Demonstrates how Arts disciplines address challenging problems or topics from distinct perspectives, employing different approaches and methodologies.
- Restrictions: Open only to U0 students.
- Note: Section 001 available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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Art History听
ARTH 199. FYS: Themes in Art History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to a selected theme in art history.
- Topics will vary from year to year.
- Restriction: Open only to students in U0 or U1. Students may take only one First Year Seminar.
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ARTH 200. Introduction to Art History 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Selected introductory survey of the history of art.
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ARTH 202. Introduction to Contemporary Art.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
A critical survey of contemporary art and theory, from 1945 to the present focusing on pivotal issues such as anti-war politics, feminism, sexual diversity, AIDS awareness, discourse of multiculturalism, debates about modernism and postmodernism, post colonialism, technology, and globalization.
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ARTH 204. Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Surveys the arts from late Antiquity to the fourteenth century in Western Europe. Focuses on the body and space to introduce artistic and architectural concepts, practices, and styles from the late Roman, Byzantine and Carolingian empires to monastic and royal patronage of the French Kings.
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ARTH 205. Introduction to Modern Art.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ARTH 337 or ARTH 338
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ARTH 207. Introduction Early Modern Art 1400-1700.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Surveys visual culture of early modern Europe across various social spheres and geographical locations.
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ARTH 209. Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of ancient art and architecture: pre-historic Europe, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Focus is on issues of political power, gender, sexuality, race, the formation of individual and group identities, and the relation between the body and social space.
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ARTH 215. Introduction to East Asian Art.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken EAST 215.
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ARTH 223. Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts.
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Catholic Studies听
CATH 200. Introduction to Catholicism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course offers an exploration of the Roman Catholic tradition in its intellectual, religious, moral, and cultural dimensions. It provides an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which Catholicism has shaped Western civilization.
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颁濒补蝉蝉颈肠蝉听
CLAS 203. Greek Mythology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece.
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CLAS 240. Introduction to Classical Archaeology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman Mediterranean through a survey of major sites, artifacts and monuments. Emphasis on archaeological theory and methodology.
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Communication Studies听
COMS 200. History of Communication.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The social and cultural implications of major developments in communications from prehistory to the electronic era. Thematic and conceptual introduction to the underlying media technologies and to some key issues and practices of historical thinking about their role in society.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have ENGC 200.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have ENGC 200.
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COMS 210. Introduction to Communication Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The social and cultural implications of media. Surveys theory and case studies relevant key issues such as the ownership, structure and governance of media industries; the significance of emergent media technologies; and the roles of media as cultural forms and practices.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 278 or ENGC 210
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COMS 230. Communication and Democracy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to investigation of the relationship between communication, media practices and democracy. Examines the role of media and communication in existing and emerging democratic contexts, and the challenges of constructing and maintaining a democratic media and communication environment on the domestic and international levels.
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East Asian Studies听
EAST 211. Introduction: East Asian Culture: China.
Credits: 3
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
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EAST 212. Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan.
Credits: 3
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
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EAST 213. Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea.
Credits: 3
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
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贰苍驳濒颈蝉丑听
Credits: 3
Offered by: 大发彩票平台 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Principles of effective written communication: audience, purpose, organization, and style. Emphasis on short writing assignments leading to the composition of longer essays. Critical analysis of academic and popular genres. Application of rhetorical strategies. Pre-writing and re-writing processes. Multiple drafts and peer review.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEAP 150.
- Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both).
- Available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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Credits: 3
Offered by: 大发彩票平台 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Production of original creative works in English. Study and application of writing techniques and craft elements observed in both traditional and contemporary forms, ranging from poetic forms such as the sonnet, the villanelle, and free verse,to short fiction forms such as the short story and the vignette, to hybrid forms such as prose poetry and flash fiction. Craft, analysis of literary texts, workshop-style critique, and multiple drafts.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CCOM 200.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: 大发彩票平台 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Academic research-based writing across the disciplines. Article summary, critical analysis, rhetorical strategies, citation and paraphrase of academic sources, and editing for cohesion and clarity.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 500 or CEAP 250 or WCOM 255. Only open to students in degree programs - all years and faculties.
- Intended for students whose first language is English.
- Entrance test: Short essay first day of classes.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to major modes of literary and cultural representation in English, including
poetry, drama, film, the novel, and other forms.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1. Students may take only one First Year Seminar. Students who register for more than one will be removed from all but one of them.
- Maximum enrolment: 25
- Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both).
- Available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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ENGL 215. Introduction to Shakespeare.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of a selection of plays, in their intellectual and theatrical context, with an emphasis on the interplay of text and performance.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Winter
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ENGL 225. American Literature 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the literary works of earlier American writers.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Winter
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ENGL 226. American Literature 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the literary works of later American writers.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Winter
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ENGL 229. Canadian Literature 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 2. A continuation of .
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Winter
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ENGL 230. Introduction to Theatre Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to dramatic literature, text analysis, textual and performance theory, and theatre history.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Fall
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Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to literary study through a survey of a literary genre, mode, or form.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Winter
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ENGL 279. Introduction to Film History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to key historical moments, cinematic movements, formal styles, as well as historiographical and theoretical debates in the history of world cinema.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
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ENGL 280. Introduction to Film as Mass Medium.
Credits: 3
Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to film's social, historical, and technological contexts, including its relationships to other mass media.
- For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
- Students will be required to pay a screening fee.
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German Studies听
GERM 259. Introduction to German Literature 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the major authors, genres, and topics of German literature from the
Middle Ages to the Age of Goethe, including the Nibelungenlied, Faust, classical
tragedy, and the rise of the novel.
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Hispanic Studies听
HISP 225. Hispanic Civilization 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.
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HISP 226. Hispanic Civilization 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present.
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Indigenous Studies听
INDG 200. Introduction to Indigenous Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches. Introduction to the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous life in Canada.
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Italian Studies听
ITAL 199. FYS: Italy's Literature in Context.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The purpose of this seminar is to re-visit, problematically, the commonsense notion that literature "reflects" reality (or society). Classics of twentieth-century Italian writing shall be analyzed as the response of that nation's literary imagination to the contradictions of its turbulent political and social history.
- Winter
- Given in English
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25
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ITAL 230. Understanding Italy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introductory critical perspective on a series of issues (North/South, Church/State, the family, regionalism, Fascism) related to contemporary Italy through novels, films and essays.
- Course will be taught in English
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ITAL 250. Italian Literary Composition.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century literary texts with a view to improving language and composition skills. Review of major grammatical difficulties.
- Fall
- 3 hours seminar
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 300.
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ITAL 260. Reading Italian Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A selection of poetic, narrative and theatrical texts from different historical periods, providing students with advanced tools in textual analysis and close reading of Italian literary texts.
- Winter
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite(s): ITAL 215 or ITAL 216 or permission of the instructor.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Playhouses, actors, stage techniques, masks and scenarios of the "Commedia dell'Arte".
- Fall
- Given in Italian
- Prerequisite: ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2, ITAL 216, or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 1TAL 330.
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Jewish Studies听
JWST 199. FYS: Images - Jewish Identities.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A seminar devoted to literary portrayals of Jews by Jews and non-Jews from Biblical times to the present. Both positive and negative understandings of Jewish identity and Judaism will be studied.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum enrolment 25
- Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both).
- Available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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JWST 201. Jewish Law.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The nature and history of Jewish law; literary and legal sources; selections in English from the Mishnah and Talmud, as well as selected post-Talmudic Texts, on such subjects as Contracts, Torts, Public Law and Family Law.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 202. Introduction to Jewish Music.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of Jewish music from the Bible to the present. Special attention is given to the Jewish and non-Jewish contexts in which the music developed.
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JWST 205. Introduction to Jewish Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of Jewish literary texts from the Bible to the present day including selections from psalms, prophecy, prayer, poetry, short stories and novels. Critical literature on these texts reflecting comparative, religious, historical, feminist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches will also be studied.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 206. Introduction to Yiddish Literature.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of Yiddish literature with a particular focus on the modern period (the 1860s to the present). As we read major works of Yiddish literature, we will discuss the main factors in its development, including its position as a minority literature, Ashkenazi civilization鈥檚 religious foundations and multilingualism, the rise of political movements, and the trauma of the Holocaust. In his Nobel lecture, Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer described Yiddish as 鈥渢he idiom of the frightened and hopeful humanity.鈥� We will explore both the reasons behind and the effects of such universalization of Yiddish language, literature, and culture.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Readings are in English
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JWST 211. Jewish Studies 1: Biblical Period.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
- For detailed course content go to .
- All texts will be read in English
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JWST 225. Literature and Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A panoramic analysis of Israeli society through poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and testimonial narratives reflecting the country's historical, ideological and ethnic complexity. In English translation, we will read Oz, Amichai, Habibi, Har-Even and Yehoshua, as well as new authors from divergent ethnic, religious and ideological positions.
- For detailed course content go to .
- All texts will be read in English
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JWST 240. The Holocaust.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 252 "The Holocaust"
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JWST 245. Jewish Life in the Islamic World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Until the early modern period, most of the world鈥檚 Jews spoke Arabic and called the Islamic world home. This course explores the Jewish experience among Muslims from the seventh century until the present. Through close readings of primary sources and historical scholarship, students will learn how Jews under Islam shaped modern Judaism, how engagement with Arabic in Islamic Spain
led to the revival of Hebrew, and how the Jewish-Muslim relationship fared in the twentieth century. The course also probes themes of history and memory in light of the departure of Jews from the Islamic world in the 1950s and 1960s.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 252. Interdisciplinary Lectures.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interdisciplinary lectures in Jewish studies. Topic varies by year.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 254. The Jewish Holy Days.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An exploration of the Jewish holy days. Emphasis is placed on their historical development, philosophical messages, and ritual forms.
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JWST 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 262. Modern Jewish Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of Jewish philosophical responses to the challenges of the modern world. Jewish thinkers studied include Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Joseph Soloveitchik and Emil Fackenheim.
- For detailed course content go to .
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Languages, Literatures and Cultures听
LLCU 199. FYS: Literary Animals.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Study of the representation of animals in different European literary texts from both a thematic and a theoretical perspective. Questions about narrative voice, alternate worlds, and the human/animal binary will be raised within the larger political context of animals as Other in today's contemporary society.
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1 who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
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LLCU 230. Environmental Imaginations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will provide a cultural framework for examining representations of environmental issues in literary texts and films. The emphasis will be on the ways issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, and extreme weather patterns are imagined in specific cultural productions.
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LLCU 255. Introduction to Large Language Models for Text Analysis
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the use of large language models for text analysis.
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PHIL 198. FYS: Knowledge and Ideas in Early Modern Philosophy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to central issues in the philosophy of the early modern period through an examination of works by, for example, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley and Hume.
- Note: Language of instruction is English.
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1 who may take only one FYS
- Enrollment limit 25. Students who register for more than one First Year Seminar will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Language of instruction is English.
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PHIL 200. Introduction to Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course treating some of the central problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem, freedom, scepticism and certainty, fate, time, and the existence of God.
- Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200
- Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200
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PHIL 201. Introduction to Philosophy 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to some of the major problems of philosophy. This course does not duplicate .
- Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200
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PHIL 202. The Good Life.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Explores how philosophers from Socrates to Sartre wrestle with the question of how we should live, including ancient philosophers who present their teachings as pathways to happiness, virtue, and peace of mind; medieval philosophers who seek to understand God鈥檚 will; and modern philosophers who grapple with the
tension between community and freedom. Analyzes debates of fundamental moral and existential questions: What things really matter? Does it pay to be good? What constitutes the best society? Can we escape the roller coaster of our emotions? Examines how answers are intertwined with beliefs about God, nature, knowledge, the soul, and politics.
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PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
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PHIL 221. Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of modern science since the Eighteenth Century.
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PHIL 230. Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of a number of historically important and influential theories. Philosophers to be discussed may include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore.
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PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.
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PHIL 240. Political Philosophy 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to contemporary philosophy of politics by concentrating on a number of contested concepts, such as freedom, justice and equality, in contemporary political philosophy and practice.
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PHIL 242. Introduction to Feminist Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians.
- Note: Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014.
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Religious Studies听
RELG 201. Religions of the Ancient Near East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria-Palestine (excluding Israelite religion) from the fourth to first millennium B.C.E. Themes that will be discussed include: gods and goddesses, divine kingship, deification of kings, temple cult, death and afterlife, magic, piety, oracles, prayer, lament, myth and epic.
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RELG 202. Religion of Ancient Israel.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the religion of Ancient Israel by a study of selected texts (narratives, laws, prophetic sayings, wisdom traditions, and psalms) from the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament in translation.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are required to take or have taken RELG 302
- Winter
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RELG 203. Bible and Western Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
To provide students of the humanities with knowledge of the Bible as a tool for interpreting religious references in Western literature, art and music. Biblical stories (e.g. Creation, Exodus), key figures (e.g. David, Job, Mary), and common motifs (e.g. Holy City, Pilgrimage, Bride) are explored, then illustrated by later cultural forms.
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RELG 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
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RELG 207. Introduction to the Study of Religions.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is an introduction to classic and contemporary approaches to the academic study of religions. This includes perspectives from philosophy, theology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, phenomenology, and feminism. Students are also exposed to applications of these perspectives from visiting scholars who treat some aspect of a religious tradition in light of current-day interests and events. The primary objective is to introduce students to the principal theories and methods that have shaped our understanding of religion, its various meanings as well as its roles and functions in society.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RELG 255.
- Winter
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RELG 210. Jesus of Nazareth.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical study of selected ancient and modern accounts of the aims and person of Jesus. Attention will be given also to the question of the historical sources and to the relationship between faith and history.
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RELG 252. Hinduism and Buddhism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The interaction of Hinduism and Buddhism in India with special reference to the law of Karma, caste, women, ritual, death, yoga, and liberation. Determination of interpretative principles for understanding the religious psychology of Hindus and Buddhists.
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RELG 253. Religions of East Asia.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
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RELG 254. Introduction to Yoga Traditions.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is an historical and thematic investigation into yoga, including its classical formulations, esoteric practices, and contemporary developments and debates. It explores early yoga traditions as well as the development of modern yoga in India and 鈥渢he West,鈥� along with themes such as the body, asceticism, secularism, and cultural exchange.
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RELG 270. Religious Ethics and the Environment.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
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RELG 271. Religion and Sexuality.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of intersections between religion, gender and sexuality in diverse cultural,
historical and contemporary contexts.
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RELG 288. Introduction to Sikhism.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the historical and religious contexts relevant to understanding Sikh religious traditions, including its principal doctrines, practices and institutions and its evolution from its origins in South Asia to the present, with particular attention to Sikh-Canadian transnational connections.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RELG 388.
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Russian & Slavic Studies听
RUSS 223. Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors鈥� relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.
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RUSS 224. Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov.
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Languages
Placement tests:听All language courses have limited enrollment and, as such, may require departmental approval (issued by the department offering the course). Consult the eCalendar and/or the Minerva Class Schedule for information about placement tests or departmental approval, if necessary. Placement tests for French and English Second Language courses and for English for Academic Purposes will be held during the week prior to the beginning of classes in September.
Courses with numbers ending in D1 and D2听are taught in two consecutive terms (usually fall and winter). Students must register for the same section of both the D1 and D2 components. No credit will be given unless both components (D1 and D2) are successfully completed in consecutive terms, e.g., fall 2021听and winter 2022.
No more than one 6-credit or 9-credit language at an introductory level should be taken during the Foundation Program year. Students with prior knowledge of a听language may take higher-level courses with permission from the department.
A 6-credit intensive language course given in one term is permitted - this is equivalent to two courses听both in the number of credits as well as the workload.
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CLAS 210. Introductory Latin 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course designed for beginners with little or no background in Latin. Introduction to basic grammar, vocabulary, morphology. Reading of simple sentences and connected passages.
- Pre-requisite(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 210D1/D2 prior to September 2016.
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CLAS 212. Introductory Latin 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Continued introduction to Latin grammar, vocabulary, and morphology. Reading of more complex sentences and longer connected passages.
- Winter
- Prerequisite(s) CLAS 210 or equivalent.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 210D1/D2 prior to September 2016.
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CLAS 220. Introductory Ancient Greek 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course designed for beginners with little or no background in ancient Greek. Introduction to basic grammar, vocabulary, morphology. Reading of simple sentences and connected passages.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 220 D1/D2 prior to September 2016.
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CLAS 222. Introductory Ancient Greek 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Continued introduction to ancient Greek grammar, vocabulary, and morphology. Reading of more complex sentences and longer connected passages.
- Pre-quisite(s): CLAS 220 or equivalent
- Restriction(s): Not open to student who have taken CLAS 220D1/D2.
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CLAS 230D1. Introductory Modern Greek.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A course for beginners.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CLAS 236, CLAS 237 or CLAS 238.
- Students must register for both CLAS 230D1 and CLAS 230D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both CLAS 230D1 and CLAS 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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East Asian Studies
EAST 220. First Level Korean.
Credits: 9
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules.
- An activities fee of $106.06 is charged to support the cost of visits to a Kimchi factory, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language.
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EAST 230. First Level Chinese.
Credits: 9
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials.
- The language activities fee of $25.00 will support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. These activities are aimed at enhancing the educational experience of students.
- An activities fee of $150 is charged to support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language.
- An activities fee of $153.96 is charged to support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language.
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EAST 240. First Level Japanese.
Credits: 9
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji.
- The language activities fee of $115.00 will support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. These activities are aimed at enhancing the educational experience of students.
- An activities fee of $185 is charged to support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language.
- An activities fee of $189.88 is charged to support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language.
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English (and English as a Second Language)听
Credits: 3
Offered by: 大发彩票平台 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The university classroom: note-taking and summary of lectures; paraphrase and summary of written and multimedia materials; oral and seminar presentations. Critical thinking, reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills and strategies. Exigences des cours universitaires: prendre des notes, faire des expos茅s oraux, r茅sumer (cours magistraux, documents oraux, 茅crits et multim茅dias). Raisonnement critique, lectures, 茅coutes, r茅dactions, habilet茅s et strat茅gies de communication.
- Restriction: Only open to students whose first language is not English and who are newly admitted at 大发彩票平台 (into Year 0 or Year 1) to a Bachelor program in the following fall. The course is designed to assist these new students to integrate into the English language milieu at 大发彩票平台.
- Restriction: Ce cours s'adresse aux 茅tudiants dont la langue maternelle n'est pas l'anglais et qui sont nouvellement admis (en premi猫re ann茅e pr茅paratoire - niveau U0 ou premi猫re ann茅e d'茅tudes universitaires - niveau U1) 脿 大发彩票平台 脿 un programme de 1er cycle 脿 l'automne suivant. Il est con莽u pour faciliter leur int茅gration dans le milieu anglophone de 大发彩票平台.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 299.
- **Due to the condensed nature of this course, the standard add/drop, and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal with financial penalty is the third lecture day.
- Although this course follows a MTWR class schedule pattern, the last day of class may be on a Friday.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: 大发彩票平台 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Academic writing skills and communicative competence in English at the mid-intermediate
level. Organizational structures and conventions for academic essays; expressing complex ideas effectively; documenting sources; writing cohesive paragraphs. Independent learning strategies for vocabulary building, grammar, editing techniques, critical thinking and reading skills. Fundamentals of oral presentation, including pronunciation skills.
- Prerequisites: CESL 200 or WCOM 225 or placement test.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 300. Only open to students in degree programs.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: 大发彩票平台 Writing Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Academic writing skills and communicative competence in English at the upper-intermediate level. Critical thinking and reading applied to the whole writing process. Focus on integrating sources, creating effective arguments, and understanding essay structure and paragraph essentials. Academic genres: summary, paraphrase, quotation, and critique. Review of writing mechanics and grammar.
- Prerequisites: CESL 300 or WCOM 235 or placement test.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 400. Only open to students in degree programs.
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French Language & Literature听
FREN 201. Le fran莽ais litt茅raire (fran莽ais langue seconde).
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Perfectionnement de l'expression 茅crite au contact d'une vari茅t茅 de textes litt茅raires et par la r茅daction de courts textes d'invention.
- Cours r茅serv茅 aux Etudiants inscrits au programme de Concentration mineure langue et litt茅rature fran莽aise - Langue fran莽aise ou au programme de Concentration mineure langue et litt茅rature fran莽aise - Langue fran莽aise et traduction.
- Pr茅alable: avoir r茅ussi le FRSL 431 ou avoir r茅ussi ou 锚tre inscrit-e 脿 au moins un des cours suivants : FRSL 445, FRSL 446, FRSL 449 ou FRSL 455. L'茅tudiant-e n'ayant compl茅t茅 ou n'茅tant inscrit-e 脿 aucun de ces cours devra passer un test de classement. Effectifs contingent茅s. Autorisation d茅partementale requise.
- Cours r茅serv茅 en priorit茅 aux 茅tudiant-es inscrit-e-s au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue & litt茅rature fran莽aises ; Langue fran莽aise ou au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue & litt茅rature fran莽aises ; Traduction.
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FREN 203. Analyse de textes (fran莽ais langue seconde)
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Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Perfectionnement de l鈥檈xpression 茅crite : analyse et apprentissage des r猫gles de composition de divers genres de discours (textes argumentatifs, lettres, dialogues, r茅cits, descriptions ou portraits).
- Cours r茅serv茅 aux Etudiants inscrits au programme de Concentration mineure langue et litt茅rature fran莽aise - Langue fran莽aise ou au programme de Concentration mineure langue et litt茅rature fran莽aise - Langue fran莽aise et traduction.
- Pr茅alable: avoir r茅ussi le FRSL 431 ou avoir r茅ussi ou 锚tre inscrit-e 脿 au moins un des cours suivants : FRSL 445, FRSL 446, FRSL 449 ou FRSL 455. L'茅tudiant-e n'ayant compl茅t茅 ou n'茅tant inscrit-e 脿 aucun de ces cours devra passer un test de classement. Effectifs contingent茅s. Autorisation d茅partementale requise.
- Cours r茅serv茅 en priorit茅 aux 茅tudiant-es inscrit-e-s au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue et litt茅rature fran莽aises ; Langue fran莽aise ou au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue et litt茅rature fran莽aises ; Traduction.
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FREN 231. Linguistique fran莽aise.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Bref historique de la linguistique fran莽aise de F. de Saussure 脿 nos jours. Description linguistique du fran莽ais moderne (茅l茅ments de phonologie, de phon茅tique normative, de lexicologie, de s茅mantique 茅volutive et synchronique, de syntaxe et de morphologie).
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FREN 239. Stylistique compar茅e.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Initiation aux principes de la traduction par une 茅tude syst茅matique des contrastes entre les structures linguistiques de l'anglais et du fran莽ais. Une bonne connaissance des deux langues est n茅cessaire au d茅part.
- Pr茅alable : Test de classement. Autorisation d茅partementale requise.
- Priorit茅 donn茅e aux 茅tudiant路es inscrit路es dans un programme du D茅partement des litt茅ratures de langue fran莽aise, de traduction et de cr茅ation.
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FREN 245. Grammaire normative.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
R茅vision des principales difficult茅s de la langue fran莽aise.
- Ce cours est donn茅 en fran莽ais.
- Pr茅alable : Autorisation d茅partementale requise.
- Cours r茅serv茅 en priorit茅 aux 茅tudiant-e-s inscrit-e-s 脿 l'un des programmes du D茅partement de langue et litt茅rature fran莽aises.
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FREN 250. Litt茅rature fran莽aise avant 1800.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction 脿 la litt茅rature fran莽aise des origines 脿 la fin du 18e si猫cle.
- Aucun pr茅alable ni cours conjoint pour les 茅tudiants hors-D茅partement. Cours conjoints: Option Lettres: FREN 352, FREN 395; Option Lettres et traduction: FREN 352
- Fall
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FREN 251. Litt茅rature fran莽aise depuis 1800.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction 脿 la litt茅rature fran莽aise des 19e et 20e si猫cles.
- Aucun pr茅alable ni cours conjoint pour les 茅tudiants hors-D茅partement. Pr茅alables: Option Lettres: FREN 250, FREN 352, FREN 395; Option Lettres et traduction: FREN 250, FREN 352. Cours conjoints: Option Lettres: FREN 353, FREN 396; Option Lettres et traduction: FREN 353
- Fall, Winter
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FREN 252. Litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction 脿 la litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise des origines 脿 nos jours.
- Pr茅alables: Option Lettres: FREN 251, FREN 353, FREN 396; Option Lettres et traduction: FREN 251, FREN 353.
- Cours conjoints: Option Lettres: FREN 374, FREN 397; Option Lettres et traduction: FREN 374.
- Aucun pr茅alable ni cours conjoint pour les 茅tudiants hors-D茅partement.
- Restriction: Les 茅tudiants qui ont suivi le cours FREN 380 ne seront pas admis
- Fall, Winter
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French as a Second Language听
FRSL 101. Beginners French 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students in any degree program having no previous knowledge of French. Learning to communicate at a functional level in a French-speaking environment. Short essays, cultural readings, mandatory lab practice.
- Prerequisite: Placement test
- Language laboratory and oral practice with a French monitor if available.
- Placement test. No knowledge of French.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken FRSL 101D1/D2, FRSL 103, FRSL 104, or FRSL 105.
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FRSL 102. Beginners French 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students in any degree program having no previous knowledge of French. Learning to communicate at a functional level in a French-speaking environment. Short essays, cultural readings, mandatory lab practice.
- Language laboratory and oral practice with a French monitor if available.
- Prerequisite: FRSL 101
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FRSL 103. Near Beginners French.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Refresher course for students who have very little previous French instruction. Instructions in basic vocabulary and grammar applied to oral/written French. Cultural texts, short essay, and practice of basic speech patterns.
- Prerequisite: Placement test.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking FRSL 102 or FRSL 105.
- Note: For students in any degree program whose knowledge of French is insufficient to qualify for Elementary French (determined by the Placement Test). 3 credits, 3 hours, plus mandatory language laboratory. Not open to student who have grade 10 French or higher in Canada or equivalent (unless special permission is granted).
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FRSL 104. Corrective French Pronunciation.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to French phonetics. Course designed for students who have some previous knowledge of French at a Beginner/Elementary level and need to work on pronunciation, auditory discrimination and oral expression in order to continue developing their French skills. Corrective phonetics. Intensive oral practice. Guided work in language lab.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or Instructor's recommendation.
- Restrictions: Not open to students above Elementary level French. Not open to students with no previous knowledge of French.
- Note: 2 hours of oral work, 1 hour of language lab. The course may be taken concurrently with FRSL 101, 102,105, 206 / 207 / 208.
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FRSL 105. Intensive Beginners French.
Credits: 6
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
A comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students in any degree program having no previous knowledge of French. Learning to communicate at a functional level in a French social milieu, short essays, cultural readings, mandatory lab practice and conversation class.
- Fall
- 6 hours, plus language laboratory and oral practice with a French monitor
- Prerequisite: Placement test
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken FRSL 201 or FRSL 205 or FRSL 101 or FRSL 102.
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FRSL 206. Elementary French.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This one-term course uses a task-based approach to provide students with authentic materials related to Canadian culture and prepares them for real life communication. Therefore, class time will be mostly dedicated to the completion of communicative tasks which often rely on the use of technology (mobile apps, blogs and other online tools). This course tackles different topics that students can relate to in their personal, social and academic life, and provides a review and further training in elementary language structures to develop their communication skills and digital literacy in French.
- Fall
- 3 hours, plus language laboratory
- Prerequisites: FRSL 101 and FRSL102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent or FRSL 207. Only with special permission of the department.
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FRSL 207. Elementary French 01.
Credits: 6
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This two-term course uses a task-based approach to provide students with authentic materials related to Canadian culture and prepares them for real life communication. Therefore, class time will be mostly dedicated to the completion of communicative tasks which often rely on the use of technology (mobile apps,
blogs and other online tools). This course tackles different topics that students can relate to in their personal, social and academic life, and provides a review and further training in elementary language structures to develop their communication skills and digital literacy in French.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent
- Language laboratory
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 101 and FRSL 102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent
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FRSL 208. Intensive Elementary French.
Credits: 6
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
This one-term intensive course uses a task-based approach to provide students with authentic materials related to Canadian culture and prepares them for real life communication. Therefore, class time will be mostly dedicated to the completion of communicative tasks which often rely on the use of technology (mobile apps,
blogs and other online tools). This course tackles different topics that students can relate to in their personal, social and academic life, and provides a review and further training in elementary language structures to develop their communication skills and digital literacy in French.
- 6 hours, plus language laboratory
- Prerequisites: FRSL 101 and FRSL 102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent or FRSL 207
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FRSL 211. Oral and Written French 1.
Credits: 6
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language lab attendance required. Grammar review, comprehension, vocabulary development, selected readings and group discussions.
- Restriction: Not open to students from Qu茅bec
- Language laboratory
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and 207D2, or 208, or Placement test
- Restriction: Not open to students from Qu茅bec
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FRSL 212. Oral and Written French 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Equivalent to the first half of . Only with special permission of the Department.
- Fall
- 3 hours, plus language laboratory
- Prerequisite: Placement test
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FRSL 215. Oral and Written French 1 - Intensive.
Credits: 6
Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Language lab attendance required. Grammar review, comprehension, vocabulary development, selected readings and group discussions.
- Fall
- 6 hours, plus language laboratory
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and 207D2, or 208, or Placement test
- Restriction: Not open to students from Qu茅bec
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German Studies听
GERM 200. German Language, Intensive Beginners.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An intensive language course designed to develop communicative skills; covers the first level (/) in one term. Required for program students.
- Winter
- 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory
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GERM 202. German Language, Beginners'.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A comprehensive first-level course designed to develop communicative skills.
- 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory
- The language activities fee of $52.00 will support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. These activities are aimed at enhancing the educational experience of students.
- 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory
- 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory
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Hispanic Studies听
HISP 210. Spanish Language: Beginners.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
A comprehensive first-level course focusing on all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture.
- Section 003 (03-May-2010/28-Jun-2010)
- The language activities fee of $30.00 will support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. These activities are aimed at enhancing the educational experience of students.
- Section 002 (02-May-2011/23-Jun-2011)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 218 or equivalent
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HISP 218. Spanish Language Intensive - Elementary.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A comprehensive first-level course focusing upon all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture.
- Departmental approval required
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 210 or 210D1/D2 or equivalent.
- Preference will be given to students in their first year of university study. Students in or entering U3 may not pre-register for this course but will be admitted, as space allows, during the Fall registration period
- Fall or Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 210 or 210D1/D2 or equivalent
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Islamic studies
ISLA 221D1. Introductory Arabic.
Credits: 4.5
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic, including pronunciation and reading and writing of the Arabic script; and speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Prerequisites: Permission of the Institute required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA521D1/D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 221D1 and ISLA 221D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for both ISLA221D1 and ISLA 221D2.
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ISLA 232D1. Introductory Turkish.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present and future tenses. Introduction to simple daily conversations.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ISLA532 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA232D1 and ISLA 232D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 232D1 and ISLA 232D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 241D1. Introductory Persian.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the Persian language, beginning with pronouncing, reading and writing the Persian script, and moving to vocabulary and grammatical structures needed to communicate in simple dialogues, read simple texts, and write simple paragraphs.
- Prerequisite: Placement test or permission of the instructor
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA 541 D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 241D1 and ISLA 241D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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ISLA 251D1. Introductory Urdu-Hindi.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to Urdu-Hindi language including pronunciation and reading and writing of either Urduor Hindi script, speaking and comprehension of basic sentences, commands, statements in the present tense.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ISLA551D1/D2.
- Students must register for both ISLA251D1 and ISLA 251D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ISLA 251D1 and ISLA 251D2are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
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Italian studies
ITAL 205D1. Italian for Beginners.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy.
- Fall, Winter
- 3 hours and laboratory
- Students must register for both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ITAL 206. Beginners Italian Intensive.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Designed to cover in one term the same material as /.
- 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2
- Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014.
- Fall or Winter
- 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2
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Jewish studies
JWST 220. Introductory Hebrew.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
- For detailed course content go to .
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JWST 281. Introductory Yiddish 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to Yiddish, the millennium-old language of Ashkenazic Jews. This course will cover basic grammar and vocabulary and will include practice in speaking, reading, and writing. The course materials draw on Yiddish literature, humor, songs, and films, and will thus allow students to combine the acquisition of practical language skills with an exploration of Yiddish culture鈥攆rom its beginnings in medieval Germany through its past and present in Central and Eastern Europe, the Americas, Israel, and all over the world.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Summer
- Restriction(s):Not open to students who have taken JWST 280, 280D1/D2.
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JWST 282. Introductory Yiddish 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course is designed for students with a basic command of Yiddish who wish to improve their knowledge of the language and to further explore the culture behind it. Further development of the four language skills - speaking, reading, writing, and listening - with a particular emphasis on expanding vocabulary and improving grammar. Basic overview of the main Yiddish dialects. Course materials include selections from Yiddish literature, humor, songs, and films of Jewish life past and present.
- For detailed course content go to .
- Prerequisite(s): JWST 281 or permission of instructor.
- Not open to students who have taken JWST 280, 280D1/D2.
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Religious studies
RELG 257. Introductory Sanskrit.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
To develop basic language and reading skills.
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RELG 264. Introductory Tibetan 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
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RELG 265. Introductory Tibetan 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 264
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RELG 280. New Testament Greek 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Continued basic grammar, vocabulary and syntax of New Testament Greek. Analysis of more complex sentences from the New Testament and Septuagint.
- Prerequisite(s): RELG 279, CLAS 220
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 280 D1/D2 or RELG 280 prior to 201909.
- Not open to students who have taken CLAS 220 D1/D2, CLAS 222, CLAS 225
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Russian & Slavic studies
RUSS 210. Elementary Russian Language 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice.
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Fall
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RUSS 211. Elementary Russian Language 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Russian Language; continuation of .
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RUSS 210 or equivalent
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RUSS 215. Elementary Russian Language Intensive 1.
Credits: 6
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. / in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken RUSS 210, RUSS 211 or equivalent
- Fall
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken RUSS 210, RUSS 211 or equivalent
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Social Sciences
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Arts Foundation Year听
AFYR 101. Complex Problems 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Arts - Dean's Office (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to an area of inquiry pertinent to multipledisciplines in Arts. Demonstrates how Arts disciplines address challenging problems or topics from distinct perspectives, employing different approaches and methodologies.
- Restrictions: Open only to U0 students.
- Note: Section 001 available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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AFYR 102. Complex Problems 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Arts - Dean's Office (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to an area of inquiry pertinent to multipledisciplines in Arts. Demonstrates how Arts disciplines address challenging problems or topics from distinct perspectives, employing different approaches and methodologies.
- Restrictions: Open only to U0 students.
- Note: Section 001 available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
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Anthropology听
ANTH 201. Introduction to Archaeology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of the definition of the discipline of archaeology and the ways that archaeologists reconstruct the past. Overview of goals, theories, research questions, and methods of anthropological archaeology.
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ANTH 202. Socio-Cultural Anthropology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.
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ANTH 203. Human Evolution.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of evolutionary theory and the fossil and archaeological record for human origins, emphasizing the interaction between physical and cultural evolution. The use of primate behaviour in reconstructing early human behaviour. The origin and meaning of human variation.
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ANTH 204. Anthropology of Meaning.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Through the analysis of language, symbols and cultural constructions of meaning, this course explores how people in different societies make sense of their world, and the ways in which they organise that knowledge, and how ideologies represent the different interests present in a society.
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ANTH 206. Environment and Culture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
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ANTH 207. Ethnography Through Film.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics.
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ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
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ANTH 210. Archaeology of Early Cities.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the archaeology of early cities. Case studies include the cities of "great civilizations" (e.g. Egypt, Indus Valley, Inkan Empire), as well as the urban landscapes of lesser known societies, such as Great Zimbabwe in sub-Saharan Africa.
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ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
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ANTH 222. Legal Anthropology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism.
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ANTH 227. Medical Anthropology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
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Canadian Studies听
CANS 200. Understanding Canada.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Key cultural, economic, social and political institutions and their evolution over time.
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Economics听
ECON 199. First Year Seminar: Economics Seminar: A Reflection.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Research, economic data, and analysis of current issues from an economic perspective. Basic economic concepts and models on one or more current economic issues.
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum cap 25.
- Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both).
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ECON 208. Microeconomic Analysis and Applications.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
- See section on Prerequisites for other courses which would meet prerequisites met by ECON 208
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 230 or ECON 250
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250
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ECON 209. Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
- See section on Prerequisites for other courses which would meet prerequisites met by ECON 209
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 330 or ECON 352
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 295, ECON 330 or ECON 352
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ECON 219. Current Economic Problems: Topics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will deal with topical issues of importance to the Canadian economy.
- This course will also be of interest to students outside of Economics
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ECON 225. Economics of the Environment.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425
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Gender, Sexuality, Feminist and Social Justice Studies听
GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200.
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GSFS 250. Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250.
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History听
HIST 199. FYS: History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the discipline of history through an in-depth look at a selected topic.
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 and U1 who may take only one FYS.
- Students who register for more than one FYS will be obliged to withdraw from all but one. Maximum of 25 students.
- Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both).
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HIST 201. Modern African History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-200D
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HIST 202. Survey: Canada to 1867.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined.
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HIST 203. Survey: Canada since 1867.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way.
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HIST 205. Ancient Mediterranean History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing on Greek and Roman civilization.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 275.
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HIST 206. Indian Ocean World History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the 鈥済lobal鈥� system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East,
South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900.
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HIST 208. Introduction to East Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-208D
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HIST 212. Medieval Europe.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the history and culture(s) of Europe in the Middle Ages.
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HIST 213. World History, 600-2000.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
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HIST 214. Early Modern Europe.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of European history from the Late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-215D
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HIST 215. Modern Europe.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Survey of European history from the eighteenth century to the present.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-215D
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HIST 218. Modern East Asian History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
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HIST 219. Jewish History: 1000 - 2000.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
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HIST 221. United States since 1865.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examines the defining moments and movements in the U.S. since Reconstruction, including populism, progressivism, the World Wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, the sixties and its consequences. Emphasis on the political, social and ideological transformations that ensued.
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HIST 223. Indigenous Peoples and Empires.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
History of Indigenous Peoples of North and South America and their early experiences of European conquest and colonization, c. 1400 - 1800.
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HIST 226. East Central and Southeastern Europe in 20th Century.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introductory survey of east central and southeastern European history from the twilight of nineteenth-century imperialism to the most recent expansion of the
European Union. Consideration will be given to the two world wars and their consequences; nationalism, fascism, and socialism; and the revolutions of 1989.
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HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Islamic revival in the Middle East which led to the rise of different versions of Islamic traditions and beliefs. Emphasis on the nature and character of leading nationalist and Islamic movements and their ideologues since the late 19th century.
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HIST 249. Health and the Healer in Western History.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture.
- Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program.
- Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program.
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HIST 292. History and the Environment.
Credits: 3
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Sketch of the history of the material aspects of human interaction with the rest of nature. Included will be a historian's view of the social, technical, and ecological implications of the great variety of activities devised by our species. Though global in outlook, this course will emphasize the relevant historiography of France, England and North America.
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Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID)听
INTD 200. Introduction to International Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.
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INTD 250. History of Development.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A history of development, focusing on the ideologies as well as the practices that have shaped how empires, governments, corporations, and individuals have sought to 'improve' the world鈥攎ost often, but not exclusively, in the global south. Themes will include colonialism, gender, race, economic growth, poverty, geopolitics, multilateralism, foreign aid, south-south relations, philanthropy, and the environment.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken INTD 397, when topic was "History of Development" in Winter 2024.
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Islamic Studies听
ISLA 199. FYS: Narrations of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to competing narratives about crucial moments in the history and culture of the Middle East. Reading and discussion of texts drawn from a variety of perspectives and genres, including historical accounts, poetry, fiction, memoir and others.
- Fall
- Restriction(s): Only open to newly-admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS.
- Note: Enrollment limit 25. Students who register for more than one FYS will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Note: Language of instruction is English.
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ISLA 200. Islamic Civilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
- Fall
- Note: All readings are in English.
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ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
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Linguistics听
LING 199. First Year Seminar: Language and Mind.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This fast paced course introduces students to challenges faced by scientists who study how language is represented in the human brain.
- Available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (/arts-foundation-pilot/).
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS.
- Note: Students who register for more than one FYS will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both).
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LING 201. Introduction to Linguistics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
General introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Covers the core theoretical subfields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also provides background on other subfields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, linguistic variation, and language
acquisition.
- Note: This course is a prerequisite for all other courses in Linguistics except LING 200, LING 301 and LING 350
- No prerequisite.
- Fall and Winter
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LING 210. Introduction to Speech Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The course covers key concepts of speech science, including phonetics (acoustics, speech perception and production), fundamentals in the study of speech processing, speech development, and speech disorders, and introduces some basic methodologies of the field.
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LING 260. Meaning in Language.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A hands-on introduction to the strategies that natural languages use to convey meaning. Requiring no previous background in linguistics, the course surveys fundamental properties of word and sentence meaning and their interdependence with context. It provides an overview of the grammatical mechanisms that languages employ to construct the literal meanings of sentences from word meanings, explores how meanings are anchored to real life situations, and analyzes how meanings are routinely enriched in context by language users to convey more than what is literally expressed.
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Political Science听
POLI 210. Political Science Research Methods.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research .
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POLI 212. Introduction to Comparative Politics 鈥� Europe/North America.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to fundamental comparative politics concepts and research that focuses on Europe and North America. Topics include: state and state institutions, parties and party systems, elections, protest and social movements, rule of
law, corruption, regime transitions鈥� democratization and autocratization.
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developed Areas.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 221. Government of Canada.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
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POLI 222. Political Process and Behaviour in Canada.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
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POLI 226. La vie politique qu茅b茅coise.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Une introduction 脿 la vie politique qu茅b茅coise 脿 travers l'茅tude des institutions, des id茅ologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particuli猫re sera accord茅e 脿 la structure et aux changements dans le syst猫me politique qu茅b茅coise.
- Restriction: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not.
- This course is offered in English and French in alternate years. For 2012-13 it will be offered in French.
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
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POLI 227. Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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POLI 231. Introduction to Political Theory.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing.
- Note: The field is Political Theory
- Note: The field is Political Theory.
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POLI 243. International Politics of Economic Relations.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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POLI 244. International Politics: State Behaviour.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
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Quebec Studies听
QCST 200. Introduction to the Study of Quebec.
Credits: 0-3
Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the ideas and approaches that scholars have used and developed to study Quebec, including some of the foremost issues that have shaped Quebec historically and continue to influence contemporary life. The changing notions about territory, identity, language, citizenship and belonging, the complexity and diversity of Quebec (11 Aboriginal nations, multilingual, multiethnic and religious communities, minority status within Canada) will also be explored from a comparative perspective to identify characteristics that Quebec shares with other nations and those that are different.
- This course offers students the possibility of doing a community engagement internship (or ExCELR option).
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Sociology听
SOCI 210. Sociological Perspectives.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Major theoretical perspectives and research methods in sociology. The linkages of theory and method in various substantive areas including: the family, community and urban life, religion, ethnicity, occupations and stratification, education, and social change.
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SOCI 211. Sociological Inquiry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
An introductory review of methods of sociological research including research design, elementary quantitative data analysis, observation, and use of official statistics. Detailed examination of published examples of the use of each of the major techniques of data analysis and collection.
- Prerequisite or Corequisite: SOCI 210
- Prerequisite or Corequisite: SOCI 210
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SOCI 222. Urban Sociology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Comparative analysis of the process of urbanization in Europe, North America and the Third World; effects of urbanization upon social institutions and individuals; theories of urbanization and urbanism; the Canadian urban system; urban problems in comparative view.
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SOCI 225. Medicine and Health in Modern Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Socio-medical problems and ways in which sociological analysis and research are being used to understand and deal with them. Canadian and Qu茅bec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization.
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SOCI 234. Population and Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.
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SOCI 235. Technology and Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the extent to which technological developments impose constraints on ways of arranging social relationships in bureaucratic organizations and in the wider society: the compatibility of current social structures with the effective utilization of technology.
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SOCI 247. Family and Modern Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family.
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
- Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations
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SOCI 250. Social Problems.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Contrasting theoretical approaches to social problems.
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SOCI 254. Development and Underdevelopment.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.
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SOCI 270. Sociology of Gender.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered.
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Mathematics & Science
Note:听Some of the courses listed below are not suitable for first term as they require university-level prerequisites. Click on the course titles below for further information about appropriate background before registering.听Some Science courses require students to also register for a mandatory lab component. For courses with a lab component, students must register and pass both the lecture and lab components in order to obtain credits.
Special Registration Note: Since Science students (B.Sc. students, in U0)听begin course registration听after several other faculties, you will notice that registration in certain basic math and science courses are restricted听for part of听the summer. This is done to ensure that Science students have equal access to register for those courses. Rest assured that those courses will become available to you听shortly after.
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Atmospheric & Oceanic Science听
ATOC 182. Introduction to Oceanic Sciences.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to ocean sciences with particular emphasis on physical oceanography. Topics typically include seawater properties, sea ice, air-sea interaction, seafloor topography, large-scale ocean circulation, waves, tides, physical control of biological processes, the role of oceans in climate, and impact of human activities.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 220, EPSC 360 or EPSC 560.
- Fall and/or Winter
- 3 hours lecture
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ATOC 183. Climate and Climate Change.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The atmosphere, ocean and sea-ice distribution characteristic of the current climate, as seen through observational data and computer model results. Physics of naturally occurring variability on time scales of months to years, such as El Ni帽o. Global circulation models of the atmosphere, ocean and coupled atmosphere-ocean system, and global warming simulations.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 230.
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ATOC 184. Science of Storms.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Physical processes associated with severe and hazardous weather affecting the Earth. Topics are taught at a fundamental level, without equations, to provide a complete and up-to-date understanding of such extreme events as blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and droughts.
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 240, or the combination of ATOC 214 and ATOC 215.
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ATOC 185. Natural Disasters.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the science behind different types of disasters and our ability or inability to control and predict such events. From this course the student will gain an appreciation of natural disasters beyond the newspaper headlines and will better understand how the effects of disasters can be reduced.
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture
- This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with EPSC 185.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 185.
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Biology听
BIOL 111. Principles: Organismal Biology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the phylogeny, structure, function and adaptation of unicellular organisms, plants and animals in the biosphere.
- Note: This class will use a Student Response System (clicker) which can be obtained when you get your ID Card in the Trottier Building between August 20 and August 31st. If you already have your ID Card, you can get your SRS at Redpath Library Room 22 beginning August 20th.
- Open to all students wishing introductory biology.
- Attendance at first lab is mandatory, starting on the 2nd week of the semester, to confirm registration in the course.
- Labs for Fall 2021 will be held in the field and remotely. Students are expected to be in Montreal for Fall 2021.
- Fall
- 2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UK or equivalent; or BIOL 115.
- This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00UK
- Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.
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BIOL 112. Cell and Molecular Biology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The cell: ultrastructure, division, chemical constituents and reactions. Bioenergetics: photosynthesis and respiration. Principles of genetics, the molecular basis of inheritance and biotechnology.
- The format of the Biol 112 labs for Winter 2022 will be indicated in Minerva shortly. Students are expected to be in Montreal for winter 2022.
- Winter
- 2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory
- Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course.
- This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00XU
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CEGEP objective 00XU or equivalent;or BIOL 115; or AEBI 122
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BIOL 115. Essential Biology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to biological science that emphasizes the manner in which scientific understanding is achieved and evolves and the influence of biological science on society. Topics will include cell structure and function, genetics, evolution, organ physiology, ecology and certain special topics that change from year to year.
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisites: none.
- Restrictions: Open only to non-Science students; not open to students who have had BIOL 111, BIOL 112, or equivalents.
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Chemistry听
CHEM 110. General Chemistry 1.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Fall
- Prerequisites/corequisites: High school mathematics and physics or permission of the instructor; CHEM 120 is not a prerequisite
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
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CHEM 181. World of Chemistry: Food.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A series of lectures on the historical, practical, and simple chemical aspects of: food, food additives; vitamins; minerals, diet and cancer; dieting; food-borne illnesses, health food and cooking.
- **There are no scheduled days as the lectures are videos where the students can go at their own pace. The standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is June 21, 2021 and withdrawal is June 22, 2021.
- Winter
- 3 lecture hours/week
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 150.
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CHEM 183. World of Chemistry: Drugs.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Drug history and marketing, over the counter drugs (e.g. aspirin, cough and cold remedies, allergy preparations), street and heart drugs, mental illness, hormones, brain chemistry and diabetes.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 170.
- Fall
- 3 lecture hours/week
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Computer Science听
COMP 189. Computers and Society.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
How computer technologies shape social notions such as ownership, safety, and privacy. Emphasis is on computer science powering both day-to-day technologies (e.g., online social media) and those in the news (e.g., cyberwar). Discussions will investigate technology and social issues in order to understand both.
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COMP 202. Foundations of Programming.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
- Restriction Note N: COMP 202 cannot be taken for credit with or after COMP 250.
- 3 hours
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 204, COMP 208, or GEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 204 is intended for students in life sciences, and COMP 208 is intended for students in physical sciences and engineering.
- To take COMP 202, students should have a solid understanding of pre-calculus fundamentals such as polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.
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Earth & Planetary Sciences听
EPSC 181. Environmental Geology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the relationship of geological processes and materials to the human environment; geologic hazards; hydrogeology; impacts of waste disposal, energy use, land resource development.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EPSC 243
- Winter
- 3 hours lectures
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EPSC 185. Natural Disasters.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the science behind different types of disasters and our ability or inability to control and predict such events. From this course the student will gain an appreciation of natural disasters beyond the newspaper headlines, and will better understand how the effects of disasters can be reduced.
- Fall
- 3 hours lectures
- This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with ATOC 185.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ATOC 185.
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EPSC 186. Astrobiology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Astrobiology is the study of life throughout the universe. The course will cover the search for, and characterization of, habitable worlds. We will explore the formation and evolution of stars and planets, the astronomical and geological factors that impact a planet's habitability, the evolution of life on Earth, and the potential for biological evolution beyond an organism's planet of origin..
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 182, ANAT 182, or PHYS 186.
- 1.Winter
- 2.This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with PHYS 186.
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EPSC 201. Understanding Planet Earth.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Learn about Earth's origin, its place in the solar system, its internal structure, rocks and minerals, the formation of metal and fossil fuel deposits, and the extinction of dinosaurs. Discover the impact of the volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and mountain chains on Earth's past, present and future. Explore 125 million-year-old Mount Royal.
- Fall or Winter
- 3 hours lectures; afternoon field trips
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 233.
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EPSC 233. Earth and Life Through Time
Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Interpretation of stratified rocks; history of Earth with special emphasis on the regions of North America; outline of the history of life recorded in fossils.
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ESYS 104. The Earth System.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Earth system science examines the complex interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere. It focuses on physical, chemical, and biological processes that extend over spatial scales ranging from microns to the size of planetary orbits, and spans time scales from fractions of a second to billions of years.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken ATOC 104 or GEOG 104 or EPSC 104.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture
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FSCI听
FSCI 198. Climate Crisis and Climate Actions.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Science (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of the climate change problem, critically assessing climate information published in research and public media, and engaging in personal and collective climate actions. Emphasis is placed on varied social, economic, and disciplinary perspectives including those of Indigenous peoples.
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Geography听
GEOG 205. Global Change: Past, Present and Future.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of global change, from the Quaternary Period to the present day involving changes in the physical geography of specific areas. Issues such as climatic change and land degradation will be discussed, with speculations on future environments.
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GEOG 216. Geography of the World Economy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
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GEOG 217. Cities in the Modern World.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.
- Note: Winter
- Note: 3 hours
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GEOG 272. Earth's Changing Surface.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the study of landforms as products of geomorphic and geologic systems acting at and near the Earth's surface. The process geomorphology approach will be used to demonstrate how landforms of different geomorphic settings represent a dynamic balance between forces acting in the environment and the physical properties of materials present.
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Mathematics & Statistics听
MATH 133. Linear Algebra and Geometry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
- Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134.
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
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MATH 139. Calculus 1 with Precalculus.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Fall
- 4 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction: 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent.2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 140 or MATH 150. 3) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Students continue in MATH 141
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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MATH 140. Calculus 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: High School Calculus
- Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken MATH139 or MATH 150 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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MATH 141. Calculus 2.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122 or MATH 130 or MATH 131, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122 or MATH 130 or MATH 131, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122,except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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MATH 150. Calculus A.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Functions, limits and continuity, differentiation, L'Hospital's rule, applications, Taylor polynomials, parametric curves, functions of several variables.
- MATH 150 and MATH 151 cover the material of MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 222
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture, 2 hours tutorial
- Students with no prior exposure to vector geometry are advised to take MATH 133 concurrently. Intended for students with high school calculus who have not received six advanced placement credits
- Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 139 or MATH 140 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122,except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- MATH 150 and MATH 151 cover the material of MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 222
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MATH 151. Calculus B.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Integration, methods and applications, infinite sequences and series, power series, arc length and curvature, multiple integration.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 152
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture; 2 hours tutorial
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Prerequisite: MATH 150
- Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 141 or CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematic sand Statistics.
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MATH 180. The Art of Mathematics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An overview of what mathematics has to offer. This course will let you discover the beauty of mathematical ideas while only requiring a high school background in mathematics. The topics of the course may include: prime numbers, modular arithmetic, complex numbers, matrices, permutations and combinations, probability, set theory, game theory, logic, chaos. Additional topics may be covered depending on the instructor.
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Physics听
PHYS 101. Introductory Physics - Mechanics.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introductory course in physics without calculus, covering mechanics (kinematics, dynamics, energy, and rotational motion), oscillations and waves, sound, light, and wave optics.
- Fall
- 3 hours lectures; 2 hours laboratory; tutorial sessions
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or having taken PHYS 131, CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent
- Laboratory sections have limited enrolment
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PHYS 180. Space, Time and Matter.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A nonmathematical, conceptual look at physics, beginning with the idea of space and time, continuing with the historical development of Newtonian mechanics of celestial motion, electricity and magnetism, ether and light, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, matter and antimatter, cosmology and the big bang.
- Fall
- 3 hours lectures
- Restrictions: Not open to students in a Physics program. Not open to students who have taken PHYS 200.
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PHYS 181. Everyday Physics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The day-to-day physics behind the materials and phenomena around us. Demonstrations of the intriguing properties of materials and the simple physical theories explaining them.
- Note: The course will be divided into thirteen weeks with a different topic for each week throughout the semester.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 202.
- Winter
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PHYS 183. The Milky Way Inside and Out.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An elementary course on astronomy. Star origins and star formation, supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Galaxies, their structure and their interactions. Stellar clusters, the interstellar medium. Galactic classification and galaxy evolution.
- Winter
- Restriction: Not open to students in a Physics program. Not open to students who have taken PHYS 204 or PHYS 206.
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PHYS 186. Astrobiology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Astrobiology is the study of life throughout the universe. The course will cover the search for, and characterization of, habitable worlds. We will explore the formation and evolution of stars and planets, the astronomical and geological factors that impact a planet's habitability, the evolution of life on Earth, and the potential for biological evolution beyond an organism's planet of origin.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 182, ANAT 182, or EPSC 186.
- Winter
- This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with EPSC 186.
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Psychology听
PSYC 100. Introduction to Psychology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the scientific study of mind and behavior, including basic concepts and methods in psychology while also highlighting the relevance of psychology to everyday life; attachment, aggression, depression, parenting and personality change.
- Fall
- 2 lectures; 1 conference
- Restriction: Not open to students who have passed an Introductory Psychology course in CEGEP: 350-101 or 350-102 or equivalent
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Psychiatry听
PSYT 199. FYS: Mental Illness and the Brain.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will introduce the student to the fundamentals of neuroscience, and then use these principles to illustrate recent advances made on the biological causes of, and treatments for, mental disorders with a strong biological component: schizophrenia, depression, mania, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and alcohol and drug abuse.
- 1 hour lecture and 2 hours seminar weekly
- Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
- Maximum 25. No prerequisites
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