IMPORTANT DATES
FACULTY OF LIBERAL STUDIES
English
ENGL 2B01 Creative Writing I
ENGL 2B03 Introduction to Literary Criticism (Cancelled as of April 10, 2007)
ENGL 2B30 Critical Writing for Artists and Designers
ENGL 3B04 Science and Technology in Literature (Cancelled as of April 11, 2007)
ENGL 3B20 Creative Writing II
LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument - Mechanics (New section updated as of May 7, 2007)
LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument - ESL (Duration 5 cancelled as of April 11, 2007)
LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument - Rhetoric
History & Theory of Visual Culture
LBST 1B03 Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Ideas
LBST 1B06 Introduction to Visual Studies II: Critical Framework
VISC 2B07 History of Modern Art
VISC 2B36 History and Evolution of Typography
VISC 2B38 Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts
VISC 2B39 Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century
VISC 3B03 Contemporary Canadian Art
VISC 3B06 Art of the African Diaspora
VISC 3B07 Art of the Italian Renaissance
VISC 3B33 Canadian Cinema
VISC 3B34 Japanese Cinema
VISC 3B37 The History and Theory of Art Criticism
VISC 3B93 Special Topics in Visual Culture: Design and Sustainability
VISC 3B94 Special Topics in Visual Culture: The City: Sustainability and Design
VISC 4B05 Cosmopolis: New Narrative in Contemporary Media
Humanities
HUMN 2B16 Twentieth Century Ideas
HUMN 3B93 Special Topics in Humanities – Comparative Religions (Rescheduled as of April 5, 2007)
HUMN 4B03 Existentialism
HUMN 4B17 Feminist Theory
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
Science/Technology/Mathematics
SCTM 2B10 Introduction to Psychology
SCTM 2B90 Special Topic in Science/Technology/Math: Topics in the Science of Colour
Social Sciences
SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies (Cancelled as of April 11, 2007)
SOSC 2B03 Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour
SOSC 3B01 Gender, Globalization and Social Change
SOSC 3B03 Sociology of the Body
SOSC 3B04 Childhood, Families and Social Change
Course Descriptions
ENGL 2B01
Creative Writing I
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 2, Monday and Wednesday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Note: New code. Students who have taken ACAD3B11 or ENGL 3B11 may not take this course for further credit.
This seminar course offers students the opportunity to develop, critique and refine a body of writing with an emphasis on the exploration of individual style. Through lectures, writing exercises, class discussion, readings, presentations and individual critiques, the elements and strategies involved in both the craft and the creative process of writing are examined, as are different critical theories of literature. As a way of understanding cultural and social influences on artistic vision and the creative imagination, students are exposed to a range of writers of diverse cultural and aesthetic backgrounds.
ENGL 2B03 (Cancelled as of April 10, 2007)
Introduction to Literary Criticism
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Tanya d'Anger
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level or permission of instructor.
Note: prerequisite for 400 level ENGL courses are strongly recommended in advance of 300 level ENGL courses.
The focus of this course will be twofold. Firstly, it will seek to articulate the ways in which critical thinking has developed in literary criticism from the classical to the contemporary period. From this perspective, we will trace the influences of classical thought on contemporary schools by introducing students to a range of methodologies, which will include the following: formalism, semiotics, new criticism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, queer theory and critical race studies. Secondly, by using this historical and theoretical paradigm as a frame of reference, the course will shift into a critical analysis of theorizing by questioning the presuppositions that underlie various developments in the tradition of critical thinking. Students will be encouraged to consider the relevance of both ancient and current methodologies in relation to issues of representation and power relations in the contemporary world.
ENGL 2B30
Critical Writing for Artists and Designers
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 25, Monday and Wednesday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Leanna McLennan
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level or permission of instructor.
Anti-requisite: Students who have a credit in ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03 or LBST 1A40 (and the subsequent workshop) are not eligible to take this course for credit.
Note: New code. Students who have taken ACAD 3B12 or ACAD 2B30 may not take this course for further credit.
This writing and composition course provides students with the opportunity to develop communication skills essential for artists and designers through lectures, writing exercises, oral presentations, class discussions, readings, group and individual critiques. The emphasis of the course is on the development of clear and effective writing specific to art and design contexts, with students led through the process of preparing a variety of written materials including proposals, artists' statements, reviews, and critical briefs.
ENGL 3B04 (Cancelled as of April 11, 2007)
Science and Technology in Literature
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 25, Monday and Wednesday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC or permission of instructor.
Note: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of 300-level ENGL courses.
We live in a culture in which science and technology influence how we imagine and inhabit the world. The relationship between humans and technology has long been a concern of both literary and science writers who have produced such engaging figures as the raging machine that turns on its creator and the cyborg. What are the limits of our responsibility for the technology we create and use? In this course, we will study literary and scientific representations of science and technology and the people who use it. We will consider how writers' wrestle with such concepts as destiny, free will, and utopia. Genres studied will include speculative fiction, fantasy, science writing, and creative non-fiction. Course readings may include texts by Gibson, Hopkinson, LeGuin, Orwell, Shelley, and others.
ENGL 3B20
Creative Writing II
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 1:30 pm to 5pm
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC and ENGL 2B01 or permission of instructor.
In this seminar workshop, students discover and challenge preconceptions about a broad range of styles, genres, traditions and conventions in "creative writing." In developing their writerly voices, students explore and are encouraged to create poetry, fiction, autobiography, performance texts, musical forms, photo and art works using text, interdiciplinary writing and collaborative experimentation. Exposure to a variety of contemporary literature helps students integrate theoretical/critical perspectives into their developing voices and to make links between current writing trends and art/cultural discourses.
LBST 1B03
Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Ideas
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 25, Monday and Wednesday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Bojana Videkanic
Note: New code. Students who previously took VISC 1B03 or ACAD 1B03 may not take this course for further credit.
Conditions: Required for all First-Year students
This lecture course is an introduction to the history and context of visual studies from a thematic and global perspective. Through an issue-based approach to art and design, students explore the historical relationship of visual representation of ideas such as spirituality, colonialism, the body, race, gender, industrialization, mass reproduction and technology. An emphasis is placed on integrating textual and visual analysis in lectures, tutorials and assignments and introducing students to research methodologies for artists and designers.
LBST 1B06
Introduction to Visual Studies II: Critical Framework
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Alexandra Emberley
Note: New code. Students who have taken VISC 1B04, VISC 1B05 or VISC 1B06 may not take this course for further credit.
Conditions: Required for all First-Year students
This lecture course introduces students to ways of thinking creatively and analytically about visual culture in a contemporary global context. Students are introduced to the ways in which meanings are produced through visual forms, including paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news and science images. The course examines how we “read” the image as a visual language and what influences our ways of seeing, including aesthetics, ideology, gender, race and class.
LBST 1B11 (New section updated as of May 7, 2007)
The Essay and the Argument - Mechanics
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Amanda Spencer
Duration 5: Jun 25 to Aug 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Tanya D'Anger
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03 or LBST1A40 with one of: LBST1A41, LBST1A42 OR LBST1A43 may not take LBST 1B13 for extra credit.
This course is designed specifically for students who wish to sharpen their writing skills through intensive practice and review of composition mechanics and English grammar. Students will focus on grammar fundamentals, paragraph construction and reading strategies. This workshop allows students to explore aspects of essay composition while developing confidence in their own writing skills through practical exercises.
This course focuses on the essay – personal, descriptive, analytical, persuasive and research based – and how to develop a clear, compelling thesis and convincing argument. Students will read among the best models of the essay, which may include works by, among others, Montaigne, Swift, Lincoln, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, Orwell, Bettleheim, Arendt, Sartre, Nabokov, Sontag and Kincaid. Through short lectures, group work, peer reviews, class discussions and instructor feedback, students will practice the art of writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, undergoing an intensive, rigorous learning process designed to be useful to them as practicing artists, designers, researchers and critics.
LBST 1B12
Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers - ESL
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30pm to 5 pm
Instructor: Ben Freedman
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03 or LBST1A40 with one of: LBST1A41, LBST1A42 OR LBST1A43 may not take LBST 1B13 for extra credit.
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 9:30pm (Cancelled as of April 11, 2007)
Instructor: Lisa Tomlinson
This course is designed specifically for ESL (English as a Second Language) students who wish to reinforce skills in English grammar and written English. Students will focus on grammar, composition, vocabulary building, techniques for reading efficiently and academic style.
This course focuses on the essay – personal, descriptive, analytical, persuasive and research based – and how to develop a clear, compelling thesis and convincing argument. Students will read among the best models of the essay, which may include works by, among others, Montaigne, Swift, Lincoln, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, Orwell, Bettleheim, Arendt, Sartre, Nabokov, Sontag and Kincaid. Through short lectures, group work, peer reviews, class discussions and instructor feedback, students will practice the art of writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, undergoing an intensive, rigorous learning process designed to be useful to them as practicing artists, designers, researchers and critics.
LBST 1B13
The Essay and the Argument - Rhetoric
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30pm to 5 pm
Instructor: John Gudmundson
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03 or LBST1A40 with one of: LBST1A41, LBST1A42 OR LBST1A43 may not take LBST 1B13 for extra credit.
This course is designed specifically for students who wish to sharpen their persuasive skills through an intensive study of the art of rhetoric and debate. Students will focus on advanced arguments through in-depth analysis of course readings as well as a close examination of various rhetorical tips and strategies.
This course focuses on the essay – personal, descriptive, analytical, persuasive and research based – and how to develop a clear, compelling thesis and convincing argument. Students will read among the best models of the essay, which may include works by, among others, Montaigne, Swift, Lincoln, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, Orwell, Bettleheim, Arendt, Sartre, Nabokov, Sontag and Kincaid. Through short lectures, group work, peer reviews, class discussions and instructor feedback, students will practice the art of writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, undergoing an intensive, rigorous learning process designed to be useful to them as practicing artists, designers, researchers and critics.
VISC 2B07
History of Modern Art
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Alla Myzelev
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
This lecture course surveys major artistic movements and artists from the 1860s to the 1970s. We begin by examining the roots of Modernism and proceed to a consideration of movements such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism. We then examine Duchamp and the Armory Show of 1913 to illustrate the influence of the early-20th-century European avant-garde on North American art and aesthetics, particularly Abstract Expressionism. We conclude with a discussion of mid-20th-century art movements, including British and American Pop, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Performance, Land-based Art and Post-Minimalism.
VISC 2B36
History and Evolution of Typography
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 25, Monday and Wednesday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Jessica Wolfe
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.Note: New code. Students who have taken COMM 2B07 may not take this course for further credit.
Note: Priority registration for Advertising and Graphic Design majors.
This course addresses the historic development of the typographic form from the calligraphic forms that pre-date Guttenberg’s invention of movable type and letterpress to current digital typography. We consider the cultural, technological and historical contexts critical to the understanding of typography and its uses. Typographic nomenclature as it has evolved is studied with respect to anatomy of the letter, its measurement and its technological history. Through lectures, class discussion, readings and research, students will learn to analyze typography and its effectiveness in the shaping of “word pictures.”
VISC 2B38
Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 25, Monday and Wednesday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm Instructor: Janna Eggebeen
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B11 or ENVR 3B11 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: New code. Students who have taken VISC 3B11: Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts or ENVR 3B11 may not take this course for further credit. This course is also listed as VISC 3B11. If you are a 2nd year student and you require Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts, you must register for VISC 2B38.
Understanding the nature of design ideas and the subsequent approaches, activities and methodologies applied in the realization of these conceptual ideas is critical for the emerging designer. This course examines the work of a number of key architects and interior and industrial designers in order to study their approaches in the context of their individual philosophies, design vocabularies and the parameters within which they worked. Through this study, we will consider and evaluate their diverse methodologies and results.
Priority registration for Environmental Design, Industrial Design, and Material Art & Design majors
VISC 2B39
Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Guita Lamsechi
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B20 or VISC 4B14 for credit may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Priority Registration for Graphic Design and Illustration majors.
This lecture-seminar course engages in a study of communication arts and media within the context of the 20th century. The course focuses on the relationships between technological, social, economic, political and cultural changes that have shaped and influenced the development of communication arts. The range of subjects covered includes the impact of the two world wars and the Vietnam War; the influence of the Bauhaus, the developments in editorial design, the first attempts at computer composition, corporate design, electronic imaging and advances in print and pre-press technologies.
This course is not available as VISC 3B20 or VISC 4B14. If you require this course at either of these code levels, you must register for VISC 2B39 and make an appointment with one of the Assistant Deans in the Faculty of Liberal Studies for approval. If you are a 2nd year student who requires Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century you must register for VISC 2B39.
VISC 3B03
Contemporary Canadian Art
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: Jessica Wyman
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Notes: VISC 2B32 Canadian Art: The Modern Era is strongly recommended in advance of taking this course. New code. Students who have taken ACAD 3B03 or VISC 3B02 may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course provides an overview of the issues, ideas and artworks that have shaped contemporary Canadian art in the contemporary period since the 1970s. Drawing upon examples from a variety of mediums, we examine key issues in contemporary Canadian art such as nationalism and Quebec sovereignty, regionalism, multiculturalism, gender identity and cultural diversity. Influences in contemporary Canadian art such as the artist-run centre movement, feminism, First Nations work, new-media arts, installation and the landscape tradition are discussed. The texts used in the course expose students to writings by Canadian artists, critics and cultural theorists.
VISC 3B06
Art of the African Diaspora
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: Julie Crooks
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This lecture-seminar course provides students with perspectives on the impact of early European contact with Africa on the art and culture of the African diaspora. Students study the historical, political, cultural and social contexts of the colonial period and post-colonial history of the African diaspora since the 1500s and consider how the historical and contemporary work of Caribbean, British, American and Canadian artists of African ancestry have responded to both colonial legacies and current contemporary issues.
VISC 3B07
Art of the Italian Renaissance
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 1: May 15 to June 2, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 6 pm to
9:30 pm
Instructor: Francis Broun
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Note: New code. Students who have taken ACAD 2B18 or VISC 2B18 may not take this course for further credit.
This slide lecture course is an intensive study of Renaissance art in Italy and begins with an examination of the early Renaissance in Siena and Florence and artists such as Duccio and Giotto. We then move to a discussion of the development of art and ideas in 15th-century Florence and examine artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Massaccio, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca and Botticelli. We conclude with an examination of the High Renaissance (Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo) and the work of the Venetians (Bellini, Giorgione and Titian).
VISC 3B33
Canadian Cinema
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Thursday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Scott Preston
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Note: VISC 2B08 Film Studies: An Introduction is strongly recommended in advance of taking this course.
This lecture-seminar course examines the history and current realities of Canadian cinema from the emergence of Canada as a world leader in documentary cinema in the 1950s to recent successes of independent feature films. The course will map the structural context of Canadian cinema, from state funding through to international markets, and will also examine a number of critical approaches to Canadian cinema, including two nations, indigenous perspectives, diaspora, regionalisms, experimentalism, gendered nations and cosmopolitanism. Through screenings, readings, discussion and written assignments, students will develop critical/analytical skills to address the key concepts underpinning Canadian cinema.
VISC 3B34
Japanese Cinema
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Tuesday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: David McIntosh
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Note: VISC 2B08 Film Studies: An Introduction is strongly recommended in advance of taking this course.
This course introduces students to developments in Japanese film from the mid-1920s to the present day. Through a series of screenings, lectures, discussions, readings and written assignments, students develop an understanding and appreciation of some of the more important films, directors, movements and issues in Japanese film.
VISC 3B37
History and Theory of Art Criticism
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: Wendy O'Brien
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken HUMN 3B03 may not take VISC 3B37 for further credit.
This lecture/seminar course will explore the history of criticism from the early 1700s to the present, focusing on the evolution of theory and practice in European art criticism. Students will examine arguments regarding, for example, good taste, the beautiful and the sublime, the distinction between and conscious blending of various literary and visual genres (e.g., painting, sculpture, literature, theatre), mimetic versus abstract representation, aesthetic versus social/political considerations.. Working with case studies, students will be engaged in reading and analyzing core documents within the history of art criticism and will undertake critical writing projects focused on contemporary art practice.
VISC 3B93
Special Topics in Visual Culture: Design and Sustainability
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 25, Monday and Wednesday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Eric Nay
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Note: This "Special Topic" course provides more advanced analysis of a topic of general interest or relevance. This course fulfills 0.5 credit toward the Liberal Studies requirements for a BFA or BDes.
A growing awareness of the environmental, social and economic problems associated with contemporary architecture, industry and design has led communities and designers to look for long term solutions to use less energy, create less waste and generally reform the systems that are at the core of the post-industrialized world. This course will survey and analyze existing literature, built environments, and designed objects focusing on defining sustainability within today’s contemporary global context. Projects coming from a wide and varied interdisciplinary range of examples will be explored. Differing contexts, cultures, disciplines, institutions, and regional variations will also be factored into our investigation as we look at how the notion of sustainable design is conceptualized, interpreted and implemented.
VISC 3B94
Special Topics in Visual Culture: The City: Sustainability & Design
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 4: June 4 to June 22, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Richard Milgrom
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This course will examine a range of issues prevalent in the various discourses of sustainability and examine the role of design in sustaining human populations in the city. The course starts from the position that sustainability is not a simple ecological problem, but that the social dimensions are equally as important. Environmental designers, industrial designers and artists can play significant educational roles in raising awareness of the issue as well as suggesting ways to address the challenges of living with the environmental limits of the planet.
VISC 4B05
Cosmopolis: New Narrative in Contemporary Media
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Wednesday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: David McIntosh
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
Film, video and digital media have converged and continue to open new possibilities for cross-media and multi-media moving image production and for depicting changing global realities and imaginaries. Classical cinematic narrative is giving way to a new culture of drama and fiction-based forms merging traditional cinema, experimental literature, television, video, and the Internet. This 4th year seminar focuses on a range of contemporary media practitioners who move back and forth across media forms to construct experimental dramatic narratives to represent the developing discourse of post-human/post-global existence and embodied imaginaries produced by media convergence and its global spread.
HUMN 2B16
Twentieth Century Ideas
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Tuesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Solomon Goldberg
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
This lecture course draws from the broad spectrum of twentieth century thought to introduce students to issues and competing perspectives that have had an impact on the art, design and culture of our time. Ideas and issues to be examined include psychoanalysis and the unconscious, behavourism and the machine model of humanity, scientific method and objective truth, imperialism and the conflict of ideologies, existentialism and the plight of the individual, feminism and the Other, semiotics, and the postmodern condition.
Notes: Students who previously took ACAD2B16 may not take this course for further credit.
HUMN 3B93
Special Topic in Humanities: Comparative Religions
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to 12:30 pm
Instructor: Sophie Hawkins
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This course will introduce the main tenets of seven world faiths: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The lecture-seminar will focus on both philosophical beliefs and ritual practices from within each of the religious traditions. This will provide a context from which we can begin to examine not only different ‘ways of world making’ but also the complexity of the political present: for example, our study of the beliefs and practices of Islam will enable us to critically analyze the representation of Muslims post 9/11.
HUMN 4B03
Existentialism
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 1:30 pm to 5pm
Instructor: Archie Graham
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This course is a study of the short stories, poetry, film, visual art and philosophical essays which have been generated from, or significantly influenced by, the philosophy of existentialism. In identifying some of the chief issues, notable works and leading figures in the movement, students gain an appreciation of the "existential" approach to modern culture, one characterized by the preeminence of critical protest.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 4B03 may not take this course for further credit.
HUMN 4B17
Feminist Theory
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Monday and Wednesday, 1:30 pm to 5pm
Instructor: Karyn Sandlos
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This seminar course draws on interdisciplinary research in art and design, literature, and social theory to examine a broad range of approaches to the study of gender in society. We reflect critically on the theories and practices of a diverse spectrum of feminist thought, and work towards the development of a framework of analysis which views sex and gender as intersecting with race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and socio-economic class. Our focus emphasizes recent changes in the global economy, capitalism, and postcolonial societies that have transformed families, workplaces, conceptions of power, and alternative forms of portraying human agency and resistance.
HUMN 4B18
Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Dot Tuer
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This seminar course examines key theories and ideas that have emerged under the broad term of postmodernism. Readings for the course familiarize students with the debates about postmodernism and contemporary culture related to issues of technology, globalization and postcolonialism. Assignments focus on the development of critical strategies and analytical frameworks for reading, responding to, and writing about theoretical ideas. In depth examination of assigned readings is complemented by discussion of related artistic practices.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 4B12 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Priority Registration for CRCP majors. VISC 2B07 is strongly recommended in advance of this course.
*It is recommended that students complete HUMN 4B18 in their third year or in the summer preceding their thesis year.
SCTM 2B10
Introduction to Psychology
0.5 Credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Helena Kushnir
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
This lecture course introduces students to the scientific study of human and animal behaviour, with a particular emphasis on the individual as the unit of study rather than the group. Through discussion, the course text and clips from Universal Studio films, students survey key concepts, issues and research methods in the various sub-disciplines of psychology and relate these to contemporary life and culture. Topics include: physiological processes, motivation, learning, perception and sensation, memory and thinking, and social, developmental and abnormal psychology. Students learn to develop their critical thinking and analytical skills and learn to distinguish between the average layperson’s notion of psychology and psychology as a science.
SCTM 2B90
Special Topic in Science/Technology/Math: Topics in the Science of Colour
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: Barbara Trott
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Notes: This "Special Topic" course provides an introduction to Science/Technology/Math through analysis of topics of general interest or relevance. This course fulfills 0.5 credit toward the Liberal Studies requirements for a BFA or BDes.
A cross-disciplinary approach in examining colour, with the aim of understanding colour from the multiple viewpoints of art, physics, chemistry, physiology and history. Topics include: perception, wave nature of light, spectroscopy, colour harmony and contrast, natural phenomena, dyes and pigments.
SOSC 2B02 (Cancelled as of April 11, 2007)
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape:
Introduction to Communication Studies
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Wednesday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken VISC 2B40 for credit cannot take SOSC 2B02 for further credit.
Note: This course is also offered as VISC 2B40. You must decide which course category you wish this to be counted towards at the time of registration by registering for either SOSC 2B02 or VISC 2B40.
This lecture course is designed to offer students critical and analytical skills to understand our complex media environment through the study of the basic principles, methodologies and topics relevant to Communications Studies. Students examine historical, economic, technological and policy perspectives that shape how we respond to and participate in a media landscape, with an emphasis placed on the Canadian context. Topics to be addressed include: theories of communications and media; public and private media; communications and nations; culture industries; media convergence; geopolitics of global communications; networks and communications; democracy and media; and consumers, identity and media.
SOSC 2B03
Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Tuesday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level including ENGL 1B01 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Note: Priority Registration for Advertising Majors. New code: Students who have previously taken SOSC 2B90: Special Topic in Social Science: Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour in the 2004/2005 academic year or SOSC 3B05 cannot take this course for further credit.
The course explains how and why we buy goods and services. In other words, the course studies how individuals come to make decisions around the spending of their available resources (time, money, effort) on consumption-related items. Relatedly, it addresses why we often buy excessively (the consumer society critique). This necessarily requires us to look at what good and services mean to us such that we purchase them. That is, how do goods and services give expression to the tastes, values and affiliations of individuals and groups (i.e. self-representations)?
SOSC 3B01
Gender, Globalization and Social Change
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 22, Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 pm to 5 pm
Instructor: Beverly-Jean Daniel
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This seminar course examines anthropological/social science perspectives on the role that gender plays in organizing society and in understanding social change. We begin by analyzing initial research in the early 1970s that sought to understand gender hierarchies by identifying universals in sexual status cross-culturally and the subsequent critiques of this early approach. We conclude by studying feminist approaches and methodologies that have developed in the anthropology of gender. To contextualize the theories of gender, we examine geographically and culturally diverse empirical studies of households, labour markets, agriculture, industrialization, development projects and visual culture in both rural and urban contexts.
SOSC 3B03
Sociology of the Body
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 5: June 25 to August 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Maria-Belen Ordonez
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This course examines sociological approaches to understanding the body in contemporary society. The idea of “body techniques” will be emphasized, including the following: techniques of production which permit construction, transformation or manipulation of the body; techniques of representation which permit free individual or collective expression concerning the body in society; and institutional techniques which determine the behaviour of individuals towards their own bodies and the bodies of others. Each “technique” will be examined in relationship to how they broaden perceptions about the body, what they replace, and what they take from society.
SOSC 3B04
Childhood, Families and Social Change
0.5 credit | Liberal studies
Duration 3: May 14 to August 3, Tuesday, 6 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Ian Cosh
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.
This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach in which the insights and techniques of sociology, anthropology and psychology are combined to examine parent-child relations from a socio-historical perspective and includes a critique of traditional theories on families and child socialization. Issues such as domestic partnerships, same-sex families, family/work roles, reproduction, childcare and child education will be explored. Special attention will be given to the link between family experiences and sources of inequality such as social class, race, gender, disability, ethnicity, sexuality and age.
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