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Not all courses are offered every year. This list may be updated periodically. Please check the TRU calendar or with the BA advisor for updates.
ANTH 3000 Current Issues in Cultural Anthropology (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ANTH 3000 Current Issues in Cultural Anthropology (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits The study of selected areas and communities drawn from around the world with an emphasis on problems of cross- cultural comparison and on theoretical issues of current importance in the discipline.
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ANTH 3030 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ANTH 3030 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits A specialized survey of the cultures shaping Central and Eastern Europe including Russia. Primary areas of concern are the interplay between peasant and national culture and between ethnic and political identity.
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HIST 3030 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) (3,0,0)HIST 3030 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) (3,0,0)Credits: 3 or 6 credits Students survey the cultures shaping Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia, examining the interplay between local and national culture, and between ethnic and political identity.
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POLI 3070 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)POLI 3070 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 3 or 6 credits Students survey the cultures shaping Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia, examining the interplay between local and national culture, and between ethnic and political identity.
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SOCI 3030 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) (3,0,0)SOCI 3030 The European Orient: Balkans, Russia and Eastern Europe (3,0,0) (3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits Students survey the cultures shaping Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia, examining the interplay between local and national culture, and between ethnic and political identity.
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ANTH 3280 Indigenous Peoples in Comparative Perspective (3,0,0)ANTH 3280 Indigenous Peoples in Comparative Perspective (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course takes a cross-cultural comparative approach to the study of contemporary Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples constitute a diverse range of groups throughout the world. What they have in common is the shared experience of colonization. Recognizing the diversity of Indigenous Peoples throughout the world, this course will explore both those experiences shared between groups, and those unique to local contexts.
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ANTH 4010 Indigenous Peoples of North America (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ANTH 4010 Indigenous Peoples of North America (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits Indigenous cultures of the United States and Canada; linguistic and cultural relationships; the culture of reserves and the reserve system in both countries.
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ANTH 4030 Field School in East/Central Europe (3,0,0)ANTH 4030 Field School in East/Central Europe (3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits This course offers an introduction to the societies and cultures of East/Central Europe by way of a month-long field trip. The itinerary includes rural and urban locations in several countries that lend themselves to an ethnographic examination of the ethnic relations, religions, economies, and politics shaping the buffer zone between the European East and West.
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ANTH 4040 People and Cultures of the North American Arctic (2,1,0)ANTH 4040 People and Cultures of the North American Arctic (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits This course introduces the North American sub-Arctic, Arctic, and High Arctic as discrete cultural regions. Surveying the historical, ecological and cultural diversity of the Arctic, this course reviews anthropological perspectives on the past and present lives and experiences of indigenous peoples who have made the high latitudes their home for millenia. This course documents patterns of social organisation among Inuit, Dene, and Metis with a secondary focus directed towards recent economic, political, and cultural trends in the region resulting from European contact, colonisation, and political devolution.
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ANTH 4600 Cultural Ecology and Evolution (3,0,0)ANTH 4600 Cultural Ecology and Evolution (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Social organization in the context of the theoretical approaches of cultural evolution and cultural ecology with particular emphasis on primitive societies: kinship, political organization, warfare, economic organization, peasant societies, religious movements, underdevelopment, and social change.
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CMNS 3000 Research Methods in Communication (3,0,0)CMNS 3000 Research Methods in Communication (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course provides an overview of the philosophy and practice of communication research. Students are introduced to a range of methods for research in communication and media studies, combining theoretical and epistemological issues with methodological concerns. This course qualifies as a Writing Intensive designated course.
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CMNS 3050 Communication Marketing and Design (3,0,0)CMNS 3050 Communication Marketing and Design (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students are introduced to the practical and theoretical aspects of professional and technical writing from rhetorical and semiotic perspectives. Topics may include information design, visual rhetoric, advertising and digital design.
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CMNS 3080 Advanced Composition 1 - Personal Expression (3,0,0)CMNS 3080 Advanced Composition 1 - Personal Expression (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the genre of personal expression, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of professional examples of personal communication, students show an awareness of past and present knowledge, an advanced ability to critically and creatively reflect on and articulate the complexities of multiple literacies and techniques, including description and narration, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers, and a mastery of independent research and the creation of new knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in personal expression with a clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style.
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CMNS 3230 Information Design (3,0,0)CMNS 3230 Information Design (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students investigate the theory and practical design of the delivery of information in professional and everyday contexts. Topics may include typography, weight, line, space, color and image. Media may include recipes, forms, data arrays, instructional manuals, quick reference guides, graphic novels and webpages.
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CMNS 3510 Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication (3,0,0)CMNS 3510 Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the way culture shapes communication practices, and focus on the issues that arise within organizations when individuals from different cultural perspectives attempt to work together. Students also investigate the ways in which different cultures interact in practice. This course qualifies as a Writing Intensive designated course.
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ECON 3550 International Economics (3,0,0)ECON 3550 International Economics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students analyze the movement of capital, goods, and services across international boundaries and assess their financial impact. With advances in transportation and communication, greater outsourcing, and increased globalization, trade, and foreign direct investment, the corresponding capital movements are becoming much more important to the global economy. Topics include the theories of absolute and comparative advantage; modern theories of trade, including factor-proportions; tariff and non-tariff barriers; current and capital accounts; exchange rate determination; balance of payments and exchange rate policy; evolution of the international monetary system; and trade and economic development.
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ECON 4100 International Financial Markets (3,0,0)ECON 4100 International Financial Markets (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine international financial markets and institutions and their critical role in the global economy. Topics include the elements that constitute a global financial institution; types of financial institutions and markets; global market structure differences; recent market failures, their causes, and solutions; and global financial regulation and reform.
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ECON 4560 International Macroeconomics and Finance (3,0,0)ECON 4560 International Macroeconomics and Finance (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the determination of exchange rates in an open economy and policies that governments may adopt to influence their movement. Topics include balance of payments; foreign exchange markets; interaction of the money, interest rates and exchange rates; exchange rates in the long run, including purchasing power and interest rate parity; exchange rates in the short run; fixed exchange rates and foreign exchange intervention; history of the international monetary system; macroeconomic policy under floating exchange rates; and performance of global capital markets and policy issues.
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ECON 4720 Sustainable Economic Development (3,0,0)ECON 4720 Sustainable Economic Development (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine theories and issues, internal and external challenges, and alternative policy options relating to sustainable economic development. Topics include a comparative analysis of the leading theories of economic growth, development, and sustainability; lack of economic growth, poverty, and income distribution; consequences of population growth and technological change; employment and migration, human capital, agriculture, and rural development; international trade and commercial policy, foreign investment, and aid; and global integration, economic transition, and environmental degradation.
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ENGL 3120 Indigenous Dramas (3,0,0)ENGL 3120 Indigenous Dramas (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine plays by Indigenous peoples with a focus on understanding the connections between traditional storytelling and staged works. Issues of ethnicity, appropriation, hybridity, historical revisionism, canon formation, and cultural stereotyping may be discussed. Students study plays in their historical and cultural contexts and examine the development of First Nations theatre.
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ENGL 3130 European Literature in Translation (3,0,0)ENGL 3130 European Literature in Translation (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course deals with aspects of the European literary tradition from its beginnings to the twentieth century, focusing on major representative texts in translation and their relevance to English literature.
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ENGL 4440 Postcolonial Women's Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4440 Postcolonial Women's Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course studies literature, written in English, by women from African nations, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and India. It includes work written from imperialist, colonial, and aboriginal perspectives. Students explore identity and gender politics through the analysis of texts by women from diverse nations and backgrounds.
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ENGL 4450 Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4450 Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course surveys 'colonial' and 'postcolonial' literature from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on modern fiction. Works are studied within their historical and cultural contexts, and students gain an understanding of issues including canon formation, generic conventions, language choices, ethnic and first nations identifications, and competing definitions of 'postcolonial.'
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ENGL 4460 ***Studies in Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4460 ***Studies in Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine major themes in postcolonial literature or theory. This course may be taken more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 4470 Studies in Indigenous Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4470 Studies in Indigenous Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of writing by Indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, especially those of Canada and the United States, through close critical reading and writing. Through exploration of how Indigenous writers approach issues of marginalization, oppression, representation, and both personal and communal identity; adapt oral strategies to writing; and employ various techniques to challenge and subvert colonial assumptions and privileges about genre, gender, class, race, and relationships with the land, students show an awareness of past and present knowledge, an advanced ability to critically and creatively reflect on and articulate the complexities of various cultural perspectives and rhetorical strategies, and a mastery of independent research and the creation of new knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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FILM 3250 Quebec Cinema in Translation (3,1,0)FILM 3250 Quebec Cinema in Translation (3,1,0)Credits: 3 credits This course will provide an introduction to issues and theories relevant to Quebec cinema and will focus on the representation of Quebec culture and society in major films from 1960 to the present. All films will be subtitled or dubbed in English. No prior knowledge of French is required.
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FILM 3850 Film Theory (3,0,0)FILM 3850 Film Theory (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits FILM 3850 explores the study of cinema by examining a number of theoretical approaches that have contributed to the understanding of film studies. Film theory, by its very nature, is polemic and this course will examine a variety of theoretical arguments, both historical and contemporary, that have been put forth by film scholars. Such theoretical frameworks include film spectatorship, ethnography, psychoanalytic analysis, ideology, feminism, film music and narrative, and postmodernism.
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FILM 4050 Film Noir (3,0,0)FILM 4050 Film Noir (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits FILM 4050 examines the evolution of this often celebrated, but also contested body of films. The Film Noir canon has been defined by its highly visual style. Film historian Andrew Spicer (2002) comments: Film Noir designates a cycle of films that share a similar iconography, visual style (and) narrative strategies...their iconography or repeated visual patterning consists of images of the dark, night-time city, and streets damp with rain. The films are dominated thematically by existential and Freudian images of weak and hesitant males and predatory femmes fatales.
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FILM 4100 The American Frontier in Film, Television and Literature (3,0,0)FILM 4100 The American Frontier in Film, Television and Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits FILM 4100 examines the cinematic, television, and literary West as a reflection of the realities and unrealities of the American Frontier.
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FILM 4140 Films of the Cold War (3,0,0)FILM 4140 Films of the Cold War (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course examines selected films that have become symbolic of the fear and paranoia associated with the Cold War.
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FRAN 3710 Quebec Literature in Translation (3,0,0)FRAN 3710 Quebec Literature in Translation (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students are provided an overview of issues and theories relevant to Quebec fiction, while focussing on a chronological study of works from the major literary movements in Quebec, including the roman du terroir, the quiet revolution, feminist writing, immigrant literature and the contemporary novel of the 1990s and beyond. Works are read in translation. The course is taught in English.
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FRAN 4110 Studies in French Language and Style 1 (3,0,0)FRAN 4110 Studies in French Language and Style 1 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students focus on advanced composition, syntax, versification, translation and oral practice. The course is conducted in French at the CEFR C1 level.
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FRAN 4210 Studies in French Language and Style 2 (3,0,0)FRAN 4210 Studies in French Language and Style 2 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the language at an advanced CEFR C1+ level, from both an analytical and a practical point of view, with a focus on the relationship between grammatical structures and stylistic effects. Students also consider the practice and techniques of advanced translation from English to French.
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FRAN 4710 Selected Topics in French and Francophone Literature (3,0,0)FRAN 4710 Selected Topics in French and Francophone Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore selected topics in French and Francophone literatures. Course content varies from year to year. This course is conducted in French at the CEFR C1/C2 level.
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FRAN 4510 French-Canadian Literature (3,0,0)FRAN 4510 French-Canadian Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students read and discuss representative French-Canadian works from the 19th century to the present. This course is conducted in French at the CEFR C1 level.
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GEOG 3200 Introduction to Cultural Geography (3,0,0)GEOG 3200 Introduction to Cultural Geography (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the history and methods of cultural geography. Contemporary landscapes, human-land adaptations, attitudes towards nature, colonial history and inter-cultural relations, and the cultural nature of the modern economy are examined through a mixture of directed field exploration, film and other arts, and studies of neighbourhood change.
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GEOG 3230 Geographies of Gender (2,1,0)GEOG 3230 Geographies of Gender (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is an introduction to gender and feminist geography. The course explores gender identities and biases in everyday spaces and activities at a variety of geographic scales, and examines the intersection of gender, race, and class to illustrate the complexity of social categories.
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GEOG 3700 Field Course in Geography (0,3,0)GEOG 3700 Field Course in Geography (0,3,0)Credits: 3 credits The topic(s) and focus for this course is announced by the Department a year in advance.
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GEOG 3900 ***Geography of Selected Regions (2,1,0)GEOG 3900 ***Geography of Selected Regions (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers a geographical analysis of selected regions not regularly included in the Department's offerings in regional geography (such as Western Europe, Oceania and East Asia).
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GEOG 4840 Postcolonial Geographies (2,1,0)GEOG 4840 Postcolonial Geographies (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Students analyze the role of geographical ideas and practices in the establishment, maintenance, overthrow, and persistence of colonial relationships.
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GEOG 4850 Geography of First Nations Issues in British Columbia (3,0,0)GEOG 4850 Geography of First Nations Issues in British Columbia (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers an examination of the issues involved in the creation of new relationships that are evolving and inclusive of Indigenous peoples concerns in British Columbia. Students explore the past relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of the province, the legal principles and precedents in force, the present situation of ongoing negotiations, and an analysis of future possibilities. Land and resource agreements and disagreements are the focus of this course, as well as the mechanisms available for compromise and resolution.
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GERM 3120 Studies in German Culture (3,0,0)GERM 3120 Studies in German Culture (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This third-year cultural studies course explores perspectives on fascism through Post-War German cinema. Conducted in English, it views the Nazi era through the lenses of post-war German Film.
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HIST 3060 Quebec: History and Politics (3,0,0)HIST 3060 Quebec: History and Politics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the history and political development of Quebec, from the period of the French regime to modern French-English relations within Canada. Students focus on significant social and political developments in the modern period, such as the Rebellions of 1837-38, the emergence of the 'state of siege' mentality after 1840, the impact of industrialization and Confederation, the Quiet Revolution, and nationalism. Contemporary issues are also addressed, including recent debates over 'reasonable accommodation,' national identity, and the relationship between Quebec and Canada.
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HIST 3120 Canada in the Cold War Era (2,1,0)HIST 3120 Canada in the Cold War Era (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the history of Canada, from the end of the Second World War to the early 1990s. This course is organized thematically rather than chronologically. Topics include anti-Communism, immigration, sexual regulation and resistance, family ideals and realities, labour organizing, Indigenous activism, and student radicalism.
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HIST 3160 European Social History (2,1,0)HIST 3160 European Social History (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Participants explore various social and cultural perspectives of European history. Aspects of domestic life, economic activity, religion, and popular culture provide the basis for related thematic considerations, including family and sexual relationships, social stratification, violence and public order, and leisure, ritual, and education in pre-industrial and industrial Europe. Participants work with a variety of complex historical sources.
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HIST 3170 Ethnic, Cultural and Religious Identities and the Birth of Europe (2,1,0)HIST 3170 Ethnic, Cultural and Religious Identities and the Birth of Europe (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Students engage with the profound changes that marked the passage from the Western Roman empire to the European world which took place over many centuries. Students focus on the transforming identities of populations and cultures greatly affected by a rapidly changing world, filled with migrations, conquests, and evangelization, until a new European identity could be formed.
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HIST 3370 The United States, 1945 - Present (2,1,0)HIST 3370 The United States, 1945 - Present (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Students focus on selected issues relating to the political, social, and cultural history of the United States from the end of World War II to the present.
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HIST 4120 ***Topics in European History: Ancient to Early Modern (2,1,0)HIST 4120 ***Topics in European History: Ancient to Early Modern (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Students engage with various themes relating to the cultural, political, philosophical, religious, or economic history of the ancient Mediterranean, medieval, and early modern worlds. Cultural and social history is emphasized. Students are offered an opportunity to explore a unique subject matter (not normally offered in other courses), or further examine a specialised, scholarly field. Thematic considerations vary from year to year. Students may learn about the beginning or end of a civilization, cultural and religious change, or continuity from one civilization to the next.
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HIST 4200 ***Topics in European History (2,1,0)HIST 4200 ***Topics in European History (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Participants focus on selected themes relating to the cultural, social, political, institutional, or economic history of Europe. The course accommodates subject matter that is not usually offered in other courses, and themes vary from year to year. Participants learn the dynamics of complex historical processes related to such issues as domestic politics, the interaction of states, the formation of new states, social and economic transformations, and major cultural expressions. Advanced students of history focus on applying the skills they have learned in order to examine complex topics in European history.
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HIST 4250 ***Topics in Canadian History (2,1,0)HIST 4250 ***Topics in Canadian History (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore selected topics in the history of Canada. Topics may include immigration and ethnicity, war and society, environmental history, religion, sexuality, Indigenous history, state formation, and popular culture.
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HIST 4480 ***Topics in American Social History (3,0,0)HIST 4480 ***Topics in American Social History (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students focus on selected issues relating to the social and cultural history of the United States. Thematic considerations vary from year to year.
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JOUR 3400 National and International Media (3,0,0)JOUR 3400 National and International Media (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students are familiarized with major international and national media, and exposed to a wide variety of print publications, as they explore how the media helps to form and shape societal values. Students evaluate the major global media consortiums that cross-control newspapers, magazines, movie studios, cable TV channels, networks, music programs and Internet providers today. The relationships and dependencies that Canadian media have at the local, regional, national, and international levels are examined, with a consideration of how governments attempt to control the media.
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PHIL 3010 Ethics (3,0,0)PHIL 3010 Ethics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Continuing from PHIL 2010 and PHIL 2210, this course is the advanced study of moral theory. Presented for analysis are meta-ethical theories concerning why we are moral beings, and several theories about how we decide what is right and wrong. In deciding good from bad, a number of theories have been established, all of which have something worthwhile to offer. Students investigate theories and philosophers which may include Mill, Kant, contractarianism, feminist ethics of care, relativism, and Aristotelian virtue ethics.
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PHIL 3160 Modern European Philosophy (3,0,0)PHIL 3160 Modern European Philosophy (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine many of the significant and formative ideas in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy. Areas of emphasis change from year to year and may include existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, critical theory, deconstruction, and post-modernism. Authors studied may include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre, Lacan, Levinas, Adorno, Marcuse, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Lyotard.
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PHIL 3170 ***Topics in Continental Philosophy (3,0,0)PHIL 3170 ***Topics in Continental Philosophy (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course provides an in-depth study of a major philosopher, school, or work within the Continental tradition, and serves to complement PHIL 3160: Modern European Philosophy. Topics change from year to year, and typically include thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The related schools and tendencies would include structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, the Frankfurt School and Phenomenology.
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PHIL 3210 Feminist Philosophy (3,0,0)PHIL 3210 Feminist Philosophy (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits A wide range of feminist philosophical thought is examined in this course. Students discuss the feminist approach to philosophical questions, which can differ dramatically from the traditional philosophical approach. Topics may include gender role socialization, sex, gender equality, work and pay, radical feminism, maternal thinking, historical feminist movements, pornography, care, 3rd-wave feminism, mainstreaming pornography, and men's role in feminism.
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PHIL 3750 Philosophy and Literature (3,0,0)PHIL 3750 Philosophy and Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine themes that are common to literature and philosophy in order to explore philosophical questions and problems. The topics and areas of emphasis change from year to year.
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PHIL 4350 Environmental Ethics (3,0,0)PHIL 4350 Environmental Ethics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers a study of moral issues arising in the context of human relationships to nature and to non-human living things. Principal topics include the issue of what constitutes moral standing, animal rights, obligations to future generations, the moral dimensions of problems of pollution, the extraction, production and use of hazardous materials, the depletion of natural resources, and the treatment of non-living things.
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PHIL 4910 ***Selected Topics in Philosophy (3,0,0)PHIL 4910 ***Selected Topics in Philosophy (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers a focussed and detailed study of a specific topic or movement in philosophy, or a particular philosopher. The focus of the course changes from year to year, and the course topic subtitle is updated at each offering. A student may take this course twice providing the topic of study is different.
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POLI 3200 American Government and Politics (3,0,0)POLI 3200 American Government and Politics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the social context of American politics, voting behaviour, legislature process, executive powers, executive-legislative relations, judicial behaviour, and problems of policy. |
POLI 3500 The Politics of Mexico (3,0,0)POLI 3500 The Politics of Mexico (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the contemporary political, social and economic problems that confront Mexico, with an emphasis on democratization, human rights, economic restructuring, free trade, political parties, reformist and revolutionary movements. |
POLI 3520 Politics of Developing Nations (3,0,0)POLI 3520 Politics of Developing Nations (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the problems of economic development, social change and democratization in the Developing World from a political perspective. The themes discussed in this course include colonialism, decolonization, relations between developed - developing nations, and political theories of development.
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POLI 3640 Politics of the Middle East (3,0,0)POLI 3640 Politics of the Middle East (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is an introduction to the evolution and operation of Middle East political systems and issues. Students explore a number of major themes and issues that are relevant to the politics of the region specifically, and international relations in general. These issues include Islamism, colonialism, politics of oil, gender and democratization.
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POLI 4060 ***Topics in Latin American Politics (3,0,0)POLI 4060 ***Topics in Latin American Politics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine contemporary political, social, and economic problems that confront Latin America. Demilitarization, democratization, human rights, economic restructuring, and free trade are emphasized.
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POLI 4110 Humanitarian Intervention: A Canadian Perspective (3,0,0)POLI 4110 Humanitarian Intervention: A Canadian Perspective (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine a shift in Canada's foreign policy that has taken Canada from being a peacekeeper to a peacemaker. International law, the massacre of civilians, the establishment of an international criminal court, and Canada's role in the "war on terrorism" are among the issues studied.
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SOCI 4600 Globalization (3,0,0)SOCI 4600 Globalization (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the origins, nature, and impacts of globalization in the contemporary world, and explore how the links between nations, regions, and peoples are increasing at an unprecedented rate. New technologies make possible previously unimaginable forms of interdependence, but the consequences of these changes are not uniform and affect people in different locations in various ways. Students decenter the West and aspire to a cosmopolitan perspective that will allow them to consider the point of view of the non-West. Students also learn theories of globalization to explain how people from different nations experience its effects, the relevance of culture, globalization's links to colonialism and capitalism, the importance of information technologies and the global city, and the efforts of people at dealing with the effects of globalization locally.
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SOCI 4730 Global Social Change (3,0,0)SOCI 4730 Global Social Change (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the development of transnational governance institutions and how they affect people with the least power in the world; but also of grass-roots social movements that have achieved transnational organization and that oppose the effects of global neo-colonialism. Students engage in critical examination of the social and cultural institutions and ideologies needed to sustain the current global capitalist order. Students explore major issues emerging from current arrangements in global political economy, such as world inequality and poverty, the detrimental effects of global capitalism on the environment, and its economic, political, and cultural-social crises.
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SPAN 3010 Studies in Hispanic Literature 1 (4,0,0)SPAN 3010 Studies in Hispanic Literature 1 (4,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course, conducted in Spanish, surveys representative works of literature from Spain and Spanish America from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Students examine the relation between literature and other disciplines, as they are presented with basic tools and techniques of research and criticism related to Hispanic literature.
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SPAN 3020 Studies in Hispanic Literature 2 (4,0,0)SPAN 3020 Studies in Hispanic Literature 2 (4,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Continuing from SPAN 3010: Studies in Hispanic Literature 1, this course, conducted in Spanish, is a survey of representative works of literature from Spain and Spanish America, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Students examine the relationship between literature and other disciplines, as they are presented with basic tools and techniques of research and criticism related to Hispanic literature.
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THTR 4600 Acting Styles 1 (2,2,0)THTR 4600 Acting Styles 1 (2,2,0)Credits: 3 credits This course examines 2 classic scripts and the eras in which they were written, through performance and dramaturgy, in order to comprehensively study select styles of acting from significant periods in history.
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THTR 4610 Acting Styles 2 (2,2,0)THTR 4610 Acting Styles 2 (2,2,0)Credits: 3 credits Building on THTR 4600, this course examines 2 classic scripts and the eras in which they are written through performance and dramaturgy in order to comprehensively study select styles of acting from significant periods in history.
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VISA 3150 Art of the Italian Renaissance: Painting (2,1,0) HTAVISA 3150 Art of the Italian Renaissance: Painting (2,1,0) HTACredits: 3 credits Students study the major works of Italian Renaissance painting from the rise of the city-states (c. 1250) to the phenomenon of Mannerism of the 16th-century. Topics include the new conception of the artist and the changing role of the patron as well the transformation of traditional artistic genres to the humanist approach to the painting of the Renaissance. Painters studied in this course range from Giotto to late Michelangelo.
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VISA 3160 Art of the Italian Renaissance: Sculpture/Architecture (3,0,0) HTAVISA 3160 Art of the Italian Renaissance: Sculpture/Architecture (3,0,0) HTACredits: 3 credits Students study the major works and innovations within sculpture and architecture during the Italian Renaissance. Starting with the Florence Cathedral Baptistery and Dome, the course will follow the development of sculpture and architecture from the early Renaissance up to and including developments in Mannerism. Sculptors and architects for study in this course will range from Ghiberti and Brunelleschi to Michelangelo and Romano.
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