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Non-Management Elective Suggestions

Courses at the 200 level are recommended for students as electives or as the first courses to take if you are interested in a minor concentration in that area.

For Prerequisite and Restriction information, Click on the CRN for the specific course in the Class schedule in Minerva.

Some Faculties will not block your registration based on missing prerequisites or restrictions.

It is the student's responsibility to check the information in the Class Schedule BEFORE the end of the Add/Drop period. 

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Department This is not an exhaustive list, just a sample.

African Studies

  • AFRI 200. Introduction to African Studies.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

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  • ANTH 201. Introduction to Archaeology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Fall

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 202. Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Fall

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 203. Human Evolution.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 204. Anthropology of Meaning.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 206. Environment and Culture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Fall

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 207. Ethnography Through Film.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 208. Evolutionary Anthropology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The basic elements and mechanisms of evolutionary theory; the place of evolutionary theory in anthropology, including social anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology and anthropological linguistics. Emphasis on the debates in each sub-discipline in which evolutionary theory has played an important role.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 210. Archaeology of Early Cities.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 213. Archaeology of Health and Disease .

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduces theories and methods used to identify and interpret human health in the archaeological record. Focus on health impacts of factors such as infectious disease, nutrition, and social and technological changes.

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  • ANTH 214. Violence, Warfare, Culture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Cultural diversity and comparative perspectives on violence and warfare; sociological, political, materialist, psychological, and ideological explanations of conflict. Examines historical and contemporary cases of warfare in state and pre-state societies; 'ethnic', civil, nationalist secessionist and genocidal forms of conflicts; processes of conflict avoidance and resolution, peace-making and -keeping.
    • Fall

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 222. Legal Anthropology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ANTH 227. Medical Anthropology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
    Terms Offered: Summer 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    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.
    • Fall

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Art History 

  • ARTH 200. Introduction to Art History 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 202. Introduction to Contemporary Art.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 204. Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 205. Introduction to Modern Art.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 207. Introduction Early Modern Art 1400-1700.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 209. Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 215. Introduction to East Asian Art.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 223. Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 225. Introduction to Seventeenth - Century Art.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Examines the functions and uses of a wide range of visual forms in relation to the European and global expansion of urbanism, absolutism, colonialism, capitalism, diplomacy, slavery, missionary activity, and religious conflict in the seventeenth century.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ARTH 226. Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Paintings, prints, sculpture and architecture produced in Europe in the 'long' eighteenth century, with an emphasis on major artists. Themes include the teaching of art and its display, the emergence of 'publics' for art, and eighteenth-century aesthetics.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ARTH 334.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

  • ATOC 181. Introduction to Atmospheric Science.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A survey of the Earth's atmosphere, weather and climate system. Topics include the fundamental processes that determine interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and biosphere; anthropogenic effects such as global warming, the ozone hole and acid rain; a perspective on future climate change.
    • Fall and Winter
    • 3 hours lecture
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 210, ATOC 214, ENVB 301 or NRSC 201.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

    *

  • ATOC 182. Introduction to Oceanic Sciences.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ATOC 183. Climate and Climate Change.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 Niño. 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ATOC 184. Science of Storms.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ATOC 185. Natural Disasters.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • ATOC 214. Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to key physical processes operating in the atmosphere, designed for students in science and engineering. Topics typically include: composition of the atmosphere; vertical structure; heat transfer; solar and terrestrial radiation and Earth's energy balance; seasonal and daily temperature changes; humidity and the formation of clouds and precipitation; stability of tropospheric air layers; applications of adiabatic charts.
    • Fall
    • 3 hours lecture
    • Prerequisite: CEGEP Physics, or the combination of PHYS 131 and PHYS 142, or permission of instructor.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

    *

*ATOC 181 and ATOC 214 cannot be taken together in one term and ATOC 181 cannot be taken after doing ATOC 214.

Biology

  • BIOL 111. Principles: Organismal Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • BIOL 112. Cell and Molecular Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • BIOL 115. Essential Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Canadian Studies

  • CANS 200. Understanding Canada.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Catholic Studies

  • CATH 200. Introduction to Catholicism.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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Chemistry

  • CHEM 110. General Chemistry 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 120. General Chemistry 2.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A study of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry.
    • Each lab section is limited enrolment
    • Each lab section is limited enrolment
    • Winter
    • Prerequisites/corequisites: High school level mathematics and physics, or permission of the instructor; CHEM 110 is not a prerequisite
    • Each lab section is limited enrolment

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  • CHEM 181. World of Chemistry: Food.

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    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.

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    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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Classics

  • CLAS 201. Greece and Rome.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to ancient Greek and Roman civilization, focusing on key themes, problems, and methods of the discipline of classical studies.

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  • CLAS 203. Greek Mythology.

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    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 210. Introductory Latin 1.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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Communication Studies

  • COMS 200. History of Communication.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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Computer Science

  • COMP 102. Computers and Computing.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A course for students with no previous knowledge of computer science. The impact of computers on society. Web design and dynamic content. The inner workings of computers (hardware). Networking principles. Algorithm design and programming. A look at how computers store data (image, sound, and video). Software distribution policies and mechanisms.
    • For syllabus and further details refer to
    • Restriction Note F: Management students cannot receive credit for COMP 102.
    • Restrictions: Credit will not be given for COMP 102 if it is taken concurrently with, or after, any of: COMP 202, COMP 203, COMP 208, COMP 250. Management students cannot receive credit for COMP 102.
    • 3 hours
    • Prerequisite: high school level mathematics course on functions.
    • Restrictions: Credit will not be given for COMP 102 if it is taken concurrently with, or after, any of: COMP 202, COMP 203, COMP 208, COMP 250. Management students cannot receive credit for COMP 102.

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  • COMP 189. Computers and Society.

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    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.

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    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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East Asian Studies

  • EAST 211. Introduction: East Asian Culture: China.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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  • EAST 215. Introduction to East Asian Art.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: East Asian Studies (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 ARTH 215.

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  • EAST 241. Japanese Writing Beginners 1.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
    • Prerequisite(s): EAST 240 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
    • Language of instruction: Japanese and English.

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  • EAST 250. Introduction to Asian Media Studies.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.

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Earth & Planetary Sciences

  • EPSC 180. The Terrestrial Planets.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A comparative survey of the planets of our solar system with an emphasis on the terrestrial planets and their implications for the Earth as a planet. Topics include: structure and origin of the solar system, meteorites, and comparisons of the terrestrial planets in terms of their rotational properties, magnetic fields, atmospheres, surface histories, internal structure, chemical composition, volcanism, and tectonics.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EPSC 200.
    • Winter
    • 3 hours lectures

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  • EPSC 181. Environmental Geology.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 210. Introductory Mineralogy.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Elementary crystallography, chemistry and identification of the principal rock-forming and ore minerals, in hand specimens and using optical microscopy. Demonstrations of other techniques applied to the identification of minerals and to the analysis of their composition and structure. Optional 2-day field trip.
    • Fall
    • 2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory
    • Prerequisite(s): CHEM 110 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
    • A nominal fee is charged to cover expenses of materials and supplies for identification kits (pen magnet, streak plate, hand lens and acid bottle) used to identify minerals during laboratory exercises.
    • Des frais seront prelevés pour couvrir l'usage des collections d'enseignement et les accessoires (loupe, aimant, bouteille d'acide chlorhydrique dilué, plaque de porcelaine) essentiels à l'identification des minéraux pendant les travaux pratiques.

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  • EPSC 233. Earth and Life Through Time

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    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 hours lectures

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Earth System Sciences

  • ESYS 104. The Earth System.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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Economics

  • ECON 205. An Introduction to Political Economy.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A critical study of the insights to be gained through economic analysis of a number of problems of broad interest. The focus will be on the application of economics to issues of public policy.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 205D.
    • Restriction: This course does not count for credit towards the Minor Concentration, Major Concentration, or Honours degree in Economics.

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  • ECON 219. Current Economic Problems: Topics.

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    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.

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    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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Education (max 6 credits)

  • EDPT 200. Integrating Educational Technology in Classrooms.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The course is designed to help practicing and future teachers integrate current and emerging technology in their daily teaching practices. It is a practical, hands-on course that is grounded in constructivist learning theory. The participants will learn by engaging in authentic tasks in a project-based learning environment.
    • Not open to students who have taken or are taking EDEC 262.
    • Also offered through the School of Continuing Studies.

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  • EDPT 204. Creating and Using Media for Learning.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Creating and using media for learning. The course reviews audio-visual education (text, visuals, audio, video, and augmented reality), media and information literacy for K-11, higher education, and society, and how data are represented and used in education and research in different disciplines. The rationale and underlying principles for the design, production and effective use of media are emphasized.
    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking EDEC 262.
    • Offered through the School of Continuing Studies.

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Environment

  • ENVR 200. The Global Environment.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bieler School of Environment (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A systems approach to study the different components of the environment involved in global climate change: the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The interactions among these components. Their role in global climate change. The human dimension to global change.
    • Fall
    • Section 001: Downtown Campus
    • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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  • ENVR 201. Society, Environment and Sustainability.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bieler School of Environment (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.
    • Fall
    • Section 001: Downtown Campus
    • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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  • ENVR 202. The Evolving Earth.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bieler School of Environment (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Formation of the Earth and the evolution of life. How geological and biological change are the consequence of history, chance, and necessity acting over different scales of space and time. General principles governing the formation of modern landscapes and biotas. Effects of human activities on natural systems.
    • Winter
    • Section 001: Downtown Campus
    • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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  • ENVR 203. Knowledge, Ethics and Environment.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bieler School of Environment (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
    • Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
    • Section 001: Downtown Campus
    • Section 051: Macdonald Campus

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English

  • ENGL 200. Survey of English Literature 1.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A survey of English literature before 1750 for students not registered in English programs.
    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
    • Fall
    • Restriction: Not open to students in English programs

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  • ENGL 201. Survey of English Literature 2.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A survey of English literature after 1750 for students not registered in English programs.
    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
    • Winter
    • Restriction: Not open to students in English programs

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  • ENGL 202. Departmental Survey of English Literature 1.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A survey of English literature before 1750 for students registered in English programs.
    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
    • Fall
    • Restriction: Limited to students in English programs only
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 200

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  • ENGL 203. Departmental Survey of English Literature 2.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A survey of English literature after 1750 for students registered in English programs.
    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
    • Winter
    • Prerequisite: ENGL 202 or permission of instructor.
    • Restriction: Limited to students in English programs only
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 201

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  • ENGL 204. English Literature and the Bible.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    This course will examine the literary dimensions of the Bible including structure, style, and meaning as well as its status as Sacred Book. The influence of the Bible-as-metatext on the secular literature of the West will be the focus of the discussion.
    • 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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  • ENGL 215. Introduction to Shakespeare.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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 227. American Literature 3.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A study of literary works which may be thematic or may deal with a special group of authors.
    • 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 228. Canadian Literature 1.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 1.
    • 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.

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    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.

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    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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  • ENGL 250. The Art of Theatre.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Understanding, appreciation, and critical perceptions of theatre focussing on readings and lectures on issues such as the elements of theatrical practice; artists and innovators of theatre throughout history; and the theatre's development as an art form and social phenomenon.

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  • ENGL 237. Introduction to Study of a Literary Form.

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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 275. Introduction to Cultural Studies.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
    • Fall
    • Required of all U1 Cultural Studies students

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  • ENGL 277. Introduction to Film Studies.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to key concepts in film studies. Exemplary works from the history of film will be studied to introduce students to such topics as the aesthetics of film; sound's production of meaning; film as narrative; film and genre; period and national cinemas; film's role in culture.
    • For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
    • Fall
    • Restriction: Cultural Studies Major and Honours program students.

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  • ENGL 279. Introduction to Film History.

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    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.

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    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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French Language & Literature

  • FREN 201. Le français littéraire (français 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'expression écrite au contact d'une variété de textes littéraires et par la rédaction de courts textes d'invention.
    • Cours réservé aux Etudiants inscrits au programme de Concentration mineure langue et littérature française - Langue française ou au programme de Concentration mineure langue et littérature française - Langue française et traduction.
    • Préalable: avoir réussi le FRSL 431 ou avoir réussi ou être inscrit-e à au moins un des cours suivants : FRSL 445, FRSL 446, FRSL 449 ou FRSL 455. L'étudiant-e n'ayant complété ou n'étant inscrit-e à aucun de ces cours devra passer un test de classement. Effectifs contingentés. Autorisation départementale requise.
    • Cours réservé en priorité aux étudiant-es inscrit-e-s au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue & littérature françaises ; Langue française ou au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue & littérature françaises ; Traduction.

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  • FREN 203. Analyse de textes (français 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’expression écrite : analyse et apprentissage des règles de composition de divers genres de discours (textes argumentatifs, lettres, dialogues, récits, descriptions ou portraits).
    • Cours réservé aux Etudiants inscrits au programme de Concentration mineure langue et littérature française - Langue française ou au programme de Concentration mineure langue et littérature française - Langue française et traduction.
    • Préalable: avoir réussi le FRSL 431 ou avoir réussi ou être inscrit-e à au moins un des cours suivants : FRSL 445, FRSL 446, FRSL 449 ou FRSL 455. L'étudiant-e n'ayant complété ou n'étant inscrit-e à aucun de ces cours devra passer un test de classement. Effectifs contingentés. Autorisation départementale requise.
    • Cours réservé en priorité aux étudiant-es inscrit-e-s au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue et littérature françaises ; Langue française ou au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue et littérature françaises ; Traduction.

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  • FREN 222. Introduction aux études littéraires.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Présentation d'un aperçu global de la littérature de langue française, de ses enjeux et des grandes préoccupations qui y ont cours. Initiation aux grands principes de la lecture littéraire et à l'utilisation des principaux outils de consultation et de recherche.
    • Restriction: Cours réservé aux étudiants inscrits à un programme du Département de langue et littérature françaises. Autorisation départementale requise.

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  • FREN 231. Linguistique française.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Bref historique de la linguistique française de F. de Saussure à nos jours. Description linguistique du français moderne (éléments de phonologie, de phonétique normative, de lexicologie, de sémantique évolutive et synchronique, de syntaxe et de morphologie).

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  • FREN 239. Stylistique comparée.

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    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 étude systématique des contrastes entre les structures linguistiques de l'anglais et du français. Une bonne connaissance des deux langues est nécessaire au départ.
    • Préalable : Test de classement. Autorisation départementale requise.
    • Priorité donnée aux étudiant·es inscrit·es dans un programme du Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création.

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  • FREN 240. Atelier d'écriture poétique.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Pratique des formes et des techniques de la création poétique.
    • Restriction: Autorisation départementale requise

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  • FREN 245. Grammaire normative.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Révision des principales difficultés de la langue française.
    • Ce cours est donné en français.
    • Préalable : Autorisation départementale requise.
    • Cours réservé en priorité aux étudiant-e-s inscrit-e-s à l'un des programmes du Département de langue et littérature françaises.

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  • FREN 250. Littérature française avant 1800.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction à la littérature française des origines à la fin du 18e siècle.
    • Aucun préalable ni cours conjoint pour les étudiants hors-Département. Cours conjoints: Option Lettres: FREN 352, FREN 395; Option Lettres et traduction: FREN 352
    • Fall

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  • FREN 251. Littérature française depuis 1800.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction à la littérature française des 19e et 20e siècles.
    • Aucun préalable ni cours conjoint pour les étudiants hors-Département. Préalables: 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. Littérature québécoise.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction à la littérature québécoise des origines à nos jours.
    • Préalables: 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 préalable ni cours conjoint pour les étudiants hors-Département.
    • Restriction: Les étudiants qui ont suivi le cours FREN 380 ne seront pas admis
    • Fall, Winter

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  • FREN 253. Oeuvres culture occidentale.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    L’introduction aux oeuvres étrangères qui ont marqué durablement la culture et la littérature occidentales. Les oeuvres au programme seront étudiées en traduction française.
    • Cours à contenu variable.

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French as a Second Language

  • FRSL 103. Near Beginners French.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 212. Oral and Written French 1.

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    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.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 Québec

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Geography

  • GEOG 200. Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to geography as the study of nature and human beings in a spatial context. An integrated approach to environmental systems and the human organization of them from the viewpoint of spatial relationships and processes. Special attention to environmental problems as a constraint upon Third World development.
    • 3 hours
    • Fall
    • 3 hours

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  • GEOG 201. Introductory Geo-Information Science.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
    • Fall
    • 3 hours and lab

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  • GEOG 205. Global Change: Past, Present and Future.

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    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.
    • Winter
    • 3 hours

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  • GEOG 210. Global Places and Peoples.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.
    • Winter
    • 3 hours

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  • GEOG 216. Geography of the World Economy.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 hours

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  • GEOG 217. Cities in the Modern World.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 221. Environment and Health.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.
    • Note: Offered at Macdonald campus in alternate years.
    • Note: This course is also offered as NRSC 221. Students enrolled in downtown campus programs register in GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register in NRSC 221. In Winter 2013, GEOG 221/NRSC 221 will be taught on the downtown campus.
    • 3 hours
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
    • In Fall 2019, GEOG 221 will be taught at Macdonald campus. This course is also offered as NRSC 221. Students enrolled in downtown campus programs register in GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register in NRSC 221.

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German Studies

  • GERM 200. German Language, Intensive Beginners.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 259. Introduction to German Literature 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Fall
    • Given in English

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  • GERM 260. Introduction to German Literature 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 19th century to the present.
    • Winter
    • Given in English

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Hispanic Studies

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  • HISP 218. Spanish Language Intensive - Elementary.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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  • HISP 219. Spanish Language Intensive - Intermediate.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 6
    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America.
    • 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.
    • Restriction: Departmental approval required
    • Preference will be given to students in their first year of university study
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 220D1/HISP 220D2 or equivalent
    • Fall or Winter
    • Prerequisite: HISP 210 or 210D1/D2 or HISP 218 or equivalent
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 220D1/D2 or equivalent

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  • HISP 225. Hispanic Civilization 1.

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    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.
    • Fall
    • Taught in English

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  • HISP 226. Hispanic Civilization 2.

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    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.
    • Winter
    • Taught in English

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History

  • HIST 200. Introduction to African History.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-200D

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  • HIST 202. Survey: Canada to 1867.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Fall

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  • HIST 203. Survey: Canada since 1867.

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    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.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to the “global” 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 207. Jewish History: 400 B.C.E. to 1000.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216

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  • HIST 208. Introduction to East Asian History.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 211. American History to 1865.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to the history of colonial North America and the United States up to the Civil War, in their Atlantic context.
    • Fall

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  • HIST 212. Medieval Europe.

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    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 214. Early Modern Europe.

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    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 216. Introduction to Russian History.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The longue durée of Russian history from its origins in Kievan Rus and the Rurik dynasty, through the Romanov dynasty, the Soviet period, and post-Soviet developments.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 236.

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  • HIST 219. Jewish History: 1000 - 2000.

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    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.

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    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.
    • Fall

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  • HIST 238. Histories of Science.

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    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 science, with attention to conceptual development and to institutional and social settings. Coverage will vary by instructor, but will include a range of periods (from antiquity to the 20th century), geographical settings, and themes (e.g. instrumentation; visualisation; experiment; science and society).
    • Coverage will vary by instructor.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 239 or HIST 335.

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  • HIST 240. Modern History of Islamic Movements.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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 299. The Historian's Craft.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to the discipline of history. What is history? Where is history done? How is history done? Why do history? Historical writing is emphasized. Recommended for history majors.
    • Restrictions: Open to U0 or U1 students only, except by permission of instructor

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Indigenous Studies

  • INDG 200. Introduction to Indigenous Studies.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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  • INDG 202. Topics in Indigenous Studies 1.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Drawing upon and introducing the burgeoning field of Indigenous Studies, this course is designed to be an introduction to selected themes and topics in Indigenous Studies. Possible examples: Indigenous health, Haudenosaunne culture etc. Topics vary from year to year.
    • Supplementary Calendar Info: INDG 202 and INDG 300 are NOT a sequence of courses.

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International Development Studies

  • INTD 200. Introduction to International Development.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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Islamic Studies

  • ISLA 210. Muslim Societies.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.
    • Winter

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Italian Studies

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  • ITAL 206. Beginners Italian Intensive.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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  • ITAL 230. Understanding Italy.

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    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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Jewish Studies

  • JWST 201. Jewish Law.

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    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 206. Introduction to Yiddish Literature.

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    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’s 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 “the idiom of the frightened and hopeful humanity.” 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.

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    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 217. Jewish Studies 3: 1000 - 2000.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Jewish 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.
    • For detailed course content go to .
    • All texts will be read in English

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  • JWST 225. Literature and Society.

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    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.

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    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 252. Interdisciplinary Lectures.

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    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 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought.

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    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 281. Introductory Yiddish 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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—from 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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Linguistics

  • LING 200. Introduction to the Study of Language.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    General interest course; intended for students in all fields. Topics include: linguistic competence vs. performance, language and the brain, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language universals, pragmatics.
    • Fall and Winter
    • No prerequisite

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  • LING 201. Introduction to Linguistics.

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    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 260. Meaning in Language.

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    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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Languages Literature & Culture

  • LLCU 210. Introduction to European Literature and Culture.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to the study of European culture and literature through an examination of major works and periods of European literature, philosophy, and religion. All readings will be in English translation.

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  • LLCU 212. Understanding Digital and Social Media.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Lectures will explore a range of topics related to technologies of contemporary digital and social media, with particular attention to understanding technical, historical, ethical and legal issues. Tutorials will help students to express themselves effectively with digital media, and especially on the web (HTML, images, audio, video).
    • Students need a laptop computer.

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  • LLCU 255. Introduction to Large Language Models for Text Analysis

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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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Mathematics

  • MATH 180. The Art of Mathematics.

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    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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  • MUPD 200. Introduction to Music Marketing.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Business models for monetizing music effectively in the digital era; music marketing fundamentals; music value chain; traditional and new marketing tools; publicity, advertising and promotion; the e-press kit; touring and merchandising; online distribution; social network marketing strategies; rebirth of video content; viral marketing; marketing for subscriptions, wireless; global perspectives.

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  • MUPD 201. Business Fundamentals for Musicians.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Topics pertaining to the music industry and developing a career in music, including: business models, budgeting and financial planning, accounting and taxation, agents, representatives and consultants, contracts and agreements, licensing, rights and rights management, managing human resources, building and working with teams.

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Philosophy

  • PHIL 200. Introduction to Philosophy 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    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.

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    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 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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Physics

  • PHYS 101. Introductory Physics - Mechanics.

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    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 102. Introductory Physics - Electromagnetism.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Electric field and potential. D.C. circuits and measurements. Capacitance. Magnetic field and induction. Electromagnetic waves and geometrical optics.
    • Laboratory sections have limited enrolment
    • Winter
    • 3 hours lectures; 2 hours laboratory; tutorial sessions
    • Prerequisite: PHYS 101.
    • Corequisite: MATH 139 or higher level calculus course.
    • Restriction: Not open to students taking or having taken PHYS 142, CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent
    • Laboratory sections have limited enrolment

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  • PHYS 131. Mechanics and Waves.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The basic laws and principles of Newtonian mechanics; oscillations, waves, and wave optics.
    • Fall
    • 3 hours lectures; 1 hour tutorial, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions
    • Corequisite: MATH 139 or higher level calculus course.
    • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 101, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent.
    • Laboratory sections have limited enrolment

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  • PHYS 142. Electromagnetism and Optics.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The basic laws of electricity and magnetism; geometrical optics.
    • Winter
    • 3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions
    • Prerequisite: PHYS 131.
    • Corequisite: MATH 141 or higher level calculus course.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 102, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00US or equivalent.
    • Laboratory sections have limited enrolment

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  • PHYS 180. Space, Time and Matter.

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    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 182. Our Evolving Universe.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An elementary course on astronomy and astrophysics. Positional astronomy and finding your way about the sky. Our evolving picture of the universe. Properties and origins of the solar system. The Big Bang and modern cosmology.
    • Fall
    • Restriction: Not open to students in a Physics program. Not open to students who have taken PHYS 204 or PHYS 205.

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  • PHYS 183. The Milky Way Inside and Out.

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    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 184. Energy and the Environment.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Energy fundamentals, generation of electricity, heat engines, fossil fuel production and consumption, local and global effects, economic impact, transportation, and pollution and environmental impact of energy use. Non-renewable energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear) and renewable sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal).
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 228.

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  • PHYS 224. Physics of Music.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to the physics of music. Properties of sound and their perception as pitch, loudness, and timbre. Dissonance, consonance, and musical intervals and tuning. Physics of sound propagation and reflection. Resonance. Acoustic properties of pipes, strings, bars, and membranes, and sound production in wind, string, and percussion instruments. The human voice. Room reverberation and acoustics. Directional characteristics of sound sources.
    • Fall
    • 3 hours lectures
    • Designed for students in the Faculty of Music but suitable for students with an interest in music and its physical basis.
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 225

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Political Science

  • POLI 200. Introduction to Political Science.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    This course presents an introduction to political science, including the basic theories, concepts, approaches, and to the enduring questions that motivate political research. It prepares students for further coursework in political science. Students will leave this course with an empirical grasp of current political debates, as well as with an overall understanding of the approaches to the fundamental issues that arise in the subfields of the department: political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and Canadian politics.

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  • POLI 210. Political Science Research Methods.

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    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 – Europe/North America.

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    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— 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.

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    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.

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    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 québécoise.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Une introduction à la vie politique québécoise à travers l'étude des institutions, des idéologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la structure et aux changements dans le système politique québécoise.
    • 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.

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    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.

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    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 231. Introduction to Political Theory.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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Psychology

  • PSYC 100. Introduction to Psychology.

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    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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Quebec Studies

  • QCST 200. Introduction to the Study of Quebec.

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    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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  • QCST 300. Quebec Culture and Society.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    A multidisciplinary course that looks at Quebec's key social, economic, cultural, political and historical aspects.
    • Required course for all students in Quebec Studies. Open to all students.
    • This course offers students the possibility of doing a community engagement internship (or ExCELR option).

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Religious Studies

  • RELG 201. Religions of the Ancient Near East.

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    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.
    • Fall

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  • RELG 202. Religion of Ancient Israel.

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    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 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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    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.
    • Winter

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  • RELG 207. Introduction to the Study of Religions.

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    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.

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    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.
    • Fall, Winter and Summer

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  • RELG 252. Hinduism and Buddhism.

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    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.
    • Fall

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  • RELG 264. Introductory Tibetan 1.

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    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.
    • Fall

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  • RELG 270. Religious Ethics and the Environment.

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    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.

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    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.
    • Winter

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  • RELG 288. Introduction to Sikhism.

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    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

  • RUSS 210. Elementary Russian Language 1.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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  • RUSS 217. Russia's Eternal Questions.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts.
    • Fall
    • Given in English
    • Restriction: Permission of the instructor

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  • RUSS 218. Russian Literature and Revolution.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary café, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition.
    • Fall or Winter
    • Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful
    • Given in English

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  • RUSS 223. Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1.

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    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’ relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context.
    • Fall
    • Given in English

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  • RUSS 224. Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2.

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    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.
    • Winter
    • Given in English

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  • SOCI 210. Sociological Perspectives.

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    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.

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    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 212. International Migration.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    Introduction to social science research on international migration. Covers theories about why people migrate, constraints to migration, and various aspects of immigrant integration. Will explore key theoretical debates of the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge.

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  • SOCI 222. Urban Sociology.

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    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.

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    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 Québec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization.

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  • SOCI 230. Sociology of Ethnic Relations.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    An introduction to the sociological study of minority groups in Canada. The course will explore the themes of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, ethnic and racial inequalities, cultural identities, multiculturalism, immigration. Theoretical, empirical, and policy issues will be discussed. While the focus will be primarily on Canada, comparisons will be made with the United States.
    • Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission of instructor
    • Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission of instructor

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  • SOCI 234. Population and Society.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.
    • Summer

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  • SOCI 265. War, States and Social Change.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The impact of war on society in agrarian and industrial epochs. Particular attention is given to the relationship between war and economic development, social classes, nationalism, and democratization.

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  • SOCI 270. Sociology of Gender.

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    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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Urban Planning

  • URBP 201. Planning the 21st Century City.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
    This course is not offered this catalogue year.

    Description

    The study of how urban planners respond to the challenges posed by contemporary cities world-wide. Urban problems related to the environment, shelter, transport, human health, livelihoods and governance are addressed; innovative plans to improve cities and city life are analyzed.
    • (3-1-5)

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Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies

  • GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies.

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    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.

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    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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