| Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMF | 220 | 001 | Research Methods |
This course introduces students to the philosophy and methods of social science and humanities research, including an examination of issues and approaches to conducting research in the areas of sexuality, couples, and families.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 301 | 001 | Communication and Counselling Skills |
This course is an examination and analysis of the theories and methods of communication as applied within the processes of individual, relational, and family consultation and counselling.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 306 | 001 | Intimate Relationships |
The interpersonal dynamics involved in intimate relationships will be examined. Topics such as attraction, commitment, love, trust, dissolution, and communication will be examined from various theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 350 | 001 | Love and the Law |
Relationship breakdown is a social phenomenon that can have legal consequences. This course provides students with a socio-legal foundation in current family law. Topics may include the court system, the litigation process, property division, spousal and child support, child co-parenting, child protection, high conflict families, and alternative dispute resolution processes. Students will learn about the strengths and limitation of the law to address relationship breakdown and develop transferable skills for careers in policy, social work, mediation, family justice, education, and community service organizations.
Held with LS 350
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 490 | 001 | Practicum and Professional Ethics |
This course involves an assigned unpaid apprenticeship in a human services setting combined with regular seminar meetings. The practicum will require 15 hours per week. Paid or volunteer positions that are obtained outside the context of this course are not eligible for credit in this course.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 496 | 001 | Seminar in Family Studies - Deconstructing Monogamy |
This seminar allows students to integrate their knowledge in the domains of couples, marriages, and family studies. Topics reflect current issues from a theoretical and research perspective.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SOC | 101 | 003 | Introduction to Sociology |
An introduction to the basic concepts and frames of reference of sociological investigation and interpretation. Topics for analysis will include communities, associations and institutions, classes and status groups, crowds and publics, social processes, and social change. Special attention is given to Canadian society.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SOC | 229 | 001 | Selected Topics in Criminology |
Sociological analysis of research and theory on selected criminal activities. Motivation, modus operandi, and the social characteristics of offenders will be examined in relation to such specific crimes as drug and sexual offenses, theft, robbery, murder, organized crime, and/or other criminal activities.
Held with LS 229
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SOC | 327 | 001 | Policing in a Democratic Society |
A critical examination of the police as social control agents in contemporary democratic societies. Topics include the historical evolution of policing; police recruitment, training, and education; police/community relations; the occupational subculture of the police; police authority and discretion; private policing; and police deviance and criminality.
Held with LS 327
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SOC | 383 | 001 | Ethnomethodology in Theory and Practice |
Ethnomethodology is a study of the methods and practices people use to produce and recognize social actions. Topics may include greetings, the sex/gender distinction, science and common sense, breaching experiments, and jury deliberation.
Offered in a blended format with online and on campus components |
Fall 2023 |