| Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL | 108X | 001 | Literature and Medicine |
How can literature help us understand the body, illness, and healing? The course considers the perspectives of patients and medical practitioners across a range of works, including poetry, fiction, medical texts, and other nonfiction. |
Carol Acton |
 ENGL 108X_C.Acton_Winter 2019.pdf |
Winter 2019 |
| ENGL | 108F | 001 | The Rebel |
A study of various works of literature in which the protagonist is a rebel against existing norms. The course will examine a number of rebel types and concepts, moral implications, and final outcomes either in successful realization or in tragic defeat. |
Diana Lobb |
ENGL 108F_D.Lobb_Winter 2019.pdf |
Winter 2019 |
| ARTS | 290 | 002 | Second-Year Topics in Arts: Foundations of Student Leadership |
This topics course will be offered from time to time by particular disciplines in Arts, to cover areas of emerging research and teaching interest. |
Cristina Vanin | Winter 2019 | |
| ARTS | 140 | 002, 003, 004 | Information and Analysis |
This course introduces students to diverse ways of finding, examining, and using data and information in the social sciences and humanities. In a small seminar setting, students will explore a variety of topics based on instructor expertise in order to understand quantitative and qualitative methods of data gathering and build competencies in conceptualizing, contextualizing, and comprehending methods of information analysis. Students will be expected to investigate, use, and assess the presentation of information in their own work and the work of others so that they can better understand the range of social, ethical, and political challenges of our world. |
Andrew Deman |
ARTS 140-002_Z.MacDonald_Winter 2019.pdf ARTS 140-003_JA.Deman_Winter 2019.pdf ARTS 140-004_L.Jang_Winter 2019.pdf |
Winter 2019 |
| ARTS | 130 | 006, 007, 008 | Inquiry and Communication |
This course provides an introduction to diverse intellectual modes of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities with an emphasis on the development of communication skills. In a small seminar setting, students will explore a variety of topics based on instructor expertise in order to build social awareness, ethical engagement, and communication competencies in comprehension, contextualization, and conceptualization. Students will be expected to engage with the work of others, articulate positions, situate writing and speaking within contexts, practice writing and speaking for situations beyond the classroom, engage in basic forms of research, and workshop, revise, and edit writing. |
Sylvia Terzian, Carol Acton |
ARTS 130-007_C.Acton_Winter 2019.pdf |
Winter 2019 |
| ENGL | 335 | 001 | Creative Writing 1 |
Designed to assist students with an interest in developing their creative writing skills in various genres, this course consists of supervised practice, discussions of craft, and peer critiques. |
Claire Tacon |
ENGL 335_C.Tacon_Fall 2018.pdf |
Fall 2018 |
| SOC | 369J | 001 | The Sociology of Community |
This course examines how our contemporary concern with community is connected with the rise of modern society and the development of the urban-rural debate. Our anxieties about community will be shown to be connected to our anxieties about family. Special attention will be given to the interpretive approach to these issues. |
Kieran Bonner |
SOC 369J_K.Bonner_Fall 2018.pdf |
Fall 2018 |
| 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. Cross-listed with LS 327 |
Frederick Desroches |
SOC-LS 327_F.Desroches_Fall 2018.pdf |
Fall 2018 |
| 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. Cross-listed with LS 229 |
Frederick Desroches |
SOC-LS 229-001_F.Desroches_Fall 2018.pdf |
Fall 2018 |
| SOC | 101 | 001 | 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. |
Kieran Bonner |
SOC 101_K.Bonner_Fall 2018.pdf |
Fall 2018 |