| Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIST | 450 | 001 | The History Capstone |
The Capstone challenges students with an opportunity to synthesize and showcase, at a high level of achievement, the disciplinary skills and knowledge they have gained during the course of their studies in History. It encourages students to pursue individual research interests and presentation formats as limited only by historical methodology, academic rigour, and the consent of the instructor. |
Ryan Touhey | Winter 2018 | |
| HUMSC | 102 | 001 | Great Dialogues: Politics and Morality |
What is the relationship between politics and morality? Are they opposites? Can they be integrated? This course investigates the way our own dialogue with core texts, from the Renaissance to the present (authors may include Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Conrad, and Arendt), offers ways of thinking through the dilemmas and issues raised by these texts and present in our culture. |
Winter 2018 | ||
| HUMSC | 301 | 001 | Great Dialogues: The Sacred and the Profane |
What is the nature of, and relationship between, the sacred and the profane? This course will examine diverse manifestations of the sacred and the profane by emphasizing the nature of their interaction and the impact on our understanding of contemporary human civilization. A dialogical method in exploring these ideas will be encouraged. Areas to be investigated include space, time, ritual, culture, morality, life and death. The readings will be taken from core texts spanning a wide variety of fields and authors (e.g. Eliade, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Pieper, Charles Taylor, Mary Douglas, etc.). |
Winter 2018 | ||
| ITAL | 101 | 001 | Introduction to Italian Language 1 |
An intensive study of the fundamentals of grammar and conversation. The language laboratory will be used. |
Winter 2018 | ||
| ITAL | 102 | 001 | Introduction to Italian Language 2 |
A continuation of ITAL 101, with more emphasis on conversation and everyday uses of language. |
Winter 2018 | ||
| ITALST | 292 | 001 | Italian Culture and Civilization 2 |
A survey of developments in Italian culture -- history, literature, painting, and music -- in the post-Renaissance period, with emphasis on modern Italy. |
Gabriel Niccoli | Winter 2018 | |
| ITALST | 360 | 001 | Dante's Divine Comedy |
This course examines the various strands of what is one of the greatest works in Western literature, Dante's Divine Comedy. The course will engage students in a critical reading of the text's various layers of meaning, which emphasize perennial issues of our human condition. |
Gabriel Niccoli | Winter 2018 | |
| LS | 101 | 001, 081 | Introduction to Legal Studies |
An introduction to the study of law, its structure, and legal institutions from a cross-cultural and historical perspective. This interdisciplinary course examines the origins of legal systems and their impact on society. Included is an analysis of the diverse historical, political, economic, and cultural conditions under which law arises and functions within society. |
Patrick Watson | Winter 2018 | |
| LS | 202 | 001, 002 | Criminal Law |
A case-study approach to the study of criminal law in Canada with a focus on basic concepts and core principles relating to legal judgements along with comparative examination between civil and criminal law and attention to legal theory. |
Winter 2018 | ||
| LS | 229 | 001, 081 | 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 SOC 229 |
Winter 2018 |