Arts

(CRN ) Socio-cultural anthropology involves the comparative study of societies throughout the world. Students will learn how societies differ from each other, as well as observing similarities among them. The course surveys traditional ways of understanding cultures while incorporating current insights and research. Topics include diverse political and economic systems, kinship patterns, religion, forms of ethnic and gender identity, health and medicine, development and migration. Department foci relating to First Nations, development and general anthropology are introduced. Credit will be granted for only one of ANTH 112 or ANTH 110. Three credits.

(CRN ) Students will learn elements of cinematic language, focusing on documentary film: the basic principles of storytelling, cinematography, editing, sound recording, and producing; how to operate as a one-person crew using their own equipment; and how to analyze films to understand cinematic vocabulary. Students must have access to a mobile device or camera that can shoot video and a computer that can run basic editing software. Additionally, students will expand their understanding of cinema through watching films, focusing on independent documentary works by Canadian filmmakers who are underrepresented in the industry (women, Indigenous, Black, People of Colour, and LGTBQ2S+). Credit will be granted for only one of ART 259 or ART 295 ST: Digital Video Production. Three credits.

(CRN ) This course explores the social, economic and environmental relationships underpinning global food and agricultural systems, who benefits and who is harmed in these relationships, the ecosystem necessary to supply the human population with food essential to its survival, and the actors pursuing the global food security and agricultural equality. The course is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on sustainable and equitable global development, focusing on food insecurity, exploitative economic relationships, and the poverty in the Global South that results from these global systems. Three credits.

(CRN ) The second half of introductory economics provides an introduction to macroeconomic concepts. The course examines pressing problems and issues in the Canadian economy and the world. Students will learn about alternate economic systems, national income accounting and the components of the national economy; the role of money in the economy; inflation; unemployment; international trade and trade policy; and the role of government in managing the economy. Three credits.

(CRN 58865 or 58895) This course provides students with the key skills needed to succeed at university. You will learn how to write argumentatively; how to build a question or problem from a close-reading of a literary work; how to develop that argument by presenting and analyzing evidence; how to engage in scholarly debate; how to do university-level research. Credit will be granted for only one of ENGL 111, 100 or 110. No prerequisites required to take this course. Three credits.

(CRN 58865) This course provides students with the key skills needed to succeed at university. You will learn how to write argumentatively; how to build a question or problem from a close-reading of a literary work; how to develop that argument by presenting and analyzing evidence; how to engage in scholarly debate; how to do university-level research. Credit will be granted for only one of ENGL 111, 100 or 110. No prerequisites required to take this course. Three credits.

(CRN 58895) This course provides students with the key skills needed to succeed at university. You will learn how to write argumentatively; how to build a question or problem from a close-reading of a literary work; how to develop that argument by presenting and analyzing evidence; how to engage in scholarly debate; how to do university-level research. Credit will be granted for only one of ENGL 111, 100 or 110. No prerequisites required to take this course. Three credits.

(CRN ) Using Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a starting point, this course provides a critical survey of children's literature in Britain, America and Canada. Authors include L.M. Montgomery, Maurice Sendak, Roald Dahl, R.L Stevenson, E.B. White and various picture books. Three credits.

(CRN /Lab ) This intensive course is a continuation of FREN 111 and corresponds to level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students will learn to understand and communicate during easy or habitual tasks and will understand isolated phrases and common expressions that relate to areas of high personal relevance (like personal or family information, shopping, immediate environment, studies, work, and hobbies). This course is recommended for students with some background in French or who have completed grade 12 Core French. Credit will be granted for only one of the FREN 112 or FREN 110. Three credits.

(CRN ) The ideas that sparked early-modern Atlantic revolutions resulted from earlier exploration and the exchange of people, goods, and ideas. The world has remained interconnected ever since. This course examines how this is the case by investigating human society and the historical processes that have shaped institutions and ideas since the 18th century. It will do so through a focus on the goods being exchanged – from sugar and spice to ivory and opium, and what that meant in society. Credit will be granted for only one of HIST 132 or HIST 110, HIST 112, HIST 122, HIST 142. Three credits.