Degree Students

Courses are first come, first served—there are no waiting lists for courses that are full! We strongly advise you to register in your General Education course as soon as possible. This list of courses does not update when courses are full. When completing your registration you may need to try several courses before you find one that still has room for you to register. 

Please note: Course options are subject to change without notice due to changes in planning. Please double-check course lists prior to completing your registration to ensure specific courses are still offered. 

SOSC-7042-60 Mind & Behaviour

Degree Level: Intro 
Have you ever wondered why you think the way you do? Why you behave the way you do? And why others are so similar yet so different from you? In this introductory psychology course, we examine the biological, social, and cognitive factors that make us who we are. We discuss our development,the power of our brain, how we learn and remember, and how we interpret the world around us. We delve into our complex thought processes, the motivations behind our behaviours, and the influence of social relationships, emotions, and stress on our health and well-being. Finally, we examine the causes and treatments of psychological disorders, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and antisocial personality disorder. Through this course, students will gain insight into the factors that influence the way they think and behave. 

Courses are first come, first served—there are no waiting lists for courses that are full! We strongly advise you to register in your General Education course as soon as possible. This list of courses does not update when courses are full. When completing your registration you may need to try several courses before you find one that still has room for you to register. 

Please note: Course options are subject to change without notice due to changes in planning. Please double-check course lists prior to completing your registration to ensure specific courses are still offered. 

PHYS-7008-90 The Martian Way

Degree Level: Intro 
Exploration is the driving force behind scientific advancement, but it constantly seeks new frontiers for inspiration. Mars is the ideal Terre Nouveau- a literal 'new Earth' where the spirit of exploration, coupled with enterprise, could fuel the next giant leap in the evolution of our scientific knowledge. This course will enable the student to form a vision of Mars based on up-to-date exploratory missions and appreciate the scale and variety of the challenges we could potentially face in taming the Martian wilderness, using existing and probable future technologies. The student will also analyze the portraits of Mars that exist in literature, documentaries, and films, and understand the difficulties in transforming scientific fantasy into reality. The Martian journey began distinctly with the search for extraterrestrial life; it is leading us to the brink of realizing the potential of transfusing our own species on a new world.
  

All students can choose an online General Education elective course. International students should verify they have the appropriate number of in-person hours before registering for an online course. 

Courses are first come, first served—there are no waiting lists for courses that are full! We strongly advise you to register in your General Education course as soon as possible. This list of courses does not update when courses are full. When completing your registration you may need to try several courses before you find one that still has room for you to register. 

Please note: Course options are subject to change without notice due to changes in planning. Please double-check course lists prior to completing your registration to ensure specific courses are still offered. 

SOSC-7021-40 History of Philosophy 

Degree Level: Intro
Philosophy is the discipline in which humanity asks the deepest of questions about itself and its relationship to the surrounding world. What can I know and how do I know it? Can I trust that there is a world outside my mind? What is a good life? What is the nature of beauty? Of truth? Of existence? In this course we will look at the answers to these questions, and others, proposed by some of the titans of the history of human thought. If you want to understand the roots of our modern ideas, this is the course for you.

HUMA-7032-40 Ideas that Changed the World  

Degree Level: Upper
While some ideas have the power to alter the course of an individual's life, others have changed the entire world. This course is about those ideas. Students are introduced to some of the most powerful ideas that have shaped our world and the way we view it. Using an interdisciplinary approach to philosophy, theology, history, social and political theory, economics, psychoanalysis, and feminism, this course traces the development of Western thought from the emergence of writing in Ancient Greece, through the Renaissance and the birth of the idea of the self, to modern social and political world views. We read some of history's most profound thinkers in their own words: philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and John Locke; political theorists like Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill; political economists like Adam Smith and Karl Marx; psychoanalysts like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir and Judith Butler.
 

HUMA-7053-40 Film Studies – Intro 

Degree Level: Intro
This course offers students an overview of major aspects of film as an artistic and communication medium. We examine film types, styles, and genres; major aspects of film technique such as editing, mise-en-scène, camera movement, sound, etc., and the way they may influence meaning; major theoretical approaches to film; and aspects of the film industry of increased relevance today, such as access vs. discrimination and exclusion. These aspects of film will be illustrated through a selection of films produced in North America, as well as in other parts of the world.

Courses are first come, first served—there are no waiting lists for courses that are full! We strongly advise you to register in your General Education course as soon as possible. This list of courses does not update when courses are full. When completing your registration you may need to try several courses before you find one that still has room for you to register.

Please note: Course options are subject to change without notice due to changes in planning. Please double-check course lists prior to completing your registration to ensure specific courses are still offered.

The following courses are:

Online / Virtual 
Unscheduled / No Scheduled Hours / Asynchronous 
6hrs per week (6hr online) | 3 credits each 

Please note these classes are S1 and will be running from May 6th - June 21st 2024

SOSC-7002-80 Perspectives on Sport  

Degree Level: Upper 
In this course we will examine the vital place of sport in modern societies. We will explore sports in relation to other social institutions such as the media, education, and government; we will examine sport in relation to aspects of social difference and inequality such as gender, race, class, and age; and finally, we will study sport and social processes such as socialization and deviance. We will also look at how sports help promote a particular system of values, shape national identity, and contribute to economic development. This part of the course provides students with an understanding of the relationship between sports, the economy, and the political system. Students explore both government approaches to sports and political issues related to sports in society.

SOSC-7011-80 Social Implications of Addiction 

Degree Level: Intro
As an introductory and interdisciplinary survey of the role of addiction in human cultures, this course is designed to expose students to how narcotic as well as non-narcotic- related addictions manifest themselves within various individual and institutional practices. Students will explore the major biological, psychological, and social/cultural theories applied to addiction. Focus is given to the nature of drug use, conceptions of 'the addict,' how drugs impact the brain, the impact on family, and consequences for changing social drug behaviors. This course also explores current theoretical and practical treatment approaches and education and prevention strategies. Emphasis will be given to special issues and hot topics in drug addiction, including youth, women, media portrayal of drug use and current debates on the war on drugs. Finally, understanding common perspectives on treatment and prevention strategies related to drug dependence and education will be studied.

SOSC-7006-80 Personality & Persuasion 

Degree Level: Intro
Do you prefer to go out with friends or stay home with a good book? Are you shy, stubborn, or easygoing? Have you been told that you have a 'great personality'? In this course we examine how personality develops, why each person's personality is unique, the common traits of 'winners', and what happens when our personality is damaged. We discuss the psychological theories that explain personality, the factors that mould our personality, and the dangers of personality disorders, such as anti-social, paranoid, and narcissistic behaviours. Finally, we debate the power of personality in success, power, popularity, and persuasion. 

 Courses are first come, first served—there are no waiting lists for courses that are full! We strongly advise you to register in your General Education course as soon as possible. This list of courses does not update when courses are full. When completing your registration you may need to try several courses before you find one that still has room for you to register.

Please note: Course options are subject to change without notice due to changes in planning. Please double-check course lists prior to completing your registration to ensure specific courses are still offered.

The following courses are:
Online / Virtual
Unscheduled / No Scheduled Hours / Asynchronous
6hrs per week (6hr online) | 3 credits each

Please note these classes are S2 and will be running from July 2nd - August 16th 2024

GBLC-7001-90 Global Pop Culture 

Degree Level: Upper 
What discipline examines cars, khakis, non-fat lattes, viral videos, and zombie-infested medieval fantasies as correlated events? Popular Culture Studies is the answer, and if the question seems more like a set-up for an old joke, that too falls under the scope of the discipline -- jokes as survivors of folk culture. Our diverse nationalities and backgrounds notwithstanding, we are surrounded by the same products of popular culture, from video games and Reality TV to Twitter, fan-fiction-turned-bestsellers, superhero franchises, and the transient royalty of pop music. We depart from a Starbucks in Country A, and arrive in a far-and-away Starbucks in Country B. In any mall anywhere, we will eventually find the food-court since mall architecture is standard. In addition to the world's six thousand languages, most people speak Smartphone and Facebook fluently. Our goal is to examine twelve such products or phenomena of popular culture as assemblages of distinct lifestyles and spaces, in their aesthetic, economic and ideological relations to commodification, visualization, technology and entertainment. Ultimately, the study of Popular Culture illuminates the construction of everyday life -- the medium we live in as global citizens.

GBLC-7002-90 Slices of Italy 

Degree Level: Intro 
Italy's gifts to the world do not end, rather only begin with the masterpieces of painters, sculptors, and architects. Those who set out to discover the maze of Italian culture soon lose themselves, swooning over the mahogany steering wheel of a 'race-red' Ferrari, or the dusting of cocoa over the perfect slice of tiramisu; the embroidery on a Venetian carnival mask, or the adventures of the Venetian playboy Casanova; fashion shows in Milan, or the legends and realities of mafia in Sicily. The experience is highly rewarding. So why not do the same, only taking care to give a little structure to our madness? In this course, we will sample Italian language and culture one delectable slice at a time.

GBLC-7003-90 Sociology of World Religions 

Degree Level: Upper
What is religion? Who is God? In this upper-level hybrid religious studies course, students will learn about our global world religions. This course will allow students to study religions such as Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Christianity and many more. Each student will learn about and present a religion through its history, literature, traditions, customs, and rituals. The goal of this course is to introduce the academic study of world religions. Students will not engage in personal religious dialogue; instead, they will study religion from a critical and academic perspective. In this course we will engage the study of religion with the goal of being open-minded and seeing the world from a more complex and humanitarian perspective.

SOSC-7012-90 American & the Bomb  

Degree Level: Upper
The nuclear bomb cast a long shadow over American culture throughout much of the twentieth century. In this course, we will examine the historical aspects of this phenomenon and imaginative responses to it; these responses include science fiction, film, poetry, short stories, and Dr. Seuss. The students in this course will gain an appreciation for the degree of fear generated by the Cold War, and for how this fear shaped artists, including those
who were racially marginalized.