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CAN604 - A Social History of Canada
This course will introduce students to selected themes in post-Confederation Canadian history using the methodologies of social history. Potential themes include: aboriginal peoples, women, the family, working class and labour movements, immigration, leisure, reform, urbanization and industrialization, popular protest, the impact of war, among others.
HUM389 - European Art and Culture
This course offers another way to approach the study of Western civilization by exploring ideas and practices of European and North American art and culture in the modern age. HUM 389 is a companion course to Humanities 301 and 400, so art and culture are studied in historical context from the late 18th century to the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on the connection between theory and practice in the arts.
HUM400 - Humanities: The Development of Western Thought IV
HUM400 extends the themes and chronology introduced in HUM100, HUM200, and HUM301 beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the contemporary world. The course focusses on the emergence of industrialism, nationalism, and modernity during the 19th Century and the influence of those broad historical currents on Western society, culture, politics, and economics. In its study of the 20th Century, the course places particular emphasis on the challenges raised by ideologies such as liberalism, socialism, totalitarianism and militarism. The multi-disciplinary approach, with its variety of lecturing faculty members, continues in HUM400. Upon completing HUM400, students will be familiar with the major historical currents of the modern world.
YKL200 - Introduction to World Literature II
This course builds extensively upon the texts and topics addressed in YKL100. It explores poetry, drama, and prose from the 18th century to the contemporary period. This course will analyze texts with an emphasis on the ways in which they embody or depict cross-cultural encounters, incorporate or challenge social ideologies (including categories of gender, race, class, and sexuality), and address contemporary philosophical questions. Students in this class will continue to learn the specific skills needed to read and write about literature.
GEN001 - General Education Option
According to the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, ?the purpose of General Education in the Ontario college system is to contribute to the development of citizens who are conscious of the diversity, complexity, and richness of the human experience; who are able to establish meaning through this consciousness; and, who, as a result, are able to contribute thoughtfully, creatively, and positively to the society in which they live and work. General Education strengthens students' generic skills, such as critical analysis, problem solving, and communication, in the context of an exploration of topics with broad-based personal and / or societal importance?. Please contact the School of English and Liberal Studies at your campus to find out more about the variety of General Education courses from which you can choose.