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HOME PROGRAMS AND ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS FACULTY OF ARTS ARTS AND CONTEMPORARY STUDIES PROFESSIONAL TABLE I

PROFESSIONAL TABLE I
A total of 12 courses is required from Table I.

Students are not required to complete an Option in order to graduate. Students who do not choose an Option may select any 12 courses from any of the eight Options listed throughout this Table, with the following qualification: Students must complete at least one of ACS 800 or ACS 900 in order to graduate

If an Option is chosen, students must select it by the end of first year in order to make the appropriate Option's course intentions. A total of eight Options is available, and each Option's requirements are identified below. Once an Option is selected, students must complete all the requirements of that Option to graduate.


CULTURE STUDIES OPTION

12 courses are required as grouped and noted below†.

REQUIRED:

ACS 302 Introduction to Culture Studies

Eleven courses from the following:

ACS 800* Senior Group Project
ACS 900* Senior Seminar
ACS 950 Directed Research Course

ENG 705

Reading Visual Cultures
ENG 921 Narrative in a Digital Age
ENG 930 High and Low Culture
FRS 502 Feminism and French Literature
HIS 615 Film, Television and 20th-C History
HIS 742 Canadian Cultural Industries
HST 119 Fact and Fiction: History Through Film I
HST 219 Fact and Fiction: History Through Film II
HST 657 Culture/Politics of Difference in the U.S.
HST 658 Sex in the American City
IRL 100 Intro to World Art I: Pictorial Arts
IRL 500 Contemporary Art and Art of the Recent Past
MUS 110 Music and Film
MUS 211 Music Cultures of the City
MUS 401 Music, Religion and Spirituality
MUS 501 Traditional Musics of the World
MUS 505 Popular Music and Culture
PHL 365 Philosophy of Beauty
PHL 366 Existentialism and Art and Culture
PHL 401 Philosophy and Mass Culture
PHL 504 Philosophy of Art
PHL 530 Media Ethics
PHL 621 Beyond the Western Academic Tradition
PHL 710 Philosophy and Film
PHL 810 Philosophy of Cinema
PHL 921 Intellectual Property and Technology
SEM 101 Sign, Sense and Meaning
SEM 201 Visual Semiotics
SOC 202 Popular Culture
SOC 479 Social Networks and the World Wide Web
SOC 902 Hollywood and Society
SOC 903 Action Cinema and Modernity
SOC 932  The Entertainment Industry

* All students must complete a minimum of one of the following:
ACS 800 or ACS 900.


DIVERSITY AND EQUITY OPTION

12 courses are required as grouped and noted below†.

REQUIRED:

ACS 403 Introduction to Diversity and Equity 

Eleven courses from the following:

ACS 800* Senior Group Project
ACS 900*    Senior Seminar
ACS 950* Directed Research Course
CRB 100 Introduction to the Caribbean
CRB 500 Families in the Caribbean
CRB 501 Caribbean Peoples and Racism in Canada
CRB 502 Cultural Traditions in the Caribbean
CRB 614 Caribbean Critical Thought
ENG 204 Literatures of Immigration
ENG 621 Women's Texts: Global Contexts

ENG 413

Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures
ENG 940 Discourses of Difference and Diversity
ENG 941 Gender and Sex in Literature/Culture
ENG 942 Postcolonial Interventions
FRS 502 Feminism and French Literature
HIS 400 Reading, Writing and Using History
HIS 854 African-American History
HST 112 East Meets West: Asia in the World
HST 301 Human Rights and the Canadian State
HST 328 Multiple Ontario's:1784 to the Present
HST 526 Women and Gender in U.S. History
HST 580 Natives and Newcomers to 1763
HST 657 Culture/Politics of Difference in the U.S.
HST 680 Natives and Newcomers from 1763
HST 807 The Canadian Revolution: Canada 1968-2000
MUS 211 Music Cultures of the City
MUS 401 Music, Religion and Spirituality
MUS 406 Chinese Instrumental Music
MUS 501 Traditional Musics of the World
MUS 506 Chinese Music Studies
PHL 400 Human Rights and Justice
PHL 420 Philosophy, Diversity and Recognition
PHL 621 Beyond the Western Academic Tradition
PHL 922 Religious Belief, Diversity, and Truth
POG 315 Equity and Human Rights
POL 510 The Politics of Sexual Diversity
PSY 620 Psychology of Immigration
PSY 807 Psychology of Prejudice
PSY 941 Cross Cultural Psychology
SOC 203 Social Class and Inequality
SOC 474 Immigration, Minorities and Citizenship
SOC 507 Race and Ethnicity in Canada
SOC 603 Sociology of Gender
SOC 608 Women, Power and Change
SOC 633 Sexualities, Identities and Society
SOC 885 Women and Islam
SOC 941 Race, Ethnic and Aboriginal Studies
SOC 943 Poverty Issues

* All students must complete a minimum of one of the following:
ACS 800, ACS 900, ACS 950

 


ENGLISH OPTION

12 courses are required as grouped and noted below.

REQUIRED:

ENG 108 Introduction to Fiction
ENG 208 Introduction to Non-Fiction
ENG 900

Senior English Seminar

Nine courses from the following as grouped and noted below:

Minimum four courses from:

ENG 421 16C Literature and Culture
ENG 422 17C Literature and Culture
ENG 531 18C Literature and Culture I
ENG 532 18C Literature and Culture II
ENG 624 20C Literature and Culture I
ENG 626 20C Literature and Culture II
ENG 632 19C Literature and Culture I
ENG 633 19C Literature and Culture II

Minimum two courses from:

ENG 203* Literature of Native Peoples
ENG 204* Literatures of Immigration
ENG 413 Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
ENG 416 Modern American Experience
ENG 620* Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
ENG 621 Women's Texts: Global Contexts
ENG 630* Asian Literatures and Cultures
ENG 701 Canadian Literatures
ENG 940 Discourses of Difference and Diversity
ENG 941 Gender and Sex in Literature and Culture
ENG 942 Postcolonial Interventions

Minimum two courses from:

ENG 104 The Short Story
ENG 200* Writing as a Cultural Act
ENG 222* Fairy Tales and Fantasies
ENG 224* Children's Literature
ENG 520 The Language of Persuasion
ENG 530 Literary Non-Fiction
ENG 540 The Novel
ENG 550 Drama
ENG 560 Poetry and Poetics
ENG 570 Auto/Biography
ENG 580    The Gothic
ENG 590 Studies in Word and Image
ENG 703 Popular Literatures
ENG 705 Reading Visual Cultures
ENG 706 Shakespeare and Performance
ENG 720 Rhetoric: Theory and Criticism
ENG 888 Televisual Texts and Contexts
ENG 921 Narrative in a Digital Age
ENG 930 High and Low Culture

*All courses except those marked with an asterisk require ENG 108, plus either ACS 103 or ENG 208, as  prerequisites. The Department advises students entering the English option after Fall 2010, to take ENG 108 and ENG 208 in first year.

NOTE: English courses cannot be used toward the Liberal Studies requirement if the English Option is chosen. Students in the English Option cannot complete the English Minor.


FRENCH OPTION

12 courses are required as grouped and noted below.

REQUIRED:

FRE 505 Language and Culture I
FRE 510 Advanced Grammar and Writing I
FRE 605 Language and Culture II
FRE 610 Advanced Grammar and Writing II
FRE 900 Senior French Seminar

A minimum of four courses from the following:

FRE 301 Intermediate French I
FRE 401 Intermediate French II
FRE 402 French Conversation and Pronunciation
FRE 501 Speaking and Writing French I
FRE 502 Business French I
FRE 507 Intro to Stylistics and Translation I
FRE 515 Introduction to Business French
FRE 516    Politics and Play in French Poetry
FRE 601 Speaking and Writing French II
FRE 602 Advanced Business French II
FRE 607 Intro to Stylistics and Translation II
FRE 707 Intro to Stylistics and Translation III
SEM 101    Sign, Sense and Meaning

A minimum of two courses from the following:

FRE 503 Middle Ages to Classicism
FRE 508 Intro to 20th C French Literature I
FRE 509 Franco-Canadian Literature I
FRE 603 Enlightenment to La Belle Epoque
FRE 608 Intro to 20th C French Literature II
FRE 609 Franco-Canadian Literature II
FRE 703 French Theatre: Classicism to the Absurd I
FRE 704 Intro to Franco-Canadian Culture I
FRE 706 Cultural Evolution of the French Language
FRE 709 Children's Literature in French
FRE 803 French Theatre Classicism to the Absurd II
FRE 804 Intro to Franco-Canadian Culture II
FRE 901 Francophone Women Writers
FRE 902 Gender and Decadence 1850-1920
FRE 903 The Francophone Short Story
FRS 602 French Caribbean Literature and Culture

NOTE: French courses cannot be used toward the Liberal Studies requirement if the French Option is chosen. Students in the French Option cannot complete The French Minor.


GLOBAL STUDIES OPTION

12 courses are required as grouped and noted below.

REQUIRED:

ACS 402 Introduction to Global Studies

Eleven courses from the following:

ACS 800* Senior Group Project
ACS 900* Senior Seminar
ACS 950* Directed Research Course 
BSM 100 The New Business: From Idea to Reality
BSM 200 The Growing Business: Breaking Even

ECN 110

The Economics of Markets
ECN 220 Evolution of the Global Economy
ECN 511 Economy and Environment
ENG 204 Literatures of Immigration
ENG 413    Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures
ENG 621 Women's Texts: Global Contexts
ENG 942 Postcolonial Interventions
GEO 108 Geography of the Global Village
GEO 206 Regions, Nations and the Global Community
GEO 208 Geography of the Global Economy
GEO 910 Structure of the Global Village
HIS 590 Modern International Relations
HST 112 East Meets West: Asia in the World
HST 426 Major Themes in International Relations
HST 522 The Middle East: 1908 to the Present
HST 540 Espionage: A 20th-Century History
HST 551 Problems in 20th-Century Western Europe
HST 585 Southeast Asia: War and Peace since 1945
HST 602 The History of Modern Propaganda
HST 604 The Uneasy Peace: The Cold War, 1945-90
HST 610 Modern U.S. Foreign Relations
HST 651 Problems in 20th-Century Eastern Europe
HST 702 The First World War
HST 711 Canada and the United States
HST 802 The Second World War
INP 916 NGOs and World Governance
NNS 101 Introduction to News Studies
NNS 502 Journalism and the World of Business
NNS 507 Justice and the Courts
PHL 621 Beyond the Western Academic Tradition
POG 100 People, Power, and Politics
POG 225 Global Governance
POG 323 The Politics of Development
POG 411 Canadian Foreign Policy
POG 423 Nationalism and Identity
POG 424 Human Rights and Global Politics
POG 426 Contemporary Global Conflicts
POG 443 Global Cities
POL 203 Politics of the Environment
POL 607 Politics of Technology and Globalization
POL 688 Colonialism and Imperialism
PSY 941 Cross Cultural Psychology
SOC 479 Social Networks and the World Wide Web
SOC 706 Globalized Labour and Consumption
SPN 704 Introduction to Latin American Culture I
SPN 804 Introduction to Latin American Culture II

* All students must complete a minimum of one of the following: ACS 800, ACS 900, ACS 950

HISTORY OPTION

12 courses are required as grouped and noted below.

One course from the following:

HIS 903 Senior Seminar I: Cross-Field Study
HIS 916 Senior Seminar II: Science and Technology
HIS 931 Senior Seminar III: Americas
HIS 956 Senior Seminar IV: Africa
HIS 957 Senior Seminar V: Middle East
HIS 958 Senior Seminar VI: Asia
HIS 976 Senior Seminar VII: Europe
HIS 990 Senior Seminar VIII: International Relations

Four to six courses from the following:

HIS 104 Ten Days that Shook the World
HIS 105 Inventing Popular Culture
HIS 106 Technology, Warfare, and Social Change
HIS 107 Colonization, Colonialism, and Independence
HIS 216 History of Science to 1700
HIS 238 Canada: The Origins of Conflict
HIS 248 American History to 1877
HIS 265* Themes in Modern Asian History
HIS 275 Ancient Greece and Rome
HIS 277* Mediaeval Europe, 400-1350
HIS 279* Europe, 1715-1870
HIS 316 History of Science from 1700
HIS 338 Canada: Defining a Nation
HIS 348 American History from 1877
HIS 377* Europe, 1350-1715
HIS 379* Europe, 1870-Present
HIS 390 International Relations to 1945
HIS 400 Reading, Writing, and Using History
HIS 401 Hearing, Seeing, and Speaking History
HIS 417 History of Technology to 1900
HIS 461 The Near East to 600 CE
HIS 490 International Relations from 1945
HST 110 U.S. History: Colonial Era to 1877
HST 111* World Turned Upside Down: Europe 1350-1789
HST 112* East Meets West: Asia in the World
HST 119* Fact and Fiction: History Through Film I
HST 210 U.S. History: 1877 to the Present
HST 211* A Century of Revolution: Europe 1789-1914
HST 213 Themes on Latin American History
HST 219* Fact and Fiction: History Through Film II
HST 222 The History of the Caribbean I
HST 301 Human Rights and the Canadian State
HST 307 Canada to 1885: The Founding Societies
HST 325 History of Science and Technology I
HST 328 Multiple Ontario's: 1784 to the Present
HST 407 Canada from 1885: The Struggle for Identity
HST 425 History of Science and Technology II
HST 426 Major Themes in International Relations
HST 488 Britain since 1815

* A minimum of two must be taken
† A minimum of two must be taken

Five to seven courses from the following:

HIS 500 History and New Media
HIS 501 Archaeology and Material Culture
HIS 505 Locating the Past: Archival Research
HIS 510 Museology and Public History
HIS 541 Canada and the First World War
HIS 556 Colonial Africa
HIS 559 Ancient Egypt
HIS 575 Rome: Republic and Empire
HIS 590 Modern International Relations
HIS 594 War to War: World Conflict, 1900-45
HIS 610 Curating the Past
HIS 615 Film, Television, and 20th-C History
HIS 656 Post-Colonial Africa
HIS 662 The Mughal Empire, 1526-1764
HIS 677 Society in the High Middle Ages, 1100-1500
HIS 678 The Renaissance in Europe
HIS 683 Victorian Britain
HIS 696 History of Terrorism
HIS 710 Managing Heritage Resources
HIS 742 Canadian Cultural Industries
HIS 755 Material Cultures of North America
HIS 762 South Asia from 1764
HIS 769 Modern Japan from 1868
HIS 778 The European Reformation
HIS 783 20th Century Britain
HIS 788 Modern France
HIS 790 Modern Germany
HIS 826 Controlling the World
HIS 828 Science, Corporations, and the Environment
HIS 845  Canada in the International Sphere
HIS 854 African-American History
HIS 886 British Empire and the World
HIS 898 History of International Organizations
HIS 900 Experiential Learning I
HST 501 The American Civil War
HST 503 Crime and Punishment in Modern Canada
HST 504 War to War: World Conflict 1900-45
HST 510 The United States After 1945
HST 511 Quebec in Canada: A History
HST 522 The Middle East: 1908 to the Present
HST 526 Woman and Gender in U.S. History
HST 527 Toronto: Wilderness to Metropolis
HST 532 Elizabethan England
HST 533 Themes in Pre-Colonial African History
HST 540 Espionage: A 20th-Century History
HST 541 Unknown Canada: Rebels, Rioters, Strikers
HST 550 Ontario to 1896: The Formative Years
HST 551 Problems in 20th-Century Western Europe
HST 555 Late Qing and Republican China
HST 580 Natives and Newcomers to 1763
HST 584 Mediaeval Europe: 400-1400
HST 585 Southeast Asia: War and Peace since 1945
HST 587 Britain, 1688-1815
HST 602 The History of Modern Propoganda
HST 603 The Third Reich
HST 604 The Uneasy Peace: The Cold War, 1945-90
HST 610 Modern U.S. Foreign Relations
HST 632 England in the 17th Century
HST 633 Themes in 20th-Century African History
HST 641 Wine, Woman, Warriors, Saviours and Sinners
HST 650 Ontario since 1878
HST 651 Problems in 20th-Century Eastern Europe
HST 655 People's Republic of China, 1949-Present
HST 657 Culture/Politics of Difference in the U.S.
HST 658 Sex in the American City
HST 680 Natives and Newcomers from 1763
HST 701 Scientific Technology and Modern Society
HST 702 The First World War
HST 711 Canada and the United States
HST 712 The American City
HST 731 Renaissance and Reform: Europe 1350-1650
HST 777 Medicine from Antiquity to 1500 CE
HST 786 Science and Technology in Islamic History
HST 787 Astronomy vs Astrology
HST 788 Water Use in History
HST 789 British Society since 1939
HST 802 The Second World War
HST 807 The Canadian Revolution: Canada 1968-2000

Students in the History Option cannot complete the History Minor.

NOTE: History courses cannot be used toward the Liberal Studies requirement if the History Option is chosen.


INQUIRY AND INVENTION OPTION


12 courses are required as grouped and noted below.

REQUIRED:

ACS 303 Introduction to Inquiry and Invention

Eleven courses from the following:

ACS 800 Senior Group Project
ACS 900* Senior Seminar
ACS 950* Directed Research Course
BLG 181 Biology of a Living City
CHY 182 Chemistry Applications to a Living City
ECN 511 Economy and Environment
ENG 503 Science Fiction
ENG 507 Science and the Literary Imagination
ENG 921 Narrative in a Digital Age
GEO 110 The Physical Environment
HIS 216 The History of Science to 1700
HIS 316 The History of Science from 1700
HIS 417 History of Technology to 1900
HIS 826 Controlling the World
HIS 828 Science, Corporations, and the Environment
HST 325 History of Science and Technology I
HST 425 History of Science and Technology II
HST 701 Scientific Technology and Modern Society
HST 777 Medicine from Antiquity to 1500 CE
HST 786 Science and Technology in Islamic History
HST 787 Astronomy vs Astrology
HST 788 Water Use in History
PCS 181 Introduction to Astronomy
PHL 500 Philosophy of the Natural Environment
PHL 509 Bioethics
PHL 552 Philosophy of Science
PHL 709 Religion, Science and Philosophy
PHL 921 Intellectual Property and Technology
SOC 611 Future Worlds: Technology and Social Change
SOC 708 Environmental Sociology

* All students must complete a minimum of one of the following:
ACS 800, ACS 900, ACS 950.


PHILOSOPHY OPTION


REQUIRED: 12 courses are required as grouped and noted below.

A minimum of one from the following:

PHL 900 Senior Philosophy Seminar
PHL 910 Senior Philosophy Seminar
PHL 950 Directed Research Course

A minimum of two from the following:

PHL 101 Plato and the Roots of Western Philosophy
PHL 187 Ancient Greek Philosophy
PHL 333 Philosophy of Human Nature
PHL 503 Ancient and Modern Ethics
PHL 505 Hegel and Marx
PHL 553 Post-Existentialist Philosophy
PHL 605 Existentialism
PHL 708 Introduction to Modern Philosophy

A minimum of two from the following:

PHL 110 Philosophy of Religion I
PHL 550 Knowledge, Truth and Belief
PHL 551 Metaphysics
PHL 552 Philosophy of Science
PHL 611 Philosophy of Mind
PHL 709 Religion, Science and Philosophy
PHL 808 Language and Philosophy
PHL 922 Religious Belief, Diversity, and Truth
PHL 923 Philosophy of Religion II
PHL 924 Critical Thinking II

A minimum of two from the following:

PHL 420 Philosophy, Diversity, and Recognition
PHL 449 Issues in the Philosophy of Punishment
PHL 500 Philosophy of the Natural Environment
PHL 501 Social Thought and the Critique of Power
PHL 504 Philosophy of Art
PHL 509 Bioethics
PHL 603 Modern and Contemporary Ethics
PHL 612 Philosophy of Law
PHL 621 Beyond the Western Academic Tradition

A maximum of five may be taken from the following:

PHL 306 Freedom, Equality, Limits of Authority
PHL 307 Business Ethics
PHL 334 Ethics in Professional Life
PHL 365 Philosophy of Beauty
PHL 366 Existentialism and Art and Culture
PHL 400 Human Rights and Justice
PHL 401 Philosophy and Mass Culture
PHL 406 Issues of Life, Death, and Poverty
PHL 530 Media Ethics
PHL 602 Health Care and Distributive Justice
PHL 606 Philosophy of Love and Sex
PHL 710 Philosophy and Film
PHL 810 Philosophy of Cinema
PHL 921 Intellectual Property and Technology

NOTE: Philosophy courses cannot be used toward the Liberal Studies requirement if the Philosophy Option is chosen.


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