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ACS
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100
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Ideas That Shape the World I
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This course studies ideas shaping the contemporary world and arguments that invigorate and challenge our sense of what it means to live as an individual, citizen, and member of the complex, multifaceted, volatile global society. The focus is on these issues as they have arisen in a Canadian context; it studies the contribution of Canadian thinkers to global debates; and it challenges students to articulate their own responses to central issues of the contemporary experience.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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103
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Introduction to the Humanities
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In this course students learn to identify a humanistic perspective, and analyze how this perspective can infuse our understanding of the world around us. Students are also introduced to the various ways in which this perspective is applied in Arts and Contemporary Studies - in particular in the program's subject-based and interdisciplinary options - while gaining some of the academic skills relating to effective research, writing and expression that they will require to excel in a university setting.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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104
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Ideas that Shape the World
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This course is for Architecture students only. This course studies ideas that shape the contemporary world, and explores what it means to live as an individual, citizen, and member of our complex, multifaceted, volatile global society. The focus is on these issues as they arise in the Canadian context; it studies the contribution of Canadian thinkers to global debates, and it challenges students to articulate their own responses to central issues of the contemporary experience.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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106
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Introduction to Language
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This is a course about language. Language is arguably what separates human beings from all other animals. It is what enables us to think, create, reason, and even find meaning in our lives. This course is designed to introduce the basic ideas of how language works, how it is used, how it is acquired, and how it changes over historical and social dimensions. The perspective is interdisciplinary. The course will be taught with multimedia.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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200
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Ideas That Shape the World II
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This course examines the work of some seminal thinkers, writers, religious leaders, and artists of antiquity. Beginning with the ancients, the course traces the development of intellectual traditions up to the Renaissance. These traditions develop and explore ideas about the origins and structure of the physical world, human existence, the relationship of the individual to communities, the concepts of the state and politics, and the sacred.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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300
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Ideas That Shape the World III
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The Renaissance and Enlightenment mark the departure from a God-centred universe, as thinkers of this period developed scientific explanations of the universe. Exploration and discoveries began to map the cosmos, but also suggested the boundaries of the human. The ideas studied concern the effects of science and rationalism on critical reflection and the imagination, and the profound consequences of a shift towards a print-based culture.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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302
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Introduction to Culture Studies
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This course introduces the concepts and debates about the nature of culture and the development of culture industries. Students will examine a range of perspectives on the 'invention' of art and the boundaries between high and low culture. The various meanings of 'entertainment' will be explored. The creation of ideas outside the dominant culture will also be addressed.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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400
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Ideas That Shape the World IV
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This course focuses on key themes of the Victorian and modernist experience: Evolution, Revolution, and Relativity. In a cosmos increasingly experienced as destabilized and volatile, the powers of the imagination collide with a sense of alienation and powerlessness in the face of technological, economic and political forces. In music, painting, politics, literature and social thought, individuals explore the uncertainties of the human position, giving voice to new frames of meaning, new grammars of human expression.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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ACS
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401
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Introduction to Research and Statistics
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This is a one-semester course within the Arts and Contemporary Studies program with a format of two one-hour lectures and a one-hour lab per week. No familiarity with the fundamental elements of research or statistics is assumed. The course gives students the practical methods needed to statistically describe and analyze phenomena and to present those results. Emphasis throughout the course is on practical uses and application of these techniques, rather than on their mathematical derivations.
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Lect: 2 hrs./Lab: 1 hr.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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402
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Introduction to Global Studies
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Do we really live in a 'global village'? The focus of this course is on the historical evolution of political, cultural, economic, and environmental inter-relationships between peoples and nations. Beginning with the 19th and 20th centuries we examine the creation and collapse of empires, the emergence of international law and organizations, the origins and consequences of war and the conflict over global integration. Nationalisms, ideologies, ethnic and religious conflicts, terrorism and other dynamics are studied within these contexts.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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403
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Introduction to Diversity and Equity
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This course examines different forms and expressions of diversity and inequity, including social class, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, ability, and age. We will explore the social-historical origins and structural determinants of these foundations for organizing inter-group relations, while paying attention to the complex ways in which they intersect. Major emphasis will be put on a critical examination of institutional practices, policies, and government legislation related to diversity and equity.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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ACS
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500
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Ideas That Shape the World V
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This course focuses on volatile themes of contemporary and post-modern experience, as the world is opened up to the voices of the "other". The marginalized, and thinkers and artists of other cultures, expand and destabilize the boundaries of the human, while discoveries of genetic science suggest something of the profound unities that underlie the evolution of human diversity. The ideas to be considered range from the genome project to contemporary architecture to the Uncertainty Principle.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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ACS
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800
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Senior Group Project
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This capstone course brings students together for a collaborative project enabling application of various skills, competencies and knowledge acquired in the program. "Showcase" event(s), such as charrette, simulation, forum or conference, on a critical issue or area of engagement in contemporary society, will be planned, organized, marketed and presented by the students. The "showcase" event, highlighting what students have learned in the program, will be open to the public, including prospective employers.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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Departmental consent required
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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The Senior Seminar provides fourth-year ACS students the opportunity to develop advanced research, presentation and writing skills in a specialized are of study related to the material covered in the five Ideas that Shaped the World ACS courses. Students will normally be required to write a major paper. Course content varies according to the instructor's research interests and expertise. Students must have a minimum 70 percent average in their best six ACS courses or permission of the department prior to enrolling in this course.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Departmental consent required
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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ACS
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950
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Directed Research Course
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This course offers students the opportunity for advanced study with a professor in the Faculty of Arts. Topics are determined jointly by the student and professor. Normally, students must have completed at least 25 credits before taking ACS 950 and have a CGPA of no less than 3.0. Students must submit a completed application form to the ACS Program Office at least 20 business days before the start of the relevant semester. Departmental and program consent required.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Departmental consent required
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