Degree electives course list

French Language and Culture II

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

FREN72020 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This high beginner course builds on the Introduction to the French Language and Culture. The course is designed to further enhance beginner level language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will also explore numerous facets of French Canadian culture. This course will be taught mostly in French with English used to facilitate learning in French.

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Spanish Language and Culture II

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

SPAN72010 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This high beginner course reinforces students' knowledge of the Spanish language and reinforces the cultural variety in the Spanish speaking world. Students will develop academic and professional listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This course will be taught mostly in Spanish with English used to facilitate learning in Spanish.

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Environmental Science

Theme

Sciences

Course Code

SCIE72000 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This course will argue for the interconnectedness of the world’s systems, linking Earth’s large-scale processes to specific environmental phenomenon. Topics include: our use and allocation of energy and mineral resources; urban environmental management, human population growth and its effects on food accessibility, desertification and loss of biodiversity. We will also analyze new and emerging environmental toxins and how they are impacting our ability to ensure clean water and soils for future generations. Research will be focused on understanding specific method for understanding scientific and policy literature, problem solving with an eye on all potential stakeholders.

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French Language and Culture II

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

FREN72020 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This high beginner course builds on the Introduction to the French Language and Culture. The course is designed to further enhance beginner level language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will also explore numerous facets of French Canadian culture. This course will be taught mostly in French with English used to facilitate learning in French.

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Spanish Language and Culture II

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

SPAN72010 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This high beginner course reinforces students' knowledge of the Spanish language and reinforces the cultural variety in the Spanish speaking world. Students will develop academic and professional listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This course will be taught mostly in Spanish with English used to facilitate learning in Spanish.

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Environmental Science

Theme

Sciences

Course Code

SCIE72000 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This course will argue for the interconnectedness of the world’s systems, linking Earth’s large-scale processes to specific environmental phenomenon. Topics include: our use and allocation of energy and mineral resources; urban environmental management, human population growth and its effects on food accessibility, desertification and loss of biodiversity. We will also analyze new and emerging environmental toxins and how they are impacting our ability to ensure clean water and soils for future generations. Research will be focused on understanding specific method for understanding scientific and policy literature, problem solving with an eye on all potential stakeholders.

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First Nations Experience

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

INDS71000 (Section 1)

Delivery

Kitchener - Doon Campus - In person

Status

OPEN

Description

This course will explore Canada's First Nations people's relationships with land, resources, cultures, and each other, as well as historical and contemporary relationships between Aboriginal people and settler governments in Canada. The course will provide a study of Indigenous cultures, colonialism, cultural and political re-emergence, and the importance of the wampum belt. The Truth and Reconciliation Report, UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal people, and the Ipperwash Inquiry will serve as core learning tools. Supporting the maintenance and revitalization of traditional Indigenous values, languages, cultural identity and spirituality will be highlighted.

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French Language and Culture II

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

FREN72020 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This high beginner course builds on the Introduction to the French Language and Culture. The course is designed to further enhance beginner level language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will also explore numerous facets of French Canadian culture. This course will be taught mostly in French with English used to facilitate learning in French.

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Spanish Language and Culture II

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

SPAN72010 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This high beginner course reinforces students' knowledge of the Spanish language and reinforces the cultural variety in the Spanish speaking world. Students will develop academic and professional listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This course will be taught mostly in Spanish with English used to facilitate learning in Spanish.

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Environmental Science

Theme

Sciences

Course Code

SCIE72000 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Synchronous

Status

OPEN

Description

This course will argue for the interconnectedness of the world’s systems, linking Earth’s large-scale processes to specific environmental phenomenon. Topics include: our use and allocation of energy and mineral resources; urban environmental management, human population growth and its effects on food accessibility, desertification and loss of biodiversity. We will also analyze new and emerging environmental toxins and how they are impacting our ability to ensure clean water and soils for future generations. Research will be focused on understanding specific method for understanding scientific and policy literature, problem solving with an eye on all potential stakeholders.

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Introduction to French Language and Culture

Theme

Global Cultures

Course Code

FREN71020 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Asynchrounous

Status

CLOSED

Description

This beginner course introduces students to standard French as well as Canadian French nuances. It is designed for students to develop basic French skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students will also study French culture in various contexts around the world. This course will be taught in both English and French to facilitate learning in French.

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Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

Theme

Humanities

Course Code

PHIL72700 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Asynchrounous

Status

OPEN

Description

This course examines the essential elements of both critical and creative thinking, with their application to the solution of problems.  It describes the nature of evidence, sound arguments and valid conclusions, faulty reasoning, convergent and divergent thinking, and the creative process.  Critical and creative thinking are then applied to problem solving, and both the discussion of ideas and the presentation of information to an audience.

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The Use of Laughter: Comedy and Satire

Theme

Humanities

Course Code

ENGL72050 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Asynchrounous

Status

CLOSED

Description

At a time when genetic research continues to narrow the gap between us and our closest animal relatives, laughter is emerging as the one uniquely human trait we all possess. Why do we laugh, and what is it that engages our sense of humour? This course will explore comedy and satire as two related, powerful artistic forms, but also as ways of being in the world. Taking off from some key theoretical perspectives on laughter (Hobbes, Freud, Bergson, Bakhtin, etc.), we will focus on comedy and culture; satire and ideology; comedy, satire and gender; comedy and subversion; comedy and the forbidden; comedy and love. The basic premise of the course is that the comic form is many things: a literary genre, a cultural expression, a theraputic/healing art, a means of liberation (and oppression), and a way of conceiving the world around us. The course will cover works ranging from ancient Greek comedy to contemporary film and fiction, as well as readings from psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists and neurologists. Students who complete this course will have a good working knowledge of the history of comedy and satire, their characteristic features as genres, and their social and psychological functions. Reading selections may vary from year to year.

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Introduction to the Spanish Language and Culture

Theme

Social and Cultural Understanding

Course Code

SPAN71010 (Section 1)

Delivery

Online-Asynchrounous

Status

CLOSED

Description

This beginner course introduces students to Spanish and the cultural variety in the Spanish speaking world. Students will develop listening, speaking, reading and writing. This course will be taught in Spanish and English to facilitate learning in Spanish.

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