Registration opens: April 17, 2023
Registration closes: May 16, 2023
Spring 2023 delivery approaches
- In person: classes held in person on a campus/site in a classroom/lab/shop/studio for the course duration
- Online - asynchronous: 100 per cent online delivery with no assigned day or time requirements, independent course completion
- Online - synchronous: 100 per cent online delivery with scheduled day and time course requirements
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Spring 2023 interdisciplinary electives
Please note: offerings vary from term to term and not all electives are suitable for all programs. If the course is not suitable, you will be restricted from registering for it in the Student Portal and will need to select another option.
Browse all elective courses offered this term:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All interdisciplinary electives
Below is the complete list of interdisciplinary electives offered at Conestoga.
Level 1
Course code | Course title |
---|---|
CHIN71000 | Introduction to Chinese Language and Culture |
ENGL71010 | Science Fiction |
ENGL71020 | World Literature |
ENGL71040 | Postmodern Identity in Popular Culture: Avatars, Humans, and Vampires |
FREN71020 | Introduction to French Language and Culture |
GERM71010 | Introduction to the German Language and Culture I |
INDS71000 | First Nations Experience |
PHIL71100 | An Introduction to Philosophy |
PSYC71240 | Psychology: Basic Processes Of Behaviour |
SCIE71000 | Introduction to Natural Sciences |
SCIE71010 | Archaeology |
SOC71045 | Science, Technology and Society |
SOC71250 | Introduction to Sociology |
SPAN71010 | Introduction to the Spanish Language and Culture |
Level 2
Course code | Course title |
---|---|
CHIN72000 | Chinese Language and Culture II |
CLSC72000 | Classical Civilization and the Global Present |
ENGL72200 | Desire in Literature |
ENGL72050 | The Use of Laughter: Comedy and Satire |
FREN72020 | French Language and Culture II |
GERM72010 | German Language and Culture II |
MDIA72280 | Introduction to Media Studies |
PHIL72130 | Quest for Meaning |
PHIL72700 | Critical and Creative Thinking Skills |
PHIL72900 | Principles of Ethical Reasoning |
PSYC72240 | Psychology: Dynamics of Human Behaviour |
SCIE72000 | Environmental Science |
SPAN72010 | Spanish Language and Culture II |
Level 3
Course code | Course title |
---|---|
CHIN73000 | Chinese Language and Culture III |
CLSC73030 | Classical Mythology |
FREN73020 | French Language III |
GERM73010 | German Language and Culture III |
PHIL73000 | Thinking Through Zombies |
POLS72100 | Political Structures and Issues |
PSYC73010 | Cyberpsychology: The Self and Others in a Wired World |
RELS73100 | Religions of the World: Eastern Traditions |
RELS73200 | Religions of the World: Western Traditions |
RSCH73000 | Understanding Research |
SOC73140 | Canadian Multiculturalism |
SOC73180 | Conflict Management |
SPAN73010 | Spanish Language III |
Level 4
Course code | Course title |
---|---|
CHIN74000 | Chinese Language and Culture IV |
FREN74020 | French Language IV |
GERM74010 | German Language and Culture IV |
SCIE74020 | Assessing Emerging Technologies |
SOC74020 | Urban and Community Planning |
SPAN74010 | Spanish Language IV |