Effective September 2016, and with the exception of students who have transferred from another Faculty or School into the Faculty of Arts and Science, a maximum of 6.00 units from courses offered by other Faculties and Schools may be counted towards the Program and/or Plan requirements of any degree in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Policies related to courses in specific Faculties/Schools are listed below and in Academic Programs section 7.
Smith Engineering
Faculty Office: Beamish Munro Hall, Room 300
Faculty Office Telephone: 613-533-2055
Website: http://calendar.engineering.queensu.ca
A limited number of Engineering courses are open to Arts and Science students. See the Academic Programs section 7.a. for the regulations for further information.
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty Office: Botterell Hall, Room 563
Faculty Office E-Mail Address: bhsc@queensu.ca
Faculty Office Telephone: 613-533-2566
Website: https://bhsc.queensu.ca/
The following Health Sciences courses are open to Arts and Science students, subject to the limit stated above. For a complete description, see the Bachelor of Health Sciences website at https://bhsc.queensu.ca.
Biomedical and Molecular Science (BMED)
Global and Population Health (GLPH)
NOTE Also offered online.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize health as a human right in order to identify opportunities to demonstrate social responsibility and service.
- Integrate social and physical determinants of health to assess the unique needs of special populations.
- Draw on examples of successful interventions and best practices to assess the community’s access to resources and design a well-informed health advocacy plan.
- Identify and engage the appropriate stakeholders to develop consensus on the rationale and execution of a health advocacy plan.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the strengths and potential pitfalls in creating public health policy aimed at mitigating racially-based health inequities, particularly as they relate to racialized communities in Canada.
- Apply a process of reflexive inquiry to continuously adapt and improve upon their skills in cultural safety, and advocacy for health equity
- Demonstrate the complexity and pervasiveness of racism as it relates to health, and develop potential personal and structural ways to begin to disrupt and dismantle these effects.
- Identify the ways in which their individual social location influences their perspective and practice as health advocate and global citizen
- Understand the importance of collaboration and empowerment of stakeholders, when advocating for positive change.
NOTE: Also offered online
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the impact of biohacking and/or gerontechnology from the perspective of older adults, caregivers and/or medical professionals.
- Build communication skills and engage in knowledge dissemination using blogging, streaming, and presentation skills as well as through the design of an infographic in order to become a better scholar and communicator.
- Critically analyze anti-aging and gerontechnology tools and techniques in order to develop scholarship by evaluating uses, strengths and risks associated with gerontechnology and/or biohacking in both standard and novel situation
- Examine consumer needs and critique the business/capitalist drivers behind the creation of biohacking and/or gerontechnology tools and techniques.
- Identify ethical concerns associated with biohacking and gerontechnology to analyze how these ethical concerns impact older adults and whether they are different depending on geography, culture, or social determinants of health (SDH).
- Identify the current and future biohacking and gerontechnology tools to understand how they might help or hinder the experience of aging globally.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize health as a human right in order to identify and engage in opportunities to demonstrate social responsibility and service.
- Integrate determinants of health with institutional barriers and enablers to assess the unique needs of special populations and affiliated organizations.
- Draw on examples of successful interventions and best practices to assess the community and organization’s access to resources and design a well-informed health advocacy plan.
- Identify and engage the appropriate stakeholders to develop consensus on the rationale and execution of a health advocacy plan
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Using systems thinking, students will accurately identify the health risks and care needs of populations affected by different types of humanitarian emergencies
- Analyze various potential human health interventions for different types of emergencies to maximize health benefits while mitigating risk
- Demonstrate awareness of historical health inequities and adapt planned interventions to ensure optimal outcomes for vulnerable and marginalized populations
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the impact of human activity including factory farming, wild caught meat (bush meat) on the environment as well as on the association with diseases including viruses
- Apply One Health related concepts to explain how they might help or hinder the health of humans, non-human animals and the environment globally
- Critically analyze One Health tools and techniques to evaluate uses, strengths and risks associated with One Health strategies in both standard and emerging situations
- Examine special topics in One Health to determine their impact on humans, the environment and non-human animals globally, critically analyzing business/capitalist drivers behind the perpetuation of activities and industries that are detrimental to One Health goals.
- Identify ethical concerns associated with the One Health framework including those involving the social determinants of health and inequities. Analyze and communicate how these ethical concerns impact human health and whether they are different depending on geography, culture, or social determinants of health (SDoH)
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the implications for access with respect to how cancer drugs get approved and funded in the U.S, Canada and around the world
- Appraise and then propose policy level solutions to address disparities in global cancer outcomes, including the role of organizations such as the WHO and other non-profit international organizations.
- Critically appraise clinical trials and other types of research in oncology and assess the magnitude of clinical benefit of cancer drugs.
- Discuss the economics of cancer drugs, and its relationship with global cancer disparities.
- Produce both a publication style research-style as well as a commentary-style article related to global oncology and/or cancer policy.
NOTE Students interested in taking GLPH 493 must secure a service-learning position with a host organization and submit the course enrolment package for approval (see course website) 8 weeks prior to the start of term. Registration must occur through the Bachelor of Health Sciences Program Office.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate how concepts of globalization, equity, and social and international development influence community health organizations' work to enhance their ability to enhance equitable relationships in global health service delivery.
- Describe their individual philosophy of practice in global health, including the broad values, knowledge, and approaches that they will use to identify, understand, and respond to a community's health needs.
- Develop and communicate a process of self-reflexivity to adapt and improve upon their global health practice through a combination of continuous independent reflection and regular communication with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify the ways in which their individual social location influences their perspectives to inform their practice as a global health researcher, service provider, activist or community organizer.
Health Sciences Research (HSCI)
Note: Also offered online
Note: Learning Hours may vary
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply basic concepts surrounding the design, conduct, and interpretation of observational studies that are commonly used in the field of epidemiology by conducting a critical appraisal of an observational study.
- Develop compelling, evidence-based rationales for research studies based upon existing evidence and communicate logical and creative arguments in support of research ideas and associated study designs.
- Discuss the origins of research questions in human health and disease, and best practices for articulating such questions in the health sciences.
- Evaluate experimental concepts, design, and basic analysis in order complete a critical appraisal of a clinical trial.
- Understand and apply key concepts and practices of qualitative health research by conducting a critical appraisal of a qualitative study.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Communicate methodological paradigms, approaches, and tests to justify and explain alignment with research questions.
- Design and critique experimental, quasi-experimental, and qualitative research protocols to ensure data is valid and reliable.
- Establish appropriate quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses to provide sufficient evidence to effectively respond to research questions.
- Review and interpret literature within one or more Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Health Sciences track(s) to establish research questions relevant to human wellness.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply qualitative research methodologies in practice to recognize benefits and limitations of various approaches.
- Compare methodological approaches to qualitative health research to align appropriate methodologies and methods to research questions.
- Explain ethical principles, power dynamics and relationality in qualitative inquiry to inform reflexivity and positionality in their own research.
- Present proposals and findings of qualitative research.
- Utilize qualitative data analysis software to analyze qualitative data and apply methods of triangulation.
Faculty of Law
Faculty Office: Law Building, 128 Union Street
Faculty Office Telephone: 613-533-2220
Website: https://law.queensu.ca/
The following Law courses are open to Arts and Science students, subject to the limit stated above and in Academic Programs section 7.c. Students must meet the prerequisite indicated in order to enrol in these courses during the summer class selection period.
Law Studies (LAW)
You'll learn where our laws come from, how Quebec and the rest of Canada operate under different legal systems, and how our government and courts are structured. You'll get to know the role of lawyers and judges in our society. You'll get brief -- but thorough -- introductions of Canadian law: Public & Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Torts, Contracts, Property Law, Corporate Law, Workplace Law, Intellectual Property Law and International Law.
Course Learning Outcomes:
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You will finish this course with an understanding of the legal and social issues at play in the laws that apply to work.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the historical, economic, and political context of workplace regulation in Canada.
- Describe the overlapping regulatory systems applying to the workplace.
- Apply basic legal reasoning within the context of workplace regulation.
- Extract relevant legal issues from specific situations within Canadian workplaces.
- Argue a legal position resulting from a workplace issue.
- Describe the impact of global changes on workplace regulation and prospects for reform.
This course will provide students with an understanding of business associations, securities regulation and banking, as well as examining sources of business regulation. Similar to the approach employed by business schools which emphasize case-based analysis, the course will ask students to apply the concepts learned to specific case and problem scenarios. From how a company is structured to how businesses are regulated, Law 204/704 Corporate Law is an absolute must for anyone in business.
The course will cover the rights enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as those aboriginal and treaty rights guaranteed by s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Distinguish between public and private law.
- Apply the hierarchy of public law rules.
- Summarize Canada’s gradual constitutional evolution from a colony of the United Kingdom to an independent country.
- Assess the constitutional basis for the protection of human rights in Canada.
- Compare the roles and responsibilities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
- Evaluate the interaction between the three branches of government and the appropriate institutional relationships between them.
- Differentiate between legal and political constitutionalism and accountability.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the sources and subjects of international law and the structure of the international legal order.
- Analyze fact scenarios in which international legal issues arise.
- Discuss the role of international law in the modern world.
- Develop the skills to research in depth an international legal topic.
- Connect international law with Canadian law and society.
- Critique the structure of the international legal order.
School of Nursing
Nursing Office: Cataraqui Building, 92 Barrie Street
Nursing Telephone: 613-533-2668
Website: https://nursing.queensu.ca/undergraduate
The following Nursing courses are open to Arts and Science students, subject to the limit stated above. For a complete description, see the School of Nursing section of this Calendar.
Nursing (NURS)
Smith School of Business
Commerce Office: Goodes Hall, Room 130
Commerce Telephone: 613-533-2301
Website: https://smith.queensu.ca/academic_programs/undergraduate.php
Students may take any COMM course numbered below 600, subject to the limit stated above. First-year Arts and Science students are not permitted to enrol in commerce courses for the Fall or Winter Terms during the summer class selection period. While no first-year student will be permitted to add a Fall Term Commerce course, adding a Winter Term course will be permitted on an individual basis during the open enrolment period.
While any COMM course may be counted as part of the 6.0 units allowed, the following Commerce courses are typically open to Arts and Science students. Note that this is not an exhaustive list, as many 300- and 400-level COMM courses may also be taken. Students must meet the prerequisites (or their equivalents) in order to enrol in all commerce courses. For a complete description, see the Smith School of Business section of this Calendar.
Commerce (COMM)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply capital budgetng techniques to make informed investment decisions that recognize the risk‐return trade‐offs that are inherent to all financial decisions.
- Analyze the impact of time and risk on the valuation of investment projects and individual securities, such as stocks and bonds.
- Understand the impact of dividend and other capital distribution policies on firms’ valuation using various pedagogical tool such as case studies.
- Communicate financial analyses and recommendations effectively with due consideration for ethics and potential biases associated with financial decisions.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify key marketing concepts and their applications within organization by analyzing various frameworks/models, processes and systems.
- Apply marketing theories to develop effective strategies for real‐world scenarios by completing case study assignments.
- Analyze the influence of ethical considerations and diverse perspectives on marketing decisions by reflecting on learning activities and case studies.
- Create points of view on how marketing is evolving in a digital and AI driven world to clearly communicate key concepts and insights related to marketing principles, application and how marketing is evolving.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze core theories and models of human behaviour in organizational settings in order to critically assess and address real‐world organizational challenges with a well‐rounded perspective.
- Apply principles of effective leadership and team dynamics so they can contribute to and enhance team performance in any organizational setting.
- Evaluate the impact of organizational culture and practices on employee motivation and engagement in order to develop insights into creating supportive and motivating work environments.
- Design strategies for managing conflict and fostering collaboration within diverse teams so they are prepared to handle interpersonal challenges and build cohesion in a variety of workplace contexts.
- Critique common human resource practices with a focus on inclusion and ethics in order to advocate for fair and equitable practices within their own professional environments.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply digital strategy frameworks to align technology with business goals by analyzing case studies and proposing strategic initiatives that enhance organizational performance.
- Analyze data dashboards and metrics to make informed decisions by interpreting key business metrics and connecting them to strategic outcomes.
- Explain the role of emerging technologies in shaping modern business by evaluating real‐world examples and discussing their applications in business contexts.
- Evaluate the ethical and societal implications of digital transformation by reflecting on case studies and proposing solutions to address potential ethical challenges.
- Develop a personal digital skills plan to prepare for future career opportunities by identifying gaps in their current skills and proposing actionable steps to enhance their digital fluency.