Timetable Information
Not every course listed in this Calendar is offered every year. For the most up-to-date information on course offerings, students are advised to view the 2024-2025 course timetable on SOLUS or consult with the appropriate department.
The First-Year Registration Guide can be found on the Arts and Science website.
Anatomy (ANAT)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the gross (macroscopic) and histology (microscopic) anatomy of the tissues and organs that constitute the human body
- Apply appropriate anatomical terms and concepts for the purpose of identification, effective communication, and critical reading of relevant literature
- Demonstrate the ability to collaborate and work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams
- Describe the integrated relationship between histology and gross anatomy with respect to structure and function, and be able to extend that knowledge to various aspects of development and function
- Employ a systematic logical thinking process to help you recognize anatomical structures and predict the physiological functions of body systems
RECOMMENDATION 4U Biology.
Anishinaabe (ANSH)
Arabic Language (ARAB)
Art History (ARTH)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Build knowledge in the area of visual studies and acquire a basic competency in key texts and concepts in visual studies.
- Enhance cross-disciplinary writing skills.
- Enhance social responsibility, through a better understanding of the way images and other visual representations have an impact upon social relations in the contemporary world.
- Enhance student's capacity to critically analyze the visual world.
- Improve self-management and promote respect for diverse ways of knowing.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- State basic facts about art from different periods and cultures of the western world and define basic art historical terminology.
- Recognize and identify qualities of art associated with different styles and cultures of the western world.
- Demonstrate an understanding of artistic development across time from the prehistoric to the current era.
- Compare and contrast different works of art from various times and cultures in order to draw meaningful connections.
- Implement visual analysis in order to understand and interpret meaning and intention embodied in works of art.
- Independently research, analyze, and contextualize works of art not presented in lecture or textbook.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and analyze works of art, architecture, and material culture from different historical periods, geographic contexts, and cultural contexts using discipline appropriate terminology.
- Demonstrate intercultural competence through visual and material analysis of works of art, architecture, and material culture from diverse contexts. Engage students in the study and analysis of artworks that represent the perspectives of different societies and cultural traditions.
- Analyze differing narratives about the history of art and architecture to identify and evaluate the social, political, and cultural values that shape them.
- Make connections between works of art, architecture, and material culture and the broader social world by discussing how their production and reception is shaped by historical contexts such as colonialism, social and political issues, and geographic locations.
- Develop foundational research skills by learning how to use the tools (e.g., catalogue, database) available through Queen’s University Libraries.
- Demonstrate critical reading skills by summarizing the core arguments of art historical texts. Actively and effectively communicate arguments in writing by crafting short texts on art.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and analyze key art institutions and their distinctive professional practices, including museums, art galleries, artist-run centres, art fairs, art exhibitions, art markets, and art criticism.
- Demonstrate intercultural competence and empathy through an analysis of colonial histories and current colonial legacies of "art worlds". Recognize and compare the work of artists, curators, and administrators seeking to decolonize "art worlds".
- Identify the role of art and artists within the institutional structures of "art worlds".
- Describe and analyze the histories, current practices, and future challenges of key art institutions, making connections between historical contexts such as colonialism, social and political issues, and geographic locations.
- Develop foundational professional skills that contribute towards a career in the cultural sector, or transferable skills for careers outside the arts, including improving critical thinking, observation/documentation, and writing skills.
- Demonstrate critical reading skills by summarizing the core arguments of historical, theoretical, or practical texts. Actively and effectively communicate arguments in writing by crafting short texts on art.
- Practice competent and sensitive engagements with museums, galleries or artist-run centres, by visiting them in person in their original locations.
Artificial Intelligence (ARIN)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Assess current media reporting about AI, especially basic uses, capabilities, and limitations of AI.
- Situate current AI systems within a broader historical and social context.
- Critically assess current controversies in the uses and effects of AI.
Arts and Science: Interdisciplinary (ASCX)
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how knowledge is created and what ethical obligations we have to the preservation and dissemination of knowledge.
- Work in effective teams, exemplifying collaboration and cooperation.
- Be aware of intercultural difference and apply principles of equity and inclusion.
- Implement a productive and healthy writing practice.
- Establish frameworks getting things done in ways that support curiosity, motivation, and focus.
- Evaluate the fair and accurate presentation of qualitative and quantitative information and argumentation.
Astronomy (ASTR)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and explain the fundamental scientific principles that underlie the dynamical behaviour and structure of the solar system, and apply these principles on all physical scales.
- Report and explain variable astronomical phenomena visible in the night sky and seasonally.
- Identify the instruments used by astronomers (e.g., specialized telescopes) and explain their purpose and use.
- Contrast and critique the ancient and modern understandings of the nature of our Solar System.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and explain phenomena beyond the solar system (i.e., the formation, nature, and evolution of the stars; stellar deaths, including novae, supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes).
- Use models to explain large-scale structure in the universe.
- Critically assess modern ideas in cosmology and the early universe including the origin and fate of our universe and the concept of multiplicity of universes.
Biochemistry (BCHM)
NOTE Primarily intended for students in Nursing, Life Sciences, or Biochemistry programs. Other Arts and Science students require permission of the Department to enrol.
Biology (BIOL)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply strategies for time management and collaboration.
- Complete assignments using analytical skills to synthesize results in order to communicate biological questions, concepts, and results in the context of the primary scientific literature.
- Explain and interpret cellular processes, including how cells respond to external signals and how they process energy.
- Explain and interpret DNA in the context of molecular genetics, inheritance, and DNA technologies.
- Explain and interpret the cellular chemistry of living organisms and how this relates to cellular function, diversity, and evolution.
- Use group activities to establish and hone your ability to work on a team.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply knowledge of tissue and organ system functioning and integration to diagnose or predict common diseases and organismal dysfunctions.
- Compare the nature of interactions between organisms at the level of the population, the community and the ecosystem.
- Describe the main cycles governing the flow of nutrients and energy through communities and ecosystems and recognize the importance of ecological interactions and biodiversity in building a sustainable future.
- Describe the structure and function of nerves and muscles and explain how they contribute to physiological and behavioural processes.
- Discuss the mechanisms by which evolution shapes biological diversity, citing examples from the history of life captured in the fossil record, in extant diversity, or through direct observation of evolution in action.
- Identify the roles of the major physiological systems in diverse animals and how they are regulated through electrical and chemical signals to achieve change or maintain homeostasis.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Appreciate the role of genetics in contemporary medical issues such as stem cell research, longevity research, genetic testing, and cancer.
- Describe the role of genetic variation and its interaction with the environment in human evolution.
- Distinguish between "older-school" research approaches and cutting edge approaches and evaluate how life might be affected by these new technologies in the Genomics Age.
- Identify and define basic concepts and structures in basic biology such as the gene, chromosomes, genome, inheritance and the cell.
- Recognize how genetic concepts apply to both individuals and to populations.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the factors controlling human population growth in developed and developing countries.
- Describe the basic principles of community ecology and population ecology.
- Describe the earth's renewable and non-renewable resources, their current status, the factors that influence them and explain how humans can use them in more sustainable ways.
- Identify the main biomes on Earth and explain the factors that influence them.
- Predict most likely future trends of current environmental problems and formulate potential solutions.
Chemistry (CHEM)
NOTE Laboratory Equipment (Lab Coat, Goggles, Blue Lab Book): estimated cost $67.
NOTE CHEM 109 and CHEM 110 together, are equivalent to CHEM 112.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand equilibrium theory and manipulate equilibrium conditions, calculate K and understand how activities are used in the ICE table.
- Know the second and third laws of thermodynamics, work with and manipulate equations related to entropy and Gibbs energy changes in systems under standard and non-standard conditions.
- Recognize different types of acids and bases, understand how to manipulate acid/base systems using the ICE table, know the concepts of strong and weak acids and bases.
- Recognize and calculate first, second and third order rate laws and understand how to manipulate systems to study the kinetics of systems and reaction mechanisms.
- Understand the basic concepts of oxidation/reduction, electrochemistry and calculate the cell potential of standard and non-standard systems.
NOTE Laboratory Equipment (Lab Coat, Goggles, Blue Lab Book): estimated cost $67.
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE Laboratory Equipment (Lab Coat, Goggles, Blue Lab Book): estimated cost $67.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze experimental data critically.
- Do error analysis and reporting.
- Better understand some of the first-year chemistry material.
- Understand equipment principles and limitations.
- Understand and use concepts of equilibrium systems including acid/base, solubility, oxidation/reduction and precipitation systems.
- Determine and describe the kinetics of a system using different experimental procedures and relate the results to reaction mechanisms.
Chinese (CHIN)
Classical Studies (CLST)
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Cognitive Science (COGS)
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Situate cognitive models in a practical context.
- Apply information-processing models to cognitive processes.
- Compare computer models to human behaviour.
- Clearly convey cognitive models to a non-technical audience.
Computer and Information Science (CISC)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and/or solve problems using discrete structures.
- Construct mathematical proofs using basic proof methods.
- Apply graph theory to solve basic problems.
- Use concepts for discrete structures to produce correct computer code to solve problems.
- Communicate concepts and/or solutions using discrete structures to a technical audience.
NOTE Sufficient preparation for CISC 121; alternative to CISC 101 and CISC 151.
NOTE With permission of the School, students with programming experience may take this concurrently with CISC 121.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Sufficient preparation for CISC 121; alternative to CISC 101 and CISC 110.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Creative Writing (CWRI)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Perform close readings of various literary forms.
- Provide thoughtful and constructive criticism on peers’ drafts.
- Employ techniques and strategies used in creative writing.
- Employ discipline-specific terminology to effectively discuss creative writing.
Drama (DRAM)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss theatre as both a creative medium and a vital mode of human cultural communication.
- Accurately use basic concepts from theatre studies (including ideas about audiences, reception, dramaturgy, scenography, performance, and history) to investigate and analyze relevant examples from theatrical productions and/or prior learning towards realizing new insights and knowledge.
- Apply a thoughtful approach to the creative process that blends both intuitive and structural impulses.
- Use a similar process to unpack, analyze, and thoughtfully critique the theatrical choices of peers and other artists. Deliver and receive feedback in a way that is productive, insightful, and that promotes positive development and exploration.
- Embrace the uncertainty of creating work in the theatre by realizing the value of Version 2.0, both in terms of how it influences creative development, but also in how it offers the freedom to fail.
- Encounter new, challenging, and/or unfamiliar artistic work with an open, inquisitive attitude and a willingness to engage with, rather than reject the work because it is unfamiliar.
- Question how theatrical choices impact the world around us (asking ‘why’ and ‘so what’ for those choices).
- Explain what the point is, if any, to making theatre in this day and age.
NOTE Also offered online; consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Define key concepts from theatre studies applicable to analyzing performance in pop culture and media, including theatricality, affect, performativity and representation.
- Reflect upon your personal experience as a spectator/consumer of popular culture and media using insights from theatre studies (and without extrapolating or universalizing your experience).
- Identify and develop productive and well-grounded connections between course concepts and examples of performance in popular culture and media.
- Apply course concepts to critically analyze performance in popular culture and media with an emphasis towards Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Indigeneity (EDII).
- Communicate connections worth sharing with others in an accessible, engaging and concise way that is well-supported by analysis.
Economics (ECON)
NOTE ECON 111 and ECON 112 together, are equivalent to ECON 110.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE ECON 111 and ECON 112 together, are equivalent to ECON 110.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Employment Relations (EMPR)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe the core academic fields which study and inform the practice of employment relations.
- Describe the role of Human Resource Management in organizations.
- Assess the contributions of organizational behavior to the practice of employment relations.
- Describe the characteristics of employment relations in unionized workplaces.
- Identify the sources of labour and employment legislation.
- Describe the key features of workplace policies and governance in Canada.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate effective and appropriate verbal and written communication skills in professional workplace settings.
- Identify barriers to effective communication and strategies to overcome those barriers.
- Apply knowledge of interpersonal behaviours to work effectively in teams.
- Describe strategies for building and maintaining professional relationships.
- Explain the role and importance of communication and interpersonal skills to promote inclusion and equity in diverse workplaces.
English Language and Literature (ENGL)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the theoretical basis of the academic study of literature, including what it involves, what methods it uses, and why it is done in the first place.
- Identify and analyze the main characteristics of three major forms of literary writing (poetry, prose fiction, and drama) and related genres (e.g., sonnet, short story, tragedy, comedy, etc.).
- Employ close reading techniques to analyze the ways in which various forms of literature state, imply, or complicate meaning, and produce effects upon readers.
- Plan, write, and revise analytical essays that include argumentative claims, the use of convincing supporting evidence, and the effective analysis of evidence.
- Apply appropriate literary terminology in analyzing works of literature.
- Demonstrate effective writing skills, including clear and grammatical sentences, unified and coherent paragraphs, and a tone and vocabulary that are appropriate to the writer's goals.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe diverse ways that literature has been experienced and defined as an art.
- Identify and describe different forms, media and genres of literary writing.
- Explain the relevance of the social contexts of writers or audiences to literary expression.
- Collaborate in analysis via discussion.
- Analyze and write about literature using appropriate forms of argument, disciplinary terminology, and interpretive methods.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Assess the significance of literary texts to their cultural moment.
- Evaluate the continued influence that transformative texts have in the present.
- Evaluate the process of literary canon-formation, identifying which social groups control this process and which are excluded.
- Evaluate the function of literature both as an expression of social power and as a way to resist power.
- Use textual evidence effectively to support interpretations.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze texts of different forms and genres using discipline-specific terminology.
- Demonstrate familiarity with the work of BIPOC writers.
- Evaluate themes of race, trauma, resistance, and cultural celebration in literary texts.
- Use textual evidence effectively to support interpretations.
- Demonstrate close reading and critical thinking skills.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe key features of the horror, sci fi, and fantasy genres, and explain how those features develop over time.
- Identify the storytelling techniques writers use to elicit particular responses from audiences (fear, wonder, etc.).
- Assess the relationship between escapist genres and contemporary controversies or crises.
- Evaluate the significance of the term genre fiction, and explain the stereotypes, value judgements, and identity politics that the term evokes.
- Analyze literary texts using discipline-specific terminology.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe important themes from assigned texts.
- Assess the role played by representations of humanity or monstrosity in contemporary social debates.
- Analyze literary texts using discipline-specific terminology.
- Formulate, develop and construct persuasive arguments based on evidence from the texts.
- Convey arguments in clear, coherent, and grammatical prose.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify literary genres as a way of classifying and inferring or resisting the kind of claims they make to truth or power.
- Analyze texts from an array of forms, including poetry, prose fiction, political discourse, social media, conversation, laws and constitutions, protest, etc.
- Compose well-structured, thesis-driven essays.
- Use discipline-specific terminology, especially terminology related to meaning and power.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the work of BIPOC writers, especially contemporary Indigenous Canadian writers.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Explain what poetry is, and what distinguishes it from other cultural forms.
- Identify the formal elements of a text and explain why they are significant.
- Demonstrate the interconnection between form and meaning.
- Identify the similarities and differences between literary and popular forms of poetry.
- Explain the role poetry plays as an expression of identity and aspiration, with special attention paid to marginalized voices (e.g. BIPOC writers).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze texts from an array of forms, including poetry, prose fiction, political discourse, social media, conversation, laws and constitutions, protest, etc.
- Identify basic assumptions about human relationships to the planet that underlie authors’ (and their own) understanding of environmental concerns (e.g. nature/culture binary, ideologies of progress, etc.
- Compare/contrast different representations of human/environment relationships across cultures and over time.
- Challenge prevailing ideas about “the planet” and explore alternatives.
- Communicate their understanding of environmental challenges using analytical and reflective modes.
- Communicate their experience of the tangible world.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Use discipline-specific terminology in the analysis of portrayals of race, gender, and sexuality in literary texts of various genres.
- Demonstrate a historical and critical understanding of literary portrayals of race, gender, and sexuality.
- Assess the role literature plays in constructing and expressing identities.
- Deploy a methodological approach to close reading and critical thinking.
- Develop interpretations in thesis-driven essays supported by appropriate textual evidence.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Compare the ways in which various literary genres portray different aspects of identity, love, and desire.
- Explain how different representations of love, gender, and sexuality are imagined to affect social life and social change.
- Identify literary genres as a way of classifying texts.
- Compose well-structured, thesis-driven essays and learn to revise with critical feedback.
- Analyze literary texts using discipline-specific terminology.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the relationship between literary art and mental health.
- Explain how representations of mental health shift across genres and periods.
- Assess the role of narrative in enabling people to confront loss.
- Demonstrate familiarity with the work of BIPOC writers, especially contemporary Indigenous Canadian Writers.
- Analyze texts using discipline-specific terminology, and presenting ideas in clear and effective prose.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe the various hallmarks or elements of fiction.
- Identify, analyze, and employ the language of literary analysis and close reading when discussing short fiction and novels (e.g., metaphor, irony, pathos, parody, rhetoric, ideology, etc.).
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge of grammar, punctuation, diction, and syntax.
- Compose original arguments that evaluate, analyze, and synthesize primary texts, and that do so within a structural framework that includes a thesis statement, strong topic sentences, textual evidence, a compelling conclusion, and other characteristics of analytical literary essays.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a range or literary works by diverse authors from around the globe.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe a selection of critical approaches to, or pathways through, fiction.
- Identify, analyze, and employ the language of literary analysis and close reading when discussing short fiction and novels (e.g., metaphor, irony, pathos, parody, rhetoric, ideology, etc.).
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge of grammar, punctuation, diction, and syntax.
- Compose original arguments that evaluate, analyze, and synthesize primary texts, and that do so within a structural framework that includes a thesis statement, strong topic sentences, textual evidence, a compelling conclusion, and other characteristics of analytical literary essays.
- Demonstrate familiarity with works by diverse authors from around the globe.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENIN)
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Communicate ideas creatively with digital presentation styles and content in an aesthetically pleasing, artistic, storyboard that captures the imagination of the reader.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the steps of Design Thinking as an Innovation Tool, including how and what is involved in the steps of Empathy, Design, Ideation, Test, and Iterate.
- Demonstrate the innovation skills of brainstorming multiple solutions, decision-making, creating a prototype, assumption rating, and designing tests or experiments to learn from your customer group by completing the tasks and showing your work in a presentation document.
- Differentiate between the intellectual standards for creative thinking (originality, adaptability, appropriateness, and contribution to the domain)
- Research, analyze, and write a report on chosen problems and customers to demonstrate empathy, root problem identification, the systems in which the problem lives, and how to segment your customer group into a persona.
Environmental Science/Studies (ENSC)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Adopt and make accurate use of disciplinary language to communicate on environmental issues with a variety of audiences.
- Apply concepts and practices of ecological citizenship.
- Competently explain key terms for course (e.g. Sustainability, Indigeneity, etc.)
- Critique constructively the dominance of individualism and voluntary action as core social beliefs in mainstream society.
- Evaluate the impact of the intersection of scientific and social aspects of a variety of environmental issues.
- Explore personally the possibilities and/or limitations of individual actions in relation to sustainability.
- Identify and explain the contested aspects of environmental knowledge (e.g. Around climate change, scientific uncertainty, etc.).
- Identify relative importance and verifiability of scientific and social aspects of environmental issues.
Film and Media (FILM)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the history of time-based media.
- Summarize the technological and aesthetic uniqueness of global time-based media and its contextual specificity.
- Develop academic and creative skills to engage, research, and write on topics in the field pertaining to history, form, and aesthetics.
- Deploy the formal tools, terms, and definitions in the analysis of global time-based media.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the scope of theoretical and practical approaches to fields of film, media, and screen cultures.
- Identify and apply production, circulation, creative, and reception methods of analysis for global time-based media.
- Deploy creative visual storytelling skills alongside theoretical comprehension.
- Examine the historical, social, political, psychological, and cultural implications of time-based media.
Fine Art (ARTF)
NOTE Offered during Spring-Summer Sessions only. Not available for credit towards a B.F.A. program.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $105.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Adapt learned skills to ones own artistic practice and assess the potential for advanced course work.
- Analyze and evaluate printworks through the process of critique using terms and concepts appropriate to the medium.
- Create original and editioned printworks that demonstrate technical, conceptual and critical consideration.
- Demonstrate the ability produce a print based body of work that meets professional, exhibition and curatorial practices.
- Describe and employ low and non toxic methods/substitutes in regards to traditional materials, techniques and equipment.
- Recall and describe the four major printmaking processes, their visual properties, historical and contemporary significance.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $630 (includes technical skills fee of $25).
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $525.
NOTE A $250 deposit is required by students who intend on participating in the voluntary 2nd year field trip to New York.
French Language and Literature (FREN)
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.
NOTE Students who are fluent French speakers cannot enrol in this course, and will need to sign a solemn declaration to this effect at the start of the course.
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the essential grammar rules of the A2 proficiency level.
- Determine appropriate strategies to understand and respond to short written or audio documents relating to daily activities and common social situations.
- Write short, grammatically accurate texts which communicate ideas, opinions, and summarize information to solve common communicative problems.
- Communicate orally about familiar topics and express feelings, opinions, and desires, employing low-intermediate level vocabulary and grammatical concepts.
- Describe aspects of societies and cultures in French-speaking countries, especially with regards to interpersonal relationships, health and well-being, leisure activities and travelling, arts and media.
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
French Studies (FRST)
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.
Gender Studies (GNDS)
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
NOTE Film Screening: estimated cost $15.
Geography (GPHY)
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $30.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $30.
NOTE GPHY 105 is an option course and will not be a prerequisite for entry into GPHY Plans as are GPHY 101 and GPHY 102.
Geology (GEOL)
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
German (GRMN)
Global Development Studies (DEVS)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Students expand their world-views by considering diverse forms of knowledge and analytical perspectives that can help us understand contemporary global change and challenges.
- Students engage in critical thinking by using interdisciplinary perspectives to explain a wide range of case studies.
- Students reflect on the opportunities and challenges involved in producing and disseminating knowledge about the world, with a focus on the opportunities and challenges to cross-cultural communication.
- Communicate effectively in written and oral format, with a focus on writing for different audiences and effective discussion and presentation strategies.
- Students acquire the foundational breadth of knowledge to pursue more advanced courses in global engagement.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and explain social, political economic, and ecological axes of inequality in global development.
- Explain key themes in Canada’s role in global development.
- Apply critical thinking to case studies in class discussion and written assignments.
- Collaboratively develop and present strategies for addressing global problems.
- Communicate effectively in written and oral format, with a focus on classroom discussion and presentation strategies.
Greek (GREK)
Health Studies (HLTH)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize, define, and apply key concepts in public and population health.
- Critically analyze the social determinants of health in Canadian and global contexts.
- Identify policies and other interventions addressing the social determinants of health.
- Apply course concepts in the analysis of current health issues.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and explain terminology, concepts, and assumptions related to personal health and well-being.
- Evaluate and critically appraise information and resources relevant to personal health.
- Apply course content to one's own personal health practices.
Hebrew (HEBR)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Read Hebrew Script and Print with and without Nikud.
- Understand the relationship between noun and adjectives, nouns and verbs.
- Understand the basic structure of present tense verb system.
- Write, read and say basic sentences in Hebrew.
- Introduce and speak about oneself.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Enhance their ability to read and write Hebrew Script and Print with and without Nikud.
- Write in complete and complex sentences in script.
- Understand basic passages on a variety of topics.
- Affectively use present and past tense verbs.
- Affectively use prepositions and coordinators to create grammatical sentences.
- Count, calculate, and use both masculine and feminine numbers until 100.
History (HIST)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Interpret pre-Confederation Canadian history using analytical concepts, such as social formations, settler colonialism, decolonization and the ‘history of the present’.
- Analyze and discuss primary historical sources in seminars designed to develop transferrable skills in the critical analysis of a range of formats, including textual/artifactual, visual, and audio-visual.
- Develop the skills of active listening, notetaking, and synthesis of lectures in preparation for a final exam.
- Hone critical research and writing skills in relation to a term project comprising a proposal, annotated bibliography, and a research paper.
- Critique public representations of the past, identifying key issues in the relationship between the past and present, including presentism and the politics of historical representation.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a knowledge of and critically engage with the main themes of the post-Confederation Canadian past.
- Demonstrate an understanding of concepts such as the ‘history of the present’ and historical memory and counter-memory.
- Engage in seminar discussions aimed at analyzing and evaluating a range of primary historical sources.
- Conduct a term project that includes a research proposal, annotated bibliography, and paper, often organized around developing the skills of a book critique.
- Hone skills in the active listening, notetaking, and synthesis of lectures in preparation for a final exam.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the diverse processes, events, and ideologies that went into the making of modern Europe from ca. 1650 to ca. 1950.
- Demonstrate in discussion and written work their understanding of the course material and how political, economic, social, and cultural structures changed over the time period covered in this course.
- Develop critical reading skills and learn to analyze historical evidence and primary sources.
- Identify and synthesize arguments presented in course lectures and reading material coherently, precisely, and concisely.
- Practice and refine writing skills through written assignments and essay exams using material from course readings and lectures.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Study historical narratives thematically.
- Assess primary texts and learn to contextualize them within larger historical frameworks.
- Discover ancient cartographic projects and gain knowledge of global maps.
- Analyze ancient documents on food and agriculture.
- Develop critical thinking through interactive workshops.
- Acquire both popular and academic writing skills.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop an understanding of the social, economic, and political ramifications and consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
- Appreciate the histories of major wars and global revolutions as defining watershed moments and turning points in modern global history.
- Critically engage with primary sources and learn to construct historical narratives through a careful analysis of primary and secondary sources.
- Write historical essays of varying lengths and develop the skills necessary for constructing a thesis, empirical substantiation of the thesis, and appropriate citation practice.
- Acquire and hone the skills necessary to participate in seminar discussions, oral presentation of historical arguments, and engage in academic discussions in a group setting.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Attain an introductory foundation in European history.
- Develop critical reading skills and learn to analyze historical evidence and primary sources.
- Acquire and demonstrate persuasive writing skills.
- Debate the competing theories of historical analysis and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of historical methods.
- Develop and practice effective communication skills and develop improved capacity of oral presentations and debate.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire and demonstrate introductory knowledge of the political, intellectual, and cultural history of modern Europe.
- Develop and demonstrate understanding of historical methodology through critical analysis of primary and secondary sources.
- Develop and hone ability to read historical works and apply critical thinking skills in historical analysis.
- Demonstrate the ability to discuss and debate historical ideas and acquire and apply research skills to sharpen historical arguments.
- Acquire skills in persuasive writing styles and apply writing skills in historical analyses.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the broad contours of the field of European intellectual history.
- Develop critical reading skills by engaging with a variety of primary and secondary sources.
- Enhance written communication skills, such as persuasive writing by completing a variety of written assessments and engaging with instructor feedback.
- Display an improved capacity for oral presentation and debate.
- Engage with the historical methodology by determining historical significance; assessing and marshalling primary historical evidence; explaining continuity and change over time; identifying historical cause, consequence, and context.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the global processes that led to the emergence of the interconnected modern world.
- Identify the historical processes that co-constituted global societies in the last two millennia.
- Evaluate different kinds of historical sources, including textual, visual, aural, and multimodal sources, and adopt the ones best suited for historical analysis based on veracity and context.
- Acquire the ability to process historical information in lectures and seminars and develop the skill of forming evidence-based historical arguments and present them orally in a group setting.
- Practice persuasive historical writing in short and long-form essays.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the six key concepts of historical thinking: determine historical significance; assess and marshal primary historical evidence; explain continuity and change over time; identify historical cause, consequence, and context; deploy historical perspective and avoid presentism; identify ethical dimensions in the relationship between the past and present.
- Use historical analytical concepts, including social formations; historical memory and counter-memory; colonialism and decolonization; gender/race/class/sexuality.
- Critique public representations of history.
- Deploy historiographical skills: research secondary sources; place historical writing in historiographical context; critique academic historical writing. These skills will be part of the winter-term project.
- Hone critical writing skills: develop an argument, organize a paper, demonstrate the elements of style in relation to a paper proposal, annotated bibliography, book critique, and an essay.
- Develop skills in the critical analysis of historical sources. Seminars are designed as workshops to develop transferable skills in the critical analysis of primary documents and secondary readings.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and state the historical significance of major trends and milestones in European history during the 18th–21st centuries.
- Analyze issues and problems in European history in their historical context.
- Analyze primary and secondary sources on European history to acquire historiographical skills and understand the structure of historical arguments.
- Analyze and discuss historical problems in European history and develop the skills to identify the differences in historiographical schools of thought.
- Apply historical research methods to analyze historical sources and apply effective essay-writing to argue that analysis.
Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives (INDG)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe historical and cultural knowledge of various Indigenous groups in Canada.
- Apply elements of Indigenous ways of knowing to holistic learning in a supportive and intentional learning environment.
- Recognize Indigenous connections to the land and all of creation.
- Explore the diverse contributions of Indigenous people(s) in the academy on important contemporary issues.
- Engage in deep and sustained self-directed, inquiry-based learning.
- Develop appropriate strategies for engagement, solidarity, and allyship.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Use basic grammatical features in a variety of simple situations.
- Write using the language’s own orthography (writing system, letters, etc.).
- Accurately produce sounds and sound combinations in the Indigenous language.
- Communicate in everyday situations at the beginning level.
- Describe the connections between language and culture using examples from both.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Use basic grammatical features and vocabulary in a variety of simple situations.
- Communicate in a limited number of situations at the beginning level.
- Identify issues facing the community and examine various approaches taken in response.
- Examine socio-political factors impacting Indigenous language use in North America.
Interdisciplinary Studies (IDIS)
LEARNING HOURS may vary 120(48O;72P)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and analyze important people, events and trends that have influenced the development of five core subjects in the BHSc program (anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, population and global health) in order to understand what role technological developments and social values play in the construction and application of science.
- Identify relevant sources and carry out research using traditional and web-based resources
- Understand different perspectives on controversial issues in contemporary health science fields in order to critically assess them.
LEARNING HOURS 120(48O;72P)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Consolidate evidence across disciplines to describe the determinants of mental health, well-being, and resiliency in emergent adults, as well as factors associated with a successful transition to university and the realization of personal goals.
- Describe common stressors and risks encountered by emergent adults and the implications of mental health, well-being, and resiliency on success.
- Explain the early signs and symptoms of common mental health concerns, preventative strategies, available resources, and potential barriers to accessing supports in emergent adult populations.
- Reflect on the information covered in this course and how the information can be used to implement healthy choices that support well-being and resilience in students' own lives.
Inuktitut (INUK)
Italian (ITLN)
NOTE Also offered through the Venice Term Abroad Program. Learning Hours may vary.
Japanese (JAPN)
NOTE Students with previous knowledge of the language or who have studied Japanese will not be permitted to enrol.
Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the basic structural and functional characteristics of types of cells (e.g. neural, muscle), organs (e.g. blood vessels, lungs) and organ systems relevant to human movement.
- Accurately recite the conceptual framework of flow (both the equation for flow and the flow model) which will be used in this course to understand the underlying causal chain of events that constitute physiological function.
- Apply the conceptual framework of flow to predict how physiological systems adapt in response to a disturbance in the system (i.e. human movement).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Define concepts governing rigid-body motion, including kinematics, forces, and moments.
- Use Newtonian's Laws to write and solve equations of motion of rigid bodies.
- Use the mechanical principles of rigid body motion in the context of human movement to quantify forces, moments, and resulting motion of the body as a whole, as well as its individual segments.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Investigate the place of sport in contemporary North American society.
- Reflect on social and personal experiences of sport.
- Develop critical thinking skills question in order to question aspects of sport that are commonly taken-for-granted.
- Discuss sociological concepts and reasoning.
- Practice identifying and constructing arguments.
- Develop effective written and oral communication skills.
- Apply sociological thinking in analyses of social issues in sport.
- Identify relevant academic literature and forms of writing.
Language Acquisition (LANG)
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (LLCU)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Critical discussion of the concept of ‘culture’ and how it relates to other important terms and ideas (like language, race, nation, or ethnicity).
- Ability to reflect on how your own cultural context and experiences shape your expectations and daily life.
- Understand some of the ways that structures of politics and economics affect relations among cultures and cultural groups.
- Improve on academic skills including time management, communication with peers, and reading different types of texts.
Latin (LATN)
Liberal Studies (LIBS)
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Summarize the historical development of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences to identify the distinctions among the three disciplines.
- Explain each discipline’s approach to scholarly study to be able to evaluate each disciplinary approach.
- Articulate how each discipline relations to their own interest in study the liberal arts.
- Implement the process of gathering, assessing, interpreting information to write critically about a given topic.
- Demonstrate the ability to consider peers’ perspectives, to articular a clear message, and to communicate effectively.
Linguistics (LING)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe patterns involving words, sentences, and meaning in human languages, using standard linguistic terminology.
- Analyze data sets involving words, sentences, and meaning by applying the tools of generative linguistics.
- Compare similar linguistic phenomena across different languages.
- Relate linguistic phenomena involving words, sentences, or meaning to questions relating to language variation, and social aspects of language use.
- Identify predictions made by a particular structural analysis of language, and evaluate those predictions against further data.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe patterns of data in language using standard linguistic terminology.
- Analyze patterns of data (morphological, syntactic, and phonological) by applying the tools and theory introduced in class.
- Compare similar linguistic phenomena across different languages.
- Relate the description and analysis of a language to questions relating to language change, language acquisition, and social aspects of language use.
- Identify predictions made by a particular linguistic analysis, and evaluate those predictions against further data.
Mathematics (MATH)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the fundamental ideas of linear algebra, including linear systems, vector spaces, matrices, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, orthogonality, and diverse applications.
- Give rigorous mathematical proofs of basic theorems.
- Solve concrete problems in linear system, giving algorithmic solutions.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the above skills to complex problems (e.g., error correcting codes, dynamical systems, games on graphs and probability).
- Compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors and understand their utility.
- Manipulate matrix equations and compute their determinants and inverses.
- Solve systems of linear equations and visualize the related geometry.
- Visualize and express algebraically the geometry of lines and planes.
- Work with linear and affine transformations and relate them to matrices.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Use the ideas in the course fluently. Indicators of fluency include: using the ideas in a new situation; using the ideas in a different order or manner than they have been presented; constructing minor extensions and variations of the ideas.
- Write clear, clean, and well-reasoned mathematical arguments.
- Understand the standards for such arguments.
- Work through and solve more difficult problems, particularly those which may seem confusing at first and require time to digest and understand.
- Demonstrate mastery of the underlying concepts of the course: limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, convergence.
- Compute limits, derivatives, integrals, and infinite sums.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply differential and integral calculus procedures and techniques in technical problems.
- Extend the one-variable analysis to multi-variable functions.
- Work with a variety of standard models and applications, using the tools of calculus to gain new understanding.
- Communicate results in writing using appropriate mathematical format and notation.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand and perform the basic techniques of differential and integral calculus.
- Apply these techniques to solve problems in the areas of biology, physics, chemistry, economics, and social sciences.
- Solve basic problems in differential equations, multivariable differential calculus, and sequences and series.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply differential and integral calculus concepts and procedures in technical problems.
- Extend the one-variable analysis to multi-variable functions.
- Work with a variety of standard models and applications, using the tools of calculus to gain new understanding.
- Communicate results in writing using appropriate mathematical format and notation.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Use the ideas and methods of the differential and integral calculus to study living systems.
- Work with the basic functions of differential calculus, in particular the exponential and logarithm functions, and solve optimization problems.
- Work with the fundamental processes of integral calculus and differential equations.
- Work with multivariable functions, contour diagrams and phase-plane analysis.
- Work with probabilistic processes, and random variables in both discrete and continuous spaces, involving independent events and conditional probability.
Mohawk (MOHK)
NOTE Only offered in Tyendinaga.
NOTE Only offered in Tyendinaga
Music (MUSC)
NOTE Students will be registered into the course number that matches their current level of study (i.e., if a student is in their third year they will be registered in MUSC 300).
NOTE Collaborative Piano is strongly recommended for all piano and organ majors in the BMUS program.
LEARNING HOURS VARY.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe current and previous experiences of musical performances, in both historical and contemporary contexts, in order to inform performance practice.
- Describe their own performances with general descriptors of success and failure.
- Identify and reproduce performance gestures in order to collaborate and coordinate musical performance with other musicians.
- Show an awareness of present genres, styles, and performance traditions in order to identify appropriate professional conduct (such as rehearsal and concert etiquette) and methodologies.
- Successfully reproduce a given musical style, reformulate a collection of available ideas, and recognize connections between previous experience and current performance in order to create a new musical interpretation.
- Support a constructive team climate by treating other members with respect, maintaining positive attitude and interactions, and providing assistance and support for other team members in order to accomplish both regular rehearsal tasks and to create a successful final performance.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and discuss what music “is” (ontology) and what music “means” (hermeneutics) from a local and global perspective.
- Recognize, describe and discuss how musical activities link to identity, ritual, and social life in a variety of global and local contexts.
- Apply ideas of musical ontology, hermeneutics, and social function of various musics to current uses and practices of music.
- Reflect on individual musical meaning and practice in terms of creating, performing and listening to music.
- Describe and demonstrate culturally situated approaches to listening.
- Identify and use key terminology to describe a variety of musical practices and contexts.
- Identify, describe, and compare terminologies or elements across musical contexts, practices or genres.
- Develop and combine skills in researching and communicating about music and meaning for a variety of audiences.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and build scales and intervals, create progressions and cadences in order to analyze, possibly compose, and understand the basic structure of music.
- Learn to reproduce by singing and playing on a keyboard, the elements of music (scales, chords and intervals) that you have learned in order to reinforce what is written through sound.
- Memorize fundamental elements of musical notation such as the grand staff, notes in treble and bass clefs, accidentals, and note values/rests in order to read/write/perform simple printed music.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a vocabulary for describing music that can be applied in situations of musical performance, musical pedagogy, writing about music, concert attendance, and working with other musicians.
- Gain fluency and confidence in working with diatonic harmony and voice-leading as found in classical and popular music.
- Identify and analyze music appropriate to the course content, showing where applicable, how diatonic harmony and smooth voice-leading underlies this music.
- Master foundational concepts in rudiments and harmony, through written work, performance and/or listening, that can be applied in situations of composition, arranging, performing and/or improvising.
- Synthesize and apply foundational concepts of diatonic harmony by replicating their knowledge in a variety of musical situations.
NOTE Students will be registered into the course number that matches their current level of study. (i.e. if a student is in third year they will be registered in MUSC 312).
NOTE Purchase of Instrument (Ukulele): estimated cost $65.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a vocabulary for describing music that can be applied in situations of musical performance, musical pedagogy, writing about music, concert attendance, and working with other musicians.
- Gain fluency and confidence in working with diatonic harmony and voice-leading as found in classical and popular music.
- Identify and analyze music appropriate to the course content, showing where applicable, how diatonic harmony and smooth voice-leading underlies this music.
- Master foundational concepts in rudiments and harmony, through written work, performance and/or listening, that can be applied in situations of composition, arranging, performing and/or improvising.
- Synthesize and apply foundational concepts of diatonic harmony by replicating their knowledge in a variety of musical situations.
NOTE Students will be registered into the course number that matches their current level of study (i.e., if a student is in third year they will be registered in MUSC 315).
NOTE Please contact the DAN School for information about the audition requirements.
NOTE In addition to the regular tuition fee, students are charged an additional fee for private music lessons: estimated cost $800.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
- Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
- Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
- Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
- Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.
NOTE Please contact the DAN School for information about the audition requirements.
NOTE In addition to the regular tuition fee, students are charged an additional fee for private music lessons: estimated cost $800.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
- Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
- Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
- Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
- Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.
NOTE Students are invited to audition for this course based on exceptional performance ability in their BMUS entrance audition. Course auditions take place in early September and successful students are registered in MUSC 120 and MUSC 125 by the DAN School. An invitation to audition does not guarantee acceptance into this course. All decisions are final.
NOTE Students are required to attend twelve concerts per year (six per semester): estimated cost $60-$100. This can include free concerts.
NOTE Students are required to attend twelve concerts per year (six per semester): estimated cost $60-$100. This can include free concerts.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
- Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
- Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
- Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
- Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.
NOTE Students are required to attend twelve concerts per year (six per semester): estimated cost $60-$100. This can include free concerts.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
- Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
- Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
- Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
- Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.
NOTE Please contact the Dan School if you plan to change your MUSC 122 instrument/voice, or performance genre. Changes cannot be guaranteed.
NOTE Students are required to attend twelve concerts per year (six per semester): estimated cost $60-$100. This can include free concerts.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
- Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
- Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
- Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
- Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.
NOTE Please contact the DAN School for information about the audition requirements.
NOTE In addition to the regular tuition fee, students are charged an additional fee for private music lessons: estimated cost $1,600.
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Situate current audio practices in the historical context of the 20th century, including the adoption of sound analysis tools from military research, and attitudes toward environmental sound recording often governed by a 19th century “collector aesthetic” that in Canada can also be connected to other common extractive settler practices.
- Assess and explain the sonic qualities of everyday sound environments, in terms that can be applied to an understanding of sound mixes in postproduction.
- Identify the frequency of a tone or other sound with as much accuracy as possible.
- Analyze audio recordings in terms of amplitude, frequency and timbre.
- Listen for and address audio problems which require correction.
NOTE Students with RCM Grade 8 Theory or equivalent may request permission from the School to take the course.
NOTE Course content will support and coordinate with the traditional diatonic harmonic material covered in MUSC 192/193 but will also include other styles. Successful completion of the course will require a working fluency at the keyboard in sight-reading, melodic and harmonic analysis as well as transcription. Activities will include harmonization, transposition and improvisation.
NOTE Students require previous rudiments and piano experience to take this course.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Memorize basic diatonic harmonic progressions.
- Realization/harmonization in block chords of elementary figured (also unfigured) bass and/or melodic fragments based on the vocabulary and syntax of the above.
- Melody harmonization, transcription, and improvisation using simple accompanimental idioms.
- Prepared score reading of keyboard and orchestral excerpts.
- Sight-reading of single instrumental lines from orchestral scores employing treble, bass, alto clef, and/or tenor clefs as written or for use in transposition.
- Melodic analysis.
NOTE No prior experience with composition is required, but students must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the rudiments of music prior to enrolment.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of musical notation (both handwritten and computer-generated).
- Demonstrate the fundamentals of instrumental composition through the creation of new, original compositions -including the concepts of development and pacing, harmony, rhythm, texture and idiosyncratic instrumental capabilities.
- Develop a broad sense of the trends and developments of instrumental music in the Western tradition from the Medieval era to the present.
- Develop an understanding of concepts and terms associated with instrumental composition and performance - form, texture, harmony, colour, notation, ensemble, etc.
- Develop the time management and networking skills involved in conceiving, composing, securing performers, rehearsing and presenting a new musical composition.
- Gain experience with the process or workshopping new composition (both the students' own and work of others) collectively within a group.
NOTE No prior experience with composition is required, but students must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the rudiments of music prior to enrollment.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Create a portfolio of works for voice which demonstrates the fundamentals of vocal composition through the creation of new, original compositions - including compositional concepts such as development and pacing, harmony, rhythm, texture, and concepts specific to writing for voice such as setting text, working with vowels and consonants, supporting the voice harmonically and texturally, and writing for multiple voices.
- Demonstrate an understanding of musical notation and competency with computer notation and professional score presentation.
- Develop a broad sense of the trends and developments of vocal music in the Western tradition from the Medieval era to the present.
- Develop an understanding of concepts and terms associated with vocal composition and performance, e.g. tessitura, fach, passaggio, melisma, chest voice, head voice, etc.
- Develop the time management and networking skills involved in conceiving, composing, securing performers, rehearsing and presenting a new musical composition.
- Gain experience with the process of workshopping new compositions (both your own and others) collectively within a group.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Assess the sound reinforcement needs of a person or group, whether it is a primarily musical or theatrical occasion, and design a solution.
- Assess the acoustic properties of a performance space using ears or analysis tools (such as decibel or spectrum meters on phones) to identify problems that can be solved with creative use of EQ and microphone/speaker placement.
- Identify, describe and properly employ the features and functions of sound equipment including microphones, audio interfaces, mixers, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and analysis tools such as spectrum and decibel meters.
- Produce an event for a live band or ensemble which requires amplified presentation.
- Design, produce and deliver amplified sound elements for a live theatrical scene using a computer cueing system.
NOTE Students with substantial experience in creating music in a DAW can submit a portfolio of works to the School for entry directly into MUSC 159. Students with no previous experience in DAW production should enrol in MUSC 158.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate fluency in use of digital audio workstation software such as Ableton Live.
- Record and manipulate samples from existing audio sources in old and new formats from vinyl to MP3, including locating online sources of free and open-source samples.
- Create engaging beats that integrate a variety of timbres, textures and forms using sampled or synthesized sounds, in combination with complementary FX such as reverb and delay.
- Operate control surfaces and other MIDI devices for live performance handling of sampled and other electronic sounds.
- Understand the history of sampling cultures and describe ethical considerations for recording, selecting, or manipulating sounds.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate fluency in use of digital audio workstation software such as Ableton Live.
- Record and manipulate samples from existing audio sources in old and new formats from vinyl to MP3, including locating online sources of free and open-source samples.
- Create engaging beats that integrate a variety of timbres, textures and forms using sampled or synthesized sounds, in combination with complementary FX such as reverb and delay.
- Operate control surfaces and other MIDI devices for live performance handling of sampled and other electronic sounds.
- Understand the history of sampling cultures and describe ethical considerations for recording, selecting, or manipulating sounds.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Compare and contrast musical elements and intentions.
- Recall persons, events, and themes critical to the development of popular music.
- Recognise and define musical concepts and elements in popular songs.
- Understand the social, cultural and historical influences that shaped the musical genres covered in class.
- Understand Western popular music at the intersection of issues pertaining to race, gender, and class.
NOTE Students having received 80% or higher on a conservatory advanced rudiments exam may enrol in the course with permission of the School.
NOTE Students having received 80% or higher on a conservatory advanced rudiments exam may enrol in the course with permission of the School.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Master, through written work, foundational concepts in Western music theory’s practice of diatonic harmony in SATB chorale and keyboard textures.
- Identify and analyze common-practice era music, showing how diatonic harmony and smooth voice-leading underlies virtually all tonal music.
- Develop initial knowledge and applications of computer notation of music.
- Synthesize and apply foundational concepts in diatonic harmony by replicating their knowledge in a variety of musical situations.
- Synthesize and apply foundational concepts in diatonic harmony through composition and apply these concepts of creativity to other areas.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Master, through written work, more complex concepts of Western diatonic harmony in various musical textures and small forms, and expand and deepen this knowledge through modal counterpoint.
- Identify and analyze common-practice era music, showing how diatonic harmony and smooth voice-leading underlies virtually all tonal music and develop from principles of modal counterpoint .
- Practice and refine applications of computer notation of music.
- Synthesize and apply foundational concepts in diatonic harmony and modal counterpoint by replicating knowledge in a variety of musical situations.
- Synthesize and apply foundational concepts in diatonic harmony and modal counterpoint through composition and apply these concepts of creativity to other areas.
Music Theatre (MUTH)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recall chronological framework of aesthetic eras/ideas.
- Compare and differentiate these ideas in global perspective.
- Develop skills in critical thought, research, and writing to respond to different forms of art in historical perspective.
- Recognize how different forms of art reflect and reinforce social functions.
NOTE Also offered at the Bader International Studies Centre, Herstmonceux. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Compare and differentiate these ideas in global perspective.
- Demonstrate skills in critical thought, research, and writing to respond to different forms of art in historical perspective.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate these ideas.
- Recall chronological framework of aesthetic eras/ideas.
- Recognize how different forms of art reflect and reinforce social functions.
NOTE Placement is made at the discretion of the School based on an audition or other criteria.
NOTE Students will be registered into the course number that matches their current level of study. (i.e., if a student is in third year they will be registered in MUTH 360).
Pathology and Molecular Medicine (PATH)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Perform, observe, and interpret visualization of data from variety of sources.
- Apply skills acquired to critically evaluate and summarize data.
- Describe appropriate data visualization for diverse types of challenges.
- Collaborate and communicate an understanding of concepts and diverse perspectives in data science.
Also offered online.
LEARNING HOURS may vary 120(12L;36G;36O;36P)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Access the individual and population impacts of human disease by effectively researching major issues affecting changes in global health
- Apply the skills acquired to critically evaluate scientific literature on human disease
- Collaborate and communicate an understanding of the causes and implications of human disease including current and future management and treatments.
- Explain how different populations are differentially impacted by the same disease
- Identify and describe mechanisms underlying human disease and be able to recognize potential origins of human disease states
Pharmacology and Toxicology (PHAR)
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply learned knowledge of the essential elements of a phase 3 clinical trial to design a hypothetical clinical trial for a new drug to treat a specific disease or condition. (PLO 4, 8; Assessment 1)
- Describe the mechanism of action and physiological effects of classes of drugs to be able to summarize the reason(s) for their use and abuse in society. (PLO 4, 6; Assessments 2-5)
- Discuss the pharmacological principles of drug abuse to advocate for healthy and appropriate drug use. (PLO 4, 6; Assessment 2)
- Effectively discuss and apply relevant pharmacological principles within a group to successfully complete collaborative assignments. (PLO 4; Assessments 1, 2)
Philosophy (PHIL)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Physics (PHYS)
NOTE Also offered at the Bader College, UK. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the information contained in various hypothetical problem scenarios within the context of recognizable physics laws and apply systematic problem-solving strategies to solve for unknown quantities.
- Identify and interpret the laws of nature as summarized by the fundamental concepts that constitute the foundation of classical physics.
- Interpret and apply basic experiment methodologies designed to test fundamental concepts through direct observation.
- Quantitatively analyze measurement results with effective evaluation of experimental uncertainties.
- Relate nature's basic laws describing forces, motion, energy, momentum, thermodynamics, and the conservation rules that constrain these laws to real world applications.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the information contained in various hypothetical problem scenarios within the context of recognizable physics laws and apply systematic problem-solving strategies to solve for unknown quantities.
- Identify and interpret the laws of nature as summarized by the fundamental concepts that constitute the foundation of classical physics.
- Interpret and apply basic experiment methodologies designed to test fundamental concepts through direct observation.
- Quantitatively analyze measurement results with effective evaluation of experimental uncertainties.
- Relate nature's basic laws describing forces, motion, energy, waves, electromagnetism, optics, and the conservation rules that constrain these laws to real world applications.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Students will apply nature's basic laws describing forces and motion, energy and momentum, and the conservation rules that constrain these laws to real world applications.
- Students will be able to analyze the information contained in various problem scenarios within the context of recognizable physics laws and utilize systematic problem-solving strategies to solve for unknown quantities.
- Students will be able to identify and interpret the laws of nature as summarized by the fundamental concepts that constitute the foundations of classical physics.
Physiology (PHGY)
NOTE Also offered online. Consult the Bachelor of Health Sciences program office. Learning Hours may vary.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and describe basic cellular components to be able to characterize their roles in the structure and function of human cells (PLO 1,3; Assessment 1-5)
- Integrate a basic understanding of cellular processes to articulate how human cells interact with their environment (PLO 1,3; Assessment 1-5)
- Recognize key principles of human cell function in order to understand the cellular basis of health and disease (PLO 1,3; Assessment 1-5)
- Understand how cells, tissues, organs and systems work together in order identify and explain the mechanisms through which the body maintains homeostasis.
Political Studies (POLS)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply political science concepts such as power, and authority to contemporary political issues.
- Develop and practice critical skills in writing, reading, and political analysis.
- Differentiate between different actors, institutions, and parties and their role in political decision making.
- Understand how political decisions are made in different contexts.
NOTE POLS 111 and POLS 112 together, are equivalent to POLS 110/6.0*.
NOTE Also offered online; consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Master important concepts in political science and apply them to institutions and the practice of politics.
- Understand how concepts in political science can be applied to contemporary political issues.
- Develop critical analysis in reading and writing by analyzing journal articles, chapters, and articles.
- Begin mastering skills such as time management, argumentative writing, and active engagement in tutorials.
NOTE POLS 111 and POLS 112 together, are equivalent to POLS 110/6.0*.
NOTE Also offered online; consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Learn key concepts and debates in politics and political science.
- Develop critical analysis in reading and writing by analyzing journal articles, chapters, and articles.
- Develop skills in time management, argumentative writing, and active engagement in tutorials.
Portuguese (PORT)
Psychology (PSYC)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at Bader College, UK (Learning Hours may vary).
Religious Studies (RELS)
NOTE RELS 132 and RELS 133 together, are equivalent to RELS 131.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a definition of religion that recognizes the diversity of religious traditions.
- Identify the world’s religious traditions within their global and cultural context.
- Critically analyze contemporary religious issues in their historical roots.
- Communicate their critical thinking through research and writing.
NOTE RELS 132 and RELS 133 together, are equivalent to RELS 131.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a definition of religion that recognizes the diversity of religious traditions.
- Identify the world’s religious traditions within their global and cultural context.
- Critically analyze contemporary religious issues in their historical roots.
- Communicate their critical thinking through research and writing.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze how religion can be presented in films.
- Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the basic terminology and concepts for the academic study of religion; demonstrate comprehension of different analytical methods that can be used in the interpretation of religion in film.
- Evaluate how a film's use of religion reflects and/or creates worldviews.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Engage with the complexity of relationships between religion and science using the methods and theories of religious studies.
- Examine the form and functions of a variety of stories about religion and science that people have told themselves across different places and times.
- Formulate research questions about religion and science and analyze the significance of these research questions for public life and academic conversations.
- Identify some key concepts, issues, and debates going on in the study of religion and science.
- Practice your scholarly writing and conversation skills.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Closely read and critically evaluate media depictions of religion.
- Describe how the advent of new media have changed religious practice.
- Recognize how news media create and shape discourses about religion.
- Write a cogent, critical analysis of news media engaging with religion.
Sociology (SOCY)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Spanish (SPAN)
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at the Bader International Studies Centre, Herstmonceux (Learning Hours may vary).
NOTE Also offered at the Bader International Studies Centre, Herstmonceux (Learning Hours may vary).
Statistics (STAT)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Work with critical concepts, tools, techniques, and skills in computer programming, statistical inference/learning and machine learning.
- Use visualization to understand data.
- Work with the computational tools and practices for summary, analysis, and visualization of data.
- Analyze real data sets and communicate their results.
- Have a basic understanding of the implications and tools of data collection.
Visual Art (ARTV)
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $157.50.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate through practice foundational and/or exploratory techniques in range of media.
- Apply the elements and principles of art to create a portfolio of studio work.
- Identify and analyze how elements and principles of art are used in contemporary and historical works using discipline and medium specific vocabulary.
- Synthesize the fundamental technical and theoretical skills to explore intuition and expressive possibilities.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $157.50.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the relationship between the materials, form, and concept(s) of historical and contemporary artworks in a range of media, including non-western and western forms.
- Make connections between the meaning of works of art and the broader social world by discussing how production and reception are shaped by diverse cultural perspectives, historical contexts, social and political issues, and/or geographic locations.
- Develop, implement, and explain informed and reflective concepts for their own works of art.
- Apply knowledge of artistic materials, processes, and formal visual elements to create meaning through their own works of art/artistic practice.
Writing (WRIT)
NOTE Only offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the importance of purpose, audience, and tone and their use in various contexts
- Identify and correct errors in sentence structure and grammar to effectively edit own and others' writing
- Participate in a writing community through forums that foster independent, peer, and collaborative writing skills to become a more intentional communicator
- Practice writing in different styles and formats to meet the needs and expectations of academic and professional audiences
- Recognize the iterative nature of the writing process and use effective strategies to revise own writing
- Use active reading and thinking strategies to engage analytically with a text
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze writing to identify argumentative strategies and assess how effective they are.
- Apply strategies to revise, edit, and proofread writing to make it more polished and clearer.
- Assess research material and use documentation techniques to integrate source material effectively into own writing.
- Identify the basic parts of the academic essay and use them effectively in essay-writing.
- Interpret and apply feedback from peers, TAs, and instructor to own writing to make it more persuasive, coherent, and clear.
- Recognize common grammar and style errors and how to correct them.