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TAXATION (TAXX)
Introduction to Income Taxation
3 - Applied Studies
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
or
ViTAL Electronic Classroom
This course examines the Canadian income tax system including its purpose and administration. The principles of taxation are emphasized using economics and public finance theory. The calculation of income for tax purposes is examined in detail and the procedures used to calculate personal and corporate taxable income in common situations are presented.
Prerequisite: none. ACCT 253 and ECON 247 are recommended.
Note: The American version of this course is TAXX 302.
WOMEN’S STUDIES (WMST)
Perspectives on Women: An Introduction to Women’s Studies
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
or
Paced Study
This course examines the questions that women’s studies raise about many academic disciplines and teaches how to seek out and use the ever-increasing research on women’s experience. Topics explored include theories of human origins, the
history and sociology of women and work, the acquisition
of gender identity, gender and communication, and women
in popular culture.
Women: Psychology, Sociology, and Feminist Thought
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This course uses feminist analysis to increase understanding of women’s lives in contemporary patriarchal, capitalist society. Topics addressed include the women’s movement and its impact; the dynamics of social power; women’s labour; and feminist counselling as a legitimate alternative for healing and change.
Communication Skills: Feminist Practice
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This is an introduction to communications skills from a feminist counselling perspective. This course emphasizes communications as a process, how we communicate rather than what we say. Experiential exercises will help participants practise communication skills and develop their own personal style of counselling.
Prerequisite: WMST 300
Issues in Women’s Health
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
WMST 303 allows students to examine and apply a feminist analysis to issues in women’s health. Specific issues such as premenstrual syndrome, contraception, childbirth, reproductive technologies, estrogen replacement therapy, breast cancer, Candidiasis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and workplace hazards are explored within a framework that seeks to explain why women have little control over their health. An overview of the history of health care is provided, and the forces shaping the nature of modern medicine are identified.
Feminist Approaches to Counselling Women
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This course examines the application of feminist counselling to crisis intervention and specific women’s issues; to develop strategies for positive action; and to explore ethical issues. The emphasis is on skill development. Teaching methods used include demonstrations, experiential exercises, lectures, readings, and discussions.
Prerequisite: WMST 302
Special Issues in Counselling Women
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This course examines how social categories such as race, age, class, sexual orientation, and physical ability can be a source of women’s power or factors in their oppression. It also considers how women’s beliefs, attitudes, and socialization affect their counselling practice. Separation of the counsellor’s personal issues from the counselling relationship is addressed.
Prerequisite: WMST 310
Feminism in the Western Tradition
3 - Humanities
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This course deals with selected aspects of feminist thought and feminist movements in the Western tradition from the 1790s to the 1940s. Its topics include various debates about the meaning of feminism, and feminist critiques of, and attempts to change, the social order in particular times and places.
The course has six general themes:
- feminism: every woman’s heritage?
- the struggle for full citizenship;
- bread and roses;
- man-made religion;
- institutionalized sexuality;
- women and (men’s?) wars.
Prerequisite: none. WMST 267 is strongly recommended.
Contemporary Feminist Theory
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
WMST 401 focuses on the theoretical basis of programs, policies, and research for and about women. It introduces students to feminist theory published in Canada and the United States in the last two decades. Students will have the opportunity to; a) learn about feminist theory which has had an impact on the academic discipline of Women’s Studies; b) critically assess this theory; c) examine the way feminist theory is used in the women’s movement; and d) think and write using a feminist theoretical approach and/or an approach which is critical of feminism.
Prerequisite: none. WMST 267 is strongly recommended.
Women, Violence, and Social Change
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
WMST 422 provides definitions and explanations for male violence against women, as well as information on ways to end the violence.
Prerequisite: none. WMST 267 is strongly recommended.
Feminist Research Methodology
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This course is about feminist epistemology, feminist research methodology, and feminist research methods. Students will have the opportunity to;
- learn about various defining features of feminist research;
- familiarize themselves with the problems associated with sexist research;
- read and evaluate examples of nonsexist and feminist research; and
- identify a research question, choose a feminist method by which to answer this question, collect information using this method, and evaluate each of these procedures.
Prerequisite: none. WMST 267 is strongly recommended.
Special Projects in Women’s Studies I
3 - Humanities
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This special projects course is designed through consultation between the professor and the student. It will include a significant component of advanced and more theoretical reading. A major written piece of work will generally be required with its form being dependent on the focus of the work. Students are responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials.
Prerequisite: This course is normally taken after successful completion of the Women’s Studies core courses or their equivalent. Permission of the supervising course professor is necessary.
Special Projects in Women’s Studies II
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This special projects course, like WMST 465, is designed through consultation between professor and student. It will include a significant component of applied theory or research. A major written piece of work will generally be required with its form being dependent upon the focus of the work. Students are responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials.
Prerequisite: This course is normally taken only after successful completion of the Women’s Studies core courses or their equivalent. Permission of the supervising course professor is necessary.
Special Projects in Women’s Studies III
3 - Humanities
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This special projects course is designed through consultation between professor and student. It will include a significant component of applied theory or research. A major written piece of work will generally be required with its form being dependent upon the focus of the work. Students are responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials.
Prerequisite: This course is normally taken after successful completion of the Women’s Studies core courses or their equivalent. Permission of the supervising course professor is necessary.
Special Projects in Women’s Studies IV
3 - Social Science
- Method of Delivery:
Home Study
This special projects course is designed through consultation between the professor and the student. It will include a significant component of advanced and more theoretical reading. A major written piece of work will generally be required with its form being dependent on the focus of the work. Students are responsible for obtaining access to all necessary materials.
Prerequisite: This course is normally taken after successful completion of the Women’s Studies core courses or their equivalent. Permission of the supervising course professor is necessary.
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