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HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (HADM)
HADM 315
Health and Community Development
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course examines the theory and practice of community development (CD). It
identifies CD concepts and principles and assesses their effectiveness when
applied to the design and implementation of social, economic, and health
programs or projects in Canadian Native communities. The course also brings a
comparative perspective to the analysis and evaluation of CD process or practice
undertaken in Asia
and Africa.
HADM 326
Health and Healing
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course examines health and healing issues from a multidisciplinary
perspective. Conceptual tools and theories from the fields of medical ecology,
cultural anthropology, history, and epidemiology are integrated to provide a
comprehensive survey of health issues. Healing systems such as herbal healing,
Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and scientific medicine are compared along
with medical plurism and holistic health care.
HADM 336
Community Health Planning
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course involves a systematic examination of the health status of the
population: What are the common illnesses affecting the general population and
how can we minimize them through community action? This course examines the
major communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases. It also examines food
and nutrition, health care and the elderly, environmental health and
occupational health and safety. It concludes with a community health planning
model with strategies, program design, and target population.
HADM 339
The Organization of the Canadian Health Care System
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course examines the development and organization of health care in Canada
with special emphasis on federal and provincial jurisdiction on health, the
Canada Health Act, health care insurance, and the health care of Native people
in Canada. The course also examines the quality of health care, costs of health
and medical care, and current issues in
health care.
HADM 369
Health Policy in Canada
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: Health care background or permission of the professor.
This course is designed for students from a wide variety of backgrounds: health
services, administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and clinicians. It
provides in-depth discussion concerning the key political and administrative
decision-making processes of the Canadian health systems. Particular emphasis
is placed on the health policy development process and the issues associated to
the welfare state.
HADM 379
Introduction to Epidemiology
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: Health care background or permission of the professor.
This introductory course in epidemiology provides an analysis of the
epidemiologic approach to problems of health and disease. The basis principles
and methods of epidemiology are presented in three sections of this course. The
sections are designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of
epidemiologic methods and study design and the place of epidemiology in
preventive and clinical medicine. This course is designed for students from a
wide variety of backgrounds: health services, administrators, policymakers,
practitioners, and clinicians.
HEALTH STUDIES (HLST)
HLST 200
Introduction to Human Health (I)
3Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component; or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HLST 200 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HLTH 200.
This course is designed to provide a broad overview of the field of health and
is well-suited for the general interest student and non-science student
requiring a credit in science. Accordingly, the course is wide ranging in its
coverage of health issues rather than going into topics in depth. It emphasizes
the major aspects of health and of health-related areas that are of concern to
people in Canada. The course explores the nature and causes of the major health
problems and how these can be treated and prevented.
HLST 301
Alternative Therapies
3Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: HLST 200 or equivalent
This course explores alternative therapies currently available in Canada
that are not normally considered to be part of conventional health
care. Areas covered include acupuncture, homeopathy, diet therapy,
Native healing, herbalism, and chiropractic. The purpose of this course
is to help you understand the nature and practice of various alternative
therapies, analyse research available to demonstrate the effectiveness
of these therapies, and to identify the trends and issues related to the
use of alternative therapies. After completing this course, you should
be able to evaluate the risks and benefits of using particular
alternative therapies.
HLST 320
Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HLST 320 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for APST 382 or HLST 482.
HLST 320 introduces the student to learning theories and a four-step instructional design model for health teaching. Students will distinguish between teacher-directed and self-directed approaches to learning and will apply principles of teaching and learning in systematically addressing diverse health-related learning needs across the life span.
HISTORY (HIST)
HIST 215
Europe: Medieval to Modern
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded courses: HIST 215 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already
been obtained for HIST 214 and HIST 314.
This telecourse is designed to introduce distance learning students to the study
of European history at the university level. The course surveys the most
significant political, economic, social, religious, and intellectual trends in
European history from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. The purpose of
the course is to provide a description and an explanation of the forces that
shaped the birth of the modern world during the so-called Early Modern era.
HIST 216
Modern Europe, 1740-1940: An Introduction
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 is strongly recommended but not required.
Precluded courses: HIST 216 may not be taken for credit if credit has already
been obtained for HIST 214 or HIST 314.
This telecourse surveys the history of modern Europe from 1740 to 1940. It
begins by examining the main characteristics of European society during the
second half of the eighteenth century, and studies the impact on Europe of the
Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Much of the course concentrates on the
development of European civilization during the nineteenth century, and on the
contributions to this process made by such movements as nationalism, romanticism,
liberalism, republicanism, and socialism.
HIST 224
History of Canada to 1867
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HIST 224 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 218.
This course provides a broad overview of political and social developments on
the territory of today's Canada in the period before Confederation. Beginning
with the societies of Canada's first nations, the course focuses on the ways
different groups have shaped viable communities in the northern half of North
America. Apart from outlining the major political developments before 1867, the
course analyses each region in different periods to assess social structure,
gender roles, religious beliefs, ethnic conflicts, sexual mores, and cultural
values.
HIST 225
Canadian History: 1867 to the Present
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: Students planning to take both HIST 224 and HIST 225 should take
HIST 224 first.
This course provides a broad overview of political and social developments in
Canada since Confederation. It introduces the major issues and events of the
post-Confederation period, but it places equal focus on everyday life in
different periods and places. Meant to be an introduction to more specialized
courses in Canadian history, this course emphasizes region, gender, ethnicity,
and social class as determinants of the experiences of Canadians in the various
periods studied.
HIST 304
Historic England I: Land and Peoples
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
This course explores the development of English society from the pre-Roman era
to 1714. It focuses on the transformation of the English landscape, on the
growth of villages and towns, on the evolution of architectural styles, and on
the everyday lives of the ordinary men and women who worked the land, laboured
at crafts, and raised families in this pre-industrial world. Special emphasis is
given to studying the physical remains of early England: stone circles at
Avebury and Stonehenge; Roman walls, forts, villas, and baths; medieval castles,
manor houses, churches, and cathedrals; and Tudor and Stuart country houses and
palaces.
HIST 305
Historic England II: Politics and Religion
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 304.
HIST 305 is designed as a sequel to HIST 304. Covering approximately the same
time period, this course focuses on the political, religious, and intellectual
history of England from the Roman era to 1714. The first part of the course
explores Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, and the era of the Danelaw. The
second deals with the Norman Conquest, the Angevin empire, and the time of the
War of the Roses. The last part spans the Tudor and Stuart periods, paying
particular attention to the English Reformation, the Elizabethan Renaissance,
and the revolutions of the seventeenth century.
HIST 326
Contemporary Canada: Canada After 1945
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 225 is recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HIST 326 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 426.
This course surveys the social and political changes that have shaped modern
Canada. It examines the impact of the "baby boom" and the Cold War on Canadian
social values and institutions, exploring the changes in attitude of Canadians
from 1945 onwards to gender roles, race relations, the role of the state, and
relations with the United States. Course materials focus on clashes in various
periods between conservative forces in Canadian society and new social movements,
including the women's movement and the movements of First Nations, visible
minorities, and gays. Class and regional divisions are also explored.
HIST 327
Imperial Russia
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 215 is recommended but not required.
Imperial Russia surveys the sweep of Russian history from its beginnings in the
Viking kingdom of Kievan Rus through the Mongol invasion, the creation of a
Russian nation state, the notorious "Time of Troubles," the impact of Peter the
Great, the expansion of the Russian empire and the reign of the reformist Tsar
Alexander II to the stormy revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The main goal of this
course is to trace the gradual emergence and self-definition of this society and
its distinctive culture from the Middle Ages to the birth of the USSR.
HIST 329
The Social History of Canada
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Credit in at least one history course is recommended but not
required.
This course examines the country's history by tracing the way in which
particular societies were constructed and how they changed over time. The units
of the course look at specific societies, beginning with Native society at the
time of the first contact with Europeans. The field of social history has
expanded dramatically in recent years, and the course offers representative
selections of the new literature in each unit.
HIST 336
History of Canadian Labour
6Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component. e-Class®.
Prerequisite: LBST 200 or LBST 202 is recommended but not required.
This course is designed to provide students with an extensive and detailed
investigation of Canadian labour and working-class history. The units cover the
period from 1800 to 1991. In the course students read an overview of Canadian
working-class history, read a collection of articles on various aspects of
working-class and labour history, and view videos about recent labour history.
There are no examinations.
HIST 338
History of the Canadian West
6Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 224 or HIST 225 is recommended but not required.
Have the Prairie provinces and British Columbia achieved a fair deal within
Confederation? Are the common complaints of people in the West the product of
central Canadian neglect or of exploitation by powerful regional interests? This
course provides a comprehensive view of regional development from the days of
Aboriginal occupation to the days of oil and forestry wealth. Along the way we
view the impact of radical farm and labour politics, and memories of the
Depression on the Western cultural and political psyche.
HIST 361
History of French Canada: 1867 to the Present
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 225 is strongly recommended but not required.
Téluq Equivalency: HIS 1071/1072.
This course provides students with a solid background on the evolution of
Francophone Canada since Confederation. It explores the contradictory forces of
pan-Canadian Francophone nationalism on the one hand, and Quebec nationalism on
the other, assessing why and how one, then the other, has become a dominant
ideology. An attempt will be made to explore the experience of Francophones
inside and outside Quebec. Students can do their assignments in either official
language.
HIST 363
The Women's West: Women and Canadian Frontier Settlement
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HIST 363 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 325.
HIST 363 surveys a number of issues within the overall theme of women and
Western Canadian settlement frontiers. The course contains three units exploring,
in turn, Native women on the white frontier, white women on the western plains,
and other frontiers-pioneers, reformers, and renegades.
HIST 364
Women and the Family in Urban Canada, 1880s-1940s
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HIST 364 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 325.
This course draws on the work of some of Canada's leading family and women's
historians to explore selected issues within the overall theme of women's and
family history. The course contains three units exploring, in turn, the
intersection of daily life and paid labour for working-class women, women and
children living on the margins of society, and the images and the realities of
women and the home.
HIST 367
World War II
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: None. HIST 216 or HIST 264 is recommended but not required.
This course is intended to provide a fuller understanding of the events and
attitudes of the war years and of some of the arguments that are still very much
alive concerning what really happened in that vital decade, 1937 to 1947. World
War II still affects our lives. The division of much of the world into two armed
camps, one dominated by the United States and the other by the Soviet Union, was
to a large extent the consequence of actions and decisions made during the
decade 1937 to 1947. Moreover, World War II directly affected the lives of many
of us through family deaths, marriage, or other fundamental changes resulting
from the upheaval.
HIST 371
The Medieval World I: The Early Middle Ages
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HIST 371 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 302.
This course surveys over five hundred years in the history of Western
civilization from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the eve of the
"twelfth-century Renaissance." Rather than studying the details of political
history, students will focus on the enduring legacy of early medieval
societythe religious, political, and legal institutions and structures, and the
great works of art, architecture, poetry, and theology created during these
centuries.
HIST 372
The Medieval World II: The High Middle Ages
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 371 is strongly recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HIST 372 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 302.
Among the topics covered in this course are the economic and political
transformations of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the flowering of learning
and culture during this same period, the highlights of Christian thought from
Peter Abelard to
St. Thomas Aquinas, and the problems and achievements of the High Middle Ages.
Rather than studying the details of political history, students will focus on
the enduring legacy
of medieval societythe great works of art, architecture, poetry, political
theory, theology, and philosophy produced during this formative period in the
development of modern Western culture.
HIST 373
The Renaissance
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded courses: HIST 373 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already
been obtained for HIST 300 and HIST 303.
After surveying the state of Western Europe in the fourteenth centurya time of
devastating economic catastrophe, social upheaval, and religious
controversythis course focuses on Italy, the heartland of the Renaissance, a
country that was fragmented politically and often torn by severe social conflict
yet led the economic and cultural recovery of Europe in the fifteenth century.
The course examines, in turn, all the main aspects of the Italian Renaissance:
the vibrant political and social life of the Italian city states, the growth and
impact of the humanist movement, the writings of leading poets, philosophers,
and political theorists, and the flourishing art and architecture created by
Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and others.
HIST 374
The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 373 is strongly recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HIST 374 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 303.
This course explores questions historians have asked about
the economic, political, and intellectual life of sixteenth-century Europe. It
examines, for example, the Renaissance explorers' discoveries and activities in
the
New World, the impact of American gold and silver on European society, the
spread of the humanist movement to
the countries of Northern Europe, the seminal writings of such writers as
Desiderus Erasmus and Thomas More, and the explosion of the Protestant
Reformation.
HIST 380
Twentieth-Century United States
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HIST 380 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 379.
This course outlines major themes and events in the history of the United States
during the twentieth century when the United States became the world's dominant
economic and military power. It focuses on the impact of this global reach on
the peoples of the United States. Although the course deals with major political
developments in the United States, it is equally concerned with popular or
social history.
HIST 404
Historical Foundations of Modern Science
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HUMN 202 is strongly recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HIST 404 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for SCIE 350.
This course addresses, among other issues, whether modern science owes any
intellectual debts to the philosopher-scientists of Classical or Hellenistic
Greece. Also examined is the work of Galileo Galilei and other pioneer
scientists in the seventeenth century including Bacon, Gilbert, Harvey, and
Descartes. The final unit of the course is devoted to an important issue that
has proved very controversial among historians of science: the contribution of
women to the evolution of scientific thought.
HIST 407
The Enlightenment
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: It is strongly recommended that students have previous
university-level history studies experience before registering. HIST 407 is
designed primarily for students in the last year of the BA major in History.
Precluded course: HIST 407 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 405.
This course examines the intellectual history of eighteenth-century Europe in
the context of its social and political history drawing upon the writings of
leading historians of the subject as well as examining the works of leading
French, German, and British thinkers from the period. It is divided into three
parts: 1) an overview of European political, social, intellectual, and cultural
life in the seven decades before the outbreak of the French Revolution; 2) an
introduction, interpretation, and analysis of the Enlightenment, relying mainly
on the work of one of the leading historians of this intellectual movement,
Peter Gay; and 3) the examination of Enlightenment thought using a wide variety
of primary sources.
HIST 426
Contemporary Canada: Canada After 1945
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 225 is recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HIST 426 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 326.
This course surveys the social and political changes that have shaped modern
Canada. It examines the impact of the "baby boom" and the Cold War on Canadian
social values and institutions, exploring the changes in attitude of Canadians
from 1945 onwards to gender roles, race relations, the role of the state, and
relations with the United States. Course materials focus on clashes in various
periods between conservative forces in Canadian society and new social movements,
including the women's movement and the movements of First Nations, visible
minorities, and gays.
HIST 455
Canada and the Bomb: Canada and the World in the Cold War
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 225 is strongly recommended but not required.
This course examines a range of issues in Canadian foreign policy since 1945. It
examines Canada's response to the unleashing of the atom's destructive power and
the intense divisions between the two superpowers with the greatest control over
that power. Among issues discussed are the range of official and private citizen
attitudes to nuclear and conventional warfare, the Canadian armaments industry,
Canada's role in the Vietnam War, and Canadian participation in NATO and NORAD.
HIST 470
Pre-Industrial Origins of Labour and Socialist Thought
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: It is strongly recommended that students have credit in either LBST 200 or a university-level history course. HIST 470 is designed
primarily for students in the last stage of a BA major in History or Labour
Studies.
Precluded course: HIST 470 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 400.
This is an advanced level course designed for students who wish to begin an
in-depth study of the history of socialist thought and the goals and fortunes of
the European labour movement before the twentieth century. Among the topics
treated in the course are the beginnings of socialist thought in ancient Israel
and ancient Greece, Christian social thought under the Roman Empire and in the
Middle Ages, Renaissance utopianism, and the contribution of the Reformation to
religious communitarianism.
HIST 471
Labour and Socialist Thought in the Early Industrial Revolution, 1800-1850
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: It is strongly recommended that students have credit in HIST 470,
to which this course is a sequel. HIST 471 is designed primarily for students in
the last stage of BA major in History or Labour Studies.
Precluded course: HIST 471 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 400.
This is an advanced level course designed primarily for students who have
already completed HIST 470, and who wish to study in more detail the goals and
fortunes of the European labour movement before the twentieth century. The
course examines both the ideas of leading socialist intellectuals and the
attitudes and values of rank-and-file members of the labour movement.
HIST 472
Labour and Socialist Thought in the Later Industrial Revolution, 1850-1917
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HIST 471. HIST 472 is a sequel to HIST 471 and is primarily
intended for students in the last stage of a BA major in History or Labour
Studies.
Precluded course: HIST 472 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HIST 400.
This is an advanced level course designed for students who have already
completed HIST 471, and who wish to continue to study in depth the goals and
fortunes of the European labour movement before the twentieth century. The
course examines both the ideas of leading socialist intellectuals and the
attitudes and values of rank-and-file members of the labour movement. It thereby
attempts to combine a traditional approach to the history of ideas with the
newer study of working-class popular culture.
HIST 486
The Industrial Revolution
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Credit in at least one history course is recommended but not
required.
This course introduces you to the events that form the background of modern
technology and industry, examining the history of the Industrial Revolution and
its effects on the peoplethose who worked in the new factories and the mines.
Did humanity's ability to produce a wide range of commodities suddenly mushroom
in the nineteenth century? Or was the change really that dramatic, or more
gradual? These are some of the questions addressed in this course.
HIST 491
Directed Studies in History I
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the professor.
HIST 491 offers an opportunity for students to pursue an extended research
project under the direction of a course professor. The course of study will
normally include extensive library research. With the course professor, students
develop a study and/or research proposal indicating the goals of study,
procedure for evaluation, and the time to completion. A major discussion paper
and comprehensive bibliography will be expected in partial fulfilment of the
course requirements.
HIST 499
The History of the Family in Western Europe: From the Middle Ages to the
Industrial Revolution
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Credit in at least one history course is recommended but not
required.
This course traces the changes that have occurred in family life in western
Europe from the Middle Ages to the industrial era. The course examines the
functions of the family, relationships within the family, the family as an
economic unit, and how these areas were affected by historical events.
HUMANITIES (HUMN)
HUMN 201
Western Culture I: Before the Reformation
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: This course is intended as a foundation course for Bachelor of Arts
and Bachelor of General Studies students, and is designed for learners with
little or no previous university experience. It provides a good starting place
for new students intending to study history, literature, philosophy, or other
aspects of the humanities.
This is the first of two, three-credit telecourses that together survey the
development of Western civilization from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia and
Egypt to the complicated and sophisticated world of the post-industrial era.
Although the course employs an historical framework, its overall approach is
inter-disciplinary, drawing upon the findings of archaeologists, classical
scholars, theologians, art historians, literary critics, and philosophers as
well as historians of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
HUMN 202
Western Culture II: Since the Reformation
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: HUMN 201 is strongly recommended but not required. This course is intended as a foundation course for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of General Studies students, and is designed for learners with little or no previous university experience. It provides a good starting place for new students intending to study history, literature, philosophy, or other aspects of the humanities.
This is the second of two, three-credit telecourses (following HUMN 201) that
surveys the development of Western civilization. It discusses the most important
artistic and scientific developments in the post-industrial age from an
historical framework.
HUMN 285
History of Popular Music I: Blues to Big Bands, 1900-1940
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with audio component.
Prerequisite: None.
HUMN 285 is the first of two, 3-credit courses that together, survey the history
of North American popular music from the ragtime era to the end of the 1960s.
This course concentrates on the period between the two world wars and takes the
story of popular music up to the swing era of the late 1930s. An attempt is made
both to examine the evolution of musical styles and to place such musical forms
as blues, jazz, and hillbilly music in their social contexts.
HUMN 286
History of Popular Music II: Be-bop to Beatles, 1940-1970
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with audio component.
Prerequisite: HUMN 285 is strongly recommended but not required.
What were the be-bop and cool movements in modern jazz? Why have the legacies of
Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams differed so markedly in musical style and
political content? What role did Elvis Presley play in the rock and roll
revolution? How did Bob Dylan's music evolve, and whom did he influence? These
are some of the questions examined in this course, the second of two, 3-credit
courses that survey the history of North American popular music from the ragtime
era to the Woodstock festival at the end of the 1960s.
HUMN 309
Ancient Greece
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HUMN 201 is recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HUMN 309 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HUMN 248.
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of
ancient Greece from the archaic period through the Persian and Peloponnesian
wars to the Hellenistic era. It utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing
upon the work of historians, classical scholars, political scientists,
philosophers, and literary critics.
HUMN 320
Rome and Early Christianity I
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded courses: HUMN 320 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already
been obtained for HUMN 249 or HUMN 350.
The course begins by examining the history and culture of Rome, and concentrates
especially on the period of transition from the Republic to the Principate, a
time when Rome was trying to adjust to its conquests and far-reaching social and
economic changes. This was an age of great Roman writers, including Cicero,
Lucretius, Livy, and Vergil, all of whom are studied in the course. It ends by
focusing on the origins and early development of Christianity under the
Principate and the early Empire.
HUMN 321
Rome and Early Christianity II
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HUMN 320 is strongly recommended but not required.
Precluded courses: HUMN 321 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already
been obtained for HUMN 249 or HUMN 350.
This course deals with the evolution of the Roman Empire from its expansion
under Vespasian and his successors to its collapse under Valentinian III,
examining, among other topics, the achievements of the "Five Good Emperors," the
crisis of the third century, the reconstruction of the Empire by Diocletian and
Constantine, and the eventual decline and fall of the Christian Empire in the
face of "barbarian" invasions.
HUMN 360
East Meets West
3Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HUMN 360 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HUMN 200.
What are the fundamental ideas and insights of Hinduism? Is Taoism a philosophy
better suited to life on spaceship earth than the current Western emphasis on
materialism and growth? Did Aldous Huxley create a viable synthesis of Western
and Eastern values? Can Buddhism help us cope with the problems of a modern
technological society? These are the kinds of questions examined in East Meets
West, an interdisciplinary course that draws together aspects of history,
politics, religion, philosophy, and literature to explore the relevance of
Eastern thought for the Western world.
HUMN 420
Anglo-American Popular Music Traditions
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisites: None. HUMN 285 and HUMN 286 are strongly recommended but not
required.
This course examines the genesis and development of various folk and other
popular music traditions in Britain and North America before 1914. Among the
topics studied are English and Scottish ballads and folk lyrics, broadside
ballads, industrial song, music hall, the transformation of Anglo-Celtic folk
music when transplanted to North America, indigenous American folk music,
Afro-American musical forms, spirituals, early blues, minstrel shows, and
ragtime.
HUMN 421
The Folk Music Revival I: Before 1945
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Students are strongly advised to take an introductory course in
popular music before registering in this course.
This course examines the genesis and early development of the folk music revival
in Britain and North America. Among the topics studied are the achievements and
inadequacies of the great nineteenth-century collectors (including Francis
Child), the work of the Folk Song Society and of Cecil Sharp, and the renewal of
industrial and protest song during the Depression.
HUMN 423
Studies in Popular Music
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Students are strongly advised to take both HUMN 285 and HUMN 286
before registering in this course. The course is intended for students in the
final year of a BA degree program.
Precluded course: HUMN 423 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for HUMN 422.
This course is intended to allow students who have completed HUMN 285, HUMN 286,
HUMN 420, and HUMN 421, to consolidate, expand, and deepen their knowledge of
the history of Anglo-American popular music, and to examine some of the
theoretical and pedagogical issues that arise in the academic study of popular
music. It is also intended to be a resource guide for educators who plan to use
recorded popular music as part of a classroom teaching strategy. HUMN 423 is
designed as a guided independent study course, allowing students to choose
topics within the various genres of popular music that they wish to explore in
depth. Students are expected to make extensive use of library materials for both
reading and written assignments.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For more courses in the Human Resource Management field please refer to courses in
Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour,
particularly
- IDRL 317 Reengineering the Organization
- ORGB 386 Introduction to Human Resource Management
- ORGB 387 Strategic Human Resource Management.
HRMT 386
Introduction to Human Resource Management
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: ADMN 232 is recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HRMT 386 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for ORGB 386.
This course gives an overview of both the theoretical and practical aspects of
human resource management in contemporary organizations. This includes the role
and function of human resource management, commonly used techniques in human
resource management, the organizational and societal environments of personnel
administration, and current issues and trends in human resource management.
HRMT 387
Strategic Human Resource Management
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: HRMT 386 or ORGB 386 is recommended but not required.
Precluded course: HRMT 387 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for ORGB 387.
This course covers the current debate about the nature and significance of the
"new" Human Resource Management (HRM) model, the strategic issues, such as the
relationship between HRM and trade unions, and the links between HRM and
organizational performance. Some of the key techniques including recruitment and
selection, appraisal, reward systems, training and development, and international
aspects of HRM are fully examined.
HRMT 389
Transformatory Organizing: From Hierarchic to Participatory Organizations
3Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
We all want to know about successful organizing strategies so that we can get
what we want done well, and many of us want to know how to do that without
exploiting other people. Too often organizing strategies exclude, marginalize, or
subordinate. However, this course argues that if we marginalize, exclude and
continually redefine the different as lesser in our organizations, two
consequences are inevitable. First, we're not going to be able to work together
to get things done very effectively. Second, and as a direct result of this
marginalization and exclusion, we are not going to learn how to be successful
strategists. This course will teach you how to be skilful political strategists
through skill-sharing and entrustment, the organizing skills at the heart of the
successful organization, and key to shaping the world to suit us.
HUMAN SERVICES (HSRV)
HSRV 311
Practice and Policy in the Human Services
3Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Prerequisite: None.
The course uses traditional and inclusive approaches to consider how the
policy-making process can be revised to include the views and analysis of those
affected by it. Both practical and theoretical examples from the Human Services
are used to discuss how some practitioners have adopted inclusive,
self-reflective practices that deliver better quality service at all levels.
HSRV 322
Policies in the Human Services
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Prerequisite: None.
This course provides an opportunity to increase students' knowledge about which
levels of government formulate and deliver social policy across Canada. Course
materials explore the connections between these policies and the economic and
political context within which practitioners work. Comparisons of the
development, implementation and evaluation of policies both by government and in
the workplace situates the Human Services in its rapidly
changing environment.
HSRV 433
Directed Readings I: Topics in the Human Services
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Prerequisite: HSRV 311 and HSRV 322 and permission of the professor.
Directed Readings I is based on a contracted study arrangement between the
student and an approved supervisor. Students choose and define problems, obtain
information from libraries or other sources, organize facts and ideas, and
report ideas and conclusions in written form. This course is excluded from the
Challenge for Credit Policy. Before registering, contact the course professor to
discuss an acceptable project proposal.
HSRV 455
Project Design I
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Prerequisite: HSRV 311 and HSRV 322 and permission of the professor.
Project Design I offers students an opportunity to explore a research project
under the direction of a professor. The research topic will be determined in
consultation between student and professor. This course is excluded from the
Challenge for Credit Policy.
HSRV 477
Project Implementation I
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Prerequisite: HSRV 311 and HSRV 322 and permission of the professor.
Project Implementation I offers students an opportunity to implement an extended
research project under the direction of a professor. The research topic will be
determined in consultation between student and professor. This course is
excluded from the Challenge for Credit Policy.
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