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HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (HADM)
HADM 315
Health and Community Development
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HADM 315 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for NTST 315 or INST 315.
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 Issues: Health and Healing
3—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study. Video component.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HADM 326 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for NTST 326 or INST 326.
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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: HADM 339 or professor approval required.
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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: Health care background or professor approval is required.
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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: Health care background or professor approval is required.
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)
3—Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study. Video component.
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
3—Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Video component.
Prerequisite: HLST 200 or equivalent. Nurses and other students with a background in health sciences do not require a prerequisite.
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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HLST 320 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for HLST 482.
HLST 320 introduces the principles and theories of teaching and learning within a health context. Through a variety of activities students learn how to assess the teaching-learning environment, develop a teaching plan, apply specific teaching strategies and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. Students will apply principles and theories of teaching and learning through the completion of a teaching project. Critical assessment of teaching resources is also a component of this course. By the conclusion of this course students will begin to understand the complexities and realities of health teaching from a personal and theoretical perspective.
HISTORY (HIST)Refer also to:
INST 368 History of Canada's First Nations to 1830
INST 369 History of Canada's First Nations from 1830
INST 370 The Métis
HIST 215
Europe: Medieval to Modern
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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 course 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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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 course 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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study. Video component.
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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 326
Contemporary Canada: Canada After 1945
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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 328
History of Canadian Social Policy
3—Reading—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: None. Some background in Canadian history is strongly recommended.
History 328 outlines the development of social programs in Canada and its provinces, assessing the social and political pressures that produced particular programs at particular times. It also examines the implementation of these programs, evaluating the extent to which they provided benefits to various groups of Canadians and the extent to which they either ignored needy groups or were used as social control measures over them.
Course materials analyse critically the impact of class, sex, and race prejudices in the design and implementation of major social programs at various points in Canada's past, and the impact of class-, sex-, and race-based pressures to change these programs.
HIST 329
The Social History of Canada
6—Humanities
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
6—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Video component.
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
6—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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
3—Humanities
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 society—the 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
3—Humanities
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 society—the 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
3—Reading—Humanities
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 century—a time of devastating economic catastrophe, social upheaval, and religious controversy—this 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
3—Reading—Humanities
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 Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More, and the explosion of the Protestant Reformation.
HIST 380
Twentieth-Century United States
3—Reading—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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.
Cross-listed: HIST 470 is listed under two different disciplines, History and Labour Studies. HIST 470 cannot be taken for credit (towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for LBST 470.
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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.
Cross-listed: HIST 471 is listed under two different disciplines, History and Labour Studies. HIST 471 cannot be taken for credit (towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for LBST 471.
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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.
Cross-listed: HIST 472 is listed under two different disciplines, History and Labour Studies. HIST 472 cannot be taken for credit (towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for LBST 472.
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
3—Humanities
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 people—those 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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: Professor approval.
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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 courses 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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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 courses (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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Audio component.
Prerequisite: None.
HUMN 285 is the first of two, three-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
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Audio component.
Prerequisite: HUMN 285 is strongly recommended but not required.
Cross-listed: HUMN 286 is listed under two different disciplines, Humanities and Music. HUMN 286 cannot be taken for credit (towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for MUSI 286.
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Humanities
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
3—Reading—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisites: None. HUMN 285 and HUMN 286 are strongly recommended but not required.
Cross-listed: HUMN 420 is listed under two different disciplines, Humanities and Music. HUMN 420 cannot be taken for credit (towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for MUSI 420.
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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
3—Reading—Humanities
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.
Cross-listed: HUMN 423 is listed under two different disciplines, Humanities and Music. HUMN 423 cannot be taken for credit (towards a credential) if credit has already been obtained for MUSI 423.
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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: ADMN 232 is recommended but not required.
Cross-listed Course: HRMT 386 is listed under two different disciplines: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. 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
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. Grouped study.
Prerequisite: HRMT 386 or ORGB 386 is recommended but not required.
Cross-listed Course: HRMT 387 is listed under two different disciplines: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. 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
Transforming Organizations: From Hierarchical to Participatory Organizations
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: Individualized study. 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
3—Social 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
3—Social Science
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
3—Reading—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HSRV 311 and HSRV 322 and professor approval.
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
3—Reading—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: HSRV 311 and HSRV 322 and professor approval.
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
3—Reading—Social Science
Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Prerequisite: HSRV 311 and HSRV 322 and professor approval.
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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