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HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
(HADM)
HADM
315
Health and Community Development
3Social 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
3Social 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
3Applied 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
3Applied 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
3Applied 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
3Applied 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)
3Science
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
3Science
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
3Applied 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
3Humanities
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
3Humanities
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
3Humanities
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
3Humanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
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
328
History of Canadian Social Policy
3ReadingHumanities
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
6Humanities
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. 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
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. 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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
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: 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
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. 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
3Humanities
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
3Humanities
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
3Humanities
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
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3ReadingHumanities
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
3Applied 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
3Applied 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
3Applied 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
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
3Social 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
3ReadingSocial 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
3ReadingSocial 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
3ReadingSocial 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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