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This Calendar is effective September 1, 2002 - August 31, 2003
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Introduction

Descriptions of the courses offered in the 2002-2003 academic year (September 1, 2002 to August 31, 2003) are provided in this section.

Athabasca University offers courses in several different delivery modes and formats: individualized study; classroom seminar; teleconference; television assisted; computer mediated conferencing; e-Class®, and Internet. Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

The personal information and records collected and maintained by the University as a result of a student's registration in a course, such as completed assignments and examinations, electronic communications, and correspondence, are subject to University policies and the privacy and access provisions of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

If you think you may have a physical or learning disability that could affect your progress in a course, you are encouraged to contact the coordinator, Access for Students with Disabilities, (780) 497-3424 or asd@athabascau.ca or a University counsellor before registering.

Course Availability

Courses may be temporarily unavailable because they have reached the enrolment capacity or because materials are sometimes temporarily depleted. It is the student's responsibility to call and confirm the current status of a course or program.

3.1.  Applied Studies

There are two groups of Applied Studies courses under the Applied Studies area of study.

3.1.1. Business and Administrative Studies

Accounting | Administration | Applied Studies | Communications | Computers and Management Information Systems | e-Commerce | Economics | Entrepreneurship | Finance | Governance | Health Administration | Human Resource Management | Industrial Relations | Legal Studies | Management Science | Marketing | Organizational Behaviour | Taxation

Accounting

  • ACCT 245 Accounting for Managers of Not-for-Profit Organizations (3)
  • ACCT 250 Acounting for Managers (3)
  • ACCT 253 Introductory Financial Accounting (3)
  • ACCT 351 Intermediate Financial Accounting I (3)
  • ACCT 352 intermediate Financial Accounting II (3)
  • ACCT 355 Cost Analysis (3)
  • ACCT 356 Strategic and Competitive Analysis (3)
  • ACCT 451 Advanced Financial Accounting (3)
  • ACCT 453 Financial Accounting Theory (3)
  • ACCT 454 Decision Analysis (3)
  • ACCT 455 Management Control Systems (Course Unavailable)(3)
  • ACCT 460 Principles of Auditing (3)

Administration

Applied Studies

  • APST 235 Practicum: Clinical Practice (3)
  • APST 335 Practicum: Community Health Administration (6)

Communications

  • COMM 243 Interpersonal Communications in Management (3)
  • COMM 329 The Practice of Interpersonal Communications (3)
  • COMM 377 Communication and Problem Solving in Groups (3)

Computers and Management Information Systems

  • CMIS 245 Microcomputer Applications in Business (Windows) (3)
  • CMIS 302 Microcomputer Applications II (Windows) (3)
  • CMIS 341 Managing Information Technology in the E-Business Enterprise I (3)
  • CMIS 342 Managing Information Technology in the E-Business Enterprise II (3)
  • CMIS 351 Management Information Systems (3)
  • CMIS 455 Accounting Information Systems (3)

e-Commerce

Economics

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Governance

  • GOVN 390 Public Policy and Administrative Governance (3)
  • GOVN 405 Innovative Public Management (3)

Health Administration See also Social Science

  • HADM 336 Community Health Planning (3)
  • HADM 339 The Organization of the Canadian Health Care System (3)
  • HADM 369 Health Policy in Canada (3)
  • HADM 379 Introduction to Epidemiology (3)

Human Resource Management

  • HRMT 386/ORGB 386 Introduction to Human Resource Management (3)
  • HRMT 387/ORGB 387 Strategic Human Resource Management (3)
  • HRMT 389 Transformatory Organizing: From Hierarchic to Participatory Organizations (3)

Industrial Relations

Courses labelled IDRL can be used as either Applied Studies or Social Science courses (credential students only). Contact Admission and Evaluations Services before registering.

Legal Studies

Management Science

  • MGSC 301 Statistics for Business and Economics I (3)
  • MGSC 312 Statistics for Business and Economics II (3)
  • MGSC 368 Introduction to Production and Operations Management (3)
  • MGSC 369 Service Operations Management (3)
  • MGSC 405 Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making (3)
  • MGSC 499 Applied Projects in Management Science (3)

Marketing

Organizational Behaviour

Taxation

  • TAXX 301 Introduction to Income Taxation (3)

3.1.2. Applied Studies

Communication Studies (see also 3.3 Humanities and 3.4. Social Science)

Criminal Justice

Educational Psychology

  • EDPY 351 Introduction to Exceptional Children (3)
  • EDPY 479 Introduction to Computer-Based Instruction (3)

Health Studies (see also Science area of study)

  • HLST 320 Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals (3)

Nursing

  • NURS 322 Introduction to Nursing Informatics (3)
  • NURS 324 Concepts and Theories in Nursing Practice (3)
  • NURS 326 Health Assessment and Health Promotion with Individuals (3)
  • NURS 327 Home Health Nursing (3)
  • NURS 328 Understanding Research (3)
  • NURS 427 Issues in Home Health Nursing: Guided Independent Study (3)
  • NURS 432 Management and Leadership in Nursing Practice (4)
  • NURS 434 Community Health Promotion (4)
  • NURS 436 Family Health Promotion (4)
  • NURS 438 Trends and Issues in Nursing and Health Systems (3)
  • NURS 440 Senior Focus: Guided Independent Study (3)
  • NURS 442 Introduction to Nursing Care of Older Adults (3)

Women's Studies (see also 3.2 Humanities, 3.3 Science, and 3.4 Social Science)

  • WMST 468 Special Projects in Women's Studies (3)

3.2.  Humanities

All courses listed below are in the Humanities area of study and are also considered to be Arts courses. Credit weight is indicated in parentheses.

Art History | Communication Studies | English Language and Writing Studies | French | German | History | Humanities | Information Systems | Music | Indigenous Studies (formerly referred to as Native Studies) | Philosophy | Religious Studies | Spanish | Women's Studies

Art History

Communication Studies (see also 3.2 Applied Studies and 3.4 Social Science)

English

French

  • FREN 100 French for Beginners I: French in Action (3)
  • FREN 101 French for Beginners II (3)
  • FREN 200 First Year University French I (3)
  • FREN 201 First Year University French II (3)
  • FREN 362 Second Year University French (6)
  • FREN 363 Le roman français du XXe siècle (3)
  • FREN 374 Introduction à la littérature canadienne-française (6)
  • FREN 375 Vocabulary Expansion (6)
  • FREN 383 Pratique orale thématique (3)
  • FREN 387 Français langue des affaires (3)
  • FREN 401 Composition française (3)
  • FREN 402 Pensée et structure de l’anglais et du français (3)
  • FREN 403 Stylistique comparée (3)
  • FREN 412 Français pour tous, français pour tout (3)

German

History

  • HIST 215 Europe: Medieval to Modern (3)
  • HIST 216 Modern Europe, 1740-1940: An Introduction (3)
  • HIST 224 History of Canada to 1867 (3)
  • HIST 225 Canadian History: 1867 to the Present (3)
  • HIST 304 Historic England I: Land and Peoples (3)
  • HIST 326 Contemporary Canada: Canada after 1945 (3)
  • HIST 327 Imperial Russia (3)
  • HIST 328 History of Canadian Social Policy (3)
  • HIST 329 The Social History of Canada (6)
  • HIST 336 History of Canadian Labour (6)
  • HIST 338 History of the Canadian West (6)
  • HIST 361 History of French Canada: 1867 to the Present (3)
  • HIST 363 The Women’s West: Women and Canadian Frontier Settlement (3)
  • HIST 364 Women and the Family in Urban Canada, 1880s-1940s (3)
  • HIST 367 World War II (3)
  • HIST 371 The Medieval World I: The Early Middle Ages (3)
  • HIST 372 The Medieval World II: The High Middle Ages (3)
  • HIST 373 The Renaissance (3)
  • HIST 374 The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation (3)
  • HIST 380 Twentieth-Century United States (3)
  • HIST 404 Historical Foundations of Modern Science (3)
  • HIST 407 The Enlightenment (3)
  • HIST 426 Contemporary Canada: Canada after 1945 (3)
  • HIST 455 Canada and the Bomb: Canada and the World in the Cold War (3)
  • HIST 470/LBST 470 Pre-Industrial Origins of Labour and Socialist Thought (3)
  • HIST 471/LBST 471 Labour and Socialist Thought in the Early Industrial Revolution, 1800-1850 (3)
  • HIST 472/LBST 472 Labour and Socialist Thought in the Later Industrial Revolution, 1850-1917 (3)
  • HIST 486 The Industrial Revolution (3)
  • HIST 491 Directed Studies in History I (3)
  • HIST 499 The History of the Family in Western Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution (3)

Humanities

Indigenous Studies (see also 3.4 Social Science)

Information Systems

Music

  • MUSI 267 Sound and Sense: Listening to Music (3)

Philosophy

Religious Studies

  • RELS 204 Introduction to World Religions (6)

Spanish

Women’s Studies (see also 3.1 Applied Studies, 3.3 Science, and 3.4 Social Science)

  • WMST 333 Goddess Mythology, Women's Spirituality and Ecofeminism (3)
  • WMST 354 Women, Religion and Social Change (3)
  • WMST 400 Feminism in the Western Tradition (3)
  • WMST 465 Special Projects in Women’s Studies (3)

3.3. Science

All courses listed below are in the Science area of study. Credit weight is indicated in parentheses.

Astronomy and Astrophysics | Biology | Chemistry | Computer Science and Information Systems | Environmental Science | Geography | Geology | Health Studies | Mathematics | Nutrition | Physics | Science |Women's Studies |

Astronomy and Astrophysics

  • ASTR 200 Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics I (3)
  • ASTR 205 Universe—The Ultimate Frontier (3)
  • ASTR 495-496 Astronomy and Astrophysics Projects (3 each)

Biology

Chemistry

Computer Science and Information Systems

  • COMP 200 Introduction to Computing and Information Systems (3)
  • COMP 210 Introduction to Information Systems and Computer Applications (3)
  • COMP 268 Introduction to Computer Programming (Java) (3)
  • COMP 272 Data Structures and Algorithms (Java) (3)
  • COMP 307 C/C++ for Programmers (3)
  • COMP 308 Java for Programmers (3)
  • COMP 314 Computer Organization (3)
  • COMP 315 Advanced Operating Systems (3)
  • COMP 345 Data Communications (3)
  • COMP 346 Computer Networks (3)
  • COMP 347 Computer Networks I (3)
  • COMP 348 Computer Networks II (3)
  • COMP 361 Systems Analysis and Design (3)
  • COMP 365 Introduction to User Support (3)
  • COMP 378 Introduction to Database Management (3)
  • COMP 381 Systems Design and Implementation (3)
  • COMP 390 Computer Graphics (3)
  • COMP 418 Distributed and Multimedia Databases and Database Tuning (3)
  • COMP 456 Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Through PROLOG (3)
  • COMP 466 Website Technology (3)
  • COMP 482 Human Factors in Computer Systems (3)
  • COMP 489 Distributed Systems in Java (3)
  • COMP 490 Applications Development with Emerging Technology: Multimedia with Java (3)
  • COMP 495-496 Computer and Information Systems Projects (3 each)

Environmental Science

Geography (see also 3.4 Social Science)

Geology

  • GEOL 200 Introductory Physical Geology (3)
  • GEOL 201 Introductory Historical Geology (3)
  • GEOL 313 Our Physical Resources (3)
  • GEOL 319 Structural Geology: The Architecture of Earth’s Continental Crust (3)
  • GEOL 415 Earth’s Origin and Early Evolution (3)
  • GEOL 495-496 Geology Projects I (3 each)

Health Studies

Mathematics

Nutrition

Physics

Science

Women's Studies (see also 3.1 Applied Studies, 3.2 Humanities, 3.4 Social Sciences)

  • WMST 467 Special Projects in Women's Studies (s)

3.4. Social Science

All courses listed below are in the Social Science area of study and are also considered to be Arts courses. Credit weight is indicated in parentheses.

Anthropology | Career Development | Communication Studies | Economics | Education | Environmental Studies | Geography | Global Studies | Governance | Health Administration | Human Services | Labour Studies | Indigenous Studies (formerly referred to as Native Studies) | Political Economy | Political Science | Psychology | Social Science | Sociology | Sociology/Athropology | Women's Studies|

Anthropology

  • ANTH 275 Faces of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
  • ANTH 276 Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (3)
  • ANTH 277 The Archaeology of Ancient Peoples (3)
  • ANTH 307 The Inuit Way (3)
  • ANTH 310 Introduction to Primate Behaviour (3)
  • ANTH 318 Ancient Civilizations of the Americas (3)
  • ANTH 354 Language and Culture (3)
  • ANTH 362 First Nations of Canada (3)
  • ANTH 375 The Anthropology of Gender (3)
  • ANTH 376 Alberta Archaeology: Prehistoric Lifeways (3)
  • ANTH 390 Community-Based Research Methods (3)
  • ANTH 394 Urban Anthropology (3)
  • ANTH 401 Ethnography: Principles in Practice (3)
  • ANTH 406 Special Topics in Anthropology (3)
  • ANTH 407 Advanced Readings in Regional Ethnology (3)
  • ANTH 408 Method and Theory in Anthropology (3)
  • ANTH 434 History of Anthropology (3)
  • ANTH 476 Archaeology: Principles in Practice (3)
  • ANTH 491 Ethnobiology: Traditional Biological Knowledge in Contemporary Global Context (3)
  • ANTH 499 Medical Anthropology (3)

Career Development

The Career Development courses have been renamed and renumbered as Psychology courses.

Communication Studies (see also 3.2 Humanities)

  • CMNS 301 Communication Theory and Analysis (3)
  • CMNS 308 Understanding Statistical Evidence (3)
  • CMNS 321 Computers and Human Experience (3)
  • CMNS 380 Corporate Communication (3)
  • CMNS 385 Media Construction of Social Movements and Issues (3)
  • CMNS 401 Cultural Policy in Canada (3)
  • CMNS 402 International Media Systems I —The Americas (3)
  • CMNS 410 Audience Effects Research (3)
  • CMNS 421 Personal Implications of the Internet (3)
  • CMNS 445 Directed Readings in Communication Studies (3)

Economics

Education

  • EDUC 301 Educational Issues and Social Change I: Historical Social Perspectives (3)
  • EDUC 302 Educational Issues and Social Change II: Current Debates (3)
  • EDUC 401 The Purposes of Adult Education (3)

Environmental Studies

  • ENVS 252 The Environment: Issues and Options for Action (3)
  • ENVS 253 Global Environmental Change: The Scientific and Social Issues (3)
  • ENVS 306 Humanity and Ecosphere (3)
  • ENVS 435 Case Studies in Environmental Protection (3)

Geography (see also 3.3 Science)

Global Studies

  • GLST 307 The Pacific Century (3)
  • GLST 308 Americas: An Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean (3)
  • GLST 377 Twentieth-Century China (3)

Governance

  • GOVN 301 Governance, the Public Sector, and Corporate Power (3)
  • GOVN 390 Public Policy and Administrative Governance (3)
  • GOVN 400 Governance and Leadership (3)
  • GOVN 403 Public Policy and Administrative Governance (3)
  • GOVN 410 Global Cities: The Cultures of Law and Government (3)
  • GOVN 440 Global Governance and Law (3)

Health Administration

  • HADM 315 Health and Community Developement (3)
  • HADM 326 Health Issues: Health and Healing (3)

Human Services

  • HSRV 311 Practice and Policy in the Human Services (3)
  • HSRV 322 Policies in the Human Services (3)
  • HSRV 433 Directed Readings I: Topics in the Human Services (3)
  • HSRV 455 Project Design I (3)
  • HSRV 477 Project Implementation I (3)

Indigenous Studies (see also 3.2 Humanities)

  • INST 200 Introduction to Native Studies I (3)
  • INST 201 Introduction to Native Studies II (3)
  • INST 357 Contemporary Aboriginal Issues in Canada (3)
  • INST 358 Aboriginal Women in Canadian Contemporary Society (3)

Labour Studies

Political Economy

  • POEC 230 Globalization and World Politics (3)
  • POEC 302 Introduction to Political Economy (3)
  • POEC 393 Canada and the Global Political Economy (3)
  • POEC 395 Global Development Strategies (3)
  • POEC 483 International Political Economy: Power, Production, and Global Order (3)
  • POEC 499 Directed Study in Political Economy (3)

Political Science

  • POLI 277 Introduction to Political Science I: Concepts, Structures, and Institutions (3)
  • POLI 278 Introduction to Political Science II: Political Processes and Political Behaviour (3)
  • POLI 307 Political Ideologies (3)
  • POLI 309 Canadian Government and Politics (3)
  • POLI 311 Aboriginal Politics and Governments (3)
  • POLI 325 Canadian Environmental Policy and Politics (3)
  • POLI 330 International and Global Politics (3)
  • POLI 340 Comparative Politics I: In the Industrial and Postindustrial Countries (3)
  • POLI 341 Comparative Politics in Developing and Industrializing Countries (3)
  • POLI 350 Women in Canadian Politics (3)
  • POLI 383 Introduction to Canadian Political Economy (3)
  • POLI 390 Canadian Federalism (3)

Psychology

  • PSYC 205 Prior Learning Assessment and Portfolio Development (3)
  • PSYC 228 An Introduction to Child Development (3)
  • PSYC 289 Psychology as a Natural Science (3)
  • PSYC 290 General Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 300 Theories of Career Development (3)
  • PSYC 301 Career Development Resources in the Changing World of Work (3)
  • PSYC 315 Psychology and the Mass Media (3)
  • PSYC 323 Developmental Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 340 Introduction to Applied Social Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 343 Issues and Strategies in Counselling Women (6)
  • PSYC 350 Adolescent Development (3)
  • PSYC 355 Cognitive Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 356 Introduction to Personality Theories and Issues (3)
  • PSYC 375 History of Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 379 Social Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 381 The Psychology of Adult Development (3)
  • PSYC 387 Learning (3)
  • PSYC 388 Introduction to Counselling (3)
  • PSYC 389 An Introduction to Learning Disabilities (3)
  • PSYC 395 Psychology and the Law (3)
  • PSYC 400 Teaching and Managing the Child with Learning Difficulties (6)
  • PSYC 401 Learning Through Life (3)
  • PSYC 402 Biological Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 404 Experimental Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 405 Creating a Working Alliance (3)
  • PSYC 406 Introduction to Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy (3)
  • PSYC 418 Special Projects in Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 432 Psychology and the Built Environment (3)
  • PSYC 435 Abnormal Psychology (3)
  • PSYC 440 Special Projects In Career Development 2 (3)
  • PSYC 441 Experiential Learning and Reflective Practice I (3)
  • PSYC 442 Experiential Learning and Reflective Practice II (3)
  • PSYC 443 Special Projects In Career Development 1 (3)
  • PSYC 470 Consultation and Collaboration for Students with Special Needs (3)
  • PSYC 471 Managing Behaviour Problems in the Classroom (3)
  • PSYC 472, 473, or 474 Topics in Special Education ( 1 each )

Social Science

Sociology

  • SOCI 287 Introduction to Sociology I (3)
  • SOCI 288 Introduction to Sociology II (3)
  • SOCI 300 Organizations and Society: Making Sense of Modern Organizational Life (3)
  • SOCI 305 Sociology and Crime (3)
  • SOCI 316 Sociology of the Family (3)
  • SOCI 321 The Sociology of Work and Industry (3)
  • SOCI 329 Aging and You (I): An Introduction to Gerontology (3)
  • SOCI 330 Aging and You (II): An Introduction to Gerontology (3)
  • SOCI 335 Classical Sociological Theory: The Socio-Historical Roots of Sociology as a Discipline (3)
  • SOCI 337 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3)
  • SOCI 345 Women and Work in Canada (3)
  • SOCI 365 Sociology of Deviance (3)
  • SOCI 380 Canadian Ethnic Studies (3)
  • SOCI 381 The Sociology of Power and Inequality (3)
  • SOCI 425 Special Projects in Sociology I (3)
  • SOCI 426 Special Projects in Sociology II (3)
  • SOCI 435 Theories of Social Change (3)
  • SOCI 437 Deciphering Modern Social Theory (3)
  • SOCI 445 Selected Topics in Canadian Society (3)
  • SOCI 450 Social Theory and the Environment (3)

Sociology/Anthropology

  • SOAN 384 The Family in World Perspective (3)

Women’s Studies (see also 3.1 Applied Studies, 3.2 Humanities, 3.3 Sciences)

  • WMST 266 Thinking from Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies (3)
  • WMST 300 Women: Psychology, Sociology, and Feminist Thought (3)
  • WMST 302 Communication Skills: Feminist Practice (3)
  • WMST 303 Issues in Women’s Health (3)
  • WMST 310 Feminist Approaches to Counselling Women (3)
  • WMST 311 Special Issues in Counselling Women (3)
  • WMST 321 Advocacy from the Margins (3)
  • WMST 354 Women, Religion, and Social Change (3)
  • WMST 401 Contemporary Feminist Theory (3)
  • WMST 422 Women, Violence, and Social Change (3)
  • WMST 444 Feminist Research Methodology (3)
  • WMST 466 Special Projects in Women’s Studies (3)
  • WMST 499 Applied Project (3)

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