Sustainable Cities and Communities

ADMN 225 - First Nations Economic Development

This course is designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to band entrepreneurial development undertaken by government agencies, research and planning groups, band organizations, band councils and individual band entrepreneurs. Problem areas and alternative approaches will be investigated in relation to the physical and social environments, external factors, and the socio-cultural environment.
***Prerequisite: ADMN 100 (or BUS 100) and INDG 100. Concurrent enrolment is allowed in INDG 100.***

ADMN 261 - Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism, and Gaming Entertainment Management

This course is an introduction to management in the hospitality, tourism and gaming entertainment industries with an emphasis on concepts, issues and best practices in lodging, restaurant, tourism, and gaming entertainment organizations. The course provides a comprehensive overview and uses cases, readings and guest lectures from the industries to help students develop and expand their decision making skills. The course offers both First Nations and non-First Nation perspective.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ADMN 261 or ADMN 436AJ.*

ADMN 320 - Planning in First Nations Public Sector Organizations

This course will enable participants to better understand the community planning process and the techniques and methods of analysis utilized in comprehensive community planning. The course also provides a focus on the guidelines for public sector program implementation.
*** Prerequisite: ADMN 220 or permission of the Department Head ***

ADMN 328 - Nation Building for Indigenous Communities

The objective of the course is to present the fundamentals behind nation building, and rebuilding, for Indigenous communities. This course is designed to increase understanding of important nation building ideas in the cultural, administrative, political and economic realms. The course will explore the major Indigenous topics of governance, cultural match and legitimacy, colonial effects, constitutions, judicial systems, administration, economic development, funding dynamics, entrepreneurship, leadership, and inter-governmental relationships.
*** Prerequisite: ADMN 228 ***

ADMN 436AL - Indigenous Community Economic Development

This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of community economic development in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. It explores the essential role of community economic development in fostering healthy communities and enhancing self-determination. This course focuses on appreciative and Indigenous ways of doing business and developing communities.

ADMN 436AM - Natural Resource Development from an Indigenous Perspective

This introductory course will provide students with an understanding of issues concerned with development of natural resources. This survey course examines a range of topics that introduce students to many of the challenges and opportunities within natural resource sectors, for example mining and the petroleum and natural gas industries.

ADMN 441 - Public Policies for Northern Development

This course examines many of the problems encountered in the development of northern areas. Special emphasis is placed on the difficulties inherent in the pursuit of economic advancement within a framework of cultural, environmental, and distribution constraints.
*** Prerequisite: ADMN 340 or BUS 340 ***

ANTH 242AB - The Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

This course will apply anthropological theories to explore violence and conflict as social processes rather than as isolated events. We will utilize various cross-cultural examples to explore how violence and conflict maintain social stability while disrupting social norms.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note Students may receive credit for one of ANTH 242AB or ANTH 320AM.*

ANTH 242AG - Community Museums and Engagement for Sustainability

Communities around the globe strive for cultural, economic and ecological sustainability. Many follow an ecomuseum model where they understand heritage to be multifaceted and engage with it in dynamic ways. This course will study the ecomuseum movement and participate in the development of an emerging ecomuseum in central Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department head.***
*Note Students may receive credit for one of ANTH 242AG,ANTH 320AL, or IDS 290AB.*

ANTH 242AK - Cultural Heritage and Politics of the Past

Using local and international examples, this course explores the concept of cultural heritage and the dynamic issues surrounding its management. It examines theories and methods influencing the interpretation and protection of cultural heritage and how these impact conceptions of the past, contemporary society and the future of heritage.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 242AL - The Anthropology of Humour and Laughter

This introductory course is a cross-cultural examination of humour and laughter. Joking relationships, ritual clowning, the trickster image, as well as the social role of humour in religion, ethnicity, politics, and in daily interactions between men and women are among the topics covered in the course. ***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of department head***

ANTH 242AM - Marking the Body: An Anthropology of Tattooing

This course explores the practice of permanently marking the body by tattooing, scarification, etc. Taking as its starting point Polynesian tattoo traditions, this course investigates the social, cultural, aesthetic, and other dimensions of marking the human body, and how practitioners and scholars have attempted to understand and explain these practices.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 242AN - Posthumanist Anthropology

Anthropology has always been concerned with the “more than human.” The concept of holism is inseparable from a multitude of actors; be they human, yak, herbal plant, or intangible ancestor. Connecting with past ethnographic insights, this course examines current anthropological research on aspects of the microbiome, the Anthropocene, and nanotechnology.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 242ME - Introduction to Museum Ethnography

This course provides an introduction to the history, purposes, transformation, as well as theoretical and ethical considerations of and for culture-historical museums. While its outlook is global and it will cover different kinds of museums around the world, its immediate and more practical focus is on local museums in Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 247 - Ethnography of Polynesia

This course surveys the cultures and societies of the islands of Polynesia. It investigates the region in historical perspective, including its place in the popular imagination of the West. Topics covered include social organization, cosmology, gender, art, tourism, globalization, and ethnicity.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 248 - Ethnography of New Guinea

This course explores the diverse cultures of Papua New Guinea and other parts of Melanesia. It will investigate such topics as social organization, gender roles, and exchange, and reveal anthropological insights into the practice of cannibalism, love magic, and sorcery.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 307 - Anthropology of Ritual

This course investigates ritual as a social event where participants convey key cultural values and meanings through symbolic action in "sacred" space and time. Using anthropological theory and ethnographic case studies, the course inquires into how religious belief, ethnic and national affiliation, class and gender, prestige and political power are reproduced and reconfigured in ritual practiced today in differing locales of the world.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the department head.***

ANTH 313 - Material Culture and Consumption

A study of the investment of social values in the material world, including the cultural politics of "styles" in architecture, interior decoration, dress, etc. Consumption is approached ethnographically, in relation to modern personhood, kinship, and household formation. Practices such as collecting are studied in terms of the cultural politics of value in various societies. Emphasis is placed on modernity, with reference to ethnographic records of material culture in pre-industrial societies.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 320AJ - Posthumanist Anthropology

The course will engage with non-anthropocentric human and social sciences, redefining the social as a collective of humans and non-humans, and including animals, plants, and other subjects. The course will address such topics as agency, animism, totemism, multispecism, ethics, and the dignity of the non-human.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 320AL - Advanced Topics in Community Museums

Communities around the globe strive for cultural, economic and ecological sustainability. In many places, local community museums have become catalysts in this endeavour. This course provides a critical perspective on community museum with a focus on the ecomuseum movement in Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ANTH 320AL, ANTH 242AG, or IDS 290AB.*

ANTH 320AN - Readings in Popular Culture

This advanced course offers an overview of key theoretical approaches to popular culture, ranging from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Students will learn to use these approaches in critical analysis of cultural practices pertaining to the popular. Close attention will be paid to the ways in which popular culture is mobilized to promote particular values and ideologies, as well as to “resist” power.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.****

ANTH 333 - Ethnographic Research

This course will explore how socio-cultural anthropologists do ethnographic fieldwork, and the methodological, epistemological, and ethical issues they encounter in such research. Topics covered may range from the technical aspects of participant observation, ethnographic interviewing, and the writing of field notes, to the broader issues of how a researcher's point of view and relation to the community under study influence the creation of ethnographic knowledge.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 496AH - Museum Collections, Social Relations, and Object Biographies

Anthropologists have long since asserted that the lines between people and things are culturally variable. Based on this premise, this course examines the ways in which objects, and particularly objects kept in museums and galleries, relate to persons and how they are essential in creating and maintaining relationships between people.
***Permission of department head required to register.***

ANTH 496AI - Anthropology of Tattooing

Taking as its starting point Polynesian tattoo traditions, this course investigates the social, cultural, aesthetic, and other dimensions of marking the human body, and how practitioners and scholars have attempted to understand and explain these practices.
**Permission of department head required to register.**

ART 100 - Introduction to Art

An introduction to the study of the visual arts. Lectures focus on contemporary art practices and objects, design elements, media and methods, and the meanings and contexts that inform the making and reception of art works. This is not a studio or an art history course.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both ART 100 and INA 100.*

ART 220 - Two-Dimensional Form

Through hands-on studio projects, you will draw, paint, use print media, photography, and intermedia processes to develop a working understanding of two-dimensional design principles.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both ART 220 and INA 220.*

ART 221 - Three-Dimensional Design

This foundation studio course is an introduction to three dimensional materials and processes. Students will explore the fundamentals of creating 3D artworks. They will work with materials such as paper, cardboard, wire, plaster, and clay, developing technical and material skills within a framework of contemporary 3D art practices.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both ART 221 and INA 221.*

ART 223 - Intro to Photo-Based Art

This studio course stimulates the creation of contemporary photo-based art grounded in experimentation. Students will gain familiarity with critical and historical precedents, alongside camera, software, scanning, and printing techniques.
***Prerequisite: ART 100 (may be taken concurrently).***
*Note: Creative Technologies Program Option.*
*Additional Fee: $100.*

ART 230 - Introduction to Drawing

Using a broad range of drawing media, students will develop observational and creative drawing skills. Class concentrations include still life and figure drawing.
***Prerequisite: ART 220 and ART 100 (ART 100 may be taken concurrently).***

ART 240 - Introduction to Painting

Learn painting processes and representational techniques with reference to both historical and contemporary
examples.
***Prerequisite: ART 220 and ART 100 (ART 100 may be taken concurrently).***

ART 250 - Introduction to Sculpture

An exciting opportunity to explore studio processes, concepts and history relating to three-dimensional form. Focussed through the lens of contemporary sculptural practices, students will develop hands-on experience with a variety of media.

ART 260 - Introduction to Ceramics

Studio course introducing the material of clay within the context of contemporary ceramics practices. Students will learn basic making techniques, focusing on hand-building and will also be exposed to the potter’s wheel, glazing, kiln loading and firing.
***Prerequisite: ART 100 (may be taken concurrently).***

ART 270 - Introduction to Printmaking

A studio course that aims to foster a broad understanding of artistic printmaking through exposure to a variety of studio techniques and assignments, complemented by demonstrations and discussions of printmaking's historical and social importance. Intaglio, Lithography, Relief, and/or hybrid Digital processes will be introduced.
***Prerequisite: ART 100 (may be taken concurrently.)***

ART 290AG - Art: Histories and Practice I

Gain new perspectives on how art and art history shape one another in this team-taught course combining studio and art history. Focussing on materials and techniques students will experience hands-on working with clay and plaster to create a work of art. Observing a bronze pour is included in this course.

ART 290AH - Atmospheric Kiln Processes

Using outstanding kiln facilities, the course will be taught by a visiting expert in atmospheric kilns. Students will make work for, and fire, Raku, Wood and Soda kilns. The instruction will accommodate beginner through advanced level ceramic backgrounds. Students will have full access to the ceramic studio during the course.

ART 290AI - Painting Portraits

Learn the secrets of creating realistic portraits while improving your painting skills in acrylic or oil paint. The course will focus on anatomy, composition, lighting, colour mixing and brushwork working from live models and photographs.

ART 290AJ - Plants in Contemporary Art

In this course, observational studies of plant-life, in both painting and drawing, will intersect with discussion of key affective aspects of the depiction of botanics in contemporary art. Concepts such as ecology, place, cultural specificity and gender will factor heavily along with supplementary art-historical explorations.
***Prerequisites – Art 230 or Art 240***

ART 290AK - Set It In Lead: Letterpress

A studio course that covers the history of printed text, setting lead type
and exploring a letterpress collection of days past as a contemporary
medium. Students will also become well versed with the intricate
California job case and printing on an enchanting Chandler & Price
printing press.

ART 290AL - Mixed Reality Performance Art

In this course students will learn methods of augmented and virtual reality in creating embodied performance art works streamed to audiences on the Internet.
*Note: Creative Technologies Program Option.*

ART 290AM - Wood Fired Ceramics

Using outstanding kiln facilities, the course will be taught by a visiting expert in wood firing. Students will make works in clay and fire Wood and Wood-Soda kilns. The instruction will accommodate beginner through advanced level ceramic backgrounds.
Students will have full access to the ceramic studio during the course.

ART 290AN - Outdoor Ceramic Sculpture

Working collaboratively with an artist/expert, students will create an outdoor ceramics sculpture on campus. While developing their sculptural and ceramic making skills, students will learn about other public sculptures, about how to submit a proposal for a commission, and about working collaboratively with varies parties to realize a public artwork.

ART 290AO - Studio Making for Wood-Kilns

This ceramics course focuses on developing and making work in the studio for wood-kilns. Through demonstrations and practice-based learning, beginner through advanced students will develop skills and concepts relevant to wood-firing practices. Advanced students will be permitted to bring bisqued work; all students will participate in firing our two wood-kilns.

ART 290AP - Intro to Atmospheric Firing

Students who are new to ceramics and/or new to atmospheric firing will make work for, and fire, Raku, Wood and Soda kilns. The course focuses on developing and making ceramics in the studio. Through demonstrations and practice-based learning, students will be introduced to the skills and concepts of atmospheric firing.

ART 290AR - Wheel Throwing: Ceramics All Levels

Students learn about and develop techniques of throwing clay forms on the potter's wheel. They also explore ways the potter's wheel is used in contemporary ceramics practices from functional through sculptural approaches. Beginner through advanced levels and all approaches are accommodated.

ART 290JP - The Art of Kyoto

For hundreds of years, Kyoto has been the centre of traditional arts and crafts production in Japan. On this Study Tour, we will visit sites of artistic importance, and meet local artists and educators as a means to better understanding the local and global importance of this dynamic city.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor required to register.***
*Note: The cost of travel and accommodations will be borne by students.*
*Additional Fee: $4000.00.*

ART 291 - Intro to Graphic Design

Through a combination of studio projects and lectures, students will explore practical and theoretical principles of visual communication and perception applied to graphic design. By articulating these principles and engaging with sketches, models, and outlines students will give shape to new projects as they are realized in a professional environment.
***Student may receive credit for only one of ART 291 or ART 290AC.***

ART 322 - Photo-Conceptualism

Students in this intermediate course will explore conceptual approaches to contemporary studio research and art making using photo-based media. The course includes self-directed and assigned studio work, individual and group critiques. Approaches include seriality, procedural, algorithmic,
immaterial, and language/text.
***Prerequisite: ART 323.***

ART 323 - Digital Photo in Contemporary Art

Students work on contemporary art projects (independent and directed) with instructor supervision exploring the creative and technological possibilities of working in digital photographic media. A range of contemporary art approaches to traditional photographic genres may be explored, including the pictorial, abstract, landscape, documentary, conceptual, figuration, and still life.
***Prerequisite: ART 223.***

ART 324 - Space, Time, and Photo-Based Art

In this intermediate-level course, students will explore physical and durational approaches to making photo-based art, including documented performance; time-lapse; experimental video; and conceptual serial processes.
***Prerequisite: ART 323.***

ART 325 - Prairie Landscape Photography

The landscape is particularly resonant subject matter in the prairies and has influenced generations of artists in Saskatchewan. This intermediate level course approaches the genre of landscape with critical attention to the human altered land.
***Prerequisite: ART 323.***

ART 326 - Alternative Photographic Processes

Working with the sun/uv light, natural materials, and digitally created negatives, students will create art through the exploration of historical processes. Including cyanotype and pinhole photography.
***Prerequisite: ART 323.***

ART 332 - Drawing the Human Form

This course focuses on the human body and includes various approaches to figure drawing. Observational drawing skills will be developed through live models, skeletons, photographs, and other sources. Examination of the drawings of historic and contemporary artists will take place as will individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite ART 230.***

ART 333 - From Idea to Finished Drawing

This course takes ideas and turns them into finished drawings. Several projects will guide students through the development of ideas from initial stages to finished drawings. Examination of the drawings of historic and contemporary artists will take place as will individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite ART 230.***

ART 334 - Expressive Drawing

Through guided exercises, students will try out various drawing approaches, styles, media and scale to find those that best suit their expressive intentions. Text, colour, and various papers will be explored. Examination of the drawings of historic and contemporary artists will take place as will individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite ART 230.***

ART 335 - Alternative Drawing

Projects will encourage exploration of media on a wide range of supports ranging from wood, ceramic, plastic, metal, sand and snow. Examination of the drawings of historic and contemporary artists will take place as will individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite ART 230.***

ART 336 - Drawing Media & Process

This course offers in-depth exploration into a wide range of drawing media including graphite, charcoal, conté, pen and ink and ink wash. Both conventional and contemporary drawing processes will be explored. Examination of the drawings of historic and contemporary artists will take place as will individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite ART 230.***

ART 337 - Visual Storytelling

An introductory studio course on the techniques of visual story telling, including graphic novels and artists' books.
*Note: Pop Culture Option*

ART 341 - Painting and Colour

This course offers an in-depth examination of colour. Projects will focus on expressive possibilities and the development of an individual palette. Both object-based and non-objective painting will be explored. Group and individual critiques and discussions will be ongoing as will investigation into the work of historic and contemporary painters.
***Prerequisite ART 240.***

ART 342 - Expressive Painting

Explore brushwork and colour as expressive elements of painting. Projects will involve the figure and other image-based subjects, as well as abstraction and non-objective painting. Group and individual critiques and discussions will be ongoing as will investigation into the work of historic and contemporary painters.
***Prerequisite: ART 240.***

ART 343 - Painting the Human Form

This course focuses on the human body and includes various approaches to portrait and figure painting. Skills will be developed through projects engaging live models, skeletons, photographs, and other sources. Examination of the paintings of historic and contemporary artists will take place as will individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite ART 240.***

ART 344 - Representational Painting

Students develop representational painting skills through still-life painting and by working from photographs. Students also develop research and critical skills by studying contemporary and historical art works, through discussion, and group critiques.
***Prerequisite: ART 240.***

ART 351 - Sculptural Materials and Ideas

A variety of approaches to contemporary sculptural practices will be explored. Students will move through a series of informative and engaging projects designed to challenge and enlighten. Materials and processes will vary and may include: DIY, advanced fabrication (wood and metal), modelling, casting, soft sculpture or contemporary crafting.
***Prerequisite: ART 250.***

ART 352 - Lost Wax Bronze Casting

Learn a process discovered over 4000 years ago. Each step necessary in creating a finished bronze sculpture will be taught in this class. Re-live the processes that shaped many of the iconic works of the High Renaissance and the Classical Era with a modern twist.
***Prerequisite: ART 250.***

ART 353 - Multiples and Mould Making

Why make one when you can make a bunch? Learn the nitty-gritty of multiples and mould making. Discover the secrets of reproducing originals exactly, including the human body. Or take originals and cut and paste to create something new. Flexible moulds, plaster, plastics and alternative materials will be explored.
***Prerequisite: ART 250.***

ART 354 - Diarama

Explore the box. Learn basic skills that will take your ideas a long way. Explore narrative based art making using small handmade boxes, individual crafted items and relevant and fitting found materials.
***Prerequisite: ART 250.***

ART 355 - Installation Art

A variety of exciting and diverse approaches to contemporary Installation Art will be explored. Re-examine the artist’s relationship to the gallery, move beyond the confines of the classroom and interact directly with public/private spaces, build your own custom tailored environment or redefine space all together.
***Pre-requisite: Permission of Department Head***

ART 356 - Lost Wax Processes

In preparation for ART 357 Bronze Casting, students will learn the initial steps to creating a work of art ready for bronze casting. Armatures, modelling, specialized mould-making and wax working will be covered. Relive processes that shaped the High Renaissance and Classical Era with a modern twist.
***Prerequisite ART 250.***

ART 357 - Bronze Casting

Students will learn a process invented over 4000 years ago. Utilizing wax pieces created in ART 356, this class will focus on the next steps in bronze casting: investment moulds, kiln firing, pit pouring, bronze casting, welding, and patination.
***Prerequisite: ART 356.***

ART 361 - Contemporary Ceramic Processes

Students will further develop some of the making skills and knowledge about contemporary ceramics practices introduced in ART 260. Through making ceramic works there will be an emphasis on learning to glaze, fire various kilns, and make your own clay. Relationships between ceramics processes and creative content will be investigated.
***Prerequisite ART 260.***

ART 362 - Contemporary Ceramic Multiples

Students will further develop some of the making skills and knowledge about contemporary ceramics practices introduced in ART 260. Through creative and experimental approaches to repetition and variation, students will have the opportunity to develop functional, sculptural and/or installation projects in wheel throwing, press-molding, slip casting, and various hand-building techniques.
***Prerequisite ART 260.***

ART 363 - Kiln Firing and Surfaces

Students will learn how to fire kilns, test and make glazes, produce other surface treatments, and make work that deepens skills and knowledge introduced in ART 260. Relationships between creative content, surface treatment, and firing processes will be investigated.
***Prerequisite: ART 260.***

ART 364 - Experimental Ceramics

Students will explore ceramic-based experimental and multimedia practices. Building on skills and knowledge introduced in ART 260, students will undertake research, invention, and innovation in relation to both conventional and unconventional contexts and techniques of contemporary ceramics. ***Prerequisite: ART 260.***

ART 365 - Ceramics: Size Matters

Students will deepen skills and knowledge of ceramics practices introduced in ART 260 with an emphasis on considerations of scale, including the miniature and gigantic.
***Prerequisite: ART 260.***

ART 366 - Ceramics: The Wheel

Students will develop the skill of throwing on the potter’s wheel and will consider its uses as a tool for making within a range of ceramics contexts - from the traditional through the experimental. Relationships between technique, design, aesthetics, and creative content will be investigated.
***Prerequisite: ART 260.***

ART 371 - Silkscreen and Stone

Drawing from opposite ends of the technological and historical spectrum, this intermediate level course introduces UV Silkscreen and Stone Lithography as means to develop and refine critical and aesthetic approaches to studio printmaking.
***Prerequisite ART 270.***

ART 372 - Lines and Letters

This intermediate level course examines aesthetic and conceptual implications of ink above and below the level of the printing matrix, through advanced instruction in Intaglio and Letterpress printmaking.
***Prerequisite ART 270.***

ART 390AB - Intermediate Painting

Individual research in Painting under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
**Permission of Department Head required to register**

ART 390AD - Intermediate Ceramics

Individual research in Ceramics under the direction of an Instructor chosen by the student.
**Permission of Department Head required to register**

ART 390AE - Intermediate Printmaking

Individual research in Printmaking under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
**Permission of Department Head required to register**

ART 390AJ - Figure Painting

Students will learn the fundamentals of painting the human figure including anatomy and colour mixing. Live models as well as photographs will be used.
***Prerequisite: ART 240.***

ART 390AK - Painting: Gender and the Body

An intermediate studio course in painting involving assignments, self-initiated projects, research and critiques focussed on building technical skill and meaningful content. The course will explore concepts of identity and gender relevant to individual students including LGBTQ perspectives.
***Prerequisite: ART 240***

ART 390AL - Intermediate 2D Studio

An intermediate studio course in drawing and painting involving assignments, self-initiated projects, research and critiques focused on building skills and meaningful content. Students must have taken the introductory level in either drawing or painting, or both, to focus on their work in this course. ***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

ART 390AM - Atmospheric Kiln Construction

Students will learn how to construct a Wood-Fired Soda Kiln and will work with a visiting artist/kiln building expert and the instructor to build an outdoor kiln. Students will also make work that is conceptualized specifically to be fired in this kiln.
***Prerequisite: ART 260***

ART 390AN - Landscape and Ecology in 2D Art

This class focuses on contemporary approaches to Landscape pertaining to concepts of ecology, environment, and place. Students have the choice to work with either painting or drawing media, or both.
***Prerequisites: ART 230 or ART 240 or Permission of the Instructor.***

ART 390AO - Multimedia Still Life

Students will create still life works in a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, ink, embroidery, and relief printmaking. This course aims not only to expose you to a variety of techniques, but also encourage you to think conceptually about the genre and its applicability. ***Prerequisite: ART 220.***

ART 390AP - Exploring Atmospheric Kilns

For intermediate ceramic students; this course will develop your understanding of atmospheric firing processes. You will fire, Raku, Wood and Soda (low/high) kilns. The course will focus on developing and making ceramics in the studio. Through demonstrations and practice-based learning, students will explore skills and concepts of atmospheric firing. ***Prerequisite: Two Ceramics courses from: ART 260, ART 290AH, ART 290AN, ART 290AO, ART 361, ART 362, and ART 363.***

ART 400 - Professional Issues I

Hands on skill development and practical information about art as a profession.
*Note: Restricted to Visual Arts Majors only.*

ART 401 - Exhibition Preparation

Continued discussion of professional issues, practices, and preparation of graduating exhibition/project and artist statement. Guest lectures and group critiques.
***Prerequisite: ART 400.***
*Note: Graduating year of BFA.*

ART 416 - Senior Group Studio

Students may work in multiple mediums under the guidance of more than one professor and in a community of student artists. This does not restrict students from choosing to work in a single media.
***Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of ART 300 level courses***

ART 417 - Senior Group Studio

Students may work in multiple mediums under the guidance of more than one professor and in a community of student artists. This does not restrict students from choosing to work in a single media.
***Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of ART 300 level courses***

ART 418 - Senior Group Studio

Students may work in multiple mediums under the guidance of more than one professor and in a community of student artists. This does not restrict students from choosing to work in a single media.
***Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of ART 300 level courses***

ART 419 - Senior Group Studio

Students may work in multiple mediums under the guidance of more than one professor and in a community of student artists. This does not restrict students from choosing to work in a single media.
***Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of ART 300 level courses***

ART 422 - Senior Photography I

Students in this senior-level course will continue to develop their independent photobased media practices through directed studio work, specific demonstrations and lectures, individual and group critiques, and other relevant activities, with increasing self-direction.
***Prerequisite: A minimum of 9 credit-hours of 300-level studio courses including ART 323 and one of ART 322, ART 324, ART 325, or FILM 311.***

ART 423 - Senior Photography II

Students in this senior-level course will continue to develop their independent photo-based media practice through directed studio work, specific demonstrations, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 422.***

ART 424 - Senior Photography III

Students in this senior-level course will continue to develop their independent photo-based media practice through directed studio work, specific demonstrations, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 423.***

ART 425 - Senior Photography IV

Students in this senior-level course will continue to develop their independent photo-based media practice through directed studio work, specific demonstrations, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 424.***

ART 426 - Senior Photography V

Students in this senior-level course will continue to develop their independent photo-based media practice through directed studio work, specific demonstrations, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 425.***

ART 430 - Senior Drawing I

Students in this senior-level drawing course will build upon the skills and concepts developed at the intermediate level. Students will be actively engaged in independent drawing practice through directed studio work, specific demonstrations and lectures, individual and group critiques, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: 9-credit hours of 300-level studio courses including 6-credit hours from 300-level drawing courses.***

ART 431 - Senior Drawing II

Students in this senior-level drawing course will continue to develop their independent drawing practices through directed studio work, specific demonstrations and lectures, individual and group critiques, and other relevant activities, with increasing self-direction.
**Pre-requisite: ART 430**

ART 432 - Senior Drawing III

Students in this senior-level drawing course will continue to develop their independent drawing practices through directed studio work, specific demonstrations and lectures, individual and group critiques, and other relevant activities, with increasing self-direction.
**Pre-requisite: ART 431**

ART 433 - Senior Drawing IV

Students in this senior-level drawing course will continue to develop their independent drawing practices through directed studio work, specific demonstrations and lectures, individual and group critiques, and other relevant activities, with increasing self-direction.
**Prerequisite: ART 432**

ART 434 - Senior Drawing V

Students in this senior-level drawing course will continue to develop their independent drawing practices through directed studio work, specific demonstrations and lectures, individual and group critiques, and other relevant activities, with increasing self-direction.
**Prerequisite: ART 433**

ART 440 - Senior Painting I

Students in this senior-level painting course will build upon the skills and concepts developed at the intermediate level. Through specific demonstrations and lectures, Students will further develop their painting practice through independent and directed studio work, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques.
***Prerequisite: 9-credit hours of 300-level studio courses including 6-credit hours from 300 level painting courses.***

ART 441 - Senior Painting II

Students in this senior-level painting course will be actively engaged in independent painting practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
**Prerequisite: ART 440**

ART 442 - Senior Painting III

Students in this senior-level painting course will be actively engaged in independent painting practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
**Prerequisite: ART 441**

ART 443 - Senior Painting IV

Students in this senior-level painting course will be actively engaged in independent painting practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
**Prerequisite: ART 442**

ART 444 - Senior Painting V

Students in this senior-level painting course will be actively engaged in independent painting practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
**Prerequisite: ART 443**

ART 450 - Senior Sculpture I

Students in this senior-level sculpture course will build upon the skills and concepts developed at the intermediate level. Through specific demonstrations and lectures, Students will further develop their sculpture practice through independent and directed studio work, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques.
***Prerequisite: 9-credit hours of 300-level studio courses including 6-credit hours from ART 351, 352, 353, 354, and 355.***

ART 451 - Senior Sculpture II

Students in this senior-level sculpture course will be actively engaged in independent sculpture practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
**Prerequisite: ART 450**

ART 452 - Senior Sculpture III

Students in this senior-level sculpture course will be actively engaged in independent sculpture practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 451***

ART 453 - Senior Sculpture III

Students in this senior-level sculpture course will be actively engaged in independent sculpture practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 452***

ART 454 - Senior Sculpture IV

Students in this senior-level sculpture course will be actively engaged in independent sculpture practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 453***

ART 460 - Senior Ceramics I

Students in this senior-level ceramics course will build upon the skills and concepts developed at the intermediate level. Through specific demonstrations and lectures, Students will further develop their ceramics practice through independent and directed studio work, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques.
***Prerequisite: 9-credit hours of 300-level studio courses including ART 361 and 362.***

ART 461 - Senior Ceramics II

Students in this senior-level ceramics course will be actively engaged in independent ceramics practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 460***

ART 462 - Senior Ceramics III

Students in this senior-level ceramics course will be actively engaged in independent ceramics practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 461***

ART 463 - Senior Ceramics IV

Students in this senior-level ceramics course will be actively engaged in independent ceramics practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 462***

ART 464 - Senior Ceramics V

Students in this senior-level ceramics course will be actively engaged in independent ceramics practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 463***

ART 470 - Senior Printmaking I

Students in this senior-level printmaking course will build upon the skills and concepts developed at the intermediate level. Through specific demonstrations and lectures, Students will further develop their printmaking practice through independent and directed studio work, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques.
***Prerequisite: 9-credit hours of 300-level studio courses including ART 371 and ART 372.***

ART 471 - Senior Printmaking II

Students in this senior-level printmaking course will be actively engaged in independent printmaking practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 470***

ART 472 - Senior Printmaking III

Students in this senior-level printmaking course will be actively engaged in independent printmaking practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 471***

ART 473 - Senior Printmaking IV

Students in this senior-level printmaking course will be actively engaged in independent printmaking practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 472***

ART 474 - Senior Printmaking V

Students in this senior-level printmaking course will be actively engaged in independent printmaking practice through directed studio work, individual and group critiques, lectures, and other relevant activities.
***Prerequisite: ART 473***

ART 490AA - Senior Drawing Studies

Individual research for students in the Drawing discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
** Permission of the department head is required to register. **

ART 490AB - Senior Painting Studies

Individual research for students in the Painting discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student

ART 490AC - Senior Sculpture Studies

Individual research for students in the Sculpture discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.

ART 490AE - Senior Printmaking Studies

Individual research for students in the Printmaking discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
** Permission of the department head is required to register. **

ART 490AJ - Advanced Kiln Construction

Advanced students will work with the instructor and a visiting artist/kiln building expert to build an outdoor Wood-fired Soda (atmospheric) kiln. Students will also make ceramic works that are conceptualized specifically to be fired in this kiln and undertake research into related practices in contemporary ceramic art. ***Prerequisite: Two of ART 361, 362, 363, 364, 461, 462, 463, 464 or permission of the department head ***

ART 490AK - Indigenous Land/Art Practices

This course will explore Indigenous land based artistic and curatorial practice from theoretical, critical and experiential perspectives. It will include land and water engagement, gathering and working with Indigenous materials, skill-based workshops, site interventions and performances. The course will include significant time on the land.
***ARTH 100 or INAH 100 and INDG 100 or permission of Instructor***

ART 490AP - Advanced Atmospheric Firing

Advanced ceramics students will develop work for and knowledge of atmospheric firing processes. You will fire, Raku, Wood and Soda (low and high) kilns. The course focuses on developing your ceramics in the studio. Through demonstrations, practice-based learning, and studio making, students will explore atmospheric firing as contemporary ceramics practice.
***Prerequisite: One 300 level ceramics course from ART 361, ART 362, or ART 363.***

ART 491AA - Senior Drawing Studies

Individual research for students in the Drawing discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
** Permission of the department head is required to register. **

ART 491AB - Senior Painting Studies

Individual research for students in the Painting discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
** Permission of the department head is required to register. **

ART 491AC - Senior Sculpture Studies

Individual research for students in the Sculpture discipline under the direciton of an instructor chosen by the student.
** Permission of the department head is required to register. **

ART 491AE - Senior Printmaking Studies

Individual research for students in the Printmaking discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student.
** Permission of the department head is required to register. **

ART 492AC - Senior Sculpture Studies

Individual research for students in the Sculpture discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student

ART 493AC - Senior Sculpture Studies

Individual research for students in the Sculpture discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by student

ART 494AC - Senior Sculpture Studies

Individual research for students in the Sculpture discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student

ART 495AC - Senior Sculpture Studies

Individual research for students in the Sculpture discipline under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student

ART 496AB - Senior Photography I

Students in this senior-level photography course will build upon the skills and concepts developed at the intermediate level. Through specific demonstrations and lectures, Students will further develop their photography practice through independent and directed studio work, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques.
***Prerequisite: A minimum of 9 credit-hours of 300-level studio courses including ART 322, ART 390AI, or FILM 311***

ART 801 - Group Studio

Group seminar led by studio faculty to discuss and write about student's studio practice.

ART 802 - Group Studio

Group seminar led by studio faculty to discuss and write about student's studio practice.

ART 803 - Group Studio

Group seminar led by studio faculty to discuss and write about student's studio practices.

ART 804 - Group Studio

Group seminar led by studio faculty to discuss and write about student's studio practice.

ART 820AC - Video Installation

The class will focus on the development of video imagery and the creation of a video installation. The course will blend technical learning, research into the history and practice within the field and the completion a creative project, accompanied by a two-page statement.

ART 820AD - Kinetic Investigations

Working between Intermedia and Sculpture, the course will focus on studio production and research, investigating art works that employ movement and/or interactivity.

ART 820AF - Investigating Interactivity

This graduate studio course is geared towards contextualizing and resolving strategies for promoting interactivity in artistic practice. Calling upon technical and conceptual modes of investigation, notions of location for the placement of artistic work to promote interactive viewer experiences will be explored.

ART 820AG - Installation Art

The class will focus on the development of works that address the intersection of art, audience and site/space. The course will blend practical investigations in spatial practice with research into aspects of installation art.

ART 820AH - Electronics for Interactivity

Electronics for artists. An introduction to topics including: history of physical computing and embedded electronics; resistive circuit theory and functional computer programming; sensors and actuators; power systems and mechatronics; soldering. The course will focus on a single embedded platform such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

ART 820AJ - Investigating Interactivity II

This graduate studio course is geared towards further contextualizing and resolving strategies for promoting interactivity in artistic practice as begun in Art 820AF.

ART 820AL - Documenting Practice

This graduate studio course, resulting in a book work, will focus on documentation as a critical investigation into the question of what constitutes art practice. The student will engage in a disciplined approach to documenting practice in a range of media which may include writing, film, imaging, print, and drawing.

ART 820AN - Media Archaeology

This course supports studio art production and theoretical investigation in the area of media archaeology. With an emphasis on experimentation and studio production, this course encourages investigations of ‘old’ moving-image media within an intermedia art context. Students will contextualize practice with theoretical and historical research.

ART 820AO - Performance Art Practice

This course will focus on the development of works in performance art, blending practical investigations with historical and contextual research.

ART 820AP - A/V Intermedia Explorations

This course will focus on intermedia approaches to making use of archival materials in storytelling and contemporary art making, exploring intersections of print, photo, audio, video, and other suitable media.

ART 820AQ - Feminist Constructions

This course will focus on the development of artworks exploring gender and the body through a feminist lens, blending practical investigations with historical and contextual research.

ART 820AR - Art and Climate Change

This course will focus on the material and conceptual development of artworks exploring issues of climate change and environmental activism.

ART 820AS - Eco Art & Intermedia Research

This class will employ an intermedia approach to creating work that investigates critical place inquiry and environmental crisis. Focusing on processes which involve a minimal environmental impact, the student will explore intersections of 2D and 3D, performance, and photo documentation.

ART 820AT - Intermedia Research-Creation I

This graduate level course will focus on developing research-creation methods and art works in the realm of site-specificity, ephemerality, and found objects/materials, engaging walking, drawing, and writing as embodied forms of exploring and knowing place.

ART 830AA - Drawing and Paper-Based Projects

A course involving an exploration of drawing and related paper based projects.

ART 830AB - Intermedia Approaches to Drawing

Experiments in drawing with both tradition and digital media. Course requirements are a completed suite of art-works or an installation, in addition to research and presentations

ART 830AC - Drawing and Imagery Development

A studio-based course in drawing, where the student will be developing imagery for use in printmaking practice. Investigation into media and paper supports, scale, methods of drawing. Preparatory and finished drawings will be required. The student will research contemporary artists whose work is based in the medium of drawing.

ART 830AH - Drawing Relating to Sculpture

A studio course where drawings will be created in various media. Student will complete a body of finished drawings as well as preparatory sketches.

ART 830AJ - Drawing: Narrating the Body

A studio course focussing on the creation of drawings based on the body. The student will also conduct research into contemporary artists working with drawing mediums.

ART 830AL - Drawing as Research

This is an applied research course in which the student will—through drawing, digital photography, collage, text, and other graphic means—research text as image/art.

ART 830AM - Expressionism in Drawing

Explorations in drawing using a wide range of drawing materials and papers, 5 projects including a research project on an artist related to the student’s work.

ART 840AB - Painting in Contemporary Contexts and Practices

Build on the skills and ideas developed by the student in previous work and courses. Emphasis is on deepening those skills and ideas, especially on the building of a substanial body of work.

ART 840AI - Aboriginal Visual Narratives

The student will research traditional and contemporary Aboriginal visual narrative strategies and then make works (paintings) that reflect this research.

ART 840AJ - Contemporary Aboriginal Painting and Sculpture

This course involves the exploration of contemporary Aboriginal painting and sculpture and its relation to traditional subject matter. The course will also include research into related artworks, contemporary artists and subject matter.

ART 840AK - Formal Issues in Painting

Studio work in the area of painting. Colour studies and research into artists of relevance to student’s practice. Further investigations into conceptual notions within painting practice. Completion of 4 works required.

ART 840AM - Painting Technique and Concept

The student will produce a substantial and cohesive body of work, developing technical and conceptual aspects of their painting practice. Discussions with the instructor will address technique and concept, and the relationship of the student's work to contemporary art practice.

ART 840AO - Personal Imagery in Painting

The student will develop imagery of personal significance and create oil paintings utilizing this imagery. Four significant paintings will be completed as well as research and preparatory works.

ART 850AA - Graduate Sculpture

A studio-based exploration of contemporary sculpture, ART 850AA will explore themes relevant to current three-dimensional practices. Students will be encouraged to examine their current practice with the intent of making new discoveries while reinforcing strengths. Course content will vary depending on the student’s objectives. Exploration and experimentation will be encouraged.

ART 850AB - Graduate Sculpture II

Art 850 AB will continue to encourage students to stretch their studio practice while fine tuning objectives. Exploration and discovery will be supported with an emphasis on refinement and display. Acknowledging discipline-based practices, students will be challenged to think beyond the autonomous stand-alone object.

ART 850AC - Exploration in Scale for Non-Majors

Fostering a greater understanding of the transformation of scale, students will be lead through advanced maquette making. The goal is to assist students in realizing at least one "study" in a 1:1 scale. Geared to non-majors, a variety of materials and approaches will be explored with their specific needs considered.

ART 850AD - Maquette Development

The student will develop a range of sculptural concepts and designs through the construction of various preparatory models/maquettes.

ART 850AE - 3D Modelling, Rendering

Directed study in the area of sculpture, under the supervision of a faculty member(s). The class will focus on material and scale explorations in context of contemporary sculpture / 3D practices. New methodologies such as computer rendering will be examined as a component of the class.

ART 850AG - Kinetic Sculpture and Design Research

This is an applied research course in which the student will design a series of kinetic sculptures. The course includes background research into related art works, prototype drawing, technical research and seminar discussion. The student will produce a portfolio of project designs and several working maquettes

ART 850AI - Investigation between Sculpture and Drawing

This class will focus on the relationship between sculpture and drawing. The student will create several maquettes and a minimum of four sculptural/drawing works. The course will also include research into related artworks, contemporary artists and subject matter.

ART 850AJ - Multiples Duplicates Doubles

Focussed on multiples, the course will utilize historical and current technologies. The class will take a critical look at various techniques, methodologies and philosophies relevant to the topic, positioned within contemporary practice.

ART 850AL - 3D Human Form Studies

The student’s primary objective in this class is to gain a better understanding of the human form as a three-dimensional subject; self-directed anatomical studies will lead to fully rendered forms. Studies will be conducted in your choice of medium in preparation for advanced mould-making and casting.

ART 850AN - CAD in Sheet Media II

CAD in Sheet Media II continues studies in CAD in Sheet Media. Content is student driven with the instructor’s guidance. Students will continue working at a more advanced level with the objective of creating work for display. Various display methods will be explored.

ART 850AO - From Found to Fabricated

This course will examine how an idea can exist across several mediums. The history and nature of each medium will be explored. An emphasis will be placed on exploring possible connections otherwise unexplored. Mediums may be as diverse as light and wood; materials may be found or purchased.

ART 850AP - Focus On the Hand

This course will explore the fuzzy intersection between “Art” and “Craft”; two terms many contemporary artists blur as one. Focusing on material exploration and experimentation, the student will work to better understand the role of the handmade within their own practice.

ART 850AQ - Solidifying the Soft

ART 850AQ will focus on sculptural explorations utilizing soft media such as (but not limited to) cloth and yarn. Emphasis will be placed on material transformation, experimentation and display. Students will be encouraged to try various ways of presenting their work while examining contemporary artists who utilize similar processes.

ART 850AR - Abstraction and Representation

This studio course will focus on the intersection between abstraction and representation. An in-depth examination of the uncertainty of creative modalities, the course will look at how practices reflect and adapt to things like: social change, political unrest, environmental concerns, collective anxiety, discomfort and/or uncertainty.

ART 860AA - Graduate Ceramic Studio

The course is stuctured around the development of studio work in ceramics with the consideration and context of the historical and contemporary issues in sculpture, craft, and design.

ART 860AD - Ceramic Vessel as Sculpture

This studio course will use the vessel as a subject for sculpture through an exploration of the aesthetics and abstract, non-objective form of the vessel.

ART 860AF - Advanced Ceramics Installation

This studio course will use experimental ceramic-based installation formats to develop a concept or theme. Independent research into relevant artistic practices, directed readings, and material investigations will be required. Media may include fired ceramics, unfired clay, found objects or other materials.

ART 860AG - The Body and the Clay Vessel

A studio course exploring the expressive potential of creating ceramic vessels in relation to body movement and historically embedded ceramic processes. Six to eight completed ceramic vessels as well as experimental works and research will be undertaken.

ART 860AH - Figure and Form

This is an applied research course in which the student will create a series of ceramic sculptures based on the human figure in motion. The course includes background research into related art works, prototype drawing, and seminar discussion. The resulting works may also include drawing, video and other media.

ART 860AI - Ceramic Sculptural Form

The student will work within ceramic sculptural methods, developing a range of techniques, including: hand building, wheel-throwing, casting, and various surface treatments to produce a body of work informed by specific thematic content determined the first class. In addition, the student will investigate current ceramic sculptural practices.

ART 860AJ - Advanced Ceramic Sculpture

The student will work with advanced technical and conceptual contemporary ceramic sculptural methods. Techniques will include hand building, and mold-making, and various surface treatments. A body of work informed by specific thematic content determined the first class will be created.

ART 860AK - Figurative Ceramic Sculpture

The student will create figurative ceramic sculpture using a conceptual framework relevant to contemporary ceramics practices. Techniques will include hand building, moldmaking and various surface treatments. A body of work informed by specific thematic content determined first class will be created.

ART 870AA - Thematic Approaches to Printmaking (l)

This studio course focuses on projects in graduate level printmaking. Independent studio work based on thematic and technical motivations of the student, in consultation with the instructor will be undertaken. Weekly meetings to discuss the overall development of the project(s) including related theoretical and conceptual components will inform a thematic trajectory for ongoing research and studio production.

ART 870AB - Exploring the Self: Family History, Traditions and Heritage

This graduate level printmaking course focuses on exploring personal connections to family history, traditions, language, and heritage as a broad theme for criticism and contextualization of the Self. Discussions of overall development, including related theoretical and conceptual components, will inform a thematic trajectory for studio research.

ART 870AC - Process and Content: The Technical and Conceptual in Printmaking

Continuing a dialogue with ideas around personal connections to family history, traditions, language, and heritage as a broad theme for the criticism and contextualization of the Self, the content of this graduate level course will be (re)focused on the manner in which varying print processes inform the work.

ART 870AD - Illustration and the Book

Engaging a dialogue with ideas around personal history, traditions, and identity, the content of this course will be focused on the manner in which the interconnectedness of Printmaking processes, illustration, and book arts serve as an aesthetic, conceptual, and functional vehicle for production and dissemination of compelling visual work.

ART 870AE - Binding and Book Arts

Engaging a variety of approaches to collating, connecting, and displaying narrative and/or non-narrative printed material, this studio course focuses on the aesthetic, functional, and conceptual implications of binding, as they relate to book arts.

ART 870AF - Text & Typography

This class will investigate the technical and conceptual implications of the use of text in contemporary printmaking. Theoretical and practical notions of Typography – from hand-set type and letterpress printing, through to digital typesetting for silkscreen, lithography, or intaglio, and screen-based and non-conventional “printing” – will form the basis for this course.

ART 870AG - Interactive Printmaking

This graduate level class will focus on interactivity and unconventional approaches to printmaking media. Three-dimensionality, mobility and motion-sensitivity, and the integration of print media into a broad array of contemporary artistic practice will form the conceptual and practical basis of this course.

ART 870AH - Seriality and narrative

This graduate level studio course examines seriality and narrative using printmaking, painting, and drawing, in conventional and digital modes of image-making.

ART 884AA - Document Represent Present

This graduate studio course will focus on the technical and creative development of photographic works based on existing studio works. Camera, digital editing, and printing skills will be developed. The student will also conduct research into contemporary innovations in digital photographic presentation, and conceptual investigations into photography.

ART 884AB - Conceptual Print Practice

Exploring digital imaging as a fast way to sketch ideas for print project. The student will research contemporary conceptual art practices and their precedents to contextualize working with image and text, seriality, and list-making in print projects.

ART 884AC - Photography and Activism

This graduate studio course will focus on the technical and creative development of digital photographic works and a research-creation documentation website. Art historical, theoretical, and contextual research into the relationships of photography, mass media, and activism will be conducted and documented throughout the semester.

ART 884AD - Photography and Performance

This course in photography explores gender and autobiographical narrative, and documentation of live performance. The student will be engaged in performative work utilizing costumes and props. A body of original photographic work will be produced as well as a journal reflecting on the ideas manifested in the photographs.

ART 884AE - Photography and Performance II

This course continues to explore gender, autobiographical narrative, and the documentation of the performance of self using photography. A body of work will be produced from several series and photo-based sketches, along with written documentation of the artist’s process, practice, and works created.

ART 884AF - MFA Photo-Based Media I

This graduate course focuses on research and creation in the area of photography and video. The primary subject is transportation, immigration, and loss from a feminist point of view. The final project is likely a photo and video projection installation.

ART 884AG - MFA Photo-Based Media II

This graduate course will focus on the continued development of ideas and artworks in photo-based media during the second semester or later, of the Visual Arts MFA.

ART 884AH - MFA Photo-Based Media III

This graduate course will focus on the continued development of ideas and artworks in photo-based media during the third semester, or later, of the Visual Arts MFA.

ART 884AI - MFA Photo-Based Media IV

This graduate course will focus on the continued development of ideas and artworks in photo-based media during the fourth semester, or later, of the Visual Arts MFA.

ART 884AJ - PhD Photo-Based Media I

This graduate course focuses on the development of ideas and artworks in photo-based practices (including still and video). Independent studio work based on thematic and technical innovations of the student, in consultation with the instructor, will be undertaken.

ART 890BH - Creative Art Writing

In this graduate course, students study and produce critical and creative writing about their art practices and/or the practices of others.

ART 890BI - Environmental Art Context

This course in environmental art practice will focus on the creative development of studio works and readings related to environmental art, ephemerality, and the philosophy of art. Weekly blog posts will include documentation of studio process, as well as reflective and critical writing in response to readings.

ART 890JP - The Art of Kyoto

For hundreds of years, Kyoto has been the centre of traditional arts and crafts in Japan. On this Study Tour, we will visit sites of artistic and cultural importance, and meet local artists and educators as a means to better understanding the local and global importance of this dynamic city.

ART 902 - Research and Exhibition

Research into studio concerns and preparation of the exhibition. Students must complete 12 credit hours in total.

ARTH 100 - Introduction to Art History

This course surveys the history of art and visual culture from prehistoric times to the present. Taking a global perspective, students discover key moments in the development of human creativity, which continue to shape our understanding of the material, historical, and social importance of art in the present day.

ARTH 204 - Modern Art History

What inspired and influenced artists to make art more “modern” in the second half of the nineteenth century? This course explores over a century of art making and considers how Modern art ushered in a revolutionary new relationship to art making and viewing, which continues to influence us today.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 211 - Introduction to Curatorial Display

Which values, traditions, and ideas regulate the public collecting and display of art? How do museums, galleries, and other institutions shape their visual messages? By investigating theoretical approaches, exploring professional practices, and engaging with hands-on experience, you will be introduced to fundamental notions regulating the museum profession.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of ARTH 211 and ARTH 380AB.*

ARTH 222 - History of Photography

How has photography transformed our world? This course surveys the history of photography considering its artistic, scientific, and documentary uses, from 1839 to present. Learn about evolving technologies, from glass plate to digital, alongside the analysis of key figures, movements, and the social, aesthetic, and political impact of the medium.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 280 - History of Ceramics

How have ceramic arts been practiced around the world and throughout history? This course explores cross-cultural perspectives on ceramics, across geographical regions from prehistory to today. Students learn about a wide variety of traditions, including clay as architecture, cooking medium, conceptual and sculptural material.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 290AF - Archiving Visual Arts

When researching artists, living or dead, primary sources are central to gaining a full picture of their creative histories. This course will explore the role of archives, galleries and museums in preserving, protecting, and promoting the visual arts. Students will learn through site tours and active engagement with primary sources.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 301 - Art Theory and Criticism

This course helps students discover concepts and terminology necessary for discussions of art making, art criticism, and art theory. We will consider historical and contemporary ideas about aesthetics, power, race, gender, semiotics, materialism, and other ways to “read” art. Our aim is to apply theory to the practice of art criticism!
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 302 - Art and Collecting

How does collecting art inform its value? This course examines the histories, theories, and practices of collecting and display. Students learn about the birth of modern museums, the history of private and institutional collecting, colonial collecting, and the role of custodianship, connoisseurship, and provenance in shaping a collection.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 313 - Art and its Business

This course investigates selected topics in art and culture, such as the economic lives of artists, histories of patronage, the art market, wonder and curiosity, print culture and popular culture, artistic techniques, the body, and portraiture and identity.
*Note: Cultures of Display Option*

ARTH 314 - Contemporary Art Since 1960

This course explores an array of critical ideas and artistic practices, from the 1960s to the present. Students learn about the methods and theoretical approaches to art making and analysis, including institutional critique, installation, video, and performance, as well as current debates about decolonizing art history, curation, and the museum.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 320 - Feminist Art History

How has women’s art production been marginalized in the history of art? This course approaches art through an intersectional lens, exploring how feminist theory, from the 1970s to today, has driven the global recovery of women’s artistic production and challenged the evaluation of art based on race, gender, and sexuality.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 324 - Canadian Art History

What makes an artwork Canadian? This course considers how the idea of Canadian art has evolved in relation to dominant trends in regional, national, and international art, from the colonial period to today. Students learn about key artists, movements, and ideas that have shaped the history of art in Canada.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 340 - Contemporary Indigenous Art and Colonialism

How do Indigenous artists address the global experience of colonialism? This course examines themes related to colonialism and decolonization as reflected in contemporary Indigenous art practices in North America, New Zealand, and Australia, including activism, storytelling, and humour as decolonial/anti-colonial tools responding to historic experiences and state aggression.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 380AD - Ceramics Theory

Student will be introduced to gallery practice, guided in academic research on the topics of museums and galleries and draft a report accounting for their experience during their internship.
*** Prerequisite: One of ARTH 201, 202, 212, 213 and ARTH 204; plus two 300-level ARTH courses. ***

ARTH 390AJ - Topics in Arts Theory

This course will explore theoretical directions in contemporary art and and the history of art.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours of completed course work including ARTH 100 or INAH 100.***

ARTH 391AA - Curatorial Strategies and Applications

What are the different strategies to curating art today? This course teaches the theoretical and applied concepts needed to design an exhibition. Students develop specific skills for working in a gallery or museum, from researching and handling artworks to laying out an exhibition space, informed by contemporary best practices.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ARTH 391AA, ARTH 440, or ARTH 490AA.*
*Note: Cultures of Display Option.*

ARTH 440 - Curatorial Strategies and Applications

What are the different strategies to curating art today? This course teaches the theoretical and applied concepts needed to design an exhibition. Students develop specific skills for working in a gallery or museum, from researching and handling artworks to laying out an exhibition space, informed by contemporary best practices.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 211 and 30 credit hours of completed course work.***

ARTH 490AF - Issues in Exhibition

Theoretical investigations into the issues related to the development and framing of an exhibition.
*Note: Cultures of Display Option*

ARTH 490AK - History of Collecting

The course will explore histories of collecting in early modern Western culture, as well as the development of the first modern museums of art.

ARTH 490AO - Indigenous/BIPOC Arts Praxis

Creation, curation, and performance can be powerful means to bring marginalized stories forward and claim spaces of erasure. This class explores Indigenous and BIPOC artists, performers, curators, and collectives who are doing this hard work, and their impacts on local and global platforms such as Documenta and the Venice Biennale.
***Prerequisite: ARTH 100, INAH 100, or permission of the instructor.***

ARTH 494AA - ArtH Hon. Thesis Bibliography

Thesis proposal outlining the chosen topic with a set of questions and a hypothesis.

ARTH 494AB - Art History Advanced Research

This course offers students the opportunity to do independent and in depth research into the history of art, under the direction of an instructor of their choice. Students will gain advanced research skills in art history and learn to develop a project from initial idea to completion. ***Prerequisite: ARTH 301.***

ARTH 890AA - Migrating Practice

This course will interrogate the theoretical notion of migration in relation to practise in three specific domains: literature, theory and art. We will locate mightation theory by examining a novel and two short stories; four contemporary art exhibitions; and two works dealing with migration as a theoretical foundation.

ARTH 890AB - Collecting in Context

This course examines ways in which museums display art, how institutions think and to what extent collections have impacted on national and local identity. Topics and case studies will allow for consideration of concepts including public and private ownership, the state and the individual, antiquarianism, custodianship and provenance.

ARTH 890AC - Preliminary Corpus Definition

For the course the student will define the preliminary corpus of the thesis project in terms of content, theory, and methodology.

ARTH 890AD - Landmark Texts in Post-Colonial Theory

An investigation of major theoretical works in post-colonial theory, including texts by Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak and others.

ARTH 890AE - Studies in the History of Virtual Art

This course will examine the history of virtual art and its role in the larger scheme of art in the early part of this century. Consisting of reading, oral discussions and writings, the student will examine the art historical traditions of virtual art.

ARTH 890AF - Cultural Studies Theory and Practice: Display and Identity

This course examines some of the foundational texts of contemporary cultural studies. The course emphasizes a critical approach to display culture and identity.

ARTH 890AG - Contemporary Aboriginal Art

The student will compile an annotated data base of Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Artists.

ARTH 890AH - Curating in Practice

The practical application of curatorial theory and museological methodologies within an institutional context. Development of a working knowledge of contemporary display cultures will be emphasized.

ARTH 890AI - Visual Storytelling Strategies of the First Nations of the Great Plains

An art historical study of visual storytelling strategies of the First Nations of the Great Plains. Students will research 19th and 20th century tepee liners, ledger drawings and winter count hide paintings to determine the variety of reasons for the production of these objects.

ARTH 890AJ - Collecting and Display in the Museum

By selecting and discussing a series of case studies, this course will explore traditions, conventions, theories, and practices of collecting and displaying art in historic and contemporary museums.

ARTH 890AK - Expanding the Moving Image

This course covers experimental contemporary practices in moving image arts. Topics include: 360° immersive cinema and systems; glitch, generative and software art; VR, augmented reality and mixed reality; media + architecture and media facades; moving image as tactical media; media archaeologies. Students develop case studies examining diverse practices.

ARTH 890AL - Topics in Sculpture I

By analyzing a series of case studies and different historiographical approaches, this course investigates the history of sculpture, dealing with issues of style, iconography, relations between artists and patrons, and the role of sculptors in society in different times and cultures.

ARTH 890AM - Topics in Sculpture II

This course will investigate a series of case studies shedding light on the practice of sculpture throughout history, looking at sculptors in their workshops and studios, focusing on issues such as techniques, materials, scale, relationship between sculpture and its display context.

ARTH 890AN - Theories in Curation

This course involves a critical investigation of directions in curatorial theory and practice. Student will analyze a range of models and perspectives in this growing body of literature.

ARTH 890AO - Imagining the Non-Human in Eearly Modern Europe

By analyzing a series of case studies and different historiographical approaches, this course investigates relations between people and animals, focussing especially on the early modern European context, and investigating both practices and theories of collecting, and principles of representation.

ARTH 890AP - Collecting: History and Theory

This course explores histories and theories of collecting in the Western world, with particular emphasis on material culture, mobility of objects, and strategies of display.

ARTH 890AQ - Visual Culture of Metis Travel

Independent research-based class into the visual and material culture of Metis movement, which will include a literature scan, archival research, and interviews with a contemporary builder of Red River carts. Topics will include: routes, maps, Red River carts, York boats, dog teams and visual markers of movement.

ARTH 890AR - Bronze: Making and Collecting

This course explores histories, practices, and theories of bronze casting and collecting in the Western world, with particular emphasis on small bronzes, their circulation, and their status in the context of the history of sculpture from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

ARTH 890AS - Theories of Art for Makers

This course will examine key concepts, theories, and frameworks in contemporary art with the goal of enriching the practices of makers. Through in depth engagement with art works and theoretical readings, graduate students will develop an understanding of how research concerns are informing current practices of art making.

ARTH 890AT - Studies in Contemporary Art and Curatorship

Biennials have proved to be “the medium through which most contemporary art comes to be known” (Filipovic et al., The Biennial Reader, 2010). This course will explore the curatorial structure of the biennale and art fair as a model for contemporary art engagement, spectacle, and tourism in a globalized world.

ARTS 199AA - Sports, Play, and Competition

Join faculty from the humanities and social sciences as they explore Sports, Play, and Competition from a variety of perspectives. In this course, we will discuss such topics as magical thinking, religion and fan culture, gender identities, sports psychology, and, of course, The Roughriders. Through these discussions, you will be introduced to the variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

ARTS 800 - Studies in Culture

The course will provide advanced study into the definition and practice of culture from a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. It is based on an existing course, ENGL 817AA, The Poetics of Culture, but the content will be adapted by individual instructors.

AWEI 300AY - Arts EnviroCollective Internship

This internship is for Geography and Environmental Studies students. Students will be matched with a local environmental non-profit organization to plan and execute a special event around the theme of moving towards net zero. A reflective paper on the students experience will be required. **Permission by the AWEI Selection Committee is required to register.**
*Note: Students must fill out the Worker's Compensation Agreement form prior to going on Internship.*

CATH 200 - Introduction to Catholic Studies

As a comprehensive introduction to Catholic Studies, this course explores the intriguing history, dynamic culture, and widespread influence of the Catholic tradition.

CATH 290AB - Ancient & Early Christian Art

This course begins with a review of Greek and Roman art, with a focus on key words and their principles and ideals. It then examines early Christian artistic production, with an emphasis on how craftsmen adopted and transformed the practices of their Classical predecessors.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200 or permission of the Program Coodinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CATH 290AB or CLAS 290AB.*

CATH 290AC - Science and Ethics with view from a Catholic perspective

Scientific breakthroughs have indelibly changed our lives, yet one seldom reflects on what these changes do to us as human beings. This course will survey different lines of anthropological perspectives, including that of the Catholic Church. With these in mind, the implications of contemporary scientific and technological issues will be discussed. These include topics such as reproductive technologies, stem cell research, the human genome project, human enhancement technologies, ecology and internet-related matters.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AG - Mary in Catholic Tradition

Mary of Nazareth's impact on Christianity has been undeniable. But what is her relevance today? This class will approach Mary from various perspectives: scripture, history, popular devotions, and official Church teaching. Other topics will address her contribution to art, culture, literature, women, indigenous and other marginalized groups.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AH - Principles of Catholic Education

Developed in consultation with the Faculty of Education and Regina Catholic Schools, this course is designed to equip both Education students and teachers to serve in Catholic Schools. The course will explore Catholic pedagogy of education from both theoretical and practical points of view.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AI - Catholicism and the Paranormal

This course will survey the Catholic Church's historical and contemporary reactions to the supernatural. It will focus in particular on topics such as apparitions, levitation, ghosts and possession, mystical visions, Eucharistic miracles, bilocation, the occult, stigmata, as well as other unexplained religious phenomena.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AJ - Catholic Heritage & Culture: Ireland

This course explores the legends, sites, monuments, and landscapes that make Ireland unforgettable. Day trips around Dublin, Belfast, Galway, and Kildare will engage Ireland's most famous landmarks. Time for independent study will allow students to encounter scenic rural landscapes and lively music scenes from Dublin to Galway.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AK - Mystics, Saints, and Sinners

This course explores the collective legacy of ten influential Catholics whose work and writings continue to resonate across religious as well as secular society. A thematic engagement of renowned saints, reputed sinners, and quirky mystics will provide insight into the diversity of oddball characters that help comprise the Catholic Church.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AL - Catholicism & Human Sexuality

Exploration of the Catholic Church's understanding of sexual expression with a focus on topics such as reciprocity, fidelity, romantic love, sexual identities, and intimacy with special attention given to the work of Pope St. John Paul II as well as other contemporary Catholic thinkers.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AM - Catholic Heritage & Culture: Scotland

This course explores the legends, sites, and monuments that make Scotland unforgettable. Day trips around historic cities such as Edinburgh and Glasgow will highlight the country's most famous landmarks. Time for independent study will allow students to encounter rustic landscapes and bustling culture from Loch Ness to Balmoral Castle.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 290AN - The Church, the Bible, and Violence

Religious texts can provoke and sanction violence. The Church has struggled with internal and external violence for centuries. Utilizing various analytical models, we will examine pertinent biblical texts as well as the symbolic world of apocalypticism and the misuse of religious language and symbols.
***Prerequisite is 15 credit hours or permission of Instructor.***

CATH 290AO - Spirituality and Christian Life in Early Catholicism

The New Testament presents a vision of a transformed world and humanity. The course will explore the various currents of New Testament spirituality and their relationship with culture, society, and experience. This will include apocalyptic spirituality, ecstatic experience, prayer, violence, sexuality, gender, the sacred, and group identity.
***Prerequisite is 15 credit hours or permission of Instructor.***

CATH 290AP - Visual Interpretation of the Bible: The Church, the Bible, and Art 100 to 1500

From the beginning of Christianity to the present day, visual art has reflected many interpretations of Scripture, doctrinal issues, the experience of society and the community, suffering, and changing perceptions of divinity and humanity. Understanding religious art provides insights into the psyche and soul of society and the Church.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CATH 390AB - History of the Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) left an indelible mark on the history of the Church and the modern age. This course explores the origin, expansion, suppression and return of the Jesuits, examining their impact on political, religious, socio-cultural and intellectual life in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CATH 390AB, HIST 390AF, or RLST 390AL.*

CATH 390AD - Catholic Social Teaching

An introduction to Catholic social teaching with a dual focus on critical theory and praxis. Students will engage the Church's position on issues such as human dignity, solidarity with minority and oppressed populations, the common good, subsidiarity, rights and responsibilities, as well as the preferential option for the poor.
***Prerequisite: CATH 200 or permission of Instructor.***

CHIN 111 - Introductory Mandarin Chinese I

This course will focus on introducing modern standard Chinese (Mandarin) language and culture, including the Chinese pronunciation system, essential vocabulary and grammar, reading and writing Chinese characters. Communicative competence and cross-cultural awareness are emphasized.
*** Prerequisite: No previous background in Mandarin Chinese or other Chinese dialect. Refer to the Department of International Languages section (How to choose a language) in the Undergraduate Calendar for details. ***
* Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 100 or CHIN 111.*

CHIN 112 - Introductory Mandarin Chinese II

This course is a continuation of CHIN 111. Students will review the pronunciation system; build on the vocabulary, structure and grammar concepts introduced in CHIN 111; and be introduced to additional characters. Further emphasis on communicative competence and cross-cultural understanding.
*** Prerequisite: CHIN 111 or Grade 12 Mandarin or permission of the Department. ***
* Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 101 or CHIN 112.*

CHIN 211 - Intermediate Chinese I

This course is designed to reinforce and further develop the material covered in introductory courses. Everyday speech patterns are stressed in order to strengthen communicative competence. Simplified short stories, poems, and idioms are introduced to further develop students’ ability to read and write in both Chinese Pinyin and characters.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 112, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 102 or CHIN 211.*

CHIN 212 - Intermediate Chinese II

A continuation of CHIN 211, this course will further the development of communicative skills using more complex structures in a culturally appropriate manner. Students are expected to write paragraphs in Chinese characters.
*** Prerequisite: CHIN 211, or permission of the Department Head.***
* Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 200 or CHIN 212.*

CHIN 290AA - Chinese Idioms and Short Stories

A study of Chinese language and culture through Chinese idioms and related short stories.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 211***

CHIN 290AD - Contemporary China

This course examines the evolution of Chinese society since the 1960s. Topics include China's economic reforms, the evolution of the country's global position, and issues facing China's minority populations. Students have the option of working with Chinese language materials for selected assignments.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of CHIN 290AD or HIST 290AV.*

CHIN 311 - Intermediate Mandarin Chinese II

A continuation of CHIN 212, this course will further enhance the student's ability to comprehend and produce more complicated speech patterns. Edited Chinese classic works and modern literature are introduced to enhance students’ cultural appreciation and reading comprehension. Students will recite short texts and produce letters and biographical information in Chinese characters.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 212, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 201 or CHIN 311.*

CHIN 312 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese I

This course involves the comprehension of more complex topics that are closer to normal native speed and require extended vocabulary and knowledge of structure, grammar and culture. Reading and writing skills are further developed. Students are expected to use more sophisticated structures in their speaking and writing.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 311 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 300 or CHIN 312.*

CHIN 361 - Translation I

This course focuses on the theories and skills of translation from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English. Authentic texts of various genres will be included. A further focus is the comparison of the two languages and cultures including the vocabulary, grammar, and correct idiomatic usage, etc.
* Note: This class is for Chinese dialect speakers and those with advanced Mandarin. *
* Note: Students may receive credit for only one of CHIN 390AB or CHIN 361. *

CHIN 390AD - Advanced Study in Chinese Idioms

A continue study of Chinese language and culture through Chinese idioms and its origins in the form of stories. This course is a continuation of CHIN 290AA.
*** Prerequisite: CHIN 290AA ***

CHIN 390AE - A Survey of Chinese Literature (for advanced CHIN students)

This course aims to provide students with a survey of Chinese literature along with the literary masters, works, genres, and schools from the pre-Qin era till today. Important literary texts will be studied, through which students will learn to appreciate and use the Chinese language in literature and communication.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 312 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: For non-native language learners.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of CHIN 390AE OR CHIN 390AF.*

CHIN 390AF - A Survey of Chinese Literature (for Chinese (Mandarin) Speakers)

This course aims to provide students with a survey of Chinese literature along with the literary masters, works, genres, and schools from the pre-Qin era till today. Important literary texts will be studied, through which students will learn to appreciate and use the Chinese language in literature and communication.
*Note: For Chinese (Mandarin) speakers.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of CHIN 390AE OR CHIN 390AF.*

CHIN 390AG - Interpretation I

This course explores oral/aural interpretation as an academic discipline and professional skill. The focus will be on the theory and practice of Chinese-English and English-Chinese interpretation including techniques in aural comprehension and oral expression. Fundamental concepts of cross-cultural communication, ethics, and professional conduct will also be introduced.
*Note: This class is for Chinese dialect speakers and those with advanced Mandarin.*

CHIN 411 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese II

This course will strengthen students overall language and cultural proficiency. Authentic materials such as newspapers, magazines, news broadcastings, movies, TV shows and Chinese computer software will be used to improve communicative competence. Selected authentic Chinese classic works and examples of modern literature will be introduced and discussed to deepen students’ appreciation of the Chinese language and culture and to develop a high level of sophistication in the use of the language.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 312 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 301 or CHIN 411.*

CHIN 461 - Translation II

This course is a continuation of CHIN 361. It will further enhance the skills and techniques of translation between English and Chinese. A wider selection of
authentic texts of various genres will be included. It will continue to focus on the comparison of the two languages and cultures including the vocabulary,
grammar, and usage, etc.
***Prerequisite: CHIN 361 or CHIN 390AB or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CHIN 490AA or CHIN 461.*

CLAS 100 - An Introduction to the Civilizations of Greece and Rome

An introduction to Greek and Roman culture through analysis of its most significant elements. The course reviews in broad outline the main periods of Greek and Roman history, and incorporates discussion of some of the basic social, political, literary, philosophical, and artistic developments.

CLAS 110 - Greek and Latin Elements in English

The contribution of the classical languages to modern English, including the vocabulary of the sciences. The course is intended for students in any discipline as a practical means of enhancing English vocabulary.

CLAS 120 - Latin and Greek in Scientific Terminology

An introduction to the Latin and Greek roots of scientific terminology. Through a study of Greek and Latin word elements, principles of formation and pronunciation, this course provides students with an understanding of the technical terms employed in fields such as anatomy, biology and the health sciences.

CLAS 150 - Introduction to Latin I

An introduction to classical Latin through analysis of some of the fundamental elements of its grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Completion of the course will enable students to comprehend and translate basic sentences and passages. Discussion of various aspects of Roman literature and culture will complement language study.

CLAS 151 - Introduction to Latin II

The follow-up course to Introduction to Latin I. Students will continue to learn many of the basic elements of Latin grammar and syntax in addition to expanding their acquisition of vocabulary. The course aims to improve students’ facility in translating Latin into English, and also English into Latin.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 150, or permission of the Department Head.***

CLAS 160 - Introduction to Ancient Greek I

An introduction to classical Greek through a study of its vocabulary, grammar and syntax. The course aims to have students translating basic sentences by the end of the term. Language instruction will also include discussion of fifth century Athenian culture and civilization.

CLAS 161 - Introduction to Ancient Greek II

The follow-up course to Introduction to Ancient Greek I. Students will continue to expand their knowledge of Greek vocabulary and grammar, with emphasis placed on mastering the fundamental components of the language. By the end of the course will be translating longer passages excerpted or adapted from ancient authors.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 160, or permission of the Department Head.***

CLAS 200 - Classical Mythology

A survey of the main myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome. The course examines many of the major myth cycles through a study of their expression in literature and the visual arts, the cultural context in which they were produced and transmitted, and some of the main theoretical approaches critics have adopted to interpret them.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100, or completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***

CLAS 210 - Greek and Roman Epic

An introduction to epic poetry in the Greek and Roman literary traditions. Through study of such authors as Homer, Apollonius, and Virgil, students will learn about the main features and conventions of the genre, its history and evolution, and how the works operated within their respective cultural contexts.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100, or completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***

CLAS 211 - Greek and Roman Drama

An introduction to the dramatic texts and performances of Greek and Rome. The course prioritizes close readings of representative playwrights such as Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus. But there is also discussion of such topics as the conventions of performance and the social contexts of production.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100, or completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 211, THST 300AA, or THEA 350. *

CLAS 220 - Women in Greece and Rome

A survey of the different lives, roles and representations of women in Greece and Rome within the context of changing historical circumstances. The course examines the subject through such categories as myth, class and sexuality and draws on evidence from a wide range of cultural production.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours ***

CLAS 230 - Ancient Sport and Spectacle

Explore the sport, physical training, athletic competitions, and spectacles of the Classical world. Topics include the ancient Olympics, gymnasiums, athletic festivals, chariot races, gladiators, staged hunts & arena games in the Roman empire, sport & spectacle venues.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100, or completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 230 or CLAS 290AC.*

CLAS 260 - Greek Language and Literature I

Continuation of the Greek language. Selected readings from the New Testament.
*** Prerequisite: CLAS 161 ***

CLAS 261 - Greek Language and Literature II

Continuation of classical Greek.
*** Prerequisite: CLAS 161 ***

CLAS 280 - Cities of Rome and Pompeii

This course examines the cities of Rome and Pompeii as they existed and flourished in the ancient world. Through lectures, assigned readings, and visits to various sites it aims to explore the topography and architecture of the cities and to analyze their infrastructure and relationships with their environs.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100, or completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 280 or CLAS 290AA.*

CLAS 290AB - Ancient & Early Christian Art

This course begins with a review of Greek and Roman art, with a focus on key works and their principles and ideals. It then examines early Christian artistic production, with an emphasis on how craftsmen adopted and transformed the practices of their Classical predecessors.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100 or completion of 15 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 290AB or CATH 290AB.*

CLAS 290AD - The Ancient World in Film

This course examines a selection of films set in the ancient world (e.g., 300, Gladiator). These movies serve as starting points for discussion of the civilizations of Greece and Rome, the reception of the ancient world in modern culture, and the continuing relevance of studies of antiquity.
***Prerequisites: CLAS 100, or completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the instructor.***

CLAS 291 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology

An exploration of the material cultures of pre-classical and classical civilizations of Greece and Rome. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which archaeological methods contribute to our understanding of the history and culture of these civilizations.
***Prerequisite: CLAS 100 or CLAS 200, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 291 and CLAS 390AB.*

CLAS 390AA - Honours Paper in Classical Studies

Completion of an honours paper in Classical Studies under the supervision of an appropriate faculty member.
***Prerequisite: Four 200-level CLAS courses, or permission of the Department Head.***

CLAS 390AB - Adv Studies - Class. Archaeology

An advanced exploration of the material cultures of pre-classical and classical civilations of Greece and Rome. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which archaeological methods contribute to our understanding of the history and culture of these civilizations.
***Prerequisite: Four 200-level CLAS courses, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 390AB or CLAS 291.*

CLAS 390AC - Studies in Classical Women

Advanced studies in the lives and receptions of women from Classical Greece and Rome.
***Prerequisite: Four 200-level CLAS courses or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CLAS 390AC, CLAS 220, and WGST 280AN.*

CREE 100 - Elementary Cree I

Introduction to Cree: basic oral expression, grammar, and practice with electronic learning materials. No prior knowledge of Cree is assumed.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CREE 100 or CREE 104. *

CREE 101 - Elementary Cree II

A continuation of CREE 100. Further grammar and oral practice in Cree. This course completes preparation for CREE 202.
***Prerequisite: CREE 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CREE 101 or CREE 105.*

CREE 104 - Cree Grammar and Orthography I

This course is designed for students who seek grammatical and literary knowledge of Cree. Emphasis is on writing in the standard Roman orthography and on grammatical structures.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CREE 100 or CREE 104.*

CREE 105 - Cree Grammar and Orthography II

A continuation of CREE 104. Further writing practice, grammar, and an introduction to short compositions.
***Prerequisite: CREE 104.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CREE 101 or CREE 105.*

CREE 150 - Cree Immersion I

This course will focus on listening and speaking skills by integrating linguistic functions with cultural knowledge. Students will acquire the level of competence needed to be functional within a relatively narrow range of familiar topic areas.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CREE 150, CREE 100, and/or CREE 101.*

CREE 202 - Intermediate Cree I

This course is a continuation and integration of the Cree oracy and literacy skills introduced at the 100-level. Intermediate grammatical structures are introduced through oral practice and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: CREE 101 or CREE 105.***

CREE 203 - Intermediate Cree II

A continuation of CREE 202. Further oral and written practice in Cree. This course completes preparation for all senior CREE courses.
***Prerequisite: CREE 202.***

CREE 206 - Cree Linguistics

Linguistic concepts for the scientific analysis of Cree, with comparison to the closely related Algonquian language Saulteaux. Application to language teaching.
***Prerequisite: CREE 101 or CREE 105 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CREE 225 - Cree Transcription

This course will reinforce the standard roman orthography for Cree and present ample opportunity to increase one's ability at transcribing spoken Cree from both oral and audio-taped sources.
***Prerequisite: CREE 203.***

CREE 230 - Cree Syllabics

Introduction to the Cree syllabics writing system. Reading and writing in syllabics.
***Prerequisite: CREE 101 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of CREE 230 or CREE 330.*

CREE 250 - Cree Immersion II

This course will bring participants to an intermediate level of proficiency. It will be complemented by examination and usage of grammatical structures, cultural elements, and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: CREE 150 or CREE 100 and CREE 101.***
*Note: This course can be counted as an elective but cannot be used toward the main requirements of degree programs.*
*Note: This course will also be available as a non-credit option for those outside the university community.*

CREE 305 - Expository Writing in Cree

Study and analysis of non-fiction literature in Cree, such as biography, history, politics, news stories, narratives, and technical writing; practice in writing and revision.
***Prerequisite: CREE 203.***

CREE 325 - Translation I: Cree-English

A comparison of Cree and English stylistics with practical exercises in written translation, primarily from Cree to English.
***Prerequisite: CREE 225.***

CREE 340 - Oral Tradition of Cree

Stories and legends on audio and video cassettes will be analyzed and transcribed by students. Storytelling sessions by students and elders. Visiting lecturers will also be included in the course.
***Prerequisite: CREE 203 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CREE 390 - Selected Topics in Cree

Courses designed as required for senior undergraduate.
***Prerequisite: One 300-level CREE course or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

CREE 405 - Creative Writing in Cree

Students will continue to practice writing techniques, compose original material in Cree, and critique published materials as well as each other's work.
***Prerequisite: CREE 305.***

CREE 425 - Translation II: English-Cree

A comparison of Cree and English stylistics with practical exercises in written translation, primarily from Cree to English.
***Prerequisite: CREE 325.***

CREE 490AA - Second Language Acquistion: Theory and Application

Language acquisition: theory and practice examines the various theories on language acquisition and asks the students to evaluate the theories based on their, and others', learning of a second language.
***Prerequisite: Three CREE 300-level courses.***
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

CREE 490AB - Advanced Cree Transcription

This course discusses advanced techniques in Cree language transcription and the formatting of text for publication, as well as providing additional transcription practice in both writing systems, SRO and Syllabics.
***Prerequisite: Three CREE 300-level courses.***
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

DAK 100 - Conversational Dakota I

Introduction to the Dakota language, with emphasis on oral expression, basic grammar, and writing in Roman orthography.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of DAK 101 or DAK 104.*

DAK 101 - Conversational Dakota II

A continuation of DAK 100. Further grammar and conversational practice for Dakota.
***Prerequisite: DAK 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of DAK 101 or DAK 105.*

DAK 104 - Dakota Grammar and Orthography I

This course is designed for students who speak some Dakota. Emphasis is on Roman orthography and basic grammar, with some attention to dialect variation.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator Head is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of DAK 104 or DAK 100.*

DAK 105 - Dakota Grammar and Orthography II

A continuation of DAK 104. Further study of the grammar and orthography. An introduction to short composition.
***Prerequisite: DAK 104.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of DAK 105 or DAK 101.*

DAK 202 - Intermediate Dakota l

This course is a continuation of the Dakota oracy and literacy skills introduced at the 100-level. Intermediate grammatical structures are introduced through oral practice and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: DAK 101 or 105.***

DAK 203 - Intermediate Dakota II

A continuation of DAK 202. Further oral practice in Dakota with additional grammatical instruction and an introduction to short composition. ***Prerequisite: DAK 202***

DAK 206 - Dakota Linguistics

Linguistic concepts for the scientific analysis of Dakota, with comparison to the closely related Nakota dialect. Application to language teaching. ***Prerequisite: DAK 101 or DAK 105 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

DAK 225 - Dakota Transcription and Writing

Practice with the roman orthography for Dakota consisting of transcription exercises and short expository and creative compositions. ***Prerequisite: DAK 203***

DART 315 - Didactique des arts à l'élémentaire

Introduction à la didactique de l'éducation artistique au niveau élémentaire. Ce cours vise à intégrer les 5 disciplines (arts visuels, danse, expression dramatique, musique, et littérature) du programme du tronc commun de la Saskatchewan.
*** Préalable : Être en troisième année du Bac élémentaire, acceptée au BEAD élémentaire ou avec la permission du Bac. ***

DELF 151 - Développement et enrichissement langagiers en français ll

Ce cours vise l’acquisition d'une méthode personnelle d'expression écrite et orale par la pratique et l'approfondissement des notions langagières acquises tant dans les autres cours qu'enseignées en classe.
***Préalable: Être admis.e au programme de première année du Bac ou avec la permission du Bac.***

DENE 100 - Conversational Dene I

Introduction to the Dene language, with emphasis on oral expression and on writing in standard Roman orthography. Basic grammar and vocabulary. No prior knowledge of Dene is assumed.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of DENE 100 or DENE 104.*

DENE 101 - Conversational Dene II

A continuation of DENE 100. Further grammar and conversation practice for Dene.
***Prerequisite: DENE 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of DENE 101 or DENE 105.*

DENE 104 - Dene Grammar and Orthography I

This course is designed for students who speak some Dene. Emphasis is on standard Roman orthography and basic grammar, with some attention to dialect variation.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of DENE 100 or DENE 104.*

DENE 105 - Dene Grammar and Orthography II

A continuation of DENE 104. Further study of grammar and orthography. An introduction to short composition.
***Prerequisite: DENE 104.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of DENE 105 or DENE 101.*

DENE 202 - Intermediate Dene l

This course is a continuation of the Dene oracy and literacy skills introduced at the 100-level. Intermediate grammatical structures are introduced through oral practice and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: DENE 101 or DENE 105.***

DENE 203 - Intemediate Dene ll

A continuation of DENE 202. Further oral practice in Dene with additional grammatical instruction and an introduction to short composition. ***Prerequisite: DENE 202***

DENE 206 - Dene Linguistics

Linguistic concepts for the scientific analysis of Dene, with comparison to closely related Athapaskan languages. Application to language teaching. ***Prerequisite: DENE 101 or DENE 105 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

DENE 225 - Dene Transcription and Writing

Practice with the roman orthography for Dene consisting of transcription exercises and short expository and creative compositions.
***Prerequisite: DENE 203***

DES 209 - Fundamentals of Creative Practice

In this course, students will be introduced to foundational concepts and skillsets for developing their creative practice. This practice-based, hands-on studio course will guide students in establishing strategies and techniques for artistic research, concept development, and presentation and documentation of creative work, with a focus on new media, creative technologies, and design practices. Discussion, peer review, and self-reflection activities will support students in investigating their interests as creative practitioners.
***Prerequisite: Two of the following: CTCH/DES 110, 111, 112, 113.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of CTCH 209 or DES 209.*

DES 498 - From Prototype to Portfolio

Students will complete the initial stages for their Capstone project, working towards a major project or research paper in Design.They will also learn professional skills in the Creative Industries including project pitching, grant writing, entrepreneurship, interviewing, documentation, and portfolio development. Students will design the first stage of their Capstone work.
***Prerequisite: 81 credit hours.***

DES 499 - Design Capstone Project

This course focuses on the development and completion of a major independent project or research paper in the area of Design. ***Prerequisite: 84 credit hours and DES 498.***

DFMM 435 - La méthodologie de l'enseignement dans une école fransaskoise ou française

Ce cours vise à préparer l'étudiante à enseigner dans une école fransakoise. Il étudie la philosophie, les objectifs et les attentes de cette école.
*** Préalable: Avoir complété son internat ou avec la permission du Bac. ***

EAS 200 - Dynamique des sociétés africaines

Ce cours aborde les multiples facettes des sociétés africaines à travers l'histoire, la civilisation, les religions, et la démographie du continent ainsi que les transformations qu’elles ont subies à la suite de l'esclavage et de la colonisation, et leurs retombées sur les dynamiques actuelles du continent.
***Prerequisite : FRN 200 with minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Associate Director or designate.***

EAS 210 - Cultures et représentations de l’Afrique

Ce cours explore les multiples réalités actuelles en Afrique, selon les points de vue social, culturel, économique et politique. Le cours sera également à la fois le lieu de déconstruire les idées reçues, représentations, stéréotypes sur l’Afrique et les Africains, ainsi qu’une tribune d’échanges et de débats sur les réalités africaines.
*** Prerequisite : FRN 200 with minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Associate Director or designate. ***

EC&I 871AN - Sustainability & Mobility: Strategies, Methods, & Engaged Practices

This interdisciplinary course is designed for graduate students interested in K-12 arts education and/or for students interested in theories and ideas for engaging as activists in public art events addressing social/environmental concerns.

EC&I 871AQ - Land-Based Education and Language Pedagogy

This course will explore how land-based education can inform language pedagogy. This is a language immersion camp which will foster embodied knowing and the holistic aspect of language. Students will work with Elders and Indigenous knowledge keepers to deepen their understanding of language pedagogy and to increase their language fluency.

EC&I 874AB - The Impact of Artists' Communities on Arts Education

This individual study project will focus on historically important communities of artists that have shaped the consciousness of society at large, and their impact on arts education.

EC&I 890BU - Applications of Discourse Analysis in Environmental Education Research

This course examines applications of discourse analysis in environmental education research grounded in feminist poststructuralist socio-ecological and critial perspectives as world view.

ECON 211 - Development Economics

Problems and challenges facing developing countries in their attempts to improve living standards.
*** Prerequisite: 15 credit hours or ECON 100 ***

ECON 273 - Environmental Economics

A study of contemporary environmental issues using economics. What are the economic costs and benefits of pollution? How do emission standards, environmental taxes, and tradable permits work in reducing pollution? What are the cost-effective ways to address environmental challenges like climate change?
***Prerequisite: 15 credit hours or ECON 100.***

ECON 274 - Ecological Economics

A study of the economy as a system embedded within earth systems. The course explores questions like: What are the key energy and material flows in the economy? Can economic activity be decoupled from environmental impact? How should we define and achieve sustainability?
***Prerequisite: ECON 100 or 15 credit Hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ECON 274 or ECON 296AH.*

ECON 354 - Economics of Cities

Applies economic analysis to important questions regarding urban areas: Why do they exist? What determines their location? What is their role in the Canadian economy? Other issues considered are: zoning policies, local government spending and taxation, urban economic development policy, and urban transportation policy.
***Prerequisite: ECON 201***

ECON 372 - Natural Resource Management on the Prairies

Problems in the prairie oil/gas, timber, uranium, potash, power generation and water management sectors; preservation of prairie ecosystems; application of theory to determine how best to deal with these problems.
***Prerequisite: ECON 201***

ECON 373 - Climate Change Policy

This course will explore questions such as, What policy options are available to address climate change? What climate change policies have been introduced in Canada and around the world? How do we evaluate whether climate change policy has succeeded?
***Prerequisite: ECON 201 or ECON 273.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ECON 373, ECON 396AW, or GEOG 396AM.*

ED 870AS - Community, Sustainability and Education

This course outlines a curricular process of identifying an issue of sustainability and developing a proposal for taking action within a community to address the issue. Sustainability includes the economic, social, environmental and political aspects of community life. Systemic barriers to creating sustainable communities will also be investigated.

EDAN 101 - Introduction to Dance Education, K-12

Knowledge and experience of theory and content of dance through both theoretical and practical study. Emphasis on understanding of development of various dance forms and the particular relevance in dance education curriculum.
* Note: Normally offered in fall only. *

EDAN 202 - Approaches to Teaching Dance Education, K-12

Students will develop curriculum based on theory, content and practice related to dance education.
*Note: Normally offered in winter only.*

EDAN 203 - Dance Technique & Performance

Participants will develop an understanding of the basic principles of movement technique as they relate to alignment and posture, movement principles, and flexibility and strength training in the context of selected dance forms.

EDAN 301 - Curriculum for Dance Education

Selection and organization of contemporary dance experiences for K - 12 pupils. The students will examine dance forms relevant to K-12 age groups and address dance curriculum design.

EDAN 400 - Dance in Cultural Contexts

Planning of experiences which explore dance in cultural contexts for K-12 pupils. The students will be involved in the study of resources, in interviews, and observation and analysis of dance milieux.

EDAN 401 - Movement Notation

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of movement notation with an emphasis on developing reading skills through the study of scores.
*** Prerequisite: EDAN 101 and 202, or permission of the instructor. ***

EDAN 402 - History of Dance Education

An introduction to the themes and issues in dance education, emphasizing major developments of dance teaching in theatrical dance, elementary and secondary education, community settings, and university training.
*** Prerequisite: EDAN 101 and 202, or permission of the instructor. ***

EDAN 403 - Dance Composition

An introductory course in the basic principles of dance composition. Both practical and critical work will be applied to explore the creative process and to develop the skills of choreography.

EDAN 498AA - Creating Learning Experiences within a Conference Setting

The course will consider the major themes of the summit, making reference to Sherry Shapiro's work "Dance in a World of Change: Reflections of Globalization and Cultural Difference" (2008). The course will focus on the importance of expanding the discourse and curriculum of dance to connect it to the critical, political, moral and aesthetic dimensions of our contemporary social situation.

EDCS 100 - Inuit Cultural Studies 100

This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop a better understanding of a variety of items from Inuit material culture to: (1) understand the context surrounding their usage; (2) understand their cultural significance in traditional and contemoporary Inuit Society; (3) explore how traditional patterns, construction techniques and usage may have changed over time; and (4) to discuss the importance of these items to cultural identity and explore appropritae means to intergenerational knowledge transfer.

EDCS 200 - Inuit Cultural Studies 200

This course is designed to give students the opportunity to examine important aspects of traditional Inuit family values, customs and beliefs. Inuit customs, values and beliefs are what ensure social harmony and they are what people avoid and/or survive hardship and conflict. As modern life has changed much of the nomadic camp-life of Inuit, these customs and values are no longer passed to successive generations as they once were. This course will introduce students to research, archival interviews, and northern publications that will begin an exploration into traditional Inuit values, customs, and beliefs.

EDCS 300 - An Introduction to Inuit Traditional Stories

This survey course is designed to give students the opportunity to examine and explore Inuit traditional stories.During the course, students will be exposed to several traditional stories and various story themes as well as examine the characteristics and purposes of traditional Inuit stories through (a) detailed study of a representative sample of written work and (b) interviewing/listening to Elders from various regions of Nunavut.

EINL 200 - Culture and the Acquisition of Language and Literacy

This course provides students with an understanding and analysis of how culture influences the development of language, literacy and communication skills with a particular focus on the language experiences of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
*** Prerequisite: 2nd year standing or permission of the instructor. ***

EINL 225 - First Nations Language Arts: Oral and Written Communications

Students will learn the methodologies of teaching children to increase verbal and written skills in First Nations languages. Language development and curriculum development in the context of First Nations societies are stressed.
*** Prerequisite: 102 level Indian language or ELNG 205 or permission from the First Nations University of Canada, Indigenous Education Department Head. ***

EINL 325 - Bilingual/Bicultural Language Learning Processes

The cognitive and social aspects of second language learning and the processes of bilingual/bicultural development. Students explore the strategies that bilingual teachers can use in the classroom to enhance language learning.
***Prerequisite: An introductory course in the principles of teaching English as a Second Language or EINL 225.***

EINL 335 - Community Based Curriculum Development for First Nations (K-12) Languages

This course will focus on community based curriculum development and implementation procedures for First Nations language programs. Adaptation and modification of specific community based curriculum models will be examined.
***Prerequisite: EINL 225 or EINL 325.***

EINL 450 - Indian Language Immersion

This course is intended to provide students with increased fluency in an Indian language; to review First Nations languages immersion programs presently in use; and, to help students design, implement and evaluate Indian language immersion programs.
***Prerequisite: Fluency in a First Nations language, or Indian language 104, or EINL 325 or permission of the Department of Extension and Northern Operations at First Nations University of Canada.***
*Additional Fee: $125.*

EMCH 100 - Michif Language and Learning

Introduction to Michif; designed to develop oral expression, grammar, and vocabulary with opportunities to practice, that include conversation, community involvement, and land based learning activities. This course will explore the unique Métis language, culture, and history of the people to encourage further revitalization in a classroom and community setting.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of EMCH 100 or EMCH 150.*

EMCH 150 - Michif Immersion

Introduction to Michif; designed to develop oral expression, grammar, and vocabulary with opportunities to practice, that include conversation, community involvement, and land based learning activities. This course will explore the unique Metis language, culture, and history of the people in a community setting.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of EMCH 150 or EMCH 100.*

ENEV 886BW - Design for Sustainable Urban Development

This course will investigate the design requirements for implementing sustainable renewable energy construction in urban and public spaces. Factors to be considered include risk management, human factors, materials optimization, health and safety, consideration of vandalism and educational requirements, and others.

ENEV 886CI - Urban Stormwater Management

The intent of this course is to build a good understanding of stormwater
management in urban areas. Topics covered include urban hydrology
and hydraulics, stormwater drainage structures, analysis and control of
urban stormwater quality, low-impact development technologies,
instrumentation, and modeling approaches to stormwater management.

ENEV 886CU - Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

This course will introduce students to various technologies used for the treatment and reuse of industrial wastewater. A final report will be submitted for evaluation, based on a comprehensive literature review, case study, or site visitation pertaining to a particular industry.

ENEV 886DF - Urban Transportation Networks

Basic concepts in minimization problems; equilibrium analysis of transportation systems; formulations of assignment problems; review of optimization algorithms; solving for user equilibrium; variable travel demand; trip distribution and traffic assignment models.

ENGL 100 - Critical Reading and Writing I

This course develops students' proficiency in critical reading and writing through the study of a wide range of non-literary and literary texts, and the study of composition, with emphasis on connections between modes of reading and writing.
*Note: Students who are planning to repeat ENGL 100 should seek academic advising before doing so*

ENGL 110 - Critical Reading and Writing II

A study of a special topic in literature, which may include non-literary texts, in conjunction with a continuation of the writing program begun in ENGL 100.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100.***
*Note: Every section of ENGL 110 has a different focus. Please consult the Department's Supplementary Calendar or the list of current course offerings on the Departmental website.*
*Note: Students who fail ENGL 110 twice should contact their faculty or their federated college immediately.*

ENGL 152 - Introduction to Creative Writing

This creative writing course will focus on grammar and syntax basics for writers, and on the skill of reading literature as someone engaged in the craft. Through the workshop process, the course will help students develop their skills in writing for an audience and editing their work. It may be offered online or face-to-face.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100, or permission of the Department Head.***

ENGL 211 - Literature Survey I

A survey of literature in English from the Middle Ages to 1800.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 24 credit hours.***

ENGL 212 - Literature Survey II

A survey of literature in English from 1800 to the present.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 24 credit hours.***

ENGL 213 - Survey of Canadian Literature

A survey of Canadian Literature in English from the pre-twentieth century to the present day.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 24 credit hours.***

ENGL 214 - Survey of Indigenous Canadian Literature

This survey provides students with knowledge of the terms and issues central to an engaged study of Indigenous Canadian literature. Indigenous storytelling traditions are linked with developments in writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on divergences and continuities in the writing. Drama, fiction, and poetry will be considered.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 9 credit hours.***

ENGL 221 - Poetry

Practice in the analysis of poetry. Through the study of a wide range of poetic genres, this course provides students with a shared vocabulary of literary terms for the critical discussion of formal, stylistic and historical aspects of individual texts and of poetic traditions.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 24 credit hours.***

ENGL 222 - Fiction

Practice in the analysis of fiction. Through the study of a wide range of fictional genres, such as the short story, the novella and the novel, this course provides students with methods and vocabulary for the formal, stylistic, cultural and historical study of both individual texts and traditions of fiction.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 24 credit hours.***

ENGL 223 - Drama

Practice in the analysis of drama. Through the study of dramatic traditions and selected plays (considered both as written texts and as performance), this course provides students with methods and a shared critical vocabulary, to enhance their understanding, enjoyment, and critique of drama as a ritualized mode of cultural experience.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 24 credit hours.***

ENGL 251 - Expository and Persuasive Writing

The theory and practice of expository and persuasive writing. Each student will be expected to write several papers in a variety of modes of writing.
*** Prerequisite: A combined average of at least 60% in any two English courses numbered 100 or higher, and completion of at least 30 credit hours. ***

ENGL 252 - Creative Writing I

The craft of creative writing, with work in poetry, drama or non-fiction, and prose fiction.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or ENGL 152.***

ENGL 271 - Health Studies and Literature

This course focuses on how knowledge of creativity, and understanding through reading and experiencing literature and culture, can be understood in the context of health studies. Students will learn to better understand how individuals experience, negotiate, and process illness, trauma, loss, dying, aging and suffering.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100***

ENGL 277AA - Law and Narrative

Law is a high stakes arena where vivid human stories play out. This course focuses on the intersection of law and narrative in courtroom arguments, confessions, criminal profiling, police dramas, commissions of inquiry, and counterintelligence operations.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 9 credit hours including ENGL 100.***

ENGL 300 - Chaucer

A study of some of the major works of Chaucer, including selections from "The Canterbury Tales".
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours***

ENGL 301 - Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances

A study of five to seven of Shakespeare's comedies and romances.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 302 - Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies

A study of five to seven of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 303 - Milton

A study of some of Milton's major works, including "Paradise Lost".
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AA - Jane Austen

The novels of Jane Austen.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AC - The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

A study of the poetry of W. B. Yeats.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AH - James Joyce

Irish writer James Joyce was, arguably, the single most influential English-language author of the twentieth century. This course will undertake an intensive study of two of his novels, Portrait of the Artis as a Young Man (1915) and Ulysses (1922).
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AI - William Blake

This course will combine detailed study of selected poetry and prose of William Blake with a study of various critical approaches to that work. It will look at Blake in the context of poststructuralism, contemporary textual theory, and new historicism.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AL - Selected Author: J.K.Rowling

This course treats the Harry Potter series by British author J.K. Rowling from a variety of perspectives. We address significant influences on Rowling's writing, ethical questions raised by the books, the Christian treatment of duty and sacrifice, and the history of the books in the world.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AO - George R.R. Martin

This course will examine George R. R. Martin's unfinished series, A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted for television as Game of Thrones, from a variety of perspectives, including fantasy, adaptation, political philosophy, gender and body theory, and historical contexts. Students are advised to begin reading Martin's series in advance.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 304AP - Comedies of Menace: Pinter

A study of the plays of Harold Pinter. We will study works spanning the career of Nobel Laureate playwright Harold Pinter, master of comedic menace and of the infamous "Pinter Pause."
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 304AP, THST 381AA, or THST 382.*

ENGL 310AA - Contemporary Indigenous Fiction in Canada

Selected novels and short stories written in English and published by Canadian Indigenous writers after 1973.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AB - American 1st Nation Fiction

Fiction by prominent contemporary Indigenous authors.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AC - Literatures of Residential Schools in Canada

For over 100 years, residential schools were the cornerstone of the Canadian government's policy of assimilation. The last school closed in 1996. Residential schools have had a profound effect on Indigenous people who attended them and continue to affect Indigenous people today. This class will study works of Indigenous literature that use narrative, poetry, and to drama to expose the effects of the school in an effort to heal from them. We will also look briefly at film and visual art.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AE - Indigenous Drama in Canada

This course will examine works by prominent Indigenous playwrights in Canada.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AG - Indigenous Literatures in Canada

This course is a survey of contemporary Indigenous Literatures in Canada written in English. The survey will begin with so-called protest or resistance writing from the 1960's and 1970's and examine developments since then, focusing on both divergences and continuities in the writing. Drama, fiction and poetry will be considered.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AH - Indigenous Film in Canada

This course examines a range of contemporary films in Canada made by, directed, and starring First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. Through documentaries and feature films, the course considers the aesthetics and representational practices of films that seek to story Indigenous lives and experiences of colonial and neo-colonial Canada.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 310AL - Indigenous Feminism and Women's Writings

During this seminar class, students will engage in critical discussions involving justice and power for/by Indigenous women, gendered violence, Indigenous feminism, intergenerational trauma, women’s residential school narratives and literary writings as restorative justice. Through lectures, readings, and screenings, students will develop critical and interdisciplinary tools for analyzing Indigenous literary discourses.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours***

ENGL 312AA - Auto/biography in Contemporary Canadian Fiction

This course examines contemporary Canadian fiction with emphasis on texts that cross boundaries between auto/biography and fiction for diverse political and narrative effects.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 313AF - Western Canadian Literature

The course explores the literature of Western Canada, from Manitoba to British Columbia. The focus is on post-1950 developments in fiction and poetry, with emphasis on key trends and themes.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 314AA - Canadian Drama

This course examines Canadian plays from the 1960s to the present with a focus on the diversity of theatrical styles and themes, in works from across the country. The course also looks at Canadian Theatre History in relation to Canadian drama and Canadian literature.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 314AA or THEA 380.*

ENGL 314AC - Fixed Form Canadian Poetry

This course examines the choice of poets in general and Canadian poets in particular to write within and against the strictures of established poetic forms (such as the ballad, the sonnet, the pantoum, the sestina, the villanelle and so forth).
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 315AC - Special Topics in Canadian Literature of CanLit and the Politics of Sexuality - an AA-ZZ series

Studies of selected texts from Canadian literature, with attention given to politics of sexuality.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 315AD - Contemporary Canadian Literature and Memory

One characteristic of recent Canadian fiction and poetry is its focus on the past. This class will look at fiction and poetry that considers the personal and historical past in order to query this trend, in order to understand what relationship we have with the past and in order to comprehend what drives people to remember and how those memories function in their current lives.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 315AE - Borders: Canadian Cultural Studies

This class will explore the concept of culture as social identity in literature, and since as Northrop Frye has argued, “Canada must preserve its identity by having many identities,” we will study writers who exemplify the problem of culture in Quebec, First Nations, and English Canada.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 317AB - Contemporary American Literature

This course examines a number of recent American fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction to ascertain the nature of contemporary American experience.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AA - American Lit: The Gilded Age

American literature from the end of the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. Authors may include Twain, James, Jewett, Chopin, Gilman, and Wharton. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AB - American Renaissance

This course studies the period when American literature comes of age: the 1850s and after. The major authors are Hawthorne and Melville (his magnificent Moby-Dick is on the reading list); we also consider works by others, including Poe, Emerson and Thoreau.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AD - Sexual Politics in American Women's Literature

Nineteenth-century America was a period of transition in marriage, family life, and sex roles - a period striklingly similar to our own. By exploring the representation of gender in the fiction of Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Fanny Fern, Chopin, and Glaspell, we will explore the sexual politics in such a society.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AE - American Gothic Fiction

This class surveys the significant Gothic tradition in American literature. Beginning with early masters of horror, Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe, to Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to, Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy, we will study the supernatural and science, faith and doubt, gender, sex, and desire.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AF - Politics of Marriage in 19C American Women’s Literature

In this course, we will explore literary and cultural questions about the role and status of women within the institution of marriage as represented in works by Sarah Grimke, Margaret Fuller, Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Secondary readings of mid-19th-century family life, female sexuality and sex roles, as well as the women’s suffrage movement will be included.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AG - American Romanticism: The Emergence of American Letters

n this course, we explore the influence of the Romantic movement in Europe on the major American writers in the period from 1840 to 1865 also known as the American Renaissance. We will focus on their ideas about the Self, Nature; and the Sublime.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 318AH - American Protest Literature

This course considers the tradition of American protest literature from The Declaration of Independence through to twenty-first century, new media protest. Protest will be considered in historical and philosophical context, and attention will be given to the centrality of media and communications strategies to movement-building.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 318AH or HIST 390DK.*

ENGL 319AA - Women & Lit-Early Modn England

Cultural paradigms of Renaissance women. A study of women as writers, readers, and subjects of literature in the seventeenth century.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 319AD - Women's Detective Fiction

The study of detective fiction written by women.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 319AF - Modern Brit Women Playwrights

Will focus on important British plays written by women in the last twenty years, examining their response to concerns of unique to women and to larger societal issues. Will address the goals and distinctiveness of women's writing and discuss the role of the woman playwright in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 319AG - Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

The eighteenth century saw the rise of the professional woman writer and the emergence of increasing freedoms for women. This course takes up these issues by examining a selection of texts by and about women.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 319AH - Other Worlds: 18th Century Women Writers and Exploration

This class features readings from 18th century women who were engaged in various forms of scientific, geographical, and cultural exploration. We'll read pieces of early science fiction, letters from abroad, and explore the many worlds that made up 18th century London.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 319AH or WGST 380AT.*

ENGL 320AA - Madness and Monstrosity

This course examines both fictional and non-fictional representations of madness and monstrosity in 18th and 19th century women's writing. Course topics include female criminals, prostitutes, monstrous mothers, and those who practice transgressive sexuality.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 322AB - Post Colonial Fiction

The course examines the ways in which writers from the (former) colonies of European empires have responded to colonial domination and exploitation.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 322AF - Global Fantasy Literature

A study of world fantasy literature, with an emphasis on the intersection of genre with histories of colonization and diaspora. Texts are primarily drawn from, or rooted in, cultures outside the North American and European tradition, and may include works in translation.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 325AA - Medieval Literature

This course introduces students to Old and Middle English literature from historical and generic points of view. From the Old English period, we study the epic Beowulf and shorter works. From the Middle English period, we study a fabliau, a beast fable, a parable, dramatic works, and lyrics.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 325AB - Women's Literature of the Middle Ages

This course analyzes writing by and for women in medieval Europe, including the work of Marie de France, Christine de Pisan, Anglo-Saxon and Neo-Latin poetry, and writing on women's health.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 325AC - Cultures of Camelot: The Arthurian Tradition

This course will explore the development of the medieval Arthurian tradition, including the Knights of the Round Table, the mythical court of Camelot, and the figure of Merlin. Students will read a variety of material from all over the world, and examine visual adaptations of the Arthurian romance as well.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 325AD - King Arthur and Medieval Myth

This course examines the origins of fantasy literature in the legends of King Arthur, including characters such as Merlin and Morgan le Fay, and global Arthurian texts. How do we get from King Arthur to Game of Thrones? We'll read works by Marie de France, Malory, Chaucer, and contemporary authors ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 327AB - Middle Ages and 16th C Italian Theatre

Studies in the history and literature of the European theatre in the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 327AD - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

This seminar course will examine the late fourteenth-century author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. We will begin with excerpts from his poem Cleanness, and then move onto Gawain, whose manuscript source (Cotton Nero A.x, British Library) will be examined digitally.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 328AA - Poetics of Faith: Renaissance

This course studies Renaissance poetry and prose texts that exemplify the confrontation between literature and questions of faith and religion. Authors include Spenser, Sidney, Queen Elizabeth, and Thomas Nashe.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 328AC - Romancing RenaissanceNarrative

This course focuses on sixteenth-century prose fiction and the various genres ranging from satire to romance. We study issues raised by the texts, such as the nature-nurture controversy and the virtues of the active and contemporary life, using various modern historic methods which analyse the relationship between politics and poetics.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 328AD - Cannibals & the Renaissance

Beginning with analysis of the colonial history of the word "cannibal" which entered the English language as a result of Columbus's voyages, we explore the ideological functions served by literary and visual depictions of cannibalism and examine debates about the medicinal and nutritional value of human flesh.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 329AA - Tudor & Stuart Theatre

A study of the theatre of Tudor and Stuart England with special reference to the development of specialized space for performance.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 329AB - Censorship and Renaissance Literature

An examination of censorship of poetry, plays, and the pulpit for the period 1600-1642.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 329AC - Early Modern Horror

This course explores early modern dramatic literature that aims to horrify audiences through spectacles of violence, evocations of the supernatural, or treatment of social taboos. We will consider the plays in the context of visual artwork, popular culture, and social practices like public executions.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 331AB - Eighteenth-Century Literature of the Fringe

The focus of this course is twofold: we will explore literature written about madmen, fallen women, orphans, servants, and other marginal figures, and we will study works by writers who lived and wrote on the fringe of society. In so doing, the course interrogates the widespread notion that the Restoration and Eighteenth Century was an age of reason, order, and decorum.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 331AC - 18th C. Sexualities

This course will investigate the treatment of gender and sexuality during the long eighteenth century. Students will read short fiction, novels, poetry, and critical materials which pertain to the development of sexuality during the period, and we will also discuss artwork and pamphlet literature.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 331AD - Sexual/Textual Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

Samuel Johnson defines the creative power of wit as an “unexpected copulation of ideas.” We will study Early Modern writings such as the Earl of Rochester’s poetry, Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy as it pursues the unexpected transgressions of sexual mores as a metaphor for the unexplored regions of human experience.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 331AE - The 18th Century Novel: Truth Structured like a Fiction

This course will study the rise of realism in the novel and its relationship to the rise of the middle class by focusing on the question of historical truth—in fiction—and the secularization of ethics. Is fiction needed to produce a truth otherwise unavailable in “reality”?
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 331AF - Representations of London in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Working within critical theories about place and space, this course traces London’s representation in poetry, fiction, and drama from the massive destruction of the Great Fire in 1666 through the city’s growth into a metropolis alternatively celebrated for its size and diversity and feared for its mysteries.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 335AA - Wild Romanticism: Transatlantic & Ecocritical Approaches to British Romanticism

This course explores what it means to be “wild” in a variety of 18th and 19th-century contexts, including aesthetic (the sublime, the gothic); moral and ethical (Anglo-American depictions of Indigenous peoples); and ecological (nature as alternatively threatened or threatening).
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AC - Victorian Poetry

A selection of Victorian poetry.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AE - Lyric Romanticism

A study of British Romantic lyric poetry.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AG - 19C Lit: Inventing England

Nineteenth-century Britain, shaken by revolutionary changes, sought to reinvent itself. This course asks how 19th century "England" imagined itself, in historical fiction, romance, adventure fiction, and sentimental realism, forms which permit both nostalgia for a re-imagined past and longing for a British future.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AL - Gender & Genius: The Genesis of Romanticism

This course will explore the Romantic period and the concept of genius from its origins in copyright law to the gender issues arising from the Latin word, ingenium. We will study Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Mary and Percy Shelley, and the paradoxically unconscious state of genius as both a sign of mastery and yet an unmasterable gift.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AM - Victorian Masculinities

This course explores the complicated and contested representation of masculinity and manliness in Victorian literature and culture, and examines the ways in which writers created and negotiated a variety of male identities, from the sentimental to the adventurous to the patriarch to the dandy.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AN - Romanticism's Nervous Bodies and the Corporeal Imagination

Imagination's centrality to Romantic literature is often construed as part of a devaluation of embodied life. This course reconsiders the imagination's embodiment in texts by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wollstonecraft, Blake, Edgeworth, and the Shelleys in the context of Romantic medical sciences (neurology and anatomy) and hypochondriacal diseases (hysteria, indigestion, melancholy, racism).
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AO - Reading the Victorian Home

The 20th century scorned the Victorian ideal of the “angel in the house,” but modern critics recognize the importance of the lived experience of domestic life. This course reads the representation and material culture of the Victorian home, through such authors as Hemans, Gaskell, Patmore, Dickens, Oliphant, and Trollope.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AP - 19th C Political Imagination

A study of selected Victorian texts in several genres, which predict or suggest what's coming next, with respect to politics and society, and how what's coming next should be embraced or resisted, including themes such as: democracy, unions, gender equality, and university education.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 336AQ - 19th Century: Religion & Literature

Once known as "the age of faith and doubt" and later as a flashpoint for the rise of the scientific understanding and secularization, the 19th century is under scrutiny by critics who no longer take for granted religion’s modern decline. This course examines the robust debates in Victorian culture and literature over religion, modernization, and secularization, as well as the internecine conflicts in Christianity itself.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 336AQ or RLST 390BZ.*

ENGL 336AR - 19th Century Lives: Biography and Autobiography

Who were the Victorians? This course invites us to, in Stephen Greenblatt's famous phrase, "speak with the dead": the vanished ancestors and figures of the transatlantic nineteenth century. Drawing on works by working class men and women as well as Indigenous and otherwise racialized men and women, the course considers both what it means to write a life and what that writing tells us about the ones who live it. Students will have the opportunity to research their own family members as well as notable historical figures, and will learn techniques of life-writing. Evaluation: interview, obituary, biography, academic term paper, final examination.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 338AB - Postmodern British Literature

An examination of postmodern currents in British literature from 1980 to the end of the century.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 338AC - Modern British Poetry

A study of modern British poetry.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 338AF - Theatre of the Absurd

This course examines representative Absurdist plays as texts for and in performance. It also considers their philosophical and theatrical foundations and their connection with thinkers and playwrights who have had a significant impact on the development of postmodern critical theory and theatre.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 338AJ - British Writing of World War II

This course offers a study of the often overlooked literature of the war years in Britain that encompasses a variety of genres and styles. It argues for the cohesiveness of the period as a discrete literary moment, defined by its own recurrent tropes, anxieties, and themes.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 339AA - Studies in Poetry: Performance Poetry

Performance Poetry devotes some attention to the historical tradition of oral poetry, from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The major focus is the past century. Topics include: text and audio versions of modernist poems, beat poetry, folk and rock lyrics as poetry, recent spoken word, rap and slam poetry.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 339AB - Literature and the Holocaust

This course examines texts written by survivors of the Holocaust (memoir, fiction, poetry) as well as more recent texts by those by who didn't experience it directly. These texts range from Primo Levi's classic accounts to Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 340AA - The Way We Die Now

Living cultures reveal who they are in their treatment of the dead and dying. Advances in medicine, institutionalized health care, and the decline of religion have had a revolutionary impact on how we understand and undergo death. Through a study of recent fiction and drama, this course examines contemporary literature’s picture of the way we die now.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 342AD - Romanticism and Revolution

The Romantic era has been called the age of revolution. While the French Revolution central, there are also major revolutions in the arts, philosophy, and sciences to name the three fields with which we'll be most concerned.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 342AE - The History of Medicine in/as Literature

This course explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britons understood and imagined health, pathology and medicine. In poetry, novels, essays, medical journals, travelogues and other accounts, we will ask questions about contagion and difference; the emergence of so-called race science; the gendering of conditions such as hysteria and apoplexy, and more.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 342AE or ENGL 485BA.*

ENGL 342AF - Early Modern Medicine

This course explores the interrelationship of medicine, culture, and English literature during the medical "revolution" of the long seventeenth century. Focusing on digestion, we will examine such topics as the relationship between diet and health, belly and mind, and intersections of medical discourse with discourses of gender, ethnicity, and class.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 342AY - City of York Study Abroad

Founded by Rome in 71 AD, York has been key to several moments in literary history: the York Mystery Plays, Shakespeare’s histories, the Victorian Gothic. Featuring two weeks spent at York St. John University, this course offers students a unique immersion in the rich heritage of this historic city.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 349 - Methods for the Study of Literary History

An exploration of methods used in the reading of literary texts in a historical context. Students will be required to write papers which analyze literary texts by means of historical approaches.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Formerly numbered ENGL 210. Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 349 and ENGL 210.*

ENGL 351 - Advanced Writing

An advanced course in the theory and practice of writing. Each student will be required to write several papers.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 251, or permission of the Department Head.***

ENGL 352AA - Writing Drama

A specialized workshop in dramatic writing, or playwriting.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 252.***
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

ENGL 352AB - Creative Writing II: Fiction

This course is an advanced workshop in writing narrative fiction, with emphasis on the short story.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 252***

ENGL 352AD - Creative Writing II-Poetry

This course will be an advanced workshop/seminar in the writing of poetry. Our focus will be both practical (attention to line, sound, image, etc) and slightly more theoretical (how does poetry know? what does it know? how does it speak to/with the world etc.). Students will be expected to produce new work and to share it with other participants.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 252.***
*Note: Students wishing to enrol in this course must submit a sample of their creative writing and be interviewed by the instructor before registering.*

ENGL 352AE - Creative Writing II: Playwriting and Writing for Performance

In this course students will receive detailed instruction in playwriting coupled with a discussion of such dramaturgical problems as style, structure and characterization. Students will also receive instruction in writing for diverse performance contexts.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 252.***
**All students wishing to enrol in this course must submit a sample of their creative writing and be interviewed by the instructor before registering.**

ENGL 360 - History of the English Language

The development of the English language from Germanic to Modern English, including changes in phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 260 or LING 100.***

ENGL 367 - Gender and Language

A study of issues related to gender and language, including stylistic variation between genders, differing strategies for dealing with gendered interactions in a social context, the history of sexist language, and debates about political correctness and inclusive language usage.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and 110, or LING 220.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for one of ENGL 367 or WGST 367. *

ENGL 368AB - Writing Culture(s)

This course examines ways in which writing as a cultural activity informs, infects, controls, and liberates our understanding of discourse communities, disciplinarities, and ideas about social, political, and ethical action.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 368AC - Prison Writing Exchange

Classroom discussion about incarceration and community-based learning will be followed by a series of reading and writing workshops with incarcerated people in a correctional setting. The class will operate as a structured exchange, based in mutual respect and reciprocity, between people that reside on either side of a prison wall.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 371AB - The Novel & The City

This course examines the city as a socially and culturally symbolic setting in novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course focuses on the representation of London in novelistic terms. Authors include Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Salman Rushdie.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 371AD - The Novel in Translation

This course examines contemporary novels that were not originally published in English. Among others, we will read texts by Haruki Murkami (Japanese), Jose Saramago (Portuguese), and W.G Sebald (German).
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 371AE - The Literary Gothic

This course will study Gothic Literature, its connections to Romanticism, and its later transformations. It begins with late-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century novels, examined in their contexts, but also includes works from the mid to late-nineteenth-century, showing how the Gothic genre develops into the genres of ghost story, mystery and horror fiction.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 374AB - Studies in the Short Story

Studies in The Short Story, will introduce students to a variety of short fiction, both classical and contemporary, and short story theory. We will use an anthology for breadth and also focus on Alice Munro's collection, Runaway, to examine a short story sequence.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 377AA - Eighteenth-Century Comedy

A study of eighteenth-century comedy, with attention paid to social and political context.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 377AE - Contemporary Comedy

This course will study plays written from the 1960s to the present, and will attempt to define comedy as it appears on the contemporary stage.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 377AE or THEA 456AA.*

ENGL 377AF - Staging the Passion

A study of various texts, medieval to contemporary, that dramatize the events of Christ's passion: his trial, crucifixion, and burial.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 377AF or THEA 454AC.*

ENGL 377AG - Melodrama to Modernism

A survey of European and North American plays written and produced from 1830 to 1950.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 337AG or THST 302AA.*

ENGL 380AB - The English Elegy

An examination of the development of the English elegy as a form of lyric poetry. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 384AB - Narrative & Memory

The relationship between narrative and memory, both personal memory and cultural remembrance.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 384AC - English Literature & the Bible

The English Bible as literature and as cultural phenomenon; the effect of the English Bible on literature in English.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 384AG - Images of Indigenous People

The Forward to Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of Native Americans in Film, Wilcomb E. Washburn of the Smithsonian Institute writes, "(the) image of the American Indian, more than that of any other ethnic group, has been shaped by film." Focus of class will be on the representation of Indigenous peoples in contemporary films.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 384AH - Studies in Narrative: The Literature of Pirates

This course will examine some familiar and unfamiliar literary representations of pirates, along with historical documents and contemporary accounts. We will consider the intersection of fiction and history, and will also consider how the popular image of the pirate comments on ideas of masculinity, ethics, and the individual’s relationship to the state.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 384AI - Narratives of Indigenous Activism and Resistance

This course addresses narratives of Indigenous resistance as depicted in literary texts, oral histories, documents, and film. Through textual study, students will unpack the layered histories embedded in their everyday experiences of place and community. Sections may be adapted to specific movements, eras, locations, and interdisciplinary lenses.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 384AJ - Place in Contemporary Fiction: The Settings and Spaces of Narrative

This course considers the role of place in contemporary fiction, from real-world locations to strange, impossible imaginary geographies. Thinking of place as more than just setting, as merely the zone in which plot unfolds, what else can we learn about narrative from the study of its representations of environmental spaces?
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 386AC - Adventure & the Masculine Idea

Linking gender and genre, this course examines the construction of masculine heroism through a range of texts, from the romance to the classic adventure tale to its re-invention in the hands of seminal contemporary writers.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 386AE - Literature and the Environment

This course examines the development of literature that is aware of and responds to the human relationship with the environment. We will trace the development of environmental literature from the romantics forward, examining poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and eco-criticism.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 386AF - Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales

This course will study a wide selection of fairy tales, both traditional and modern, paying attention to the relationship between the folk and literary traditions, the thematic content of canonical tales and their variants, and the nature of the tales’ implied audience.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 386AK - Fantasy Literature after Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of The Rings" founded a new mode of fantastic fiction: epic fantasy. This course examines fantasy literature in the decades since Tolkien's towering achievement, with particular attention to new and emerging modes of fantasy.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 386AL - Health, Trauma, and Loss

This course examines literary works that explore trauma and loss and their relation to health and healing. The course focuses on understanding how individuals experience, negotiate, and process illness, trauma, and suffering through the study of poetry and prose beginning in the Renaissance.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AB - Science Fiction

This course is an introduction to the study of science fiction as a literary genre and as a popular cultural phenomenon.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AD - Adapting Shakespeare & Genre

This course focuses on the textual and theatrical dimensions of a variety of modern and pre-20th century Shakespearean adaptations for stage (including dance and musicals) and screen. It also considers the impulses behind adaptation, the nature and effect of various genres of adaptation and their connection with the contemporary hegemony.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AE - Children's Literature

An examination of several well-known books for children, focusing on human relations with the natural world.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AF - Horror Fiction

The course is a survey of the literature of horror (short stories and novels) from the early nineteenth century to the present. Writers include Poe, Le Fanu, Machen, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, and Steven King: topics include the Gothic, the ghost story, supernatural and psychological horror, vampire fiction, and dark fantasy.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AG - Ideas of the University

Universities have long experienced lively tensions: between free expression and official doctrine; between study for its own sake and study for some marketable purpose; between separation from and integration with the community. These and other themes are explored in a selection of texts centered around the university.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 387AG or ENGL 475AK.*

ENGL 387AH - Television and Genre: Studies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

This special-topics course will investigate a variety of generic themes within the fantasy television program 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' including horror genres, vampire mythologies and literary traditions, critical race issues, and structures of the serial text. Course materials will include critical theory, literature, and episodes from the show.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AI - World Comics

Students will analyze comics as a literary genre and as a cultural vehicle after being introduced to the history and the artistic techniques of the medium. Particular focus will be placed on Francophone "bandes dessinées", but North American comics and Japanese manga will also be included.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AJ - Fantasy Literature: The Sword and Sorcery Tradition

This course investigates the genre of fantasy literature, from Conan the Barbarian to The Song of Ice and Fire. Students will analyze the role of magic and chivalry in this writing, and trace its development from the short story to the mass-market paperback (including its medieval and mythological roots).
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AK - Comics and Cartoons

This course explores comics and cartoons as literature. Topics explored will include interaction between word and image, form and content, and participation of comics in literary, historical, social, and philosophical movements.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AL - British and Canadian Gothic Literature

A survey of the British Gothic as it developed across the long nineteenth century, from its peak in the 1790s to the fin-de-siècle, followed by the study of several contemporary Canadian Gothic texts.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AM - The Culture and Politics of American Superheroes

What can we learn about American politics and culture from the Superhero genre? From debates around American exceptionalism and interventionism to questions of identity and diversification, this course will examine how select narratives and characters are positioned in relation to the American state and society.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AN - Teen Fiction

This course focuses on contemporary young-adult fiction, and we'll look at how YA writers address LGBTQ2+ characters, as well as issues of race, colonialism, and neurodiversity.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 387AO - Detective Fiction

Love a good mystery? We’ll survey the history of detective fiction, including hybrid genres (paranormal), work by women and LGBTQ+ writers, and scholarship on forensic science. Follow a number of unconventional detectives—and try your own hand at detective work—as we explore why this genre remains so fascinating. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 388 - Methods for the Study of Literary Genre

An exploration of methods used in the study of literary genres. Students will be required to write essays which analyze literature according to generic approaches.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 390 - History of Criticism

A chronological study of theories of literary criticism from ancient to modern writers.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 394AC - Early Modern Play of Gender

The course examines the ways in which early modern English drama interrogates gender categories, particularly through its practice of casting boys in women's roles. We study how the one-sex model in early modern England relates to cross-dressing, as well as queer performances and criticism, in five or six selected plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 395AD - Queer Theories: Gender, Sexuality and Ideology

This course will use an interdisciplinary framework to trace the deployment of 'queer' as a political, theoretical, legal and ideological space for living and thinking. We will both analyze and challenge the evolution of queer theory as an academic investment by tracking appearances within literature, cinema, artwork, and critical writing from approximately 1969-present.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 399 - Methods for the Study of Literary Theory

An exploration of methods used in some recent approaches to reading literary texts. Students will be required to write papers which offer textual readings based on the application of these approaches.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***

ENGL 400AA - Beowulf

The aim of this course is to give the student the experience of the Old English epic Beowulf in its original language. The course will focus on translating the text from Old English into Present-Day English, along with discussion of issues of syntax, semantics, poetics (including prosody) and principles of translation.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 405AA - Women & Lit in the Middle Ages

A study of the images of women that dominated medieval culture.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 405AA or ENGL 801AA.*

ENGL 405AB - Middle English Visionary Lit

Middle English writers cas narratives in the form of personal visions to treat a wide variety of subjects. Using both reader response and narrative theory, the course analyses how these authors construct the fictional audience, as they speak on matters of vital concern.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 405AB or ENGL 801AB.*

ENGL 405AD - Medieval Materialism

This honours/grad course will concentrate on the medieval material world and the five senses, including texts that engage with: arms and armour, stained glass, the elements and eco-criticism, fashion, animal lives, and magic as a material force. We’ll read texts in both their original languages and translations.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 405AD or ENGL 801AD.*

ENGL 410AA - Spenser: The Faerie Queene

This course will read all six books of the Faerie Queene as a struggle with the dangers of idolatry. It also focuses on Spenser's concern for the private and public virtues, especially with the "politics of friendship".
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 410AA or ENGL 802AA.*

ENGL 410AB - Marlowe and Shakespeare

This course treats Marlowe and Shakespeare as early modern dramatists who both overreach traditional categories in developing their own personal mythology. We examine 3-5 of Marlowe's canonical plays in relation to the 3-5 plays of Shakespeare with which they have been most often compared.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 410AB or ENGL 802AB.*

ENGL 410AC - Poststructuralism and Shakespeare

This course uses select plays by Shakespeare as test cases to examine the challenges presented by five poststructuralist approaches - deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory. The course explores how poststructuralism aids us in formulating an ethics of the other in Shakespeare's plays.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 410AC or ENGL 802AC.*

ENGL 410AE - Shakespeare as Cultural Icon

This course examines the ways in which Shakespeare has been used as a national and international icon, both to maintain institutionalized power and to serve as a resistance point for underprivileged groups. We trace this fundamental paradox through the cultural reception of four popular, contested plays in the Shakespeare canon.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 410AE or ENGL 802AE.*

ENGL 415AB - Shakespeare

A study of one or more aspects of Shakespeare's works.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AB or ENGL 803AB.*

ENGL 415AC - Renaissance Lyric Poetry

This course examines English Renaissance lyric poetry in the light of current scholarship on emerging concepts of self in the early-modern period. The primary focus is to examine the variety of lyric poetic voices of this period, particularly of the seventeenth century.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AC or ENGL 803AC.*

ENGL 415AD - Preachers, Players & Community

This course examines what early modern players and preachers had in common and how their "performances" contributed to cultural formation. It also explores the nature of the communication network within which they operated and its similarities to our own electronic web. Texts include plays, sermons, documentary and pictorial evidence.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AD, ENGL 803AD, or THEA 810AA.*

ENGL 415AF - The Body in 17th Century Literature

Using a number of theoretical approaches, we will examine representations of the body and its functions in literary and medical texts from the 17th century. We will consider how these representations reflect cultural values and perpetuate gender, economic, naturalist, and colonialist ideology.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AF or ENGL 803AF.*

ENGL 415AG - Gender and Shrew-Taming Plays

We will explore literary depictions of gender relations and other hierarchies of power by focusing on four shrew-taming plays of the late 16th and 17th centuries: The Taming of A Shrew, The Taming of The Shrew, The Woman's Prize, and Sauny the Scot.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 415AH - Colonialism & Renaissance Lit

We will explore the influence of the 'discovery' of the New World on early modern literature and culture, considering, for example, reactions to new lands, peoples, products (like tobacco), and diseases. We will focus on English texts from the seventeenth century, including travel writing, religious tracts, poetry, and drama.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AH or ENGL 803AH.*

ENGL 415AI - Early Modern Emotions

We will explore understandings of the emotions in the long seventeenth century, paying particular attention to representations of the emotional lives of non-human animals. Readings will include literary works as well as medical, philosophical, proto-psychological, and religious texts.
*Note: This Course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AI or ENGL 803AI.*

ENGL 420AA - Jonathan Swift

The major works of Jonathan Swift.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 420AB - She-Tragedy

This course examines the phenomenon of the female scapegoat, who is intended to serve both as a cure and an indictment for society's sexual double standard, in representative male-authored tragic drama of the 17th and 18th centuries.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AB or ENGL 804AB.*

ENGL 420AC - 18 Century Women's Fiction

This course will examine a selection of fiction written by women between 1688 and 1798 using several theoretical approaches.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AC or ENGL 804AC.*

ENGL 420AD - Sexual and Textual Transgression in Baroque and Augustan Literature

This course examines the various ways that seventeenth- and eighteenth century writers transgress social, political and religious conventions. The course will focus especially on the way sexual transgression acts as a metaphor for literary transgression.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AD or ENGL 804AD*

ENGL 420AE - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

This course will sample some of the plays written between 1660 and 1700. Although the primary focus of the plays will be on comedy, the selections will include a broad sample of genres, including heroic tragedy, tragedy, experimental farce, and ballad opera.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AE or ENGL 804AE.*

ENGL 420AF - Melancholy/Madness 18-Century

This course explores the under-belly of the so-called "Age of Reason" by examining a range of literary and medical representations of melancholy and madness. We will supplement our investigations with a series of critical texts, and topics of discussion will centre around the relationship between 18th-century mental illness and gender, genius, culture, and creativity.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AF or ENGL 804AF.*

ENGL 420AH - 18th Century Other Worlds: Women's Writing and Exploration

In this class, advanced English students will enter closely into a study of important trends in 18th century women's writing and into the ways that those authors contribute exploration of new worlds, whether fictional, actual, or through travel and first-hand experience.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 420AP - Eighteenth Century Sexualities

This seminar will explore issues of gender and sexuality in Eighteenth Century culture, including literature, artwork, music, and fashion.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AP or ENGL 820AP.*

ENGL 420AQ - The Golden Age of Piracy and its Contexts

The literary image of the pirate—including dress, speech, and demeanour—stems from a very specific historical period, namely, the years from 1715 to 1730, generally known as the final phase of the Golden Age of Piracy (roughly 1680 to 1730). During this period, the British government undertook to eradicate pirate activity in the Caribbean, installing Woodes Rogers as governor of The Bahamas, and charging him with waging a “war on piracy” that successfully drove piracy out of North America by 1726. This course will consider the literature about pirates that emerged during this period.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 420AQ or ENGL 804AG.*

ENGL 425AA - John Keats

This course explores the writings and life of John Keats.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 425AA or ENGL 805AA.*

ENGL 425AB - The Romantic Lyric

The Romantic Lyric: A study of Romantic Subjectivism & Imagination as expressed in the Ode & the Sonnet - 1798-1822 - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 425AB or ENGL 805AB.*

ENGL 425AE - Knowing Feeling: Romantic Affects

Romanticism is typically—almost stereotypically—concerned with feeling. What did the Romantics think about the role of feeling? Why and how did feeling become so important? To explore these questions we will read literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in the context of contemporary affect theory. Assessment: seminar, précis, essay, exam
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 425AE or ENGL 805AE.*

ENGL 425AF - Representations of Judaism from Romanticism to Modernity

Beginning with literary contexts from the Bible, Jewish mythology, and Shakespeare, this course ultimately focuses on British representations of Judaism from the mid 18th to the late 19th century. The aim is to investigate how “Judaism,” as imagined by various artists, complicates narratives of historical and national identity in England.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 425AF or ENGL 805AF.*

ENGL 425AG - Shelley’s Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Life and Art

This course focuses on the topic of monstrosity in several of Mary Shelley’s novels, some of her short stories and essays, and her editing work. We will read these texts in biographical context and alongside shorter contributions by Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 425AH - Labor and Longing in British Romantic Poetry

How does Romantic poetry capture what it means to work, labour or serve; to be productive or creative; to work for oneself or for others? Whether the choice to work is made freely or under coercion, including threats of suffering, imprisonment or death, work was both transforming, historically, and transformative.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Intended for English Honours or prospective English Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 430AB - Victorian Social-Justice Novel

A study of the conventions of, and the political philosophies underlying, the Victorian social justice novel.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 430AB or ENGL 811AA.*

ENGL 430AC - Transition to Modernity

This course examines the changes in the relation between the individual and society, in available epistemological frameworks, in gender identities, and in the representation of desire through the study of texts written in England between 1860 and 1920.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 430AC or ENGL 806AC.*

ENGL 430AH - Victorian Literature: Liberalism & Social Justice Novel

The course treats liberal political philosophy as a key but occluded context for Victorian social-justice novels. Topics include public and private space, and their right relationship; political rights and the juridical person; women, class, and suffrage; parliamentary and social reform; and the role of education in bringing rights into being.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 430AH or ENGL 806AH.*

ENGL 430AI - Inventing England: Myths of Nationhood and Nationalism n the Long 19th Century

Beginning with Benedict Anderson's touchstone Imagined Communities this course examines modern thinking about the meaning of nations and nationalism in texts and cultural expressions ranging from Nelson's column to Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 430AJ - Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Crimes and Misdemeanours

This course examines ideas of Victorian social order through their opposite or underside, disorder, with particular reference to the ideas of crime and sin, and to theories of criminality, punishment, and rehabilitation, in high realist texts as well as sensation and detective fiction.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 430AL - Faith and Doubt

Was the Victorian Age really one of a crisis of faith, of spreading doubt in the hoary old conventions of Christianity which marked a necessary passage to Modernism and Modernity? Or was the apparent growth of secularism in the British 19th century a mark of something else altogether? This course examines the literature of faith and doubt, from the poems of Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell from the perspective of new scholarship on Victorian religion, inviting critics to take seriously, as did the Victorians themselves, their own thinking about religion and the spiritual life.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 435AC - Repetition in British Lit

This course examines theories by Vico, Freud, Kierkegaard and Benjamin to reveal the complex nature of repetition as a cultural form. These theories are applied to recent British novels, all of which employ repetition as a key narrative structure.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 435AE - The Great War

This course examines the cultural history of the First World War. Through a multidisciplinary approach and the analysis of varied cultural artifacts--from memoirs, poetry and fiction to film, architecture and the visual arts--the course explores the impact of the "Great War" on the collective imaginations of Europeans.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 435AK - T. S. Eliot

An overview of the career and development of T. S. Eliot, one of the most influential poets and critics of the twentieth century, this course will examine the collected verse, as well as selected plays and critical work.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 435AK or ENGL 807AK.*

ENGL 435AL - Holocaust Literature

This is a course on the study of Holocaust Literature written in English. We will study a range of genres, including memoir, novel, short fiction, poetry, drama, and other media to seek to understand the complexity of Holocaust representation in literature.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 435AL or ENGL 807AL.*

ENGL 435AM - Evelyn Waugh

Literary iconoclast/cultural conservative, ruthless satirist/devout Catholic: Evelyn Waugh seems a contradiction. Yet he is widely hailed, even by those unsympathetic to his values, as one of the great stylists of his century. This course offers a comprehensive measure of Waugh’s diverse achievements over 37 years as a writer.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 435AM or ENGL 807AM.*

ENGL 435AN - Modernism & Problem of History

This course examines how the acceleration of contemporary life brought about by new technologies posed for modernists a problem of representation they met with formal innovation, and how history’s morally troubling character spurred the forging of new myths to account for the repeated return of past strife and oppressions.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 435AO - Holocaust Lit. & Ethics

This course uses Kant's ethical and aesthetic theory as a helpful way of understanding how inmates experienced a perversion of normality in Auschwitz-Birkenau. If Kant saw beauty as a means of creating community and the categorical imperative as a unifying mode of ethical action, writers such as Charlotte Delbo and Primo Levi describe experiences that cannot be contained by Kant's thinking.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 435AP - Security and Surveillance: The Making of "Bad" Subjects

This course will use Foucault's mid-1970s lectures on security and surveillance as a starting point to discuss how bodies and behaviours are policed. We will discuss how some cultural texts play a role in producing "good" citizens, while others challenge the boundaries that delimit what it is to be human.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 440AD - Canadian Poetry Since 1970

This course will focus on a reading of poetic works of the last 30 or so years. Major improvements, significant shifts, and the work of widely read poets will be examined. We will explore the roles of small presses and literary magazines in the dissemination of contemporary writing in Canada.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 440AD or ENGL 808AD.*

ENGL 440AI - Canadian Literature: Atwood

For Margaret Atwood, literature is a powerful complex of self-fashioning, imagining and eyewitnessing, which is never stable or morally neutral. This course examines Atwood's national, environmental, humanitarian and feminist concerns, as well as her postmodern aesthetics and her experimentation with genre.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 440AI or ENGL 808AI.*

ENGL 440AJ - Mourning and Memorial in Canadian Literature

A Study of mourning and memorial in Canadian literature with a focus on poetry and prose post 1950; includes theoretical grounding in mourning, memorial, and culture.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 440AJ or ENGL 808AK.*

ENGL 440AK - Testimony, Witness, and Indigenous Literatures

This course draws upon Indigenous and Western theories of trauma, testimony, and witness to examine and query contemporary Indigenous literatures' engagement with telling the trauma story through fiction for pedagogical, therapeutic, and activist purposes.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 440AK or ENGL 808AL.*

ENGL 440AL - Indigenous Feminism and Women's Writings

During this seminar class, students will engage in critical discussions involving justice and power for/by Indigenous women, gendered violence, Indigenous feminism, intergenerational trauma, women’s residential school narratives and literary writings as restorative justice. Through lectures, readings, and screenings, students will develop critical and interdisciplinary tools for analyzing Indigenous literary discourses.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 440AN - "Wriggling through the universe as beams of light"; Eden Robinson and the Decolonial Gothic

This seminar-style course examines the work of Haisla/Heiltsuk author, Eden Robinson, including short stories and a novella in Traplines (1996), her first novel, Monkey Beach (2000), and her recent Trickster Trilogy: Son of a Trickster (2017), Trickster Drift (2018), and Return of the Trickster (2021).
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 440AO - Saskatchewan Indigenous Literatures

This course explores some of the richest and oldest stories in the lands now called Saskatchewan, including voices from Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, Dene, and Métis nations. Materials will include oral traditions, early writings, historical letters, speeches by chiefs and elders, and life writings, in addition to contemporary literary works in all genres.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 440AO or ENGL 808AO.*
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 440AP - Contemporary Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island

This course explores a range of contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit literature and creative expression, which may include fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and visual and performance arts.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
**Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AP or ENGL 440AP.*

ENGL 445AJ - Cormac McCarthy

An intensive study of an extraordinary novelist and stylist, tracing his development through five decades and several genres. Beginning with his gothic explorations of the American South, we follow him to the Southwest, and backwards and forwards in time, as he reworks the Western, the thriller, and apocalyptic dystopia.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 445AJ or ENGL 809AJ.*

ENGL 465AA - Writing Fixed-Form Poetry

This advanced poetry course involves the study of ways in which contemporary poets innovate, subvert, or reject inherited fixed forms. Students will analytically "frame" and lead one workshop for the creative writers in the class, and will themselves workshop a comprehensive research paper.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 465AA or ENGL 465CA.*

ENGL 465AB - Writing the Lyric Self

This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing with detailed instruction in genre-based criticism. Students are invited to consider the contemporary lyric poetic voice in relation to poles of literary impersonality and confession, and in relation to various strategies of music, prose and drama.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 465AB or ENGL 813AE.*

ENGL 465CA - CW:Writing Fixed-Form Poetry

In this advanced creative writing course, experienced student poets will experiment with traditional poetic forms and study ways in which contemporary poets innovate, subvert or reject fixed form. The course aims to develop students’ reflective relationship to formalism in their personal poetics, even if they choose to write free verse.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 4465CA or ENGL 813CA.*

ENGL 475AF - Utopian Literature

Study of a number of works significant in the Utopian tradition, with attention to: Historical and cultural contexts; themes such as politics, education, the arts, and gender roles; literary features of the genre; and related issues such as the intentional community and city planning.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475AF or ENGL 815AF.*

ENGL 475AL - Creative Non-Fiction: The Experimental Memoir

This course is a study of creative non-fiction (the memoir and lyric essay), and how this kind of writing differs from the novel.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AM - Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling

This course examines the relatively untapped genre of Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling. We will cover nearly all of the available Indigenous science fiction literature from Canada and the U.S.A.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AN - Special Studies in Genre: Screening the Text: Modes of Fidelity in Film Adaptation+

This is a genre course focusing on the film adaptations of a variety of source texts. It will review contemporary adaptation theory, note its links to the classic problems of literary interpretation, and pursue a critical discourse based on modes of fidelity and infidelity in the text.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AP - CW: Writing Genre

This honors-level creative writing seminar will focus on popular genres, including fantasy/science-fiction, detective fiction, horro, YA literatures, and digital genres. Students will work-shop heir own creative texts while also reading criticism on genre studies and the craft of writing.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AQ - Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while gaining practice in the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AU - Fantasy Literature

This seminar will examine the development of fantasy literature, from its early medieval roots to the work of contemporary writers such as Guy Gavriel Kay. Students will trace connections between the chivalric tradition and contemporary fantasy, while reading critical materials on the genre.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475AY - Histories of Childhood

This course examines childhood as a historical concept, a literary representation, and a media phenomenon. We’ll look at experiences of Medieval children, examine Shakespeare’s treatment of adolescence (along with queer/non-traditional adaptations), the development of children’s literature during the 19C, & a variety of children’s/YA texts that engage with ecology and dystopia.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475AY or ENGL 880AY.*

ENGL 475AZ - The Making of Modern Fantasy: 1700 - 1950

This course studies the shifts in fantasy literature as both genre and mode from the 18th century, when it emerges as a recognizable genre, to The Lord of the Rings, the keystone text of modern fantasy. It takes up, also, the shifts and changes in the theory of fantasy, from 19th century considerations of the novel and the romance to Todorov, Shippey, Clute, Mendelsohn, and Attebery.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475AZ or ENGL 815AZ.*

ENGL 475BA - Mourning and Memorial in North American Literature

Focusing primarily on the period post-1950, this course examines how the literary culture of North America responds to literary traditions of mourning and memorializing in a period that poses serious challenges to the efficacy of remembrance. Theoretical and literary works form the focus of the readings.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475BA or ENGL 815BA.*

ENGL 475CL - CW: Creative Non-Fiction: The Experimental Memoir

Creative Writing Section: This course is a study of creative non-fiction (the memoir and lyric essay), and how this kind of writing differs from the novel.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475CL or ENGL 475AL.*

ENGL 475CQ - CW: Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while practicing and workshopping the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 475CU - Creative Writing: Writing Fantasy

This course will focus on writing fantasy in a number of forms. We’ll tackle the epic to the postmodern, and discuss the inner workings of the genre-fiction industry. Along the way, we’ll read works of literary/popular fantasy across historical periods. Students will submit a final portfolio with a critical introduction.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 475CU, ENGL 820AU, or ENGL 820CU.*

ENGL 480AD - After Theory: Politics & Theory

Theory and practise often become the opposition between theory and politics where theory is reproached for not being sufficiently political. This course looks at the political relevance of efficacy of theory. It examines the reasons for theoretical resistance, and studies the emergence of Cultural Studies.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 480AD or ENGL 817AD.*

ENGL 480AF - “The Age of Poets”: Philosophy and Poetry in the Twentieth Century

This course examines Heidegger’s proposition that “The thinker says Being. The poet names the holy.” Our focus is on Heidegger and Hölderlin, then turns to Jacques Derrida and Paul Celan. We will conclude with Alain Badiou’s pronouncement that the “Age of Poets,” Heidegger’s “suture” of philosophy to poetry, is over.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 480AG - Philosophical Ethics and the Zombies

Embodying contemporary anxieties of apocalyptic disaster, zombies summon fundamental ethical questions. This course examines the zombie in literature, film, the graphic novel, and the TV series The Walking Dead through the lens of bio-ethical theory and philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Jonas, Arendt and Levinas.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 480AH - Rhetoric of Apology in Canada

This course examines the rhetoric of government apologies in Canada as national mythologies or narratives of forgiving and forgetting government policies that defined, “who belongs and who does not belong to the nation.” We will examine the ideological underpinnings of apologies and attempts at reconciliation through Canadian tragedies.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 480AH or ENGL 817AH.*

ENGL 480AI - Literary & Environmental Ethics: Ecocriticism, Ecology, Ecotechnics

This course examines two Canadian novels and three philosophers to ask, What is an environmental ethics? How does nature relate to the concept of environment, world, or creation? We investigate the concept of nature, guided by economic, technological, scientific, or religious thinking, to rethink humanity's dominion over plants and animals.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 480AI or ENGL 817AI.*
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 480AJ - Literary Theory and the Cartographic Imagination

This course explores the relationship between literature and maps. We examine works that feature actual maps, but with reference to theories of narrative space, literary cartography and geography, we address related questions such as how text is itself a form of mapping and how reader-produced maps function as analytical tools.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
**Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 817AJ or ENGL 480AJ.*

ENGL 480AK - Another World is Possible: Alternative Realities

From philosophical allegories to imagined utopias and the spread of misinformation, this course will examine how, why, and with what effects authors and strategists deploy “alternative realities.” Emphasis will be on the analytic and tactical space established by their creation.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 480AK or ENGL 817AK.*

ENGL 485AB - Postcolonial Literature/Theory

An examination of writing in English from former British colonies in the Pacific, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, and Canada. We will study such current debates as universality and difference, representation and resistance, nationalism, hybridity, feminism, and language. Students will lead the discussion by presenting seminars on a variety of topics.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485AD - Adv Studies Creative Writing

This course combines creative writing with an analysis of what it means to compose literary texts. Students will read various works in which writers such as Annie Dillard, Raymond Carver and William Vollman discuss composition. Assignments will involve creative writing on personal essays.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485AK - Advanced Studies in Genre/Creative Writing

This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing with detailed instruction in genre-based criticism. It aims to eluciate connections between the student's own writing and the literary and critical traditions that they seek to join.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 485AK or ENGL 820AK.*

ENGL 485AL - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

This course is an intensive workshop in creative writing with detailed instruction in poetry. The main focus of the course is to develop a manuscript of poems examining a central topic.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485AO - Advanced Creative Writing

This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing. It will focus on creative non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry. Students will also learn the rudiments of editing as they work with one another's manuscripts.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485AV - You Are Here: The Power of Place in Creative Writing

This seminar explores the significance of place and world-building in creative writing. Whether you're describing a fantastic city, or simply one’s own room, the imaginative language of place is vital. Through a series of workshops on both fiction and creative non-fiction, this class will converse about the landscape of writing.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485AW - Ekphrasis: Theory & Practice

This class discusses the theory of ekphrasis, examines a series of ekphrastic texts, and gives students practice in ekphrastic writing. The bulk of the class is devoted to student workshops in which their ekphrastic writing - poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or scholarly analysis - will be analyzed by the class.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485AZ - Literature and the Anthropocene

Numerous scientists, philosophers and artists believe that humans have recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, an epoch that is defined by the ways that human civilization has fundamentally altered the Earth. This class is a hybrid class, meaning that it can be taken for academic or creative writing credit.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485BA - The History of Medicine in/as Literature

This course explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britons understood and imagined health, pathology and medicine. In poetry, novels, essays, medical journals, travelogues and other accounts, we will ask questions about contagion and difference; the emergence of so-called race science; the gendering of conditions such as hysteria and apoplexy, and more.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
**Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. **Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register. **
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 342AE or ENGL 485BA.*

ENGL 485CA - Creative Writing Workshop: Long and Short Fiction

This honours level Creative Writing Workshop/Seminar will focus on short and long fiction in several genres. Students will workshop their own creative texts while also reading criticism on fiction and the craft of writing.
***Prerequisite of ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours***
*Note: Intended for Honours or prospective Honours students only. Students who are not English Honours majors require permission of the Department Head to register.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820CA or ENGL 485CA.*

ENGL 485CW - CW: Ekphrasis: Theory & Practice

*Creative Writing Section* This class discusses the theory of ekphrasis, examines a series of ekphrastic texts, and gives students practice in ekphrastic writing. The bulk of the class is devoted to student workshops in which their ekphrastic writing - poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or scholarly analysis - will be analyzed by the class.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 485CZ - CW: Literature and the Anthropocene

Numerous scientists, philosophers and artists believe that humans have recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, an epoch that is defined by the ways that human civilization has fundamentally altered the Earth. This class is a hybrid class, meaning that it can be taken for academic or creative writing credit. This is the creative writing section.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 490 - Honours Essay I

Work towards an Honours Essay. Students will be expected to submit a draft or preliminary work. As an alternative to a scholarly treatise, the essay may take the form of a creative work with a critical introduction.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 491 - Honours Essay II

Completion of an Honours Essay, which will be graded by the supervisor in consultation with another member of the faculty. As an alternative to a scholarly treatise, the essay may take the form of a creative work with a critical introduction.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 499 - Bibliography and Methods of Research

The goal of this course is to teach techniques of literary research, the process of textual transmission, the editing process, and physical composition of books. Students will have the opportunity to research manuscript documents and variants.
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENGL 801AD - Medieval Materialism

This grad course will concentrate on the medieval material world and the five senses, including texts that engage with: arms and armour, stained glass, the elements and eco-criticism, fashion, animal lives, and magic as a material force. We’ll read texts in both their original languages and translations.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 801AD or ENGL 405AD.*

ENGL 802AA - Spenser: The Faerie Queene

This course will read all six books of the Faerie Queene as a struggle with the dangers of idolatry. It also focusses on Spenser's concern for the private and public virtues, especially with the "politics of friendship."
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 802AA or ENGL 410AA.*

ENGL 802AC - Poststucturalism and Shakespeare

This course uses select plays by Shakespeare as test cases to examine the challenges presented by five poststructuralist approaches - deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory. The course explores how poststructuralism aids us in formulating an ethics of the other in Shakespeare's plays.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 802AC or ENGL 410AC.*

ENGL 802AE - Shakespeare as Cultural Icon

This course examines the ways in which Shakespeare has been used as a national and international icon, both to maintain institutionalized power and to serve as a resistance point for underprivileged groups. We trace this fundamental paradox through the cultural reception of four popular, contested plays in the Shakespeare canon.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 802AE or ENGL 410AE.*

ENGL 803AF - The Body in 17th Century Literature

Using a number of theoretical approaches, we will examine representations of the body and its functions in literary and medical texts from the 17th century. We will consider how these representations reflect cultural values and perpetuate gender, economic, nationalist, and colonialist ideology.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 803AF or ENGL 415AF.*

ENGL 803AG - Gender and Shrew-Taming Plays

We will explore literary depictions of gender relations and other hierarchies of power by focusing on four shrew-taming plays of the late 16th and 17th centuries: The Taming of A Shrew, The Taming of The Shrew, The Woman's Prize, and Sauny the Scot.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 803AG or ENGL 415AG.*

ENGL 803AH - Colonialism & Renaissance Lit

We will explore the influence of the 'discovery' of the New World on early modern literature and culture, considering, for example, reactions to new lands, peoples, products (like tobacco), and diseases. We will focus on English texts from the seventeenth century, including travel writing, religious tracts, poetry, and drama.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 803AH or ENGL 415AH.*

ENGL 803AI - Early Modern Emotions

We will explore understandings of the emotions in the long seventeenth century, paying particular attention to representations of the emotional lives of non-human animals. Readings will include literary works as well as medical, philosophical, proto-psychological, and religious texts.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 415AI or ENGL 803AI.*

ENGL 804AB - She-Tragedy

This course examines the phenomenon of the female scapegoat, who is intended to serve both as a cure and an indictment for society's sexual double standard, in representative male-authored tragic drama of the 17th and 18th centuries.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 804AB or ENGL 420AB.*

ENGL 804AC - 18th Century Women's Fiction

This course will examine a selection of fiction written by women between 1688 and 1798 using several theoretical approaches.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 804AC or ENGL 420AC.*

ENGL 804AD - Sexual and Textual Transgression in Baroque and Augustan Literature

This course examines the various ways that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers transgress social, political and religious conventions. The course will focus especially on the way sexual transgressions act as a metaphor for literary transgression.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 804AD or ENGL 420AD.*

ENGL 804AF - Melancholy & Madness in the 18th-Century

This course explores the under-belly of the so-called "Age of Reason" by examining a range of literary and medical representations of melancholy and madness. We will supplement our investigations with a series of critical texts, and topics of discussion will center around the relationship between eighteenth-century mental illness and gender, genius, culture, and creativity.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 804AF or ENGL 420AF.*

ENGL 804AG - The Golden Age of Piracy and its Contexts

The literary image of the pirate-including dress, speech, and demeanour-stems from a very specific historical period, namely, the years from 1715 to 1730, generally known as the final phase of the Golden Age of Piracy (roughly 1680 to 1730). During this period, the British government undertook to eradicate pirate activity in the Caribbean, installing Woodes Rogers as governor of The Bahamas, and charging him with waging a "war on piracy" that successfully drove piracy out of North America by 1726. This course will consider the literature about pirates that emerged during this period.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 804AG or ENGL 420AQ.*

ENGL 805AE - Knowing Feeling: Romantic Affects

Romanticism is typically—almost stereotypically—concerned with feeling. What did the Romantics think about the role of feeling? Why and how did feeling become so important? To explore these questions we will read literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in the context of contemporary affect theory. Assessment: seminar, précis, essay, exam.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 805AE or ENGL 425AE.*

ENGL 805AF - Representations of Judaism from Romanticism to Modernity

Beginning with literary contexts from the Bible, Jewish mythology, and Shakespeare, this course ultimately focuses on British representations of Judaism from the mid 18th to the late 19th century. The aim is to investigate how “Judaism,” as imagined by various artists, complicates narratives of historical and national identity in England.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 805AF or ENGL 425AF.*

ENGL 805AG - Shelley’s Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Life and Art

This course focuses on the topic of monstrosity in several of Mary Shelley’s novels, some of her short stories and essays, and her editing work. We will read these texts in biographical context and alongside shorter contributions by Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 805AG or ENGL 425AG.*

ENGL 805AH - Labor and Longing in British Romantic Poetry

How does Romantic poetry capture what it means to work, labour or serve; to be productive or creative; to work for oneself or for others? Whether the choice to work is made freely or under coercion, including threats of suffering, imprisonment or death, work was both transforming, historically, and transformative.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 805AH or ENGL 425AH.*

ENGL 806AH - Victorian Literature: Liberalism and Social Justice Novel

This course treats liberal political philosophy as a key but occluded context for Victorian social-justice novels. Topics include public and private space, and their right relationship; political rights and the juridicial person; women, class, and suffrage; parliamentary and social reform; and the role of education in bringing rights into being.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 806AH or ENGL 430AH.*

ENGL 806AI - Inventing England: Myths of Nationhood and Nationalism in the Long 19th Century

Beginning with Benedict Anderson's touchstone Imagined Communities this course examines modern thinking about the meaning of nations and nationalism in texts and cultural expressions ranging from Nelson's column to Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

ENGL 806AJ - Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Crimes and Misdemeanours

This course examines ideas of Victorian social order through their opposite or underside, disorder, with particular reference to the ideas of crime and sin, and to theories of criminality, punishment, and rehabilitation, in high realist texts as well as sensation and detective fiction.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 806AJ or ENGL 430AJ.*

ENGL 806AL - Studies in 19th C.: Faith & Doubt

This course examines literature of faith and doubt, from poems of Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Browning to novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Gaskell from the perspective of new scholarship on Victorian religion, inviting critics to take seriously, as the Victorians did, their own thinking about religion and the spiritual life.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 806AL or ENGL 430AL.*

ENGL 806AN - 19th Century Print Culture

This course traces the rapid transformation of the textual environment of 19th century Britain as a consequence of new technologies of printing and dramatic increases in literacy rates, through periodicals, newspapers, and printed ephemera, as well as the ways these forms of print culture transformed established literary genres.

ENGL 806AO - Advanced Studies in Victorian Literature: George Eliot

This is an advanced study in the life and work of the Victorian realist author, George Eliot (Mary Ann / Marian Evans), with a balance between major novels (Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss) and smaller works, such as the fairy-tale like novella, Silas Marner, and the early Scenes of Clerical Life. Required reading will include Nancy Henry's recent biography of Eliot and a range of critical and recent scholarship on Eliot. See attached list.

ENGL 807AK - T. S. Eliot

An overview of the career and development of T. S. Eliot, one of the most influential poets and critics of the twentieth century, this course will examine the collected verse, as well as selected plays and critical work.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 807AK or ENGL 435AK.*

ENGL 807AL - Advanced Holocaust Literature

This is a course on the study of Holocaust Literature written in English We will study a range of genres, including memoir, novel, short fiction, poetry, drama, and other media to seek to understand the complexity of Holocaust representation in literature.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 807AL or ENGL 435AL.*

ENGL 807AM - Evelyn Waugh

Literary iconoclast/cultural conservative, ruthless satirist/devout Catholic: Evelyn Waugh seems a contradiction. Yet he is widely hailed, even by those unsympathetic to his values, as one of the great stylists of his century. This course offers a comprehensive measure of Waugh’s diverse achievements over 37 years as a writer.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 807AM or ENGL 435AM.*

ENGL 807AN - Modernism & Problem of History

This course examines how the acceleration of contemporary life brought about by new technologies posed for modernists a problem of representation they met with formal innovation, and how history’s morally troubling character spurred the forging of new myths to account for the repeated return of past strife and oppressions.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 807AN or ENGL 435AN.*

ENGL 807AP - Security and Surveillance: The Making of "Bad" Subjects

This course will use Foucault's mid-1970s lectures on security and surveillance as a starting point to discuss how bodies and behaviours are policed. We will discuss how some cultural texts play a role in producing "good" citizens, while others challenge the boundaries that delimit what it is to be human.

ENGL 808AD - Canadian Poetry Since 1970

This course will focus on a reading of key poetic works of the last thirty or so years. Major movements, significant shifts, and work of widely read poets will be examined. We will explore the roles of small presses and literary magazines in the dissemination of contemporary writing in Canada.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AD or ENGL 440AD.*

ENGL 808AI - Canadian Literature: Atwood

For Margaret Atwood, literature is a powerful complex of self-fashioning, imagining and eyewitnessing, which is never stable or morally neutral. This course examines Atwood's national, environmental, humanitarian and feminist concerns, as well as her postmodern aesthetics and her experimentation with genre.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AI or ENGL 440AI.*

ENGL 808AK - Mourning and Memorial in Canadian Literature

A Study of mourning and memorial in Canadian literature with a focus on poetry and prose post 1950; includes theoretical grounding in mourning, memorial, and culture.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AK or ENGL 440AJ.*

ENGL 808AL - Testimony, Witness, and Indigenous Literatures

This course draws upon Indigenous and Western theories of trauma, testimony, and witness to examine and query contemporary Indigenous literatures' engagement with telling the trauma story through fiction for pedagogical, therapeutic, and activist purposes.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AL or ENGL 440AK.*

ENGL 808AM - Indigenous Feminism and Women's Writings

During this seminar class, students will engage in critical discussions involving justice and power for/by Indigenous women, gendered violence, Indigenous feminism, intergenerational trauma, women’s residential school narratives and literary writings as restorative justice. Through lectures, readings, and screenings, students will develop critical and interdisciplinary tools for analyzing Indigenous literary discourses.

ENGL 808AN - "Wriggling through the universe as beams of light": Eden Robinson and the Decolonial Gothic

This seminar-style course examines the work of Haisla/Heiltsuk author, Eden Robinson, including short stories and a novella in Traplines (1996), her first novel, Monkey Beach (2000), and her recent Trickster Trilogy: Son of a Trickster (2017), Trickster Drift (2018), and Return of the Trickster (2021). *Intended for Graduate Students in English*

ENGL 808AO - Saskatchewan Indigenous Literatures

This course explores some of the richest and oldest stories in the lands now called Saskatchewan, including voices from Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, Dene, and Métis nations. Materials will include oral traditions, early writings, historical letters, speeches by chiefs and elders, and life writings, in addition to contemporary literary works in all genres.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AO or ENGL 440AO.*

ENGL 808AP - Contemporary Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island

This course explores a range of contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit literature and creative expression, which may include fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and visual and performance arts.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 808AP or ENGL 440AP.*

ENGL 809AJ - Cormac McCarthy

An intensive study of an extraordinary novelist and stylist, tracing his development through five decades and several genres. Beginning with his gothic explorations of the American South, we follow him to the Southwest, and backwards and forwards in time, as he reworks the Western, the the thriller, and apocalyptic dystopia.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 809AJ or ENGL 445AJ.*

ENGL 812DA - Dramaturging & Devising Inclusive Theatre

The student will contribute a theoretical context and dramaturgical framework for THEA 315AB, a course that offers UG students the opportunity to explore inclusive theatre practices inpublic performances. It is aimed at those who are interested in collaborative/ devised theatre practice especially those who self-declare as otherwise-abled or are interested in exploring such possibilities.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 812DA or THEA 315AB.*

ENGL 813AD - Writing Fixed Form Poetry

This advanced poetry course involves the study of ways in which contemporary poets innovate, subvert, or reject inherited fixed forms. Students will develop a conference-style paper on formalism for presentation to the class and will workshop a comprehensive research paper.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 813AD, ENGL 465AA, ENGL 465CA, or ENGL 813CA.*

ENGL 813AE - Writing the Lyric Self

This course is an intensive workshop in the craft and practice of creative writing with detailed instruction in genre-based criticism. Students are invited to consider the contemporary lyric poetic voice in relation to poles of literary impersonality and confession, and in relation to various strategies of music, prose and drama.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 813AE or ENGL 465AB.*

ENGL 813CA - CW: Writing Fixed-Form Poetry

In this advanced creative writing course, experienced student poets will experiment with traditional poetic forms and study ways in which contemporary poets innovate, subvert or reject fixed form. The course aims to develop students’ reflective relationship to formalism in their personal poetics, even if they choose to write free verse.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 813CA or ENGL 465CA.*

ENGL 815AF - Utopian Literature

Study of a number of works significant in the utopian tradition, with attention to Historical and cultural context; themes such as politics, education, the arts, and gender roles; literary features of the genre; and related issues such as the intentional community and city planning.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AF or ENGL 475AF.*

ENGL 815AI - Science Fiction Adaptation

The class examines science fiction novel-to-film adaptations in the light of recent adaptation theory. It begins with classic scientific romances by H.G. Wells and then moves to recent adaptations including 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke/Kubrick), Solaris (Lem/Tarkovsky), and Blade Runner (Dick/Scott).
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AI or ENGL 475AI.*

ENGL 815AN - Special Studies in Genre: Screening the Text: Modes of Fidelity in Film Adaptation+

This is a genre course focusing on the film adaptations of a variety of source texts. It will review contemporary adaptation theory, note its links to the classic problems of literary interpretation, and pursue a critical discourse based on modes of fidelity and infidelity in the text.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AN or ENGL 475AN.*

ENGL 815AO - Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling

This course examines Indigenous science fiction and speculative storytelling as an emerging genre. Beginning with its origins in oral traditions and ending with contemporary short fiction and film, this course asks what makes Indigenous science fiction distinct from Western science fiction, as well as historical fiction about Indigenous peoples.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AO or ENGL 475AV.*

ENGL 815AP - Experimental Memoir

This course introduces students to the creative non-fiction memoir and personal, lyric essay. It is a hybrid course; both academic and creative writing students can enroll. There is no workshop component. Students must submit a formal academic essay.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AP, ENGL 475AL, ENGL 475CL, or ENGL 815CP.*

ENGL 815AQ - Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while gaining practice in the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.

ENGL 815AZ - The Making of Modern Fantasy: 1700 - 1950

This course studies the shifts in fantasy literature as both genre and mode from the 18th century, when it emerges as a recognizable genre, to The Lord of the Rings, the keystone text of modern fantasy. It takes up, also, the shifts and changes in the theory of fantasy, from 19th century considerations of the novel and the romance to Todorov , Shippey, Clute, Mendelsohn, and Attebery.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AZ or ENGL 475AZ.*

ENGL 815BA - Mourning and Memorial in North American Literature

Focusing primarily on the period post-1950, this course examines how the literary culture of North America responds to literary traditions of mourning and memorializing in a period that poses serious challenges to the efficacy of remembrance. Theoretical and literary works form the focus of the readings.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815BA or ENGL 475BA.*

ENGL 815CP - Creative Writing: Experimental Memoir

This course introduces students to the creative non-fiction memoir and personal, lyric essay. It is a hybrid course; both academic and creative writing students can enroll. There is no workshop component. Creative writing students must submit a personal, lyric essay.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815CP, ENGL 815AP, ENGL 475AL, or ENGL 475CL.*

ENGL 815CQ - CW: Women's Memoir: Theory and Practice

This seminar examines the genre of women's memoir through both a critical and creative lens. We analyze several contemporary women's memoirs while practicing and workshopping the craft of memoir writing. Feminist and gender theory enables us to understand as well as trouble categories such as woman, identity, memory, and narration.

ENGL 817AD - After Theory:Politics & Theory

Theory and practice often become the opposition between theory and politics where theory is reproached for not being sufficiently political. This course looks at the political relevance or efficacy of theory. It examines the reasons for theoretical resistance, and studies the emergence of Cultural Studies.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 817AD or ENGL 480AD.*

ENGL 817AF - “The Age of Poets”: Philosophy and Poetry in the Twentieth Century

This course examines Heidegger’s proposition that “The thinker says Being. The poet names the holy.” Our focus is on Heidegger and Hölderlin, then turns to Jacques Derrida and Paul Celan. We will conclude with Alain Badiou’s pronouncement that the “Age of Poets,” Heidegger’s “suture” of philosophy to poetry, is over.

ENGL 817AG - Literary Theory: Ethics and Zombies

Embodying contemporary anxieties of apocalyptic disaster, zombies summon fundamental ethical questions. This course examines the zombie in literature, film, the graphic novel, and the TV series The Walking Dead through the lens of bio-ethical theory and philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Jonas, Arendt, and Levinas.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 817AG or ENGL 417AG.*

ENGL 817AH - Rhetoric of Apology in Canada

This course examines the rhetoric of government apologies in Canada as national mythologies or narratives of forgiving and forgetting government policies that defined, “who belongs and who does not belong to the nation.” We will examine ideological underpinnings of apologies and attempts at reconciliation through Canadian tragedies.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 817AH or ENGL 480AH.*

ENGL 817AI - Literary & Environmental Ethics: Ecocriticism, Ecology, Ecotechnics

This course examines two Canadian novels and three philosophers to ask, What is an environmental ethics? How does nature relate to the concept of environment, world, or creation? We investigate the concept of nature, guided by economic, technological, scientific, or religious thinking, to rethink humanity's dominion over plants and animals.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 480AI or ENGL 817AI.*

ENGL 817AJ - Literary Theory and the Cartographic Imagination

This course explores the relationship between literature and maps. We examine works that feature actual maps, but with reference to theories of narrative space, literary cartography and geography, we address related questions such as how text is itself a form of mapping and how reader-produced maps function as analytical tools.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 817AJ or ENGL 480AJ.*

ENGL 817AK - Another World is Possible: Alternative Realities

From philosophical allegories to imagined utopias and the spread of misinformation, this course will examine how, why, and with what effects authors and strategists deploy “alternative realities.” Emphasis will be on the analytic and tactical space established by their creation.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 817AK or ENGL 480AK.*

ENGL 820AB - Postcolonial Literature/Theory

An examination of writing in English from former British colonies in the Pacific, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, and Canada. We will study such current debates as universality and difference, representation and resistance, nationalism, hybridity, feminism, and language. Students will lead the discussion by presenting seminars on a variety of topics.

ENGL 820AD - American First Nation Fiction

A study of key narratives of N. Scott Momday, James Welch and Leslie Silko, three of the most accomplished and influential contemporary First Nations writers in the USA.

ENGL 820AP - Eighteenth Century Sexualities

This seminar will explore issues of gender and sexuality in Eighteenth Century culture, including literature, artwork, music, and fashion.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AP or ENGL 420AP.*

ENGL 820AT - Canadian Aboriginal Literature

This course examines what makes Indigenous literature distinct within the context of Canadian culture and history by exploring a variety of Canadian Indigenous story telling forms: oral traditions, fiction, drama, and film on a range of topics including post colonialism, relations to land, spiritual traditions, popular culture, identity, and empowerment.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AT or ENGL 445AT.

ENGL 820AU - Fantasy Literature

This seminar will examine the development of fantasy literature, from its early medieval roots to the work of contemporary writers such as Guy Gavriel Kay. Students will trace connections between the chivalric tradition and contemporary fantasy, while reading critical materials on the genre.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AU or ENGL 475AU.*

ENGL 820AV - You Are Here: The Power of Place in Creative Writing

This seminar explores the significance of place and world-building in creative writing. Whether you're describing a fantastic city, or simply one's own room, the imaginative language of place is vital Through a series of workshops on both fiction and creative non-fiction, this class will converse about the landscape of writing.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AV or ENGL 485AV.*

ENGL 820AW - Ekphrasis: Theory & Practice

This class discusses the theory of ekphrasis, examines a series of ekphrastic texts, and gives students practice in ekphrastic writing. The bulk of the class is devoted to student workshops in which their ekphrastic writing - poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or scholarly analysis - will be analyzed by the class.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AW or ENGL 485AW.*

ENGL 820AY - Histories of Childhood

This course examines childhood as a historical concept, a literary representation, and a media phenomenon. We’ll look at experiences of Medieval children, examine Shakespeare’s treatment of adolescence (along with queer/non-traditional adaptations), the development of children’s literature during the 19C, & a variety of children’s/YA texts that engage with ecology and dystopia.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820AY or ENGL 475AY.*

ENGL 820AZ - Literature and the Anthropocene

Numerous scientists, philosophers and artists believe that humans have recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, an epoch that is defined by the ways that human civilization has fundamentally altered the Earth.
*This class is a hybrid class, meaning that it can be taken for academic or creative writing credit.*

ENGL 820BA - CW: Writing Genre

This graduate-level creative writing seminar will focus on popular genres, including fantasy/science-fiction, detective fiction, horror, YA literatures, and digital genres. Students will workshop their own creative texts while also reading criticism on genre studies and the craft of writing.

ENGL 820CA - Creative Writing Workshop: Long and Short Fiction

This graduate level Creative Writing Workshop will focus on short and long fiction in several genres. Students will workshop their own creative texts while also reading criticism on fiction and the craft of writing.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820CA or ENGL 485CA.*

ENGL 820CU - Creative Writing: Writing Fantasy

This course will focus on writing fantasy in a number of forms. We’ll tackle the epic to the postmodern, and discuss the inner workings of the genre-fiction industry. Along the way, we’ll read works of literary/popular fantasy across historical periods. Students will submit a final portfolio with a critical introduction.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820CU or ENGL 475CU.*

ENGL 820CW - CW: Ekphrasis: Theory & Practice

*Creative Writing Section* This class discusses the theory of ekphrasis, examines a series of ekphrastic texts, and gives students practice in ekphrastic writing. The bulk of the class is devoted to student workshops in which their ekphrastic writing - poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or scholarly analysis - will be analyzed by the class.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 820CW, ENGL 820AW, ENGL 475AZ, or ENGL 475CZ.*

ENGL 820CZ - CW: Literature and the Anthropocene

Numerous scientists, philosophers and artists believe that humans have recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, an epoch that is defined by the ways that human civilization has fundamentally altered the Earth. This class is a hybrid class, meaning that it can be taken for academic or creative writing credit. This is the creative writing section.

ENGL 840CU - Creative Writing Directed Reading Study

Directed study on creative writing with focus on genre fiction.

ENGL 901 - Research

Permission of the Department Head is required for registration in this course.

ENGL 902 - Project Research

This course requires students to conduct research for a designated project in the first semester and then to write the project in a subsequent semester. Students are required to give a public presentation upon completion of the project.
Permission of the Department Head is required for registration in this course.

FILM 100 - The Art of Motion Pictures

An introduction to the art of motion pictures. The course will examine a representative selection of films covering the history of cinema and many of its basic aesthetic premises.

FILM 101AA - Art of Mobile Photography

This course introduces students to the basics of mobile photography as a way to communicate ideas emphasizing content, composition, and technique.

FILM 200 - Introduction to Film Production

Exploring the differences between photographic, film, video and audio processes, students will study the characteristics of these media through hands on assignments.
*Note: Restricted to Film majors.*
*Note: Creative Technologies Program Option.*
*Additional Fee: $150.*

FILM 201 - Film Production 1

The course focuses on the development of practical techniques in film production.
***Prerequisite: FILM 100 and 200.***
**Corequisite: FILM 209. Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**
*Additional Fee: $150.*

FILM 202 - Film Production 2

A continuation of FILM 201.
***Prerequisite: FILM 201.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 203 - Animation

Basic principles, technical knowledge and a variety of animation techniques related to non-cell animation.
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 205 - Black and White Photography

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of black and white photography and darkroom practices.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of FILM 205, ART 222, FILM 280AB, or FILM 385AC.*
*Additional Fee: $150.*

FILM 209 - Technical Fundamentals

The course provides technical fundamentals for students entering the BFA program in film production, with a focus on developing solid technical understandings of cameras, lenses, lighting, audio, and editing.
***Prerequisite: FILM 200.***
**Corequisite: FILM 201.**
*Note: Permission of the Department Head is required to register.*
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 210 - Introduction to Screenwriting

Introducing the fundamentals of writing for the screen.

FILM 220 - Technical Fundamentals

The course provides technical fundamentals for developing solid technical understandings of cameras, lenses, lighting, audio and editing.
*Note: The course is intended for NON Film majors. Students cannot receive credit for both Film 220 and Film 209*
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 221 - The Art of Podcasting

An introduction to the creative and technical aspects of creating a podcast. Students will develop, record and edit podcast episodes in a variety of genres. They will share their work via web pages and an RSS feed that can be accessed through various podcast clients.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FILM 221, CTCH 221, or FILM 280AD.*
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 245 - Genre

Examines the origin, evolution, function and theory of genres, including themes and styles.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FILM 245 and FILM 380AR.*

FILM 253 - Narratives for the Digital Age

This course examines narrative structures and traditions and their relevance for film, TV serials, computer games, and new media data-based story-telling.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both FILM 251 and FILM 253*

FILM 254 - Documenting Reality

This course offers an overview of the documentary genre in film, television and journalistic contexts. It will investigate the genre in terms of subject matter and style, historical origins, forms and conventions, and relationships to cultural contexts.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both FILM 250 and FILM 254*

FILM 255 - World Cinema

Examines international world cinemas with a focus on comparing the work of prominent directors from around the globe.

FILM 256 - Underground Film

This course will introduce the most important developments in the history of experimental cinema. A discussion of international avant-garde films will be included, with a focus on the evolution of the avant-garde’s alternative techniques, themes modes of production and audiences.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both FILM 340 and FILM 256*

FILM 286AA - Anime: Popular Animation from Japan

An introductory survey of Japanese animation produced from the 1970s to the 2010s. We will critically investigate the western scholarship on the subject as well as examine the global fan communities connected with the culture of Anime.

FILM 286AB - Women in Film

This course will examine films made by women, with a focus on mysteries, fantasies, social realism, and documentaries. The range of works will include independent shorts to big-budget blockbusters.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FILM 286AB or FILM 390AN.*

FILM 286AC - Cult Cinema

This course offers a critical insight into the sensational and downright weird films that came to be called 'cult cinema.' Focusing on notions such as popular culture, art-house and genre cinema, excess, camp, contexts of audience reception - the course examines what makes a film "CULT."

FILM 286AD - Aliens in Film

This course will examine the Alien, or Extra-Terrestrial, as the science-fiction film genre's exploration of identity. As a collective expression of desire for, and fear of, the Other, the Alien allegorizes common attitudes towards cultural difference, that partly overlap with Orientalist discourse.

FILM 286AE - The Revisionist Western

The Revisionist Western examines films from the 1960's to the present, which question the tropes, styles, themes and politics of the traditional Western genre for the purpose of contemporary social and cultural critique. Topics include colonial expansion and race, good versus evil, cowboy masculinity, and gender.

FILM 286AF - Warner Brothers Cartoons

This course will introduce students to films produced by the Warner Brothers animation department between 1930 and 1970. Topics will include the studio's institutional history, aesthetic and thematic characteristics, significant socio-historical contexts, reflexivity and intertextuality, and the representation of race, gender and class.

FILM 286AG - Genre-French Gangster Films

This course examines the history and evolution of the French gangster/crime thriller genre from the 1930s onward. It situates the genre within its cultural context, exploring its frameworks of production and reception, its visual and narrative signatures, themes, and national and transnational influences and modes of expression.

FILM 300 - Film Production 3

The course focuses on creative techniques and approaches in film production.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202.***
*Additional Fee: $150.*

FILM 301 - Film Production 4

Introduction to documentary film practice.
***Prerequisite: FILM 300.***
*Additional Fee: $150.*

FILM 303 - Advanced Animation

An advanced exploration of the animated image, bringing together diverse and traditional digital approaches including audio.
***Prerequisite: FILM 203.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 305 - Cinematography

A study of the electronic and photochemical imaging techniques, and lighting, for film.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 306 - Post Production

Post-production processes and techniques in film production.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 307 - Advanced Audio Production

The creative use of sound is studied across disciplines with a mixture of theory, history, and practical components.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 310 - Writing for the Screen

The course expands on the knowledge and focuses on the creativity of writing for the screen.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202 or FILM 210***

FILM 311 - Advanced Darkroom Photography

An advanced course in photo-chemical photography and darkroom techniques.
***Prerequisite: FILM 205 or FILM 280AB.***
*Additional Fee: $150.*

FILM 312 - Advanced Digital Effects

The course focuses on the creation of digital effects in post-production. Students will work with software like Adobe Photoshop, After Effects and Premier, among other software tools.
***Prerequisite: FILM 209 or FILM 220 or CTCH 211 or CTCH 214.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 320 - Expanded Cinema

This course is designed for students to explore works that alter and reconfigure the familiar cinematic materials, forms, and spaces of conventional filmmaking. Collaborative and self-initiated projects with emphasis on developing conceptual skills and engagement with the process of critique.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FILM 320 or FILM 386AB.*
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 345 - Canadian Cinema

Examines Canadian cinema from early work of the National Film Board to present-day international feature co-production. Treats the development of Quebec cinema and the films of many Canadian directors.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours or permission of the Department Head. ***

FILM 348 - Thinking about Film

The development of film theory and criticism from the silent period to the present. Major writings in silent film theory, montage theory, realism, auteurism, semiotics, psychoanalytic and spectatorship theories will be investigated.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours***

FILM 350 - The Art of Film Directors

Examines the work of no more than two directors, with particular attention given to style, historical and cultural influences on the filmmaker, and the manner in which the work has influenced others.
*** Prerequisite: 30 Credit Hours or permission of the Department Head ***

FILM 380AH - Film Genre Theory

This course will address a number of key issues in the theory of film genre, including the history of genre theory, the origin and evolution of genres, thematic and stylistic parameters, the commercial and ideological functions of genres, generic hybrids and the role of the viewer.

FILM 380AI - The Cinema of Singapore

An introduction to the history of film in Singapore, this course will exemplify the cultural impact of political change in South-East Asia following the Second World War, including the transition from Malay to Chinese-language filmmaking after Singapore achieved political independence in 1965.
*** Prerequisite: FILM 251 ***

FILM 380AJ - Traditions in Animation

This course will introduce aesthetics, modes of production, themes, audiences and political developments in the history of animation with a focus on four traditions: Walt Disney, Japanese anime, the National Film Board of Canda, and Eastern Europe.
***Prerequisite: FILM 100***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FILM 380AJ and FILM 480BN.*

FILM 380AO - African Cinema

This course offers an overview of African filmmaking practices and the political and social issues that have become central to African cinema. The course will expose students to the major directors of African cinema, and the aesthetic and narrative concerns of various regional cinemas of Africa.

FILM 380AP - Indigeneity in Film

This course will examine the representations of First nations people by Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers. Topics will include the construction of non-Indigenous identities, exoticism and otherness, tradition and moderity.

FILM 380AQ - Indigenous Voices in World Film

This course looks at how films produced in various parts of the world reflect Indigenous narratives and critical discourses, local and global issues, how they are understood by Indigenous, international and diasporic audiences, and how they exist within a transnational understanding of film language, production and exhibition.

FILM 380AR - Genre

Examines the origin, evolution, function and theory of genres, including themes and styles.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FILM 245 and FILM 380AR.*

FILM 380AS - Cinema and Performance

This course investigates the relationship between cinema and performance. Using performance as a lens and tool to study and represent the world, the course will focus on one of the following: cinema and acting, cinema and walking, cinema and dance, cinema and music, cinema and sports, cinema and religious ritual, etc.

FILM 386AC - Film Festival Administration

The course focuses on the planning, programming and presentation of the Living Skies Student Film Festival.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

FILM 386AE - Aliens in Film

This course will examine the Alien, or Extra-Terrestrial, as the science-fiction film genre's exploration of identity. As a collective expression of desire for, and fear of, the Other, the Alien allegorizes common attitudes towards cultural difference, that partly overlap with Orientalist discourse.

FILM 386AF - Lensing Culture: Ethnographic Filmmaking

Building toward a critical and/or investigative approach to an aspect of culture, class discussions, assignments and readings focus on issues of ethics, self-reflexivity, production, post-production and distribution of film projects, interview techniques, and ethnographic modes of inquiry.
***Prerequisite: FILM 200.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 386AG - The Photo Essay

This course will examine the approaches of creating a photo essay, developing writing skills and learning how to create, select, and edit photographic images.
***Prerequisite: FILM 205.***

FILM 390AJ - Aboriginal Cinema In Canada

This course will survey current issues in Aboriginal filmmaking in Canada with a focus on theoretical approaches such as identity formation, post-colonialism, and feminist perspectives.

FILM 390AN - Women in Film

This course will investigate contemporary women filmmakers, focusing on authorship and gender through a feminist lens.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FILM 390AN or FILM 286AB.*

FILM 400 - Senior Production l

Advanced course incorporating development, research and production.
***Prerequisite: FILM 301.***
*Additional Fee: $175.*

FILM 401 - Senior Production ll

A continuation of FILM 400 in which students will produce a major production.
***Prerequisite: FILM 400.***
*Additional Fee: $175.*

FILM 403 - Producing for Film

Examining the creative, organizational, and managerial roles of the producer.
***Prerequisite: FILM 301.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 404 - Advanced Animation II

Students will specialize in an animation technique of their choice and focus on creating a single-animated project.
***Prerequisite: FILM 303.***
*Note: students may receive credit for one of FILM 486AV or FILM 404.*

FILM 410 - Senior Screenwriting

The course builds on the screenwriting skills developed in Film 310, and allows students to pursue more ambitious writing projects for screens (Film/TV/Web) across a range of genres.
***Prerequisite: Film 310***

FILM 411 - Directing the Dramatic Film

Concentrated focus on the director's role and working relationship with actors, crew, and script.
***Prerequisite: FILM 202.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 412 - Directing the Experimental Film

Engaged creation of a diverse range of film and video as experimental form.
***Prerequisite: FILM 300.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 413 - Directing the Documentary

Advanced methods of documentary production.
***Prerequisite: FILM 301.***
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 480AC - Photography and Film

This course will focus on the technological, aestethic and ideological relationships between photography and film. Topics will include realism, reflexivity, and the influence of photography on film. Students will apply the theories of Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, and others to films such as "Blow-Up: and La Jetee". *** Prerequisite: Any 300-level film and video studies course. ***

FILM 480AE - Theories of Authorship

This course's goal will be to discuss the theoretical assumptions underlying the auteur approach to studying and interpreting films. Topics will include romantic theory, the intentional fallacy, auteur-structuralism, intertextuality, enunciation, the author in a commercial context, etc.
*** Prerequisite: Any 300-level film and video studies course. ***

FILM 480AF - Cronenberg

David Cronenberg is Canada's foremost auteur, celebrated as a taboo-breaking genius by his fans and dismissed as a dangerous pervert by his detractors. This seminar examines his idiosyncratic films as they challenge the boundaries of genre, gender, and good taste in their explorations of mind and body, desire, the technologies of modernity, and the limits of human existence.

FILM 480AI - Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

This senior course examines the most recent developments in Russian cinema in the context of national cinema discourse, and investigates issues of film production, film aesthetics, national belonging and gender identities. The seminar discussions are organized around weekly screenings of new Russian films.
*** Prerequisite: One course from FILM 345, 346, 348, 350, or 380AA-ZZ, or permission of the Department Head. ***

FILM 480AL - Kubrick: Photography and Film

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's work as a photojournalist for Look magazine in the late forties influenced his development as a visual story-teller. This course will focus on the narrative aspects of his photo-essays and the photographic aspects of his films.
*** Prerequisite: Any 300-level film and video studies course. ***

FILM 480AN - French New Wave

This course offers an introduction to French New Wave (1959-1969) in light of the most recent critical studies of its historical and stylistic aspects. It focuses on prominent New Wave directors (Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rivette, Rohmer, Varda, Resnais, Melville) as well as on the world-wide influence of their works.

FILM 480AO - Horror And Mysticism On Film

This senior course focuses on the horror genre from historical perspective and in the context of narrative, anthropological and psychoanalytical theories. The seminar discussions are organized around weekly screenings of early representative works of mystery and mysticism on film through Hitchcodk to the latest developments in the psychological and slasher sub-genres.

FILM 480AR - Film Music Theory

This course will examine music's contribution to the movie soundtrack from narratological, psychological and aesthetic perspectives. Exploring these theories of film music will provide students with analytical tools allowing them to describe and discuss the forms and functions of a traditionally "ineffable" aspect of film.
*** Prerequisite: Film 100 ***

FILM 480AS - Godard

Designed as homage to the legacies of the great film director Jean-Luc Godard, this course features a representative selection of films, which facilitate the discussion of his influence on film aesthetics and the politics of representation, as well as in such diverse spheres as music, dance, philosophy, and new media.

FILM 480AV - Censorship and Propoganda in the Media

This course will introduce students to an interdisciplinary critical approach to the study of (self) censorship, propaganda and persuasion in the media on the basis of films, posters, and other artifacts from the early 20th century to the present.

FILM 480AW - Orientalism

Using the Southeast Asian City-State of Singapore as a case study, this course will examine historical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of Orientalism in fim and television, i.e. Western representations of the East.

FILM 480AY - Cinematic Cities

This is an advanced course exploring questions of the relationship between the city and cinema in modern and postmodern contexts.

FILM 480AZ - Theorizing Small Cinemas

This course will examine the ongoing aesthetic, economic and political existence of various "small cinemas," such as the cinemas of small nation-states, Edison's Nickelodeon, the cinemas of ethnic and religious minorities, experimental film, the cinemas of closed communities and the cinemas of international struggle and resistance, etc.

*** Prerequisite: Any 300-level film and video studies course, or permission of instructor. ***

FILM 480BB - Post-Colonialism in Film

This course will examine the enduring legacy of colonialism in filmic representations of South-East Asia, both from Euro-American and Asian producers.

FILM 480BF - Jungian Archetypes in Film & New Media

This advanced undergraduate seminar course focuses on aspects of C.G. Jung's analytical psychology, with an emphasis on his theory of archetypes and their applicability to contemporary cinema, computer games, and the media.

FILM 480BH - Advanced Documentary Studies

This course will investigate advanced topics in documentary studies, and could include topics such as contemporary questions of nation, identity, politics, environment, etc.

FILM 480BJ - Advanced Expanded Cinema

This course engages in advanced theories and concepts of expanded cinema. Topics could include performing the self in social media; archiving the self; film and new media in the gallery space; art and immersion; expanded cinema as expanded consciousness; artists as case studies, etc.

FILM 480BK - Arab Cinema

This course offers an overview of Arab filmmaking practices and the political and social issues that have become central to Arab cinema. The course will expose students to the major directors of Arab cinema, and the historical, ideological, aesthetic and narrative concerns of their films.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours***

FILM 480BL - Afrofuturism

This course will examine Afrofuturism in films from around the world. Focussing on themes and concerns of the African diaspora through a technoculture and science fiction lens, the course will explore a range of media artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afrodiasporic experiences.

FILM 480BM - Atom Egoyan's Diasporic Cinema

This course explores the narrative features and lens-based film installation work of Atom Egoyan, one of Canada's most famous cinematic auteurs.

FILM 480BN - Traditions in Animation

This senior seminar course will introduce important aesthetic, thematic and political developments in the history of animation cinema, its modes of production and audiences, focusing on four major traditions: Walt Disney and the Japanese animé, Canadian NFB, and the (Eastern) European school of animation.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FILM 380AJ and FILM 480BN.*

FILM 480BO - Horror and Indigenous Mysticism

In light of Jungian, Freudian, and Lacanian approaches, and on the basis of studies in comparative mythology and religion, this senior seminar course examines the indigenous roots of cinematic tropes of horror and mysticism.

FILM 480BP - Transnational Screens

This course focuses on the interface between global and local, national and transnational production and reception contexts of cinema mostly from the global south. The course will look at non-Eurocentric approaches to reading transnational films within debates and influences of postnationalism, postcolonialism, Third cinema, and intercultural contact zones.

FILM 481AC - Science Fiction Film

This course serves as an introduction to the theory of science fiction and of genre. An attempt will be made to circumscribe the science fiction genre by defining its main features, and examining some representative films which may or may not challenge that initial definition.

FILM 486AS - Film Festival Administration

The course focuses on the planning, programming and presentation of the National Student Film Festival. **Permission of the Department Head is required to register**

FILM 486AY - Advanced Film Directing

A personalized course of study with a focus on film directing.

FILM 486AZ - Long-form film production

Students will work together in creative and hands-on capacities to develop and create a serial-style narrative film headed by the course instructor. Professional tools and strategies and a hierarchical production model will be employed.
*Additional Fee: $100.*

FILM 490AK - Honours Thesis Comic Book Films

This Honours Thesis course will explore gender in comic book films.

FILM 492AE - Film Festivals: Cultures and Curations

This course examines the proliferation of film festivals around the world as integrally tied to changes in geopolitical and digital media cultures. It will use several different festivals as sites of analysis to ascertain festival mandates and themes, curatorial strategies and programming, cross platform exhibition, marketing, funding and outreach.

FILM 496AY - Feature Film Screenwriting

In collaboration with the instructor and a fellow directed studies student, the student will create a feature film screenplay based on an existing treatment.

FILM 804 - Critical Investigations in film

This course focuses on theoretical approaches to cinema and new media from aesthetic, cultural, anthropological, psychological and sociological viewpoints. It provides an understanding of the interrelationship between film/film-making and reality, other media arts, and the audience. Topics include Post-Colonialism, Orientalism, Art/Film Installation, Expanded Cinema, Narrative Theory, Arab/ African Cinema, Censorship, Propaganda /Surveillance, Psychoanalysis.

FILM 810AB - Traditions in Film Narrative

This course will examine a wide range of narrative styles in film. Drawing on close readings of narrative and aesthetic strategies, the course will focus on how narrative structure of films create meaning.

FILM 810AH - Cultural Identities

This course will investigate how cultural identities are constructed in national media. A variety of media forms and texts will be investigated including film, television and new media.

FILM 810AN - Identities in a Global Context

This course will investigate questions of personal identity and subjectivity in a global context, drawing on contemporary readings in identity formation as it relates to the diaspora, hybridity, flaneurie, space, heterotopia, and dialogism.

FILM 810AS - Canadian Cultural Identities

This course will investigate contemporary Canadian cultural identities. It will use paradigms from Canadian Studies and Cultural Studies to focus on questions of race, gender, post colonialism, regionalism and immigration in Canadian popular culture.

FILM 810AT - Investigations in New Media

This course will situate, analyze and investigate new media in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates. Areas of focus will examine new media aesthetics and technologies through socio-cultural, historical and political concepts, such as race, gender, postmodernism and postcolonialism.

FILM 810AX - (Self) Censorship and Artistic Creativity

This course examines the paradoxical relationship between self and officially-imposed censorship and artistic creativity. Close analyses of contemporary and historical artefacts from aesthetic, ideological and cultural point of view will reveal the complex and multi-layered nature of the (self) censorship phenomenon and its impact on artistic creativity.

FILM 810AZ - Curating the Moving Image

This course will explore curating, programming and working with artists’ moving images as well as the broader practice of curating artists’ film and video in the contexts of the cinema, festival, gallery and museum.

FILM 810BA - Orientalism in Film

This course examines historical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of orientalism in film and television, that is, Western representations of the East. The Asian city of Singapore provides a case study for reflections by authors such as Edward Said and Homay King on topics like self-orientalism and techno-orientalism.

FILM 810BC - Propaganda and Censorship

This graduate course examines the complex - even paradoxical -- relationship between film/media arts, and propaganda, surveillance, (self) censorship and conspiracy theories through the conceptual grid, provided by J. Ellul, M. Foucault, G. Jowett, D.R. Carter, S. Zizek, Z. Bauman and other major media scholars.

FILM 810BD - Sci-Fi Orientalism

This seminar will examine the extent to which the science fiction film genre may be considered an allegorical form of orientalism. The critical concept of techno-orientalism and the category of the alien will merit special attention in assessing the SF genre's exploration of identity.

FILM 810BE - Jung/Psy-analysis/Shakespeare-Advanced

This advanced seminar course offers unique opportunities to explore archetype, myth, dreams and in-depth aspects of the psyche on the basis of four Shakespearean plays, and in light of the analytical psychology of C.G. Jung and his neo-Jungian followers. The class group discussion entails downloadable readings, photography, and websites.

FILM 810BF - Polytheistic Motifs in World Cinema of Horror and Mysticism

The reading graduate course offers an in-depth study of polytheistic motifs in world cinema in light of Jungian and post-Jungian approaches, and on the basis of studies in comparative mythology, anthropology and religion.

FILM 810BG - Cinema of War: A critical, aesthetic, & cultural study of dramatic war films from 1900 to present

A study of war film throughout history with a focus on the tropes of war and how they have changed since 1900. A collection of current and historical dramatic methodologies, and cultural contexts.

FILM 820AG - Multi-Media Design

The course will encompass multi-channel audio soundscape and interactive design. The student will expand both knowledge and skills in multi-channel audio soundscape creation and explore software which can be purposed in facilitating human interaction within a digital media environment.

FILM 820AJ - Production Management

The course will develop the student's understanding of the logistical requirements of a dramatic feature film production, including the development of a detailed production schedule and budget.

FILM 820AP - The Foundation of Screenplay

The course explores the practical application of screenwriting theory. Focusing on plot, character, ideology and dialogue as a means of artistic expression, the course will focus on the writing of a feature-length screenplay and a comparative analysis of key screenwriting theorists.

FILM 820AU - Animation

This course is to engage in the creation of a diverse range of animation techniques. Traditional and computer-based approaches will be viewed and workshopped. Critical discourse of animation will also be discussed. Projects are structured to develop experience and appreciation for the range and history of animation.

FILM 820AW - Advanced Documentary Development

This course will supervise the research and development phases of a documentary film. The course will focus on the practical aspects of documentary research, development and production as well as the theoretical and historical aspects of the documentary.

FILM 820BC - Film Production

Students will produce a short film on any genre. Assignments are based on their work through the stages of scriptwriting, production and post-production to completion of film.

FILM 820BD - Analog Filmmaking

Students will explore emulsion-based filmmaking in multiple film gauges and will investigate orthodox and unorthodox methods of film development and presentation. Early traditions in emulsion creation will be discussed and demonstrated.

FILM 820BF - Media and Mixed Abilities

This course incorporates aspects of media studies and production to guide investigation into issues of disability, accessibility, and their representation in various forms of media.

FILM 820BG - Film, Methodologies, Theory

Tailored to graduate studies or production thesis goals, this course integrates scholarly readings, writing, film analysis, film production, methodologies and/or theory for course content and assignments.

FILM 830 - Production Studio

These courses bring together all students in the MFA Film Production program to work independently and collaboratively on creative aspects of film production.

FILM 831 - Production Studio

These courses bring together all students in the MFA Film Production program to work independently and collaboratively on creative aspects of film production.

FILM 890AB - Contemporary Film Semiology

This course will survey the various theoretical approaches developed by film semiologists since the publication of Christian Metz "Langage et cinema" in 1971, and also to explore film semiology beyond what is included in the undergraduate course on film theory.

FILM 890AL - Jungian Archetypes in Film and Media

This graduate course focuses on aspects of C.G. Jung's analytical psychology, with an emphasis on his theory of archetypes and their applicability to contemporary film and media.

FILM 890AT - Writing for Film

The course focuses on the processes of creative writing for film.

FILM 890AW - Expanded Cinema in the Field

This course enables hands-on examination of lens-based installation work at leading international museums, archives and sites in the field. Possible venues include ZKM Media Centre (Germany), Hamburger Banhof Museum (Germany), Eye Amsterdam (Holland), Walker Museum (Minneapolis), TIFF Bell Lightbox, among others.

FILM 890AX - Indigenous Mysticism in Film

In light of Jungian and post-Jungian approaches, and on the basis of studies in comparative mythology and religion, this graduate course examines the indigenous roots of cinematic tropes of horror and mysticism.

FILM 890AY - Female Body Horror

In light of Freudian, Lacanian, and (post) Jungian approaches, and on the basis of their application to literary and cinematic aftifacts, this graduate course examines the phenomenology of female body horror.

FILM 890AZ - Between the Frames

A study of the relationships between cinema, graphic arts, photography, animation, and photo-cinema.

FILM 890BA - Psycho-Somatic Approaches to Film Bodies and Psyches

This seminar graduate course focuses on various aspects of (post) Freudian and (post) Jungian scholarship, more particularly on studies of haptic visuality and (psycho) somatic cinematic experiences, involving the female body and its senses.

FILM 890BB - Narratives and Narrativity

This directed studies courses examines and explores narrative structures, traditions and techniques, and their relevance for new approaches to filmmaking.

FILM 890BC - Traditions in Animation

This seminar course introduces important aesthetic, thematic and theoretical developments in the history of animation cinema, and its modes of production, focusing on four major traditions: Disney, the Japanese animé, Canadian NFB, and the Eastern Europeans. The highlight of the course are ZOOM lectures by prominent experts in the field.

FILM 890BD - Personal Cinema

The course focuses on explorations in personal cinema.

FILM 890BE - Transnational Screens

This course will investigate transnational methodologies in the expression and safeguarding of living cultural heritage through screen media practices and propose reflections on current debates around identity politics in globalizing cultures, political and cultural sovereignty, control of representation in image production, and modes of resistance to colonialism.

FILM 890BF - Deconstructing the Psychological Science Fiction Thriller Film

An in-depth exploration of the Psychological Science Fiction Thriller genre in film.

FILM 890BG - Multispecies Filmmaking

Focusing on multispecies/nonhuman agency, ways of knowing and ethics in the context of film and/or research methodologies, theory, and representation, the course integrates scholarly readings, discussion, film/media analysis and/or film/media production for course content and assignments.
*Note: This course may not be taken simultaneously with MAP 890BT.*

FILM 901 - Thesis Research

Research supporting film studies resulting in the writing and defense of a graduating thesis of 60-100 pages.

FILM 902 - Research Project

Research supporting film production resulting in the writing of the comprehensive critical engagement paper of 25-30 pages, preparation and public presentation of graduating film production project.

FRLS 116 - Principes et production du français oral 1 - Principles and Production of Oral French 1

Des documents culturels authentiques (audio, audio-visuels écrits) servent de point de départ à l'élargissement du vocabulaire et au développement de la compréhension et de l'expression orales.
Audio-visual, audio and written authentic cultural documents are the starting point for vocabulary expansion, and for the development of oral comprehension and expression.
***Prérequis: Avant de s’inscrire, l’étudiant doit avoir une letter d’acceptation aux Certificat en Français Langue Seconde.***
***Prerequisite: Prior to registering, students must have received a letter of acceptance to the Certificate in French as a Second Language.***
***Cours concomitant: FRLS 219.***
***Corequisite: FRLS 219.***

FRLS 117 - Principes et production du français oral 2 - Principles and Production of Oral French 2

Ce cours intensif est la suite du cours FRLS 116.
This intensive course is the continuation of FRLS 116.
***Prérequis: FRLS 116, avec une note minimum de 60%.***
**Cours concomitant: FRLS 220.**
***Prerequisite: FRLS 116 with a minimum grade of 60%.***
**Corequisite: FRLS 220.**

FRLS 118 - Principes et production du français oral 3 - Principles and Production of Oral French 3

Ce cours intensif est la suite du cours FRLS 117. This intensive course is a continuation of FRLS 117.
***Prérequis: FRLS 117, avec une note minimum de 60%.***
**Cours concomitant: FRLS 221.**
***Prerequisite: FRLS 117 with a minimum grade of 60%.***
**Corequisite: FRLS 221.**

FRLS 212 - Structure du discours oral - Structure of oral discourse

Accent sur la maîtrise de la grammaire et de la structure de la narration, de l'explication et de la description orales.
Emphasis on the mastery of grammar rules and the structure of oral narration, description, and explanation.
***Prérequis: FRLS 118 et FRLS 221 avec, dans les deux, une note minimum de 60%, ou permission du chef de département.***
**Cours concomitant: FRLS 318 and FRN 220AA-ZZ.**
***Prerequisite: FRLS 118 and FRLS 221, both with a minimum grade of 60%, or permission of the Department Head.***
**Co-requisite: FRLS 318 and FRN 220AA-ZZ.**

FRLS 219 - Grammaire et rédaction 1 – Grammar and Writing 1

Cours intensif de niveau intermédiaire portant sur les connaissances langagières (principalement du français écrit) et culturelles francophones. Intermediate intensive course with emphasis on written French and Francophone cultural content.
***Prérequis: Avant de s'inscrire, l'étudiant doit avoir une lettre d'acceptation au Certificat en francais langue seconde.***
**Cours concomitant: FRLS 116.**
***Prerequisite: Prior to registering, students must have received a letter of acceptance to the Certificate in French as a Second Language.***
**Corequisite: FRLS 116.**

FRLS 220 - Grammaire et rédaction 2- Grammar and Writing 2

Ce cours intensif est la suite du cours FRLS 219. This intensive course is a continuation of FRLS 219.
***Prérequis: FRLS 219 avec une note minimum de 60%.***
**Cours concomitant: FRLS 117.**
***Prerequisite: FRLS 219 with a minimum grade of 60%***
**Corequisite: FRLS 117.**

FRLS 221 - Gramaire et rédaction 3- Grammar and Writing 3

Ce cours intensif est la suite du cours FRLS 220. This intensive course is a continuation of FRLS 220.
***Prérequis: FRLS 220 avec une note minimum de 60%.***
**Cours concomitant: FRLS 118.**
***Prerequisite: FRLS 220 with a minimum grade of 60%.***
**Corequisite: FRLS 118.**

FRN 001 - Placement professionnel 1

Premier placement professionnel dans le cadre du programme coopératif de La Cité universitaire francophone.

FRN 002 - Placement professionnel 2

Deuxième placement professionnel dans le cadre du programme coopératif de La Cité universitaire francophone.

FRN 003 - Placement professionnel 3

Troisième placement professionnel dans le cadre du programme coopératif de La Cité universitaire francophone.

FRN 100 - Discovery I / Découverte I

This language and culture course for beginners will focus on the discovery and the acquisition of basic vocabulary and structures in order to develop oral and written communication skills while fostering cultural awareness of the Francophone world.
***Prerequisite: No Previous experience in French, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students who have completed Grade 12 French within the previous five years normally may not take this course for credit. An additional fee may be charged for online sections*
*Note: this course was formerly numbered FR 100. Students may receive credit for only one of FR 100 or FRN 100*

FRN 101 - Discovery II / Découverte II

This language and culture course for near beginners will continue the discovery of more extensive vocabulary and structures in order to further develop oral and written communication skills while furthering cultural awareness of the Francophone world.
***Prerequisite: FRN 100, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: An additional fee may be charged for online sections*
*Note: This course was formerly numbered FR 101. Students may receive credit for only one of FR 101 or FRN 101*

FRN 110 - Discovery/ Découverte

This intensive language and culture course for beginners will focus on the discovery and acquisition of basic vocabulary and structures in order to develop oral and written communication skills while fostering cultural awareness of the Francophone world.
***Prerequisite: No Previous experience in French, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students who have completed Grade 12 French within the previous five years normally may not take this course for credit*
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for FRN 100 or 101, or FR 100 or 101, and FRN 110*
*Note: this course was formerly numbered FR 110. Students may receive credit for only one of FR 110 or FRN 110*

FRN 141 - Why We Still Speak French: A Course in English about Francophones

An introduction to the many reasons for the continued Francophone presence in North America, the successes and challenges Francophones face as minority groups today, and their relations to other cultures. This course adopts a multidisciplinary apporach and presents a focus on Fransaskois communities. *Note: this course does not satisfy language requirements.*

FRN 185 - Initiation to French as a Second Language

From the discovery to the acquisition of vocabulary and structures, this course will focus on building oral and written communication skills beyond the beginner level, while fostering cultural awareness of the Francophone world.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for FRN 185 and any of FRN 100 or 101.*
*Note: No previous experience in French is expected for this course.*

FRN 200 - Exploration I / Exploration I

This intermediate course will provide cultural knowledge and build on previously acquired language skills while introducing students to basic writing skills. Cours intermédiaire portant sur les connaissances langagières et culturelles
déjà acquises tout en initiant les étudiants aux bases de l'écriture.
***Prerequisite: FRN 101, permission based on assessment test, or permission of the Department Head***
*Note: Students who have previously taken FR 102 and/or FR 113 may not receive credit for FRN 200.*

FRN 201 - Exploration II / Exploration II

This language and culture course will further explore oral and writing skills and will raise awareness of Francophone issues.
Cours de langue et de culture qui poursuit l'exploration des connaissances de l'oral et de l'écriture et qui sensibilisera l'étudiant aux enjeux de la Francophonie.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: This course was formerly numbered FR 201. Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 201, FRN 210, and FR 201.*
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both FRN 201 and FRLS 120*

FRN 210 - Enrichissement/Enrichment

Cours de langue et de culture intermédiaire intensif qui porte sur les connaissances déjà acquises, initie les étudiants aux bases de l'écriture et encourage la pensée critique.
This intensive, intermediate language and culture course builds on previously acquired skills introducing students to basic writing and providing a favourable environment for critical thinking.
***Prerequisite: FRN200, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credits for FRN201 or FRN300, or FR201 or FR202, or FRLS 220 or FRLS 221 and FRN210.*

FRN 220AB - Le français dans votre assiette! French in your plate!

Cours de langue et de cultures francophones qui porte sur la gastronomie, fait un survol de l’histoire de la cuisine (certains aliments, mouvements), des habitudes et des traditions alimentaires de quelques pays de la francophonie. Ce cours comporte aussi un aspect expérientiel et quelques cours auront lieu dans une cuisine.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200 with a minimum grade of 60%, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***

FRN 220AH - Expression théâtrale

Développement des compétences orales par l’intermédiaire de pratiques théâtrales variées. Chaque étudiant participera à la création d’une pièce. Ce cours expérientiel vise les étudiants qui ont un niveau de français oral intermédiaire.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200 with a minimum grade of 60%, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 222 - Le Canada francophone au cinéma

Introduction aux différents espaces francophones du Canada à travers des oeuvres cinématographiques. Parmi les thèmes traités : l’économie, l’environnement naturel, les rapports hommes-femmes, la religion, les différents parlers franco-canadiens, la construction identitaire et le rapport au monde extérieur. Projection régulière de films et discussions.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200 with a minimum grade of 60%, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 222, FRN 220AD, and FR 216.*

FRN 223 - La musique francophone en Afrique

Exploration de la culture francophone africaine à travers la musique. L'accent sera mis sur les genres, les instruments et les artistes-musiciens de renom.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200 with minimum grade of 60.00%, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 223 or FRN 220AC.*

FRN 224 - La musique francophone en Amérique et en Europe

Étude d'oeuvres musicales populaires de la francophonie par les textes et la musique. Le cours se penchera sur le contexte culturel et social de la création; le genre de la chanson; la francophonie comme espace de migrations et d'échanges; et les questions liées à la langue et à l'identité.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200 with a minimum grade of 60.00%, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 224 or FRN 220AF.*

FRN 225 - La bande dessinée

Les étudiants s'initieront à la bande dessinée de la francophonie tout en perfectionnant leur maîtrise du français.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 225 or FRN 220AG.*

FRN 230AA - Le Code oral

Initiation à la structuration et à l’analyse des productions orales : traits phonétiques, prosodiques et contextuels; variations régionales; unités de compréhension; particularités lexicales et morphosyntaxiques.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 230AA and FR 219.*

FRN 235 - Découverte de la linguistique française

Initiation au système de fonctionnement de la structure de base de la langue française.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 236 - Structure du français moderne /The Structure of Modern French

Étude de la structure du français moderne via le système de ses sons, ses modes canoniques de formation de mots, la phrase et la signification. Contact des langues, diversité linguistique et sociale, interculturalité.
The structure of modern French: its speech sounds, sound patterns, word formation, sentence structure and meaning. Language contact; social and linguistic diversity; interculturality.
***Prerequisite: FRN 300 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: This course was formerly numbered FR 226. Student may receive credit for only one of FR 226 or FRN 236*

FRN 240 - Thèmes choisis sur les cultures francophones du monde

Study of a culture or related cultures from the Francophone world.
Étude d’une culture ou de cultures apparentées du monde francophone.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 240AA - Voyages à travers le temps

Découverte de l'histoire du Canada depuis le dix-neuvième siècle, avec un accent sur les provinces de l'Ouest: les crises scolaires, l'immigration, les relations avec les Autochtones, les crises économiques, les luttes des travailleurs, la ruée vers l'or, les drogues et la prostitution, la révolution sexuelle, etc.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 240AB - Paris : époques, cultures et mouvements

Exploration des vies parisiennes sur le mode de la promenade par une étude interdisciplinaire de l’histoire et du présent de la ville, de ses populations, et de leurs représentations.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***

FRN 240AP - Le rayonnement et l'influence de l'art africain

En commençant avec une introduction aux arts africains traditionnels, ce cours explorera l’influence de ces arts sur la peinture et la sculpture dans la Francophonie et au-delà, au vingtième siècle et aujourd’hui.
***Prérequis : FRN 200; ou français de 12e année avec test de placement; ou permission du Chef du département.***
*Note: On peut seulement obtenir des crédits pour FRN 240AP ou pour FRN 340AP.*

FRN 240AQ - Introduction à la communication interculturelle

Ce cours se concentre sur la pratique et la théorie de la communication interculturelle: compréhension, langage et perspectives interculturelles. L'accent est mis sur la compréhension des façons dont les expériences influencent l'acte de communication et dont les perceptions culturelles déterminent la manière dont on envoie et reçoit les messages.
***Prerequisite: FRN 200; permission based on assessment test; or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 240AQ or FRN 340AQ.*

FRN 246 - La francophonie mondiale

L’étudiant(e) explorera d’un œil critique la francophonie dans le temps et l’espace, à la fois comme concept, phénomène vécu et possibilité d’engagement. Students will critically explore the francophonie, across time and space, as a concept, a lived phenomenon and a possibility for engagement.
***Prerequisite: FRN 300 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 246 and FR 222.*

FRN 250AC - Le français en vers

Approche pratique de niveau intermédiaire de la langue française et des modes de création poétique par le biais d’exercices de création littéraire et de lectures publiques. Réaction aux poètes ayant marqué les cultures francophones et les traditions poétiques francophones. Inclut une réflexion sur la langue française.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for FRN 250AC if they have already completed FRN 350AC.*

FRN 250AE - Communication orale et expression

En exploitant des thèmes liés à la vie professionnelle, personnelle et intellectuelle, ce cours vise à élargir le lexique actif ainsi que les connaissances de la grammaire française afin de développer les compétences orales.
***Prerequisite: FRN 300 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 250AE and FRN 350AE.*

FRN 250AG - Pratique de l'expression en français

Ce cours permettra de pratiquer et d'approfondir les compétences en expression écrite et orale en français acquises dans les cours de langue. Il comportera un aspect important d'enrichissement du vocabulaire. Ce cours s'adresse aux étudiants qui veulent une meilleure fluidité à l'écrit comme à l'oral.
***Prerequisite: FRN 300 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of the Department Head.***

FRN 250AH - Initiation à la traduction

Comprendre les notions de base en traduction : définitions et types de traduction; différences entre la traduction et l’interprétation, langues de travail; procédés de traduction. Effectuer de simples pratiques de traduction basées sur les textes courants et les documents authentiques tels que les médias sociaux, les chansons, les jeux, etc.
***Prerequisite: FRN 300 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of the Department Head.***

FRN 260AA - La découverte du conte et de la nouvelle

Initiation au conte et à la nouvelle au moyen d’études de textes de la francophonie ainsi que d’exercices de composition. Une partie pratique permettra de s’initier aux techniques d’écriture et favorisera le perfectionnement du français écrit. ***Prerequisite: FRN 201, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 260AD - La découverte du théâtre

Initiation à la création théâtrale au moyen d’études de textes de la francophonie ainsi que d’exercices de composition. Une partie pratique permettra de s’initier aux techniques de la scène et favorisera le perfectionnement du français oral.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive only credit for one of FRN 260AD or FRN 250AD.*

FRN 265 - Langue française et littérature

Initiation à la littérature à partir de courtes œuvres ou d’extraits littéraires d’expression française.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department head.***

FRN 285 - Enrichissement du français langue seconde

From the acquisition of intermediate vocabulary and structures to their critical application, this course will focus on building oral and written communication skills toward bilingualism, while exploring issues within the Francophone world.
***Prerequisite: FRN 185 or FRN 200 (either with a minimum grade of 60%), or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may not normally receive credit for FRN 285 and FRN 201, or FRN 300.*

FRN 290AA - Exploration de la culture québécoise

Après un survol historique, les étudiants seront initiés aux arts et aux habitudes de vie au Québec dans une perspective moderne, qui combine la tradition et le populaire.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***

FRN 290AB - Stage expérientiel et mobilité

Ce cours est un stage expérientiel qui offre à l’étudiant(e) l’occasion de faire un séjour dans un milieu francophone, dans le but de perfectionner son français tout en enrichissant son expérience dans le milieu du travail et/ou de vivre une expérience interculturelle.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201, permission based on assessment test, or permission of department head.***

FRN 300 - Achievement I / Épanouissement I

This language and culture course will enhance writing skills and will further explore Francophone issues as well as provide a favourable environment for critical thinking.
Cours de langue et de culture qui favorise la maîtrise de l'écrit et qui continue la découverte des enjeux de la Francophonie tout en encourageant la pensée critique.
***Prerequisite: FRN 201 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: This course was formerly numbered FR 202. Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 300, FRN 210, FR 202, FRLS 121, and FRLS 221.*
*Note: Students who receive 75% or higher in FRLS 221 may choose to receive credit for either FRLS 221 or FRN 300 upon completion of placement test.*

FRN 301 - Achievement II / Épanouissement II

This language and culture course will enhance writing skills and will further explore Francophone issues as well as provide a favourable environment for critical thinking.
Cours de langue et de culture qui favorise la maîtrise de l'écrit et qui continue la découverte des enjeux de la Francophonie tout en encourageant la pensée critique.
***Prerequisite: FRN 300 with a minimum grade of 60%, FRN 285 with a minimum grade of 60%, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: This course was formerly numbered FR 203. Student may receive credit for only one of FR 203 or FRN 301*
*Note: Students who receive 75% or higher in FRLS 318 may choose to receive 3 credits for either FRLS 318 or FRN 301 upon completion of the placement test.*

FRN 302 - Perfectionnement du français

Perfectionnement des compétences orales, écrites et culturelles.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301 with a minimum grade of 60%, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 330AA - Langue, société et identité

Étude du rapport entre la langue et la société, des phénomènes liés au contact des langues (bilinguisme, multilinguisme, diglossie, etc.) ainsi que du rôle de la langue ou des langues dans la construction de l'identité culturelle et nationale. Le cours s'appuiera principalement sur des exemples tirés de la socité canadienne.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 or permission of the Department Head.***

FRN 330AB - Variétés du français canadien

Étude de la variation sociolinguistique et des variétés du français au Canada; dimension dynamique des facteurs de diversification des parlers français à travers le Canada ; prononciation, constructions syntaxiques, choix de mots, franglais, anglicismes.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 or permission of Department Head***

FRN 340AB - Défis contemporains de la francophonie canadienne

Étude des défis actuels de la francophonie canadienne. Par le biais de la
lecture d’une variété de textes, de la rédaction de travaux écrits, ainsi que
de discussions en classe, les étudiants seront amenés à prendre conscience de
divers sujets d'actualité et d'exprimer leurs points de vue là-dessus.

FRN 340AC - La France et ses habitudes culinaires à travers les siècles

Dans ce cours, l'étude de certaines traditions alimentaires permettra de découvrir différents aspects et époques de la civilisation française.

FRN 340AD - La francophonie au féminin

Étude de la condition féminine depuis le dix-neuvième siècle. Parmi les thèmes traités : la famille, le travail, la santé, l’éducation, l’expression artistique et la politique. Des comparaisons seront effectuées entre l’expérience des femmes canadiennes et celles venant d’autres pays francophones et d'ailleurs.

FRN 340AE - Histoire des idées en francophonie I: Le soi

Survol des idées en France, au Canada et dans le monde depuis la naissance du français. Réflexion sur les manières dont l’identité et la personne ont été pensées en langue française, ainsi que sur la manière de se concevoir et de se rapporter à soi-même.
***Prerequesite: FRN301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 340AG - L'engagement communautaire

Étude des structures et des institutions politiques réglant la vie des groupes francophones au Canada, des luttes et movements politiques, ainsi que des raisons d'agir et de s'engager et des cultures émergeant de la vie au sein de ces institutions. L'accent sera mis sur les Fransaskois et sur les groupes francophones en situation minoritaire.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 340AH - Idées québécoises qui pourraient vous choquer

Analyse des débats qui divisent la société québécoise ou qui la distinguent du reste du Canada. Parmi les thèmes traités: la langue, l'éducation (notamment les frais de scolarité), les soins de santé, l'immigration, la religion, et les rapports entre les genres.

FRN 340AI - Se faire soigner au Canada francophone. D'hier à aujourd'hui.

Une introduction à l’histoire des soins de santé au Canada français, ainsi qu’aux défis actuels qui confrontent les francophones lorsqu’ils interagissent avec le système de santé, que ce soit comme professionnels ou comme patients. Visionnement de films, discussions, jeux de rôle.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***

FRN 340AJ - Voyages à travers le temps

Découverte de l'histoire du Canada depuis le dix-neuvième siècle, avec un accent sur les provinces de l'Ouest: les crises scolaires, l'immigration, les relations avec les Autochtones, les crises économiques, les luttes des travailleurs, la ruée vers l'or, les drogues et la prostitution, la révolution sexuelle, etc.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 240AA and FRN 340AJ.*

FRN 340AK - Métis et francophones dans l’Ouest canadien

Étude des relations contemporaines entre les membres de la nation métisse et les francophones dans l’Ouest canadien, ainsi que de leurs fondements historiques. Avec un accent sur les enjeux de l’identification et sur la Saskatchewan, dans une perspective interdisciplinaire et décoloniale.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 340AL - Vivre sa propre vie : La philosophie de l’existence

À l’aide de textes de philosophes francophones du vingtième siècle, élaboration de réponses personnelles à des questions existentielles : que faire devant tous les choix possibles et l’oppression et la domination que l’on vit ou que l’on voit autour de soi? Comment devenir soi-même avec et contre les autres? Comment transformer la société?
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 340AM - Histoire des relations interculturelles au Canada

Analyse des relations interculturelles au Canada à l'époque contemporaine: indépendantisme québécois, immigration, minorités francophones.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of the Department Head.***

FRN 340AN - L'immigration francophone

Présentation générale du parcours d’immigration vers les communautés francophones canadiennes : raisons du départ; interactions avec les institutions canadiennes; processus de sélection; établissement au Canada; intégration et participation aux communautés; et réalités des appartenances multiples.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 340AO - La chanson populaire en France de 1930 à 1968

Étude de textes et de la musique avec un accent sur les genres et les mouvements artistiques, les fonctions historiques et sociales, les aspects de la performance, ainsi que les thèmes de l’esthétique et de l’identité. Chansons entre autres par Trenet, Piaf, Brel, Brassens, Barbaar et Ferré.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 340AO or MU 399AH.*

FRN 340AP - Le rayonnement et l'influence de l'art africain

En commençant avec une étude des arts africains traditionnels, ce cours analysera de manière critique l’influence de ces arts sur la peinture et la sculpture dans la Francophonie et au-delà, au vingtième siècle et aujourd’hui.
***Prérequis : FRN 301; ou français de 12e année avec test de placement; ou permission du Chef du département.***
*Note: On peut seulement obtenir des crédits pour FRN 340AP ou pour FRN 240AP.*

FRN 340AQ - Introduction à la communication interculturelle

Ce cours se concentre sur la pratique et la théorie de la communication interculturelle: compréhension, langage et perspectives interculturelles. L'accent est mis sur l'analyse et la réflexion autour des façons dont les expériences influencent l'acte de communication et dont les perceptions culturelles déterminent la manière dont on envoie et reçoit les messages.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301; Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test; or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 240AQ or FRN 340AQ.*

FRN 350AA - Exploration de la dynamique entre langue et société

Ce cours explorera le rapport entre langue et société autour de quelques sujets thématiques tirés de l’expérience francophone dans le monde. Le cours privilégiera la formule interactive d'échange et de discussion à l'oral et à l’écrit.

FRN 350AC - Le français en vers

Approche pratique de niveau avancé de la langue française et des modes de création poétique par le biais d’exercices de création littéraire et de lectures publiques. Réaction aux poètes ayant marqué les cultures francophones et les traditions poétiques francophones. Inclut une réflexion sur la poétique.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 350AD - Aux plaisirs de la traduction

Améliorez vos compétences langagières en comparant les particularités propres du français et de l’anglais. Apprenez les rudiments de la traduction et de l’interprétation en travaillant sur des textes tirés de la vie quotidienne, comme les journaux ou les chansons.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***

FRN 350AE - Communication orale et expression

En exploitant des thèmes liés à la vie professionnelle, personnelle et intellectuelle, ce cours vise à élargir le lexique actif ainsi que les connaissances de la grammaire française afin de développer les compétences orales.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 250AE and FRN 350AE.*

FRN 350AF - Communication écrite et composition

Perfectionnement de l'écriture par la production de textes variés allant du pratique au créatif.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 350AF and FRN 450AF.*

FRN 352 - Lecture et écriture critique I/Critical Reading and Writing I

Ce cours développe les compétences de l’étudiant pour la lecture et l’écriture critique au moyen d’un large éventail de textes non-littéraires et littéraires, ainsi que de l’étude de la composition, en mettant l’accent sur les liens entre les modes de lecture et d’écriture. This course develops students’ proficiency in critical reading and writing through the study of a wide range of non-literary and literary texts, and the study of composition, with emphasis on connections between modes of reading and writing.
***Prérequis: FRN301 ou permission du programme. Prerequisite: FRN301 or permission from the program.***

FRN 360AC - La Littérature fransaskoise

Dans ce cours, on explorera des productions littéraires fransaskoises incluant la prose, la poésie, le théâtre et la chanson, en tenant compte du contexte minoritaire. Le cours incluera des rencontres avec des auteures ou des auteurs, des chanteuses ou des chanteurs, ainsi que des sorties pour assister à des spectacles.

FRN 360AD - La découverte du théâtre

Initiation à la création théâtrale au moyen d’études de textes de la francophonie ainsi que d’exercices de composition. Une partie pratique permettra de s’initier aux techniques de la scène et favorisera le perfectionnement du français oral.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301 or permission of Department Head***

FRN 360AE - La découverte du conte et de la nouvelle

Initiation au conte et à la nouvelle au moyen d’études de textes de la francophonie ainsi que d’exercices de composition. Une partie pratique permettra de s’initier aux techniques d’écriture et favorisera le perfectionnement du français écrit. ***Prerequisite: FRN 301 or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 366 - Littératures de la francophonie

Étude de textes littéraires de la francophonie dans une approche qui favorise l’analyse critique ainsi que l’amélioration de la lecture et de l’écriture.
Study of literary texts of the Francophone world in a way that promotes critical thought as well as enhancement of writing and reading skills.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Formerly numbered FR 245. Students may receive credit for only one of FR 245 or FRN 366*

FRN 371 - Colonialisme et réconciliation

Étude des institutions, structures et expériences propres au colonialisme canadien et des institutions et pratiques à même d'ouvrir des possibilités de réconciliation interpersonnelle, interculturelle, et entre nations. Le cours se penchera particulièrement sur les pensionnats autochtones et leurs effets, ainsi que sur les traités.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 371 and FRN 340AF.*

FRN 390AA - Provence : l’histoire, les arts, le terroir

Le cours consiste en une semaine de cours à Regina où on abordera certains aspects de l’histoire, de la vie artistique et de la culture en Provence.
Les deux semaines suivantes, les étudiants feront un séjour en Provence lors duquel ils découvriront et étudieront la vie dans cette région.
En plus des frais de scolarité pour 6 crédits, des frais seront demandés pour payer les transports, l’hébergement et les visites.

FRN 390AC - Stage expérientiel et mobilité

Ce cours est un stage expérientiel qui offre à l’étudiant(e) l’occasion de faire un séjour dans un milieu francophone, dans le but de perfectionner son français tout en enrichissant son expérience dans le milieu du travail et/ou de vivre une expérience interculturelle.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301 or permission of department head.***

FRN 390AD - Recherche approfondie sur les communautés francophones

Recherche autonome permettant d'approfondir les connaissances autour d'un thème abordé dans le programme d'études francophones et interculturelles.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, Grade 12 French and permission based on assessment test, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 430AA - Initiation a la terminologie

Fondement, theorie et practique de la terminologie; conceptualisation et denomination; intellectualisation et particularisation; terminologie et normalisation.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 and FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 430AA, FR 410AA, or FRN 830AC.*

FRN 430AB - Gestion des langues

Ce cours examinera les concepts théoriques autour de la gestion des langues (aménagement linguistique), ainsi que les raisons sociopolitiques à l’origine de l’intervention linguistique (officielle ou non officielle). Étude du rôle de la langue dans le développement national ou communautaire, des enjeux sociopolitiques de choix de langue et des retombées au niveaux macro (État, institution) et micro (famille, communauté, etc.). Étude de cas.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 and FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 430AB, FRN 830AA, or FRN 831AD.*

FRN 430AC - Sociolinguistique

Ce cours s’intéresse à l’étude des concepts, aux théories, aux orientations actuelles, ainsi qu’à la méthodologie d’enquête en sociolinguistique. Il réclame également un volet pratique, lequel amènera l'étudiant.e à construire des connaissances sur divers aspects de la discipline : la variation ou le changement linguistique observé au sein d’un groupe linguistique ; le transfert linguistique ; la question de survie et de vitalité des groupes linguistiques minoritaires ; les situations de bi/multilinguisme ; les phénomènes liés aux contacts de langues et aux conflits diglossiques.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 and FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head***

FRN 430AD - Loi sur les langues officielles

Ce cours examinera la Loi sur les langues officielles au Canada, en se focalisant sur l'étude des Plans d'action ainsi que sur les rôles des différents niveaux de gouvernement (provincial et fédéral) dans la mise en oeuvre de la loi, dans une perspective de survie et de vitalité des communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 and FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FR ou FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FRN 430AD and FRN 831AC.*

FRN 430AE - Bilinguisme, multiculturalisme et interculturalisme

Étude des enjeux théoriques et conceptuels du bilinguisme, du multiculturalisme et de l’interculturalisme. L’étudiant.e aura à mener une réflexion critique sur les politiques de bilinguisme et de multiculturalisme canadiens, ainsi que leurs implications sur le vivre-ensemble – les relations interethniques et la communication interculturelle.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 and FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 430AE or FRN 831AB.*

FRN 430AH - Introduction à la linguistique appliquée

Le cours consiste en un survol des questionnements, des méthodes et des théories de la linguistique appliquée. L'accent sera également mis sur l'évolution du domaine, ainsi qu'aux apports du langage aux enjeux liés à divers champs d'intervention sociale - acquisition et enseignement des langues secondes et étrangères, terminologie, analyse du discours, orthophonie, traduction, etc.
***Prerequisite: FRN 236 and FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 430AH or FRN 831AH.*

FRN 440AA - Les « sixties » en français

Etude des bouleversements sociaux, politiques, culturels des années 1960, avec un accent sur le monde francophone. Les étudiants seront invités à effectuer des analyses comparatives pancanadiennes et internationales. Ils devront aussi mener des projets de recherche originaux sur la fransaskoisie.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 440AA or FRN 840AA.*

FRN 440AB - Perspectives sur l'étude des communautés francophones

Aperçu des approches utilisées dans l’étude des communautés francophones en milieu minoritaire, à partir des perspectives d’une variété de disciplines. Overview of the approaches used in the study of francophone communities in minority settings, based on the perspectives of a variety of disciplines
***Prerequisite: FRN 246 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head***

FRN 440AC - L'hospitalité: une réponse aux migrations internationales

Étude des théories développées en francophonie autour de la notion d'hospitalité comme réponse aux migrations internationales. Approfondissement en séminaire de l’hospitalité en tant que conçue en lien aux droits, aux devoirs, aux obligations, et au don, mais aussi comme alternative à l’ordre social et politique global actuel.
***Prerequisite: FRN 246 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 440AC or FRN 870AB.*

FRN 440AD - Coexister avec les autres

Étude de théories développées en francophonie qui cherchent à améliorer la vie en commun et à répondre aux différends tout en respectant les différences (notamment de genre, culturelles, ou religieuses).
***Prerequisite: FRN 246 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 440AD or FRN 870AC.*

FRN 440AE - À la découverte de la Fransaskoisie

Exploration de l'histoire de la communauté fransaskoise de la fin du 19e siècle jusqu'à nos jours. Visites sur le terrain, travail achivistique.
***Prerequisite: FRN 246 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 440AE or FRN 840AE.*

FRN 450 - Etude avancee de sujets varies sur la langue francaise

Advanced and critical study of selected topics in French language, translation and/or language as an expression of culture.
Étude avancée et exploration critique de sujets variés portant sur la langue française, la traduction et/ou la langue comme véhicule de la culture.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 450AD - Aux plaisirs de la traduction

Approfondissez vos compétences langagières en analysant les particularités stylistiques propres au français et à l’anglais. Apprenez les bases de la traduction en travaillant sur des textes littéraires."
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 450AD or FRN 350AD.*

FRN 450AF - Communication écrite et composition

Perfectionnement de l'écriture par la production de textes variés allant du pratique au créatif.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours of 300-level FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 350AF and FRN 450AF.*

FRN 460AC - Les géants de l’existentialisme

Albert Camus! Simone de Beauvoir! Jean-Paul Sartre! Découvrez les plus célèbres écrivains français du 20e siècle. La première partie du cours sera consacrée à l’apprentissage de la stylistique, ce qui permettra d’analyser en profondeur la pensée et l’écriture de ces géants de la littérature.
***Prerequisite: FRN 366 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head***

FRN 460AG - La Narration ou comment raconter une histoire

Les participants au cours s’initieront d’abord à la stylistique (analyse de productions littéraires au moyen d’éléments de linguistique) puis apprendront comment dégager des productions artistiques les éléments qui font avancer une histoire puis analyseront des textes divers, incluant des contes oraux autochtones, des textes classiques ainsi que des oeuvres modernes.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 460AG or FRN 860AA.*

FRN 460AI - Étude de la poésie et de la chanson d’expression française

Ce cours portera sur la mise en musique de la poésie en langue française par des compositeurs et compositrices des traditions classique et populaire de 1850 à aujourd’hui. L’accent sera mis sur l’esthétique, les fonctions historiques et sociales, les aspects de la performance, ainsi que la langue et l’identité.
***Prerequisite: FRN 366 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 460AI or MU 499AB.*

FRN 461 - Littérature franco-canadienne

Études des oeuvres représentatives d'auteurs et autrices francophones du Québec et du Canada et en particulier de textes écrits en contexte minoritaire.
***Prerequisite: FRN 366 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 461 or FRN 460AH.*

FRN 462 - Littérature de la francophonie africaine

Étude d’œuvres en langue française qui ont marqué l’histoire de la littérature de l’Afrique et de ses diasporas et qui explorent leur présent.
***Prerequisite: FRN 366 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 490AA - Stage expérientiel et mobilité

Ce cours est un stage expérientiel qui offre à l’étudiant(e) l’occasion de faire un séjour dans un milieu francophone (en l’occurrence le Bénin), dans le but de perfectionner son français tout en enrichissant son expérience dans le milieu du travail et vivre une expérience interculturelle.
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, and the completion of a further six credit hours of 300 level FRN courses, or permission of department head.***

FRN 490AB - Provence: l'histoire, les arts, le terroir

Le cours consiste en une semaine de cours à Regina où on abordera certains aspects de l’histoire, de la vie artistique et de la culture en Provence.
Les deux semaines suivantes, les étudiants feront un séjour en Provence lors duquel ils découvriront et étudieront la vie dans cette région.
En plus des frais de scolarité pour 6 crédits, des frais seront demandés pour payer les transports, l’hébergement et les visites.
***Prerequisite: FRN301, and completion of a further six credit hours at the 300-level or FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head***
*Note: 0-credit hour courses are offered as a ''Maintenance of Candidacy'' basis only for those completing a residency in a French-speaking area.*

FRN 499 - Dissertation spécialisée

Travail de recherche autonome portant sur un sujet lié aux études francophones et interculturelles, incluant la rédaction d’une dissertation. Ce cours est réservé aux étudiant(e)s complétant le programme de spécialisation (Honours).
***Prerequisite: FRN 301, and completion of a further six credit hours at the 300-level of FR or FRN courses, or permission of Department Head.***

FRN 800 - Examen de synthèse/Comprehensive Exam

Ce cours non-crédité est obligatoire pour les étudiants qui poursuivent un doctorat à La Cité universitaire francophone. Les étudiant.e.s subissent un examen écrit et oral dans leur domaine de spécialisation sous la direction de leur comité de supervision. Les étudiant.e.s ne peuvent s'y inscrire qu'après avoir complété leur charge de cours. Évaluation: Admis.e (A) ou refusé.e (R).

FRN 801 - Bibliographie et méthodologie

Aperçu des méthodes propres aux disciplines liées aux études francophones et interculturelles. Overview of the methods associated with the disciplines linked with francophone and intercultural studies.

FRN 802 - Perspectives sur l’étude des communautés francophones

Aperçu des approches utilisées dans l’étude des communautés francophones en milieu minoritaire, à partir des perspectives d’une variété de disciplines. Overview of the approaches used in the study of francophone communities in minority settings, based on the perspectives of a variety of disciplines.

FRN 803 - Stage en milieu francophone

Un stage de 80 heures au sein d’un organisme lié aux communautés francophones ou en animation culturelle, menant à la préparation d’un rapport d’environ 40 pages (incl. les annexes).// An 80 hour internship in an organization tied to Francophone communities or in cultural programming, leading to the preparation of a report of approximately 40 pages (incl. annexes).
***Préalable: au moins 6 cr. de cours FRN de niveau supérieur.***
***Pre-requisite: at least 6 cr. in FRN graduate courses.***

FRN 804 - Séminaire de recherche doctorale

Discussions, échanges et réflexion sur les problématiques ainsi que sur les enjeux théoriques et méthodologiques du projet de thèse des étudiants.

FRN 805 - Sociolinguistique

Ce cours s’intéresse à l’étude des concepts, des théories, des orientations actuelles, ainsi qu’aux méthodes d’enquête en sociolinguistique. Il réclame également un volet pratique, lequel amènera l’étudiant à construire des connaissances sur divers aspects de la discipline : la variation ou le changement linguistique observé au sein d’un groupe linguistique ; le transfert linguistique ; la question de survie et de vitalité des groupes linguistiques minoritaires ; les situations de bi/multilinguisme ; les phénomènes liés aux contacts de langues et aux conflits diglossiques. *Note: L'étudiant ne peut pas recevoir de crédits pour FRN 805 et FRN 831AA*

FRN 806 - Relations interculturelles au Canada

Survol de l'histoire des relations interculturelles au Canada au vingtième siècle.
*Note: L'étudiant ne peut pas recevoir de crédits pour FRN 806 et FRN 840AC.*

FRN 830AB - Creativite lexicale

Creation et creativite lexicales; ressources et caracteristiques de la formation d'unites lexicales. L'etude visera la langue generale et la langue specialisee. Creation lexicale, intellectualisation et particularisation.

FRN 830AC - Initiation a la terminologie

Fondement, theorie et pratique de la terminologie; conceptualisation et denomination; intellectualisation et particularisation; terminologie et normalisation.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 830AC or FRN 430AA.*

FRN 830AD - Lexicologie et lexicographie

Étude des notions de base ainsi que des réflexions méthodologiques en lexicologie et en lexicographie. Initiation aux pratiques dictionnairiques.

FRN 830AE - Traduction administrative et politique

Ce cours permettra aux étudiants de prendre connaissance des aspects pragmatiques de la traduction spécifiquement dans les domaines de l'administration, de la politique et des relations internationales. Le contenu du cours se basera sur l’étude d'ouvrages et d'articles portant sur ces domaines ; examen critique des ressources terminologiques et documentaires; traduction et révision de textes relatifs à l'administration ainsi qu'à la politique.

FRN 830AF - Outils informatiques pour traducteurs; CAT tools for translators

Pour mieux préparer les étudiants au marché d’emploi de plus en plus numérique, ce cours vise à leur permettre d'acquérir une expérience pratique en se servant des logiciels de la traduction tels que SDL Trados, MemoQ et Wordfast Anywhere. Les étudiants apprendront à créer un nouveau projet de traduction ou ouvrir un projet existant, apprendre la gestion de la terminologie et le dépannage, exécuter des vérificateurs d'assurance qualité (AQ) et aligner des documents sur LiveDocs. Ce cours sera spécialement donné en anglais.

FRN 830AG - Courants traductologiques et théories de la traduction

Dans ce cours, on explorera la notion de traductologie en traçant son origine et son évolution en tant que domaine d’études. On abordera aussi les principales théories de la traduction, notamment la théorie linguistique, la théorie interprétative et la théorie du Skopos, entre autres. Il sera également question d’examiner l’importance de la théorie dans la pratique de traduction.

FRN 830BB - Syntaxe et sémantique

Étude approfondie de la structure interne de la phrase et des constituants immédiats (co-texte), ainsi que leur interaction sur le sens global du texte en général.

FRN 831AB - Bilinguisme, multiculturalisme et interculturalisme

Étude des enjeux théoriques et conceptuels du bilinguisme, du multiculturalisme et de l’interculturalisme. L’étudiant.e aura à mener une réflexion critique sur les politiques de bilinguisme et de multiculturalisme canadiens, ainsi que leurs implications sur le vivre-ensemble – les relations interethniques et la communication interculturelle.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 831AB or FRN 430AE.*

FRN 831AC - La Loi sur les langues officielles au Canada

Étude des rôles et responsabilités des gouvernements fédéral et provincial dans la mise en œuvre de la Loi sur les langues officielles, ainsi que des Plans d’action et des enjeux sociolinguistiques reliés à la survie et à la vitalité des communautés linguistiques minoritaires.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 831AC or FRN 430AD.*

FRN 831AD - Aménagement linguistique

Ce cours examine les notions de base en aménagement linguistique (politique linguistique, planification linguistique, glottopolitique), ainsi que les enjeux sociopolitiques qui sous-tendent l'intervention linguistique à différents niveaux (État, éducation, communauté, famille, etc.). Il sera également le lieu de mener une réflexion critique sur l'effet de la politique linguistique canadienne sur la vitalité des communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 430AB or FRN 831AD.*

FRN 831AE - Politiques linguistiques et transmission du français en Saskatchewan

Analyse des politiques ainsi que des pratiques qui visent à promouvoir la transmission intergénérationnelle du français au sein de la communauté francophone en Saskatchewan.

FRN 831AF - Diversité linguistique et ethnoculturelle

Le cours examine les notions de base en ethnolinguistique et en ethnographie ainsi que les différentes perspectives de la diversité linguistique et culturelle. Des échanges autour des avantages et des défis de la diversité dans un monde globalisant seront également privilégiés, en s'appuyant sur le Canada comme exemple.

FRN 831AG - Langue, pauvreté et développement

Le cours explore les rapports entre la langue, la pauvreté et le développement humain, en adoptant une approche multidisciplinaire. Il sera également le lieu d'étude des divers modèles de développement humain et des implications des politiques linguistiques sur l'accès aux ressources nécessaires pour l'épanouissement de l'individu et de la communauté.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 430AG or FRN 831AG.*

FRN 831AH - Introduction à la linguistique appliquée

Le cours consiste en un survol des questionnements, des méthodes et des théories de la linguistique appliquée. L'accent sera également mis sur l'évolution du domaine, ainsi qu'aux apports du langage aux enjeux liés à divers champs d'intervention sociale - acquisition et enseignement des langues secondes et étrangères, terminologie, analyse du discours, orthophonie, traduction, etc.

FRN 840 - Études spécialisées des communautés et organisations de la francophonie

Étude des modes d’existence et des institutions collectives des populations francophones, du niveau local au niveau mondial. Study of the collective modes of existence and institutions of Francophone populations, from the local to the global level.

FRN 840AA - Les sixties en français

Etude des bouleversements sociaux, politiques, culturels des années 1960, avec un accent sur le monde francophone. Les étudiants seront invités à effectuer des analyses comparatives pancanadiennes et internationales. Ils devront aussi mener des projets de recherche originaux sur la fransaskoisie.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 840AA or FRN 440AA.*

FRN 840AE - À la découverte de la Fransaskoisie

Exploration de l'histoire de la communauté fransaskoise de la fin du 19e siècle jusqu'à nos jours. Visites sur le terrain, travail achivistique.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 440AE or FRN 840AE.*

FRN 841 - Études spécialisées en histoire des francophonies

Étude des divers espaces francophones des Amériques dans une perspective historique. Study of the diverse francophone spaces in the Americas from a historical perspective.

FRN 841AA - Thèmes choisis en histoire de la francophonie canadienne

Étude approfondie de thèmes liés à l'histoire de la francophonie canadienne.

FRN 860AA - La Narration ou comment raconter une histoire

Les participants au cours s’initieront d’abord à la stylistique (analyse de productions littéraires au moyen d’éléments de linguistique) puis apprendront comment dégager des productions artistiques les éléments qui font avancer une histoire puis analyseront des textes divers, incluant des contes oraux autochtones, des textes classiques ainsi que des oeuvres modernes.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 860AA or FRN 460AG.*

FRN 860AC - Les géants de l'existentialisme

Albert Camus! Simone de Beauvoir! Jean-Paul Sartre! Découvrez les plus célèbres écrivains français du 20e siècle. La première partie du cours sera consacrée à l’apprentissage de la stylistique, ce qui permettra d’analyser en profondeur la pensée et l’écriture de ces géants de la littérature.
***Prerequisite: FRN 366 with the completion of six credit hours at the FRN 300 Level or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 860AC or FRN 460AC.*

FRN 860AF - Les Francophone et l'immigration dans l'Ouest canadien: Gabrielle Roy

Étude des migrations ainsi que de la vie dans un contexte fédéral et colonial des francophones en milieu minoritaire dans l’Ouest canadien (par exemple: attachement au passé, distance des lieux d’origine, relations interculturelles). À partir de reportage et romans ainsi que d’études en sciences humaines et sociales.

FRN 860AH - Littérature franco-canadienne

Études des œuvres représentatives d'auteur(e)s francophones du Québec et du Canada et en particulier de textes écrits en contexte minoritaire.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 860AH or FRN 460AH.*

FRN 860AI - Étude de la poésie et de la chanson d’expression française

Mise en musique de la poésie par des compositeurs et compositrices des traditions classique et populaire de 1850 à aujourd’hui.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 860AI, MU 809AN, or FRN 460AI.*

FRN 860AJ - Poésie, société et politique

Étude d’œuvres poétiques qui visent une transformation politique par le biais de l’écriture et de ses effets autant que par les thèmes choisis, ainsi que des méthodes qui permettent de relier la poésie aux autres genres d’écriture et au contexte social. Les œuvres étudiées pourront varier.

FRN 861 - Études spécialisées en théorie littéraire

Étude de théories pouvant porter sur l’écriture, la création, la communication, la lecture, la réception et/ou les communautés littéraires. Study of theories related to literary writing, creation, communication, reading, reception, and/or literary communities.

FRN 862 - Un auteur et son œuvre

Étude d’une partie majeure de l’œuvre d’un(e) auteur(e) œuvrant en francophonie. Study of major portions of an author’s work in the context of the Francophonie.

FRN 870AA - Penser ce que fait la musique

Ce cours offrira une étude approfondie des différentes approches de la musique dans la tradition philosophique, surtout d’expression française et dans les débats contemporains. À partir d’une perspective axée sur l’expérience de la création et de l’écoute musicales, la musique apparaîtra comme expression, performance ou relation.

FRN 870AB - L'hospitalité : une réponse aux migrations internationales

Étude des théories développées en francophonie autour de la notion d'hospitalité comme réponse aux migrations internationales. Approfondissement en séminaire de l’hospitalité en tant que conçue en lien aux droits, aux devoirs, aux obligations, et au don, mais aussi comme alternative à l’ordre social et politique global actuel.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 870AB or FRN 440AC.*

FRN 870AC - Coexister avec les autres

Étude de théories développées en francophonie qui cherchent à améliorer la vie en commun et à répondre aux différends tout en respectant les différences (notamment de genre, culturelles, ou religieuses).
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of FRN 870AC or FRN 440AD.*

FRN 870AD - La sociologie phénoménologique

Survol et exemples des méthodologies et méthodes propres à la sociologie phénoménologique, et de thèmes de la phénoménologie sociale. L’accent sera placé, de manière non exclusive, sur les manières dont ce courant a été développé dans les espaces francophones.

FRN 870AE - Études spécialisées du colonialisme au Canada

Ce cours vise à penser les continuités entre le passé et le présent coloniaux, leurs critiques et l’imaginaire des futurités décoloniales, ainsi que les relations entre peuples et cultures, à partir d’un thème donné et d’une approche multi-disciplinaire et collaborative.

FRN 870AF - Études spécialisées du colonialisme dans le monde francophone

Ce cours vise à penser les continuités entre le passé colonial et le présent néo/post-colonial, leurs critiques et l’imaginaire des futurités décoloniales, ainsi que les relations entre peuples et cultures, à partir d’un thème donné et d’une approche multi-disciplinaire.

FRN 890AF - Gestion de la diversité culturelle ou travailler en contexte interculturel

Dans nos sociétés de plus en plus diversifiées se posent les questions de la rencontre avec l’autre, celles du vivre ensemble et des dynamiques de reconnaissance des différences. Ce cours vise à examiner les différentes approches de la gestion de la diversité et analyser la construction/déconstruction des stéréotypes.

FRN 900 - Séminaire

Ce séminaire obligatoire a été conçu pour permetre aux étudiant.e.s de deuxième cycle de discuter de leurs projets et travaux de recherche entre eux/elles, en présence du corps professoral dans un contexte convivial. Il sert aussi à faciliter l'implication des étudiant.e.s au sein de la communauté universitaire, ainsi que dans la communauté fransaskoise au sens large. Les étudiant.e.s devront obligatoirement s’inscrire au séminaire deux fois, durant les sessions d’automne et d’hiver.

GER 111 - Introductory German I

This introductory course is designed to develop basic communicative competence in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Cultural awareness and sociolinguistic competence are emphasized.
*** Prerequisite: No previous background in German. Refer to the Department of International Languages Section of the Undergraduate Calendar (How to choose a language) for details. ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GER 100 or GER 111.*

GER 112 - Introductory German II

This is a continuation of GER 111. Students will review and build on the concepts and structures introduced in GER 111. There is continued emphasis on developing essential vocabulary and communicative competence in authentic, everyday situations.
*** Prerequisite: GER 111 or permission of the Department Head. ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GER 101 or GER 112.*

GER 211 - Intermediate German I

Building on introductory German, this course includes the study of more complex grammatical structures and an emphasis on increasingly sophisticated oral and written expression. Discussion of short German texts from various cultural sources.
*** Prerequisite: GER 112 or permission of the Department Head ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GER 102 or GER 211.*

GER 212 - Intermediate German II

Continuation of GER 211. Fostering of more independent learning and use of German. Production of longer written texts and more sophisticated oral expression. Examination of German cultural texts and focus on acquisition of intermediate-level vocabulary.
*** Prerequisite: GER 211, or permission of the Department Head ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GER 201 or GER 212.*

GER 303 - German for Business

Introduction to Business German, business correspondence, resumes, reports, and presentations.
***Prerequisite: GER 212 or permission of the Department Head.***

GER 311 - Advanced German I

Consolidation of grammar, emphasis on acquisition of advanced-level vocabulary and extension of idiomatic usage of German. Greater integration of cultural texts in German.
***Prerequisite: GER 212, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GER 202 or GER 311.*

GER 312 - Advanced German II

Continuation of GER 311. Development of vocabulary for a wide variety of social situations. Focus on the comprehension of complex texts and an increased sophistication of oral and written expression.
*** Prerequisite: GER 311, or permission of the Department Head. ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GER 300 or GER 312.*

GER 390AF - REEL German Culture: An examination of German Cinema

Offered in German. This course provides an historical overview of several mainstream German films. Students will examine and discuss the function of film in the construction of social, sexual, ethnic, national identities.
***Prerequisite: GER 212.***
**Permission of the Department Head may be required to register in some offerings.**

GER 390AM - In Pursuit of Meaning: Translation Theory and Practice

We explore translation as both an academic pursuit and a practical professional activity. Students learn about "equivalence" (textual, grammatical, pragmatic), a concept central to translation, as well as the ethics and morality relating to the profession. We also put theory into practice by translating from a German novel into English.
***Prerequisite: GER 212.***
**Permission of the Department Head may be required to register in some offerings.**

GER 390AN - Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. A Work of Generational Disconnection

Through Bernhard Schlink's pivotal novel Der Vorleser/The Reader and selected secondary works, this course examines a literary Aufarbeitung (re-engagement) with the aftermath of Germany's years of National Socialism and the ensuing generational disconnection.
***Prerequisite: GER 311 ***

GER 396AA - Berlin: Narratives of a City

This course offers a multidisciplinary approach to the literary/filmic culture and human/urban geography of Berlin, Germany. Emphasis is placed on selected themes including migration, urbanisation, alienation, and cultural memory as they contribute to the developing narratives of Berlin.The course includes a field trip to Berlin.
**Permission of the department is required to register**
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of GEOG 396AT and GER 396AA.*
*Additional Fee: $1700.*

GER 411 - Advanced German III

Continuation of GER 312. Focus is placed on independent language usage through the consolidation of complex grammatical structures and the acquisition of an advanced level of vocabulary. Authentic materials such as news programmes, cinema, and literature will be examined to deepen cultural literacy. Intensive oral and written language production.
*** Prerequisite: GER 312. ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GER 400 or GER 411.*

GES 246 - Urban Geography

The course examines cities as systems viewed at global, national, and local levels. Economic and social patterns and linkages are stressed. Special emphasis is placed on the Canadian urban system and the urban geography of Regina.
***Prerequisite: GES 100 or GES 120 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 246, GEOG 246, or GEOG 324.*

GES 297AB - Environment and Society

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the relationship between society and the natural environment. The course examines the environmental impact of the actions of individuals, businesses and governments. Specific topics might include climate change, environmental degradation, sustainability and environmental movements and conflicts.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or GES 120 or GES 121 or permission of department head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GES 297AB or SOC 230.*

GES 346 - Urban Planning

This course examines the classical roots of modern urban planning, the core concepts of planning theory, and the land-use plan. Emphasis is placed on urban planning in Canada and especially in Regina.
***Prerequisite: GES 100 or GES 120 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of GES 346. GEOG 346, or GEOG 424.*

GES 396AN - The Place of Craft Beer

Is craft beer a sustainable practice for building local community? Topics include the geography of craft beer, environmental impacts, economic development, labour market, gender, and relationships to the local.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours including one of GES 100 or GES 120, or permission from the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 396AN and GEOG 396AN.*

HIST 113 - Issues in Canadian History

An exploration of major themes, periods and events in Canadian History, this course introduces students to the methods and sources of historical study and familiarizes them with significant historical developments from the Canadian past.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 101, 102, 103 or 113.*

HIST 114 - Issues in the History of the Americas

An exploration of major themes, periods and events in the history of the Americas, this course introduces students to the methods and sources of historical study, familiarizes them with significant developments in the history of the Americas and encourages them to compare the historical experiences of various American peoples.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 104, 112 or 114*

HIST 115 - Issues in European History

An exploration of major themes, periods and events in European history, this course introduces students to the methods and sources of historical study, familiarizes them with significant developments in the history of Europe and places that history in a global context.
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 106, 107, 108 or 115.*

HIST 116 - Issues in World History

An exploration of major themes, periods and events in World History, this course introduces students to the methods and sources of historical study, familiarizes them with significant historical developments in global history, and encourages them to make comparisons between civilizations.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of HIST 116, HIST 107, or HIST 105.*

HIST 150 - Today’s World: Historical Perspectives

This course explores the influence of the past on the world in which we live.
Topics addressed will be taken from today’s headlines and will reflect a wide
variety of periods and geographical areas. Topics may include terrorism,
environmentalism, war, demonstrations, popular culture, the welfare state,
global crises.

HIST 200 - Canada Before Confederation

A survey of Canadian history from the pre-Contact era to Confederation. Topics include Indigenous history before European colonisation, New France, the Conquest, Canada and the American Revolution, British North America, Indigenous and Métis peoples of the Northwest, and the background to Confederation.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level History course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 201 - Canada From Confederation to World War II

A survey of Canadian history from Confederation to the outbreak of World War II including such topics as John A. Macdonald's National Policy, western settlement, the rise of urban, industrial Canada, the impact of World War I, society and politics during the 1920s and the Great Depression.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level History Course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 205 and HIST 206. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 201 and either of HIST 205 or HIST 206. *

HIST 202 - Canada from World War II to the Present

A survey of the making of modern Canada since 1939, including such topics as the building of the welfare state, Canadian foreign policy, the military in war and peacekeeping, Quebec separatism, the women's movement, Aboriginal rights, the new constitution and Charter of Rights, the economy and free trade.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 207. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 202 and HIST 207. *

HIST 225 - Tudor and Stuart Britain

Topics include the Tudors, the Protestant Reformation, the growing power of parliament and its changing relationship with the king, the role of religion in early modern society, popular belief and the Civil War. We will also look at the Revolution of 1688 and its implications for the British constitution.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 221 and HIST 222. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 225 and either of HIST 221 and HIST 222. *

HIST 226 - The Powerful versus the Poor: the Evolution of Modern Britain

Topics include the slave trade and the rise of the abolitionist movement, the loss of the American colonies and Britain's response (both radical and conservative) to the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Reform Act of 1832, the Irish Potato Famine, and Britain's experience in the two world wars.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 223. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 226 and HIST 223. *

HIST 231 - The American Colonies and the United States before 1865

Examination of such topics as colonial life; Anglo-Native relations; the Revolutionary era; economy, politics, religion, reform, and society in the early republic; antebellum America; slavery and race relations; gender and family issues; westward expansion, war, and diplomacy and the American Civil War.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 Level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours. ***

HIST 233 - African American History Since 1783

Examines modern African American history, analyzing culture, gender and social relations throughout the nineteenth/twentieth century United States. Areas of study include events leading up to the Civil War and its aftermath; early struggles for civic equality; the emergence of a modern civil rights movement and the radicalization of social protest.
***Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 234 - The United States, 1865-1941

Topics covered include Western expansion and development; growth of the urban industrial order; immigration/ethnicity; African Americans; gender issues; society and culture; regionalism; politics; emergence of the United States as a world power from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War ll.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 Level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours. ***

HIST 235 - The United States Since 1941

Topics covered include America as a global power; domestic impact of the Cold War; politics; economic transformation; regionalism; African Americans; ethnic America; gender issues; social movements; society and culture.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 239 - A History of the Cowboy

The cowboy has served as a central masculine archetype in the Americas since horses were introduced. Not only of historical significance empirically in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, culturally the cowboy¿s influence has reached from Hollywood to the White House, the Pampas to Chihuahua. This course explores why.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 250 - Modern Dragons: Revolutionary China and Japan

This course aims to impart an understanding of modernization processes in East Asia from the nineteenth century to the 1980s. Attention is focused on how China and Japan addressed the western-led challenge of modernization. Emphasis is also placed on social and economic change.

***Prerequisite: 100-level History course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
*Note: Formerly numbered HIST 105. Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 105 or 250.*

HIST 252 - Late Imperial China: Social and Economic History

Focuses on the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), when the traditional political, social, and economic institutions of China reached their fullest development.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 255 - Japan of the Samurai

Examines Japan from medieval times up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Discussion will cover the political, social, economic as well as cultural developments of each period with emphasis on the means by which groups and individuals acquired and attempted to maintain their influence over others.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 256 - History of Modern Japan

Examines the search for a new national identity in modern Japan through an analysis of political, social, economic and cultural changes from 1868 to the 1970s.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 260 - Earliest Civilizations

An introduction, emphasizing the use of archaeological data, to the rise and development of the oldest civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere, particularly those of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 261 - Introduction to Ancient Greece

This course introduces students to the history of ancient Greece. The emphasis is on social, political, cultural and military themes, from the Bronze Age through to the Hellenistic Period.
*** Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 261 or 264*

HIST 262 - Introduction to Ancient Rome

This course introduces students to the history of ancient Rome. The emphasis is on social, political, cultural and military themes, from the Regnal Period (c. 750-510 BC) through to the Principate (c. 31 BC-AD 300).
*** Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 262 or 264*

HIST 265 - Early Middle Ages 300-1100

This course covers the emergence of medieval Europe out of Roman, Germanic, and Christian influences. Topics include the Viking attacks, the rise of the Christian Church, the decline and revival of urban life, the "King Arthur" controversy, and the development of kingdoms and empires.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 266 - Western Europe in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1400

The themes of this course include: the Crusades, heresies, Church reform, universities and learning, chivalry and courtly love, towns and trade, intensification of anti-Semitism, developments in religion, art and architecture, monarchies and government, the Black Death, the Papacy, and Church-state relations.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 270 - Europe, 1400-1648: Renaissance and Reformation

This course examines the Italian Renaissance in art, culture and thought; overseas explorations; Protestant and Catholic Reformations; rise of the nation state; the Thirty Years War; the Scientific Revolution.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 271 - Health, Disease and the Body: The History of Medicine in Western Culture

This course surveys the history of medicine by exploring how concepts of healing, disease, and the body have changed over time. Themes to be explored include: the role of magic and religion in healing, social impact of contagious disease, gender and reproduction, mental illness, and the development of medical professions.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 272 - Gender and the Body in Early Modern Europe

This course examines the social history of Europe from the 15th to the 18th centuries through a focus on issues related to gender, sexuality and the body. It includes topics such as: gender definitions, marriage and family, sexuality and morality, and clothing and fashion.
*** Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 275 - Nineteenth Century Europe

Industrialization, urbanization, science, ideological conflicts; Congress of Vienna, Concert of Europe, revolutions of 1848-49; unifications of Italy and Germany; Napoleon III; Imperialism, origins of the First World War.

*** Prerequisite: 100 level History course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 277 - Europe, 1648-1815: Absolutism and Revolution

This course surveys the varieties of absolutism under the old regime, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire. It also considers the rise of the public sphere, the beginnings of industrial revolution and changing attitudes toward crime and poverty.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 274 and HIST 275. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 277 and either of HIST 274 and HIST 275. *

HIST 278 - Twentieth Century Europe

First World War, revolutions, peace treaties; League of Nations; fascism, nazism, the Spanish Civil War; causes and consequences of the Second World War; divided Europe since 1945.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 276. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 278 and HIST 276. Web delivered class sections may be subject to an additional $50.00 material fee. *

HIST 286 - The Russian Empire Since Ivan the Terrible

Ivan the Terrible and the expansion of Muscovy, Peter the Great and Europeanization, Enlightened absolutism, Russian nationalism, the Russian Revolution, the consolidation of the Soviet Union, the impact of two World Wars, the Cold War, the break up of the Soviet Empire and the reassertion of nationalities and their identities.
****Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 290AC - First Nations and the Colonization of the Americas

This course examines the ways in which Native peoples in North, Meso-, and South America responded to the European colonization of the Americas between roughly 1500 and 1800 and explores the legacy of early modern colonialism for indigenous peoples and nation-states of the western hemisphere.

*** Prerequisite: One 100 level History course or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 290AM - A History of Canadian Disasters

Students will explore major disasters that shook the nation throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of a variety of ‘natural’ disasters, including fires, floods, and severe storms to human-made disasters, such as explosions, crashes, and spills, this course will highlight the relationship between all levels of government, big business, and charities when responding to disasters. By investigating the argument that there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster, students will gain insight into Canadian federalism, humanitarianism, big business, and technological advances.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AN - History of Africa

An introduction to the histories and diverse cultures of Africa from the earliest times to the era of colonization in the 19th century. Attention is given to the roots of African peoples in antiquity, processes of regional differentiation, and evolving patterns of trade, politics and conflict.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AO - A Social History of North America through Film and Television

From examining silent films and the advent of ‘talkies’ to digital streaming in the twenty-first century, this course provides an examination of the social history of North America through film. Drawing on films and television shows, this course explores issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AP - The French Resistance During World War II

While General de Gaulle represented an early form of resistance to Nazi rule, for many who later joined the underground, it was less clear just how collaborationist the Vichy Government truly was under Marshal Petain. This course will examine the crystallization and course of this resistance, from its earliest existence.
***Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AR - History of Love, Emotions, and Sexuality

Have you ever wondered how the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Aztecs, experienced love? How was sexuality understood and exercised? Looking at examples from across world history, this course will explore how emotions, love, and sexuality have influenced political decisions, cultural developments, artistic manifestations, and religious beliefs.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AT - The Second Crusade: Holy War and the Crusading Movement in the 12th Century

This course will explore the background to and outcomes of the Second Crusade in the context of the crusading movement in the twelfth century. We will be using role-playing game techniques to allow students to take on the roles of participants in the 1148 war council at Acre.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AU - The Black Death: A Medieval Pandemic

The Black Death was a major pandemic that devastated Asia, Europe, and North Africa in the fourteenth century. This course explores the social, economic, religious, and cultural effects of the pandemic on medieval people. It also looks at how modern-day historians and scientists try to learn about this disease outbreak.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AV - China Since Mao

Examines social and economic change in China since the Cultural Revolution and the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Using both chronological and thematic approaches it explores such phenomena as urbanization, environmental challenges, mass media, education, and censorship. The evolution of distinctive features of China's political system is also explored.
***Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AW - Popping the Bubble: Morality and Discourse in the Digital Age

Why is it so difficult to discuss morally charged topics with someone who sits across the ideological aisle from you? And how does social media change those discussions further? This course will unpack the psychology and philosophy behind moral reasoning and the ways in which digital media impact these processes.
*** Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours ***

HIST 290AX - History of Rock and Roll

The History of Rock and Roll seeks to understand the rise of this important genre. Music emerges as an artistic expression of its period and can be influenced by new ideologies, events, technology, and socio-political developments. Rock and Roll has survived as a clearly defined genre that remains universally popular.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AY - British Colonialism and its Decline

This course looks at British imperial expansion and subsequent decolonization. In the nineteenth century Britain was at the height of its power and wealth. British prosperity came at the expense of colonized subjects who were denied citizenship and good working conditions. Topics include colonialism in India, Africa, and the Caribbean.
***Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours***

HIST 290AZ - Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Later Middle Ages: The Fourth Crusade/The Mongol Empire

This course introduces students to two episodes in later medieval history when people of different cultures encountered one another. The course will be structured around two historical role-playing games, The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204: The Fourth Crusade and Grandsons of Genghis: The Mongol Qurultai of 1246.
***Prerequisite: One 100 level HIST or completion of 15 credit hours.***

HIST 290BA - History of the Book

A survey of major periods and events in the history of the book, emphasizing the history of print culture. Topics include writing and writing systems, scribal culture, the print revolution, the growth of literacy, and the digital revolution; readers, writers, publishers, and booksellers; and the future of the book.
***Prerequisite: One 100-level HIST course or completion of 15 credit hours.***

HIST 301 - Federalism and the Canadian Experience

This course studies the origins, structure, and evolution of Canadian federalism. It focuses on the relationship between Ottawa and the provinces, and considers several themes: Confederation, regionalism and province-building, federal-provincial relations, the role of the courts, constitutional development, the welfare state, fiscal arrangements and economic policy, and contemporary issues.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 301 or PSCI 331*

HIST 303 - Canada in the World

This course examines the history of Canadian Foreign Policy and considers Canada¿s place on the international stage. It also investigates how various political leaders managed Canada's involvement in international affairs from Confederation to the present.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 307 - Social History of the "Sixties" in North America

From the "beats" of the 1950s to the fall of Saigon in 1975, baby-boomer youth transformed society through the counterculture, sexual revolution, the new left, student power, environmentalism, and liberation movements, making the "Sixties" the homeland of today. The course compares the Canadian and US experiences of this turbulent era.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 314 - The Legal History of Canada

Aboriginal approaches to law; colonial regimes and the arrival of European law; the development of modern institutions; individual, group, and majority rights in a democratic society.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 213. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 314 and HIST 213. *

HIST 318 - History of the Prairie West

The course will survey the history of the Prairie West from the pre-contact period to the 21st century. Topics will include: Native history, the fur trade, Canadian westward expansion, the Batoche resistance, settlement, the wheat economy, the 'Dirty Thirties,' the world wars, the resource boom and the New West.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 211. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 318 and HIST 211. *

HIST 319 - History in a Digital World

This course considers history in the digital era, focusing on how to do digital research and how to create digital resources. Questions regarding access, the marginalization of non-digital resources, and the roles of social media and Big Tech are addressed. This course builds skills in digital research and content creation.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours.***

HIST 321 - The Politics of Crowds: Popular Protest in Britain since 1700

The course deals with the political, economic, nationalist and religious motivations of protest; bread riots, the Gordon riots, and the Chartist movement; twentieth-century protest, including the movement for nuclear disarmament, student and anti-Vietnam War protest and the anti-war protest of 2003.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or 30 credit hours ***

HIST 322 - Sex and the City: the Pursuit of Pleasure in Britain since 1500

Topics include early modern erotica, libertines, the royal mistresses of Charles II, the city and sexual danger, prostitution, Victorian repression, abortion and birth control, twentieth-century liberal attitudes toward sexuality, the impact of sex manuals and sex education, the sexual revolution, and the articulation of a gay and lesbian identity
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or 30 credit hours ***

HIST 323 - Crime and Punishment in Britain since 1500

Themes include the English justice system and the criminal underworld, the "bloody code" (eighteenth-century Britain's having more capital offences than any other European country), the rise of the prison, crime reporting, the popularity of genres like detective fiction, changing notions of responsibility for crime and the rise of forensic science.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 330 - Women in Canadian History

Explores the lives of women in Canada's past. We look at some of this country’s most famous women, including Pauline Johnson and Nellie McClung, but we also study the experiences of those who did not become famous, and in fact lived on the margins for most of their lives.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours***

HIST 332 - United States Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century

This course emphasizes the emergence of the United States as a world power, and its growing military, economic, and cultural dominance in the course of the twentieth century. Of special concern are United States relations with Europe, Asia and the Middle East and its increasing hegemony in the Western Hemisphere.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 333 - The History of Chicago, America's Second City

Examines urban development in one of America's most racially and ethnically diverse cities. This course analyzes Chicago history from its early-nineteenth century origins of cultural conflict and environmental achievements, to its turn-of-the-century growth as a site of progressive reform, to its more recent struggles with racial/ethnic divides and political corruption.

*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 334 - Gender in Modern America

This course will examine the ways in which race, ethnicity, class, region, and sexuality have shaped ideas about gender and gender ideals in the United States since the Civil War, as well as how these beliefs changed over time and were contested throughout modern U.S. history.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 348 - Imperialism in Latin America

This course investigates the several waves of imperialism that have swept the region, beginning with Christopher Columbus in 1492. It explores the various motivations for colonization, indigenous responses to the aggressions, and assesses the diverse effects of colonialism.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 352 - Shanghai and Tokyo

Compares the complex social, economic, cultural and political changes in these Asian cities since the first era of contact with the West. Themes include the development of a "new" urban lifestyle built around a rapidly-expanding middle class, the growth of a politicized urban proletariat and new roles for women.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 356 - Japanese Imperialism in China, Korea and Taiwan

This course explores processes of action and reaction in Japanese imperialism. Themes include: theoretical and historical motivations for imperial expansion, managing colonial societies, the economics of empire, the integration of settler communities, the culture of empire (particularly two-way culture flows), and the legacy of empire.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 368 - The History of Popular Religion in the Middle Ages (300-1400)

This course will examine, from an historical perspective, the religious beliefs and practices of medieval Europeans. The emphasis will be on Christian beliefs, but those of other religions will be considered, too. Topics include: heresy; the fate of the dead; skepticism; saints; signs and miracles; good and evil spirits; holidays.

*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours. ***

HIST 370 - The European Reformations

An examination of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the sixteenth century and the conflicts they engendered from the perspectives of: religion, society, politics, culture, and gender.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 371 - Early Modern Culture, Identity, Exchange and Conflict

This course explores the depth and breadth of cultural identities, exchanges and interactions in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will examine the role of religion, ethnicity, race and class in shaping early modern identities and informing cultural interactions during this period of violent upheaval and change.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours***

HIST 373 - The European Witch Hunts

Examination of the origins, development, and decline of the witch persecutions in Western Europe from 1400-1700. Students will learn how historians draw on fields such as feminist theory, psychology, sociology, and anthropology in order to understand the complexities of this topic.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 374 - Revolution and Terror in France, 1789-1799

This course considers the origins, course and significance of the French Revolution of 1789-1799. Topics covered include: cultural and political origins; the pre-revolution; the events of 1789; the remaking of France; radicalization; the revolutionary wars; women and revolution; the Counterrevolution; the Terror; the Thermidorian Reaction and the Directory.


*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 376 - Rising from the Ashes: Germany Since 1945

This course surveys the political, social and cultural history of post-war Germany, paying particular attention to the historiographical debates on the course and character of recent German history and the country's role in post-war Europe.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 378 - The Third Reich

This course will examine the historiographical controversies concerning the social and political history of the Third Reich. Topics to be considered include the origins of National Socialism, Nazi ideology, the Holocaust, and German opposition to Hitler.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 381 - European Military History

A study of European warfare from the Renaissance to the present. Particular attention is focused upon the interaction between war and economic, social, political, technological and cultural developments.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours ***
* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 281. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 381 and HIST 281. *

HIST 382 - Military History: The First World War

Focusing on the military history of the First World War, this course studies war plans, strategy and leadership, technology and tactics, civil-military and inter-allied relations, battles on land and sea, as well as the experience of war. Military events are considered in relation to broader economic, social, political and cultural developments.
***Prerequisite: One History course or completion of 30 credit hours***
*Note: Formerly numbered HIST 282. Students may only receive credit for one of HIST 282, HIST 382 (if taken prior to 201110) or HIST 383*

HIST 383 - Military History: The Second World War

Focusing on the military history of the Second World War, this course studies war plans, strategy and leadership, technology and tactics, civil-military and inter-allied relations, battles on land and sea, as well as the experience of war. Military events are considered in relation to broader economic, social, political and cultural developments.
***Prerequisite: One History course or completion of 30 credit hours***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of HIST 382 (if taken prior to 201110) or 383*

HIST 390AP - Italy: Napoleon to Mussolini

This course will examine the development of nationalism under Napoleon, in the 1848 Revolutions, in the unification of the nation in 1871, and in the transformation of that nation into a fascist state under Benito Mussolini, in the wake of World War One and the Russian Revolution.
*** Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours. ***

HIST 390AQ - Memory & Place in Asia: Sites of Commemoration, Spirituality, and Meaning

This course explores symbolic space in Asia, places with an historic, cultural, religious or political significance. From sacred shrines to places of mourning, natural wonders to fabled cities, these sites convey a variety of meanings, expressing loss and remembrance, quest and healing. Places covered include Nanjing, Hiroshima, Angkor, and Varanasi.

PREREQUISITE: One History course or completion of 30 credit hours.

HIST 390AU - Origins of Modern Antisemitism and the Holocaust

The religious and cultural roots of antisemitism and its manifestations in Western civilization: the rise of racist and political antisemitism in Europe; seminal issues in the history of the Holocaust; an analysis of the various political and cultural responses to the events of this period.
***Prerequisites: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of HIST 390AU or RLST 322.*

HIST 390AX - History of the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet States

History of the Soviet Union/post-Soviet states from the Russian Revolutions to the present. Explore causes of the revolutions, what Communism offered Soviet citizens, the role of mass violence and terror, why the USSR dissolved, and the emergence of new democratic or authoritarian countries since 1991, through peaceful transformation and warfare.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours.***

HIST 390DF - Canadian Politics and Charter Rights

This course will examine the influence of the Charter of Rights on political and social change in Canada. Emphasis will be on civil liberties, group rights and political and soci-economnic conflict, and the evolving roles of party politics, the judiciary, and extra-Parliamentary politics.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours***

HIST 390DH - History of the Mexico-US Border

How has the US-Mexico border region changed over time? What role has violence played? This course explores these questions in the context of the US-Mexico relationship. Topics covered include nation and identity formation, the Mexican-American War, the Mexican Revolution, transnational wealth disparity, migration, NAFTA, and the Trump Presidency.

*** Prerequisite: One HIST Course or completion of 30 credit hours ***

HIST 390DI - Eating Canadian? History of Food in Canada

Is there a "Canadian" cuisine? In this course, students will feast upon Canadian food history, from colonization to the present. Questions to uncover include: How did colonization affect Indigenous foodways? What kinds of foods have immigrants brought to Canada? And, what are the connections between food and health?
***Prerequisite: One HIST course of completion of 30 credit hours***

HIST 390DJ - Genocide in the Modern World: A Comparative History

How and why do genocides happen? How are they experienced? The class uses four international case studies from the 19th and 20th centuries, examining the specific history of each genocide—origins, events, aftermath, commemoration—alongside reoccurring factors that create the conditions for all genocides: war, colonialism, racism/xenophobia, extreme political ideologies.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours.***

HIST 390DK - American Protest Literature

This course considers the tradition of American protest literature from The Declaration of Independence through to twenty-first century, new media protest. Protest will be considered in historical and philosophical context, and attention will be given to the centrality of media and communications strategies to movement-building.
***Prerequisite: One HIST course or completion of 30 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of HIST 390DK or ENGL 318AH.*

HIST 400 - Theories of History

This is a seminar course examining the variety of approaches to the study of history from 1900 to the present. Movements studied include Marxism, the Annales School, Feminist Theory, and Post-Modernism.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or completion of 60 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

HIST 403 - Studies in Canadian Political History

An analysis of how prime ministers of Canada have envisioned the country, devised and implemented policies, and managed political affairs. Based on a comparative approach, the course is a study in power as it was exercised by such leaders as John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, and Brian Mulroney.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 406 - Canada and World War l

On home front and battlefront, World War I transformed Canada. Social movements came to a crescendo and national identity was reshaped. The multi-faceted impact of the war is contextualized in the pre- and post-war periods using the analytical categories of ethnicity, class and gender.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

* Note: Formerly numbered HIST 306. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 406 and HIST 306. *

HIST 415 - The Writing of History

The course aims to instil theoretical and methodological understanding of the discipline of history. While potentially of value for many students in liberal arts and pre-professional courses, it is especially relevant for history majors seeking to locate their specific interests in the wider context of the academic discipline. Such a course may well be regarded as a staple in a well-rounded history program.
*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 420 - Doing Women's and Gender History

In this senior level course, students learn how to “do” women’s and gender history. Through discussions about interpreting sources and disseminating historical knowledge, they acquire deep familiarity with women’s and gender historiography. As well, by applying advanced historical methods and sharing their findings, they themselves become practising historians.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of WGST 480AJ or HIST 420.*

HIST 422 - From Wife Sales to Princess Di: Popular Culture since 1700

The course covers Britain and North America; theories of popular culture; traditional popular art forms and rituals, including ballads, rough music and wife-sales; the press and the invention of new forms such as cartoons, comic strips and celebrity culture; the history of shopping and consumption; the fragmentation of popular culture.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 432 - Black Power in US History

Examines the roots of black power and considers its historical evolution in the United States throughout the twentieth century. This course demonstrates how black power, commonly thought to be distinct from the mainstream of civil rights activism, has always been a vital part of African American freedom struggles.
*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300-level or completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head. ***

HIST 434 - American Trials of the Twentieth Century

A consideration of landmark United States court decisions during the twentieth century with emphasis on the changing social context in which trials took place to understand how everyday life and popular ideals affected the law, as well as to appreciate the impact of the courtroom on modern American life.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200 or 300 level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head***

HIST 450 - Modernity in Asia

This seminar introduces students to recent critical theories and explores the meaning of 'modernity' as reflected in the relationship between culture and society in 19th and 20th century Asian history. It does so by associating readings in social theory with academic and literary texts from or about the Asian region.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 466 - The Middle Ages in Film

This course critically examines films set in the Middle Ages in order to explore the issue of the value of cinematic representations of medieval history. Topics addressed include race and ethnicity, gender roles, epic heroism, faith, religion, and holiness, and war in films set in the Middle Ages.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 472 - From Magic to Science: The Evolution of Early Modern European Thought

Between 1450 and 1700, the mental landscape of Europe changed dramatically. Magic and alchemy flourished in the Renaissance, but were abandoned by the time of the Scientific Revolution. This course will examine the many facets of this evolution and the impact it had on both scholarly and popular culture.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 474 - War and Culture in Europe: World War I

This course examines the controversial idea of the Great War as a watershed in European cultural history and the different ways in which class, gender, nationality, politics, and the passage of time have conditioned the experience and memory of the war. Writers', artists', and historians' views are considered.

*** Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permssion of Department Head ***

HIST 490AI - Treaties and Treaty Making in Canada

This course will provide an overview and critical analysis of the processes and outcomes of the treaty-making across the territories now encompassed by Canada. The time frame is the 18th to the 21st century.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or completion of 60 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

HIST 490AJ - The Historiography of the Holocaust

This course traces our evolving understanding of the Holocaust, moving from early silences to a focus on analysing perpetrators, bystanders and victims; a post-Cold War turn towards Eastern Europe; and more recent applications of concepts from the fields of gender, spatial, visual, and LGBTQ+ histories, as well as memory studies.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200- or 300- level or Completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of HIST 490AJ or HIST 890BW.*

HIST 490AK - Popular Music, Comics, and Movies in the Twentieth Century I

This course examines themes in popular culture in the trans-Atlantic world, concentrating in the 20c with a few examples from the 18c and 19c. By selectively examining a few specific topics, students get a chance to explore how popular culture has changed through history.
***Prerequisite: Two HIST courses at the 200 or 300 level or completion of 60 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

HIST 498 - Honours Directed Studies

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

HIST 499 - Honours Directed Studies

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

HIST 800 - Theories of History

This is a seminar course examining the variety of approaches to the study of history from 1900 to the present. Movements studied include Marxism, the Annales School, Feminist Theory, and Post-Modernism.

HIST 801 - Canadian Intellectual History

Studies in the sources, development and impact of ideas that have shaped Canadian society since Confederation. The course examines the lives and works of thinkers who have enlarged and refined our understanding of nationalism, political ideology, social, religion, and more generally, what it must be like to be Canadian.

HIST 802 - Internship

A combination of instruction and supervised historical experience in an applied setting conducted over two academic semesters.

HIST 803 - Canadian Political History

An analysis of how prime ministers of Canada have envisioned the country, devised and implemented policies, and managed political affairs. Based on a comparative approach, the course is a study in power as it was exercised by such leaders as John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, and Brian Mulroney.

HIST 805 - Contemporary Quebec

An analysis of the puzzling, specific and distinct history of Quebec. By examining issues such as language, religion, economic development and politics with special attention to recent history, this course will delve into Québecois uniqueness and its implications.

HIST 806 - Canada and World War l

On the home-front and battle-front, World War I transformed Canada. Social movements came to a crescendo and national identity was reshaped. The multi-faceted impact of the war is contextualized in the pre- and post-war periods using the analytical categories of ethnicity, class and gender.

HIST 809 - Canadian Nationalism

This course will examine the theoretical framework of nationalism, study the history of nationalism throughout the world, and investigate the manifestations of nationlism in Canada. Some of the topics to be studied include the origins of nationalism, the uses of nationalism, and modern examples of nationalism.

HIST 815 - The Writing of History

A study of the evolution of historical writings in terms of major historians, schools of thought, changing frameworks of analysis and contested interpretations of significant events. The course aims to instil a theoretical and methodological understanding of historiography for graduate students.

HIST 820 - Doing Women's and Gender History

In this graduate course, students learn how to "do" women's and gender history. Emphasis is placed on feminist theories of history, as well as on the role of gender in historiography. In addition, by applying advanced methods and sharing their findings, students in this course become practising historians.

HIST 822 - From Wife Sales to Princess Di: Popular Culture since 1700

The course covers Britain and North America; theories of popular culture; traditional popular art forms and rituals, including ballads, rough music and wife-sales; the press and the invention of new forms such as cartoons, comic strips and celebrity culture; the history of shopping and consumption; the fragmentation of popular culture.

HIST 832 - Black Power in U.S. History

Examines the roots of black power and considers its historical evolution in the United States throughout the twentieth century. This course demonstrates how black power, commonly thought to be distinct from the mainstream of civil rights activism, has always been a vital part of African American freedom struggles.

HIST 834 - American Trials of the Twentieth Century

A consideration of landmark United States court decisions during the twentieth century with emphasis on the changing social context in which trials took place to understand how everyday life and popular ideals affected the law, as well as to appreciate the impact of the courtroom on modern American life.

HIST 835 - Frontier Hollywood, Myth, & US

This course explores the dynamic relationship between American film and the mythical American frontier. Myth and its cultural significance, Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis, the history of American cinema, the role of myth in film, the genesis of the Western, and the nature of Manifest Destiny, will be examined.

HIST 850 - Modernity in Asia

This seminar introduces students to recent critical theories and explores the meaning of 'modernity' as reflected in the relationship between culture and society in 19th and 20th century Asian history. It does so by associating readings in social theory with academic and literary texts from or about the Asian region. ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

HIST 860 - Ancient History: Theory and Practice

The main focus is on the use of archaeology in the study of ancient history. Topics addressed include: domestication; human remains; the environment; beliefs; the spread of cultures; the ownership of antiquities; the use of technologies.

HIST 864 - Roman Social History

Themes in the history of Roman society and social institutions. Topics include methodology, childhood and family structure, health and diet, living conditions, recreation, and social attitudes.

HIST 866 - The Middle Ages in Film

This course critically examines films set in the Middle Ages in order to explore the issue of the value of cinematic representations of medieval history. Topics addressed include race and ethnicity, gender roles, epic heroism, faith, religion, and holiness, and war in films set in the Middle Ages.

HIST 867 - Medieval Marriage & Family

This course investigates the history of marriage and the family in medieval Europe. It covers such topics as: the development of Christian attitudes towards marriage; marriage practices; family structures and strategies; children and childhood.

HIST 872 - From Magic to Science: The Evolution of Early Modern European Thought

Between 1450 and 1700, the mental landscape of Europe changed dramatically. Magic and alchemy flourished in the Renaissance, but were abandoned by the time of the Scientific Revolution. This course will examine the many facets of this evolution and the impact it had on both scholarly and popular culture.

HIST 874 - War and Culture in Europe WWI

This course examines the controversial idea of the Great War as a watershed in European cultural history and the different ways in which class, gender, nationality, politics and the passage of time have conditioned the experience and memory of the War. Writers', artists', and historians' views are considered.

HIST 878 - The Berlin Seminar

This course focuses on aspects of Berlin's history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Themes include the effects of industrialization, the transformation of urban life during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the division of the city after World War II, and changes following the collapse of the wall.

HIST 890AI - Nazi Movement in Germany

This course will take a critical look at the work of recent historians of the Third Reich. It will pay particular attention to the role interpretations of the Third Reich play in larger discussions of German History.

HIST 890AL - Sask and Canadian Federalism

This course examines the Canadian feralism from the perspective of Saskatchewan's postwar role in shaping national policy. The province's impact on the federation is analyzed through a series of topics in which one of the instructors has been an active participant through most of his political life. ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

HIST 890AM - Gender, Body & Spirit Med Euro

This course will examine the theme of "the body" in late medieval Christianity, through a study of the writings and ideas of selected theologians, saints and mystics.

HIST 890AN - Military Effectiveness: The First and Second World Wars

This course considers the factors which conditioned military effectiveness on the battlefield during the First and Second World Wars. Its particular focus is on the British, French, German, Russian, American and Canadian armed forces.

HIST 890AO - Theory and Practice of Social Welfare in Canada, 1867-1939

The course examines social welfare in Canada from 1867 to 1939. In particular, it analyses poor relief systems from a variety of theoretical perspectives: the inter-relationship between the private and public sectors; professionalization and bureaucratization of social work; and the role of gender, race and class in policy formation.

HIST 890AP - British Literature and History

This course explores the extent to which the literature of the period reflected social and cultural conditions as well as attitudes that can be useful to the historian. It places side by side contemporary works of fiction together with the works of historians and focuses on the intersections between them.

HIST 890AQ - Medieval Revival Styles in European and North American Architecture, 19th and 20th Centuries

This course will explore the development of the medieval revival in architecture in Europe (including Britain) and North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both Gothic and Romanesque styles of architecture will be covered, as will the social and cultural contexts of the medieval revival.

HIST 890AR - The British State and Radicalism, 1700-2000

This course examines how the British state responded to and changed as a result of the pressure put on it by radical movements and groups. We look at the parliamentary reform movement, Painites and revolutionaries in the 1790s, Owenism, socialism, radical trade unionism and the British Communist Party.

HIST 890AS - Magic and Superstition in England and Colonial America, 1500-1750

This course is a comparative study of popular belief in early modern England and New England. The focus will be on the transmission of beliefs from the Old to the New World, and the social expression of those beliefs in witch trials and witchcraft panics.

HIST 890AT - Canadian-American Perspectives

A historical analysis of the Canadian-American relationship focusing in depth on the controversial as well as problematic inter-connection of Canada and the United States. Paying important attention to the distinct political, economic, cultural and social evolution of these two countries, this course delves their differences and similarities in historical terms.

HIST 890AU - Writing Early Modern History: Theories and Approaches

This course is an examination of recent historiographical theories and approaches, with particular reference to their application in the research and writing of early modern European history.

HIST 890AV - Media Agenda-Setting and Its History

This course examines literature that explores how and why audiences are influenced by mass media. This includes a consideration of agenda setting theory, the phenomena of framing and priming, as well as an introduction to the history of print journalism in Canada.

HIST 890AW - Canadian Federalism in Comparative Perspective

Examines the development and workings of Canadian Federalism by comparing it with other federations. Explores the relation between the two levels of government over a variety of issues (division of powers and fiscal arrangements). How Canada's lingualistic and ethnic diversity has been major determinants of a particularly brand of federalism.

HIST 890AX - Social History in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Examines the Industrial Revolution and its consequences, rural unemployment and poverty, the New Poor Law of 1834, labour disputes and early trade unionism, efforts to reorganize and reform urban space and hygiene, the role of religion in the lives of ordinary people, the beginnings of the women¿s movement.

HIST 890AY - Martin Luther: His Life, Thought and Infuence

Martin Luther (1483-1546) continues to attract the attention of early modern historians. This course will examine recent approaches to and interpretations of Luther and his role in the Reformation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interplay between his theology and the political context in which he lived and worked.

HIST 890AZ - Hitler in History: An Historiographical Investigation

More than six decades after Hitler¿s death, academic and popular interest in him is unabated. In this seminar course, students will analyze various interpretations of Hitler and his historical significance offered by various historians. It will also look at the portrayal of Hitler in books, films, television programs and documentaries.

HIST 890BA - Housing and Society in Roman Britain

This course examines the use of housing, by Romans and Romanized Britons, to represent and communicate ideas about social status. It is based primarily on archaeological evidence from Roman Britain, informed by literary and archaeological evidence from elsewhere in the Empire.

HIST 890BC - Topics in Jesuit History

This reading course examines Jesuit history with a particular emphasis on Jesuit education, spirituality and intellectual ministry. It will consider Jesuit formation as well as the short-and long-term impact of Jesuit educational work since the establishment of the first Jesuit schools in the mid 1500s. The link between Ignatian spirituality and Jesuit pedagogy will be a major theme throughout the course.

HIST 890BD - Historiography and the Writing of History

This reading course will involve an examination of theories of history and developments in writing history from the early twentieth century to the present.

HIST 890BE - The History of Military Thought

An examination of military thought from the Renaissance to the 21st Century. Ideas on the use of military force are placed in social, political and cultural context. Particular case studies will be considered to explore the relationship between the theories and practices of modern warfare.

HIST 890BF - Crises and the Expanding American Presidency

The course will explore how a variety of crises have engendered an expansion of presidential authority in the United States since the founding of the republic.

HIST 890BG - Homeland Insecurity: The US and Domestic Security from Reconstruction to the War on Terror

This course examines the United States and its responses to issues of domestic security. Starting with the end of Reconstruction, major areas of examination will include both domestic American terrorism and international secruity risks.

HIST 890BH - The Emergence of the Zapatistas in Historical Context

The course explores the emergence of Mexico's Zapatista movement in the historical context of Latin American revolutions and resistance movements. In rough chronological order it explores revolutions in Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru.

HIST 890BI - The Architecture of Imperialism in Latin America

The course examines the structures of imperialism in Latin American history, in particular a consideration of ideologies and behaviour. It considers how the various imperial projects manifested themselves in material culture, language, religion, gender, and governance.

HIST 890BJ - Indigenous Response to Postcolonial Western Canada

This course examines the responses of Indigenous peoples to their circumstances in postcolonial western Canada. Emphasis is placed on identifying relevant postcolonial theory and on the formation of organizations to further goals identified by Indigenous peoples during the latter half of the 20th century.

HIST 890BP - Literature and History in Britain, 1700-1850

This course explores the extent to which the literature of the period reflected social and cultural conditions as well as attitudes that can be useful to the historian. It places side by side contemporary works of fiction together with the works of historians and focuses on the intersections between them.

HIST 890BR - The Chinese Immigrant Experience

This advanced directed reading course will explore themes within the history of the Chinese immigrant experience. Specific topics include immigration policy, public attitudes, economic factors and considerations of family, gender and race. While the focus is on western Canada, relevant examples from the global context will also be examined.

HIST 890BS - History of the Jesuits

The course explores the history of the Jesuits, examining their impact on political, religious, sociological and intellectual life worldwide.

HIST 890BT - Gender and US Politics

This course analyzes how ideas about gender shape US politics. We will consider men's and women's participation in both electoral politics and reform activism in an effort to understand how notions of masculinity and femininity shape ideologies that become attached to policy decisions and partisan politics.

HIST 890BU - Treaties and Treaty-Making in Canada

This course will survey the treaties between First Peoples and the Crown in Canada, and the process through which those treaties were negotiated, including colonial treaties, such as the Douglas Treaties, and the Haldimand Proclamation; the numbered treaties negotiated between 1871 and 1930; and contemporary treaty-making.

HIST 890BV - Canadian Treaties and Health: A History

History of treaty making and implementation from colonial times to the twentieth century with emphasis on the impact of those agreements on the health of the Indigenous communities. Course content will consider the epidemiological, environmental, and political context of treaty making and the evolution of health outcomes after their completion.

HIST 890BW - The Historiography of the Holocaust

This course traces our evolving understanding of the Holocaust, moving from early silences to a focus on analysing perpetrators, bystanders and victims; a post-Cold War turn towards Eastern Europe; and more recent applications of concepts from the fields of gender, spatial, visual, and LGBTQ+ histories, as well as memory studies.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of HIST 490AJ or HIST 890BW.*

HIST 890BX - Popular Music, Comics, and Movies in the Twentieth Century II

This course examines themes in popular culture in the trans-Atlantic world, concentrating in the 20c with a few examples from the 18c and 19c. Students get a chance to write the history of a cultural artefact (song, game, film) that has special meaning for them.

HIST 900 - Research Methods in History

This course is intended to teach the research methods, writing, and critical and analytical skills necessary for successful research at the M.A. level in History.


This is a compulsory two semester course.

HIST 901 - Research

Thesis research.

HIST 902 - Project

Preparation, completion, and submission of a pre-approved internship-based project.

HUM 201AA - Dante's Divine Comedy

This course introduces students to The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous and influential works of Western literature, through attention to its poetic techniques, historical contexts, and philosophical or religious concepts.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100.***

HUM 201AC - New Testament in Literature and Art

Principal persons and events in the New Testament will be studied for their meaning in the New Testament context. Representations of these in painting, sculpture, music, and literature will be experienced. Comparisons between the New Testament and the artistic representations will be explored.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of HUM 201AC, FA 300AF, or RLST 290AF.*

HUM 260 - Utopian Literature, Thought, and Experiment

Study of utopian texts from ancient Golden Ages to modern science fictions. Questions to be asked include whether a much improved human society is possible, what might bring it about, and what are the obstacles? In addition to utopian theory, study of planning the "ideal city," study of the challenges of living in "international communities," and other applications will be considered.
*** Prerequisite: ENGL 100 ***

IDS 100 - Interdisciplinary Studies: The Making of the Modern Person

This course will examine historical incidents as a way of exploring creative interactions of Western culture with other cultures. The course will emphasize the positive aspects of diversity and pluralism. The inquiry will be organized so that students are able to use multiple perspectives, and develop critical, discerning thought.

IDS 101 - Interdisciplinary Studies: Contemporary Issues

This course examines transformational ideas in the contemporary world. An interdisciplinary, critical approach is used to consider complex issues around technology and social change. The underlying themes are agency and leadership. Community service learning is a course component.

IDS 290AB - Ecomuseums: Community Engagement for Sustainability

An ecomuseum is constructed when a community comes together to explore, interpret and preserve its heritage in a multifaceted and dynamic way, to promote sustainable development. Ecomuseums exist throughout the world, and this course will study and participate in the development of an emerging ecomuseum in central Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of IDS 290AB or NSLI 390AD.*

IDS 290AG - Study Abroad: Liberal Arts and Science

This immersive course offers a blend of the liberal arts and sciences and explores the interplay of diverse disciplines in an international setting. By bridging academic boundaries and expanding cultural horizons, students gain globally informed critical thinking skills and develop their cross-cultural competencies.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Additional Fee: $2800.*

ILP 100 - Introduction to Intercultural Leadership

An introductory seminar examining leadership theory and the skills required for future leaders to lead organizations and communities in the context of the changing demographics and emerging labour force in Saskatchewan. Students will assess their attitudes, biases, beliefs and current leadership skills and create a personal leadership development plan.
*Note: Refer to the application process and selection criteria outlined at www.fnuniv.ca/*

ILP 300 - Intercultural Understanding

In this course, students explore the value of developing intercultural understanding in various contexts. Students will examine leadership in organizational and cultural contexts, and will examine their own culture intelligence and expand their capacity to understand other cultures.
***Prerequisite: ILP 100.***

ILP 301 - Cultural and Leadership Camp

A four day off-campus residential experience in a First Nations community. Students will experience First Nations traditions, study effective principles and techniques of leadership, and will work to reach their full potential by engaging mind, body and spirit while working on their personal leadership development plan.
*** Prerequisite: ILP 100 and completion of two approved electives ***

ILP 390 - ILP Internship Seminar

The internship seminar provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate the ways in which their leadership is developing through their participation in their internship. Emphasis is on presentation skills. ***Corequisite: ILP 391 ***
* Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register. *

ILP 391 - Intercultural Leadership Program Internship

The ILP internship provides students with approximately 130 hours of paid or volunteer work experience at an organization. The internship is a 13-week placement and interns work on a designated project while host organizations receive help in completing projects and research. Interns work a minimum of 8-10 hours a week in addition to writing a final report that will be submitted to the Program Coordinator. ***Prerequisite: ILP 100, 300 and 400 *** *Corequisite: ILP 390* *Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.*

ILP 400 - Leadership Capstone Course

This course will integrate theory and work experience in the preparation and delivery of a workship on leadership.

***Prerequisite: ILP 100 and completion of 24 credit hours.***

INA 100 - Introduction to Indigenous Art

Contemporary and Traditional Indigenous art practices will be introduced with an emphasis on critical thinking. Indigenous practices will be contextualized alongside international and historical art, craft, criticism, and aesthetics. Discussions by artists and gallery visits will be included.
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both INA 100 and ART 100*

INA 210 - Traditional Indigenous Art I

This course will explore the various traditional methods and media in Indigenous art with emphasis on the production of contemporary but traditional objects of Indigenous art and culture.

INA 220 - Two-Dimensional Design in Indigenous Art

A studio course to develop awareness of the picture plane expressing traditional and contemporary themes.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INA 220 or ART 220.*

INA 221 - Three-Dimensional Design in Indigenous Art

A studio course to develop the production of three-dimensional art, through exploration of traditional and contemporary Indigenous art.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ART 221, INA 221, or INA 230.*

INA 290AA - Selected Topics in Indigenous Fine Art: Indigenous Theatre Studies

Through lectures and workshops, this course explores the elements of theatrical production, with an emphasis on scriptwriting. To gain a deeper understanding of story structure, characterization, and thematic development, students undertake scene-by-scene analysis of selected plays, including several by Indigenous playwrights. The major assignment for the course is a creative writing project: the adaptation of a classic play chosen by the student.

INA 290AB - Intro to Indigenous Glass Bead Art

An introductory exploration of North American Indigenous glass beadwork techniques and styles from historical to contemporary. Beadwork stitches, color use, and creative processes will develop foundation techniques in designing unique and meaningful patterns.

INA 290AC - Introduction to Indigenous Ceramics

An introductory exploration of ceramic traditions of Indigenous cultures across North America. Coil and slab hand-building techniques will focus on clay variety, vessel types, and firing processes including kiln and pit/smoke firing used by Indigenous artists.

INA 310 - Traditional Indigenous Art II

A second course in the production of traditional Indigenous art forms.
***Prerequisite: INA 210.***

INA 320 - Two Dimensional Design Indigenous Art I

A second level two-dimensional course in Indigenous art. Assignments will emphasize styles and concepts related to art in the Indigenous community.
***Prerequisite: INA 220 or ART 220.***

INA 330 - Three Dimensional Design Indigenous Art I

A second-level course in the study of three-dimensional Indigenous art. Assignments will explore a contemporary interpretation of three-dimensional expressions in the Indigenous community.
***Prerequisite: INA 230 or ART 221.***

INA 390AA - Traditional Art Studies

A directed studies studio pursuing individual work in the area of Traditional Indigenous art making practices.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AC - Approaches to Indigenous Art

A directed studies course allowing students to explore disciplinary work within an Indigenous aesthetic.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AE - Explorations in Indigenous Studio Practice

A studio course to develop awareness of Indigenous art practices for non-majors. Assignments will emphasize the development of two-dimensional, three-dimensional and traditional Indigenous art forms.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AF - Advanced Two-Dimensional Indigenous Art

A directed studies course focusing on advanced 2-dimensional art.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AG - Traditional Art Studies

A directed studies studio course pursuing individual work in the area of traditional Indigenous art making with an emphasis on contemporary issues.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INA 390AG or INA 390AA.*

INA 390AH - Individual Study in Two Dimensional Design

A directed study course focusing on advanced two-dimensional art with an emphasis on oil painting.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AI - Indigenous Theatre Production

During this course, students will work together to produce a drama written by a Canadian First Nations playwrite.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AJ - Pow Wow to Proscenium

This course examines the traditional pow wow dances and explores how they may be used to generate contemporary dance movement and choreography for staged performances. The course is delivered in two modules, partner-taught by two professionals in their fields of expertise.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 390AL - Studio Fundamentals

This course focuses on health and safety as it directly applies to 2D and 3D studio practice and art production. Course content will emphasize safe and appropriate use/operation of woodworking and stone sculpting tools and equipment; this may also include metalworking tools. Student skills will be developed through a series of projects that emphasize maintaining health and safety procedures and problem solving when engaging with the creative process.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 391AA - Image Politics and New Media

A directed studies studio course pursuing individual work in the area of New media with an emphasis on Indigenous image politics and Indigenous contemporary issues.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 391AB - Reclaiming, Interpreting, Documenting: Photography as a Conduit for 2-D Compositions

An intermediate exploration in 2D techniques using photography to understand aesthetics, content, and context in a fine art composition. Studio work, lectures, readings, visiting artists, and critiques will emphasize the history of Indigenous photography and its role as a conduit for reclaiming, interpreting, and documenting cultural spaces and Indigenous experience.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 392AA - Colour Theory

An intermediate studio course that explores the relationship between colours within a 2 or 3-dimensional work of art with emphasis on: foundation colour theory, the impact of colour in painting and drawing, and Indigenous history of creating color from natural materials.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 393AA - Indigenous Theatre II - Theatrical Comedy

This course explores the art of comic playwrighting. After examining the origins of the major types of theatrical comedy, we will undertake a scene-by-scene analysis of plays by Indigenous authors We will unpack the contemporary social and political issues the plays address, as well as the comic conventions each writer employs and, in many instances, transforms. For the final assignment, each student--drawing upon the lectures, readings, and class discussion--will write a one-act comedy.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 400 - Graduating Exhibition

Students will participate in an exhibition at the end of the semester in which they have completed all of the coursework for their degree.
*** Prerequisite: Graduating year of BFA program. ***

INA 410 - Traditional Indigenous Art III

Advanced studio explorations in the production of traditional Indigenous art.
***Prerequisite: INA 310.***

INA 420 - Two Dimenensional Indigenous Art II

An advanced studio course exploring two-dimensional art making in the Indigenous community.
***Prerequisite: INA 320.***

INA 430 - Three-Dimensional Indigenous Art II

Advanced studio course exploring three-dimensional art in the Indigenous community.
***Prerequisite: INA 330.***

INA 490AA - Traditional Indigenous Art

A directed studies course allowing students to continue the research and production of Traditional First Nations Art making practices.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 490AB - Traditional Art Studies

A second directed studies course in Traditional art making practices.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 490AE - Contemporary Media in Indigenous Art

A directed studies studio course pursuing individual work using a variety of media.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 492AA - Framing 2D Visual Narratives: Function & Application of Sequential Art

This in-depth examination of the power of sequential images as a narrative communication device explores the relationship between text and art, and the effective depiction of intangible concepts through advanced drawing processes. Using a variety of methods including image sequencing, thumbnailing, and storyboarding, while researching the historical application of sequential art used in societies throughout time, students will employ a variety of advanced drawing techniques to convey story in a clear and compelling manner.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INA 492AB - Advanced Exploration & Research in 2D Art

A senior-level in-depth exploration and individual research course for students studying in 2D artistic processes using historic and contemporary mediums under the direction of an instructor chosen by the student. This course will build on the techniques and concepts in historical to contemporary mediums developed at the intermediate level, exploring chosen research topics through independent and directed studio work, lectures, demonstrations, and both individual and group critiques.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INAH 100 - An Introductory Survey of North American Indigenous Art

A survey of North American Indigenous art from prehistory to the present. Analysis of styles in their historical context, development of the specialist's vocabulary.

INAH 200 - Indigenous Art of the Andean Nations

A study of the art and architecture of the Andean Nations from prehistory to the present.
***Prerequisite: INAH 100 or ARTH 100.***

INAH 202 - Early Canadian Indigenous Art

A course investigating the change in Indigenous art styles and media as the result of European contact in Canada.
***Prerequisite: INAH 100 or ARTH 100.***

INAH 204 - Indigenous Art & Twentieth Century

The course will examine twentieth-century Indigenous art. Politics, revolution, education, and economic issues of Canada, USA, and Mexico will be considered as affecting stylistic developments.
***Prerequisite: INAH 100.***

INAH 300 - Pre-Columbian Art in North America

The ancient arts and cultures of pre-Columbian North America.
***Prerequisite: Two 200-level INAH or ARTH courses.***

INAH 301 - Art and the World Council of Indigenous Peoples

A study of the arts produced by the member nations of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
***Prerequisite: 200-level INAH or ARTH course or INDG 200.***

INAH 390AB - Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Art Practice

An in-depth exploration of contemporary issues faced by indigenous artists across North America. Lectures, readings, visiting artists, and curators will provide context to issues including cultural and artistic appropriation; the art market; influence of museums, galleries and collectors; gallery representation; and, stereotyping of Indigenous arts and art histories.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INAH 401 - Saskatchewan Indigenous Art

A reading and research course in the evolution of Indigenous art in Saskatchewan. Research will include museum and archival visits as well as interviews with elders.
***Prerequisite: 4th-year standing with a major in Indigenous Art History, Indigenous Studies or Art History.***

INAH 490AA - Artist Biographies

A course pursuing the research and production of biographies of Indigenous artists. Within the mandate of SIFC essays can include First Nations artists from the global community.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INAH 490AF - Contemporary First Nations Art

Reading and research in Contemporary First Nations Art in North America.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INAH 491AA - Lines of Identity & Place: Indigenous Tattoo Traditions from Historical to Contemporary

An investigation of North American Indigenous body modification focusing on tattooing traditions from historical to contemporary practice. Meaning and impact of tattooing imagery on the social, political, and religious aspects of society will be explored emphasizing its link as mnemonic devices to Indigenous oral traditions.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours and Permission of the Instructor.***

INCA 100 - Introduction to Indigenous Communication Arts

An introduction to multimedia storytelling for Indigenous media. Students will sharpen their media literacy in a digital universe, learn protocols for respectful inquiry, and develop skills in interviewing, research, narrative structures and multi-platform technical production for Indigenous media organizations and audiences.

INCA 200 - INCA Summer Institute In Journalism

This The INCA Summer Institute is an intensive 7-week course that provides instruction and practical experience to prepare students for entry-level positions in print, online, radio and television media organizations. Students complete daily and weekly assignments and are trained by professional Indigenous journalists from Indigenous and mainstream media.
***Permission of the Department Head is required to register.***
*Note: This course may sometimes be offered on a Pass/Fail basis.*

INCA 210 - Respectful and Ethical Journalism and Communications

Core ethical foundations for the practice of decolonized journalism and communications. Cultural protocols, trauma-informed reporting, implicit bias, working with vulnerable populations, and other issues in daily practice. Rights and responsibilities of professional journalists and communicators in Customary and Canadian law.

INCA 283 - Indigenous Media in Canada

Students review Indigenous media in Canada, the legislative and policy developments that have impacted communication, and the role in Indigenous media in constituting alternative public spheres of discourse. Topics include early newspaper publishing, Indigenous language radio and developments in television broadcasting that culminated with the creation of APTN.

INCA 284 - Managing Indigenous Media Businesses

Students consider a variety of Indigenous media organizations with the goal of understanding how various forms of business—private for profit, non-profit, cooperatives and quasi-public organizations—are financed and managed. Students will come to appreciate the challenges and opportunities of managing media businesses.

INCA 290 - INCA Internship

The INCA internships follow the INCA Summer Institute and allow students to continue their training and gain practical experience in a supervised work experience in mainstream or Indigenous media and communication organizations. Students must complete a minimum of 200 hours of work experience.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head is required to register***
*Note: Students must fill out the Workers' Compensation Agreement form prior to work placement.*
*Note: This course may sometimes be offered on a Pass/Fail basis.*

INCA 291AA - Indigenous Print and Online Journalism

Students will develop their understanding of the various types of journalistic stories and learn how to produce news and feature stories for Indigenous print and online news media, including the use of photography, audio and video to engage readers.

INCA 291AB - Indigenous Multimedia Storytelling

Students will develop their skills for telling news and current affairs stories, using audio, video and other digital formats, as well as social media platforms.

INCA 291AC - Community Radio I

Students will develop entry-level skills, competencies and attitudes necessary for the successful management of a not-for-profit, community-based radio station. Students will apply their skills in hands-on exercises at the First Nations University of Canada's radio station, CFNU.

INCA 351 - Radio Production

In this course, students will learn theory and skills of storytelling and audio production to produce the elements of a radio program, including documentary paks, talk tapes, interviews, soundscapes and voicers. Students will also learn how to combine these elements with music to create radio broadcasts and podcasts. ***Prerequisite: INCA 200***

INCA 391AA - Investigative and Collaborative Journalism

This course is an introduction to the techniques and processes of investigative journalism, with a focus on Indigenous issues, research and storytelling collaborations.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INCA 391AA or INDG 390AQ.*

INCA 391AC - Community Radio II

Students will develop advanced skills, competencies and attitudes necessary for the successful management of a not-for-profit, community-based radio station. Students will apply their skills in hands-on exercises at the First Nations University of Canada's radio station, CFNU.
***Prerequisite: INCA 291AC.***

INCA 392 - Seminar: Colonial and Anti-Colonial Frames in the Contemporary News Media

A historical overview of the media’s role in advancing the colonial project, and critical examination of colonial frames in contemporary news media, including anti-colonial critiques and media alternatives.
***Prerequisite: Any 200-level INDG or INCA course or permission of the instructor.***

INCA 400 - Advanced Institute in Journalism and Knowledge Transfer

Through intensive experiential learning, students will master in-depth journalistic storytelling techniques. They will also explore practices for sharing media and communication skills with others.
***Prerequisite: INCA 200 or permission of the instructor.***

INCA 490 - Advanced Internship

The Advanced Internship will provide opportunities and mentorship for students to practice journalism and communications at an advanced level through mentored internship placements, learning and performing activities such as in-depth journalism, investigative research, strategic planning, market research, or other high-level activities. Students complete a minimum of 200 hours of work.
***Prerequisite: INCA 290 or the permission of the instructor.***
*Note: This course is offered on a Pass/Fail basis.*
*Note: Students must fill out the Workers’ Compensation Agreement Form prior to work placement.*

INDG 100 - Introduction to Indigenous Studies

This course introduces the subject of Indigenous studies with a survey of Indigenous peoples in Canada from their origins, through European influence, and to the present.
* Note: INDG 100 and INDG 201 can be taken concurrently with permission of the Department Head. *

INDG 104 - Introduction to Indigenous Higher Learning

This course utilizes a collection of writings designed to help First Nations students understand themselves through an Indigenous world-view in the context of university life. This course assists students in developing attitudes and aptitudes necessary for academic and future life success through principles of critical thinking and learning.

* Note: Students who have completed 30 credit hours or more may not take INDG 104 for credit unless they have prior written permission of their faculty or college. *

INDG 200 - Introduction to International Indigenous Issues

This course is an introduction to current issues, developments, and concepts affecting Indigenous peoples.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 201 - Introduction to Contemporary Indigenous Issues

This course is a survey of contemporary Indigenous issues, covering topics including self-government, political organizations, the land claims process, social and economic conditions, and Aboriginal identity.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 208 - Cree Culture and History

This course surveys the culture and history of Cree societies, with special emphasis on Cree societies resident in Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event.*

INDG 210 - Assiniboine Culture and History

This course surveys the culture and history of Assiniboine societies, with special emphasis on Assiniboine societies resident in Saskatchewan.
*** Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of Department Head ***
* Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event. *

INDG 215 - Saulteaux Culture and History

This course surveys the culture and history of Plains Ojibway (Saulteaux) societies, with special emphasis on Saulteaux societies resident in Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event.*

INDG 216 - Dene Culture and History

This course surveys the culture and history of Dene societies, with special emphasis on Dene societies resident in Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event.*

INDG 218 - Dakota Culture and History

This course surveys the culture and history of Dakota societies, with special emphasis on Dakota societies resident in Canada.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event.*

INDG 219 - Inuit Culture and History

This course surveys the culture and history of Inuit societies in Canada, their perceptions, developments, and interpretations.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event.*

INDG 221 - Metis Culture and History

This course surveys the historical development of the Metis as a distinct culture and society, their relations to Indian Nations, and their past and present roles in the evolution of Canadian society.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip or significant cultural event.*

INDG 222AB - First Nations of Saskatchewan - 1885

The events of 1885 in the old Northwest will be examined with particular attention paid to Cree and Nakota involvement. Economic and political antecedents, relations with the Metis, events at Duck Lake, Frog Lake, Poundmaker's Reserve and environs, the aftermath and subsequent interpretations and circumstances will be discussed.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 222AC - Northern Saskatchewan

This course examines the region known as Northern Saskatchewan: the history of the people who have shaped the region; government policies that have altered the political and social landscape, with emphasis on natural resource development and; the economic and social programs provided to the primarily Aboriginal population.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 222AD - Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

This course examines different approaches to documentation and representation of Indigenous environmental knowledge in natural resource management and planning. We consider cultural, social and ethical dimensions of how Indigenous Canadians and global Indigenous peoples have engaged in historic and current resource management.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 222AH - Achievements and Contributions of First Nations Peoples

This course will examine the achievements of First Nations communities and individuals in areas of government, leadership, economic development, plant domestication, agricultural techniques, medicine development, holistic healing practices, sports, gaming, and design..
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 222AK - Evolving Health Systems in Northern Saskatchewan

This course will examine how social, political and economic factors have affected the delivery of health care to Indigenous populations living in Canada's "provincial norths". The focus will be Northern Saskatchewan in both the historical and contemporary contexts.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 224 - Indigenous Political Systems of North America

This course examines the structures, processes, organizations, and dynamics of selected North American Indigenous political systems.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 225 - Principles of Indigenous Law

This course examines the concept of aboriginal rights, as well as other special rights of aboriginal people, from both Indigenous and western legal perspectives.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 228 - Indigenous History Within Canada: Eastern Canada

This course surveys the history of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in Eastern Canada from contact to the present, emphasizing the historical perspectives of specific Indigenous societies.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 229 - Indigenous History Within Canada: Western Canada

This course surveys the history of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in Western Canada from contact to the present, emphasizing the historical perspectives of specific Indigenous societies.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 230 - Indigenous Histories Within the United States

This course surveys the histories of selected Indigenous groups in their experience being engulfed by the creation of the United States. This will be done by examining policy development and implementation and the experience of Indigenous peoples in their resistance and perseverance.
***Prerequisite: INDG 228 or INDG 229, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: The course includes a field trip.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 230 or INDG 375.*

INDG 232 - Principles of Indigenous Spirituality

This course will examine the systemic nature and concepts of Indigenous religious and philosophical belief, thought and practice. Indigenous spirituality as a rational system of belief and the historical undermining of Indigenous spiritual worldviews. The holism of indigenous perspectives will be demonstrated. It explores the nature of creation, the purpose of existence and the role of humans, reality of spirit, spiritual virtues, and disciplines. ***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 234 - Ethnology of North American Indians

This course is an investigation of the cultural and social systems of the culture areas of North America. Attention to ecological adaptation, social organization, value systems and integration of cultures will be combined with a focus on ethnological problems and anthropological methods.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: ANTH 100 recommended.*

INDG 235 - Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Resource Management

This course examines the knowledge, practices, beliefs, and relationships linking Indigenous peoples and their environments. We consider the relevance of these systems for land stewardship with Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous settings.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 235 or INDG 290AE.*

INDG 236 - Indigenous Economic, Environmental, and Geographic Systems

This course will examine the interrelationships of Indigenous economies, environments, and geographies. The holism of Indigenous perspectives will be demonstrated.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 238 - Systems of Indigenous Identity, Culture and Society

This course will examine concepts central to Indigenous identity, including those categorized as cultural, social, and psychological. The holism of Indigenous perspectives will be demonstrated.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 258 - Gender Issues and Indigenous Societies

This course examines the concepts of gender both within and among Indigenous societies. The holism of Indigenous perspectives will be demonstrated.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 260 - History of Residential Schools in Canada

This course will provide a historical look at the rationale, ideology, operations and deficiencies of the Indian Residential School system of Canada including underfunding, physical and spiritual abuse, and student mortality.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 260 or INDG 290AA.*

INDG 262 - Reconciliation and Indigenous Resurgence in Canada

This course explores different perspectives and policies towards renewing the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Settler Canada. Students will consider how the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation calls to action may guide reconciliation and Indigenous resurgence in Canada.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 262 or INDG 290AB.*

INDG 270 - Introduction to Museums and First Peoples

This web-based course introduces the history and the role of museums and examines museum practices concerning First Peoples at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 280 - Research Issues in Indigenous Studies

This course examines the dynamics of research in Indigenous studies, including ethics, sensitivities, protocols, and priorities. This course will survey the history of research in Indigenous studies.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 281 - Methods and Theory in Documenting Oral Traditions

This course introduces methods and theory in the documentation of oral traditions and texts specifically focused on Indigenous contexts.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 282 - Methods in Indigenous Community-Based Research

This course will provide the basic methods in applied research involving Indigenous people and their communities.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 290AC - The Story of the Imaginary Indian in North America

The "Indian" is work of colonial imagination, conjuring up a variety of racist and sexist characteristics. This course explores the creation and subsequent history of such constructions in Mexico, the United States, and Canada since 1492.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 290AC, HIST 290AL, or MAP 200AE.*

INDG 300 - Indigenous Peoples and Development Change in Latin America

This course is an introduction to problems of development and development change affecting Indigenous peoples of Latin America through comparative analysis and case studies.
***Prerequisite: INDG 200 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 301 - Contemporary Indigenous Issues in Canada

This course studies issues confronting contemporary Indigenous societies in Canada, examining present concerns, struggles, and triumphs and aspirations of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Issues may encompass social, political, and cultural challenges of the day.
***Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in Indigenous Studies or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 305 - Urbanization and the Indigenous Peoples

This course examines the increasing migration of Canadian Indigenous peoples to urban centres and their changing socio-economic conditions. Includes examination of government policy affecting off-reserve Indians, and urban Indian agents for change.
***Prerequisite: Any 200-level INDG course, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

INDG 324 - Politics and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada

This course will survey the recent national political situation of Canadian Indians, Canadian Indian organizations and associations, major political issues, and future directions.
***Prerequisite: INDG 224 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 325 - The Indian Act

This course will study and analyze the Indian Act(s) through lectures, seminars, and case studies, including its historical, legislative, and legal background, its effect upon Indigenous societies, and its future role.
***Prerequisite: INDG 224 or INDG 225 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 332 - Applications of Indigenous Spirituality

This course examines codes of behavior and comportment, description and role of ceremonies, spirituality and healing, and the relevance of Indigenous spirituality in the contemporary world.
***Prerequisite: INDG 232 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 338 - Reserves - Their History and Development

This course in a descriptive and analytical study of Indian reserves focusing on the social and political economies of First Nations prior to and after reserve creation, and the invention and implementation of the reserve as an aspect of government policy.
***Prerequisite: INDG 228 or INDG 229 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 342 - Buffalo and the Peoples of the Plains

This course explores the artistic, ecological, economic, social, and spiritual relationships between American Buffalo and Indigenous Peoples of the
Great Plains. Course includes a required field trip to participate in buffalo harvest guided by First Nations members.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 342 or INDG 290AD.*
*Additional Fee: $175.*

INDG 358 - The Roles of Women in Indigenous Societies

This course is an analytical investigation of the traditional and contemporary roles of Indigenous women in Indigenous societies, including legal status, social systems, political constituency, and spiritual power.
***Prerequisite: INDG 258 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 372 - Canadian Land Claims Settlement Processes

This course explores the history and development processes of land claims in Canada resulting from efforts subsequent to the Calder decision and the announced policies of comprehensive and specific claims to contemporary developments, including the Nisg'a Final Agreement, the Delgamuukw decision, the Treaty Land Entitlement frameworks in place and the Indian Claims Commission.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 and INDG 101, INDG 228 and 229 are recommended.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 372 or INDG 496.*

INDG 380 - Research Methods in Indigenous Studies

This course is a survey of various research methods compatible with the goals of Indigenous studies research agendas. The course will include a sampling of various kinds of applied and pure research accomplishments.
***Prerequisite: INDG 280, INDG 281, or INDG 282 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 390AA - The Development of the Anishinabe People

This course examines selected aspects of the Anishinabe, such as their ethnologic development, migration patterns and current locations.

INDG 390AB - Saskatchewan Land Surrender Claims

This course critically examines ICC inquiry reports that deal with Saskatchewan land surrender claims.

INDG 390AC - Post Secondary Policy on First Nations Funding

This course will examine the use of post-secondary First Nations funding and explore solutions for First Nations funding control.

INDG 390AD - Aboriginal Women and Gender Inequality

This course examines the rational surrounding inequalities faced by Aboriginal women and how Aboriginal women are reclaiming their positions within the context of Aboriginal life in North America.

INDG 390AK - Comparative Indigenous Media Study from Selected Countries

This course will focus on a comparison of how the media portrays Indigenous peoples in selected countries and Canada.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

INDG 390AN - First Nations Treaties in AB

This course will examine Treaties 6, 7 and 8 within the Province of Alberta from the viewpoints of both First Nations and the Government of Canada. **Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

INDG 390AO - Indigenous Families and Healing in Treaty 4

This directed readings course focuses on (though is not limited to) Indigenous experiences of trauma and healing arising in response to Indian Residential Schools in the Treaty 4 area of Saskatchewan.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

INDG 390AP - Contemporary First Nations Resource Uses

The research course focuses on continuity and innovation within modern First Nations uses of natural resources.

INDG 390AQ - Collaborative Investigative Research I

Of interest to students and journalists across Canada, this practice-based research methods course will introduce students to investigative collaborations, which encompass skills in the areas of deep research and data journalism, as participants work together to hold government and industry to account on a national scale.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**
*Note: INCA, INDG, and Journalism students interested and qualified to participate can get course credit.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 390AQ, INCA 391AA, or INDG 890BA.*

INDG 395AA - International Indigenous Field Studies - Guatemala

This course series exposes students to International Indigenous issues through an approx. two week summer study abroad experience. Topics may include Indigenous cultures and histories, political struggles and economies. Course may be taught in conjunction with IS 390.
***Prerequisite: INDG 100 and INDG 200.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 395AA or IS 390GT.*
*Additional Fee: $2000.*

INDG 421 - Issues in Indigenous Sovereignty

This course explores issues of Indigenous sovereignty including governance and policy.
***Prerequisite: INDG 224 and any 300-level INDG course or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 424 - Indigenous Sovereignty and Governance

This course analyzes sovereignty as a principle of Indigenous governance and the principles, structures, and development of Indigenous governments in Saskatchewan and Canada, emphasizing emerging models.
***Prerequisite: INDG 324 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 432 - Issues in Indigenous Spirituality

This course includes selected topics that focus on historical oppression, adaptation, innovation, and their relevance to evolving society.
***Prerequisite: INDG 232 and any 300-level INDG course or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 432 or INDG 895AA.*

INDG 440 - Strategies for Indigenous Economic Development

This course examines key issues and strategies in Indigenous economic development.
***Prerequisite: INDG 340 or permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 480 - Indigenous Studies Field Research Practicum

This course is an applied field research project from design to final report stages, to be carried out under the supervision of the Department of Indigenous Studies.
***Prerequisite: INDG 380 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students must fill out the Workers' Compensation Agreement form prior to work placement.*

INDG 490 - Honours Seminar

This seminar will meet to guide students in their Honours proposal preparation and research.
***Prerequisite: INDG 380 and permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 491 - Honours Thesis

This course provides supervision of the writing and completion of the Honours thesis and its defense.
***Prerequisite: INDG 490 and permission of the Department Head.***

INDG 492AC - Blackfoot Philosophy/Epistemology

In this course, students will study Blackfoot philosophy and epistemology by examining oral traditions and stories which are guides for the people of this First Nation.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

INDG 492AD - Indigenous Religions and Philosophy

This course is an analytical investigation of the traditional views, philosophies and religions of the Indigenous people of North America, including the narratives of Elders, creation stories, the Trickster, syncretism, ritual studies, dreams, reincarnation and environmental ethics. The holism of Indigenous perspectives will be demonstrated.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

INDG 492AE - Issues Indigenous Spirituality

This class builds upon INDG 232 and 332 in which students study the uniqueness of First Nations spirituality and basic concepts such as the reality of the spirit world, practical guidance for living, rebirth and ways of relating to the spirit world; and the manner in which Indigenous spirituality has become alienated in contemporary mainstream society.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

INDG 493 - Directed Readings & Research

Courses designed for senior undergraduate students.
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

INDG 496AA - Aboriginal Spirituality in Modern Contexts

This course expands on INDG 332 - Indigenous Religions and Philosophy, by examining Indigenous spirituality in terms of comparison to broader world belief systems.

INDG 496AG - First Nations Policy, Theory and Practice

This course investigates the theory of public policy and the evolution of policy affecting First Nations in major areas such as self-determination, education and health. Current policy issues and directions will also be discussed.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**

INDG 496AI - Residential School Literature

Contemporary Indigenous writers create works of literature that function as both agents of social change and of healing; sharing stories of the residential school experience and celebrating their peoples’ ability to triumph over oppression and hardship. Students will study film, plays, and novels written by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people; and read critical works focusing on residential school literature and the truth and reconciliation process.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of INDG 496AI or ENGL 310AC.*

INDG 496AJ - International Indigenous Issues Seminar: Taiwan

This course employs a team teaching approach and seminar format to provide students with the opportunity to share knowledge and experience on a range of Indigenous issues with Aboriginal university students from Taiwan within the setting of an Aboriginal village in Taiwan.

INDG 496AK - Traditional Healing Practices for Residential School Survivors

This class will cover the history of First Nations education, in particular, the role and impact of residential schools in Canada, the settlement process and the need for healing programs for survivors and their families. Various western and traditional models of healing will be explored.

INDG 800 - Advanced Theory Indig Studies

This course surveys the development of current theories and the various trends in Indigenous/Native/Native American/First Nations/Indian studies. Select theories from the social sciences and humanities will be introduced in relation to the influences upon Indigenous studies as a transdisciplinary area of study.

INDG 801 - Critical Issues Indig Studies

This course identifies and examines select critical issues in Indigenous studies and explores methodological approaches consistent with values important to Indigenous/Native/Native American/First Nations/Indian studies.
***Prerequisite: INDG 800.***

INDG 805 - Writing Research Proposals

This course covers the fundamentals of research proposal creation. This course must be taken in a student's first semester in the program.

INDG 890AD - Cree Identity

This course will explore various aspects of Cree identity through an examination of various genres and critical literature.

INDG 890AE - First Nations and the Media

This course will examine the role of mass media in democratic societies as it relates to coverage of First Nations stories, the impact of globalization, and the responsibility of mainstream media in Canada.

INDG 890AN - Theory & Methods in Oral Hist

This course examines a wide range of oral tradition and oral history research approaches, methods and philisophical concerns from various Indigenous and Western perspective with a focus on memory as primary source material in the reconstruction and analysis of cultural change.

INDG 890AO - Deconstructing Aboriginal Women's Identities

This is a reading course that will examine the construction of Aboriginal women's identities through colonial forces. It will further examine the deconstruction of Aboriginal identities with a focus on recent literature, Aboriginal women's healing journeys, the role of government policy and broader social values and perspectivs regarding Aboriginal women.

INDG 890AP - Race, Space, Gender and Identity

his course will explore the relationship in society between race, space, and gender and how they shape our social identities, with emphasis on how these factors affect Aboriginal peoples in western Canadian society.

INDG 890AQ - Aboriginal Healing Across the Canadian Plains

This course will explore the ways in which Aboriginal cultures within Western Canada engage in healing practices.

INDG 890AR - Impact of Residential School Experience

Through reading, research, discussion and writing, this course explores the impact of the residential school experience with emphasis on the testimonies of the survivors as presented in the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission findings.

INDG 890AS - Indigenous Language Revitalization

This course explores the importance of language revitalization for the regeneration of Indigenous peoples. Students will discuss the impacts of linguistic assimilation and the efforts to restore intergenerational transmission of Indigenous languages through immersion schools, language nests, learning circles, master apprentice programs, and other initiatives.

INDG 890AT - Role of McFaddon Report

This class focuses on the role of the 1956 McFaddon Report and its implications for the ongoing File Hills Colony Claim.

INDG 890AU - Research With Indigenous Communities

This course focuses on community-based health research methods involving Indigenous populations in Canada, examining the dynamics of conducting applied health research in culturally safe ways with attention to ethics, sensitivity and protocols while allowing for exploration of overall applicable health research methodologies and methods for individual project planning. This course focuses on Indigenous health including systemic issues such as bias, positionality, racism, and privilege, particulalry as they relate to health. There is also a heavy emphasis on Indigenous ethical protocls and engagement.

INDG 890AZ - Indigenous Spirituality in Modern Contexts

This course examines current issues and applications of Indigenous spirituality.

INDG 890BA - Collaborative Investigative Research I

Students will learn investigative journalism research techniques and will collaborate with each other on investigative assignments focused on holding government and industry to account on a national scale.
**Permission of the Department is required to register.**

INDG 890BB - Theories and Practices in Indigenous Health and Healing

Drawing from Canadian and international Indigenous perspectives, this course examines the meanings and mechanisms of healing and restoration that incorporates traditional knowledge. Topics may include: forms and methods of healing, impact of colonialism on traditional healing practices, decolonizing therapies, restorative justice, knowledge translation, land-based healing and wholistic health concepts.

INDG 890BC - Indigenous versus Non-Indigenous Spiritual Ideologies

Drawing from Canadian and international Indigenous perspectives, this course examines the meanings and mechanisms of healing and restoration that incorporates traditional knowledge. Topics may include: forms and methods of healing, impact of colonialism on traditional healing practices, decolonizing therapies, restorative justice, knowledge translation, land-based healing and holistic health concepts.

INDG 895AC - Aboriginal Spirituality in Modern Contexts

This course expands on the topic of Indigenous religions and philosophy by examining Indigenous spirituality in terms of comparison to broader world belief systems.

INDG 901 - Research

Thesis research.

INDL 100AA - Elementary Mi'kmaq 1

Basic oral expression, grammar, and practice in Mi'kmaq. No prior knowledge of the language is assumed.

INDL 100AB - Elementary Mohawk I

Basic oral expression, grammar, and practice in Mohawk. No prior knowledge of the language is assumed.

INDL 101AA - Elementary Mi'kmaq 2

Continuation of basic oral expression, grammar, and practice in Mi'kmaq. ***Prerequisite: INDL 100AA.***

INDL 101AB - Elementary Mohawk II

Continuation of basic oral expressions, grammar, and practice in Mohawk.
***Prerequisite: INDL 100AB.***

INDL 202AA - Intermediate Mohawk I

This course is a continuation of and integration of the Mohawk oracy and literacy skills introduced in the 100-level. Intermediate grammatical structures are introduced through oral practice and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite INDL 101AA.***

INDL 203AA - Intermediate Mohawk II

Continuation of basic oral expressions, grammar, and practice in Mohawk.
***Prerequisite: INDL 202AA.***

INDL 206AA - Indigenous Language Linguistics

This course introduces Linguistic concepts of sound, word, phrase, sentence, and meaning structure specifically through the lens of Indigenous languages, with a concentration on, but not limited to, the Indigenous languages of Saskatchewan. Application to language teaching.
***Prerequisite: INDL 101AA-ZZ.***

INDL 241 - Cree Literature in Translation

Representative examples of Cree literature from different parts of Canada will be read in translation. Both âtayôhkêwinan (sacred stories, legends) and âcimowinan (ordinary stories) will be discussed in terms of their relationship to Cree culture as a whole.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and INDG 100, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of INDL 241 or HUM 250.*

INDL 242 - Saulteaux Literature in Translation

Representative examples of Saulteaux literature from different parts of Canada will be read in translation. Both âhtasôkêwinan (sacred stories, legends) and âcimowinan (ordinary stories) will be discussed in terms of their relationship to Saulteaux culture as a whole.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and INDG 100 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of HUM 251 or INDL 242.*

JAPN 111 - Introductory Japanese I

This introductory course is designed to develop basic communicative competence in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Sociolinguistic characteristics of the Japanese language will be emphasized.
*** Prerequisite: No previous background in Japanese. Refer to the Department of International Languages Section of the Undergraduate Calendar (How to choose a language) for details. ***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of JAPN 111 or JAPN 100.*

JAPN 112 - Introductory Japanese II

A continuation of JAPN 111. This course continues to introduce the basic elements of the language with more kanji characters. Sociolinguistic characteristics will continue to be emphasized.
***Prerequisite: JAPN 111, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both JAPN 112, JAPN 110, or JAPN 102.*

JAPN 211 - Intermediate Japanese I

This course is designed to reinforce the fundamentals of Japanese introduced in 100-level courses. More vocabulary and complex grammar will be introduced to develop communicative competence. The knowledge of kanji characters will be further developed.
***Prerequisite: JAPN 112 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of JAPN 211, JAPN 200, JAPN 201, or JAPN 210.*

JAPN 212 - Intermediate Japanese II

This course is a continuation of JAPN 211. It introduces more complex grammar structures with an increase of vocabulary and kanji characters. The aim of this course is to develop communicative competence in casual, formal and honorific speech styles.
***Prerequisite: JAPN 211, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of JAPN 212 and JAPN 202.*

JAPN 311 - Advanced Japanese I

A continuation of JAPN 212. This course will further focus on vocabulary development crucial for communicative competence. The primary goal is to solidify the grammar, vocabulary and kanji foundation studied during the previous courses through a variety of cultural contexts,
***Prerequisite: JAPN 212 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of JAPN 311 or JAPN 300.*

JAPN 312 - Advanced Japanese II

This course places further emphasis on the development of communicative competence through cultural study. Students will not only develop language proficiency, but in using Japanese language will be able to demonstrate knowledge of Japanese culture.
***Prerequisite: JAPN 311 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of JAPN 312 or JAPN 301.*

JAPN 411 - Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature

This course is designed to strengthen previous knowledge and further develop linguistic knowledge through reading modern Japanese literature, and song lyrics in various genres. Includes discussions, essay-writing and presentations in Japanese.
***Prerequisite: JAPN 312, or permission of the Department Head.***

LING 100 - Introductory Linguistics

An introduction to the main subdisciplines of linguistic inquiry: phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure) and semantics (meaning).
* Note: Students who have completed ENGL 260 or FR 226 are not permitted to enrol in this course. *

LING 210 - Phonetics & Phonology

The identification and production of speech sounds. Phonetic transcription. Study of the sound patterns of various languages.
***Prerequisite: One of LING 100, CREE 206, ENGL 260, NAK 206 or SAUL 206.***

LING 211 - Morphology

Word formation in languages, grammatical categories and morphological typologies. Inflectional and derivational categories. Morphology in selected theoretical frameworks.
***Prerequisite: One of LING 100, CREE 206, ENGL 260, NAK 206 or SAUL 206.***

LING 212 - Semantics

The study of meaning in language. Morpheme and word meaning, text meaning. Semantic components, domains/fields, and roles. Predictable variants of meaning, contexts, dictionaries, metaphors, cognition, Pragmatics, logic.
***Prerequisite: One of LING 100, CREE 206, ENGL 260, NAK 206 or SAUL 206.***

LING 213 - Syntax

An introduction to grammatical analysis and syntactic variation cross-linguistically. Application to the analysis of grammatical structure of various languages.
***Prerequisite: One of LING 100, CREE 206, ENGL 260, NAK 206 or SAUL 206.***

LING 220 - Interdisciplinary Linguistics

Basic introduction to historical linguistics, language acquisition, writing systems, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and other interdisciplinary areas of language study.
***Prerequisite: One of LING 100, CREE 206, ENGL 260, NAK 206 or SAUL 206.******

LING 230 - Indigenous Languages of Turtle Island

Introduction to the classification of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, with specific focus on Turtle Island (i.e. Mexico, the United States and Canada). Topics will include language in its social and cultural contexts, genetic and areal classification, selected linguistics structures and semantic systems, written and non-verbal communication systems.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

LING 270 - Language and Identity

The study of language from the perspective of linguistics. Topics may include: linguistic variation in space and time; language and social class, gender, and identity; diglossia, multilingualism and code switching; language birth and death, language revitalization and maintenance; language(s) in Canada and language policies.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours.***

LING 280 - Language Documentation

This course will provide an introduction to the tools and techniques of language documentation. Focus will be given to the practical recording, preparation and presentation of linguistic data from the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
***Prerequisite: LING 100 or completion of the Arts Language Requirement.***

LING 320 - Historical Linguistics

Investigation of the ways in which languages change over time. Reconstruction of the older stages of a language through comparison with related languages. Reconstruction of the common ancestor language of related languages.
***Prerequisite: LING 210, LING 211, and one of CLAS 110, LING 212, LING 213, or LING 220.***

LING 325 - First Language Acquisition

The course will provide information about how children acquire language from their initial, prenatal speech perception abilities until they can comprehend and produce complex sentences. The core areas of phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic acquisition will be surveyed. ***Prerequisite: LING 220, or permission of the the Department Head.***
*Note: LING 210 is recommended.*

LING 327 - Additional Language Learning

The cognitive and social aspects of second language mastery, and the processes of bilingual/bicultural development. Strategies for enhancing second language learning and acquisition with particular reference to First Nations languages.
*** Prerequisite: LING 220 or an introductory course in the teaching of English or French as a second language ***

LING 360 - Applied Linguistics

An introduction to the use of Linguistics in the teaching and learning of First Nations languages. A survey of topics including communication and structure, cross-linguistic influence, teaching pronunciation, morphology, syntax and semantics, applications to orthography and literacy, etc.
***Prerequisite: One of CREE 206, NAK 206, SAUL 206, or LING 100, and two 300-level CREE or SAUL courses or two 200-level LING courses.***

LING 380 - Research Methods of Linguistics

Field methods and interview techniques. Library and archival research. Introspection in linguistic research. Formulation of alternative hypotheses and use of argumentation in choosing among them. Ethics of research. Scientific method.
*** Prerequisite: LING 210 and LING 211 ***

LING 410 - Seminar in Phonology

Consolidation of expertise in phonetic transcription, production, and phonological analysis. Common phonological processes. Contemporary phonological theory. Abstractness, naturalness, rule ordering, and rule interaction.
***Prerequisite: LING 210, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

LING 411 - Seminar in Morphology

Morphological processes and structures. Complex systems. Evolution of morphological categories and language universals. Morphology in selected theories.
***Prerequisite: LING 211, or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

LING 412 - Seminar in Semantics

Semantic processes and structures. Semantic theories. Application of semantics in language acquisition and teaching. Diachronic semantics.
***Prerequisite: LING 212.***

LING 413 - Seminar in Syntax

Contemporary syntactic theory. An examination of competing frameworks for syntactic analysis: relational grammar, transformational grammar, typological approaches. Natural syntax.
***Prerequisite: LING 213.***

LING 480 - Linguistic Fieldwork

Practical application of field methods and interview techniques to the study of First Nations and other indigenous languages. Formulation of alternative hypotheses pertaining to data gathered in interviews. Hypothesis testing and use of argumentation in hypothesis assessment. Data analysis and presentation.
***Prerequisite: LING 380 and permission of the Program Coordinator.***

LING 485AA - Central Amer Indian Lng Struct

This course will explore the linguistic research done on Central American Indian languages, especially those of Mexico and Guatemala. Topics may include work in phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, areal linguistics, and linguistic relativity.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 485AB - Structure of the Cree Language

The major grammatical structures of the Cree language will be surveyed, including its Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics. The place of Cree linguistics structure within general linguistic theory will also be explored.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 485AC - Structure of Dene Language

Investigation of the Dene Suline, Athapaskan: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 485AD - Structure of Dakota and Nakota Languages

Investigation of the Dakota, Nakota and Siouan Languages: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 490AB - A Study in Historical Linguistics

An exploration of how languages change over time and how the earlier stages of a language can be reconstructed, up to the ancestor of any family of related languages.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of LING 490AB or LING 320.*

LING 490AC - Directed Siouan Linguistics Research

An exploration of the Nakota language, with regard to its historical-comparative place within the Siouan language family, through the study of selected articles.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 495AB - Directed Research in Corpus Linguistics

An introduction to foundations, methods, and applications in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on one or more Indigenous languages. The student will gain hands-on experience in current tools and best practices used in corpus development.
***Prerequisite: One of LING 410, LING 411, LING 412, or LING 413.***
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 497AA - Neurolinguistics

This course explores the neurological basis of our ability to speak, understand speech, learn languages, and read and write. Interest in the information that makes these processes possible, how it is acquired and how it is represented in the cerebral cortex.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 497AB - Pediatric Neurolinguistics

This course is about language and the brain, especially in relation to children. Topics include Acquisition and Use of Language beginning at birth (and even before), as well as "abnormal" situations including injury and disease and other developmental disorders.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 497AC - Adolescent Neurolinguistics

This course is about language and the brain, especially in relation to adolescence. Topics include the normally developing brain and use of language, including language acquisition, beginning at puberty. As well, abnormal situations, including injury and disease and other harmful effects on the brain, will be studied.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**

LING 810 - Topics in Advance Phonology

Reading, research, discussion, and writing on advanced topics in phonology. These may include: phonetic, phonemic, or morphophonemic categories, processes, or systems, in language particular studies, typological or universal studies, or experimental phonetics.

LING 811 - Topics in Advanced Morphology

Reading, research, discussion, and writing on advanced topics in morphology. These may include: morphological categories, processes, or systems, in language particular studies, typological or universal studies, applied studies, or theoretical studies.

LING 812 - Topics in Advanced Semantics

Reading research, discussion, and writing on advanced topics in semantics; these may include: semantic categories.

LING 813 - Topics in Advanced Syntax

Reading, research, discussion and writing on advanced topics in syntax; these may include: syntactic Algonquin obviation, negotiation, immediate constituent analysis, history of syntactic theory.

LING 820 - Topics in Adv Diachronic Ling

Reading, research, discussion, and writing on advanced topics in diachronic linguistics. These may include: family tree vs. wave theory, linguistic reconstruction (phonology, morphology, syantax, semantics), dialect continua, substratum languages, comparing proto-languages, processes of sound and meaning change, or reconstruction of culture and homeland through language.

LING 830 - Language Universals

An in-depth examination and evaluation of proposed language universals, both substantive and theoretical.

LING 880 - Research Design

A study of succesful examples of linguistic thesis as well as books, articles, and grant proposals. Both content and form will be practised and critiqued in a series of short papers.

LING 890AA - Directed Readings in Semitics Languages

This course will concentrate on the history geographical distribution, and general grammatical features of the Semitic Languages. Will also deal with developments within Arabic, such as the status of Classical Arabic within the Arabic-speaking world, role of poetry and oratory in traditional Arabic language use, and major dialect divisions.

LING 890AB - Directed Readings in Cree Morphology

This is a graduate level course in Morphological structure of the Cree language. Through readings, lectures, seminar discussions, and a major project, a variety of advanced topics in Cree word formation will be explored.

LING 890AC - Directed Readings in Algonquian Syntax

This course will survey many of the salient features in Algonquian Syntax, and place these features in the context of contemporary Syntactic theory. Emphasis will be placed on a comparison of Cree and Saulteaux syntactic structure.

LING 890AD - Neurolinguistics and Spirituality

This course will explore the relationship between the brain, language, and spirituality. Students will have a background in Neurolinguistics and from there explore various aspects of spirituality. Brain imaging technology will also be studied as a means to gain insight into this topic.

LING 890AE - Dene Linguistics

Advanced linguistics concepts (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) for the scientific analysis of Dene, with comparison to closely related Athabascan languages.

LING 890AF - Directed Readings in Algonquian Linguistics

This course provides a survey of basic and advanced Linguistic structure of the Algonquian family of languages. Emphasis will be placed on a comparison of Cree and Saulteaux syntactic structure. Topics include phonetics and phonology through morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics.

LING 890AG - Language and Culture of Upper Tanana

This course explores Upper Athabascan Tanana grammar with comparison to related languages, and culture with comparison to related groups in the boreal forest and beyond.

LING 890AH - Siouan Linguistics

A survey of the Siouan language family, with regard to its internal historical-comparative relationships and selected grammatical aspects of individual languages within the family.

LING 890AI - Advanced Topics in Cree Morphosyntax

This course will allow students to explore selected advanced topics in Cree morphosyntax, including but not limited to derivation, inflection, the direct-inverse system, constituent order (nopun phrases, preverbs, verb and arguments, verb and adjuncts), clausal syntax, extra-clausal syntax, and illocution.

LING 890BB - Cognitive Semantics: Models of Visualization and Bilingualism

Models of visualizing cognitive semantics of language and esp. of bilingualism will be explored including 3D or Multidimensional semantics, connectionism, cognitive frames, cognitive grammar, cultural linguistics, linguistic relativity, and metaphors with epistemic and ontological correspondences. How do these help visualize and understand how translation and bilingualism work.

LING 901 - Research

Thesis research.

MAP 001 - Strategies for Success

A non-credit introductory seminar to the University and the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance.
Students will be introduced to the variety of resources and services available to them and their roles and responsibilities as members of the university and fine arts communities. The seminar will also provide students with degree and career possibilities. This required course must be completed within the completion of 30 credit hours of study. Students who are placed on academic probation before completing 60 credit hours of study or who have received a Must Withdraw academic action on their transcript must repeat this course.
*Note: Normally offered in the fall semester only*
*Note: Indian Fine Arts students taking or who have taken INDG 104 are not required to take this course*
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 001 and MAP 001*

MAP 100AA - Explore Regina

The experiential course aims to introduce students to the numerous arts and culture activities taking place in the City of Regina. The goal of this course is to expose students to local cultural events and provide a deeper understanding of art and performance management.

MAP 101 - Introduction to Pop Culture

This course will begin to map the terrain that is Pop Culture. The changing ground of pop culture has been mapped by different theoretical and methodological approaches in ways that are not historically fixed. This course provides an introduction to the theories, practices and evolving legacy of pop culture.

MAP 102 - Exploring Cultural Regina

This course focuses on experiential learning. Students will visit a wide variety of cultural institutions across the city, exploring and critically interacting with many of Regina’s creative organizations.
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MAP 102 and MAP 212*
*Note: Pop Culture Option*
*Note: Cannot be taken after a student has completed more than 60 credit hours in residency at the University of Regina.*

MAP 200AB - Puppetry & Design: Animating Objects

This course teaches students the basic concepts of puppetry including - the animation of objects, puppetry construction and history. Emphasis on the importance for puppeteers to have a foundation in both construction and performance in order to succeed in the art form. 

MAP 200AC - Examining the Construction of Identity through the Lens of Costume and Popular Culture

This class examines how and why we construct and define our identity by our dress. It is a historiographic survey of popular culture and dressing thru the lens of the subject matters of gender dressing, dress in subcultures, the history of fashion, and the influence of the media on dress.

MAP 200AD - Post-Punk: Style & Sound

From their origins and legacies to their visual styule and sound, this course examines a diverse range of popular music genres - both mainstream and marginal, including EDM, new wave, goth, noise, industrial - that developed since the late 1970s and fall under the umbrella "post-punk."

MAP 200AE - The Story of the Imaginary Indian in North America

The "Indian" is work of colonial imagination, conjuring up a variety of racist and sexist characteristics. This course explores the creation and subsequent history of such constructions in Mexico, the United States, and Canada since 1492.

MAP 200AF - Visual Imaging: Looking Through the Lens

This course focuses on visual literacy through the “reading” of and creation of images. This course challenges students to think more critically about the images we see daily. Students will gain visual literacy in “reading” and creating images as seen through the “lens” of the viewer, the literal photographic lens, and the lens of society, critically engaging with fine art, commercial, and industry produced images.

MAP 200AG - Animals in Pop Culture

This course will begin to critically map the proliferation of animal lives and representations within 20th and 21st century popular culture. From Walt Disney’s ‘Mickey Mouse’, to ‘nature documentary’ television series, to the current ‘Pepe the Frog’ meme—and beyond—this course will study the multivalent appearances and agencies of animals in a range of popular media forms. Through considering ways in which animal lives are mediated by human cultural theories and practices, this course aims to contribute to understandings of popular culture’s aesthetic, biopolitical, ethical and ecological dimensions.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 24 credit hours or permission of the instructor.***

MAP 200AI - From the Underworld: Puppets and Myths

This course will explore the historically parallel roles of puppetry and myth in illuminating the shadow and the unconscious through a variety of puppet-making techniques in studio, puppeteering training, mythology storytelling and discourse, and the collective creation and public presentation of a short puppet performance based on a traditional myth.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or a 200-level VART course or permission of the Instructor or Department Head.***

MAP 200AJ - Future Threads: The Fashion Industry in Response to Climate Correction

The Fashion Industry is cited as being one of the foremost polluters on Earth. This class will examine how the industry is adjusting to the climate crisis. The class will examine the place of fast fashion in popular culture and question if consumers are able to exchange fast for sustainable? It asks can the fashion industry adjust to the present and future demands for a culture of sustainable dressing?
***Prerequisite: 18 credit hours***

MAP 200AK - Meditation, Social Justice, and Art

Examining the complex intersection of these topics, this course explores history, present-day movements, and future possibilities. Students will build a meditative practice to expand wellness as well as social awareness.

MAP 200AM - Video Game Essays

Mix philosophy, theory, and critique with interactive art production while learning to envision, design, and create a video game, Students will use free downloaded soft.

MAP 200AN - Robots in Popular Culture

A critical, cultural, and historical study of the robot, including the cyborg, automaton, and AI with a focus on the robot as both a literal as well as metaphoric concept within film, literature, visual art, music, theatre, and other creative arts.

MAP 200AO - City as Performance

Students will explore ways in which dance and other forms of movement are used to investigate the urban environment with attention towards spectatorship and entrepreneurship with the city and the studio used as a canvas for creativity.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of THEA 215AB or MAP 200AO.*

MAP 200AP - Introduction to Performance Art

Students will develop a foundational understanding of the varied approaches to performance art in this studio course through their own experimentation, as well through short readings, screenings, and group discussions. Students will be working in real time, working conceptually, using the body as a tool, and exploring identity through performance.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours.***

MAP 201 - Global Migrations

Globalization is an issue that traverses political, cultural and representational forms today. This course explores multiple interdisciplinary topics of importance to thinking globalization including: "wonder" of the new world; Africa the "dark continent"; voyages of "discovery"; colonial villages at early World Fairs; global terrorism; and contemporary art of "migration".
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 201 and MAP 201*

MAP 202 - Indigenous Issues in the Arts

This course provides an overview of both pre-contact and contemporary issues related to Indigenous arts--visual, performance, music, film, theatre and storytelling. Further, the course will explore issues such as treaties, colonial issues, stereotypical representation and how artists and scholars have responded to such issues in the arts.
***Pre-requisite: 24 credit hours or permission of the instructor***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 202 and MAP 202*

MAP 203 - Musicals on Stage and Screen

This course examines the similarities and radical differences in the development of the spectacles of the American musical and the American movie musical. It places emphasis on issues of identity and social commentary as evidenced in some of the most important musicals of the past century. This course is NOT performance based.
***Pre-requisites: completion of 24 credit hours or permission of instructor.***
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of MAP 203, FA 203 or FA 300 AL*

MAP 204 - Prairie Gothic

This course will explore themes and tropes of prairie gothic across a variety of visual, performative and written texts.
*Note: Pop Culture Option*

MAP 205 - Fashion and Hollywood

From the earliest days of movie making Hollywood positioned itself as the epitome of style. This course examines the connections between fashion and Hollywood and how with the rise of mass entertainment Hollywood became the runway of the people.
*Note: Pop Culture Option*

MAP 206 - Shoes: The Power of the Heel

From foot binding to platform heels to the bird inspired stilettos of Alexander McQueen and Cinderella’s glass slipper, this course examines the meaning of shoes as an outward signifier of personal identity and as social construct.
*Note: Pop Culture Option*

MAP 207 - Underwear and Social Meaning

From corsets and crinolines to thongs and briefs, underwear has played a major role in the construction of personal and social identity. This course will examine major trends in the development of underwear with a special focus on its historic role as framing, exploiting and containing sexual and gender roles.
*Note: Pop Culture Option*

MAP 208 - The Business of Fashion

Who decides what we are wearing next season? How do the products arrive in stores? What happens to unsold stock and how to plan stock levels? Why some retailers are successful and others are not? The course introduces students to the fundamentals of the fashion cycle: marketing, merchandising and buying. 
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 200AA or MAP 208.*

MAP 209 - Decolonization and the Arts

Students will identify and challenge existing colonial structures across the globe. They will engage in proactive and informed discussions of contemporary art to better decode power structures gaining a deeper more inclusive understanding of cultural experiences. To facilitate sharing personal stories and histories, dialogue from multiple perspectives will be encouraged.
*Note: Students can receive credit for one of MAP 209 or MAP 200AL.*

MAP 210 - Spy Media

As an examination of spies and spying in popular culture this class investigates: the espionage genre in film and television; cultures of surveillance and resistance; media representations of espionage, security, secrets, conspiracy and paranoia.

MAP 211 - Meditation and Art

This course focuses on developing contemplative or meditative tools (deep listening, improvisation) as part of the artistic and creative process.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 211 or MAP 200AH.*

MAP 212 - Engaging Cultural Regina

This course focuses on experiential learning. Students will visit a wide variety of cultural institutions across the city. Students will explore, respond, and critically engage with a number of Regina’s creative/cultural organizations.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 30 credit hours***
*Note: Pop Culture Option*
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for MAP 212 and MAP 102*

MAP 299AA - Socially Engaged Practice

This course examines socially-engaged art including community-based, activist, applied and relational practices. It focuses on social-engagement in visual art, performance and creative technologies in local, national and international contexts. It considers professional, ethical, aesthetic, and practical issues.  Includes options for creative projects or final essays.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours or the permission of the instructor(s)***

MAP 300AO - Collaboration and Spontaneity Across Disciplines

Explores collaboration and improvisation across artistic and other disciplinary boundaries. Examines histories of improvised and interdisciplinary art forms, informed by key theories in the area of critical studies in improvisation. Classes and assignments will include studio work and discussion seminars, students may choose to work on essays or practical assignments.

MAP 300AP - Marking the Land: Nature + Site + Histories

In this unique course site-specific and responsive studio projects will inform a national Landmarks project organized by Fine Arts Deans at universities across Canada to consider Canada's sesquicentennial celebration in June 2017. In this hybrid course, students will be introduced to concepts and methods focused on understanding, contextualizing, and responding to the human and animal act of creating and imaging landmarks.

MAP 300AQ - Engaging Climate Change: Creativity, Community, Intervention

This multidisciplinary course explores climate change and environmental concerns, with a focus on resilience, community, Indigenous perspectives, science, artist engagements, local/global projects, and thinking outside the box in the face of change. Assignments will be applied and/or artistic explorations of course themes. Students from all university disciplines are welcome.
***Prerequisite: 60 credit hours or permission of instructor.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MAP 300AQ and MAP 400AD.*

MAP 300AR - City of York Study Tour

Founded by the Romans in 71 AD and conquered by the Vikings in 960 AD York has been the site of several important moments in England's cultural history: The York Mystery Plays, The Academy of St. Olave's, it is the birthplace of Guy Fawkes, the centre of early British photograpy, home to the York Shakespeare Project, and is the city most identified with Richard III. The two weeks of study in York, England is hosted by York St. John University with a focus on performance, literature and history.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 30 credit hours with a minimum UGPA of 70% or successful completion of 30 credit hours with a UGPA of 67- 69.9% and a letter of permission from Department Head (or equivalent).***
*Note: In addition to University of Regina tuition, students are responsible for air fare and out of pocket expenses. The York St. John Program fee covers accommodation, breakfast & lunch, and all admissions; students will have this fee covered with a Global Education Schola

MAP 300AS - Walking Art: Making and Movement

Explore walking, which will refer to any form of slow, self-propelled mobility, as a methodology for making art and as a theme that crosses the boundaries of artistic disciplines including performance, sculpture, photography, text, drawing, conceptual art, social practice, and digital or audio art. ***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours.***

MAP 300AT - Exploring Performance Art History from the Gallery, the Street, the Stage, to the Site Specific

This studies course will trace the histories of international performance art from the early experiments in the 20th century to the present day. This course will be organized by the varied approaches to live or mediated performance work versus a traditional chronological history.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours.***

MAP 300AU - Intermediate Performance Art Practices

Students will continue to explore various approaches to developing a performance art practice both in and out of the studio. Interdisciplinary approaches will build on a variety of performative modes, combined with historical, critical and theoretical discussions, screenings, and readings. ***Prerequisite: MAP 200AP or 3 studio courses drawn from any MAP discipline, with at least 1 at the 300 level or higher, or permission of instructor.***

MAP 300AV - Performance Art: From Concept to Presentation

This course will provide support, guidance, and critique in the development and public presentation of a performance art work. The professor and student will meet once every two weeks for the duration of the semester, and as needed. The professor will provide viewing lists and supplemental materials that will assist in the creation of a performance piece.

MAP 301 - Mapping Illness

What does it mean to represent the diseased body? What are the relations between health, illness, Other-ness and deviance in representation? As several interdicsiplinary investigations of the body in crisis this course will look at how illness has been represented from the sixteenth century to the present.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 301 and MAP 301*

MAP 302 - Queer: Cultures and Theories

An interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary queer theory and ideas. Partially based upon guest presentations from specialists in their fields, this course provides students with a critical framework for thinking about queer issues today. Topics: GLBTQ histories and theories; issues of representation; queer art, cinema, literature; queer issues in cross-cultural perspectives.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 302 and MAP 302*

MAP 303 - The Politics and Performance of Food: Spectacle / Revenge / Abstinence

This course examines historic and current uses of food in performance, film and art - as an affective element of spectacle and as potent signifier. Students will approach this investigation through critical texts, the work of key artists in this area and through creative projects.
*Note: Pop Culture Option*
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both FA 300 AM and MAP 303.*

MAP 400AA - Studies in Art, Materials, and Techniques

This seminar course addresses thematic research strenghts in the Faculty in order to provide students with a deeper exploration into topics within Media, Art, and Performance. Thematic seminar topics will relatel to Popular and Visual Culture, Gender, Sexuality, and Culture; Social and Community Engagement, Indigenous Arts and Culture, or Curatorial Studies and Cultures Display.
***Prerequisite: 84 credit hours. ***

MAP 400AB - Adv Sem - Cultural Studies I

Seminar exploring the fundamental themes and issues of cultural studies including the history, thoeory and aesthetics of modernity;the effect of mass society on social movements and personal identity; and the influence of capital on cultural production.

MAP 400AC - International Arts Management

With a focus on global perspectives and initiatives this experiential course gives students a foundation in innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity in relation to the management of cultural organizations. There is no travel connected to this course.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 credit hours***

MAP 400AD - Engaging Climate Change: Creativity, Community, Intervention

This multidisciplinary course explores climate change and environmental concerns, with a focus on resilience, community, Indigenous perspectives, science, artist engagements, local/global projects, and thinking outside the box in the face of change. Assignments will be applied and/or artistic explorations of course themes. Students from all university disciplines are welcome.
***Prerequisite: 60 credit hours or permission of instructor.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MAP 300AQ and MAP 400AD.*

MAP 400AE - Global Media Cultures

This course focuses on the study of international communications and its intersections with world politics in the age of increasing global interdependence. During the course, we closely examine how mass communications theories and critical/cultural approaches offer answers to central questions on global media systems and cultures.

MAP 401 - Arts Administration

This course will introduce students to basic concepts in arts administration, including the process of managing and marketing an arts organization, and examining models for funding arts organizations. The course will use a case-based approach to examine how film, music, theatre and visual arts organizations are run.
***Prerequisites: 60 credit hours, BUS 260 and one of BUS 210, BUS 250, BUS 285***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 401and MAP 401*

MAP 402 - Theory and Photo-Based Practices

This seminar uses photography to develop familiarity with foundational social, philosophical, and ideological theories of representation and interpretation that have influenced fine arts practices since 1839. The seminar will inquire in to the distinctive uses of photography as art/not art, highlighting the diversity of image practices within the fine arts.
***Prerequisites: 60 credit hours or permission of the Instructor***
*Note: Art History Program Option*
*Note: Creative Technologies Program Option*
*Note: Cultures of Display Program Option*
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 402 and MAP 402*

MAP 499BX - Professional Placement

The Professional Placement option is an experiential learning course giving students the opportunity to further their knowledge and skill set(s) within an institution related to their major. Typically the field work is done off campus. The project or terms of the placement will be developed through consultation between the home department, the student and the institution. Supervision is jointly undertaken by the host institution and a faculty member from the student's home department. Can be taken as a P/F only.
***Prerequisites: Successful completion of 60 credit hours and permission of Department Head.***

MAP 800 - Seminar in Theory & Methods

Seminar exploring and questioning the history, theory and aesthetics of Media, Art, and Performance, and the diverse and shifting conceptions of Media, Art, and Performance disciplines in relation to other social and cultural forms.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 800 or MAP 800.*

MAP 803 - Seminar in Theory & Methods

Seminar exploring diverse approaches to research in the Media, Art, and Performance, including studies-based and practice-based methods.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 803 or MAP 803.*

MAP 804 - Studies in Media, ART, and Performance

This seminar course addresses thematic research strengths in the Faculty in order to provide students with a deeper exploration into topics within Media, Art, and Performance. Thematic seminar topics will relate to Popular & Visual Culture; Gender, Sexuality, and Culture; Social and Community Engagement; Indigenous Arts and Culture; or Curatorial Studies and Cultures of Display.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 804 or MAP 804.*

MAP 805 - Doctoral Research Showcase

Students will develop, organize, present and engage in a public forum on their PhD research project.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 805 or MAP 805.

MAP 810AC - Site - Specificity: Mobility/Statis

An overview of site-specific practive with readiings from theoreticians and practitioners in found-space performance/installation art. When one area of investigaiton is set in motion, its opposite is implicitly movilized: within site and roodedness is their antithesis-mobilty.
* Note: Student can not receive credit for both ART 820AK and MAP 810AC *

MAP 810AD - Theory and Photo-Based Practices

This seminar uses photography to develop familiarity with foundational social, philosophical, and ideological theories of representation and interpretation that have influenced fine arts practices since 1839. The seminar will inquire in to the distinctive uses of photography as art/not art, highlighting the diversity of image practices with the fine arts.

MAP 810AE - The Art of Writing

Through the examination of writing as complimentary creative and intellectual practices, this course will look at key concepts of writing for graduate students in Fine Arts, such as: writing as creative expression; rhetoric of language; writing to compliment research; writing and research guides; and other key topics.

MAP 810AF - Embodied Action: Indigenous Walking, Social Action & Healing

This course is an interdisciplinary study of Indigenous walking as social action, protest and healing. It will include the origins and growth of collective and individual actions such as the Great Lakes Water Walks led by Josephine Mandamin, and the twenty-five years of Chief Big Foot Memorial rides, walk, and runs. It will also consider the impacts of these actions, including the recent shift towards “Indigenizing” Pilgrimage Studies.

MAP 810AG - Walking as Art, Performance and Fieldwork

This course will focus on the theory and artistic practice of performative walking through the work of noted walking artist/scholars such as Cathy Turner (Exeter), Paulo Nazareth (Brazil), and Luis Sotelo Castro (Concordia). It will include participatory field research and experimenting with various forms of documentation, reflection, and creative outputs related to the experience of walking.

MAP 810AH - Cultural Heritage in Screen Media

This course focuses on transnational and trans-Indigenous methodologies in the expression and safeguarding of cultural heritage. Drawing on specific examples of cultural heritage, the course will examine identity politics in globalizing cultures, political and cultural sovereignty, and control of representation in image production.

MAP 810AI - Embodied Methodology

This core methodology course involves international research with experts in the fields of walking art/walking performance, including participation in seminars in the United Kingdom where performative walking is an established field of creative research/practice. In addition Ken will be meeting walking artists, preparing presentations and engaging in embodied practice.

MAP 810AJ - Indigenous Land/Art Practices

This course will explore Indigenous landbased artistic and curatorial practice from theoretical, critical and experiential perspectives. It will include land and water engagement, gathering and working with Indigenous materials, skill-based workshops, site interventions and performances. The course will include significant time on the land.

MAP 810AK - The Radical Stitch

This seminar explores historical and contemporary stitch-based artistic practice, considering its importance through the lens of contemporary Indigenous and feminist art theory. Indigenous pedagogy and experiential learning will be emphasized. The class will be closely integrated with the exhibition, Radical Stitch, at the MacKenzie Art Gallery.

MAP 810AL - Play: Advanced Interactive Media

This studio-based course focuses on advanced interactive new media art and critical play. It includes studio projects involving virtual interaction, interactive installation / performance, and data translation, and readings on critical play and interactive art.

MAP 810AM - Decolonizing Media and Artistic Research

Seminar will explore research methods and materials for decolonizing research processes in performance and art-based research.

MAP 870AA - Explorations in Practice and Theory

An overview of theory surrounding performative walks with a creative application of the readings. When one area of investigation is set in motion, its opposite is implicitly mobilized: within site and rootedness is their antithesis - mobility.

MAP 890AB - Space/Place: Locating Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice

This course investigates multiple theoretical/methodological frameworks focused on ideas of space and place: Bertold Brecht's ideas for revolutionizing his audience will be the beginning, continuing with geographical, sociological, literary engagements with space/place and concepts of narrative, performativity, memory. Site specificity and installation art are central foci of the course.

MAP 890AC - Explorations of Indigenous Constructions in Popular Culture

This course examines sterotypical constructions of Indigenous peoples in popular North American culture since contact. The development of such imagery over time has led to constructions that have more to do with mainstream notions of the other than Indigenous images.

MAP 890AD - Theoretical Investigations

Students will investigate the theoretical and contextual ideas of their thesis projects through reading, discussion and writing.

MAP 890AE - Theorizing Conferences

This course will investigate the notion of the "conference" as a performative action. The student will investigate various conference models, calls for proposals and structures, and will ground this exploration in attendance at several conferences, the history the conference and planning a practical event.

MAP 890AG - Cultural Landscapes

This course is an investigation of various forms of space, including but not limited to, landscape representation, urban/city space, the spaces of activism, gendered, classed and post-colonial spaces and representations.
*Additional Fee: $200.*

MAP 890AI - Mapping Illness

What does it mean to represent the diseased body? What are the relations between health, illness, Other-ness and deviance in representation? As several interdisciplinary investigations of the body in crisis this course will look at how illness has been represented from the sixteenth century to the present.

MAP 890AJ - Queer Theory

This course investigates theories of sexuality in the contemporary period, including key thinkers and texts.

MAP 890AK - Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Decolonizing Methodologies

Following the direction of Linda Tuhwai Smith et al. this course explores decolonizing methodologies such as oral narrative applied to research in contemporary Aboriginal art.

MAP 890AL - Biopolitics

Major texts on biopolitical theory in the contemporary period.

MAP 890AM - Theory and Criticism in Television

In this course we will explore a body of critical theoretical works and apply these theoretical applications to television (specifically content, delivery, technologies, genre, reception, production, representations, narrative, etc.)

MAP 890AN - The Culture of Cities

The Culture of Cities will investigate classic and contemporary thinking on citiess as sites where art and culture are made and received. Frameworks of analysis will include contemporary paradigms, such as post-colonialism, race, gender, the post modern, culture and technologies, the culture industries and the culture of everyday life.

MAP 890AP - Queer Sites and Popular Culture

Analysis and contextualization of queer aesthetics and discursive sites within popular culture and music, in relation to queer identity and socio-cultural contexts. Drawing on theoretical/cultural texts, the course explores the significance of the image, career, life and celebrity of singer Whitney Houston as a queer site within popular culture.

MAP 890AQ - Production of Space

This course investigates the production of space in contemporary arts and cultures. Focus may be on gendered, queer, post-colonial, and/or urban spaces.

MAP 890AR - Performance: Queer Spectators

This course will investigate issues in contemporary performance, with a focus on specific areas of interest (such as performer-spectator relations, performance and celebrity, queer performance, gender and performance, performance art and its critical/theoretical contexts, etc.)

MAP 890AU - Street Art and the Politics of Resistance

This course will examine the use of public art, graffiti and street art in relation to the politics of resistance. International examples will be posited in relation to resistance art in the Americans, Cuban, Brazilian, and Mexican.

MAP 890AV - New Media and Performance

Examine key theoretical and practical approaches to new media in live events including: interdisciplinary collaboration, online technologies, telematics, video capture/projection, immersive audio, wearable technologies and new instrumentation, locative and social media, augmentation and mobile devices.

MAP 890AW - Sound Art

This course includes a basic historical survey of sound art practices and introduction to practical sound recording, editing and mixing techniques: as well as a chance for graduates to focus on sound art practitioners in their area of specialization.

MAP 890AX - Art and Trauma

This course explores questions of trauma and memory in contemporary art theory and practice.

MAP 890AY - Socially Engaged Art

This course focuses on socially engaged art and performance. Students will choose 1-2 areas of study from a list of topics in social, community-based, relational or activist practices.

MAP 890AZ - Queer Identity in Performance

This course will require student(s) to undertake various activities (research, writing, dramaturging, and performing) a performance piece that situates (and performs) sexual/gender identity within a larger popular culture framework. Critical readings/analysis of contemporary queer(ed) performances will also be required.

MAP 890BA - Visual Culture of Race

This course will investigate the intersection of visual culture and critical race theory.

MAP 890BB - Interactive Audio Art

Course focuses on critical engagement with the concept of interactivity in experimental audio practices since the 19th century including composition, installation, and performance (including improvisation). Includes examination of key critical and historical texts and art objects, analysis of artist methodologies, and writing and practical exercises supporting the student's thesis project.

MAP 890BC - Cultures of Sound and Technology

This course examines how the creation and movement of sound – particularly in the context of music-making - is intertwined with the political, social and creative contexts in the contemporary world. The course examines the relationship between sound, technology and culture. As such, the work that informs this course is interdisciplinary.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BC or FA 890BC.*

MAP 890BD - Creative Technologies in Performance

Students will work on creative technologies as it pertains to their project, with studio work examining the incorporation of audio, film projection, online media, and new media into live events as related to the students graduate project.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BD or FA 890BD.*

MAP 890BE - Performance and Prosthetics - Expanding the Body

This course investigates the use of "add-ons" in order to enhance, extend and embellish the body in performance.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BE or FA 890BE.*

MAP 890BF - Topics in Creative Technology

This course investigates theories and practices of creative technologies as applied to the graduate's own thesis topic. Areas could include mobile/interactive gadgets and devices, locative strategies, video projection, networked spaces, wearables, and augmented reality.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BF or FA 890BF.*

MAP 890BG - Topics in Improvisation

This course investigates critical studies in improvisation as it relates to the student's own graduate thesis. Topics covered include critical readings in improvised art practices, and/or a program or practical work drawing on the research into the work of important improvising artists from across disciplines.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BG or FA 890BG.*

MAP 890BH - Theoretical Investigations II

Students will further investigate the theoretical and contextual ideas of their thesis project through reading, discussion and writing.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BH or FA 890BH.*

MAP 890BI - Topics in Creative Technologies II

This course investigates theories and practices of creative technologies as applied to the graduate's own thesis topic. Areas could include mobile/interactive gadgets and devices, locative strategies, video projection, networked spaces, wearables, and augmented reality.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BI or FA 890BI.*

MAP 890BJ - Topics in Creative Technologies III

This course investigates theories and practices of creative technologies as applied to the graduate's own thesis topic. Areas could include mobile/interactive gadgets and devices, locative strategies, video projection, networked spaces, wearables, and augmented reality.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BJ or FA 890BJ.*

MAP 890BK - Introduction to the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector

This course examines theories and roles the non-profit and voluntary sector play in society and contemporary public governance. Other topics include the size and scope of work, various organizational forms and functions, and leadership and accountability in the context of governing and managing non-profit and voluntary organizations.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MAP 890BK or FA 890BK.*

MAP 890BL - Research for Indigenous Curation

The student will conduct research with the Kampelmacher Indigenous Art Collection, select 200 art works and develop a rationale and background information for a proposed acquisition by the Mackenzie Art Gallery.

MAP 890BM - Grounding Curation in Indigenous Theory and Knowledge

This course will examine theoretical frameworks and methodologies for Indigenous curation drawn from language and cultural knowledge. This will emphasize relationships, curating care, and reclaiming territory. It will include a survey of current curatorial practices that are redefining Indigenous exhibitions, art-making and community engagement.

MAP 890BN - Art in the Anthropocene

This course will focus on art, aesthetics and environmentalism in order to explore art’s ability to transform ways of seeing and being in the pressing global crisis of the Anthropocene.

MAP 890BO - Contemporary Indigenous Art and Curation

This class will explore contemporary Indigenous art and curation from North America, New Zealand and Australia. It will explore global responses to colonialism, artistic activism, and the role of contemporary art in cultural revitalisation. It will emphasize the emergence of Indigenous curation on the world scene, key Indigenous theorists, and the application of language and culture-based concepts to contemporary creation and curation.

MAP 890BP - Engaging Climate Change: Creativity, Community, Intervention

This multidisciplinary course explores climate change and environmental concerns, with a focus on resilience, community, Indigenous worldviews, science, artist engagements, local/global projects, and thinking outside the box in the face of change. Assignments will be applied and/or artistic explorations of course themes. Students from all university disciplines are welcome.

MAP 890BQ - On Display! Exhibitions and Indigenous Art

With an emphasis on Canada, this course charts changes and directions in Indigenous curation over thirty years. The course includes analysis of theories, methods, and exhibition histories that have prompted new models and voices. An evening of round table discussion with Indigenous scholars and curators will help set our direction.

MAP 890BR - Directed Reading in Decolonizing Animal Ethics

Seminar explores animal ethics and decolonization in media and artistic research. The student will examine ethics via theories and case studies, critique existing models, and investigate ethical practices in order to glean lessons that can useful in our research.

MAP 890BS - Directed Reading in African Theatre and Postcolonial Thinking

Seminar explores critical thinking in African theatre from the perspective of postcolonial theory from the 20th century to 21st century.

MAP 890BT - Multispecies Ethnography

Focusing on multispecies/nonhuman agency and ways of knowing in the context of ethnographic practices and representation, this course integrates scholarly readings, discussion, film/media analysis, writing, and film/media production for course content and assignments.
*Note: This course may not be taken simultaneously with FILM 890BG.*

MAP 890BU - Prairie-based Theatre - Past, Present, and Future

This course explores historical survey of theatre on the prairies (20th and 21st century) and examines critical thinking in site specific theatre on the prairie with a case study of Future Prairie Theatre.

MAP 890BW - Site-Specific Theatre: Space, Audience and Mobility

Directed Reading Course on site-specific theatre practice, and the questions surrounding space, audience and mobility. The readings will focus on site-specific practice with readings from theoreticians and practitioners in found-space performance/installation art. When one area of investigation is set in motion, its opposite is implicitly mobilized: within site and rootedness is their antithesis - mobility.

MAP 890BX - Metis History and Art After 1870

This course will explore the historic dispossession of the Métis Nation after 1870, the 1885 resistance, and political reappearance in the 1930s. It will explore the importance of reclaiming narrative, genealogical reconstruction, and the role of creative expression (particularly literature and film) in cultural resurgence.

MAP 890BY - Creative Technologies Practice

This practice-based course focuses on the development of studio work in creative technologies, supported by studio research activities and an end of semester critique.

MAP 890BZ - Eco-critical Art History

This directed reading will explore various methodological approaches in eco-critical and animal art history. The course will examine key ideas such as ecocriticism, bio-ethics, the Anthropocene, and new materialism.

MAP 890CA - Exploring Two Spirit Identity through Woodland Cree Art

This class will explore Two-Spirit gender identity through traditional Woodland Cree art practices. It will draw on both the emerging scholarship related to Two-Spirit identity and traditional beliefs related to the role of Two-Spirit individuals in a Cree world view. In part, the course will explore the connection between beadwork done in the Nehithawak style using a variety of techniques and the idea of Two-Spirit people bringing balance to their communities. Through beadwork "story" works, personal narratives of fully reclaiming identity, including exploring barriers will be visually narrated.

MAP 890CB - Media, Policing and Race

Explores key theories for understanding media, policing and race. Examples will be drawn from Canada, the United States and elsewhere.

MAP 890CC - Curatorial Strategies and Applications

This is a practical course where theoretical concepts related to cultures of display and curation are put into practice in a a gallery setting. The course will focus on both widely used and emerging trends in curation.

MAP 890CD - Directed Reading in Literary Adaptation

Course explores adaptation from page to stage and from stage to script.

MAP 890CE - Ethics, Health, Creativity

This course explores theoretical and practical elements of ethics related to health and creativity. Ethical contexts relevant to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are examined and are connected to relevant creative realms.

MAP 890CF - Sadness, Trauma, and Grief in Music

This course examines representations of sadness, trauma, and grief in music. Students will study literature on the expression of sadness, trauma, and grief in music.

MAP 890CG - Interactive Art: Body and Self

Directed Reading Course exploring interactive art and the ways in which such work triggers, signals and invites artist/audience embodiment and identity politics.

MAP 890CH - Theatre-Making and Ethics

This Directed Reading explores the intersection of theatre-making, performance and its ethics.

MAP 899 - Grad Level Professional Placement

The professional placement course offers a practical opportunity for experiential research or case study investigation.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 899 or MAP 899.*

MAP 900 - Comprehensive Exam

Examination measuring comprehensively the knowledge and practice in the disciplines relevant to the PhD thesis/project.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 900 or MAP 900.*

MAP 901 - Thesis Research

Research supporting an MA or PhD program including the thesis proposal, ethics review application (if applicable), and research resulting in the writing and defense of a graduating thesis of 60-100 pages for an MA; or the preparation of a PhD graduating thesis, research-creation project, or hybrid thesis/research-creation project, as applicable.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 901 or MAP 901.*

MAP 902 - Research Project

Research supporting a professional, practice-based MFA program resulting in the writing of a comprehensive critical engagement paper of 40 pages and the preparation and public presentation of a graduating research-creation project.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 902 or MAP 902.*

MAP 903 - Project Report Course

The student submits the final project or critical engagement paper.
*NOTE: Students may only receive credit for one of FA 903 or MAP 903.*

MU 100 - Introduction to Music

What would life be without music? This broad survey course explores the changing role of music within society across time and disciplines, with emphasis on developing critical listening skills.
* Note: Not available for credit in BMus or BMusEd programs.*

MU 101 - Introduction to Basic Music Skills

Enjoy a heightened musical experience through class participation, tutorials and computer-assisted instruction in ear-training, music theory, score-reading and keyboard skills, at introductory levels; for students with little or no musical training.
*Not available in the BMus or BMusEd.*

MU 122 - Ear Training II

A continuation of MU 121, also including recognition of chord types and harmonic progressions.
*** Prerequisite: MU 121 ***

MU 204 - Jazz Appreciation

An overview of the history and development of jazz music, tracing the performers and style periods in the genre from its 19th-century African-American origins through to the present. Students also study the social and historical factors that affected the development of jazz. Emphasis is placed on developing listening skills.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of MUHI 204, MU 204, and MU 110.*

MU 249 - Piano Pedagogy

This course is designed to introduce students to a select variety of topics in the field of piano pedagogy, ranging from beginning to late-intermediate levels. Students will be introduced to various methods and pedagogy texts, and will observe and assist in private and group lessons.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the department head needed to register***

MU 250 - Piano Pedagogy

Continuation of MU 249. This course is designed to introduce students to a select variety of topics in the field of piano pedagogy, ranging from beginning to late-intermediate levels. Students will be introduced to various methods and pedagogy tests, and will observe and assist in private and group lessons.
***Prerequisite: MU 249***

MU 299AA - Film Soundtracks: How Sound impacts Story

How does sound--a combination of music, sound effects and ambient sound--impact story in a motion picture? Students will learn the language and tools necessary for answering this question and acquire a greater awareness of how the the unfolding of a film's story is influenced by its sountrack.
*Note: Music reading ability is an asset but is not required.*

MU 299AC - Intro to Continuo Playing

This class will serve as a basic introduction to the art of continuo playing for piano majors. Students in this class will have the opportunity to work and perform with international faculty from the Perspective Festival. **Permission of Department Head is required to register.**

MU 299AE - London UK Performance Tour

This course is for students embarking on the University of Regina Choirs Performance in London England. We will celebrate and perform the works of African American composer, Rosephanye Powell in Cadogan Hall, London.
*Additional Fee: $3500.*

MU 319 - Music Cultures of the World

An inclusive survey of classical, popular and folk music traditions from around the world. As well as expanding their listening skills, students study music in culture and music as culture and, in the process, develop fresh approaches to their own musical traditions. Music-reading ability not required.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 319 and MUHI 319.*

MU 330 - Video Game Music

This course introduces the rich repertoire of video game music—its history, theory, and practice. Representative games, soundtracks, scores, and composers will be examined, as will some technical processes involved. Discussions will include image and sound synchronization; comparisons to other audiovisual media; and ways technological developments create constraints and possibilities.
*Note: music reading ability is an asset but not required.*

MU 349 - Piano Pedagogy

This course is designed to introduce students to a select variety of topics in the field of piano pedagogy, ranging from beginning to late-intermediate levels. Students will be introduced to various methods and pedagogy texts, and will observe and assist in private and group lessons.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the department head needed to register***

MU 350 - Piano Pedagogy

Continuation of MU 349. This course is designed to introduce students to a select variety of topics in the field of piano pedagogy, ranging from beginning to late-intermediate levels. Students will be introduced to various methods and pedagogy tests, and will observe and assist in private and group lessons.
***Prerequisite: MU 349.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MU 350 or MU 399AG.*

MU 370 - The Business of Music

This course provides students with skills necessary to establish oneself post-degree individually in the field of music/music pedagogy "grantsmanship," establishing a studio, taxation issues, adjudicating, touring, stage presence, advertising, etc.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours***

MU 399AA - Creating Music with Technology

Learn to write and perform music using commercial, open-source and DIY audio tools with the computer. This course is designed to be useful to students regardless of literacy in music reading and notation, and welcomes students of varied experience and background in music, creative sound and computers.

MU 399AB - Music Technology in the Classroom

A course, covering instruction of technology in the band, choir, and music classrooms. Practical issues such as the setup and use of audio equipment, microphone selection and techniques, mixing boards, music notation and theory software, recording systems and use in the classroom, and phone apps that aid students and teachers.

MU 399AE - Piano Literature

This survey course explores the major currents in keyboard literature through the study and analysis of the repertoire of the major composers. Including lectures, listening, and reading assignments, students will examine the key characteristics, musical styles, forms, and performance practices.
***Permission from the instructor is required to register***

MU 399AF - Diction II

The primary goal of the course are to continue the skill of using the International Phonetic Alphabet 'IPA', to develop the ability to sing with clear, accurate diction in Italian, and French, found in singer's repertoire. Students will develop an awareness of how excellent diction can heighten the quality of a musical performance.
*** Prerequisite: Music reading ability, vocal technique class, or the permission of the instructor ***

MU 399AH - Popular Song in France from 1930 until 1968

Study of texts and music with special focus on genres and artistic movements, historical and social functions, aspects of performance, as well as themes of aesthetics and identity. Songs by Trenet, Piaf, Brel, Brassens, Barbara and Ferré, among many others.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MU 399AH and FRN 340AO.*
*Note: This course is normally taught in French; course work may be submitted in English.*

MU 499AA - Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis

This course introduces and explores the method and ideas employed by Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), a central figure in music theory. Students will critically examine Schenker's writings, with particular attention to cultural contexts (then and now), and apply Schenkerian principles to their own analyses.
***Prerequisite: MUTH 422 or Instructor Permission.***

MU 499AB - Studies in French-language Poetry and Song

This course will discuss the setting of French poetry to music by composers from the classical and popular music traditions from 1850 to today. Study of texts and music with special focus on aesthetics, historical and social functions, aspects of performance, as well as themes of language and identity.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MU 499AB and FRN 460AI.*
*Note: This course is normally taught in French; course work may be submitted in English.*

MU 801 - University Concert Band I

Particpation as principal in one of the sections of the ensemble. Students will assist in duties contributing toward the presentation of concert events.

MU 802 - University Concert Band II

Participation as principal in one of the sections of the ensemble. Students will assist in duties contributing toward the presentation of concert events.

MU 803 - Medieval Music

Selected Topics in Medieval Music.

MU 804 - Music of the Renaissance

Selected Topics in the Music of the Renaissance.

MU 805 - Music of the Baroque

Selected Topics in the Music of the Baroque.

MU 806 - Music of the Classical Era

Selected topics in the Music of the Classical Era.

MU 807 - Music of the Romantic Era

Selected topics in the Music of the Romantic Era.

MU 808AC - Selected Topics Music Theory

Seminar in analysis of classical-era sonata-form movements including selected readings from the music theoretical literature and experience analyzing movements from the solo chamber music and symphonic repertoires, with emphasis on Haydon, Mozart and Beethoven.

MU 809AC - Current Issues in Musicology

Students will examine current musicological issues that serve historical, theoretical, and performance objectives related to their own research interests. Interdisciplinary approaches will be considered in particular in order to increase students' familiarity with multiple musical concerns and interpretations applicable to a wide range of musical genres and scholarly approaches.

MU 809AD - Percussion Styles from 1945 to the Present

Continuation of MU 813AA. More advanced practical application and a focus on the playing techniques and style analysis of each major player and period.

MU 809AE - History and Literature of Chamber Music

There are two components to the course: a survey of the history of chamber music as a genre and a study of the historical and societal context of chamber music as an art form.

MU 809AF - Performance Practice - Baroque to Modern

This writing-intensive course traces the development of performance practice from the Baroque period to modern times, with equal emphasis on theoretical, aesthetic and practical applications. As part of their course work, graduate students will be asked to teach an undergraduate class (MUS 415) on the history of performance practice.

MU 809AG - Popular Music and Theory

This course explores theories and methods used in the discipline of popular music studies. The student is required to analyze different theoretical texts used to analyze popular music and global music practices.

MU 809AH - The 19th-Century Lied

An in-depth study of the aesthetic, cultural and stylistic evolution of the Lied with special emphasis on 19th-century German repertoire, specifically Schubert and his contemporaries. Students will be honing their critical writing, listening and presentation skills through a variety of written and oral assignments.

MU 809AI - The Composer as Storyteller

How does a composer convincingly protray the action in a story? Selected vocal and instrumental musical genres (e.g., opera, Lied, tone poem, program symphony, etc.) will be examined to answer this question. Emphasis will be also be placed on sharpening research, writing and comparative listening skills.

MU 809AJ - Vocal Improvisation and Social Practice

The human voice is an instrument accessible to all, with huge potential for expression, interaction, collaboration and community building. This course will explore technical possibilities of the voice, including extended techniques; and will work on skills in creativity, improvisation and the role of music in the community.

MU 809AK - Topics in Improvisation

This is an independent stury course with both academic and practical sections. Its goal is to develop and explore the role of creative musical improvisations in cultural, community and personal development of at-risk youth in Regina.

MU 809AL - Topics in Piano Pedagogy

Topics in Piano Pedagogy is an exploration of methods and approaches (contemporary and historical) used in studio teaching, and is designed to provide students with knowledge and resources thereof.

MU 809AM - Listening as Social Practice

This course looks critically and creatively at the artistic practice of sound art, in connection with the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies Conference, Listening as a Shared and Social Practice, which will take place at the University of Regina.

MU 809AN - Studies in French-language Poetry and Song

The setting of French poetry to music by composers from the classical and popular music traditions from 1850 to today.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MU 809AN, FRN 860AI, or MU 499AB.*
*Note: This course is normally taught in French; course work may be submitted in English.*

MU 809AO - Brass and Wind Band Scores of the Modern Era

This course examines brass instruments in relation to the conductors wind band scores. It will examine all aspects of brass playing (ranges, extended techniques, articulation, use of mutes, etc.) Students will analyze wind band conductor scores to recognize each composers scoring practices for brass in their works.

MU 811 - Twentieth Century Music

Emphasis on contemporary music. Detailed study and analysis of selected works in chamber, smyphonic, choral and solo literature.

MU 812 - Music History Survey

Emphasis on selected master works from the middle ages through modern times and their relation to trends of their times.

MU 813AA - Advanced Jazz Percussion Concepts

A study of jazz percussion solo and ensemble styles of each historic period.

MU 813AB - Selected Studies in Violin Repertoire and Performance Practice

This course begins with a study of performance practice as it relates to the violin repertoire. This background is then applied to case studies of selected works from the violin repertoire of the baroque, classical, and romantic periods.

MU 813AC - Lecture Recital and Field Exam

Lecture Recital and oral examination on the dissertation proposal.

MU 813AD - Directed Studies in Literature

This course covers the history of song from the Renaissance through to the 21st century. The course comprises reading, listening, papers, and a final public lecture-recital.

MU 813AE - Directed Studies in Tuba Literatur

Taught in conjunction with MU 901-006, tuba lessons. Guidance in completing a survey of the history of tuba repertoire by means of a bibliography and discography. Guidance in presenting case studies of selected works, leading to an essay concerning the stylistic development of repertoire for the tuba.

MU 813AF - Directed Studies in Piano Literature

Studies related to piano repertoire and its stylistic development through a study of selected works. The student will use research tools acquired in MU 815 to construct a bibliography and discography, conduct an analytical review of the chosen works, and present/discuss the material regularly with the instructor.

MU 813AG - Directed Studies in Flute Literature

A study of the development of the flute from the baroque period to the present, incorporating performance practice of the baroque, classical, and romantic periods. The student will prepare and present case studies of specific repertoire from each period.

MU 813AH - Directed Studies in Trombone Literature

An in-depth study of the history, literature, and pedagogy of the trombone, drawn from primary sources, editions, organology, iconography, and recordings, combined with the study of modern commentary and research.

MU 813AI - Expanded Voice

This course encompasses study of experimental vocal music, musical improvisation, and extended vocal techniques. Study of these techniques will culminate in a lecture-recital demonstrating how the expanded voice may connect with standard vocal techniques.

MU 815 - Bibliography

Bibliographical materials for graduate study in music theory, history or performance.

MU 816 - History of Music Theory

A survey of theoretical writings from ancient times to the present.

MU 817 - Analysis

Techniques of analysis covering a variety of approaches and musical styles.

MU 818AC - Schenkerian Analysis

An introduction to basic Schenkerian principles and analytic applications of Schenkerian analysis to tonal music, based on the textbook by Allan Cadwallader and David Gagné. Other sources to be employed are Schenker's Free Composition and Five Graphic Analyses.

MU 818AD - Theories of Sonata Form for the Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

Readings in, and analytic projects concerning, Sonata Theory, with emphasis on theories applicable to the late eighteenth century and to Beethoven. In weekly assignments, students will ¿teach¿ the analytic theories, analyses and repertoire they have read about, and present their own analyses of movements by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

MU 819 - Musicology Seminar

Attendance at meetings and presentation of a research paper.

MU 820 - Music Theory Seminar

Attendance at meetings and presentatiuon of a research paper.

MU 821 - Music Composition

Composing music in the smaller forms and for small ensembles.

MU 831 - University Concert Choir

Participation as section leader. Students will assist in duties contributing to the presentation of concert events.

MU 832 - University Concert Choir II

Participation as section leader. Students will assist in duties contributing to the presentation of concert events.

MU 835 - University Chamber Singers I

Specializing in acappella music from the Renaissance to the Twentieth century. Participation as secition leader. Students will assist in duties contributing to the presentation of concert events.

MU 836 - University Chamber Singers II

Specializing in acappella music from the Renaissance to the Twentieth century. Participation as section leader. Student will assist in duties contributing to the presentation of concert events.

MU 841 - Orchestration

Writing for various instrumental combinations and dealing with the overall problems of blending and balance.

MU 860 - Applied Diction For Singing Applied Diction For Singing

In this course, the International Phonetic Alphabetic is studied, with direct application to repertoire for voice and choir. The course also covers the specific vocal pedagogy associated with its successful application.

MU 861 - Opera&Music Theatre Workshop I

Preparation and performance of principal roles from the opera and musical theatre literature, in departmental productions. Students must possess a voice suitable to the operatic repertorie and have achieved an advanced level of vocal technique.

MU 862 - Opera&Music Theatre WorkshopII

Preparation and performance of principal roles from the opera and musical theatre literature, in departmental productions. Students must possess a voice suitable to the operatic repertoire and have acheived an advanced level of vocal technique.

MU 863 - Opera Music Thea Workshop III

Preparation and performance of principal roles from the opera and musical theatre literature, in departmental productions. Students must possess a voice suitable to the operatic repertoire and must acheived an advanced level of vocal technique.

MU 871 - University Chamber Orchestra I

Participation as principal in one of the sections of the ensemble. Students will assist in duties contributing toward the presentation of concert events.

MU 872 - Univ Chamber Orchestra II

Partipation as principal in one of the sections of the ensemble. Students will assist in duties contributing toward the presentation of concert events. *** Prerequisite: MU 871 *** ** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MU 881 - Chamber Music Ensemble I

Coaching in performance problems and interpretation of selected works from the chamber literature that includes the student's instrument.

MU 882 - Chamber Music Ensemble II

Coaching in performance problems and interpretation of selected works from the chamber literature that includes the student's instrument, culminating in presentation of a chamber music recital.

***Prerequisite: MU 881 ***

MU 901 - Thesis Research

Research supporting a studies-based program (MA in Musicology and in Music Theory) resulting in the writing and defense of a graduating theses of 60 - 100 pages.

MU 902 - Research Project

Research supporting a professional, practice-based program (MMus in Composition; MMus in Conducting; and MMus in Performance). MMus in Performance is expected to perform two solo recitals -- the first after not more than 6 credit hours of study.

MUBC 131 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUBC 132 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 131 ***

MUBC 231 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 132 ***

MUBC 232 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 231 ***

MUBC 241 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 132 ***

MUBC 242 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 241 ***

MUBC 331 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 232 ***

MUBC 332 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 331 ***

MUBC 339 - Recital - Bass Clarinet

A public recital on bass clarnet. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUBC 341 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

***Prerequisite: MUBC 242.***

MUBC 349 - Recital - Bass Clarinet

A public recital on the bass clarinet. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study

MUBC 431 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 332 ***

MUBC 441 - Applied Music Bass Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUBC 341 ***

MUBN 131 - Applied Music Bassoon

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUBN 132 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 131 ***

MUBN 231 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 132 ***

MUBN 232 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 231 ***

MUBN 241 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 132 ***

MUBN 242 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 241 ***

MUBN 331 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 232 ***

MUBN 332 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 331 ***

MUBN 339 - Recital - Bassoon

A public recital on the bassoon. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUBN 341 - Applied Music Bassoon

***Prerequisite: MUBN 242.***

MUBN 349 - Recital - Bassoon

A public recital on the bassoon. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUBN 431 - Applied Music Bassoon

*** Prerequisite: MUBN 332 ***

MUBN 441 - Applied Music Bassoon

***Prerequisite: MUBN 331.***

MUBN 449 - Recital - Bassoon

A one-hour public recital on the bassoon. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUCL 131 - Applied Music Clarinet

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUCL 132 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 131 ***

MUCL 231 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 132 ***

MUCL 232 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 231 ***

MUCL 241 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 132 ***

MUCL 242 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 241 ***

MUCL 331 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 232 ***

MUCL 332 - Applied Music Clarinet

*** Prerequisite: MUCL 331 ***

MUCL 339 - Recital - Music Clarinet

A public recital on the clarinet. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMusEd program.

MUCL 341 - Applied Music Clarinet

***Prerequisite: MUCL 242.***

MUCO 217 - The Art of Music Composition

An introduction to composing music in a variety of styles in use since c.1800. Students will write their own short pieces and hear them rehearsed and performed by the Students' New Music Ensemble.
***Prerequisite: Music reading ability***
*Note: Students who have taken MUCO 317 or MUCO 318 cannot receive credit for MUCO 217.*

MUCO 320 - Living Music: Acoustic Instrument Studies

Study of acoustic instruments, and of the compositional techniques that have been used to write music for these 13 instruments from the Classical period to the present day. This course will enhance your ability to appreciate instrumental repertoire, and to write musical arrangements for a variety of instrumental ensembles.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours and music reading ability.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for MUCO 340 and MUCO 320 or MUCO 440 and MUCO 320.*

MUCO 341 - Introduction to Digital Music Software

Taught in an electronic studio environment, this course has two complementary parts: a historical survey of electronic music up to the present and practical guidance and experience in the use of current compositional software used in music notation, editing, sound production and recording, such as Sibelius, Pro Tools and Max/MSP.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours or permission of instructor.***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of MUCO 326, MUCO 327, or MUCO 341*

MUCO 417 - Composition I

Individual projects. Intended for students in the BMus program with a concentration in composition, who are preparing to compose for different instrumental and vocal combinations ranging from solo to orchestra.
***Prerequisite: MUTH 212, MUCO 217 and MUCO 320***
*Note: Students may only receive one of MU 417 and MUCO 417.*

MUCO 418 - Composition II

A continuation of MUCO 417.
***Prerequisite: MUCO 417***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for MU 418 and MUCO 418.*

MUDB 131 - Applied Music Bass

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUDB 132 - Applied Music Bass

*** Prerequisite: MUDB 131 ***

MUDB 231 - Applied Music Bass

*** Prerequisite: MUDB 132 ***

MUDB 232 - Applied Music Bass

*** Prerequisite: MUDB 231 ***

MUDB 241 - Applied Music Bass

*** Prerequisite: MUDB 132 ***

MUDB 242 - Applied Music Bass

*** Prerequisite: MUDB 241 ***

MUDB 331 - Applied Music Bass

***Prerequisite: MUDB 232.***

MUDB 332 - Applied Music Bass

*** Prerequisite: MUDB 331 ***

MUDB 339 - Recital - Bass

A public recital on the bass. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUDB 341 - Applied Music Bass

***Prerequisite: MUDB 242.***

MUEN 101 - University Concert Band

A non-auditioned ensemble open to all students and community members. This ensemble focuses on performing exciting and dynamic repertoire.
*Additional Fee: $100 charged to students registered in section 003.*

MUEN 103 - University Jazz Ensemble

**Permission of the instructor is required to register in the fall.**
*Additional Fee: $100 charged to students registered in section 003.*

MUEN 105 - Vocal Jazz Ensemble

**Permission of the instructor is required to register in the fall**

MUEN 107 - University Wind Ensemble

An auditioned ensemble open to all students, including non-music majors. This ensemble performs challenging standard and contemporary wind band repertoire and boasts guest conductors and soloists as part of its concert series.
**Permission of the instructor is required to register in the fall.**
*Additional Fee: $100 charged to students registered in section 003.*

MUEN 109 - University Jazz Band II

A non-auditioned jazz ensemble open to all students and community members. This ensemble focuses on performing
classic and contemporary big band repertoire. All are required to meet with the instructor for a placement hearing.
*Note: a $100 materials fee will be charged to students registered in section 003*

MUEN 123 - New Music Ensemble

An open Instrumentation ensemble that studies and performs works of the 20th and 21st century music is invaluable for any music student, but particularly for students majoring in composition. The revised description allows for rehearsal and performance of newly created student compositions, works for open ensemble by contemporary composers such as Reich, Cage, and others, and skills in improvisation.

MUEN 131 - University Concert Choir

All are welcome to sing in the University Concert Choir! A dynamic ensemble of approximately 75 singers, its programming spans a wide range of genres and styles with regular performances with orchestra. All are required to meet with the instructor in the first weeks of school for a voice placement hearing.
*Additional Fee: $100 charged to students registered in section 003.*

MUEN 135 - University Chamber Singers

University Chamber Singers is an elite multi-award winning 28-voice ensemble focusing on a cappella choral repertoire. Entrance is by audition only with heavy emphasis on sight-singing ability. Please contact the instructor for audition times. Singers must prepare an art Song or an aria for the audition.
**Permission of the instructor is required to register in the fall.**
*Additional Fee: $100 charged to students registered in section 003.*

MUEN 157AA - Saxophone Ensemble

Students will participate in a saxophone ensemble which is part of the Group II ensembles.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.***

MUEN 157AB - Jazz Combo

Students will participate in a jazz combo which is part of the Group II ensembles.

MUEU 131 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head is required to register***

MUEU 132 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 131***

MUEU 231 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 132***

MUEU 232 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 231***

MUEU 241 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 132***

MUEU 242 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 241***

MUEU 331 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 232***

MUEU 332 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 331***

MUEU 339 - Recital - Euphonium

A public recital on the euphonium. For the student completing the recital requirements in the BMus composition, music history concentrations and the BMusEd degree program.

MUEU 341 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 242***

MUEU 349 - Recital - Euphonium

A public recital on the euphonium. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUEU 431 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 332***

MUEU 441 - Applied Music Euphonium

***Prerequisite: MUEU 349***

MUEU 449 - Recital - Euphonium

A one-hour public recital on the euphonium. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUFL 131 - Applied Music Flute

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUFL 132 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 131 ***

MUFL 231 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 132 ***

MUFL 232 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 231 ***

MUFL 241 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 132 ***

MUFL 242 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 241 ***

MUFL 331 - Applied Music Flute

***Prerequisite: MUFL 232.***

MUFL 332 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 331 ***

MUFL 339 - Recital - Flute

A public recital on the flute. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUFL 341 - Applied Music Flute

***Prerequisite: MUFL 242.***

MUFL 349 - Recital - Flute

A public recital on the flute. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUFL 431 - Applied Music Flute

*** Prerequisite: MUFL 332 ***

MUFL 441 - Applied Music Flute

***Prerequisite: MUFL 349.***

MUFL 449 - Recital - Flute

A one-hour public recital on the flute. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUGR 131 - Applied Music Guitar

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUGR 132 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 131 ***

MUGR 231 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 132 ***

MUGR 232 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 231 ***

MUGR 241 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 132 ***

MUGR 242 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 241 ***

MUGR 331 - Applied Music Guitar

***Prerequisite: MUGR 232.***

MUGR 332 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 331 ***

MUGR 339 - Recital - Guitar

A public recital on the guitar. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUGR 341 - Applied Music Guitar

***Prerequisite: MUGR 242.***

MUGR 349 - Recital - Guitar

A public recital on the guitar. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUGR 431 - Applied Music Guitar

*** Prerequisite: MUGR 332 ***

MUGR 441 - Applied Music Guitar

***Prerequisite: MUGR 349.***

MUGR 449 - Recital - Guitar

A one-hour public recital on the guitar. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUHD 131 - Applied Music Harpsichord

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUHD 132 - Applied Music Harpsichord

*** Prerequisite: MUHD 131 ***

MUHD 231 - Applied Music Harpsichord

*** Prerequisite: MUHD 132 ***

MUHD 232 - Applied Music Harpsichord

*** Prerequisite: MUHD 231 ***

MUHD 241 - Applied Music Harpsichord

*** Prerequisite: MUHD 132 ***

MUHD 242 - Applied Music Harpsichord

*** Prerequisite: MUHD 241 ***

MUHD 331 - Applied Music Harpsichord

***Prerequisite: MUHD 232.***

MUHD 332 - Applied Music Harpsichord

*** Prerequisite: MUHD 331 ***

MUHD 349 - Recital - Harpsichord

A public recital on the harpsichord. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUHI 202 - Music History Survey-Pre-Classical to Contemporary

This course traces the development of important musical styles, genres and forms from the second half of the 18th century to the late 20th century by placing representative composers and selected musical works into their appropriate socio-cultural and historical contexts. Emphasis is on developing basic listening, writing and research skills.
***Prerequisite: Music reading ability***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 202 and MUHI 202.

MUHI 203 - Music History Survey-Middle Ages to Baroque

This course traces the development of important early musical styles, genres, and forms by placing representative composers and selected musical works into their appropriate socio-cultural and historical contexts. Emphasis is on students honing their listening, writing, research and presentation skills.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 202 or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 203 and MUHI 203*

MUHI 302 - Studies in Music of the Classical Period

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are among the giants of the classical period in music. This course offers intense study of their works and compositional style, along with analysis of the socio-cultural role of music in Europe in the mid-18th to early 19th centuries. Emphasis is placed on honing students’ critical thinking, writing, research and presentation skills.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 202 or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 212 and MUHI 302*

MUHI 303 - Studies in Music of the Romantic Period

No other period has shaped music history more intensely and imaginatively than the 19th century. Contributions of representative composers to music literature of the Romantic Era (ca. 1800-1900) and the various forces that played a role in the creation and performance of musical works will be examined. Emphasis is placed on honing students’ critical thinking, writing, research and presentation skills.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 202 or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 213 and MUHI 303*

MUHI 304 - Studies in Music of the Contemporary Period

Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Glass – these are among the contemporary composers who changed music forever. This course focuses on the most important and radical developments in music during the 20th and 21st centuries. Emphasis is placed on honing students’ critical thinking, writing, research and presentation skills.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 202 or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 214 and MUHI 304*
*Note: Creative Technologies Program Option*

MUHI 305 - History of Canadian Music

A wide-ranging study of the history of music in Canada, from the earliest settlements to the present day. Topics covered include classical, popular and indigenous genres. Emphasis is on the socio-cultural role of music in the evolution of Canada as a country.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 202 or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 215 and MUHI 305*

MUHI 311 - J.S. Bach & His Contemporaries

This course examines J.S. Bach’s life and works, the individuals and external forces that shaped them, and the impact that Bach’s music and its reception have had on global musical culture. Emphasis is placed on honing students’ listening, research, writing and presentation skills.
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 320AC and MUHI 311*
*Note: Music reading ability required; completion of MU 100 considered an asset*

MUHI 394AE - Composers versus Performers

In this directed reading class the student will explore what exactly German composers expected from performers of their vocal music, specifically Lieder, during the second half of the 19th century. The student will conceive a research plan, write a literature review, prepare an annotated bibliography, and author a reflection paper.
***Prerequisites: Completion of MU 203***

MUHI 415 - History of Performance Practice

How was music performed in various places at various times in the past? This course investigates how and why musical interpretation changed over time and explores how it shapes present-day approaches to “early music” through consideration of original sources and contemporary commentary. Editions may be prepared and performed.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 203 or permission of department head.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 415 and MUHI 415*

MUHI 416AA - The Symphony

This course explores the history of the symphony from its beginnings to the twentieth century and beyond. Representative works by selected composers will be studied through a variety of different lenses.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 203.***

MUHI 416AB - 19th Century Instrumental Genres

This course explores topics related to instrumental music in the Romantic era. Representative genres, composers, works and their respective historical contexts will be examined. For more information, consult the Music Department.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 203.***

MUHI 417AA - The Story of Opera

This course examines the centuries-old tradition of opera through the stories it tells. Students will also explore how operas were understood at the time of their creation and examine how the operatic experience has changed over time.
*Note: MUHI 202 or MU 100 are recommended*

MUHI 417AB - Survey of Vocal Literature

Advanced undergraduate study in Vocal Literature. The course will cover the history of song from the early Renaissance through to the 21st century. Readings, papers and a possible short lecture-recital will form the basis of this course.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 203.***

MUHI 417AC - Song: Histories, Traditions, Practices

This course is a survey of select song traditions from Western and world cultures from the Middle Ages to the present. Major themes will include music-text relationships, genres and forms, social functions, and approaches to vocal performance practice.
***Prerequisite: MUHI 203.***

MUHI 418 - Music, Women, Culture

This course highlights women’s contributions to musical traditions of the past and present, with emphasis on Western Classical art music and culture.
*Note: No music reading ability required, but completion of MU 100 will be an asset.*

MUHI 494AA - Introduction to Music Bibliography and Research

This course will introduce the basic resources in bibliographic research, specifically tools in print and electronic formats. Assignments may include reviewing CD recordings, examining scholarly articles, writing program notes, preparing a conference abstract and a CV, and applying for grants. Students will also research and compile an annotated bibliography.

MUHI 495AA - Music History Honours Thesis

This directed studies course culminates in the writing of a substantial research paper ("honours thesis") and the preparation of an extensive bibliography on a specific music
historical topic.
*** Prerequisite: MU 201 or 203 ***
* Note: for Bachelor of Music in History students only.*

MUHI 495AB - Exploring the Sounds of Canadian Music

How have the production and consumption of music shaped Canada over time? This course investigates the impact that humans, including First Nations and European immigrants, have had on Canadian musical culture and what roles space and identity have and continue to play today.
***Permission of instructor is required to register.***
*Note: Attendance of local concerts is required.*

MUHI 495AC - From Monteverdi to Bach: Sound memories (1600-1750)

Using a multi-cultural lens, the contributions of important European composers as well as significant musical traditions, genres, and stylistic trends of the Baroque period, ca. 1600-1750, will be explored in a variety of scholarly contexts. Emphasis will be placed on honing critical and reflective writing skills. ***Prerequisite: Permission of instructor is required to register.***

MUHN 131 - Applied Music Horn

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUHN 132 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 131 ***

MUHN 231 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 132 ***

MUHN 232 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 231 ***

MUHN 241 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 132 ***

MUHN 242 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 241 ***

MUHN 331 - Applied Music Horn

***Prerequisite: MUHN 232.***

MUHN 332 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 331 ***

MUHN 339 - Recital - Horn

A public recital on the horn. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUHN 341 - Applied Music Horn

***Prerequisite: MUHN 242.***

MUHN 349 - Recital - Horn

A public recital on the horn. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUHN 431 - Applied Music Horn

*** Prerequisite: MUHN 332 ***

MUHN 441 - Applied Music Horn

***Prerequisite: MUHN 349.***

MUHN 449 - Recital - Horn

A one-hour public recital on the horn. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUOB 131 - Applied Music Oboe

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUOB 132 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 131 ***

MUOB 231 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 132 ***

MUOB 232 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 231 ***

MUOB 241 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 132 ***

MUOB 242 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 241 ***

MUOB 331 - Applied Music Oboe

***Prerequisite: MUOB 232.***

MUOB 332 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 331 ***

MUOB 339 - Recital - Oboe

A public recital on the oboe. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUOB 341 - Applied Music Oboe

***Prerequisite:MUOB 242.***

MUOB 349 - Recital - Oboe

A public recital on the oboe. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUOB 431 - Applied Music Oboe

*** Prerequisite: MUOB 332 ***

MUOB 441 - Applied Music Oboe

***Prerequisite: MUOB 349.***

MUOB 449 - Recital - Oboe

A one-hour public recital on the oboe. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUOR 131 - Applied Music Organ

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUOR 132 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 131 ***

MUOR 231 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 132 ***

MUOR 232 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 231 ***

MUOR 241 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 132 ***

MUOR 242 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 241 ***

MUOR 331 - Applied Music Organ

***Prerequisite: MUOR 232.***

MUOR 332 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 331 ***

MUOR 339 - Recital - Organ

A public recital on the organ. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUOR 341 - Applied Music Organ

***Prerequisite: MUOR 242.***

MUOR 349 - Recital - Organ

A public recital on the organ. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUOR 431 - Applied Music Organ

*** Prerequisite: MUOR 332 ***

MUOR 441 - Applied Music Organ

***Prerequisite: MUOR 349.***

MUOR 449 - Recital - Organ

A one-hour public recital on the organ. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUPC 131 - Applied Music Percussion

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUPC 132 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 131 ***

MUPC 231 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 132 ***

MUPC 232 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 231 ***

MUPC 241 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 132 ***

MUPC 242 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 241 ***

MUPC 331 - Applied Music Percussion

***Prerequisite: MUPC 232.***

MUPC 332 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 331 ***

MUPC 339 - Recital - Percussion

A public recital on percussion instruments. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUPC 341 - Applied Music Percussion

***Prerequisite: MUPC 242.***

MUPC 349 - Recital - Percussion

A public recital on percussion instruments. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUPC 431 - Applied Music Percussion

*** Prerequisite: MUPC 332 ***

MUPC 441 - Applied Music Percussion

***Prerequisite: MUPC 349.***

MUPC 449 - Recital - Percussion

A one-hour public recital on the percussion. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUPE 243 - Piano Literature

This survey course explores the major currents in keyboard literature through the study and analysis of the repertoire of the major composers. Including lectures, listening, and reading assignments, students will examine the key characteristics, musical styles, forms, and performance practices.
***Permission of the instructor is required to register***

MUPE 244 - Piano Literature

Continuation of MUPE 243. This survey course explores the major currents in keyboard literature through the study and analysis of the repertoire of the major composers. Including lectures, listening, and reading assignments, students will examine the key characteristics, musical styles, forms, and performance practices.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 243***

MUPE 253 - Accompanying

Practical work in accompanying solo literature, sight reading, and transposition. Each student enrolled assumes as a project the accompaniment of another student.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register**
*Note: Intended for B.Mus. Piano Performance majors*
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 253 and MUPE 253*

MUPE 254 - Accompanying

A continuation of MUPE 253.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 253***
*Note: Intended for B.Mus. Piano Performance majors*
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 254 and MUPE 254*

MUPE 255 - Intro to Continuo

This class will serve as a basic introduction to the art of continuo playing for piano majors. Students in this class will have the opportunity to work and perform with international faculty from the Perspective Festival.
**Permission of Department Head is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of MU 299AB or MUPE 255.*

MUPE 270 - Language Diction for Singers

An introduction to language diction for singers. The International Phonetic Alphabet will be used to assist singers with the basic language found in the standard singer's repertoire.
***Prerequisite: Music reading ability, vocal technique class, or the permission of the instructor.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 270 and MUPE 270*

MUPE 271 - Diction II

The primary goal of the course are to continue the skill of using the International Phoenetic Alphabet 'IPA', to develop the ability to sing with clear, accurate diction in Italian, and French, found in singer's repertoire. Students will develop an awareness of how excellent diction can heighten the quality of a musical performance.
*** Prerequisite: Music reading ability, vocal technique class, or the permission of the instructor ***

MUPE 283 - Choral Conducting

An introduction to choral conducting and rehearsal techniques. Participation in a choral group is required.
***Prerequisite: Music Reading Ability***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 283 and MUPE 283.*

MUPE 342 - Instrumental Conducting

An introduction to wind band conducting focusing on baton technique and score study. Participation in a band is required.
***Prerequisite: Music Reading Ability***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 342 and MUPE 342.*

MUPE 343 - Piano Literature

Continuation of MUPE 244
***Prerequisite: MUPE 244***

MUPE 344 - Piano Literature

Continuation of MUPE 343. This survey course explores the major currents in keyboard literature through the study and analysis of the repertoire of the major composers. Including lectures, listening, and reading assignments, students will examine the key characteristics, musical styles, forms, and performance practices.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 343***

MUPE 348 - Jazz Improvisation

Development of improvisatory skills in the jazz idiom. Students must be performers on jazz-related instruments.
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 348 and MUPE 348.*

MUPE 353 - Accompanying

Continuation of MUPE 254.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 254***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 353 and MUPE 353*

MUPE 354 - Accompanying

Continuation of MUPE 353.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 353***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 354 and MUPE 354*

MUPE 361 - Chamber Music Ensemble

Coaching in performance issues and interpretation of selected items of chamber literature. Only a limited number of pianists may register.
***Permission of the instructor is required to register***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 361 and MUPE 361*

MUPE 362 - Chamber Music Ensemble

A continuation of MUPE 361.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 361***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 362 and MUPE 362*

MUPE 381 - Opera Workshop

Opera Workshop is open to all students who wish to gain a basic understanding of how to research, prepare, and perform operatic repertoire. Emphasis will be placed on musical preparation and aspects of production. The students will present a public performance of opera scenes at the end of the term.
Not offered every year. A continuation of MUPE 281.
***Permission of Department Head is required to register***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 381 and MUPE 381*

MUPE 382 - Opera Workshop

A continuation of MUPE 381.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 381***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 382 and MUPE 382*

MUPE 442 - Advanced Conducting

Score preparation and reading. Practical experience with actual performing groups. Consideration of more advanced compositions.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 342.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 442 and MUPE 442*

MUPE 443 - Advanced Conducting

A continuation of MUPE 442.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 442***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 443 and MUPE 443*

MUPE 451 - Applied Music Lessons

Lessons for post-bac diploma music students.
***Prerequisite: Admission to the Post-Bac program.***

MUPE 452 - Applied Music Lessons

Lessons for post-bac diploma music students.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 451***

MUPE 461 - Chamber Music Ensemble

A continuation of MUPE 362.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 362***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 461 and MUPE 461*

MUPE 462 - Chamber Music Ensemble

A continuation of MUPE 461.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 461***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 462 and MUPE 462*

MUPE 481 - Opera Workshop

A continuation of MUPE 382.
***Prerequisite: MUPE 382***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for MU 481 and MUPE 481*

MUPI 121 - Applied Music Piano

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUPI 131 - Applied Music Piano

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUPI 132 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 131 ***

MUPI 231 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 132 ***

MUPI 232 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 231 ***

MUPI 241 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 132 ***

MUPI 242 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 241 ***

MUPI 331 - Applied Music Piano

***Prerequisite: MUPI 232.***

MUPI 332 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 331 ***

MUPI 339 - Recital - Piano

A public recital on the piano. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUPI 341 - Applied Music Piano

***Prerequisite: MUPI 242.***

MUPI 349 - Recital - Piano

A public recital on piano. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUPI 431 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 332 ***

MUPI 432 - Applied Music Piano

*** Prerequisite: MUPI 431 ***

MUPI 441 - Applied Music Piano

***Prerequisite: MUPI 349.***

MUPI 449 - Recital - Piano

A one-hour public recital on piano. For students in the Bmus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUSX 131 - Applied Music Saxophone

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUSX 132 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 131 ***

MUSX 231 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 132 ***

MUSX 232 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 231 ***

MUSX 241 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 132 ***

MUSX 242 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 241 ***

MUSX 331 - Applied Music Saxophone

***Prerequisite: MUSX 232.***

MUSX 332 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 331 ***

MUSX 339 - Recital - Saxophone

A public recital on the saxophone. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUSX 341 - Applied Music Saxophone

***Prerequisite: MUSX 242.***

MUSX 349 - Recital - Saxophone

A public recital on the saxophone. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUSX 431 - Applied Music Saxophone

*** Prerequisite: MUSX 332 ***

MUSX 441 - Applied Music Saxophone

***Prerequisite: MUSX 349.***

MUSX 449 - Recital - Saxophone

A one-hour public recital on the saxophone. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUTB 131 - Applied Music Trombone

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUTB 132 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 131 ***

MUTB 231 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 132 ***

MUTB 232 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 231 ***

MUTB 241 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 132 ***

MUTB 242 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 241 ***

MUTB 331 - Applied Music Trombone

***Prerequisite: MUTB 232.***

MUTB 332 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 331 ***

MUTB 339 - Recital - Trombone

A public recital on the trombone. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUTB 341 - Applied Music Trombone

***Prerequisite: MUTB 242.***

MUTB 349 - Recital - Trombone

A public recital on the trombone. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUTB 431 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 332 ***

MUTB 432 - Applied Music Trombone

*** Prerequisite: MUTB 431 ***

MUTB 441 - Applied Music Trombone

***Prerequisite: MUTB 349.***

MUTB 449 - Recital - Trombone

A one-hour public recital on the trombone. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUTP 131 - Applied Music Trumpet

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUTP 132 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 131 ***

MUTP 231 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 132 ***

MUTP 232 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 231 ***

MUTP 241 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 132 ***

MUTP 242 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 241 ***

MUTP 331 - Applied Music Trumpet

***Prerequisite: MUTP 232.***

MUTP 332 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 331 ***

MUTP 339 - Recital - Trumpet

A public recital on the trumpet. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUTP 341 - Applied Music Trumpet

***Prerequisite: MUTP 242.***

MUTP 349 - Recital - Trumpet

A public recital on the trumpet. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUTP 431 - Applied Music Trumpet

*** Prerequisite: MUTP 332 ***

MUTP 441 - Applied Music Trumpet

***Prerequisite: MUTP 349.***

MUTP 449 - Recital - Trumpet

A one-hour public recital on the trumpet. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUTQ 281 - Functional Piano Techniques I

The development of keyboard proficiency.
*Note: Restricted to students in BMus, BMusEd, BEd Arts Education (music major and minor), BEd Secondary Education (music major and minor), and BA Fine Arts (music). Cannot receive credit for both MU 181 and MUTQ 181.*

MUTQ 283 - Vocal Technique

Students will learn basic techniques for healthy vocal production, and how to apply those techniques and/or teach them in the classroom, the choir rehearsal, or the private voice studio. Vocal physiology, acoustics and other vocal issues will be examined, along with in-class performing.
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 183 and MUTQ 283*

MUTQ 284 - String Techniques

Techniques of all string instruments.
*Note: Restricted to students in BMus, BMusEd, BEd Arts Education (music major and minor), BEd Secondary Education (music major and minor), and BA in Fine Arts (music)*
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 184 and MUTQ 284*

MUTQ 285 - Woodwind Techniques

Techniques of all woodwind instruments.
* Restricted to students in BMus, BMusEd, BEd Arts Education (music major and minor), BEd Secondary Education (music major and minor), and BA in Fine Arts (music). *
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 185 and MUTQ 285.*

MUTQ 286 - Brass Techniques

Techniques of all brass instruments. An in-depth look at methods and practices of teaching brass players. The addition of a 'lab band' will aid students in giving practical experience in teaching of brass players. This will provide the practical and vital experience in teaching and playing brass instruments before internship or work with an ensemble.
*Note: Restricted to students in BMus, BMusEd, BEd Arts Education (music major and minor), BEd Secondary Education (music major and minor), and BA in Fine Arts (music).*
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 186 and MUTQ 286.*

MUTQ 287 - Percussion Techniques

Basic techniques for playing and teaching all percussion instruments used in bands and orchestras. Practical emphasis will be placed on snare drum, mallet instruments, timpani, and drum set.
* Restricted to students in BMus, BMusEd, BEd Arts Education (music major and minor), BEd Secondary Education (music major and minor), and BA in Fine Arts (music). *
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 187 and MUTQ 287.*

MUTQ 288 - Jazz Ensemble Techniques

Direction of jazz ensembles and interpretation of jazz phrasing and styles.
*Note: Restricted to students in BMus, BMusEd, BEd Arts Education (music major and minor), BEd Secondary Education (music major and minor) and BA with a major in music.*
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 188 and MUTQ 188.*

MUTQ 385 - Woodwind Techniques

Continuation of MUTQ 285. Students will specialize in one instrument, but not in their major.
***Prerequisite: MUTQ 285***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 285 and MUTQ 385*

MUTQ 386 - Brass Techniques

Continuation of MUTQ 286. Students will specialize in one instrument, but not in their major.
***Prerequisite: MUTQ 286***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 286 and MUTQ 386*

MUTQ 388 - Jazz Band Styles and Analysis

A continuation of MUTQ 288, including more in-depth study of jazz score analysis and styles. Students will also examine instruction and performances standards with a jazz band.
***Prerequisite: MUTQ 288.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MU 288 and MUTQ 388.*

MUTU 131 - Applied Music Tuba

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUTU 132 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 131 ***

MUTU 231 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 132 ***

MUTU 232 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 231 ***

MUTU 241 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 132 ***

MUTU 242 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 241 ***

MUTU 331 - Applied Music Tuba

***Prerequisites: MUTU 232.***

MUTU 332 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 331 ***

MUTU 339 - Recital - Tuba

A public recital on the tuba. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUTU 341 - Applied Music Tuba

***Prerequisites: MUTU 242.***

MUTU 349 - Recital - Tuba

A public recital on the tuba. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUTU 431 - Applied Music Tuba

*** Prerequisite: MUTU 332 ***

MUTU 441 - Applied Music Tuba

***Prerequisite: MUTU 349.***

MUTU 449 - Recital - Tuba

A one-hour public recital on the tuba. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUVA 131 - Applied Music Viola

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUVA 132 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 131 ***

MUVA 231 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 132 ***

MUVA 232 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 231 ***

MUVA 241 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 132 ***

MUVA 242 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 241 ***

MUVA 331 - Applied Music Viola

***Prerequisite: MUVA 232.***

MUVA 332 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 331 ***

MUVA 339 - Recital - Viola

A public recital on the viola. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUVA 341 - Applied Music Viola

***Prerequisite: MUVA 242.***

MUVA 349 - Recital - Viola

A public recital on the viola. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUVA 431 - Applied Music Viola

*** Prerequisite: MUVA 332 ***

MUVA 441 - Applied Music Viola

***Prerequisite: MUVA 349.***

MUVA 449 - Recital - Viola

A one-hour public recital on the viola. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUVC 131 - Applied Music Violoncello

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUVC 132 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 131 ***

MUVC 231 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 132 ***

MUVC 232 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 231 ***

MUVC 241 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 132 ***

MUVC 242 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 241 ***

MUVC 331 - Applied Music Violoncello

***Prerequisite: MUVC 232.***

MUVC 332 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 331 ***

MUVC 339 - Recital - Violocello

A public recital on the violocello. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUVC 341 - Applied Music Violoncello

***Prerequisite: MUVC 242.***

MUVC 349 - Recital - Violocello

A public recital on the violocello. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUVC 431 - Applied Music Violoncello

*** Prerequisite: MUVC 332 ***

MUVC 441 - Applied Music Violoncello

***Prerequisite: MUVC 349.***

MUVC 449 - Recital - Violocello

A one-hour public recital on the violocello. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUVN 131 - Applied Music Violin

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUVN 132 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 131 ***

MUVN 231 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 132 ***

MUVN 232 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 231 ***

MUVN 241 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 132 ***

MUVN 242 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 241 ***

MUVN 331 - Applied Music Violin

***Prerequisite: MUVN 232.***

MUVN 332 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 331 ***

MUVN 339 - Recital - Violin

A public recital on the violin. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUVN 341 - Applied Music Violin

***Prerequisite: MUVN 242.***

MUVN 349 - Recital - Violin

A public recital on the violin. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUVN 431 - Applied Music Violin

*** Prerequisite: MUVN 332 ***

MUVN 441 - Applied Music Violin

***Prerequisite: MUVN 349.***

MUVN 449 - Recital - Violin

A one-hour public recital on the violin. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

MUVO 131 - Applied Music Voice

** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

MUVO 132 - Applied Music Voice

*** Prerequisite: MUVO 131 ***

MUVO 231 - Applied Music Voice

*** Prerequisite: MUVO 132 ***

MUVO 232 - Applied Music Voice

*** Prerequisite: MUVO 231 ***

MUVO 241 - Applied Music Voice

*** Prerequisite: MUVO 132 ***

MUVO 242 - Applied Music Voice

*** Prerequisite: MUVO 241 ***

MUVO 331 - Applied Music Voice

***Prerequisite: MUVO 232.***

MUVO 339 - Recital - Voice

A public voice recital. For the student completing recital requirements in the BMUS composition, music history, and in the BMUS Ed program.

MUVO 341 - Applied Music Voice

***Prerequisite: MUVO 242.***

MUVO 349 - Recital - Voice

A public voice recital. For students in BMus program performance concentration. This recital is given in the third year of study.

MUVO 441 - Applied Music Voice

***Prerequisite: MUVO 349.***

MUVO 449 - Recital - Voice

A one-hour public voice recital. For students in the BMus program concentration in performance. This recital is to be given in the final year of study.

NAK 100 - Conversational Nakota I

Introduction to the Nakota language, with emphasis on oral expression, basic grammar, and writing in Roman orthography.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NAK 100 or NAK 104.*

NAK 101 - Conversational Nakota II

A continuation of NAK 100. Further grammar and conversation practice for Nakota.
***Prerequisite: NAK 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NAK 101 or NAK 105.*

NAK 104 - Nakota Grammar and Orthography I

This course is designed for students who speak some Nakota. Emphasis is on Roman orthography and basic grammar, with some attention to dialect variation.
**Permission of the Program Coordinator is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NAK 104 or NAK 100.*

NAK 105 - Nakota Grammar and Orthography II

A continuation of NAK 104. Further study of the grammar and orthography. An introduction to short composition.
***Prerequisite: NAK 104 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NAK 105 or NAK 101.*

NAK 202 - Intermediate Nakota l

This course is a continuation of the Nakota oracy and literacy skills introduced at the 100-level. Intermediate grammatical structures are introduced through oral practice and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: NAK 101 or NAK 105.***

NAK 203 - Intermediate Nakota ll

A continuation of NAK 202. Further oral practice in Nakota with additional grammatical instruction and an introduction to short composition. ***Prerequisite: NAK 202***

NAK 206 - Nakota Linguistics

Linguistic concepts for the scientific analysis of Nakota, with comparison to the closely related Dakota dialect. Application to language teaching.
***Prerequisite: NAK 101 or NAK 105 or permission of the Program Coordinator.***

NAK 225 - Nakota Transcription and Writing

Practice with the roman orthography for Nakota consisting of transcription exercises and short expository and creative compositions.
***Prerequisite: NAK 203.***

NISH 100 - Elementary Anihšināpēmowin I

Introduction to Anihšināpēmowin: basic oral expression, grammar, and practice with electronic learning materials. No prior knowledge of Anihšināpēmowin is assumed.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 100, NISH 104, SAUL 100, or SAUL 104.*

NISH 101 - Elementary Anihšināpēmowin II

A continuation of NISH 100. Further grammar and oral practice of Anihšināpēmowin. This course completes preparation for NISH 202.
***Prerequisite: NISH 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SAUL 101, or SAUL 105, NISH 101, or NISH 105.*

NISH 104 - Anihšināpēmowin Grammar and Orthography I

This course is designed for students who seek grammatical and literary knowledge of Anihšināpēmowin. Emphasis is on writing in the standard Roman orthography and on grammatical structures.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SAUL 100, or SAUL 104, NISH 100, or NISH 104.*

NISH 105 - Anihšināpēmowin Grammar and Orthography II

A continuation of NISH 104. Further writing practice, grammar and an introduction to short compositions.
***Prerequisite: NISH 104.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SAUL 101, or SAUL 105, NISH 101, or NISH 105.*

NISH 150 - Anihšināpēmowin Immersion I

This course will focus on listening and speaking skills by integrating linguistic functions with cultural knowledge. Students will acquire the level of competence needed to be functional within a relatively narrow range of familiar topic areas.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SAUL 150, SAUL 100 and/or SAUL 101, NISH 150, or NISH 100 and/or NISH 101.*

NISH 202 - Intermediate Anihšināpēmowin I

This course is a continuation and integration of the Anihšināpēmowin oracy and literacy skills introduced at the 100-level. Intermediate grammatical structures are introduced through oral practice and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: NISH 101 or NISH 105.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 202 or SAUL 202.*

NISH 203 - Intermediate Anihšināpēmowin II

A continuation of NISH 202. Further oral and written practice in Anihšināpēmowin. This course completes preparation for all senior Anihšināpēmowin courses.
***Prerequisite: NISH 202.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 202 or SAUL 202.*

NISH 206 - Anihšināpēmowin Linguistics

Linguistic concepts for the scientific analysis of Anihšināpēmowin, with comparison to the closely related Algonquian language Cree. Application to language teaching.
***Prerequisite: NISH 101 or NISH 105 or permission of the Associate Dean Academic.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 206 or SAUL 206.*

NISH 225 - Anihšināpēmowin Transcription

This course will reinforce the standard roman orthography for Anihšināpēmowin and present ample opportunity to increase one’s ability at transcribing spoken Anihšināpēmowin from both oral and audiotaped sources.
***Prerequisite: NISH 203.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 225 or SAUL 225.*

NISH 230 - Anihšināpēmowin Syllabics

Introduction to the Anihšināpēmowin syllabics writing system. Reading and writing in syllabics.
***Prerequisite: NISH 101.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 230 or SAUL 230.*

NISH 250 - Anihšināpēmowin Immersion II

This course will bring participants to an intermediate level of proficiency. It will be complemented by examination and usage of grammatical structures, cultural elements, and the study of oral and written literature.
***Prerequisite: NISH 150 or NISH 100 and NISH 101.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 250 or SAUL 250.*
*Note: This course can be counted as an elective but cannot be used toward the main requirements of degree programs.*
*Note: This course will also be available as a non-credit option for those outside the university community.*

NISH 305 - Expository Writing in Anihšināpēmowin

Study and analysis of non-fiction literature in Anihšināpēmowin, such as biography, history, politics, news stories, narratives, and technical writing; practice in writing and revision.
***Prerequisite: NISH 203.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 305 or SAUL 305.*

NISH 325 - Translation I: Anihšināpēmowin-English

A comparison of Anihšināpēmowin and English stylistics with practical exercises in written translation, primarily from Anihšināpēmowin to English. ***Prerequisite: NISH 225.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 325 or SAUL 325.*

NISH 340 - Oral Traditions of Anihšināpēmowin

Stories and legends on audio and video cassettes will be analyzed and transcribed by students. Storytelling sessions with students and elders. Visiting lectures will also be included in the course.
***Prerequisite: NISH 203.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 340 or SAUL 340.*

NISH 405 - Creative Writing in Anihšināpēmowin

Students will continue to practice writing techniques, compose original material in Anihšināpēmowin, and critique published materials as well as each other’s work.
***Prerequisite: NISH 305.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 405 or SAUL 405.*

NISH 425 - Translation II: English-Anihšināpēmowin

A comparison of Anihšināpēmowin and English stylistics with practical exercises in written translation, primarily from Anihšināpēmowin to English. ***Prerequisite: NISH 325.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 425 or SAUL 425.*

NISH 490AA - Underlying Structures of Anihšināpēmowin

This course will deal with more complex grammatical structures as well as underlying structures of Anihšināpēmowin. There will also be reading and writing in various orthographies.
***Prerequisite: Three 300-level NISH courses.***
**Permission of the Program Coordinator Associate Dean Academic is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NISH 490AA or SAUL 490AA.*

NORD 847 - Circumpolar Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This course examines the manner in which scientific and technological innovation, or the commercialization of technology-base products and services, is shaping the circumpolar world. Nations around the world have identified innovation as being the cornerstone of economic competitiveness and critical to everything from job creation to environmental sustainability.

NSLI 390AD - Ecomuseums: Community Engagement for Sustainability

An ecomuseum is a community-driven organization that enables people to explore, interpret and safeguard their shared heritage in a multifaceted and dynamic way. All types of heritage are involved, including natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, and the motivation is usually a desire to foster socio-economic and environmental sustainability. This course will study ecomuseums from a global perspective and participate in the development of ecomuseums in southern Saskatchewan, working directly with the community. This is a project-based, community-engaged, experiential course.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of NSLI 390AD and IDS 290AB.*

PAST 310 - Introduction to Pastoral Studies

The course will introduce the student to Pastoral Studies: history and theology; correlation with social sciences; and application and preparation.
**Permission of the Program Director is required to register.**

PAST 320 - Pastoral Care

The course will explore several theories of pastoral care, related skills, and their application to specific ages, social groupings, institutions and problem areas.
*** Prerequisite: PAST 310, PSYC 101, PSYC 102, and PSYC 210 or PSYC 230 ***

PAST 330 - Foundations of Pastoral Care

The course examines the religious foundations of a Christian understanding of ministry and pastoral care. Attention will be paid to constitutive components of ministry, drawing on resources from the fields of biblical studies, ecclesiology, ethics, theological anthropology and ecumenism.
*** Prerequisite: PAST 310, one 100 level RLST course, and one 200 level RLST course ***

PAST 390AE - Ministry on the Margins

This course will examine the pastoral care of people with developmental disabilities in Western society. It will include a look at the historical development and current day issues which must be regarded for a holistic ministry to this population.
**Permission of the Program Director is required to register.**

PAST 390AF - Global Spirituality & Justice

This course will explore the issue of poverty and globalization using social analysis and drawing on Ignatian spirituality.
**Permission of the Program Director is required to register.**

PAST 400 - Pastoral Studies Practicum

This is a required course for all students. With support from the practicum supervisor, students will become directly involved in pastoral counseling to clients in the community. This practicum is 80 hours in duration, however, the exact days or hours per day will be negotiated between the student and the agency.
*** Prerequisite: PAST 310 and PAST 320 ***

RLST 100 - Introduction to Religious Studies

An introduction to the academic study of religion; a survey of the thought and practices of major world religions; the impact of religion on society and culture.

RLST 181 - Classical Chinese for Religious Studies

This course provides an introduction to the Classical Chinese, used for readings of the texts of Confucianism, Taoism or Chinese Buddhism. Classical Chinese is also used for reading ancient scholarship in China dealing with the above areas.

RLST 184 - Introductory Sanskrit for Religious Studies

This course is an introduction to the classical Sanskrit languages. Emphasis will be on grammar, syntax, and elementary translation practice. This course is useful for students in South Asian religion (Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism) and culture.

RLST 188 - Introductory Coptic for Religious Studies

An introduction to Sahidic Coptic for reading knowledge. This course will be useful for students wishing to do detailed work in ancient Christian Gnosticism, and in late antique Egyptian Christianity.

RLST 201 - Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons

This class explores cross-cultural practices, representations, and beliefs concerning various kinds of monsters, ghosts, and demons. Focus will be on what these different entities have in common (as well as where they differ), with a view to sketching out shared human perspectives on the monstrous, the fearful, and the uncanny.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 201 or RLST 290AS.*

RLST 202 - Approaches to the Study of Religion

This course explores some of the more influential modern theories about why human beings - across different cultures and in different historical periods - have practiced religion and believed in supernatural entities. The class will focus on explanations for the origin and existence of religion that have developed in the social sciences and humanities from the 19th century to the present, and will examine their strengths and weaknesses. Students will learn the basics of social, cultural, cognitive, and psychological approaches to religion. No specific background knowledge of individual religious traditions is required.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 202 or RLST 300.*

RLST 203 - Hinduisms

This course situates 'Hinduism' in the context of the culture of South Asia and examines texts, beliefs and ritual practices of various traditions which fall under the 'Hindu' rubric. The perspective is historical and social. This course also explores the impact of colonialism upon contemporary religious practice in India.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 207 - Buddhism

The course will provide a basic introduction to Buddhism, dealing with its origin, development, doctrines, and practices. Special emphasis will be given to developments in interpretation of the founder's teachings.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 209 - Japanese Religions

The course provides an overview of the major religious traditions of Japan from earliest times to the modern era: Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and the New Religions. Topics to be explored include religion and the state, Buddhist-Shinto interaction, "this worldly" material benefits, pilgrimage and popular culture.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 211 - East Asian Religions

An introduction to the essentials of the East Asian religious traditions. The course will deal with basic beliefs and practices of Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism, with the emphasis on their influence on the formation of such East Asian cultures as those of China, Korea, and Japan.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 215 - Religions of Greece and Rome

This course will examine the various religious practices encountered in the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean world, and the religious practices of the Roman Empire. The religions will be studied primarily in connection with the categories of myth, symbol, and ritual.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 219 - Judaism

A survey of the principles of Judaism, their historical development, and their impact on the Jewish way of life.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 227 - Jesus the Christ

This course examines the centrality of Jesus the Christ for Christian practice and belief. Topics covered include the background to early belief in Jesus, his presentation in Christian scriptures, the development of Christian claims about him, as well as past and contemporary representations of him in ritual, theology and/or art.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 228 - Christianity

An introduction to the foundations of Christianity dealing with topics such as the centrality of the story of Jesus, its roots in Judaism, its sources of authority, characteristic practices, historical and theological development, major denominational families. Some contemporary issues may also be briefly outlined.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 230 - Religion, Spirituality and Health: Belief, Practices, Impacts and Implications

An exploration of beliefs and practices regarding health, disease, healing and mortality in a variety of religious traditions, and how these affect individual and community health. Includes an examination of empirical studies of religion and health outcomes and concludes with the implications for health care policy and practice.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 230 or RLST 290BB.*

RLST 241 - Islam

An introduction to the foundations of Islam, including the life of the prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, beliefs and practices, and the development of fundamental Islamic ideas and institutions. Emphasis will be placed on the contemporary faith of Muslims as they deal with these primary themes.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 245 - Bible: Old Testament/Tanakh

A survey of the various books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament or Tanakh) from historical, literary, and theological perspectives.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 248 - The Beginnings of Christianity

This course explores the earliest evidence for Christianity: the writings that eventually made up the Christian “New Testament.” We will reconstruct how first and second century writers transmitted and creatively shaped the figure of Jesus, and how Paul and other figures played a central role in role in this process.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 267 - Religion in Canada

This course is a survey of significant religious traditions in Canada, their intellectual background, development of their faith and practice, and their interaction with the Canadian context.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 268 - Cults or New Religious Movements

This course examines beliefs and practices of some emerging new religions including New Age, Wicca, Neo-paganism, Scientology, Unification Church, UFO groups, Solar Temple, Transcendental Meditation and Soka Gakai. The emphasis will be upon the historical roots and teachings of new religions, and issues related to their popularity and interpretation.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 268 or RLST 390AX.*

RLST 273 - Issues in Religion and Science

This course will examine the interface between religion and the natural and social sciences, beginning with a historical, methodological and philosophical overview. Current issues such as genetic engineering, population control, evolutionary theory, environmentalism, technology and values, and the ethics of scientific experimentation will be studied.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 275 - Women in World Religions

This course surveys the role and religious experiences of women in various world religions. Lecture material will cover the accumulated traditional teachings on women and the feminine in each religion, with attention to specific historical developments. Contemporary scholars and issues will be highlighted with an emphasis on feminist methodologies.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100 or WGST 100.***

RLST 284 - Intermediate Sanskrit for Religious Studies

Emphasis will be on advanced grammar and translation practice in Sanskrit language. This course will engage students in reading selected excerpts from the Mahabharata, Hitopadesa and the Puranas. This course is useful for students in South Asian studies in religion, history, classics, and linguistics.
***Prerequisite: RLST 184, or permission of the Department Head.***

RLST 288 - Intermediate Coptic for Religious Studies

An intensive continuation in the instruction of the Sahidic dialect of the ancient Coptic language, with special emphasis on the reading of actual ancient Coptic texts. Special emphasis will be placed on the Coptic Gnostic literature and on Egyptian Patristic apophthegmata.
***Prerequisite: RLST 188, or permission of the Department Head.***

RLST 290AD - Modern Christian Social Thought

The History of Christian Social Teaching from the mid Nineteenth Century to the present. Special references will be given to the several individuals and events in the Catholic, Anglican and Protestant Churches which contributed to the development of modern Christian Social Thought in Europe and Canada.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 290AD or HIST 290AB.*

RLST 290AJ - Fundamentalism

A study of “fundamentalism” including its definition and social impact. Beginning with Christian Fundamentalism (& Evangelicalism) in the USA, similar movements in other religions and countries are covered. Subtopics include the interpretation of scripture and religious law, gender and race relations, and the relationship of religion to political power.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 290AJ or RLST 490CG.*

RLST 290AK - Reading the Qur'an in English

An introduction to reading the Qur'an, the Muslim holy book, in English translation; exploration of the Qur'an's main themes, literary structures, origins, and varieties of interpretation. No prior knowledge of the Qur'an or of Islam is required. ***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 290AL - Monks and Merchants: Religious Exchange along the Silk Road

The" Silk Road" was an important tie for the international trade from Changan (China) to the west; and at that same time, it was more than a route for business, the areas along this important route were the place where East met West, and the places where various religious traditions interacted and syncretised. For this course, with the cultural and historical background, we are going to exam how religions, such as Buddhism, Daoism, Manicheanism, Christianity, Islam, and local beliefs and so forth, how they influenced each other and the significance of the religious syncretism.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 290AM - Death & Dying

This course will explore the ways in which selected Eastern and Western religious traditions understand and negotiate death as a major life-cycle transition. Topics will include preparation for dying, funerary practices and memorial rites, nonphysical reality and the afterlife, as well as cultural variations in the expression of bereavement; varieties of interpretation.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 290AN - Indigenous Systems of Belief and Practice

The focus of this course is the varied ways of knowing and being of indigenous peoples through the exploration of themes such as: holistic world views, diversity, spatial and biographical understandings of land, kinship, environmental knowledge, the function of narratives, cosmology and the impact of colonization and decolonization. Special attention will be given to indigenous peoples of North America.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 290AP - Sex & Sexualities in Religion

Religious teachings on sexual practices, desires and orientations have regulated social norms and notions of morality. Examining a number of religious traditions, historical moments and current religious, feminist and queer movements, this course invites students to discern tropes and potentiality within the larger discourse of personal agency and social power.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 290AP, RLST 390BL, or WGST 490AC.*

RLST 290AR - Intermediate Classical Chinese

This course is set up for the students who completed beginner's level (RLST 181). The main focuses are: more characters, more grammar and more passages selected from the Classical Chinese texts (from Chinese and philosophical contexts) and more exercise for translation (Classical Chinese into modern Chinese and into English).

RLST 290AV - The Prophet Muhammad

This course deals with the life-events of the Prophet as seen in Muslim writings: the Sira and the Tradition. Some films/documentaries will be viewed about this towering figure in Islam.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 290AX - Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X: Religion and Violence

Martin Luther King Jr. adopted non-violent methods for achieving justice and freedom for Black Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. But Malcolm X, a founder of the Black Power movement, said that only violence could bring changes to the structures of racism and hate embedded in American culture. Who was right?
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 290BA - Religion and Gender, Sex and Sexualities in Historical and Contemporary South Asia

Religion contributes to the construction and understanding of gender and sex/ualities. This course examines how this happens in both historical and contemporary South Asia, for example, how Hinduism informs gender and sex/ualities in India, Islam the same in Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 290BA or WGST 280AO.*

RLST 290BC - Korean Religions and Popular Culture

This course explores religions and popular culture in globalized Korea. Contemporary Korea shows a dynamic growth of secular cultures and religious traditions that has a transnational impact. Key topics of this course include Tonghak (Eastern Learning), Buddhism, Christianity, folk beliefs and Hallyu (the Korean Wave) that feature Korean music, films, TV dramas and literature.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or RLST 100.***

RLST 303 - Deities: India

This course focuses on the role of gods, goddesses and other creatures in South Asian religion. Emphasis will be on the interrelationship of notions of the divine, colonialism, post-colonialism and the gender dimensions of religious practice. Theories of myth and ritual as they apply to religious tenets will be explored.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 311 - Confucianism in East Asia

This course is an introduction to the basic ideas of Confucianism including its background and development; its concepts of the world, ethical values of its philosophy and its religious beliefs and practices. The impact of Confucianism on the East Asian societies in ancient and modern times is also covered.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 322 - Origins of Modern Antisemitism and the Holocaust

The religious and cultural roots of antisemitism and its manifestations in Western civilization: the rise of racist and political antisemitism in Europe; seminal issues in the history of the Holocaust; an analysis of the various political and cultural responses to the events of this period.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 322 or HIST 390AU.*

RLST 334 - Catholicism

This course examines Catholicism as a collection of churches and as a tradition within Christianity. Topics covered include: origins, history and current transformations of Catholicism; characteristic emphases on sacramentality, mediation and community and how these shape the Catholic world view, its institutions, practices, beliefs, attitudes toward other groups, contemporary challenges.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 341 - Islam in the Modern World

This course explores the Muslim encounter with the modern age. It examines the traditional religious stance of the Islamic community, and the significant movements and influences that have affected it. It studies specific problems faced and decisions taken, and analyzes adaptations and tensions in Islamic faith and life resulting from the encounter.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 348 - The Synoptic Gospels

The course will focus on a study of the New Testament gospels and their sources, particularly the so-called "synoptic tradition"- the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as well as their sources, both written and oral.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 351 - The Life and Letters of Paul

This course will focus on a study of the New Testament writings by and about Paul, including the "undisputed" Pauline letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon), the letters whose authorship is more questionable, and the narratives about Paul in Acts of the Apostles.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 352 - The Birth of the Church

The main emphasis will be on a study of the later New Testament writings: those which show the first signs of the church defining itself as an institution. These writings include especially Luke-Acts, the later pseudo-Pauline letters (1 and 2 Timothy, Titus), the so-called "general epistles," and the Apocalypse (Revelation).
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 363 - Storytelling in Asian Religions

This course will provide a survey of the stories told by Buddhists, Hindus, Confucianists, Daoists and the followers of Shinto in Japan. The aim of this course is to develop a deeper understanding of the religion and cultures of Asia and to explore the beliefs in popular religion.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 363 or RLST 390AT.*

RLST 372 - Myth, Symbol and Ritual

This course is an introduction to the critical study of the categories of myth, symbol and ritual. To do this we will examine different theoretical approaches and engage myth, symbol and ritual as they emerge in a variety of cultural locations.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 373 - Gender: Theories and Practices

This course begins by examining gender/sex theories (feminist, masculinity and queer studies) arising from a variety of academic locations. Thereafter, we analyze gender/sex ideologies shaped by and in religio-cultural practices across a spectrum of historical locations (e.g., ancient Greece, early modern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East).
***Prerequisite: RLST 100 or WGST 100.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 373 or WGST 372.*

RLST 378 - Gender in Ancient Christianity

The course will explore the elaboration of images of "masculinity" and "femininity", "male" and "female", focusing on the relationship of these discursive entities to ancient Christian practices, goals, and notions of salvation, with a view to recovering how such constructs were used to fabricate a distinctive "Christian" identity.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390AM - Women in Islam

This course will examine the diverse experiences of Muslim women, with specific reference to scripture, historical contexts and selected contemporary concerns. Emphasis will be placed on the debates between traditionalists and modernists and liberals, fundamentalists and feminists.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390AW - Japanese Religions II

The course provides an indepth overview of the major religious traditions of Japan from earliest times to the modern era: Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and the New Religions. Topics to be explored include religion and the state, Buddhist-Shinto syncretism, ¿this-worldly¿ material benefits, pilgrimage and popular culture. Lectures will often be accompanied by slide-show presentations illustrating the rich visual culture of Japanese religion.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390AY - Yoga: Teachers, Texts, Techniques

This course is a basic introduction to the study of yoga. Students will familiarize themselves with the foundational teachers, texts, and practices of the yoga tradition.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390AZ - Zionism and the Middle East

Explores the roots of Zionism and age-old longing of Jewish people to return to land of Israel. Examines thought of Theodor Herzl the founder of modern Zionism in 18thC and the ideologies of other Zionisms. Religious and political aspects of Zionisms will be analyzed in context of current Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 390AZ or RLST 490BX.*

RLST 390BD - Religion and Animals

This course is an intra-historical and cross-cultural examination of non-human animals and their signification, use, and value within differing systems of belief and practice. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, animals in ritual, animals in folktale and myth, in the cosmos, as messengers, tricksters, and helpers, animals as deities and demons, and relations between non-human animals and human animals.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BJ - Religious Syncretism and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Road

This is an advanced course for the study of religions on the Silk Road. The main focus is on the development of some religious traditions in this area: Buddhism, Confucianism, Manichaenism, some local belifs and so forth - the conflict and syncretism among them from 1st to the 10th century.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BK - Advanced Women and Religion

This class will examine the traditional roles of women in selected religions in order to map the parallel concerns, issues and actions of current feminist responses. Historical as well as contemporary resources will be examined.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BL - Advanced Sex and Sexualities in Religion

The student will examine the spectrum of ideological positions regarding sex and sexuality within selected religions in order to map distinctive and comparable patterns from theoretical positions within queer and feminist theory. Extended analysis of scriptural passages reproduced through social ritual will engage questions of text and body.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 390BL, RLST 290AP, WGST 280AK, or WGST 490AC.*

RLST 390BM - Introduction to Koine Greek

Introduction to the Koine Greek of the New Testament.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 390BM or RLST 906AD.*

RLST 390BP - Advanced Classical Chinese

This course is designed for the students who have studied RLST 181 and RLST 290AR. The course will focus on the improvement of reading and understanding of religious, philosophical and literature texts in Classical Chinese.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BR - Interreligious Dialogue and Faith-Based Activism

Students will examine interreligious dialogue for two reasons: to learn the historical and theological teachings about the religious Other from within numerous religious traditions, and to ask if it is advantageous to engage with those involved in the growing interfaith movement towards resolving social justice issues.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BS - Advanced Coptic Reading

This class continues RLST 188 and RLST 288 with advanced reading selections from the Sahidic New Testament, the Desert Fathers, and Shenoute.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BT - The History of Popular Religion in the Middle Ages (300-1400)

This course will examine, from an historical perspective, the religious beliefs and practices of medieval Europeans. The emphasis will be on Christian beliefs, but those of other religions will be considered too. Topics include: heresy; the fate of the dead; skepticism; saints; signs and miracles; good and evil spirits; holidays.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 390BT or HIST 368.*

RLST 390BU - Advanced study of Cults or New Religious Movements

This advanced course examines beliefs and practices of select cults and new religious movements of both Eastern and Western origins. Students will acquire some specific knowledge of the central teachings of several new religious movements and also some familiarity with what might constitute such a movement.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BV - The Gnostics: Secret Gospels from the Egyptian Desert

This course will explore the non-canonical ancient Christian writings discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. The focus will be on exploring and analyzing the theology, sources, and literary history of these documents.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BW - Jesus the Christ

This course examines the centrality of Jeus the Christ for Christian practice and belief. Topics covered include the background to early belief in Jesus, his presentation in Christian scriputures, the development of Christian claims about him, as well as past and cotemporary representations of him in ritual, theology and/or art.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course***
*Note: Students can only receive credit for one of RLST 200, RLST 227 or RLST 390BW*

RLST 390BX - Multiculturalism and Religious Literacy

The notion of religious literacy within the constructs of Canadian secularism and multiculturalism is examined historically and with comprehensive conversations regarding models of interreligious dialogue, advocacy and atheism, feminist responses, and covering the most current topics, e.g. accommodation principles, educational responsibilities, the role of Islamophobia, public space and prayer, and more.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***

RLST 390BY - The Prophet Muhammad - Advanced

Advanced studies: The course deals with the life events of the Prophet in his context of Seventh Century Arabia as seen in Muslim writings: The Sira (biographical genre) and the Tradition. Some themes and films/documentaries about the Prophet will also be part of the discussion.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 390BY or RLST 290AV.*

RLST 390BZ - 19th Century: Religion and Literature (Victorian Gods)

Once known as "the age of faith and doubt" and later as a flashpoint for the rise of the scientific understanding and secularization, the 19th century is under scrutiny by critics who no longer take for granted religion's modern decline. This course examines the robust debates in Victorian culture and literature over religion, modernization, and secularization, as well as the internecine conflicts in Christianity itself.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 390BZ or ENGL 336AQ.*

RLST 390CA - Advanced Hinduism(s)

This course situates 'Hinduism' in the context of the culture of South Asia and examines texts, beliefs, and ritual practices of various traditions which fall under the 'Hindu' rubric. The perspective is historical and social. This course also explores the impact of colonialism upon contemporary religious practice in India.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 24 credit hours or a 200 level RLST course.***
* Note: Students may receive credit for only one of RLST 203 or 390CA.*

RLST 480AI - Adv. Gender: Theories and Practices

This course begins by examining gender/sex theories (feminist, masculinity and queer studies) arising from a variety of academic locations. Thereafter, we analyze gender/sex ideologies shaped by and in religio-cultural practices across a spectrum of historical locations (e.g., ancient Greece, early modern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East).
***Prerequisites: RLST 100 or WGST 100***

RLST 490BK - Heresy

A reconstruction and analysis of ancient Christian factionalism in the second and third centuries, with particular emphasis on charges and counter-charges of "heresy", and the related efforts to define a stable "orthodoxy". The class will focus predominantly on the primary literature from the period.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.***

RLST 490CJ - History of Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) left an indelible mark on the history of the Church and the modern age. This course explores the origin, expansion, suppression and return of the Jesuits, examining their impact on political, religious, socio-cultural and intellectual life in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 490CJ, HIST 390AF, CATH 390AB, or RLST 390AL.*

RLST 490CM - Ritual Studies

This advanced reading course investigates ritual and theories of ritual, providing the student with a solid background in ritual studies.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.***

RLST 490CO - Directed Readings in Sex and Sexualities

Course material will evaluate religious and secular discourse on sex, gender, sexualities, and sexual orientations culminating in a major student project.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.***

RLST 490CR - Neo-Confucianism Ideas and Pre-Modern China

This course is set up for the advanced students for their further study of Confucian concepts in pre-modern China. It will focus on the influences of New-Confucianism among the people and in the society: the positive and negative influences.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.***

RLST 490CS - Confucian Thoughts in Modern East Asia

Confucianism is still existing in China, Korea and Japan in its various forms and infuluences people's concepts and everyday life at present. The focus of this course is to give a further study of Confucianism and modernity.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours. RLST 100 is recommended.*** *Note: Special approval by the course instructor.*

RLST 498 - Honours Seminar

Honours seminar.
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

RLST 499 - Honours Essay

Honours essay.
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

RLST 800 - Advanced Theory

An intensive study of selected methodological approaches to the study of religion, and significant contemporary issues in the discipline.

RLST 801 - Comp Religious Thought

Comparative study of a constant theme in major religious traditions, an important influence on the current development of religions, or the thought of thinkers drawn from several traditions.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 801 or RLST 490AJ.*

RLST 802 - Religion After Modernity

This graduate level course examines four different theoretical locations; postpatriarchy, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism, and their importance to the study of religion. The course engages each theoretical location according to intersections with modernity, epistemological assertions, theoretical import, and implications for the study of religion. Further to the understanding of the four 'posts' the writing of some of their more recognized proponents are read.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

RLST 810 - Religious Studies Research Seminar

This seminar is a critical examination of issues involved in the construction of a research project. It is designed to integrate theoretical perspectives and scientific research projects.

*** Prerequisite: Permission of Department Head. ***

RLST 840 - Advanced Studies in the Religions of Asia

This course will explore selected themes, movements, philosophies, and religious practices of Asian religions such as Hinduism, Jaininsm, Sikhism, Buddhism, Doaism, Confucianism, and Shinto through the examination of selected figures, myths, rituals, and symbols.
*** Prerequisite: Permission of Department Head. ***

RLST 843 - Advanced Studies in Islam

This course will explore selected themes, movements, philosophies, historical periods, and religious practices of Islam through the examination of selected figures, myths, texts, rituals and symbols.

RLST 845 - Advanced Studies in Christianity

This course will explore selected themes, movements, philosophies, historical periods, and religious practices of Christianity through the examination of selected figures, myths, texts, rituals and symbols.

RLST 847 - Adv Studies Ancient Religions

This course will explore selected themes, movements, philosophies, and religious practices ancient religions including the traditional religions of Greece and Rome, Hellenistic religions, Hermetic materials, ancient Judaism, and ancient Christianity, through the examination of selected figures, myths, texts, rituals and symbols.

RLST 890AM - Advanced New Religions

This class will focus on new religious movements in various locations including North America, India, Japan and SE Asia. We will also explore various analyses of these regions including questions of origin, membership and teachings.

RLST 890BI - Advanced Gender: Theories and Practices

This course begins by examining gender/sex theories (feminist, masculinity and queer studies) arising from a variety of academic locations. Thereafter, we analyze gender/sex ideologies shaped by and in religio-cultural practices across a spectrum of historical locations (e.g., ancient Greece, early modern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East).
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 890BI or WGST 372.*

RLST 890BL - Women/NorthAmerican Buddhism

This course will focus on women's role in Buddhism in North America. The Buddhist practises will be examined in the context of North American Culture and Society.

RLST 890CB - Ritual Studies

Students in this course will examine ritual theories and specific ritual practices related to their area of study.

RLST 890CY - Religion and Mobile Technology

This course provides a critical investigation of religion and online technology in the contemporary West. Particular attention will be paid to the personalization of religious spaces and experiences with the boom of mobile technology.

RLST 890DA - Storytelling in Japanese Religions

A critical examination of the form and function of storytelling traditions in pre-modern Japanese religions among various mediums (textual, visual, theatrical). Particular attention is given to the role of narratives in the construction of local religious identities and the promotion of miraculous objects of worship.

RLST 890DB - Storytelling in Asian Religions

This course is for students who wish to continue their studies in Asian religions. From the approach of textual studies, Religious syncretism among Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism will be the focus. Buddhism reflected in texts and in popular beliefs are important issues as well.

RLST 890DC - Religion on the Internet

This course examines religion on the internet in its multiple manifestations. We will take a thematic look at web sites, web pages, and applications that have religious content. We will focus our analysis on the tendency to proselytize, appeal, and currency. Theoretical perspectives will include historical, sociological, and anthropological.

RLST 890DD - Contemporary Conspiracy Culture

This course explores the nature of conspiracy theories in religion and culture as a cogent contemporary response to the fears and anxieties of living in a corporate world where no one can trust those in positions of power, whether in politics or religion.

RLST 890DE - Interreligious Dialogue and Community Engagement

This course examines how interreligious dialogue can assist with supporting recent immigrants and refugees to our Canadian, multicultural context. What roles do religions, community engagement and public policy play in this accommodation of diversity?

RLST 890DG - Narratives of the Monstrous and Supernatural in East Asia

This course examines narratives of the monstrous and supernatural in contemporary East Asian religious culture as critiques of hegemonic power both foreign and domestic.

RLST 890DH - Advanced Religion and Animals

This course is an intra-historical and cross-cultural examination of non-human animals and their signification, use, and value within differing systems of belief and practice. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, animals in ritual, animals in folktale and myth, in the cosmos, as messengers, tricksters, and helpers, animals as deities and demons, and relations between non-human animals and human animals.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 890DH or RLST 390BD.*

RLST 890DI - Representations of Death

Students examine critically representations of death as they are propagated in symbol myth and ritual in cross-cultural and transhistorical contexts.

RLST 890DJ - Pilgrims in a Foreign Land:Canadian Religious History and Immigration to the Prairies

This course will begin by offering a broad context for religious history in Canada, assessing some major writers on the subject, and then proceed to focus on a specific aspect of this history - religion's role in immigration to the Canadian Prairies. The effect of religious leaders, institutions, and discourse will be considered throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, along with the methodological differences among academics within the realm of Canadian religious history.

RLST 890DK - Advanced Myth, Symbol and Ritual

The course is an introduction to the critical study of the categories of myth, symbol and ritual. The course will examine the theoretical and socio-cultural dimensions of myth, symbol, and ritual examining each category individually.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of RLST 890DK or RLST 372.*

RLST 890DL - Muslim-Christian Relations

This is an in-depth graduate course on the historical development in the inter-religious relations between Muslims and Christians since the advent of Islam in the seventh century till contemporary time. The focus will be on the mutual perspectives of Muslims and Christians on themes like leadership, authenticity, and co-existence.

RLST 890DM - A Freudian engagement of Christian development among First Nations communities in prairie Canada

This course will explore the spread, integration, and rejection of Christian beliefs within Indigenous communities through the use of a Freudian lens. Questions will be asked about what traditional Indigenous spirituality is as well as if and how pre-contact religious expression might be meshed with a system of Christian beliefs imported from Europe.

RLST 890DN - Religion and the State in Early Japan

This course examines the religious traditions of Shinto, Daoism, and Buddhism as power structures in the formation of the imperial state in early and classical Japan (late sixth century to twelfth century).

RLST 901 - Thesis Research

Thesis research. ** Permission of Coordinator is required to register. **

SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology

This course introduces students to basic sociological concepts, debates, and modes of analysis. Through discussion of issues such as the cultural development of humans, the socialization process and the structures of global society, students will be introduced to the distinctive approach of sociology.

SOC 201 - Globalization and Development

This course introduces students to sociological analyses and theories on the rise of global society. Specific topics may include issues such as the development of capitalist industrial societies, local and global inequalities, and the ways in which economic, technological, and political changes shape the world we live in.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology*

SOC 202 - Cities in the 21st Century

This course examines contemporary urban life and the challenges facing cities in the 21st century using a variety of sociological frameworks. Topics covered in the course may include cities and the environment, urban culture and urban renewal, civil society and community engagement, and global cities.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology *

SOC 203 - Canadian Society

This course introduces students to issues of particular relevance to Canadian society. The course considers the historical origins and contemporary expressions of different topics, which may include such things as industrialization and de-industrialization, cultural industries, Canada's position within a global economy, and environmental issues.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.

* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology *

SOC 207 - The "Nature/Nurture" Controversy

This course introduces students to social science debates over the origins and meanings of human nature and human behaviour, with specific emphasis on the nature/nurture controversy. The course focuses on 21st-century aspects of these debates, including socio-biology and evolutionary psychology in the context of their historical roots.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.

* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology *

SOC 208 - Inequality and Social Justice

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on issues of inequality and social justice. It analyzes the origins and consequences of social inequalities and the mechanisms by which they are perpetuated and challenged.

*** Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.

* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology *


* Note: Formerly numbered SOC 206. Students may not receive for both SOC 208 and SOC 206. *

SOC 209 - Religion and Society

This course introduces students to sociological analyses and theoretical perspectives on the place of religion in modern society. The course focuses on issues such as secularization, fundamentalism, sects and cults, and Third World religious movements.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 210 - Social Structure and Personality

The course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the human personality and the sociological conditions within which personalities develop. The course covers classical theories as well as current debates and issues.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 211 - Sociology of Diversity and Intersectionality in Canada

This course introduces sociological approaches to diversity, equity and inclusion. It explores social policy and practices focusing on the complex intersections of race, gender, glass, age, disability, citizenship, and other factors. Course discussion topics include: Indigenous communities, human rights, inequality, newcomer experiences, active citizenship, and complex identity issues.
*** Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.
* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology *

SOC 212 - Gender and Sexuality

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on gender and sexuality in contemporary society. Key topics include: gender and sexual identity, gender inequality, and changing definitions of masculinity and femininity. Students will be introduced to various theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality, including feminist theories, LGBT studies, and queer theory.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology*

SOC 213 - Families

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the family, with emphasis on issues of particular importance in contemporary Canadian society. Specific topics might include the impact of social change on family relationships, changing definitions of the family, children's rights, concepts of fatherhood and motherhood, and same-sex marriage.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or permission of Department Head***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology*

SOC 214 - Sociology of Indigenous People in Canada

This course introduces students to the experience of Indigenous peoples in Canada from a sociological perspective. Employing historical and contemporary examples, students are introduced to policies and legislation shaping relationships between Indigenous peoples and other Canadians. Specific topics might include the neglect of Indigenous issues in Canadian sociological studies, applying social theory to the study of Indigenous issues, identity, Aboriginal and treaty rights, self-government, assimilation, land claims, health, education and justice.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of the Department Head***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology*

SOC 215 - Sociology of Crime and Criminal Justice

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the study of crime and justice. The course examines sociological concepts of deviance, punishment, and social control.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of department head.***
* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology. *

SOC 217 - Rural Societies

This course introduces students to classic and contemporary sociological perspectives on rural life. Topics include issues such as the impact of the global economy on rural societies, rural to urban migration, and social cohesion and social conflict within rural communities.
***Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of department head.*** *Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 218 - Sociology of Hockey in Canada

An examination of hockey in Canada, exploring the relationships between hockey and social inequality, the economy, violence and Canadian nationalism. Central to Canadian popular culture, hockey extends far beyond the rinks and streets on which it is played into the social, cultural, economic, and political realms of Canadian society. ***Prequisite: Completion of SOC 100 or 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head. ***
* Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 222 - Sociology of Health

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on health and illness. The course will examine the history of health care, including the Canadian Health Care System. Current debates over the future of Medicare will be examined, including the relative roles to be played by public and private systems.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of department head***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology*

SOC 225 - Digital Society

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on digital technologies in contemporary society, with particular emphasis on the role they play in the daily lives of Canadians. Specific topics might include social media; dis/misinformation; online shopping, dating, and gaming; Big Data, Al, and surveillance capitalism; and issues of privacy and access to information.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 230 - Environment and Society

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the relationship between society and the natural environment. The course examines the environmental impact of the actions of individuals, businesses and governments. Specific topics might include climate change, environmental degradation, sustainability and environmental movements and conflicts.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of department head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SOC 230 or GES 297AB.*

SOC 285 - Theories of Society

This course introduces students to the main theoretical paradigms in Sociology. The course focuses on the central issues and debates which have ***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 288 - Sociology of Addiction

This course explores the concept of addictive behaviour using different models and theories relevant to understanding addiction within Canadian society from a sociological perspective.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 296 - Sociology of Superheroes

This course examines the rise of Superheroes as a cultural phenomenon. It traces the historical roots of Superheroes in myths and legends, and then focuses on modern Superheroes in comic books, graphic novels and motion pictures. It uses Sociological theories to assess the significance of Superheroes in modern society.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology***

SOC 297 - Sociology of Law

A theoretical and practical analysis of sociological issues and contexts influencing the development, functioning, and effects of law in society. Some specific issues to be analyzed may include law and Aboriginal peoples, welfare fraud, terrorism, immigration, corporate crime, violence against women, homophobia, and the right to strike.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 299 - Sociology of Mental Illness

An examination of the social patterns of risk for mental illness. A comparative and critical assessment of the sociological, psychological and biological models of explanation and intervention.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*

SOC 300 - Issues in Social Policy

This course examines the nature and development of social policies in Canada. It engages with debates about the meaning of social well-being, and how best to promote it locally, nationally, and/or internationally.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 301 - Origins of Modern Society

This course analyzes the social, political, and economic forces that gave rise to contemporary social conditions. The course includes an overview of different sociological explanations of social development and change.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 308 - Power and Social Justice

This course examines sociological perspectives on the impact of social power on social justice. It utilizes both historical and theoretical materials to analyze the effect on inequalities of power and wealth on justice and injustice in society.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 310 - Sociology of Work

This course provides an overview of sociological perspectives on work in a globalized world. Specific topics that might be examined in this course include paid and unpaid work, alienation and resistance, and the ways in which class, gender, and race shape experiences and practices of work.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 312 - Studies in Feminism

This course analyzes feminist thought as both political practice and as academic discourse. The course examines different perspectives in feminist thought as they relate to other social theories and as they relate to political and social action.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 314 - Sociology of Development

This course introduces students to sociological theories of international economic, social and political development. It examines the global division between the West and the rest, and looks at the problems which poor countries face as they attempt to develop, including the role of Western corporations and organizations such as the International Monetary Fund.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 315 - Advanced Studies in Crime and Justice

This course examines advanced sociological perspectives on crime and criminal justice, and explores current controversies in Canadian crime and justice.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 322 - The Social Determinants of Health

This class will review the evidence and theoretical concepts used in assessing the social determinants of health. The social determinants of health include a range of factors such as income, education, employment, social cohesion, and early childhood development.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 328 - Women and Social Policy

An examination of the past, present and future of social policy from the perspective of women, primarily in Canada. A critical assessment of existing perspectives and practices in the formation of social policy and the implications for various groups of women and society in general.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 330 - Sociology of the Environment

This course examines social theories, social concepts, and methodological issues related to the understanding of the environment in classical and modern sociological theory. Specific topics might include the social construction of nature, gender, class, race and the environment, sustainability, and the challenges of interdisciplinarity.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including completion of one 200-level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 333 - Sociology of Disaster

Sociological explanations of the different ways societies define and manage exposures to risk. Disasters, as distinct from hazards, are consequences of social conditions and social institutions generating vulnerability to risk.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 355 - The Global Food System

A sociological lens on processes of food production, distribution, and consumption on a global scale. The course traces the historical development of the global food system and examines contemporary conflicts driving social change.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including completion of one 200 level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 396AC - The Sociology of Wellbeing and Happiness

We all want to be happy, but how do we achieve this? In this course, we explore the social determinants of happiness, and we engage debates about those social relations and organizations that either promote or obstruct wellbeing. We also examine, assess, and experiment with strategies to increase wellbeing and happiness in Canada and beyond.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours, including one 200-level SOC course, or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 400 - Honours Seminar

A weekly seminar devoted to the discussion of special issues in sociology, the reports of research projects, and to the presentation of papers by both students and faculty.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register**

SOC 401 - Honours Seminar

A weekly seminar devoted to the discussion of special issues in sociology, to reports of research projects, and to the presentation of papers by both students and faculty.
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

SOC 404 - Seminar in Social Research Methodologies

A senior undergraduate seminar that critically explores ontological and epistemological underpinnings of various research approaches and considers their methodological implications with special focus on social science methodological debates and controversies.
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

SOC 460 - Theoretical Perspectives on Development and the Environment

This senior seminar analyzes and reflects upon the major theoretical issues in development and the environment.
*** Prerequisite: One 300-level course from the Development and the Environment area and completion of 45 credit hours, or permission of Department Head ***

SOC 480 - Issues in Social Theory

This senior seminar analyzes and reflects upon the major issues in the development of social theory.

*** Prerequisite: One 300-level course from the development of theory foundation and 45 credit hours, or permission of Department Head ***

SOC 485 - Sociological Imaginations

This senior seminar is the capstone class for sociology majors and is to be taken in the final year of the program. Students reflect upon and analyze the major theoretical issues in sociology.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 75 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

SOC 490AI - Animals and Society

This reading course will explore the current state of social science inquiry on animal-human relations and potential in studying animals as social agents/subjects. Topics of focus will include issues with respect to the rights of animals and ontological and epistemological challenges in studying the human-animal relationship across history and context.

SOC 499 - Honours Paper

Candidates for the Honours degree work with a committee to prepare an honours paper in accordance with the department's guidelines.
*** Prerequisite: SOC 404. ***
** Permission of the Department Head is required to register. **

SOC 800 - Graduate Seminar

A weekly seminar devoted to the discussion of special issues in sociology, reports of research projects, and the presentation of papers by students and faculty. Students are expected to register in the graduate seminar in two semesters.

SOC 802 - Advanced Sociological Theory I

An advanced theory course with special consideration given to contemporary sociological theory.

SOC 803 - Advanced Sociological Theory II

An advanced theory course with special consideration given to classical sociological theory.

SOC 804 - Advanced Research Methods I

An advanced research methods course with special focus on controversies in social science methodology.

SOC 805 - Advanced Research Methods II

Research design and the application of statistical techniques in social science research.

SOC 806 - Advanced Studies in Canadian Social Theory

An examination of Canadian contributions to the development of sociological theory.

SOC 808 - Seminar Class & Political Economy

Development of and changes in the class structure of Canadian society and relations between class, class conflict and socio-economic growth, development and depression.

SOC 830 - Development and Environment

This seminar investigates relationships between environmental issues and development processes. Drawing upon theories such as political ecology, discourse analysis and ecofeminism, it provides a foundation for discussions of social, political and economic factors in environmental change and conflict. Issues explored may include water, agriculture, population, common property, and climate change.

SOC 831 - Sociology of Underdevelopment

This seminar provides a critical examination of theory and case studies of development and underdevelopment throughout the world. A comparative, historical perspective will be emphasized. Topics may include modernization/neo-liberalism, dependent development, world-systems theory, the developmental state, global commodity chains, globalization, development discourses, gender and development, culture, and new social movements.

SOC 840 - Knowledge, Science, Technology

This seminar discusses the works of major figures in the sociology of knowledge, science, and technology. Issues covered will include the nature of scientific work, the organization of science, the drawing of boundaries between science and non-science, gender and science, the social relations of technology, and the epistemological and political authority of science.

SOC 841 - Sociology of Knowledge

This course examines issues in the production, transmission, and use of knowledge. Topics may include debates in the sociology of knowledge, the evolution of knowledge institutions and/or knowledge work, case studies of knowledge production, and the implications of various regimes governing knowledge production and dissemination and their alternatives.

SOC 850 - Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

This course analyses social justice issues in gender, race and ethnicity. It provides an advanced perspective on such topics as construction of difference, discrimination, racialization, assimilation, and the interplay of gender, ethnicity, race, and other social factors.

SOC 851 - Crime, Deviance, Normalization

This course examines explanation, theory construction, measurement procedures, and techniques for data collection and analysis within the sociology of crime and deviance.

SOC 880AK - Mental & Concurrent Disorders, & Homelessness & Housing

This course explores the convergence of concurrent mental disorders and substance use with homelessness and housing. The student will be asked to develop an annotated bibliography and prepare an exploratory research paper. Key elements will include: best practices, psycho-social & housing first models and socio-economic realities.

SOC 880AL - Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

This course introduces graduate students to applied methods of qualitative research. Students will learn to conduct interviews and focus groups, use visual research methods, and carry out qualitative data analysis. Emphasis is placed on the connection between methods and key philosophies of science and methodological paradigms. The course includes data analysis training in NVivo software.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SOC 880AL or SOST 307.*

SOC 880AM - Political Economy of Psychopathology

Based on a critical examination of biological, sociobiological, and psychological approaches, an assessment of the usefulness of a political economy approach to psychopathology.

SOC 880BB - Directed Readings in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Education

This course examines advanced theoretical dimensions that relate to the link between environment and society, environment and education, in a context of high modernity.

SOC 890AP - Advanced Social Data and Policy Analysis

Application of advanced quantitative data analysis techniques to sociological research problems. Emphasis is on multivariate analysis of secondary social data using SPSS.

SOC 890AQ - Critical Issues in Environmental Sociology

This course provides a critical examination of the human exemptionalism and new ecological paradigms. A survey instrument will be developed to assess pro-environmental attitudes and behavior.

SOC 890AR - Critical Perspectives on the Environment in the Global South

This course covers critical readings related to the sociology and political economy of environmental issues in the Global South, including how these problems are a product of contemporary development processes. Readings will include social theory and history of the environment, as well as cover particular problems, such as those related to climate change, agriculture, water, natural resources, land rights and conflicts, and oil.

SOC 890AS - Issues on Sociology of Disasters

The course focuses on the sociological explanation of disasters and on the different ways in which societies define and manage their exposure to risk

SOC 890AT - Food, Agriculture, and Environment in the Global Economy

This course examines the political economy of agriculture and food at the global scale. Topics will include the theoretical foundations of agri-food studies, the agrarian question, the ecology of agri-food systems, and agrarian and food movements.

SOC 890AU - The Sociology of Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Development

This course examines the settlement experiences of immigrants in Canada, and the social, cultural and political processes of their integration and/or marginalization. In this context, it also explores immigrant-based institutions and social movements, and equitable approaches to service provision and community development.

SOC 890AV - The Sociology of Alternative Food Networks

This course examines alternative food networks (AFNs) as sites of economic and social exchange, identity formation, and social practice. A particular emphasis is placed on AFNs as sites of ‘green’ or ‘ethical’ production-consumption, and the motivations of actors participating in these networks.

SOC 890AW - Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Immigration & Settlement

This course offers an opportunity to customize learning on a variety of methods and tools to qualitative research with the intent of (i) undertaking a qualitative research project, (ii) analyzing the results of the study, and (iii) writing up qualitative research for the sociological study of immigration and settlement.

SOC 890AX - Advanced Quantitative Data Collection, Analysis and Interpretation

This course covers advanced topics related to the development and testing of relevant sociological research questions using rigorous quantitative data analysis of primary survey data. Data organization, management and analysis methods will be examined. There is a strong emphasis on the use of statistical tools in data analysis and interpretation using computer packages (e.g., SPSS) as well as reporting and presenting of research findings.

SOC 890AY - Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Social Science Research

This course will provide students with advanced knowledge and understanding of various influential social science paradigmatic traditions through a critical examination of their philosophical foundations, their conceptual and methodological implications, and their application to the research process.

SOC 890AZ - Advanced Topics in the Political Economy of Canadian Agriculture

This course explores advanced topics in the political economy and ecology of Canadian agriculture. Topics include theory, agricultural restructuring and consolidation; the financialization of agriculture; agtech and digital technologies.

SOC 890BA - Political Economy of Non-Profit Organizations

This course explores political economic theories of the state, market and civil society. It covers major schools of thought in critical political economy, as well as topics in contemporary Canadian political economy, neoliberalism, and non-profit organizations.

SOC 890BB - Advanced Statistical Modelling: Linear and Logistic Regression

This SPSS advanced statistical modelling course focuses on analysis of survey data using ordinary least-squares, binary logistic, and multinomial logistic regression.

SOC 901 - Research

Thesis research.

SPAN 111 - Introductory Spanish I

Focuses on the acquisition of basic skills of pronunciation, reading, writing, and conversation, for students with little or no Spanish experience. Includes instruction in basic grammar, syntax, and vocabulary for culturally appropriate interaction.
***Prerequisite: No previous background in Spanish. Refer to the Department of International Languages Section of the Undergraduate Calendar (How to Choose a Language) for details.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SPAN 111 or SPAN 100.*

SPAN 112 - Introductory Spanish II

A continuation of the skill development started in SPAN 111. Emphasis on a variety of verb tenses and moods, as well as expansion of basic vocabulary.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 111 or Grade 12 Spanish, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SPAN 112, SPAN 113, SPAN 101, or SPAN 110.*

SPAN 211 - Intermediate Spanish I

Further development of oral and written skills through the intensive review and expansion of basic grammatical concepts and the expansion of vocabulary and culturally appropriate communication through oral activities, readings and compositions.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 112, SPAN 113, or SPAN 110, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SPAN 200 or SPAN 211.*

SPAN 212 - Intermediate Spanish II

A continuation of Spanish 211.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 211 or permission of the Department.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SPAN 201 or SPAN 212.*

SPAN 314 - Spanish Skills Development Through Reading, Writing and Conversation: Advanced

Complementary to the grammar-focused courses, the goal of this course is to increase vocabulary, grammar mastery, and Spanish expression through reading, writing and discussion, based on a variety of readings. Directed to students with a high-intermediate level of Spanish comprehension and expression. Assignments tailored to individual students´ needs.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 212, taken prior or concurrently, or permission of the Department Head, based on language assessment.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SPAN 314, SPAN 214, SPAN 290AC or SPAN 390AD*

SPAN 320 - Spanish American Civilization

This course examines the historical bases and cultural movements that formed the identity of Spanish Americans. Students are invited to amplify their language and analytical skills through an interdisciplinary study of the civilizations of Spanish Americans and the role they play in the community of nations.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 212, or permission of the Department Head.***

SPAN 390AC - Spanish-Language Cinema for Oral Communication

This cinema-based course will present a wide variety of themes, genres and experiences from different Hispanic countries. Through movies, students will be exposed to authentic language and gain insights into their social, historic and cultural context. It is designed to stimulate students' oral communication skills, with some reading and writing components.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 212, or Permission of the Department Head.***

SPAN 415 - Hispanic Culture III

Study of current issues in Hispanic culture, including cultural and political trends, and topics of controversy, such as economic development, gender and ethnic relations, the influence of globalization, etc.
***Prerequisite: SPAN 312 and 320 or permission of the department***

THAC 160 - Introduction to Acting

A course in the basic exploration of simple acting concepts through theatre games, character study, and ensemble playing.
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 160 and THAC 160.*

THAC 165AA - Performance Through Improvising and Devising.

This course focuses on acting theory and practice but uses the model of new play creation through improvised and devised methods as a means of exploring and expanding the creative role of the actor on stage.

THAC 260 - Acting Theory and Practice

An introduction to the fundamental methods practiced by professional actors in mainstream North American theatre and film. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 260 and THAC 260.*

THAC 270AA - Voice for the Stage

This class will introduce students to the necessary tools needed to develop embodied vocal expression rooted in self-awareness, freedom from habitual tensions, ease, clarity, stamina and range. Students will apply these tools to heightened and contemporary text through the use of poetry and dramatic texts.

THAC 290AA - Action: Theory & Practice for Actors in Film & Television

An introduction to the fundamental methods and practices used by professional actors in mainstream North American film and television. This class introduces the actor to acting theory applicable to film and television, and familiarizes them with on-set vocabulary and protocols. Students will learn how to work on camera, how to audition, create self-tapes, and make active and imaginative choices on camera.
*Note: For this class students will be working remotely with the instructor, and will need access to a simple camera.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of THAC 290AA, THAC 360AG, THAC 361, or THAC 365AB.*

THAC 360AD - Performance Through Improvising and Devising

This course focuses on acting theory and practice but uses the model of new play creation through improvised and devised methods as a means of exploring and expanding the creative role of the actor on stage.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor.***

THAC 360AE - Community-based Performance

This course aims to prepare educators and theatre artists for professional performance practice working in community contexts. Practical acting, directing, writing and devising exercises will accompany an analysis of international community-based artforms, including experimental contemporary community arts and youth arts.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor.***

THAC 360AI - Clown: Behind and Beyond the Nose

A course that explores the art form of Clown, through it’s history, principles, and practice.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor.***

THAC 360AJ - Contemporary Scene Study

This class builds on the foundational skills acquired in THAC 260 to develop dynamic and effective scenework in plays from contemporary North American theatre.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor.***

THAC 360AK - Shakespeare in Motion

This course is a physical exploration of the characters and plays of William Shakespeare. Individual and group movement, vocal training and soundscapes, as well as a variety of postmodern techniques will be used to explore, through the body, a playwright best known for his words words words.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor***

THAC 360AL - Solo Collective: Devising Personal Narrative

This is a creation class with an initial focus on solo performance. Students will learn how to write, devise, and perform their own narrative pieces, and to then present their solo creations in a collaboratively devised performance in an open class at the end of term.
***Prequisite: THAC 260 or Permission of the Instructor***

THAC 360AM - Slings and Arrows: Decoding Shakespeare

This class begins with the study of selected productions of Romeo and Juliet and leads into the physical exploration of classical text. The student actor will be introduced to essential tools for "decoding" or analysisng Shakespeare, and present selected scenes from Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or Permission of the Instructor***

THAC 360AO - Contemporary Scene Study: Climate Change Theatre

Theatre for change. This class will explore new plays from around the world dealing with Climate Change and Activism. Students will work on scenes and short plays dealing with Climate Change and lay the groundwork for creating their own new works on the subject. The class will also research artistic activism and its role in society.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor.***

THAC 360AP - Performance Creation: Guided Independent Study

In this course, students work with an established professional theatre artist and learn how to stage a low budget production of new work they have previously created. From putting together an artistic team, to starting rehearsals through to opening night, this course will look at each step required to stage a production on a limited budget.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or Permission of Instructor***

THAC 360AQ - Professional Actor Development

This course will provide students the opportunity to work with a professional artist to develop and present a theatre piece inspired by events in their lives. The course involves working with limited resources with an emphasis on exploration of acting processes. COVID19 permitting, this course has a public share outcome.
***Prerequisites: THAC 260 and Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 360AR - Professional Development

This class is a practical opportunity for Theatre Artists to explore the tools and concepts of a professional practice. Self production, resume, audition trends, approaching Theatres and Artist Directors, letters of intent, graduate school, professional associations - when to join (Equity / ACTRA) and grant writing will be some of our discoveries. As well as the future of international opportunities.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or Permission of the Instructor.***

THAC 361 - Acting for the Camera

This course focuses on the development of acting skills for film or video. Students will become familiar with production procedures and vocabulary. Each student will complete a series of on-camera exercises designed to highlight and examine the special demands of acting for a camera.
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THAC 361 and THAC 365AB.*

THAC 363 - Introduction to Musical Theatre: Sing! Dance! Act!

Students are introduced to the world of musical theatre (through voice, body, and movement) as it relates to stage, film, and television.
***Students cannot receive credit for THAC 363 and/or THAC 360AF and/or THEA 365AG

THAC 365AW - Secrets of the Borne Settee

An advanced production/performance class utilizing acting theory and practice in Canadian drama. Students will explore language, period styles, honest and truthful characterization based on real historical figures, specificity in action, learn to follow a character arc, and realistically listen and respond on stage in an ensemble.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head by audition only***

THAC 365AX - Making Treaty 4

An advanced production/performance class utilizing acting theory and practice in Canadian drama. Students will explore language, period styles, honest and truthful characterization based on real historical figures, specificity in action, learn to follow a character arc, and realistically listen and respond on stage in an ensemble.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THAC 365AY - Fall 2019 Production - Springs Awakening - Musical

An advanced production/performance class utilizing acting theory and practice in Canadian drama. Students will explore language, period styles, honest and truthful characterization based on real historical figures, specificity in action, learn to follow a character arc, and realistically listen and respond on stage in an ensemble.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head by audition only***

THAC 365AZ - SEATBELT - Grad Production

An specialized production performance class utilizing acting theory and practice in Canadian drama. Students will participate in the graduate thesis production of SEATBELT by Natasha Urkow, November 26-27 in the Shubox Theatre
*Permission of the Department Head by audition only.*

THAC 365BA - Devised Performance

continuation of the research and devised work created in THAC 360AD. Students will refine, rehearse and add the technical components to the devised information and create a production that will be performed with full production values in the Shu-Box Theatre.
***Prerequisite: THAC 360AD and Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 365BC - Directed Studies in Adaptation of Dicken's Short Story the Signal-Man to Stage

The students will adapt the Charles Dicken's short story The Signal-Man to create a play and will perform the production with limited production style venue at the end of the semester.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 365BD - Fall 2020 Production - The Portrait Project

A production class utilizing acting theory and practice common to North American Theatre. Students will write and perform their own monologue, explore dramaturgy, design and rudimentary film performance skills to create their own performance piece to be presented online.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the department head by audition only.***

THAC 365BE - Devised Performance in Production - Winter 2021

This course is a continuation of the research and devised work created in THAC 360AD. Students will refine, rehearse and add technical components to the devised material generated under the direction of the Instructor creating a production to be presented during the semester.
***Prerequiste - THAC 360AD and Permission of the Department Head***

THAC 365BF - Fall 2021 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 365 and THAC 365.*

THAC 365BG - Winter 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THAC 365BH - Fall 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 365BI - Winter 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 465 and THAC 465.*

THAC 365BJ - Fall 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 370AA - A Voice to be heard!

This is a practical voice class that will allow you to understand how to reach your target audience with your message. Breathing, resonance, vocal variety through memorized individual performances will be explored. Our texts will be published poetry,stories and individual creative writings to allow each student the opportunity to discover the potential of being not only heard but understood.

THAC 371AB - Inclusive Performance Skills

The course emphasizes the application and integration of performance skills that recognize a range of abilities and mobilities. Healthy life choices will be addressed. No prerequisite.

THAC 371AE - Diverse Dance Styles of the 21st Century

This course includes the study of local and international dance forms of the 21st Century. It will prepare students for work in community arts and education - specifically designed for artists, kinesiologists, and educators interested in performative practice and pedagogy - and serves as a way for students to work with critically acclaimed dancers, visual artists, choreographers, and curators based in Canada. Units provide theoretical and embodied understandings of various movement styles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

THAC 371AF - Movement: Creativity and Expression

A basic course in movement that applies critical principles in analysis of movement expression. This course examines movement and dance with an emphasis on body awareness, alignment, creative expression, and some choreography. It will prepare students to research, create, rehearse, and perform, using various movement theories, including Laban and Viewpoints.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or Permission of Instructor***

THAC 437 - Professional Development

This course is a professional development course for groups of senior undergraduate theatre majors. An introduction to the major professional associations in Canadian theatre, film and television, portfolio development, writing a grant, taxation issues, etc. ***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 90 credit hours.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 437 and THAC 437.*

THAC 460AD - Directing Actors: Scenework

An introduction to the craft of directing scenes and working with student, amateur and professional actors. The course focuses on directing pair and group scenes from the standard North American theatre repertoire.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or Permission of the Instructor***

THAC 465AQ - Winter 2019 Production - Secrets of the Borne Settee

An advanced production/performance class utilizing acting theory and practice in Canadian drama. Students will explore language, period styles, honest and truthful characterization based on real historical figures, specificity in action, learn to follow a character arc, and realistically listen and respond on stage in an ensemble.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head by audition only***

THAC 465AR - Performance in Production

This advanced directed studies course includes supervised research, rehearsal, performance and production of a performance project.

*** Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head ***

THAC 465AS - Fall 2019 Production -Springs Awakening - Musical

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THAC 465AT - Devised Performance

continuation of the research and devised work created in THAC 360AD. Students will refine, rehearse and add the technical components to the devised information and create a production that will be performed with full production values in the Shu-Box Theatre.
***Prerequisite: THAC 360AD and Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 465AU - Fall 2020 Production - The Portrait Project

An advanced production class acting theory and practice common to North American Theater. Students will write and perform their own monologue, explore dramaturgy, design and rudimentary film performance skills to create their own performance piece to be presented online.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the department head by audition only.***

THAC 465AV - Devised Performance in Production

This course is a continuation of the research and devised work created in THAC 360AD. Students will refine, rehearse and add technical components to the devised material generated under the direction of the Instructor creating a production to be presented during the semester.
***Prerequiste - THAC 360AD and Permission of the Department Head***

THAC 465AW - Music Composition for Theatre Production

In this course, students will work with an established theatre director and composer to create multiple compositions to be integrated in a devised theatre production. Working with the director and composer, students will learn to compose both instrumental and vocal compositions and be an integral part of in the artistic vision of the production as a whole. This class is a guided independent study.
***Prerequisite: Permission of instructors***

THAC 465AX - Fall 2021 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 465 and THAC 465.*

THAC 465AY - Winter 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 465 and THAC 465.*

THAC 465AZ - Fall 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THAC 465BA - Winter 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 465 and THAC 465.*

THAC 471AA - Dance Styles of the 20th Century

The course examines stylized dance movements of the 20th century. This repertoire class is structured to prepare students to rehearse and perform for public audiences. Classes will concentrate on developing and practising blocking and staging of choreography.

THDS 121 - Introductory Theatre Design

An introduction to the practices, aesthetics and techniques of contemporary stage set, costume and lighting design. The course will cover collage 2 & 3 dimensional rendering techniques. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 121 and THDS 121.*

THDS 220 - Stagecraft Practices

A practical course in stagecraft techniques that includes projects in set construction, prop making and scenic painting.
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 120 and THDS 220*

THDS 221 - Scenic Design and Model Making

Advancing the skills of the scenic designer with a focus on script analysis, research and model making techniques. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 222 and THDS 221.*

THDS 230 - Crafting Costumes

An introduction to the craft of costume construction, pattern drafting, sewing techniques, mask making and their application to theatre costume. Skills may be applied to department projects conceived and realized by the class. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 130 and THDS 230.*

THDS 231 - Costumes and Contexts

The class will place emphasis on developing the vocabulary of the designer, developing a visual response to the text, and various creative methods of rendering costumes. *Note: Offered in winter semester only. Student cannot receive credit for THEA 231 and THDS 231.**

THDS 240 - Introduction to Technical Theatre

A practical examination of the theatre technician's role in rigging, lighting, sound and the movement of scenery. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 241 and THDS 240.*

THDS 242 - Practical Stage Management

The study and application of theory and practice of stage management including working on a Department Production. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 242 and THDS 242.*

THDS 300AC - Representation and Spectacle: Women in Opera

This course investigates the representation of women through several seminal operas of the 19th and 20th century. Situated between studio and studies, students will consider the question of how women (Brünnhilde/Götterdämmerung, Hermia and Helena/The Enchanted Island, Elvira/Ernani) are idealized and demeaned in staged representation. The class will be conducted through readings and discussion, creative projects and in a critical research paper. Students will also be expected to attend three Live from the Met Broadcasts (Cineplex Galaxy or the Cineplex Odeon).

THDS 300AD - Designing Behind the Scenes/Beyond the Scenes

A studio-based course that looks at theatre design for conventional and site-specific performance. This course will be of interest to any artist who wants to understand spatial practice either on or “off the grid.”

THDS 300AK - Designing Canadian Theatre

This course is aimed at MAP and Education students who are grounded in theatre design/technology, and are interested in Canadian plays within a Canadian aesthetic. Recognizing Canada's 150th anniversary, students consider a range of Canadian scenographers and work on practical design based on works by Canadian playwrights.

THDS 300AL - Research and Planning for the Creation of a Professional Theatre Company

A directed study detailing the creation of a small professional theatre company. Research topics will include budgetary, promotional and organization planning, acquiring funding through grants and sponsorships and production expectations. The course will look at the requirements of being a resident company versus a touring company.

THDS 300AM - Theatre Computer Control Systems

This course will examine the use, programming and operation of analog and digital audio mixers and computerized lighting computers to the equipment's full capabilities.
***Prerequisite: THDS 240***

THDS 302 - Designing for Non-matrixed Performance

A studio based investigation of non-traditional performance design including site specific performance and non-texted based production.

THDS 303 - Designing Spectacle

A studio based exploration of scenographic problems and design for Opera and Musical Theatre.

THDS 304 - Designing Shakespeare

A studio based course exploring the permutations, possibilities and consequences of traditional and non-traditional scenography and the visual representation using a diverse number of Shakespeare's plays.

THDS 305 - On Representation - Stage, Film and New Media

This class is an exploration of representation in performance - the understanding of the body and the spectator in [re]presentational space. The course aims to develop a performative language through hands-on experience in the studio, theoretical readings, and critical and creative responses to dramatic texts.

THDS 345 - Production Management

Research into current practices of production administration and management. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 345 and THDS 345.* ***Prerequisite: THDS 240***

THDS 346 - Lighting Design

Examining the principles, theories, and equipment employed by a lighting designer. Areas of investigation include: colour, light sources, control systems, drafting of plans, and script analysis. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 346 and THDS 346.* ***Prerequisite: THDS 240***

THDS 347 - Digital Graphics for Theatre

An applied study of computer graphics programs which are used in contemporary scenographic and technical theatre practice.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 347 and THDS 347*
*Note: Creative Technologies Program Option*

THDS 365AD - Technical Theatre for a Scholastic Situation

This course will cover the stage management and technical requirements needed to mount a production in an elementary/high school environment.

THDS 365AR - Winter 2019 Production - Secrets of the Borne Settee

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 365AS - Fall 2019 Production - Springs Awakening Musical

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 365AT - Winter 2020 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 365AU - Fall 2021 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 365 and THAC 365.*

THDS 365AV - Winter 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 365AW - Fall 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THDS 365AX - Winter 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THDS 365AY - Fall 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THDS 400 - Design Assistantship

Students gain experience working on various aspects of realizing the design of a production (which is usually designed by a faculty member.)
***Prerequisite: 21 CH of THDS courses at the 200 or 300 level OR permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 429 and THDS 400.*

THDS 405 - Selected Design Research

Research and preparation for a completed design project (usually in one element of a production) using Associated Designers of Canada standards and other academic assignments.
***Prerequisite: 24 credit hours of THDS courses at the 200, 300 and 400 level and an average of 70% in all THDS courses***

THDS 437 - Professional Development

This course is a professional development course for groups of senior undergraduate theatre majors. An introduction to the major professional associations in Canadian theatre, film and television, portfolio development, writing a grant, taxation issues, etc. ***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 90 credit hours.***

THDS 465AS - Winter 2019 Production - Secrets of the Borne Settee

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 465AT - Fall 2019 Production - Springs Awakening Musical

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 465AY - Winter 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal and production work designed for acting students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head***

THDS 465AZ - Fall 2022 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THDS 465BA - Winter 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THDS 465BB - Fall 2023 Production

Supervised research, rehearsal, and production work designed for design, technical and stage management students working on productions.
***Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Head.***

THEA 215AB - Performing the City

This class considers dance / movement / the urban environment. Students work in studio and on location investigating the city as a canvas for creativity, spectatorship, place making and entrepreneurship. It is aimed at Fine Arts, Business, Education, Kinesiology, and those interested in the place of creativity in the urban environment.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of THEA 215AB or MAP 200AO.*

THEA 215AF - Acting Canada

An introductory acting class with a special focus on speech, creative development, improvisation and building ensemble in a fun and supportive environment. While this class is open to all students, preference is given to those with English as a second language and will examine the work of Canadian playwrights.

THEA 215AI - Costume Draping and Sustainability

This course is an exploration of recyclable materials for period costume making, with the help of basic principles of draping. Costume draping explores the concept of “artistic sculpting” instead of pattern making with formulas and numbers.

THEA 215AJ - Theatre: Society, Change

Theatre. Society. Change is designed to provide students with different perspectives on theatre and its uses in the context of development and community building.

THEA 215AK - Introduction to Improvisation

An introduction to the fundamental skills of theatre improvisation. This course is a guide to improvisational choices through the use of theatre games and exercises, with an emphasis on artistic perception and creative expression.
***Students cannot receive credit for THEA 215AA and/or THAC 362 and/or THAC 360AA.***

THEA 315AA - Performing Sustainability

This course considers sustainability, mobility and social engagement, by remodeling Medieval performance practice for 21st century urban audiences. Through theoretical reading and creative exercises we investigate current and historic patterns of human mobility engaging community members through theatrical events that are simultaneously entertaining, educational, socially engaged and political.

THEA 315AB - Devising Inclusive Theatre

This course offers students the opportunity to explore inclusive theatre practices in public performance. It is aimed at those who are interested in collaborative / devised theatre practice especially those who self-declare as otherwise-abled but to all who are interested in exploring these possibilities.

THEA 315AE - Voice Techniques for Disabled Bodies

This class is an exploration of voice techniques for acting student with restricted options for finding the expressive voice. In it the student will explore the current literature on the use of the human body in variously-abled bodies. It asks the questions: how can we apply typical voice training for theatre performance in training performers who are physically restricted.

THEA 416 - Directing

An introduction to the theory and practice of stage direction: scene work and analysis in the classroom.
***Prerequisite: THST 250 and permission of the Department Head is required***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 410 and THAC 410 and THEA 416*

THEA 810AA - Spatiality in Art/Performance

This course will examine the transition of contemporary art and theatre practice, from mid-century to the present, into a conjoined performance strategy favouring process over form and found space over conventional exhibition/presentation venues. Issues surrounding performance based disciplines and diverse media practices.

THEA 810AE - Literature of Disability and Performance

In this course the student will, through assigned readings and critical writing, research and develop an understanding of the language and current issues related to disability and performance. This course will assist the student in building a bibliography related to the MA/MFA thesis.

THEA 810AJ - Readings in Queer Theatre

An examination of play texts and critical discourse that has fostered the development and understanding of queer theatre. Examining theatrical texts from the turn of the century to the present day; the course will trace the development of 'the on stage homosexual' and its contiually problematized place in and on the heteronormative stage.

THEA 810AK - Revisioning of Modernist Texts in Performance

This course examines modernist dramatic texts which rework folk tales and myths. Modernist and postmodernist critical and aesthetic theories of the personal and cultural function, use and value of the folkloric and mythical will provide context. Particular attention will be paid to psychoanalysis, structural anthropology, and theories of performance.

THEA 810AL - Contemporary Canadian Theatre

An examination of play texts and critical discourse that has fostered the development and understanding of Canadian drama. Examining theatrical texts the course will trace the development of Canada in performance and Canada as a performed nation state.

THEA 810AM - Directed Reading in Multilingual Performance

An examination of play texts and critical discourse that has fostered the development and understanding of multilingual performance in theatre, film, and other live performance forms. In this directed reading course, the student will examine relevant theoretical and methodological foundations of multilingual performance.

THEA 820AG - Projects in Dramaturgy

In this directed study course, students will undertake creative dramaturgical projects while examining the relevant theoretical and methodological foundations of dramaturgical practice.

THEA 820AM - Projects in Playwriting l

A course focused on advanced level playwriting with exercises and readings related to both traditional and contemporary approaches to such matters as plot, character, dialogue, style, critique and revision.

THEA 820AQ - Critical Concepts in Performance

Investigates crtitical theories affecting the development of art practices in the areas of theatre and performance. Students will complete a collection of critical readings and/or studio exercises designed to help them to articulate their own methodologies for perfomance making. Readings will draw on cultural studies, performance studies and theatre.

THEA 820AS - Development of the One-Person Performance

The focus of this class is to investigate the Theory and Practice of the one-man play and the aesthetics that move reflection from a passive narrative to an active Theatrical event of engagement.

THEA 820AT - Production Management with a Focus on Accessibility

The student will study the role and duties of a Theatrical Production Manager with a focus on long-term planning, season scheduling. budgeting of theatrical productions, cost analysis of theatrical construction and leadership skills. Every one of these projects will focus on accessibility for both audience and performers.

THEA 820AU - Theatrical Technical Direction

The student will co-ordinate the technical elements of the production creating schedules, assisting on budgeting, supervise technical crews and problem solve. Create CAD drawings of the set detailing the construction elements of the set design. Assist the designers in the realization of their designs.

THEA 890AK - Movement Research for Visual Art Practice

This course focuses on movement research in support of studio-based practice.

THEA 890AL - Exploring Performance Theory Exploring Performance Theory

This course will provide an entry point onto the essential theoretical, historical and practical discourses of the field of performance theory. It explores theories and methodologies used in understanding plays and performances as applied to a variety of theatrical texts from different periods, practices, and places.

THEA 902 - Master's Project

Research, rehearsal and public presentation of a project.

THST 200 - Theatre History

Emphasizing all elements of production, this course surveys developments in Western theatre from its origin to the twenty-first century.

THST 250 - Script Analysis

An introduction to the fundamentals of dramaturgy with a focus on the basic analysis of plays. The course will explore the dynamic of the relationship between script, stage, and audience. *Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 150 and THST 250.*

THST 251 - Historical Approaches to Theatre

An introduction to the sources, methodology, theory and application of historical approaches related to the study and practice of theatre, with emphasis on current approaches and various theatrical periods.
***Prerequisite: THST 250. Concurent enrolment is allowed.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 251 and THST 251.*

THST 252 - Critical Approaches to Theatre

An introduction to the methodology, theory, and application of critical approaches to drama and theatre.
***Prerequisite: THST 250. Concurrent enrolment is allowed.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 252 and THST 252.*

THST 253 - Dramaturgy

Introduction to the work of a professional dramaturge, including the analysis and preparation of pre-modern plays for performance and critical and historical materials for director, designer, actor, and audience.
***Prerequisite: THST 250.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 250 and THST 253.*

THST 300AA - Studies in Greek and Roman Theatre

Studies in the history and literature of Greek and Roman Theatre.
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of CLAS 211, THEA 350 or THST 300AA.*

THST 300AB - Medieval Theatre

Studies in the history and literature of medieval European theatre.
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 351 and THST 300AB.*

THST 301AA - Golden Age Spanish and Neo-classical French Theatre

Studies in the theatre history and dramatic literature of Golden Age Spain (1580-1680) and Neo-classical France (1550-1789).

THST 301AB - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre

Studies in the history and literature of Restoration and eighteenth-century Theatre.

THST 301AC - Dramaturging Shakespeare

How were Shakespeare's plays originally produced? In this course, we will study the historical staging condictions of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, examining external evidence (documentary and archeological, discussing investigations of the Rose, Globe, and Curtain dig sites) and internal evidence (deictic language and embedded stage directions in the plays themselves).

THST 302AA - Melodrama to Modernism: Western Theatre 1830 to 1950

A survey of European and North American plays written and produced from 1830 to 1950.

THST 361 - LGBTQ Theatre Since Stonewall

This class will focus on the development of LBGTQ theatre in the late 20th Century to the present. Taking the Stonewall Riots as the genesis of the contemporary gay and lesbian rights movement this class will examine the growth of GLBTI theatre from the tortured characters of the 'gay' play to the victim driven AIDS drama through the mainstreaming of gay issues in the theatre and onto the solo queer performances of today.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for THST 361 and/or THEA 454AB*

THST 380 - Canadian Theatre

Reading and analysis of Canadian plays with an emphasis on production and historical theatrical contexts.
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 380 and THST 380*

THST 382 - Comedies of Menace: Pinter

A study of the plays of Harold Pinter.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours or permission of Department Head***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for THST 382 and THST 381AA and/or THEA 381AE*

THST 390AA - Reading Genre and Style

This course focuses on responding to various genres and styles of dramatic texts.
**Permission of the instructor is required to register.***

THST 412 - Writing Full Length Plays

Composition of original full-length scripts with detailed discussion of dramaturgical problems having to do with such matters as style, structure, and characterization. ***Prerequisite: THST 411 or ENGL 252. Permission of the Department Head is required to register.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THEA 412 and THST 412.*

THST 452AA - Contemporary Post-Dramatic, Intercultural and Multilingual Theatre

The course will explore various post-modern theatre practices in Canada and abroad focusing specifically on the concept of dramaturgy and the roles of literary and production dramaturgs play in contemporary experimental theatre.

THST 454AA - Expressionist Theatre

This course surveys the development of an early twentieth-century anti-realistic form of theatre in which internal human states are projected onto representations of external reality, modifying or distorting that reality in order to express the playwright's or protagonist's inner experience and/or vision.

THST 456AB - It's getting Political! Theatre as a Political Act

Is Political Theatre about politics or is it engaged in politics? Approaches to Political Theatre includes the comparative study of significant political plays in Canadian and world drama. This course also looks at varieties of popular, community-engaged theatre plays and practices— theatre that activates change!

THST 460 - Theatre of Cruelty

Antonin Artaud's manifesto The Theater and Its Double rejected psychological realism, advocating the creation of a metaphysical theatre of ritual and sacrifice. Privileging the body and images of violation and destruction, Artaud inspired generations of avant garde theatre artists. This course traces his influence from the 1950s to the 1980s.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for THST 460 and/or THEA 454AA and/or THST 456AA.*

THST 462 - Staging the Passion

A study of various texts, medieval to contemporary, that dramatize the events of Christ's passion: his trial, crucifixion, and burial.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credit hours or permission of Department Head
***Students may not receive credit for THST 462 and/or THEA 454AC.

THTR 100 - Introduction to Theatre

An introduction to the various aspects of theatre focused on plays in production and how it all comes together. Learn about the script, the responsibilities of actors and directors, what designers do, different types of theatres, and the rich history of theatrical performance.

THTR 101 - Introduction to Improv

Saying Yes to Yes! An introduction to the fundamental skills of theatre improvisation. This course is a guide to improvisational choices through the use of theatre games and exercises, with an emphasis on artistic perception and creative expression.
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for THEA 215AA and/or THAC 362 and/or THAC 360AA*

THTR 102 - Introduction to Theatre Design

An introduction to the practices, aesthetics and techniques of contemporary stage set, costume and lighting performance design through text, filmed productions and interviews with international stage artists. The course will cover collage 2 & 3 dimensional rendering techniques.
*Note: Student may receive credit for one of THTR 102, THEA 121, or THDS 121.*

THTR 111 - Performance Technologies

From the winged chariot that saved Medea to the introduction of gas lighting in Victorian theatres to the falling chandelier in Phantom on the Opera, theatre has always engaged in complex ways with technology. With an emphasis on lighting, sound, and projections this course gives students a hands-on chance to play with old and new theatre technologies and discover that almost anything is possible.

THTR 112 - Painting and Props

The enchanted rose in Beauty and the Beast, the swords and moving forest in MacBeth and the puppets of Avenue Q props are integral to performance. This hands-on course focuses on the manipulation of various materials, sustainable props building, and scenic painting.
*Note: This class may support Theatre Department Productions.*

THTR 116 - Acting for the Camera

An introduction to some of the fundamental acting methods and techniques used by professional actors working in mainstream North American film and streamed performance.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of THTR 116 or THAC 290AA.*
*Note: A student enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Devised Performance and Theatre Creation can only take this class with permission of the Department Head.*

THTR 121 - Costume Construction

Costumes help create an instantly recognizable character or help tell the story. This course not only gives and/or develops students’ fundamental sewing skills but provides an introduction into pattern development, the role of costume in performance, and the language of costume building.
*Note: This class may support Theatre Department Productions.*

THTR 199AA - Theatre Society Change

Theatre. Society. Change is designed to provide students with different perspectives on theatre and its uses in the context of development and community building.

THTR 199AC - Behind the Magic: Props and Production

Props help create environment and character and are integral to most theatrical productions. This hands-on course focuses on creating props in support of a particular department production. Students will gain real-life experience in props building, pulling and deadlines as part of the production team.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of THTR 199AC or THTR 112.*

THTR 202 - Playwriting

This course provides basic skills for and approaches to writing a play. Students will develop theatrical texts through exercises, readings, and peer critique. Of interest to writers of all media.
***Prerequisite: Two of ACAD 100, ENGL 100, or ENGL 110.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of THTR 202 or THEA 215AE.*

THTR 203 - Introduction to Standup Comedy

This course will teach students the fundamentals of writing and performing stand-up comedy. Students will learn how to generate material from their own life, how to craft a well-made joke and how to perform in front of a live audience.
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for THTR 203 and THEA 215 AG*

THTR 204 - Technical Theatre for a Scholastic Situation

This course will cover the stage management and technical requirements needed to mount a production in an elementary/high school environment. You are teaching in small town Saskatchewan and learn the principal expects you to design, direct, and tech the upcoming mega-musical. Don’t panic, this course will cover the stage management and technical requirements needed to mount a production in an
elementary/high school environment.
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for THTR 204 and THDS 365AD*

THTR 213 - Script Analysis & Dramaturgy

Development of the tools necessary for reading and analyzing dramatic texts. Exploring the dynamic relationship between script, stage, and audience, students will explore dramaturgy and its importance to theatrical production and performance creation.
***Prerequisite: Two of ACAD 100 and ENGL 100 or ENGL 110.***
*Note: Fulfills a Research & Methodology Critical Competency requirement for BA Theatre students.*

THTR 215 - Understanding Performance Texts

Plays can be challenging to read but this course introduces students to the tools needed for reading and analyzing dramatic texts. Exploring the dynamic relationship between script, stage, and audience, students will explore plays as a genre of literature as well as blueprints for theatrical production.
***Prerequisite: Two of ACAD 100, ENGL 100, or ENGL 110.***
*Note: Student cannot receive credit for THTR 215 and/or THEA 150 and/or THST 250.

THTR 315 - Happenings and Collectives

This course examines the visual, textual and performative aesthetics of theatre/performances in the 1960s and 1970s.
***Prerequisite: ACAD 100 and ENGL 100 and the successful completion of 45 credit hours OR ENGL 110 and the successful completion of 45 credit hours.***

THTR 324AA - Slings and Arrows: Shakespeare in Performance

Students are introduced to essential tools for the text analysis and ‘decoding’ of Shakespeare for performance, beginning with an exploration of Shakespeare’s sonnets and culminating in a studio presentation of selected scenes from two of Shakespeare’s plays.
***Prerequisite: THTR 210 and THTR 211 AA-ZZ or THTR 210 and Permission of the Instructor.***

THTR 326AA - Artist Study: Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter transformed dialogue and the use of silence in twentieth century theatre. In this course we will trace the development of his influential dramaturgy over the course of his long career. We will also experience the deep learning accessed through focused study of a single artist/collective through time.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 45 credit hours.***

THTR 326AB - Shakespeare's Theatre

How were Shakespeare's plays originally produced? In this course we will study the historical staging practices and conditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, examining external evidence (documentary sources and archaeological discoveries) as well as internal evidence (original stage directions and deictic language contained in the plays themselves).
***Prerequisite: Completion of 45 credit hours.***

THTR 411AA - Advanced Topics in Voice and Movement

Students will study and practice specific topics related to voice and/or movement for the performer as determined by the instructor.
***Prerequisite: THTR 311 or permission of the instructor.***

THTR 414 - Emerging Theatre Practice

This class will explore the fundamentals of a theatre career in Canada for emerging practitioners and researchers. Through class discussions, seminars, individual, group and whole-class projects, students will learn key skills in launching their career in the Canadian theatre practice and research ecologies, including auditioning, establishing a company and/or securing funding.
***Prerequisite: Successful completion of 75 credit hours.***
*Note: Registration limited to fourth-year BA and BFA Theatre students, or Instructor’s Permission.*

THTR 426AA - Decolonizing Dramaturgy

This course focuses on decolonization as a theoretical and methodological approach in dramaturgical discourses.
***Prerequisite: Completion of at least 60 credit hours.***

THTR 430 - Emerging Theatre Research

In this course you might study a particular playwright, investigate a theme that runs through the work of several playwrights or explore a particular form of drama or performance. Throughout the semester, and with support from the Theatre Department, this class designs, organizes and presents an annual mini symposium, which serves as a showcase for undergraduate research in theatre and performance.