Interdisciplinary Courses
The Faculty of Arts offers a number of interdisciplinary courses designed by a course committee consisting of members of a number of departments. Interdisciplinary courses are free options, and a student may register for more than one.
A seminar course designed to help students make the transition to university by imparting the knowledge, skills, and attitudes requisite for success in university study. Each section limited to 30 students. Open only to students who have completed fewer than 60 credit hours of course work. Students may not hold credit for both ARTS 1110 and ARTS 1111.
Equiv To: ARTS 1111
Attributes: Recommended Intro Courses, Written English Requirement
This course provides an introduction to the key issues and concerns of leadership and leadership studies, focusing on the central question of "what is leadership." Students will examine the philosophical and historical foundations of leadership theory and practice, along with the more contemporary (and often more theoretical) reflections on both leadership practices and the varied disciplines that study them. This course will satisfy the Faculty of Arts Social Science requirement. Students may not hold credit for both ARTS 1160 and LEAD 2010.
Mutually Exclusive: LEAD 2010
Attributes: Social Science, Recommended Intro Courses
This interdisciplinary course is aimed at students interested in the health professions who are looking to gain awareness of the critical ways in which humanities disciplines can help to attune future health professionals to a number of critical and complicated issues that they will encounter in their practices. These issues include the problem of defining health, bioethical questions (abortion, physician assisted suicide, genetic testing, etc.), and relationships between patients and health professionals. This course will make use of a number of important disciplinary practices from the humanities and social sciences to attune students to these issues and give them the resources for handling them better in professional health care contexts.
Attributes: Humanities
Work assignments in business, industry, or government for students admitted to the Arts Co-operative Option. Required submission of a written report covering the work completed during the work term. This course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: written consent of the Arts Co-operative Option Coordinator and the Faculty of Arts.
Work assignments in business, industry, or government for students admitted to the Arts Co-operative Option. Required submission of a written report covering the work completed during the work term. This course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: ARTS 3010 and written consent of the Arts Co-operative Option Coordinator and the Faculty of Arts.
Work assignments in business, industry, or government for students admitted to the Arts Co-operative Option. Required submission of a written report covering the work completed during the work term. This course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis.
PR/CR: A minimum grade of C is required unless otherwise indicated.
Prerequisite: ARTS 3020 and written consent of the Arts Co-operative Option Coordinator and the Faculty of Arts.