Liberal Arts Breadth Elective

Course Description

Students will be allowed to choose from a variety of breadth courses. These courses span a broad range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, economics, and geography, among others. Elective offerings will vary from semester to semester.

Economics

• ECON 200 Money, Markets and Democracy
• ECON 402 Business in Politics  – Advanced

History

• HIST 200 Canadian Studies: The Challenge Ahead
• HIST 201 Hitler and Stalin: Architects of Evil
• HIST 401 Adolf Hitler and the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany

Humanities

• HUMA 200 Film: Styles, Narratives and Techniques of the Moving Image
• HUMA 406 Desire and Discontent – Advanced
• HUMA 407 Popular Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• HUMA 408 Good and Evil – Advanced
• HUMA 413 Justice: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives – Advanced
  

Literature

• ENGL 100 Academic Writing and Critical Thinking
• ENGL 101 Professional Business Communications
• ENGL 102 Academic Writing and Critical Reasoning: Business and Society
• ENGL 103 Academic Writing and Critical Reasoning:The Imagination of Self and Society
• ENGL 104 Academic Writing and Critical Reasoning:Approaches to Literature
• ENGL 105 Academic Writing and Critical Reasoning:The Individual and the Community
• ENGL 106 Academic Writing and Critical Reasoning:Nature, Ecology and Society
• ENGL 201 Trauma and Memory in Literature
• ENGL 202 Betrayal in Contemporary Fiction
• ENGL 403 Love Stories – Advanced
  

Philosophy

• PHIL 201 The Good Life
• PHIL 203 Ethics and Moral Theory
• PHIL 402 Knowing and Believing – Advanced
  
• PHIL 404 How is Society Possible? – Advanced
• PHIL 405 Theories of Beauty
• PHIL 409 Brainstorm – Advanced
  
• PHIL 412 People, Mind and Body: Selfish Thoughts – Advanced
  

Political Science

• POLS 200 Introduction to Politics
• POLS 201 Human Security and World Disorder
• POLS 212 The Corporation in Society
• POLS 250 Power: 701
• POLS 410 Leadership – Advanced
  
• POLS 451 Power: 702: The Question of Legitimation – Advanced
  

Psychology

• PSYC 200 Introduction to Psychology
• PSYC 201 Research Methods
• PSYC 402 Lifespan Development
• PSYC 403 Social Psychology – Advanced
  

Science

• SCIE 200 Astronomy
• SCIE 202 Introduction to Environmental Studies
• SCIE 403 Scientific Achievements – Advanced
  

Sociology

• SOCI 200 Sociology of Health
• SOCI 201 Principles of Sociology
• SOCI 202 Canadian Families: Past, Present and Future
• SOCI 203 The Influence of Mass Media on Canadian Society
• SOCI 204 Sociology of the Everyday
• SOCI 401 Sociology of Consumption – Advanced
  
• SOCI 402 The Sociology of Technology – Advanced
  
• SOCI 450 City Life: 702 – Advanced