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General Arts and Science - College and University Transfer Profile |
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences |
Program AvailabilityLakeshore Fall 2012: Open Winter 2013: Open North Fall 2012: Open Winter 2013: Open |
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Type:
Diploma
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Campus:
North, Lakeshore
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Program Code:
09051 |
Length:
Humber Lakeshore Campus - Beginning in September and January
Humber North Campus - Beginning in September and January
Certificate (2 semesters) or Diploma (4 semesters)
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CONTACT INFORMATION: Lakeshore Campus: Barbara Morris, program co-ordinator | 416.675.6622 ext. 3280 | barbara.morris@humber.ca
North Campus: Lisa Salem-Wiseman, program co-ordinator | 416.675.6622 ext. 4495 | lisa.salem-wiseman@humber.ca |
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Common to College and University Transfer Profiles - Semester 1 | ||
| Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 100 | Basic College Writing Skills**Basic College Writing Skills**Course Code: COMM 100 Credits: 4 The aim of this course is to improve students' basic writing skills to enable them to enter their next level of English: COMM 200, COMM 213, LANG 101, etc. The course will emphasize sentence structure and will also deal with the writing process. Students will learn and practise correct grammar and will learn to proofread with care. With each assignment, students will be taught to choose and limit their topic according to the purpose and the audience, to develop an outline, and to compose and revise their work. To complete COMM 100 successfully, students must produce writing that meets the minimum departmental standards as set out in the criterion sheet. | 4 |
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| GASC 200 | Academic WritingAcademic WritingCourse Code: GASC 200 Credits: 3 Students’ academic success depends on their ability to express their ideas clearly in writing. Although subject matter and format may change from one program to another, the skills necessary for effective writing remain the same, as do the professional standards that all Humber students are expected to attain. Academic Writing emphasizes the crucial elements of the writing process. | 3 |
| GASC M10 | Mathematics and Data ManagementMathematics and Data ManagementCourse Code: GASC M10 Credits: 3 Students will review basic principles of arithmetic and algebraic expressions enabling them to solve problems involving fractions, decimals, percentages, proportions and equations. The basic rules governing mensuration within the metric system will also be reviewed. | 3 |
| GASA L10 | Foundations of LiteratureFoundations of LiteratureCourse Code: GASA L10 Credits: 3 Foundations of Literature provides students with the tools and criteria to enhance their understanding and appreciation of poetry and prose, as well as to more effectively evaluate literary works for level of excellence. Through the analysis of major classics of poetry, short stories, drama, and novels, students will gain insights into the relationship of literature to the changing (and universal) social problems, values, world-views, and esthetic ideals of Western society, both historic and contemporary. | 3 |
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| GASA L15 | Forms of Literature: Tradition and InnovationForms of Literature: Tradition and InnovationCourse Code: GASA L15 Credits: 3 Through a broad range of readings chosen from the beginnings of English literature to the present, this course studies four major literary genres: poetry, drama, the short story, and the novel. Students will explore diverse literary forms within these genres by reading the imaginative works of major authors representing various historical periods and nationalities--men and women who are at once creators and innovators of literary traditions. As well as introducing students to important creative works, Forms of Literature: Tradition and Innovation gives students a solid foundation in the study of literary form and socio-historical context that will prove invaluable not only for their continued postsecondary studies but also for their life-long pleasure in reading and their understanding and analysis of all forms of writing. | 3 |
| GASC A10 | Educational Planning SeminarEducational Planning SeminarCourse Code: GASC A10 Credits: 3 | 3 |
| GASA S60 | Introduction to Social SciencesIntroduction to Social SciencesCourse Code: GASA S60 Credits: 3 Introduction to Social Sciences is a course that introduces students to some of the basic concepts in evaluating and judging arguments. It does so through examining controversial arguments on a range of current affairs. These topics include the role of the media in society, global inequality and the nature of international conflict. Each week we will examine a current debate in the form of short arguments written by experts in the social sciences and learn to evaluate the persuasiveness of their arguments, their style of argumentation, while taking into consideration the moral implications of their arguments. At the end of the course students will be better able to evaluate the arguments they encounter on a daily basis on websites, blogs, television and other media. Furthermore they will be prepared for future courses in critical thinking, the social sciences and ethical issues. | 3 |
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| GASC R20 | Critical Reading in Social SciencesCritical Reading in Social SciencesCourse Code: GASC R20 Credits: 3 The ability to read well is important in both the academic and vocational aspects of life. Critical Reading is a course designed to improve students’ reading proficiency. This course provides opportunities for students to develop further their ability to retrieve, understand, analyze, and apply information from print, and to use these skills efficiently in challenging material. | 3 |
For the courses with options (COMM 100 or GASC 200; GASA L10 or GASA L15; GASA S60 or GASR R20), students will be placed in the courses based on their writing placement test.
College Transfer - Semester 2 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| GASC 200 | Academic WritingAcademic WritingCourse Code: GASC 200 Credits: 3 Students’ academic success depends on their ability to express their ideas clearly in writing. Although subject matter and format may change from one program to another, the skills necessary for effective writing remain the same, as do the professional standards that all Humber students are expected to attain. Academic Writing emphasizes the crucial elements of the writing process. | 3 |
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| GASC 300 | Professional WritingProfessional WritingCourse Code: GASC 300 Credits: 3 Professional Writing is designed to reinforce and develop the skills students learned in GASC 200 Academic Writing. In this course, students will continue to write a variety of technical, business, and academic documents, using appropriate research, language, organization, layout, and graphics. | 3 |
| GASA L25 | Stories for Life: Shorter FictionStories for Life: Shorter FictionCourse Code: GASA L25 Credits: 3 What is the short story? What do readers expect when they read short stories? How do short stories achieve their effect? Is there a distinctive voice in Canadian short stories? Students will consider these questions by tracing the evolution of short fiction and by reading and analyzing a wide variety of stories from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a special unit on Canadian short stories. Lectures and discussion focus on historical, cultural, narrative and technical aspects of short stories, as well as on their timeless themes: initiation and loss of innocence, family dynamics and conflicts, love and sexuality, political terrorism and war atrocities, and the clash between personal authenticity and social responsibility. Lloyd Jones’, in which storytelling and oral traditions play a central role, complements this course’s study of stories and illustrates the power of story in people’s lives. Alternatively, professors may choose to include Louise Erdrich’s collection of interconnected stories,, whose multiple Native American narrators emphasize the richness of oral storytelling and culture. To permit a wide range of viewpoints and perspectives, authors are chosen for diversity in gender, culture, race, nationality and social backgrounds. | 3 |
| GASA Y10 | Critical ThinkingCritical ThinkingCourse Code: GASA Y10 Credits: 3 We live in a world awash in data and facts from the Internet, television, newspapers and podcasts, to name only a few. It is often said that facts speak for themselves. But any casual analysis will reveal that they rarely speak for themselves and facts and data are usually presented within the context of an argument. It is fair to say that good facts and data will only be as good as the argument that is used to frame them. It is critical therefore to be able to assess not only the raw data and facts but the logic of the arguments that frame the facts. | 3 |
| GASC 000 | ElectiveElectiveCourse Code: GASC 000 Credits: 3 We live in a world awash in data and facts from the Internet, television, newspapers and podcasts, to name only a few. It is often said that facts speak for themselves. But any casual analysis will reveal that they rarely speak for themselves and facts and data are usually presented within the context of an argument. It is fair to say that good facts and data will only be as good as the argument that is used to frame them. It is critical therefore to be able to assess not only the raw data and facts but the logic of the arguments that frame the facts. | 3 |
| HUMA 024 | Humanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceHumanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceCourse Code: HUMA 024 Credits: 3 The Humanities course focuses on fundamental questions individuals ask of themselves as they proceed through life. Why are we the way we are? Do we have free will or are we prisoners of our past experience or our biological inheritance? What motivates societies to change? Why do societal changes so often divide people into opposing camps? Why do so many people find contemporary life at home, at work, and in the community unfulfilling? What constitutes good government? How should injustice be fought? Can nations successfully deal with global problems? What is science and how does it differ from other kinds of inquiry? Can scientists provide solutions to the problems we face? What is art and does it offer answers of its own? What is its relationship to beauty, to knowledge, and to ethics? Is objectivity about art (or anything) possible? These questions are organized into units that begin with issues concerning the nature of the individual and then extend outward to various social, cultural and physical contexts.
The issues explored in this course are too complex to have any one right answer. Rather, individuals must search for answers that make sense of their experiences via various theoretical perspectives. The Humanities course supports this endeavour through study of different thinkers presented in the readings and exploration of different points of view explored in class discussions.
ESL students should consider taking the ESL Humanities course. Students may transfer into
ESL Humanities (HESL 024) either at the Registrar?s Office or the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Office (K201) on a first-come, first-served basis before the Last Day to Add. | 3 |
Students who complete the General Arts and Science College Transfer Certificate and wish to continue to the third and fourth semesters of the University Transfer Profile should see the appropriate co-ordinator.
University Transfer - Semester 2 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| GASA H15 | Introduction to PhilosophyIntroduction to PhilosophyCourse Code: GASA H15 Credits: 3 This course introduces students to some of the key ideas, arguments, and figures of Western philosophy through a critical examination of selected philosophical texts. Students will focus on how to read successfully and understand different styles of philosophical writing from different periods and traditions of Western thought, and will learn about the main branches of philosophy, particularly metaphysics (the study of what is real), and epistemology (the theory of knowledge). Through careful readings of works by Plato, Augustine, Descartes, and Hume, students will learn to appreciate the connections between philosophy and its historical context, but will also be challenged to think about their own lives and times from a philosophically informed perspective. | 3 |
| GASA L35 | Modern and Contemporary LiteratureModern and Contemporary LiteratureCourse Code: GASA L35 Credits: 3 Modern Literature introduces students to literature written from approximately 1900 to 1945. Beginning with the study of representative short fiction of the period and then moving to poetry, particularly poetry that changes or rejects received ideas about poetic form and substance, the course addresses the ways in which modernism challenged and upset convention and tradition. The poetry of Eliot and Auden heads the high modernist and the between-the-wars period, and study of Hemingway’sreinforces the focus on modernism’s discontents, its rejections, its innovations. Satire, irony, and absurdity are examined through reading selected works of Nathanael West and Samuel Beckett. Throughout this course, students will read, discuss, and write about modernist literature and the aesthetic responses to political, social, and historical conditions in the first half of the twentieth century. | 3 |
| GASA Y10 | Critical ThinkingCritical ThinkingCourse Code: GASA Y10 Credits: 3 We live in a world awash in data and facts from the Internet, television, newspapers and podcasts, to name only a few. It is often said that facts speak for themselves. But any casual analysis will reveal that they rarely speak for themselves and facts and data are usually presented within the context of an argument. It is fair to say that good facts and data will only be as good as the argument that is used to frame them. It is critical therefore to be able to assess not only the raw data and facts but the logic of the arguments that frame the facts. | 3 |
| GASA Y15 | Advanced Composition 1Advanced Composition 1Course Code: GASA Y15 Credits: 4 Advanced Composition is designed for General Arts and Science students in the University Transfer program. Through close reading and analysis of selected essays and texts, and through researching, writing, and documenting their own academic essays, students will learn the principles of effective university-level writing. | 4 |
| GASC 000 | ElectiveElectiveCourse Code: GASC 000 Credits: 3 Advanced Composition is designed for General Arts and Science students in the University Transfer program. Through close reading and analysis of selected essays and texts, and through researching, writing, and documenting their own academic essays, students will learn the principles of effective university-level writing. | 3 |
University Transfer - Semester 3 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| GASA C10 | Contemporary HistoryContemporary HistoryCourse Code: GASA C10 Credits: 3 The post-World War II world was shaped, directly or indirectly, by the long-running Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. In turn, the many, varied, and quite often unforeseen results of this clash helped bring into being contemporary political and cultural phenomena such as globalization, renewed nationalist conflicts and the emergence of challenges by non-state actors (such as terrorist organizations) to democratic institutions. Therefore, understanding both what happened in the world since World War II and why it happened helps us better understand how the world works now and how it might work in the near future. | 3 |
| GASA E15 | EconomicsEconomicsCourse Code: GASA E15 Credits: 3 Economics is often called the dismal science. This is because the field of economics touches on almost every human activity including the most important ones, those that provide for our basic material needs. This course considers some of the major arguments in economics about the best way of providing for our needs by recalling an older tradition of economic thought. Instead of relying on mathematical equations and abstract models, this tradition examines economic life by looking at examples from history. The course includes confronting the conflict between the attempt to objectively analyze economic behavior and the moral judgments about economic policies. The great arguments about the benefits and costs of free trade, government intervention in the economy, the provision of public services, taxation, and the relative efficiency of markets in allocating productive resources are among the issue that will be addressed in this course. We will briefly consider pre-capitalist economies including hunter-gatherer societies, the slave based economies of the ancient world and medieval Europe. From there, we trace the rise of capitalism, the Industrial Revolution, and then analyze our capitalist economy through the insights offered by some of the most influential economic thinkers of the last two hundred years. The course ends with the consideration of some recent developments in the field of economics. | 3 |
| GASA L50 | Contemporary LiteratureContemporary LiteratureCourse Code: GASA L50 Credits: 3 The last half-century has seen an unprecedented questioning of conventions, codes, and canons of taste and form in all areas of Western culture. In accord with this questioning, works by many contemporary English-language writers challenge readers’ expectations regarding the conventions and content of literary texts. One goal of such works is to find ways into the complexities of a world without certainties. | 3 |
| GASA S50 | The SciencesThe SciencesCourse Code: GASA S50 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
| GASC 000 | ElectiveElectiveCourse Code: GASC 000 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
University Transfer - Semester 4 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| GASA F40 | Film StudiesFilm StudiesCourse Code: GASA F40 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
| GASA P40 | Political SciencePolitical ScienceCourse Code: GASA P40 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
| GASA Y40 | Interdisciplinary SeminarInterdisciplinary SeminarCourse Code: GASA Y40 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
| GASA Y45 | Research MethodsResearch MethodsCourse Code: GASA Y45 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
| GASC 000 | ElectiveElectiveCourse Code: GASC 000 Credits: 3 In this course, the students will be introduced to physics, chemistry, environment, earth science, health and safety, astronomy, technology and biology. The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into how a scientist thinks and understands the world around them. This will be a problem-based course focused on a 360o understanding of the world within a science setting. | 3 |
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