This course studies ideas shaping the contemporary world and arguments that invigorate and challenge our sense of what it means to live as an...
In this course students learn to identify a humanistic perspective, and analyze how this perspective can infuse our understanding of the world around...
This course is for Architecture students only. This course studies ideas that shape the contemporary world, and explores what it means to live as an...
This is a course about language. Language is arguably what separates human beings from all other animals. It is what enables us to think, create,...
This course examines the work of some seminal thinkers, writers, religious leaders, and artists of antiquity. Beginning with the ancients, the course...
Negotiation, group work and conflict are inherent in interpersonal and organizational relationships. Many of us are 'conflict averse', but it is...
The Renaissance and Enlightenment mark the departure from a God-centred universe, as thinkers of this period developed scientific explanations of the...
This course introduces the concepts and debates about the nature of culture and the development of culture industries. Students will examine a range...
This course examines the character and influence of modern science and technology. Questions to be addressed include: What do current scientific...
This course focuses on key themes of the Victorian and modernist experience: Evolution, Revolution, and Relativity. In a cosmos increasingly...
This is a one-semester course within the Arts and Contemporary Studies program with a format of two one-hour lectures and a one-hour lab per week. No...
Do we really live in a 'global village'? The focus of this course is on the historical evolution of political, cultural, economic, and environmental...
This course examines different forms and expressions of diversity and inequity, including social class, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity,...
This course focuses on volatile themes of contemporary and post-modern experience, as the world is opened up to the voices of the "other". The...
This capstone course brings students together for a collaborative project enabling application of various skills, competencies and knowledge acquired...
The Senior Seminar provides fourth-year ACS students the opportunity to develop advanced research, presentation and writing skills in a specialized...
This course offers students the opportunity for advanced study with a professor in the Faculty of Arts. Topics are determined jointly by the student...
