Fall and Winter Sessions 

Fall/Winter 2013-2014

HUMA-5105 - Practicum

Fall 2013

HUMA-5024 - Thesis

HUMA-5116 - Interpretation, Values and Humanities

HUMA-5117 - Methods for Reading the World: Bibliography/Research Course

HUMA-5236 - Cultural & Cross-Cultural Interpretations

HUMA-5256 - Environmental Humanities

Winter 2014

HUMA-5226 - Interpretation and Moral Values

HUMA-5016 - Practicum Development

HUMA-5376 - Past and Present Forms of Belief

GRAD 0001 N2

This is for students to retain their statuses as active over the summer months, but requires no work/active registration. Next year, the first year students will automatically be registered.

See attached timetable for the 2013-2014 course schedule. 

HUMA-5116 - Interpretation, Values and Humanities

Wednesday, 19h00-22h00 Dr. Lawrence Steven

This course is one of three courses required of all students. It serves as a "bridge" course, fostering cognizance of the complexity of knowledge and of the potential contributions of other interpretations, methods, and disciplines. Though it involves students in analysis from various disciplinary perspectives, and in experience through case studies, its emphasis is to have students recognize the ways that varying approaches and experiences come together as we make, discover, or experience meaning. The instructor, in consultation with the instructors of the five electives for the year, will determine specific disciplinary perspectives and bodies of content to be considered. The "coming together" or "bridging" demonstrates how differing disciplines, methodological approaches and content issues share, and historically have shared, hermeneutical and ethical concerns within the Humanities. 

HUMA-5117 - Methods for Reading the World: Bibliography/Research Course

Tuesday, 19h00-22h00, Dr. Michael Yeo

This course introduces students to a range of advanced research, analytical, and methodological skills requisite for graduate studies in the humanities, with attention to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary study. 

HUMA-5236 - Cultural & Cross-Cultural Interpretations

Thursday, 19h00-22h00 Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry

This course will focus on the limits and possibilities of using memory to understand the past and/or imagine utopias for the future. Memory and imagination will be studied from various perspectives such as literature, philosophy and religion. 

HUMA-5256 - Environmental Humanities

Monday, 19h00-22h00 Dr. Gillian Crozier

This course explores environmental questions from a humanities perspective. Topics include human and non-human histories, cultural meanings of environmental debate, environmental discourses, arts and literature on the environment, and ecocriticism. 

HUMA-5226 - Interpretation and Moral Values : Discourses and Values of Health and Illness

Monday, 19h00-22h00 Dr. Philippa Spoel

This course considers the interplay of interpretation and moral values through an examination of select theories and cases. 

HUMA-5105 - Practicum

Times to be arranged - Dr. Norman Cheadle

Under the supervision of a faculty member and a placement supervisor, students will spend the equivalent of 100 hours (10 hours a week for 10 weeks) volunteering in a community organization chosen to illustrate, tangibly, the making and/or implementing of ethical or interpretive meaning. Assessment will be based on a structured reflection journal, a final formal report, a colloquium presentation, and an evaluation by the placement supervisor. PREREQ: HUMA-5016 - Practicum Development. 6 cr.

HUMA-5016 - Practicum Development

Tuesday, 16h00-18h00 Dr. Norman Cheadle

This course examines the practical and theoretical structures necessary for a practicum placement in the following term. The course consists of at least six meetings with the placement coordinator to determine the site of the placement, and with an academic supervisor to develop an intellectual framework and reading list in preparation for the practicum. 

HUMA-5376 - Past and Present Forms of Belief

Wednesday, 19h00-22h00 Dr. Bruce Ward

This course will examine traditional and contemporary forms of religious belief and consider related topics such as secularism, fundamentalism, modernity, post-modernity, New Age, and "East meets West".