New Programs
Game Studies - Minor (Arts)
Game Studies - Minor (Arts)
The Game Studies Minor focuses on the analysis, history, and theory of games as cultural, artistic, and technological forms as well as on game design, with a strong emphasis on games as a narrative and world-making medium. Courses in the Minor adopt humanistic and social science approaches to studying the evolution of games, the game production industry, games as rhetorical devices, and the diverse communities who make and play games. As they become sophisticated critics of games, students learn fundamental principles and methodologies in the creation and testing of tabletop, role-playing, and digital games and gain practice in the use of game engines.
Enrolment Requirements:
Enrolment in this program is limited. To qualify, students must have completed 4.0 credits and achieved a minimum 65% grade in each of the ENG110H5 and CCT109H5.
Completion Requirements:
4.0 credits are required, including 1.0 credit at the 300/ 400 level)
First Year: ENG110H5 and CCT109H5
Second Year: ENG263H5 and CCT270H5
Higher Years:
- 0.5 credit from ENG218H5 or ENG279H5 or ENG317H5 or ENG319H5 or ENG328H5
- 0.5 credit from CCT285H5 or CCT311H5 or CCT334H5 or CCT382H5 or CCT398H5
- 1.0 additional credit from the ENG and CCT courses listed above
Note:
- Students must complete 1.5 credit of ENG courses and 1.5 credit of CCT courses as part of the Game Studies Minor.
- As an additional course option, CSC389H5 may be used toward program completion, depending on the course topic. Students interested in completing CSC389H5 for the Minor must obtain permission from the Department of English & Drama in advance.
ERMIN2023 | Program Area: English
Global Leadership – Minor (Arts)
Global Leadership – Minor (Arts)
Now, more than ever, the world needs principled, inclusive, and empathetic global leaders. The Minor in Global Leadership, facilitated in partnership between multiple Faculties across all three U of T campuses, develops students’ collaborative global leadership skills and capacity to critique what is global leadership and how this concept is understood and challenged in diverse disciplines and global cultures. The Minor integrates theory and practice, and provides a forum for students to engage across disciplines and geographical contexts. The Minor includes interdivisional student experience, community engagement and completion of a globally partnered capstone project.
Enrolment Requirements:
Enrolment in the Minor in Global Leadership is limited. Students will be able to apply to the program after completing 4.0 credits (but no more than 6.0 credits) and must have achieved a minimum average GPA of 2.7 across their best 3.0 credits completed.
In addition, students must submit a separate application. Please see the Minor in Global Leadership website for more information.
NOTE: The GPA cut-off for admission is determined annually in relation to the number and quality of the applicants. It is never below 2.7 across the best 3.0 credits. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission.
Completion Requirements:
4.0 credits are required.
- GLB201H5
- GLBC01H3 (offered at the UTSC campus)
- GLB401Y1 (offered at the St. George campus)
- 2.0 credits, as follows:
- One course (0.5-1.0 credit) from the Communication and Cultural Competencies course list (below); and
- Remaining credits to total 2.0 credits (1.0-1.5 credits) from Leadership; Global Issues; and/ or Ethics/ Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion course lists (below).
Leadership: ANT215H5 or ANT300H5 or ANT352H5 or EDS210H5 or ENV201H5 or HIS311H5 or MGT260H5 or MGT463H5 or POL343Y5
Global Issues: EDS310H5 or ENG273H5 or ENV310H5 or ENV311H5 or GGR329H5 or GGR363H5 or GGR387H5 or HIS330H5 or HIS323H5 or HIS364H5 or HIS425H5 or JEP356H5 or SOC304H5 or SOC354H5 or SOC382H5 or RLG314H5
Ethics/Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: EDS220H5 or ENG274H5 or HIS386H5 or JAL355H5 or POL355Y5 or POL368H5 or PSY320H5 or SOC358H5 or SOC388H5 or RLG314H5 or WGS335H5 or WGS367H5 or WGS420H5
Communication and Cultural Competencies: ARA212Y5 or CHI103H5 or CHI104H5 or FSL105H5 or FSL106H5 or GER100Y5 or HIN211H5 or HIN212H5 or ITA100Y5 or PUN212Y5 or SPA100Y5 or URD212Y5
** The Communication & Cultural Competencies requirement must be fulfilled in a language that is not the student’s first/ native language.
ERMIN0134 | Program Area: Language Studies
New Courses
ANT221H5 • The Trust Paradox
The ultimate question that all life is bound to ask is: how do I survive? Our species, evolved a uniquely human answer, which led to our ascendance as the most dominant on the planet but at what cost? This course explores a central human paradox: how altruism, community, kindness, and war and genocide are all driven by the same core adaptation. We'll call this the Trust Paradox and the evolution of this suite of traits, best described as coalitionary cognition, is one of the most complex and ancient in our species. We will explore how this, often imperceptible drive, is responsible for our capacity for both cooperation and competition, and allowed us to navigate increasingly complex social landscapes. But in our vast modern world, has this blessing become a curse?
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: Online
ANT356H5 • War, Peace, and Revolution in the Middle East: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Conflicts
This course will explore political violence and social change in the modern Middle East. What forms of loyalty, authority or rivalry have accompanied political violence? What economic activities and relations have been shaped by political conflict and peace in the region? What are the historical origins of nation-states, political regimes, and social movements in the region? By taking a historical and anthropological look at political conflict and change, this course will examine the transformations of the region in the last two centuries.
Total Instructional Hours: 12L/12S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT405H5 • Behind Bars: Anthropology of Institutions and Confinement
This course explores confinement, institutions, and incarceration from a broad anthropological perspective. Bioarchaeological, archaeological, and ethnographic research on institutions (e.g., asylums, poorhouses, prisons) will be critically examined. The goal of the course is to provide students with a complex understanding of institutionalization through time and how health vulnerabilities are created and recreated.
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT497H5 • Advanced Independent Study
This independent study course is designed to offer students advanced supervised reading, research and planning for a publishable report on an anthropological topic not covered in other courses, or covered only briefly. Students who wish to pursue this option with a specific faculty member should approach the faculty member early - before the start of the academic term - to negotiate the research and study program.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT497Y5 • Advanced Independent Study
This independent study course is designed to offer students advanced supervised reading, research and planning for a publishable report on an anthropological topic not covered in other courses, or covered only briefly. Students who wish to pursue this option with a specific faculty member should approach the faculty member early - before the start of the academic term - to negotiate the research and study program.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
BIO259H5 • Introduction to Biological Data
This course introduces students to the exploration and analysis of biological data through computation. Students will learn to import biological datasets, parse and manipulate the data, and develop an intuition for basic statistical thinking through practical exercises and lectures.
Exclusions: BIOB20H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
BIO329H5 • Conservation Biology
Conservation of biodiversity, from genes to ecosystems. Topics include identifying biodiversity across levels of organization; understanding major threats to biodiversity (land use change, climate change, overharvesting); evaluating conservation actions (protected areas, reintroductions, assisted migration, restoration); and ethical considerations pertaining to conservation practices.
Exclusions: BIOC63H3 or EEB215H1 or EEB255H1 or EEB365H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
BIO427H5 • Data Science in Biology
Biology has become a data-driven science with the arrival of complex datasets. Extracting information from these large-scale experiments requires approaches that unify statistics and computer science. The course will focus on strengthening mathematical intuition on core topics such as hypothesis testing and statistical models while connecting these to machine learning.
Exclusions: BIO429H5 or CSC311H1 or CSC311H5 or CSC413H1 or CSC413H5 or CSCC11H3 or STA314H1 or STA314H5
Recommended Preparation: BIO361H5
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
BIO429H5 • Data analysis in Neurobiology
This course explains the fundamental principles of biological data analysis by focusing on neuroscience datasets. Students will learn methods for sampling data, testing hypotheses, multiple linear regression, PCA, clustering through both lectures and practical exercises. These methods will be discussed in the context of current research in understanding brain functions.
Exclusions: BIO427H5 or CSC311H1 or CSC311H5 or CSC413H1 or CSC413H5 or CSCC11H3 or STA314H1 or STA314H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
BIO444H5 • Urban Field Ecology and Evolution
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of urban ecology and evolution using the Greater Toronto Area as a model to study the topic. The course will focus on understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes are influenced by urban development, human behaviour, and the built environment, and how the environment can feed back to shape cities and socio-ecology, including human behaviour and well-being. Students will be introduced to principles of the scientific process including making observations, stating hypotheses, experimental design, conducting experiments, data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation, and scientific writing and oral presentations. The course will focus on all major habitats in urban areas to understand how urban environmental change of air, water and land influence the ecology and evolution of populations, communities and ecosystems.
Total Instructional Hours: 14L/98P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CCT306H5 • Interpersonal Communication
An introduction to the cognitive, social, dyadic and group factors that shape communication and relational development between people. The objective of this course is for students to learn and apply the communication processes involved in encoding and decoding messages that help us understand others around us. Students will learn concepts, theories, and skills related to interpersonal communication. Topics include impression management, interpersonal influence, relational development, and conversational skills.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CCT317H5 • Creative and Experimental Coding
This course will instruct students in the use of programming languages such as Python or Processing for novel applications, including cases from animation, design, and information visualization. Appropriate use of code libraries, platforms and programming techniques will be developed. Assessment will be based on both programming and the expressive use of programs in their case context.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CCT318H5 • Sustainability and the Digital Enterprise
This course focuses on investigating the impacts of the digital enterprise on sustainability. The course presents an overview of the sustainability challenges and the concrete approaches to solving those challenges with the use of technology. The course uses an active learning approach allowing students the opportunity to learn while working on different sustainability projects linked to digital enterprises.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CHM323H5 • Introduction to Computational Chemistry
This course covers the foundations of computational chemistry with a focus on practical applications and does not require a background in programming or quantum mechanics. An array of methods for predicting the structural, electronic, thermodynamic, and spectroscopic properties of chemical species will be addressed, as well as how the calculated results can complement experimental observations. Relevant fundamental theories to computational chemistry will be covered on a need-to-know basis. Students will follow an individualized study path and select the chemical systems to which each method will be applied.
Recommended Preparation: CHM231H5 and JCP221H5
Total Instructional Hours: 12L/36T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CIN210H5 • Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas
This course is an introduction to contemporary Southeast Asian cinemas from the 2000s to the present. Since the turn of the millennium, the cinematic innovation of Southeast Asia has been aided by an increase in productive interaction and transnational modes of collaborations and co-productions. These waves of cinema augur new possibilities for considering cross-cultural, cross-boundary ways of being, seeing and knowing that can challenge formulaic and essentialist understandings of the region. Through formal aesthetic analysis of short and feature-length films, and the study of Asia-based and international institutions of cinema, we will examine the multifarious potential of contemporary Southeast Asian in spurring the rethinking of the histories, concepts, and borders of the region.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CIN408H5 • Potential Cinema: Theories, Visions, and Practices of Decoloniality from East and Southeast Asia
Inspired by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, this course investigates films from East and Southeast Asia and considers the ways in which we might recognize theories, visions, and practices that might constitute "cinemas of decoloniality." In this course, we will look to filmmakers' aesthetic engagement with archival and imagined time and the collision of pasts, presents, and futures in order to consider how contentious histories of memory and forgetting can have effects on the politics of the present. How, through and with cinema, could there be space not only to retell and reframe histories of coloniality and decolonization but also to experience and practice the potential decolonization of ways of being, seeing, and thinking?
Total Instructional Hours: 36P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CSC389H5 • Computing Education
Introduction to computing education research (CER) and pedagogical content knowledge. Introduction to learning theories and their application to computing. Foundational and influential CER work. High-impact practices and practical applications to evaluation, assessment, and feedback. This course is writing intensive.
Enrolment Limits: Priority is given to students enrolled in Computer Science Specialist, Information Security Specialist, Bioinformatics Specialist or Computer Science Major programs.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CSC397H5 • Topics in Computer Science
Introduction to a topic of current interest in computer science intended for CSC majors and specialists. Content will vary from year to year. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-48 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Enrolment Limits: Priority is given to students enrolled in Computer Science Specialist, Information Security Specialist, Bioinformatics Specialist or Computer Science Major.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CSC478H5 • Robotic Perception
This course focuses on perception algorithms for robotics applications and sensors. The aim is to provide an understanding of the challenges encountered when deploying perception algorithms on a robot and introduce some of the tools and algorithms typically used to address these challenges. The algorithms will also be implemented and evaluated using real-world data from common use-cases.
Exclusions: CSC498H5 (Winter 2022)
Recommended Preparation: CSC338H5
Enrolment Limits: Priority is given to students enrolled in Computer Science Specialist, Information Security Specialist, Bioinformatics Specialist or Computer Science Major programs.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CSC479H5 • Advanced Algorithms for Robotics
Enabling safe and interactive robotic autonomy requires broad technical capabilities for perception, decision-making, and control. Building such capabilities involves numerous complex design decisions and algorithmic challenges. Following upon a first exposure to robotics, this course will provide advanced algorithmic and learning based tools for the development and deployment of intelligent robotic systems. It will focus on presenting state estimation, robotic vision, and learning-based planning and control techniques and present these techniques in different robotic application settings.
Recommended Preparation: CSC376H5 and CSC413H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
CSC496H5 • Topics in Robotics
Introduction to a topic of current interest in robotics intended for CSC majors and specialists. Content will vary from year to year but will always maintain a robotics focus. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-48 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Enrolment Limits: Priority is given to students enrolled in Computer Science Specialist, Information Security Specialist, Bioinformatics Specialist or Computer Science Major.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ECO320H5 • Economic Analysis of Law: Part 1
This course examines the economic basis for law and legal institutions. The topics covered include the microeconomic analysis of property rights, contract law, tort law, crime, and the limitations of economic analysis. The appropriate economic measures of damages in tort and contract cases will be discussed. No previous familiarity with the law is assumed. (This is an economic analysis of legal issues, not a course in law.)
Exclusions: ECO320Y5 or ECO320H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ECO321H5 • Economic Analysis of Law: Part 2
This course is a continuation of ECO320H5 An Economic Analysis of Law: Part 1. The topics covered include the microeconomic analysis of corporate law, law and financial markets, bankruptcy law, intellectual property law, marriage and divorce law and the choice between regulation and the common law.
Exclusions: ECO320Y5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ENG103H5 • Literature and Medicine
It has never been more essential to learn from the history of disease: how we have perceived it and how we have written it. This course introduces students to the important narratives about health, epidemics, and medicine from both non-Western and Western traditions and provides conceptual foundations for ethical thinking about justice, health, and disability in both science and the arts. The survey will cover prose narrative, film, media, non-fiction, and poetry, and will encourage students to think between the past and the present in their analyses and creative projects. Lectures and discussions will emphasize the interlocking relationships between medicine, language, race, empire, and power.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ENG319H5 • Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Video Games and Gaming Culture
This course investigates representation and identity in and through digital games. Students will primarily consider gender, race, sexuality, and the non-human world in relation to the complex circuits of desire, projection, and disguise that exist among players, avatars, non-player characters, and other gamers. Students will interpret and critique both blockbuster AAA games with large development budgets and production teams as well as small-scale indie and experimental games and will learn about expressive, critical, and avant-garde design and play practices. The class will also discuss games as instruments of persuasion, protest, social change, and community formation.
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ENV435H5 • Governing the Commons: Communities and Conservation
Common-pool resources (CPRs) include pastures, forests, watersheds, ocean fisheries, traffic, the Internet, and the Earth’s climate. CPRs present a variety of social dilemmas because it is difficult to exclude and prevent resources users from accessing, using, and polluting a resource. Individual self-interest may put CPRs at risk of overuse, overconsumption, and exploitation to result in a “tragedy of the commons” scenario. However resource users across the world, have devised rules and strategies to avoid such tragedies to sustain CPRs over centuries. In this course, through playing games in the classroom, we will learn whether and how theories of collective action, cooperation, and institutions provide insight into achieving conservation of CPRs that delivers on the twin goals of social and environmental justice.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
FAH362H5 • Modern Craft
This course examines ideas, practices, and politics of craft that have emerged in the modern period in response to the industrial and digital revolutions, and other significant social and political changes. Topics covered include the place of craft in modern and contemporary art; gendered, classed, and raced understandings of craft; craft’s relationship to the environment; and Indigenous perspectives and practices.
Exclusions: FAH392H5 (Craft - 20209)
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
FAH462H5 • Islamic Art and the Museum
This course explores how museum displays construct cultural narratives for the consumption of the viewer. It focuses on Islamic art. By examining recent (21st-century) Islamic art museums and gallery installations in North America and Europe, the course addresses the topics of art collecting, orientalism, the colonial gaze, Islamophobia, and the current visual narratives of Islam and Muslims through the arts.
In the first part of the course students are introduced to Islamic art through the collections of some of the main international museums including the British Museum (BM) in the UK, the Louvre in France, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Canada, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York. Students will explore the ways in which Islamic art galleries and exhibitions have evolved to reflect academic approaches including post-colonial and object studies. Students will then use the skills acquired in the course and on-line museum collections to develop and propose an Islamic art exhibition thus experiencing the process of developing an object-based narrative, writing it, presenting it, as well as responding to peer review.
Exclusions: FAH486H1 (20201) or FAH495H5 (20189) or FAH495H5 (20201) or FAH495H5 (20211).
Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
FRE385H5 • Decoding French Language Games
This course explores the phonological properties of French language games such as Verlan and Loucherbem. Adopting a comparative approach with standard French, particular emphasis will be placed on students' ability to identify and model phonological patterns of segmental and syllable structure modification using both descriptive and theoretical phonological tools.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
FSC341H5 • Applied Forensic Statistics
Designed as a companion course to FSC340H5, Forensic Statistics will introduce students to basic analytic methods necessary to evaluate quantitative data in forensic science. Students will learn methods of visualizing and analyzing univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data in forensic science, with emphasis on practical applications of statistics in various forensic sub-disciplines. No prior knowledge of statistics and mathematics is required.
Total Instructional Hours: 12L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
FSC485H5 • Professional Opportunity in Forensic Science
This course provides students with the opportunity to engage in, and reflect on, a professional forensic experience that contributes to their employment eligibility after graduation. They will develop networking skills, enhance professional competencies, and are given the opportunity to locate and select their own experience relevant to their career goals, which may include (but is not limited to) a possible: work-study position, conference workshop, professional certification, field school, paid or unpaid internship or agency co-op. All opportunities must be approved by the program director in the term prior to enrolment.
Corequisites: FSC482H5
Exclusions: FSC483H5 or FSC481Y5
Enrolment Limits: Restricted to Forensic Science Specialists. Course Application required.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
GGR381H5 • Spatial Database
Students will gain basic knowledge of spatial database design, implementation, query, and sharing. Playing with real-world datasets, students will create, edit, and manage geospatial databases using a variety of commercial and open-source software such as ArcGIS and PostgreSQL.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
GGR442H5 • GIS Capstone Project
Students apply prerequisite knowledge and techniques to real-world GIS projects requested by external clients. Through background research, proposal, data management, and implementation, students develop GIS professional competencies, which will be demonstrated through collaboration, presentations and reports.
Distribution Requirement: Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
GLB201H5 • Global Leadership: Past, Present, Futures
The evolution and exercise of leadership is examined in the context of globalization. Terminology, case studies, and practical examples are used to consider questions such as: Why did globalization become a dominant frame? How have narratives of globalization changed over time? How does late 20th century globalization differ from earlier processes of colonization? What are expectations going forward? The assumed scale of globalization and how it manifests differently in various geographies, societies, and contexts is assessed. Students reflect on the uneven experiences of globalization in their own lives, communities, and worlds they observe and pass through. Students challenge ideas of how good leadership is conceived, the dynamics that are assumed (e.g., leaders and followers), and who/what might be left out (e.g., gender, race, class), today and in the future.
Enrolment Limits: Priority is given to students enrolled in the tri-campus Global Leadership Minor program.
Total Instructional Hours: 14L/24T
Mode of Delivery: Online, Hybrid
HIS305H5 • 1898: Empires and Conflict in Global History
The Klondike Gold Rush, imperial conflict in North Africa, and the Spanish American War: 1898 is a pivotal year in global history. This course investigates the circuits of empire, capitalism, and environmental extraction in a rapidly industrializing and increasingly interconnected world.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
HIS324H5 • Settler Colonialism, Violence, and Revolution: The Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya
This course examines colonial violence and revolution through the case of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya. Through an examination of primary sources and historical arguments, this course explores settler colonialism; local moral economies and land; gender and generational conflict; propaganda and revolutionary thought; and decolonization, memory, and contemporary legacies of Mau Mau.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
HIS341H5 • England in the Age of Reformation and Revolution
Tudor and Stuart England (1485-1714) is a transformative period in English history. From the reign of Henry VIII, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution, to the execution of Charles I and the Glorious Revolution, this course charts out England’s dramatic development from peripheral backwater to emerging world superpower.
Recommended Preparation: HIS101H5 or HIS102H5 or HIS103H5 or HIS104H5 or HIS105H5 or HIS106H5 or HIS107H5 or HIS108H5.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
IMI299H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for IMI299H5 course credit. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Social Sciences or Sciences distribution requirement. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
IMI399H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their third or fourth year to undertake relatively advanced work in the research project of a professor in return for IMI399H5 course credit. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Social Sciences or Sciences distribution requirement. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Exclusions: Concurrent enrolment in IMI299H5 or IMI499H5
IMI499H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their fourth year to undertake relatively advanced work in the research project of a professor in return for IMI499H5 course credit. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Social Sciences or Sciences distribution requirement. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Exclusions: Concurrent enrolment in IMI299H5 or IMI399H5
ISP200H5 • Advanced Writing for University and Beyond
This course advances the writing- and reading-related skills that are necessary for success within the academic setting. The course builds on the ‘Writing About Writing’ approach to help students develop their understanding of the writing process and writing related theory, especially within the university context. The class will involve writing in and out of class, as well as exercises in effective and constructive critique of one another's work.
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ISP250H5 • Special Topics in Writing Studies
This course covers a special topic in Writing Studies. Content relates to instructor's area of interest, thus the course varies in focus from year to year. This course may satisfy either the Humanities or Social Sciences distribution requirement, depending on the topic offered. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ISP251H5 • Special Topics in University Pedagogy
This course covers a special topic in University Pedagogy. Content relates to instructor's area of interest, thus the course varies in focus from year to year. This course may satisfy either the Humanities, Sciences, or Social Sciences distribution requirement, depending on the topic offered. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ISP350H5 • Special Topics in Writing Studies
This course covers an in-depth special topic in Writing Studies. Content relates to instructor's area of interest, thus the course varies in focus from year to year. This course may satisfy either the Humanities or Social Sciences distribution requirement, depending on the topic offered. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ISP351H5 • Special Topics in University Pedagogy
This course covers a special topic in University Pedagogy. Content relates to instructor's area of interest, thus the course varies in focus from year to year. This course may satisfy either the Humanities, Sciences, or Social Sciences distribution requirement, depending on the topic offered. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ISP450H5 • Advanced Special Topics in Writing Studies
This course covers an advanced special topic in Writing Studies. Content relates to instructor's area of interest, thus the course varies in focus from year to year. This course may satisfy either the Humanities or Social Sciences distribution requirement, depending on the topic offered. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ISP451H5 • Special Topics in University Pedagogy
This course covers a special topic in University Pedagogy. Content relates to instructor's area of interest, thus the course varies in focus from year to year. This course may satisfy either the Humanities, Sciences, or Social Sciences distribution requirement, depending on the topic offered. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ITA256H5 • Italian-Canadian Studies: Literature, Theatre, Cinema
(Offered in English) A portrait of Italian immigration through artistic expression in the works of, for example, De Cicco, De Michele, Patriarca, Ricci, and others, to highlight the voices that helped to establish/shape Italian-Canadian Studies. Students will have the opportunity to interact with writers, directors, and artists from the Italian-Canadian community.
Exclusions: ITA255Y5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ITA395H5 • Topics in Italian Studies
(Offered in English) Students will develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of key theories and practices as they relate to the central topics investigated in the course. The course may have a historic, literary, cinematic, cultural, or other focus. Students should contact the Department for the topic when course is offered. Texts will be available in Italian and English.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP285H5 • Language, Mind, & Brain
Language is often described as a quintessentially human trait. What is the mental machinery underlying this ability? In this course, you will explore questions such as: Do animals have language? How do children learn language? How do we understand and produce language in real time? How does bilingualism work? What can neuroscience tell us about language abilities? What is the relationship between language and thinking?
Exclusions: JLP374H1, PLIC55H3, PSY374H5
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP315H5 • Language Development
By three years of age, children have mastered many of the complexities of human language. How do they do this so rapidly, and with such ease? In this course, you will examine language acquisition from a cognitive perspective. Topics include the acquisition of speech sounds, sentence structure, and conversational abilities, as well as patterns of development in special populations. You will also learn about childhood bilingualism and social aspects of language development. Hands-on experience analyzing recordings of children will be provided.
Exclusions: JLP315H1, PSY315H5
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP383H5 • Adult Language Processing
Language is a key element in our social interactions, our ability to share information, and aspects of human culture. In this course you will engage in an advanced exploration of the cognitive machinery underlying language in adulthood. Key themes include: incremental interpretation and predictive processing; the relationship between language comprehension and production; and the nature of processing in bilinguals and speakers of less-studied languages. Practical activities address experimental methodology and aspects of data analysis.
Exclusions: PSY374H5
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP384H5 • Speech Communication
Imagine an animal species where one creature can generate thoughts in other creatures' minds simply by causing the air molecules around them to vibrate. Although this sounds exotic, it is what we as humans do every time we speak and listen. In this course, we explore the perception and production of spoken language from an interdisciplinary perspective. Sample topics include perceptual and cognitive aspects of speech communication, speech signal acoustics, audio-visual speech integration, speech sound articulation, artificial speech recognition, multilingualism, and contextual influences on speech communication. Through laboratory exercises, students will replicate classic experimental findings and gain hands-on experience with acoustic and behavioural data analysis
Exclusions: LIN328H5 and PSY384H5 and PLID50H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP388H5 • Bilingualism and Multiple Language Acquisition
What are the linguistic and psychological implications of knowing more than one language? This course will explore topics such as the bilingual brain, the nature of bilingual language input, effects of age-of-acquisition and language similarity, the status of heritage languages, schooling in a second language (for example French Immersion programs), and research methodologies used in the study of bilingualism. Bilingual/multilingual corpora will be examined.
Exclusions: FRE388H5 and JFL388H5 and LIN388H5 and PSY376H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP481H5 • Topics in Developmental Psycholinguistics
How do children's language comprehension and production abilities differ from adults? What can research on language acquisition tell us about why language looks the way it does? Developmental psycholinguists use experimental techniques to explore a range of topics in the area of child language comprehension and production. Drawing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, we will explore contemporary issues and debates in this area.
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
JLP483H5 • Topics in Adult Psycholinguistics
What is the connection between comprehending, producing, and thinking about language? How do the properties of different languages influence the nature of language processing? How is processing affected by differences across individuals? Drawing on a variety of perspective and methodologies, we will explore contemporary issues and debates in these and other topics.
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN240H5 • Computer Programming for Linguists
We live in a world of language technology – who can imagine life without search engines, translation software and automated captioning? At the same time, more and more linguists use computational methods in their research. For example, this methodology can allow us to find all the ways the adverb actually is actually used, or to generate all monosyllabic six-character words for a psycholinguistic experiment. At the heart of this is computer programming: giving precise instructions for your computer to carry out – repeatedly and accurately. This course introduces the basic components of computer programming in Python for linguists.
Exclusions: CSC108H5
Total Instructional Hours: 12L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN299H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299H course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN352H5 • English Language Linguistics in the Public Sphere
This course prepares students to engage with English language linguistics in public settings. Students will critically analyze what role the English language has in society, and learn how linguists can help answer the public’s questions about the English language. Topics may include: what common misconceptions the general public has about language; the disconnect between what linguistics is and what the public wants to know about language, and how to bridge between this gap; dismantling English-supremacist attittudes and linguistic prejudices around the world; designing research to assess public attitudes about language.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN374H5 • African Linguistics
This course explores the linguistic features and characteristics of African languages. Attention will be given to the phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic components of the languages to be studied, with emphasis on examining under-represented and under-studied languages. No prior knowledge of an African language is necessary.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN375H5 • Chinese Linguistics
This course offers a linguistic introduction to the features and characteristics of the Chinese languages. Attention will be given to the phonological, morphological and syntactic patterns of the language family, set against the backdrop of its linguistic and sociolinguistic history. The course not only examines the characteristics of Mandarin but also various other varieties of Chinese. No prior knowledge of a Chinese language is necessary.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN399H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of research methods used in the discipline of Linguistics to work in the research project of a U of T Mississauga professor for course credit. Enrolled students have the opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills, and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for participating faculty members for the following summer and fall/winter sessions are posted on the ROP website in mid-February; students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LIN452H5 • Communicating English Language Linguistics
This course teaches students advanced skills for engaging with English language linguistics in public settings. Topics may include: how to talk to a general audience about linguistics; navigating common public myths about language; presentation skills to make complex topics accessible; incorporating linguistics in language courses; public outreach and interview skills in linguistics; designing research to answer public questions about English. In this capstone course, students will output innovative projects for educating the public about English language linguistics. This course includes an experiential learning component where students will get hands-on experience talking to various audiences about linguistics.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LTL100H5 • Introduction to Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment
This course provides students with foundational knowledge and skills for the study of second language teaching, learning, and assessment. Students will learn to describe language structure and use including among learners, identify major phenomena of non-native language learning, and discuss principles and best practices in second language teaching and assessment.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
LTL399H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of research methods used in the discipline of Language Teaching and Learning to work in the research project of a U of T Mississauga professor for course credit. Enrolled students have the opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills, and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for participating faculty members for the following summer, fall, or winter sessions are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MAT137H5 • Differential Calculus for Mathematical Sciences
A conceptual approach to calculus. A focus on theoretical foundations and proofs as well as some emphasis on geometric and physical intuition. Limits and continuity, differentiation, the mean value, extreme value and inverse function theorems. Applications typically include related rates and optimization.
Exclusions: MAT132H5 or MAT133Y5 or MAT134Y5 or MAT135H5 or MAT137Y5 or MAT135Y5 or MAT157H5 or MAT157Y5 or MAT133Y1 or MAT135Y1 or MAT135H1 or MAT137Y1 or MAT157Y1 or MATA30H3 or MATA31H3 or MATA32H3 or MATA33H3 or MATA35H3 or MATA36H3 or MATA37H3
Total Instructional Hours: 40L/24T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MAT139H5 • Integral Calculus for Mathematical Sciences
A conceptual sequel to MAT137H5. Integration, the fundamental theorem of calculus, sequences and series, power series and Taylor’s theorem. Applications typically include approximation, integration techniques, areas and volumes.
Exclusions: MAT133Y5 or MAT134H5 or MAT134Y5 or MAT135Y5 or MAT136H5 or MAT137H5 or MAT157H5 or MAT157Y5 MAT133Y1 or MAT135Y1 or MAT135H1 or MAT137Y1 or MAT157Y1 or MATA30H3 or MATA31H3 or MATA32H3 or MATA33H3 or MATA35H3 or MATA36H3 or MATA37H3
Total Instructional Hours: 40L/24T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MAT157H5 • Analysis I
A rigorous and proof-intensive introduction to the analysis of single variable real-valued functions for students with a serious interest in mathematics. Topics typically include the construction of the real numbers, the epsilon-delta definition of the limit, continuity, and differentiation.
Corequisites: MAT102H5 (strongly recommended in the Fall term for students taking MAT157H5 in their first year).
Exclusions: MAT157Y5 or MAT157Y1 or MATA37H3
Total Instructional Hours: 36L/24T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MAT159H5 • Analysis II
A rigorous and proof-intensive sequel to MAT157H5 for students with a serious interest in mathematics. Topics typically include sequences, series, and integration of single variable real-valued functions.
Exclusions: MAT157Y5 or MAT157Y1 or MATA37H3
Total Instructional Hours: 36L/24T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MGT218H5 • Quantitative Analysis for Management
Acquaints students with the statistical principles that managers need in order to extract information from numerical data, and to understand the formal principles of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Covers descriptive statistics, elementary probability, expected values, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing for normal and binomial data.
Exclusions: ECO220Y5 and STA218H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MGT299H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides second year undergraduate students, who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods, an opportunity to work in the research project of a professor in return for course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for participating faculty members for the following summer and fall/winter sessions are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MGT399H5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods an opportunity to work in the research project of a professor in return for course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Project descriptions for participating faculty members for the following summer and fall/winter sessions are posted on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MGT450H5 • Digital Marketing
This course explores various digital marketing strategies in the context of online and mobile advertising platforms, and will provide a comprehensive understanding of both existing marketing strategies and emerging trends. Various domains will be covered in this course (search, display, mobile, social, etc.) to enable students to explore how emerging technologies are used to facilitate B2B and B2C transactions. This class will explore the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to digital marketing while helping students develop a better understanding of various elements of marketing campaigns from formulation to integration and assessment.
Exclusions: CCT354H5 or MGT414H5 (Winter 2022)
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MGT451H5 • Business Strategy for the Digital Economy
Learn about the fastest growing sector of the economy and develop tools to analyze strategic problems within a business, and train rigorously, using theory and data, to think about new strategic opportunities for businesses in the digital age.
Exclusions: MGT412H5 (Fall 2021 or Winter 2022 or Winter 2023)
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
MGT495H5 • Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
This course is designed to introduce students to the challenges and pitfalls of financing new enterprises. We can think of entrepreneurial financing decisions in terms of a life cycle. The cycle begins with identifying opportunities and refining the business plan, moves to marshaling resources to take advantage of these opportunities and executing the business plan, and ends with harvesting the venture's success.
Exclusions: RSM439H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL203H5 • Politics and Government of the United States
A comparative study of the development of American government and the main elements of the American political tradition; the structure and functioning of executives, legislatures, courts, bureaucracies, parties and pressure groups in federal and state government; characteristic processes of American politics such as voting, bargaining and regulation; and resultant patterns of public policy.
Exclusions: POL203Y5 or POL203Y1 or POLC92H3 or POLC93H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL218H5 • Introduction to Comparative Politics: Institutions
Exclusions: POL218Y5 or POL219H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL219H5 • Introduction to Comparative Politics: Processes and Identities
Comparative politics compares the ways people and institutions interact, in different countries and regions of the world (including both developing and developed), to produce what we call "politics." This course focuses on political processes and identities. Topics include: the ideas and interests shaping political behaviour; the causes of and dynamics of political mobilization, social mobilization, and revolution; the relationship between identity categories such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class and political processes.
Exclusions: POL218Y5 or POL218H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL243H5 • Research Methods for Political Science I
Exclusions: POL242Y5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL244H5 • Research Methods for Political Science II
In this course, students learn to conduct political analysis using methods common in the social sciences. This includes data such as surveys, international or social media datasets, and methods such as crosstabs and regression. Rather than stressing mathematical concepts, the emphasis of the course is on application, interpretation, and data visualization.
Exclusions: POL242Y5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL300H5 • Topics in Comparative Politics
Topics will vary from term to term.
Recommended Preparation: POL218Y5 or POL218H5 or POL219H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL302H5 • Topics in Comparative Politics
Topics will vary from term to term.
Recommended Preparation: POL218Y5 or POL218H5 or POL219H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL303H5 • The Politics of Islam
The course examines the theory and practice of Islamic politics in the modern era. It also looks at Western foreign policy and Western cultural reactions to politics in the Muslim world. The aim is to acquaint students with the diversity within the Muslim world and help them better understand some of the most pressing political issues raised by contemporary Islam.
Exclusions: POL300Y5 or POL303Y5 or POL300Y1 or POLC96H3 or POLC97H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL307H5 • Topics in International Relations
Topics will vary from term to term.
Recommended Preparation: POL208Y5 or POL209H5 or POL210H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL311H5 • Military Power
This course explores the foundations, application, and limits of military power in the international system. It examines theories about the use of force, military effectiveness, and the relationships between military power, politics, and technology.
Recommended Preparation: POL208Y5 or POL209H5 or POL210H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL312H5 • Managing Military Conflict
Analysis of different aspects of conflict management, including security regimes, U.N. peacekeeping, mediation, bilateral as well as multilateral techniques.
Exclusions: POL310Y5 or POLC09H3
Recommended Preparation: POL208Y5 or POL209H5 or POL210H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL313H5 • European Politics I
This course introduces students to the political foundations of democratic government and capitalism in Western Europe. The course covers the historical origins of the modern nation state in Europe and the region’s bumpy road to democracy and prosperity. It also focuses on key similarities and differences in the political institutions, political development, and economic and social models of major European countries.
Exclusions: POL302Y5 or POL207Y1 or POL324H1 or POLB93H3
Recommended Preparation: POL218Y5 or POL218H5 or POL219H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL314H5 • European Politics II
This course explores the functions (and dysfunctions) of the European Union, a regional organization shaping the political life of its 27 European member states. The course also covers contemporary challenges to democracy and prosperity in Europe, such as populism, economic crises, Brexit, and geopolitical conflicts.
Exclusions: POL302Y5 or POL207Y1 or POL324H1 or POLB93H3
Recommended Preparation: POL218Y5 or POL218H5 or POL219H5 or POL313H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL327H5 • Comparative Foreign Policy
Comparative study of the foreign policies of Russia/USSR, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany.
Exclusions: POL327Y5 or POL326Y1 or POLC82H3 or POLC83H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL343H5 • Qualitative Methods
This course focuses on the research process with attention to writing research proposals and qualitative research methods.
Recommended Preparation: POL115H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL344H5 • Concepts, Actors, & Challenges in Global Governance
An introduction to the study of Global Governance. It presents Global Governance both as an area of study within International Relations theory, and as a set of norms and procedures that guide ongoing practices within international politics. The course will take students through the early development of the concept in the 1990s to present times. It will also cover key challenges to Global Governance.
Exclusions: POL343Y5 or POL343Y1 or POLC87H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL345H5 • Global Governance in Practice
This course builds on earlier conceptual discussions in POL344H5, to illustrate how Global Governance is practiced within specific empirical contexts. Students will take a deep dive into pressing examples of Global Governance practices and challenges (e.g., the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the global political economy).
Exclusions: POL343Y5 or POL343Y1 or POLC87H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL355H5 • Multiculturalism and Citizenship
How are laws, policies, and social norms affected by the overwhelmingly multicultural character of contemporary societies? This course examines how the realities of contemporary multiculturalism have reshaped civic life, both in Canada and in other societies. The course will attempt to cover both empirical and theoretical-normative approaches to these issues.
Exclusions: POL355Y5 or POLC58H3
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL362H5 • Borders, Migrants and Refugees
This course exposes students to the tensions between the mobility of people across international borders, and the hardening regimes of governance facing migrants. The course pays special attention to the intersections of class, race and gender at stake in the politics of migration.
Exclusions: POL390H5 (Summer 2020) or POL377H1 (Summer 2021)
Recommended Preparation: POL116H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL367H5 • Feminist Political Theory
This course examines the various interventions that have marked the development of feminist political thought from the mid-20th century onward. These include efforts to complicate the category 'woman', to understand gender in its intersections with race and class, to develop queer feminist accounts of ‘sex’ and ‘sexuality’, and to investigate the meaning of 'feminism' as a political project in and of itself.
Exclusions: PHL267H5 or PHL367H5 or WGS200Y5 or POLC79H3 or PHLB13H3 or PHL367H1
Recommended Preparation: POL200Y5 or relevant coursework in WGS
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL370H5 • Resource Politics in Postcolonial Africa
This course identifies natural resource exploitation as a prominent focus in discourses and policies concerned with African countries in the post-independence era (~1960s onwards), particularly when dealing with issues of conflict, democratization, economic development, poverty and regime crisis.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL371H5 • Contemporary Mediated Politics
This course examines the contemporary relationship between politics and media.
Exclusions: POL369Y5 or POL213Y1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL372H5 • Communicating Politics
This course explores how political actors such as political parties, pressure groups and governments use media to secure their political objectives.
Exclusions: POL369Y5 or POL213Y1
Recommended Preparation: POL371H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL373H5 • Introduction to Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
Students will examine the political dynamics of selected states in the Middle East and North Africa. Issues to be covered include: state-building; Arab nationalism; Zionism; Islamism; tribalism; gender; the politics of oil. Specific themes relevant to contemporary politics will vary from year to year.
Recommended Preparation: NMC278H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL404H5 • Political Theory for the Present
Covers 20th- and 21st-century political theory. Topics will vary by faculty offering the course and may include but are not limited to topics in feminist political theory, post-colonial and de-colonial political theory, and political economy.
Recommended Preparation: POL320Y5 or other 300-level coursework relevant to the course theme
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL406H5 • Insurgents, Criminals, and Warlords
This course provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the role played by violent non-state actors in international politics. Examining insurgents, criminals, and warlords, the course explores why these actors resort to violence, the strategies and tactics they employ, and the connections that link them together.
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL407H5 • The Politics of Oil & Mining Extraction: Contracts, Conflict, Consent
What can we learn about global politics from an oil or a mining contract? Who are the main actors in such contracts? What are key differences between oil and mining contracts? What is the future of oil and mining contracts? This course addresses these questions, by examining the complex politics of oil and mining contracts. Key theoretical concepts and themes explored in this course are sovereignty, ownership, resistance, and the future of resource extraction.
Recommended Preparation: POL370H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL414H5 • The Future of Work
This course is a critical study of the meaning and value of work in social and political life. Sources include both historical and contemporary political theories of work and labour.
Exclusions: POL485H5 (Winter 2021)
Recommended Preparation: POL320Y5
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL444H5 • Protest and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Looking at uprisings and protests in the Middle East and North Africa, students will examine different theories of contentious politics to better understand why and how uprisings happen in the region. The course will focus on the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings/revolutions in addition to recent uprisings in countries that did not experience the Arab Spring.
Exclusions: POL438H5 (Winter 2021 and Winter 2022)
Recommended Preparation: NMC278H1
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL445H5 • The Politics of Queer and Trans Migrations
This course offers a critical perspective about migration studies by centering the experiences of queer and trans migrants, and by adopting a feminist, queer and trans theory lens. Sources foreground intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class and nation.
Recommended Preparation: POL116H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL447H5 • Collective Action and Political Change
This course introduces students to the study of collective action, the conditions under which it is possible, and its role in bringing about political change. It addresses foundational concepts and theories, as well as cases of collective action with a focus on the experiences of subaltern groups in the Americas and beyond.
Exclusions: POL443Y5 (2018-2019; Winter 2020; 2020-2021; 2021-2022; 2023-2024)
Recommended Preparation: [POL218Y5 or (POL218H5 and 219H5)] and [POL242Y5 or POL243H5]
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL448H5 • Protest and Social Movements in Comparative and Transnational Perspective
This course focuses on key threads of subaltern collective action in comparative and transnational perspective, with a focus on Latin America. It delves into revolutionary, feminist, solidarity, decolonial, anti-racist, body-centered, anti-extractivist struggles, among others, from the late 20th Century to the present day.
Exclusions: POL443Y5 (2018-2019; Winter 2020; 2020-2021; 2021-2022; 2023-2024)
Recommended Preparation: POL447H5 or POL116H5 or POL218Y5 or [POL218H5 and POL219H5]
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL483H5 • Postcolonial Visions and the Americas
This course seeks to reconstruct the category of American Political Thought through a postcolonial lens that centres the political investments of Black, Indigenous, Mestizo, and Creole communities. Drawing on political texts, poems, songs, and archival documents, students will engage with revolutionary thinking from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Canada, and the United States, among others.
Exclusions: POL485H5 (Fall 2022) or POL484H1 (Winter 2023)
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL484H5 • Topics in Political Thought
Topics will vary from term to term.
Recommended Preparation: POL200Y5 and POL320Y5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
POL486H5 • Topics in International Relations
Content of course will vary from year to year. Consult the Political Science Handbook. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Recommended Preparation: POL208Y5 or POL208Y1 or POL209H5 or POL210H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL493H5 • Social Risk and Social Protection
Recommended Preparation: POL111H5 and POL318H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
POL494H5 • Topics in Canadian Politics
Content of course will vary from year to year. Consult the Political Science Handbook. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L,S,T,P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Recommended Preparation: POL214Y5 or POL215H5 or POL216H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY330H5 • The Basics of Measurement in Social and Personality Psychology
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY368H5 • Neuroimaging Laboratory
In this course, you will become familiar with theory and principles underpinning approaches to measuring the brain. The course will focus on techniques used in human neuroscience research. Students will gain skills relevant to the processing, visualization, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of brain data.
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY385H5 • Human Factors: Applying Perceptual and Cognitive Research to the World
How can understanding perception help to explain what we do in the world? In this course, we will consider questions from engineering and human factors through the lens of perceptual research, tackling the human side of design and engineering problems. Topics include driver behaviour, interface design, data visualization and the perceptual and psychological foundations that dictate their success or failure.
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY389H5 • Perception Laboratory
In this course, students will learn how to develop and design experiments to answer scientific questions of their interest in the study of perception. Students will learn psychophysical methods, which relate the physical properties of the world to perceptual experience, and apply these advanced methods by carrying out experiments and analyzing data.
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY401H5 • Knowledge Translation: Delivering Scientific Discovery to the Real-World
As a science, psychology investigates why and how humans and nonhuman animals feel, think, and behave in the ways they do. Our discoveries can be harnessed for societal good when the insights gained from psychological research are communicated accurately to the public. In this course, students will participate in seminars to learn to communicate effectively about scientific discoveries and engage in the process of knowledge translation. Students will also work with a Psychology faculty supervisor to create and deliver knowledge translation products.
Note: To register in the course, students must obtain approval from a faculty supervisor, and apply for and obtain approval from the Department of Psychology (see the Psychology department website for details).
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY424H5 • Special Topics in Well-Being
In depth examination of selected topics in well-being. Topics change periodically. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will always be 36 hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
PSY499Y5 • Research Opportunity Program
This course provides a rewarding opportunity for students in their fourth year to undertake advanced work in the research project of a faculty member in return for PSY499Y5 course credit. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.
Distribution Requirement: Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class
RLG402H5 • Religion and Stories
Stories are central to sacred texts and to creating meaning generally. This course examines different types of stories using approaches from the study of religion. Stories may come from religious traditions or anywhere else, and may involve various media such as books, films, video games, popular music, graphic novels, podcasts, etc.
Exclusions: RLG401H5 (Winter 2020 and Fall 2020 and Fall 2021)
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC305H5 • Asian Canada and Asian Diaspora
The course will introduce students to the core and cutting-edge sociological and interdisciplinary scholarship on Asian Canada and Asian diaspora from transnational perspectives. We will examine the history of Asian migration to North America on the context of colonialism, the Cold War, and capitalist development, as well as the experiences of various Asian immigrant communities in the contemporary era.
Recommended Preparation: 200-level course on race and ethnicity
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC308H5 • Law and Crime in Asia and Asian Diasporas
This course introduces students to the core and cutting-edge sociological and interdisciplinary scholarship on law and crime in Asia and Asian diasporas across the world. It examines major topics in criminology, law and society in various Asian contexts (e.g., legal consciousness, legal pluralism, dispute resolution, policing, rights mobilization, etc.), as well as the experiences of Asian immigrant communities with legal and criminal justice systems.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC409H5 • Masculinity and the Internet
In this course we will take an in-depth look at a number of topics related broadly to masculinity and the internet, including such things as the “manosphere”, incels, and representations of masculinity on social media. These topics will be examined through the lens of the sociological literature on gender and masculinities. A recurring theme relates to the questions: “Is masculinity changing?” Students will be encouraged to critically examine and evaluate these topics and the sociological literature in multiple ways.
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC422H5 • Sociology of the Body
The body is an inevitable part of our existence, but it has not always played a central role in sociology. This course aims to bring the body into sociology by drawing on multiple approaches to theorizing and researching the body as a fundamental element of social interactions. We will work to connect the body to power, social problems and diverse forms of exploitation, but we also examine how the body serves as a source of pleasure, joy, and resistance. Fundamentally, we will study the processes by which bodies are shaped, and in turn, shape our social life. Body topics that may be covered include, but are not limited to, the following: health and illness, fatness, fitness and sport, diet culture, taste, aging, disability, sexuality, beauty, cosmetic surgery, and eating disorders.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC426H5 • Social Theory and Third Cinema
This course is an exploration of the societies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America through films created by directors living and working in the Global South. Each week, we’ll pair a social theory reading with a film made in the Global South to explore themes of colonialism, political economy, race, class, gender, power, and history.
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC427H5 • Politics, Violence, Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America
This course examines the transnational, national and local historical, social and political contexts that produce, and is in turn affected by, criminal, state and other forms of violence in Latin America, and the challenges that this poses for the functioning of Latin American democracies and for the everyday life of people in the region, whose human and civil rights are frequently violated. Examples of transnational factors examined may include the legacies of the Cold War, the impact of the U.S. war on drugs, and the circulation of ideas about punishment throughout the hemisphere. We also contextualize the presence of violence into the historical and contemporary political and social realities of particular Latin American countries.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC428H5 • Health, Disability, and Crisis
This course will apply sociological theories of inequality, health, and disability to contemporary problems associated with economic and health crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. This course integrates both quantitative and qualitative methods across substantive themes, providing an opportunity for students to link theories to data.
Recommended Preparation: SOC350H5
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC431H5 • Museums & Indigenous Peoples
This seminar in Indigenous Studies focuses on the evolving relationship between Indigenous peoples and museums. It explores changes to museum policy and practice, the repatriation of Indigenous bodies, objects, and knowledges, the development of Indigenous museums, and the contributions of Indigenous artists to a new museology.
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
SOC435H5 • Sociology of Environmental Health
This course will examine environmental health with an emphasis on environmental justice, contested illness, and the politics of scientific knowledge production. We will study the politics of environmental health through case studies on activism in response to hazards, the tactics of corporate “product defense,” and the challenges of policy response.
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
STA380H5 • Computational Statistics
Computational methods play a central role in modern statistics and machine learning. This course aims to give an overview of some of the computational techniques that are useful in statistics. Topics include methods of generating random variables, Monte Carlo integration and variance reduction, Monte Carlo methods in inference, bootstrap and jackknife, resampling application, permutation tests, probability density estimation, and optimization.
Exclusions: STA410H1 or STA312H5 (Winter 2020 and Winter 2022) or STA410H1
Enrolment Limits: Priority is given to students enrolled in Statistics Specialist or Major programs.
Total Instructional Hours: 36L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class
VST410Y5 • Internship in Visual Studies
This internship course provides an opportunity for students to gain practical experience at an institution or business closely related to the arts and to visual studies. This is especially tailored for mature and self-disciplined students in their final year of study, who are ready to apply knowledge acquired in previous courses and are planning a career in the arts and cultural sector. Students registered in any DVS program are eligible to apply. Students work closely with the DVS internship coordinator to establish suitability. Regular updates and a final report and presentation will be required. The final grade for the course will be based on these, along with the assessment of the employer.
Exclusions: VST410H5
Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class
WRI293H5 • Introduction to Technical Communication
Introduction to Technical Communication serves as an introduction to the academic and professional fields of technical writing and communication. It explores strategies for analyzing organizational contexts, including professional audiences, professional purposes for writing, and organizational cultures. Assignments will build skills in technical writing, document design, documentation, accessibility, and ethical considerations for communication in professional settings.
Total Instructional Hours: 24L