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INI Innis College CoursesINI115Y1 Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation INI202Y1 Combines an introduction to Canadian culture and society with intensive practice in the
writing of academic essays for students for whom English is a second language or who speak
English in another dialect. Traces Canada’s evolution from colony to nation
emphasizing regionalism and multiculturalism. This is not a remedial English course. INI203Y1 A course to improve skill in writing and revision, particularly the ability to use
words, sentences and paragraphs in the strategies required by clear, precise, and
well-reasoned academic discourse. Students whose native language is other than English
should be fluent in English before they attempt this course. (Offered in alternate years) INI204Y1 The strategy necessary to write complete pieces of non-fictional prose, especially
exposition and argument. Concepts of planning and organization include: focusing,
research, outlining, patterns of logical development, introduction, paragraph development,
conclusion, argumentation and persuasion, documentation, and revision. Students for whom
English is a second language should have an advanced level of fluency in English before
enroling. INI212Y1 An introduction to major phases of international film history from its origins to the
present, including screenings and discussion of narrative films representative of film
movements, technological innovations, and influential directors. Problems in the writing
and reading of film history are examined. INI214Y1 A variety of film theories are critically examined in relation to cinema issues such as
montage, narrative, realism, spectatorship, and technology. Readings in film theory and
film screenings. INI220Y1 Introduces students to environmental studies, using a single theme such as the urban
ecosystem. Explores how social, economic, political, and scientific information can be
integrated to analyze environmental issues, evaluate existing policies affecting the
environment, and develop alternative policy options. Students are given the opportunity to
apply course material to actual environmental problems and to develop their skills in
writing, presentations, group work, and field research. INI224Y1 An intensive study concentrating on the work of selected major filmmakers. (Offered in alternate years) INI225Y1 The examination of the art of contemporary popular American film in its social,
political, and commercial contexts, through study and analysis of selected popular films
from 1970 to the present. Directors may include: Kubrick, Coppola, Eastwood, Spielberg,
Ridley Scott, Cameron, and Tarantino. (Offered in alternate years) INI235Y1 Explores the culture, thoughts, institutions, policies, and processes shaping our urban
areas. Emphasis is placed on understanding the problems and prospects associated with
growth and change in the city. Disciplines used to provide various interpretations include
Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban
Design and Planning. INI299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 42 for details. INI300Y1 This course aims to teach students to recognize the rhetoric of the professional
workplace and to communicate strategically using written and oral discourse appropriate to
business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. INI301Y1 This writing and research course examines how the language and rhetoric of print media
shape rather simply report social issues. The rhetorical strategies at work in the media
reporting of six controversial issues, including immigration, euthanasia, the environment,
and the depiction of Aboriginal peoples are examined. INI306Y1 A method of studying city politics that combines readings, seminar discussions, and
lectures with an internship in the office of a municipal politician. Readings focus on
government structure, political strategies, and theories of community power. Students must
speak with their instructor preferably before the beginning of July to arrange their
internship placements. INI311Y1 A workshop course that requires directed reading and assigned work in addition to
creative projects, and that gives student writers and literary translators an opportunity
to learn from one another’s concerns and methods and from occasional guest lecturers. INI313Y1 Students explore topics of their own choice and design their own projects. The grading
in this course is “Credit/Fail.” Written applications should be made to the
Independent Studies Monitor during the Spring for the following Winter Session. Each
project requires approval by the College’s Independent Studies Committee before
enrolment. INI320Y1 An interdisciplinary study of the linkages between health and environment. The fall
term addresses basic principles and scientific knowledge relating to health and the
environment. The winter term explores the social links between health and the ecosystem,
including an examination of culture, ethics, politics, public policy, and economics. Both
terms articulate the same analytical framework: a holistic concept of health and an
interdisciplinary perspective that sees the environment as both natural and social. INI322H1 A study of films from France, Canada, USA, Britain, and other countries, which develop
new approaches to cinema through experiment and innovation. Readings in advanced film
theory. (Offered in alternate years) INI323Y1 Feminist film criticism from mid-sixties critiques of media stereotypes of women to
current issues in feminist film theory. Films to be studied include mainstream narrative
fiction and films by women directors: Von Sternberg, Godard, Sirk, Arzner, Dulac, Lupino,
Von Trotta, Rainer, Akerman, Duras. (Offered in alternate years) INI324Y1 The first quarter century of talking pictures. Directorial alternatives within a
relatively rigid industry: the mimetic, emotional, aesthetic, and didactic functions of
film. Films by Capra, Ford, Hawks, Lang, Milestone, Welles, etc. (Offered in alternate
years) INI325Y1 A critical survey of documentary films including newsreels, cinéma vérité,
agit-prop, docudrama. Filmmakers to be studied include Flaherty, Grierson, Pennebaker,
King. Readings in the history and theory of documentary. INI327Y1 Theories of cinematic representation emphasizing race, identity, nation, and culture.
Films include works from Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean as well as from
the aboriginal and diasporic communities. Films by Julien, Trinh, Dash, Cisse, Sembene,
Obomsawin, etc. INI329Y1 Intensive study of representative films from selected cinematic genres. Readings in
theories of film genres and film narration; analysis of genre conventions, their history
and evolution. (Offered in alternate years) INI330Y1 Developing notions in film theory since the early 1970s. Topics include the critique of
realism, suture, spectatorship, genre, the cinematic apparatus, race and queer cinema.
Films are screened as illustrations of the theoretical texts: Welles, Sirk, Godard, Duras,
Potter, Ottinger, Julien. INI331H1 A course that surveys ideas about the relationship of humans and the environment and
examines their relevance for current policy debates. Students are expected to reflect upon
selected readings drawn from a wide-variety of sources, including History, Philosophy,
Social Science, and Anthropology. INI340H1 This course examines the professional environmental field, and introduces students to
different kinds of organizations, various career patterns and opportunities, and
environmental, social and ethical issues in the workplace, and how they are managed. In
addition, various skills for the workplace are discussed in the classroom and addressed in
course assignments. INI380Y1/381H1 In-depth treatment of a national cinema in a seminar format. INI382H1 A survey of European cinemas, contrasting European production systems and film culture with Hollywood, and offering comparative study of themes such as urbanization, immigration, the Holocaust and historical memory, gender roles, and continental unification movements. INI384H1 (formerly INI384Y) 26S INI385H1 English-Canadian filmmaking; commercial constraints and promptings; institutional
domains (NFB, CFDC, Telefilm, etc.); cultural nationalism and critical contexts. The range
of films includes documentaries, experimental works, and art-film and commercial feature
narratives. (Offered in alternate years) INI386H1 (formerly INI486H) 13L, 26P, 13T INI387Y1 An exploration of cultural, political and institutional factors in contemporary
European society that influence youth culture in Europe. This course concentrates on the
relationship between culture and cinematic representation through an analysis of select
European films. INI390H1 Examination of contemporary Chinese films in their three production centres: the
People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Production, commercial and
aesthetic trends, and international reception; major auteurs and genres. Directors include
Chen Kaige, Zang Yimou, Edward Yang, John Woo and Wang Kar-wai. INI413Y1 This course provides a further opportunity for the pursuit of independent study under
the same conditions concerning application, eligibility, and approval as noted in INI313Y. The grading in this course is
“Credit/Fail.” INI420Y1 Advanced environmental research on environmental topics of current relevance, involving
information sources and resources outside the University. Students work in teams to
investigate and report on a specific environmental issue for an off-campus environmental
agency. INI421H1 Introduces students to public policy and institutional foundations of public policy in
Canada, with an emphasis on environmental policy in Ontario. Combines a review of ideas
about institutions, politics, and policy, including the role of economic policy, with a
practical assessment of the way policy is shaped in specific areas of environmental
interest (e.g. energy policy). INI422H1 An introduction to environmental law for students in Environmental Studies; legal
methods available to resolve environmental problems and the scope and limits of those
methods; common law and statutory “tools” as well as environmental assessment
legislation; the problem of “standing to sue” and the limits of litigation. INI423H1 (formerly INI423Y) 26S, 26P INI426H1 A study of international film comedy, including its historical development, and the
difficulties that comedy poses for genre and auteur approaches. INI428H1 Film’s emergence from urban culture of the nineteenth century: the modern
industrial city and the cinematic imagination between the world wars; the critical
alignment of urbanism and the cinema. INI430Y1 Examines contemporary urban problems using the action research method. Emphasis is
placed upon developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban problem-solving. INI431Y1/432H1/433H1 For senior students in the Urban Studies Program, opportunities to investigate in depth
urban issues under the direct supervision of specialists in these areas. Several work
placements are available in government offices for students wishing to combine independent
studies with work experience. INI440Y1 Regular academic seminars complement off-campus work on an environmental project. The
course enables students to gain practical experience of the needs and demands of
professional environmental agencies. Students are given a choice of placements in a
variety of sectors (e.g., government, NGOs, industry). INI442H1 How business in Canada and elsewhere is responding to the post-war emergence and
evolution of the values of environmentalism. The corporate “perspective”
includes: the external world of governments, markets, environmental pressure groups,
investors, insurers and lenders; and how the firm responds to these external pressures and
manages its environmental issues. INI460H1 Consideration of film noir’s roots, its status as a genre, and its enduring
appeal, the latter evidenced by continued critical interest and neo-noir offshoots. INI461H1 Advanced survey of a variety of approaches to the filmic text, including structuralist
variants, textual analysis, and neo-formalism. INI462H1 Historiographic and theoretical issues raised by the New German Cinema. Includes works
by Kluge, Wenders, Fassbinder, Treut, von Trotta, von Praunheim. INI463H1 Investigation of film from the beginnings of the medium until the advent of the feature
film in the mid-teens: early cinema’s technological, formal, economic, and cultural
dimensions; questions of audience composition, spectatorial address, and intermediality. INI464H1 Examination of the application of the label of classicism to the studio era’s
films and operations; critiques and amendments of the major statements regarding
classicism as a system; investigation of the concept of a post-classical cinema. INI465H1 How technology influences the operations and study of cinema. Includes technology's
relationship to theories of realism and the apparatus; the links between technology and
style; a focus on key developments (widescreen, sound, colour and emergent technologies). INI476Y1/477H/478H1 Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Cinema Studies
staff. Open to advanced Specialist and Major students in the Program. Applications should
be submitted to the Program Director by June 1, 1999 for a Fall course or by December 1,
1999 for a Spring course. INI482Y1/483H1/484H1 Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in
Cinema Studies. INI485H1 The emergence and development of film design in Hollywood. Close study of individual
films from the USA and elsewhere. Illusion, distortion and fragmentation. INI486H1 (See “Innis College”) INI487H1 Films and types of endings examined using narrative theory and interpretive typologies;
emphasis on genre forms and modern international cinema. (Offered in alternate years.) INI491Y1/492H1/493H1 A course to develop skills in independent study of interdisciplinary topics within
Environmental Studies. Available only to students enroled in the Innis College Specialist
or Major Environmental Studies programs. Students should apply to the Program Counsellor
three months before the beginning of the academic term during which they wish to do the
course, and submit an initial proposal, examples of their written work, and a proposed
supervisor(s) at the time of application. INI494H1 Provides students with increased understanding of (1) the political conflicts which
surround the development and implementation of environmental policy in Canada; and (2) the
ways environmentalism is transforming Canadian and global politics. Examination is made,
through secondary readings and case-studies, of the values, perspectives and strategies of
the various actors, and the context of ideas and institutions within which they operate. INI495H1 An overview of the insights and tools that economics provides for dealing with
environmental concerns. The first part of the course discusses such topics as wealth
measurement, “sustainability,” “externalities,” and trade. In the
second half, students are asked to prepare and present short papers on contemporary
Ontario issues. INI496H1 Designed to develop theoretical and applied concepts of environmental accounting.
Covers topics on corporate and national accounts, such as environmental issues and
corporate accounts, total cost accounting, full-cost accounting, activity-based costing,
life-cycle costing, environmental accounting as a business management tool, system of
national accounts, environmental disaggregation of national accounts, depreciation of
natural resources, integrated environmental and economic accounting. INI497Y1 Special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Environmental
Studies. INI498H1/499H1 Special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Environmental
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