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INI Innis College Courses INI115Y1 Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and
narrative. Topics include documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and
representation 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. 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) 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,
cinema verite, 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. 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. 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. 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 realism, apparatus theory, and cinematic style;
study of widescreen sound, colour and emergent technologies.BALLOT REQUIERED INI476Y1/477H/478H1 TBA INI482Y1/483H1/484H1 TBA INI485H1 The emergence and development of film design in Hollywood.
Close study of individual films from the USA and elsewhere. Illusion, distortion and
fragmentation. 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.) 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. 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. 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. JIE410H1 A course designed to prepare students for applied, original
environmental research on problems of current relevance, such as environmental research
done by business, governments or consultants. The course is intended to introduce students
to the methods, skills and knowledge needed for interdisciplinary problem solving for
environmental protection. The physical and natural sciences are treated as one essential
input to applied environmental problem-solving, but neither science research methods nor
statistical analysis are taught. INI420Y1
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. INI440Y1
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. INI491Y1/492H1/493H1
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 Studies. 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. 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. JGI346H1 Urban planning mechanisms, the legislation, and its goals.
Planning issues from negotiation to legislation to appeal. Urban and regional problems
facing planners in Ontario compared with those emerging in other provinces; Ontario's
legislative solutions contrasted with those developed elsewhere. (Given by the Department
of Geography and Innis College) 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 TBA 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 This course is designed to teach students to write
persuasively and to recognize persuasive strategies at work in writing they analyze.
Assignments will range over a variety of modes, including professional, academic, and
web-based writing. Students who enrol in the course must demonstrate competence in the
English language. 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. INI299Y1
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. 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. 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." |
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