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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 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. Issues in the writing and reading of film history are examined. INI214Y1
A study of select classical and contemporary film theories, their medium-specific arguments, and their cultural and intellectual contexts. Investigations include: the nature of film theorizing, formalist and realist traditions, first and second film semiologies, apparatus theory, and debates specific to spectatorship and film viewing. INI224Y1
An intensive study concentrating on the "personal vision" of four major directors. Critical and theoretical investigation of the auteur theory applied to works by selected filmmakers. (Offered in alternate years) INI225Y1
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, Jewison, and Scorsese. (Offered in alternate years) INI322H1
Study of independent artists' film experimentation in the context of modern art and poetry (Cubism, Dada-Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, etc.) and film theory from the 1920s through the 1990s. Filmmakers include Léger-Murphy, Dulac, Deren, Brakhage, Snow, Sharits and Child. (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
A study of filmmaking in the U.S. once the studio system was in place: consideration of industrial, economic, ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of the American studio era. Topics to include the primacy of classicism, the operations of the studio system (including censorship, labour relations, marketing, and star promotion), and the cultural function of American films. (Offered in alternate years) INI325Y1
A critical survey of documentary practice including newsreels, direct cinema, cinema verité, ethnographic, and various hybrid narrative forms, with emphasis on the rhetorical, aesthetic, and political dimensions that inform "the art of record." Topics include: poetics, argument, and modes of address; evidence, authenticity, and persuasion; filmmaker/subject/audience nexus; historiography, hagiography, and memory; reflexive irony, and performance, etc. (Offered in alternate years) INI327Y1
Theories of cinematic representation emphasizing race, identity and Diaspora, with an emphasis on post-colonial and critical race theories. Films include works mainly from Africa and the black Diaspora, as well as selections from aboriginal and other diasporic communities. Films by Mambety, Julien, Dash, Cisse, Akomfrah, Moffat, Sembene, etc. (Offered in alternate years) INI329Y1
Study of theoretical and analytical models of film genres and narratology; structuralist, cognitive and semiotic approaches to filmic narration. Genres to be studied include westerns, crime films, art cinema, fantasy, and horror. (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. (Offered in alternate years) INI380Y1
An intensive survey of world cinema since 1970, from Africa, Asia, Australia, South and North America, and Europe. (Offered in alternate years) INI381H1
In-depth treatment of a national cinema in a seminar format. (Offered in alternate years) INI382Y1
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. (Offered in alternate years) INI384H1
(formerly INI 384Y1) 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 INI 486H1) 13L, 26P, 13T 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 INI 423Y1) 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. INI476Y1/477H/478H1
TBA INI482Y1/483H1/484H1
TBA Prerequisite: At least ten course credits including INI 115Y1; 212Y, 214Y or permission of instructor. Environmental Studies Courses For Distribution Requirement purposes (see Pages 37ff), all INI Environmental Studies courses are classified as SOCIAL SCIENCE courses except for INI331H1 which is classified as both a Humanities and a Social Science course, as is JIE222Y1. JIE222Y1
The foundation for students in the Division of the Environment and Environmental Studies Program, Innis College. Draws from relevant environmental domains in an examination of environmental degradation, the responses of various actors and models for a more sustainable society. INI307Y1
This course critically examines the concept and implementation of sustainability in urban areas, including social sustainability, economic sustainability, and environmental sustainability. Case studies of ongoing urban sustainability programs in the developed world help students assess the successes and failures of these programs. The course also examines the current state of research and implementation efforts in urban sustainability. INI320Y1
Examination of interests, ideas and institutions which shape Canadian domestic and international environmental policy, with a focus upon the interaction between the two in a globalized economy; focus upon the role of states, but also examines policy roles of business, social movements and other actors; complements program courses focussed upon local and Ontario policy. 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. INI341H1
Examination of the linkages between human health and environment. Addresses basic principles and scientific knowledge relating to health and the environment, including environmental risk. Analytical framework is a holistic concept of human health and an environmental sciences perspective. 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. INI443H/444H
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. INI307Y1
This course critically examines the concept and implementation of sustainability in urban areas, including social sustainability, economic sustainability, and environmental sustainability. Case studies of ongoing urban sustainability programs in the developed world help students assess the successes and failures of these programs. The course also examines the current state of research and implementation efforts in urban sustainability. INI308H1
This course examines the struggle to create a civic society within Toronto as it becomes a global city. Sample topics include: the neighbourhood and the city, the outer city and the urban region, planning and sprawl, public and private transportation, the natural and the urban environment, housing and homelessness, levels of government, civic culture and multiculturalism. INI309H1
This course examines the importance of infrastructure to urban societies from a technical, environmental, political, historical, and social perspective. Students study energy and communications systems, transportation, water, solid waste disposal, parks and recreation facilities, schools, hospitals and community facilities and services. Key issues include growth management, financing and maintenance, public-private partnerships and international development. 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 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 INI313Y1. The grading in this course is “Credit/Fail.” |
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