Vic One
Consult Vic One Liaison Officer, Michelle Mitrovich, Victoria College
m.mitrovich@utoronto.ca
- Frye/Pearson academic coordinator: Dr Anne Urbancic, Victoria
College
- Stowe-Gullen academic coordinator: Dr Andrew Baines, Victoria
College
- Egerton Ryerson academic coordinator: Dr. Sheila Cook, Victoria
College
The following courses are available to students admitted to Vic One:
Egerton Ryerson Stream
VIC 150Y1
School and Society (formerly INX199Y1, L0031)
This course will be about the history of school and will examine
the philosophical questions about the nature and purpose of learning, and
also the
economic or human
capital value of education with respect to both the student and the state.
Co-requisites: VIC 151Y1 and PSY 100H1Y
Exclusion: INX199Y1, section L0031
This is a Social Science course.
VIC 151Y1
Theories and Practices
of Teaching
The course studies the history and philosophy of teaching with
a view to having students develop their personal understanding
of teaching.
Students
will be
involved in a practicum.
Co-requisites: VIC
150Y1Y and PSY 100Y
This is a Humanities course.
Frye Stream
VIC 162H1
Cultural Forms and Their Meanings: Monuments and Memories
A study of culture with a view to developing basic concepts with
examples drawn from the visual arts, music, film, architecture,
and/or local
urban artifacts.
We will emphasize evolving perceptions of time and space.
Co-requisites:
VIC 163H1, VIC 164H1, VIC 165H1 & JEF
100Y1
This is a Humanities course
VIC 163H1
Cultural Forms and Their Meanings: People and Ideas
A study of culture with a view to developing basic concepts with
examples drawn from the visual arts, music, film, architecture,
and/or local
urban artifacts.
We will emphasize how contemporary thought has affected the
practice of everyday life.
Co-requisites: VIC 162H1,
VIC 164H1, VIC 165H1 & JEF
100Y1
This is a Humanities course
VIC 164H1
Ideas and Their Consequences: Beauty and the End
of Art
A study of the ideas and concerns of creative thinkers and
their impact upon cultures. The course will include scientific
thinkers
as well
as religious figures from the major traditions. Attention
will be given to modes of
reasoning,
cultural
definition and expression. We will emphasize philosophical
and artistic concepts.
Co-requisites:
VIC 165H1, VIC 162H1, VIC 163H1 & JEF100Y1
This is a Humanities course
VIC 165H1
Ideas and Their Consequences: Isolation and Communion
in Modern Culture
A study of the ideas and concerns of creative thinkers
and their impact upon cultures. The course will include
scientific
thinkers
as well
as religious figures from the major traditions. Attention
will be given to modes of
reasoning,
cultural
definition and expression. We will emphasize literary and
philosophical concepts in the rise of modernism.
Co-requisites:
VIC 164H1, VIC 162H1, VIC 163H1 & JEF100Y1
This is a Humanities course
Stowe-Gullen Stream
VIC 170Y1
Introduction to the Rhetoric of Science: Probability
and Persuasion
How rhetoric and statistical analysis are used to communicate
scientific observations and theories will be examined
in seminars. Problems
including the nature of
evidence, risk assessment, random error and systematic
error (bias) will be discussed using
examples drawn from the physical, life and social sciences.
Co-requisites BIO
150Y1 & VIC 171Y
This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
VIC171Y1
Methodology, Theory and Ethics in the Life Sciences
An examination of scientific theories and their logic, the role in life sciences of models and mathematics, and issues in experimental design and data analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on evolutionary theory, genomics, contemporary scientific controversies and ethical issues.
Co-requisites BIO150Y1 & VIC170Y
This is a Humanities course.
Pearson Stream
VIC181H1
Events and the Public Sphere: World Affairs
A seminar course that examines a specific event or events in relation to the public sphere. The course will use events or an event as an entry point to discuss the nature of society including topics such as major revolutions, economic crises, the impact of the appearance of significant artistic or cultural works, and the impact of technological changes. We will emphasize recent political developments in world affairs.
Co-requisites: VIC183H1, VIC184H1, VIC185H1, and a First year course in History or Political Science
This is a Social Science course
VIC183H1
Individuals and the Public Sphere: Shaping Memory
A seminar course that examines the contribution of an individual or individuals to the public sphere. The course will explore how public service and citizenship are developed in the context of studying the social, philosophical, cultural and scientific context of the period. Topics could include the role of law and government, civil liberties, rights and responsibilities, the role of protest. We will examine individuals who have shaped the processes by which modern memory is formed.
Co-requisites: VIC181H1, VIC184H1, VIC185H1 & a first year course in History or Political Science
This is a Social Science course.
VIC184H1
Individuals and the Public Sphere: Cultural Memory
A seminar course that examines the contribution of an individual or individuals to the public sphere. The course will explore how public service and citizenship are developed in the context of studying the social, philosophical, cultural and scientific context of the period. Topics could include the role of law and government, civil liberties, rights and responsibilities, the role of protest. We will examine our evolving role in developing cultural memory.
Co-requisites: VIC181H1, VIC183H1, VIC185H1 & a first year course in History or Political Science
This is a Social Science course
VIC 185H1
Events in the Public Sphere: Social Justice
The course uses events or an event to discuss the nature of society including
major revolutions, economic crises, and the impact of significant artistic,
cultural and technological developments. Emphasis on social justice.
Co-requisites: VIC181H1, VIC183H1, VIC184H1 and a First year course in History or Political Science.
This is a Social Science course.
Vic First: Pathways for First Year
VIC
101Y1
Conflict Theory and Practice 52L, 26P
The course is a general orientation
toward conflict, and develops a basic
understanding of essential conflict resolution principles that will complement
the study of conflict theory. The course will examine the differences
between conflicts and disputes, the functions and desirability of conflict,
and
the conditions that facilitate conversion of conflicts from destructive
to constructive.
Co-requisite: ECO100Y1
This is a Social Science course.
VIC 102Y1
Ethics and the Public: Case Studies (formerly
VIC182H1 )52L, 26P
The course studies the nature of society and the questions of ethics
posed by political action. Emphasis on case studies of social issues.
Co-requisite: POL103Y1
Exclusion: VIC182H1
This is either a Humanities or a Social Science course.
VIC 103Y1
Politics and Fine Thoughts 52L, 26P
This course examines how political ideas are formed and developed through
literature, art, plays, essays and philosophical works in the twentieth
century.
Co-requisite: ENG140Y1
This is either a Humanities or a Social Science course.
VIC 104H1
Common Vices and Neglected Virtues: Intro to Ethics
of Character
26L, 26P
Vice is popular: a prestigious university press has brought out a series
of seven books on the Seven Deadly Sins. This course examines such
questions as the following. Are greed, lust and gluttony just bad names
for necessary
and otherwise acceptable instincts? What is the place, in a good human
life, of such qualities as honesty, trust, civility and the like? Are
vices and
virtues culturally determined or a matter of individual preference?
Can character be taught, or is it rather a matter of genes and luck?
Co-requisite: RLG100Y1
This is a Humanities course.
VIC 105H1
Image, Music, Text 26L, 26P
The course focuses on the various aspects of a culture as exhibited through
the media of images, music and texts.
Co-requisite: PHL100Y1
This is a Humanities course.
VIC106H1
Topics in the History of Mind, Brain and
Behavioural Science 26L
This course explores central developments and ongoing controversies in
the scientific study of the human mind, brain and behavior. It examines topics
such as: psychoanalysis,
behaviourism, humanistic psychology, evolutionary psychology, intelligence
testing, and feminist perspectives. Goals include understanding the historical
evolution
and social relevance of scientific psychology.
Co-requisite: PSY100H1
VIC107H1
Topics in the History of Evolution, Heredity,
and Behaviour 26L
A course examining the history of research and knowledge on evolution, heredity
and behaviour. Topics include Darwinian evolution, the rise and development
of the Mendelian theory of the gene and of molecular biology, views about
instincts, and sociobiology.
Co-requisite: BIO150Y1
VIC108H1
Belonging, Imagination and the Uses of History in the Shaping of National
Identity 26L
This course will examine a number of questions related to the
origins of national identities and the sustainability of nation-states. Topics
covered will include: language, ethnicity, religion, politics, war, myth
and tradition, public memory, borders and borderlands, migration, landscape,
emblems and symbols, the arts, sport and public spectacle, and cuisine.
Recommended co-requisite: HIS109Y/HIS103Y/POL103Y/SOC101Y
This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
VIC 111Y1
Introduction to Material Culture 52L, 26P
Objects and artifacts provide an interesting way to study culture. The
presentation of objects to museums and galleries and elsewhere, transmits
the culture
to society. This course introduces students to material culture using
the ROM, the Gardiner and other established resources.
Co-requisite: ANT100Y1
This is either a Humanities or a Social Science course.
VIC 112Y1
Puzzles, Discovery and the Human Imagination 52L, 26P
There has never been a period of time, nor has there ever been a culture,
without some kind of puzzle tradition. Are puzzles just playful artifacts,
intended merely to entertain? Or are they mirrors of something much
more fundamental in human life? The course will take a close look at what
puzzles tell us about the human mind and human culture.
Co-requisite: One of ANT100Y1/BIO150Y1/HPS100H1
This is either a Humanities or a Social Science course.
VIC 114Y1
Renaissance in Popular Culture 52L, 26P
This course explores the depiction of the Renaissance in a wide range
of plays, films and novels. The focus is on the exchange between film, fiction,
and fact, and on how the values and concerns of the present shape creative recreations of the past in popular culture.
Co-requisite: HIS109Y1
This is a Humanities course.
Literary Studies Courses
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all VIC Literary
Studies courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses.
VIC201Y1
Ancient and Medieval Literary Modes: Conventions and Continuities 52L Selected forms (such as epic, romance, satire, tragedy, lyric, utopia, autobiography, confession), with special attention to their roots in the Ancient and Medieval period. Texts will include a selection from Aboriginal, Asian, Hebrew and Babylonian creation myths, epic narratives (Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid); history and law (Hammurabis Code, the Hebrew Pentateuch, Herodotus, Tacitus); drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles); lyric poetry, songs, spells (the Hebrew psalms, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Sappho); philosophy and theology (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Muhammad); Dante.
Exclusion: VIC110Y1
VIC210Y1
Literary Studies II: Empire, Literature and Modernity 52L,
26T The rise of modern European literatures in various contexts - colonialism, humanism, literacy, nation-states, democratic movements, ideologies, individualism - which prompted development of new literary genres and sub-genres, figures, personae and filiations. Authors and texts may include: Petrarch, Montaigne, Shakespeares The Tempest, Cervantes Don Quixote, Miltons Paradise Lost, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Defoes Robinson Crusoe, Wheatley, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Goethe, Claire de Duras, Bremer, Tolstoy, Haggard, Pauline Johnson, Chekhov.
VIC300H1/Y1
Special Topics: Literary Studies 26S Interdisciplinary seminar on an author or extensive work (eg. Prousts, Remembrance of Things Past, Joyces, Finnegans Wake) or on a genre. Emphasis on literature and its relation to fine arts, philosophy, politics, history
Prerequisite: VIC 110Y1/VIC201Y1/VIC210Y1/211Y1/301H/1Y1/VIC310Y1/311Y1/JNV300H/instructors approval
VIC 301H1/Y1
Special Topics II: Literary Studies 26S
Interdisciplinary seminar on a historical period (eg. Late Antiquity,
Romanticism, the Harlem Renaissance) or critical event. Emphasis on literature
and its
relation to fine arts, philosophy, politics, history.
Prerequisite: VIC 110Y1/VIC201Y1/VIC210Y1/211Y1/VIC300H1/Y1/VIC310Y1/311Y1/JNV300H/instructors approval
VIC310Y1
Literary Studies III: Reading the Twentieth Century and After 52L,26T The avant-garde and its querying of language, representation, and interpretation. In the first term, intensive study of Joyces Ulysses. In the second term, works by writers such as Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Brecht, Gombrowicz, Beckett, Levi, Wolf, Garcia Marquez, Shalamov, Spiegelman, Sebald.
VIC 311H1/Y1
Literature and Film: Issues of Translation and
Adaptation 26L/52L
Cinematic readings of various literary genres (eg. epic and lyric
poetry, folk tale, biblical narrative, novel, short story). The focus will
be on
cross-cultural translation in a wide variety of cinematic styles and
forms, such as classic Hollywood film, animation, film noir, neo-realism,
surrealist
film. Authors studied may include Homer, Ovid, Shakespear, Flaubert,
Rilke, Mann.
Exclusion: INI328Y1 and VIC 211Y1
VIC410Y1 Seminar in Comparative Studies 52S
For senior students enrolled in the Literary Studies program, although other students are welcome. Intensive study of general issues of poetics and critical theory, including representative literary and philosophical texts from the European tradition.
Prerequisite: Two of VIC110Y1/VIC201Y1/VIC210Y1/211Y1/VIC300H1/Y1/301H1/Y1/VIC310Y1/311H1/401Y1/Y1/VIC411H1/Y1/JNV300H1 or instructors approval.
VIC411H1/Y1
Postmodernist Approaches to Film and Literature 26S/52S Study of current filmic and literary theories, with emphasis on the rhetoric of film: the concept of the trope, metaphor, metonymy, allegory, irony, repetition, and specific thematic tropes like the eye, the face, the death mask, the mirror, the dream, etc.
Prerequisite: VIC110Y1/VIC201Y1/VIC210Y1/VIC310Y1/a course in the study of literature
VIC 401Y1 Special Topics in Comparative Literature 26S
This course offers senior students in Literary Studies the opportunity
to take part in a graduate seminar in Comparative Literature. Topics
change annually.
Prerequisite: Two of VIC 110Y1/VIC201Y1/VIC210Y1/211Y1/VIC300H1/Y1/301H1/Y1/VIC310Y1/311Y1/VIC410Y1/JNV300H1 AND instructors approval.
JNV 300H1
Gender, History and Literature 26S
The study of a selected group of creative writers from at least two
national literatures whose texts raise issues regarding gender as either
an
historically or culturally variable construct. Texts will be chosen on
the basis of
a shared historical era, a literary genre, experience, institutional
categorization, or project.
Prerequisite: One course in Literary Studies or one course in Womens Studies and Gender Studies
Renaissance Studies Courses
Key to Course Descriptions.
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all VIC Renaissance
Studies courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses.
VIC240Y1
The Civilization of Renaissance Europe 52L An interdisciplinary introduction to the civilization of the Renaissance illustrated by a study of the institutions, thought, politics, society and culture of both Italy and Northern Europe. Italian city states such as Florence, Urbino and Venice, Papal Rome and despotic Milan are compared with the northern dynastic monarchies of France and England.
VIC341H1
The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children 26S A study of the changing conception of the human self in the Renaissance, and of its representation by major authors: Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Castiglione, Machiavelli and others.
VIC343Y1
Sex and Gender (formerly VIC343H1) 52S An interdisciplinary approach to questions of gender and sexuality in early modern Europe, with special focus on the representations of the sexual drive, the gender roles of men and women, and varieties of sexual experience in the literature and art of the period.
Exclusion: VIC343H1
VIC344H1
Renaissance Narrative (formerly VIC242H1) 26S
Focuses on analysis of short stories and longer prose works including, in English translation: Boccaccios stories of love, fortune and human intelligence in the Decameron; Rabelais humorous parody of high culture in Gargantua; the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet; and the adventures of picaresque rogues in Lazarillo de Tormes and Nashes Unfortunate Traveler.
Exclusion: VIC242H1
VIC345H1
Media and Communications in the Early Modern Era 26S
This course examines the various media (printing press, representational art, music, preaching) and social and political forces (family and political networks, censorship, education, etc.) that conditioned the communication of ideas in early modern society.
VIC 346H1
Orpheus in the Italian Renaissance 26S
A study of Orpheus as portrayed in art, music, poetry, and philosophy
of the Italian Renaissance.
VIC 347Y1
Studies in Renaissance Performance 52L
Studies in the development of new musical and/or dramatic forms in the
Renaissance. The course will combine seminars and lectures with a series of
musical
and/or dramatic performances taking place in Toronto over the course of
an academic
year.
Recommended preparation: VIC240Y1,
or another course in Renaissance Studies.
VIC 348Y1
The Renaissance in the Cities 52L
An interdisciplinary course exploring the history, art, architecture,
literature, and music of the Renaissance in one or more cities from ca. 1400-1650.
The course will investigate how local political and social-historical
contexts shape ideas and cultural forms, and so illustrate the process
and
effects
of cross-fertilization in the Renaissance period.
Recommended preparation: VIC240Y1,
or another course in Renaissance Studies.
VIC 349H1/Y1
Special Topics in the Renaissance 26L,
13P/52L, 26P
Studies in an aspect of the Renaissance based around lectures, seminars,
and readings. See annual course listing for the years theme.
Recommended preparation: VIC240Y1,
or another course in Renaissance Studies.
VIC440Y1 Florence and the Renaissance 52L
An interdisciplinary seminar on Florence in the 15th and 16th centuries: humanism, culture and society in the republican period, the rise of the Medici, Florentine neoplatonism, the establishment of the Medici principate, culture, society and religion.
Prerequisite: VIC240Y1 or permission of instructor
VIC 449H1/Y1
Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance 26L, 13P/52L, 26P
An in-depth study in an aspect of the Renaissance based around lectures,
seminars, and readings. Content in any given year depends on instructors.
See annual course listing for the years theme.
Recommended preparation: VIC240Y1,
or another course in Renaissance Studies.
Semiotics Courses
Key
to Course Descriptions.
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all VIC Semiotics
courses are classified as SOCIAL SCIENCE courses.
VIC220Y1
Post-Structuralism/Post-Modernism 52L,
26T
Studies the international culture emerging in media and literature and examines recent communication theory as it applies to literary, social and cultural issues.
Prerequisite: One course from: ANT100Y1, LIN100Y1, PHL100Y1, PHL 102Y1, SOC101Y1, RLG 101Y.
VIC 223Y1
Signs, Meanings, and Culture 52L, 26P
This course will introduce the main elements of semiotic theory, applying
it to the study of human culture, from language, myth, and art to popular
forms of culture such as pop music and cinema. It will deal with primary
texts in the development of semiotics, and cover a broad range of cultural
applications of semiotic theory.
Prerequisite: One course from: ANT100Y1, LIN100Y1, PHL100Y1, PHL 102Y, SOC100Y1, RLG 101Y.
Exclusion: VIC120Y1
VIC320Y1 Semiotics of Visual Art 52L, 26T
Theories and models of applied semiotics: analysis of sign systems as articulated in various forms of artistic and cultural production.
Prerequisite: VIC 120Y1/VIC223Y1, VIC220Y1
VIC 322H1
Topics in Semiotics 26S
An in-depth examination of some aspect of Semiotic theory or practice.
Content in any given year depends on instructor. Not offered every year.
Prerequisite: VIC 120Y1/VIC 223Y1, VIC220Y1.
JFV323H1 Semiotics and Literature 26S
The study of readings from major French literary semioticians will be combined with the practical application of theory to the analysis of selected literary texts. (Given by the Department of French and Victoria College)
Prerequisite: At least 5 course credits in any subject.
Exclusion(s): FRE 444H1/445H1
Recommended Preparation: FRE240Y1/VIC 120Y1/VIC 223Y1
This is a humanities or social science course.
VIC 323Y1
Sign, Culture and History (formerly VIC420Y1) 52L, 26T
Theories of signification studied with a focus on major works in the
semiotics of modern and contemporary culture.
Prerequisite: ANT323Y1, VIC 120Y1/VIC 223Y1, VIC220Y1/221Y1/VIC320Y1.
Exclusion: VIC420Y1
Other Victoria College Courses
VIC299Y1 Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 45 for details.
VIC350Y1
Creative Writing: A Multicultural Approach 52S Practice and instruction in writing poetry and fiction, paired with study of literature and theory introducing the multicultural richness of contemporary English writing. Approximately three-quarters of class periods are workshops, one-quarter lecture discussions. Work by many writers from contemporary and traditional literatures are read in English translation.
Prerequisite: four credits
This is a Humanities course
VIC 351H1
Learning Communities and Higher Education in Canada 26S
This course examines the evolution of higher education in Canada. Using
Victoria University and Victorias affiliates as a case study, the course explores the intersection of gender, race, class and religion. Comparisons are made with other denominational and secular institutions in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth century education. International contexts of education through student service and missions are discussed.
This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
VIC390Y1/391H1
Victoria College Independent Studies TBA
VIC490Y1/491H1
Victoria College Independent Studies TBA These courses provide an opportunity to design an interdisciplinary course of study not otherwise available within the Faculty. Written application (detailed proposal, reading list and a letter of support from a Victoria College faculty member who is prepared to supervise) must be made through the Program Director for approval by Victoria College Councils Academic Advisory Committee by April 30 for a Fall course or by November 30 for a Spring course. Students should have a minimum CGPA of 3.
Prerequisite: Permission of College Program Director
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