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University College CoursesFor Distribution Requirement purposes, UNI courses are variously classified; see entry at end of each course. |
Canadian Studies CoursesJWU200H1 Toronto is a complex urban region marked by social diversity and a multi-textured cultural scene. This course examines Toronto’s history, culture, society, economy and status as a global city within the Canadian context. This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
UNI201H1 Contemporary Québec from social, economic and political perspectives. This is a Social Science course
UNI202H1 An exploration of modern Québec culture as expressed in literature and the performing arts. Through a selection of internationally-known entertainers, we examine form, artistic innovation, communication of information and knowledge and spectatorship. Novels and plays provide key elements such as tradition and historical context. This is a Humanities course
UNI205H1 A focused introduction to specific issues in Canadian culture and society. Content will vary from year to year. Specific course information will be available on the Canadian Studies web site at www.utoronto.ca/canstudies . This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
SOC218Y1 The course will explore the structures and processes of Asian communities in Canada. Historical development of various Asian communities will be explored. Other topics include ethnic economy, ethnic media, ethnic churches, and ethnic voluntary organizations in Asian communities. Experts in related topics are invited to present their research findings. Non-sociology students may seek departmental permission to enrol.
Exclusion: SOC
342Y1/394Y1
UNI218H1 A study of the variety of voices in Canadian fiction. Issues such as marginalization and the formulation of the Canadian canon are discussed. This is a Humanities course
UNI220Y1 An introduction to key events and issues in contemporary Canada. This course provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on a wide range of topics such as constitutional reform; multiculturalism and immigration; social welfare; environmentalism; globalization; economic policy; gender and sexuality; arts and culture. This is a Humanities or a Social Science course UNI221H1 Culture and the Media in Canada [26L] An exploration of the encounter between culture and mass communication in Canadian society. The course includes a consideration of the major institutions affecting culture such as the CBC, the NFB, and the granting bodies, and largely focuses on particular instances and case studies in the arts and media. Emphasis is placed on the changing role of nationalism, and the relationship between political concerns and Canadian culture. This is a Social Science course
UNI280H1 This course focuses on initial settlement patterns of Jewish people in Toronto and elsewhere, community growth including suburbanization, and contemporary challenges such as anti-Semitism and assimilation. This is a Humanities and Social Science course.
UNI304H1 A multidisciplinary examination of the emergence of new approaches to identity and community that go beyond official bilingualism and multiculturalism. To include cultural/literary works as well as historical and social scientific analyses illuminating relations between cultural and racial communities in post 1960’s Canada, with an emphasis on Toronto.
Prerequisite: UNI
220Y1 or two courses on the study of Canada
UNI305H1 An in-depth study of selected questions in contemporary Canadian culture and society. Content will vary from year to year. Specific course information will be available on the Canadian Studies web site at www.utoronto.ca/canstudies . This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
UNI307Y1 An exploration of the cultural histories and creative production specific to a wide range of Asian communities in Canada. Content will present humanities perspectives according to the instructor’s specialty. Experts in specific areas —literature, dance, drama, film—will be invited to present their work.
Recommended Preparation: UNI 220Y1
UNI317Y1
UNI317H1 A survey of some of the main issues surrounding the politics of Aboriginal self-government in Canada. Proceeding historically, the course examines the legal and political conditions that have fuelled the call for self-government. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: ABS201Y1/POL102Y1/103Y1/UNI220Y1 or permission of the instructor
JUG320H1 The idea of wilderness permeates narratives of Canadian national identity, while policy-makers seek to manage and contain natural areas. This course compares and contrasts historical and contemporary wilderness narratives in literature, painting and film with policies in areas such as conservation, urban planning, land claims and tourism. (Offered by University College and the Geography Department.) This is a Social Science course
UNI320Y1 An in-depth study of selected questions facing contemporary Canada. Students are encouraged to examine topics from multiple disciplinary perspectives drawn from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Issues addressed in recent years include: multiculturalism in contemporary film; residential schools; African Canadian culture; North American integration; citizenship and global cities; genetics and cloning. This is a Humanities or a Social Science course
UNI325H1 This course focuses on Canadian literary and artistic productions that challenge prevailing notions of nationality and sexuality, exploring not only how artists struggle with that ongoing Canadian thematic of being and belonging, but also celebrate pleasure and desire as a way of imagining and articulating an alternative national politics.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1/UNI256H1 or UNI220Y1 or permission of instructor
UNI380H1 This course examines the relationship between prominent Canadians who happen to be Jews and those w hose work is founded in the identity as Jews; the diversity of the community on the basis of religion, language, class, ideology etc.; contributions to the arts and scholarship; and the role of Jewish women. This a Humanities and Social Science course. Students select an appropriate research topic and, in consultation with the Program Director, make arrangements with a suitable supervisor. Research projects must be approved by the supervisor preferably and by the Director of the Canadian Studies Program, by April of the preceding academic year. Students meet periodically during the year in seminar to participate in peer evaluations of: statement of research, literature review, methods of analysis, and to share reports of progress in research. Prerequisite: Open only to Majors and Specialists in the Canadian Studies program
UNI430H1 An upper level seminar. Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. Prerequisite: UNI220Y1 or two courses on the study of Canada Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence Course
UNI250Y1 An introduction to the problems, theories and research [strategies central to the interdisciplinary field focussing on the nature and organization of the human mind and other cognitive systems. Interrelations among the philosophical, psychological, linguistic and computer science aspects of the field are emphasized. (Offered by University College and the Department of Philosophy)
Exclusion: JUP250Y1 UNI301H1 A hands-on course for students with some programming background to enable direct understandings of programs in traditional AI, neural networks, genetic algorithms, artificial life, dynamic systems, and robotics. Simple and classical algorithms are demonstrated, and students will learn to operate and extend them. This course gives second- and third-year students experience of working models that they have read about, and can also serve as an introduction to programming in artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
Prerequisite: CSC107H1/108H1 or Instructor’s permission
UNI302H1 Extending the depth of understanding of conceptual issues in cognitive science, including intentionality, semantics, mechanism, and consciousness. Students study primary literature, including. Descartes, Turing, Chomsky, Brooks, Dennett, Searle, et al. and they elaborate their own conceptual frameworks in cognitive science.Co-requisite: UNI250Y1
Exclusion: JUP302H1
UNI401H1 A seminar on the following questions: “What is consciousness? What does it take for a creature to be conscious? What is objectivity? How may a creature be objective?” Students bring to bear on these questions their diverse background in analytic philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, connectionism, linguistics, neuroscience, phenomenology, or psychology. Readings cover visual perception, spatial navigation, attention, working memory, reference, object permanence, evolution of language, the frame problem, the binding problem, and the qualia problem.
Prerequisite: UNI302H1 or permission on the instructor
UNI402H1 An introduction to the techniques of theory simplification, amplification, integration, and generation, which provide a bridge between psychology and the philosophy of science. Emphasis is placed on the skills of critical thinking and theory analysis needed to support these techniques and to build a methodology for cognitive science.
Prerequisite: UNI 250Y1
UNI403H1 A hands-on course to advance practical skills and theoretical understanding through challenging students to a series of cognitively significant robotics tasks in realistic settings. Students bring to bear on robot construction their prior study in artificial intelligence, psychology, and philosophy and develop a strong background for thinking about embeddedness and embodiment issues that have been at the centre of recent cognitive science.
Prerequisite: UNI301H1 or permission from instructor
Health Studies CoursesStudents enrolled in the Health Studies program are given the first opportunity to enroll in these courses.
UNI200H1 This course will offer students in Health Studies a basic understanding of research design and data collection on health topics and the usefulness of data collection in the formation of health policy.
Exclusion: POL
242Y1, SOC 200H1, UNI200Y1, WDW 350Y1
UNI210H1 This course will offer students in Health Studies a basic understanding of statistical data analysis, data interpretation, and the use of such data in the formation of health policy.
Exclusion: POL
242Y1, SOC 200H1, UNI200Y1, WDW 350Y1
UNI209H1 A multidisciplinary approach to understanding perspectives in health, health equity, and primary health care. Themes include critical discussion of the measurements of health outcomes and the socioeconomic and political factors that affect health, including among neglected and marginalized populations in Canada and globally.
Exclusion: HMB203
This course introduces students to development and issues related to Canadian health care policy. The course examines basic policy making process; policy making process in Canadian context; development of Canadian health care policy; and current health care reform debates and issues.Health care is increasingly contentious with aging population, advancements in medical technology, government fiscal restraints. How to achieve best health care given limited resources, and ensure fair, equal, accessible health care. Overview of current policy issues and its relationship to social inequality, gender, and race, provide analytical tools for understanding. Exclusion: SOC
351Y1, 352H1, UNI300Y, UNI300H1
UNI237H1 A critical examination of the HIV/AIDS global pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective and with an emphasis on sexuality. The course examines the basic biology of HIV/AIDS and then covers social, historical, political, cultural, gender, and public health aspects of HIV/AIDS. Attention is given to the distinct features of vulnerable and marginalized populations, prevention, treatment, drug development, and access to medicines.
UNI237H1 is particularly intended for students in the Health Studies and Sexual
Diversity Studies Programs.
UNI309H1 Study of a particular topic in Health Studies. The specific content of this course will vary from one year to another, depending on the availability of particular health researchers and scholars. In a given year, the course may focus on HIV/AIDS, tobacco addiction, nutritional issues, or gerontology and health problems related to the aging process.
UNI310H1 This course explores emerging issues in health and social policies. Using the framework of social determinants of health, this course examines the implications of social factors such as socio-economic inequity, gender, race, homelessness, age, and citizenship status on individual health; and policy options to address these issues. Exclusion; UNI300Y1
UNI330H1 A critical examination of drug development, including the role of health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry in researching, testing, marketing, licensing, and evaluating pharmaceutical drugs. Topics include the differing needs for drug development in different societies, evaluation and dispensing in lower income countries, and potential conflicts of interest in drug development.
Prerequisite: UNI200H1, HMB303H1
UNI350Y1 The research course required for Health Studies students in the Specialist stream. Students engage in a specific research project within the program. The course includes sessions on the development of a project, data analysis and presentation, formulation of a grant proposal and writing of “peer-reviewed papers.”
Prerequisite: UNI200H1, STA221H1
UNI370H1 This course develops the students’ understanding of individual behaviour towards physical activity, sport and play. While the focus is on the individual participant, the course also examines the basic psychological theories underlying behaviour.
Exclusion: PHE 300H1
UNI371H1 Opportunities for physical activity are profoundly affected by the social structures of Canadian society and persistent inequalities. This course enables students to study the effects of class, gender, race, and sexuality upon opportunities, programs and practices and the means by which social equity might be more effectively pursued.
Exclusion: PHE 301H1
UNI373H1 This issue-oriented course will extend students’ understanding of the broad definitions of health and its determinants, and population-based strategies of health promotion in Canada. Topics include: variations in health status as affected by population patterns, class, gender, ethnicity, employment, and family composition; the major causes of morbidity and mortality; the concept of “community health”, and the opportunities and constraints facing public policy.
Exclusion: PHE 312H1 Note Students enrolled in the Health Studies program are given the first opportunity to enroll in these courses.
UNI400Y1 Individual field placement with a health research or administration professional, in which the student applies theory and skills to a specific project. Culminates in an oral and written report. This is a Social Science course
UNI409HI The specific content of this course will vary from one year to another, depending on the availability of particular health researchers and scholars. In a given year, the course may focus on AIDS, tobacco addiction, nutritional issues in low-income countries, and the persistence of infant health problems in poor Canadian communities. This is a Social Science course.
UNI410H1 This course is about the formation and growth of communities –about their social organization and the problems that small and vulnerable communities often face. There will be a focus on problems of poverty, social marginality, and powerlessness, and the health consequences of these for community members. Prerequisite: UNI 200H1, 210H1 This is a Social Science course. UNI411Y1
A critical examination of diseases such as malaria, HIV, cholera, tuberculosis as well as the determinants of health that affect marginalized populations. The course discusses the prevalence, etiology, and biology of diseases, the socioeconomic, medical and other factors that create vulnerable populations, and the challenges involved in improving access to treatments and prevention. (note: this course will be given for the first time in 2009-2010)
Prerequisite: UNI310H, HMB303 This course aims to provide an introductory understanding of the basic concepts and methods in eipdemiology. The emphasis will be on descriptive methods and study design. Computational techniques, measurement problems, and issues that surround the drawing of inferences from area-level or other aggregate data will be discussed.
Prerequisite: UNI
200H1, 210H1
UNI450Y1 The second research course required for Health Studies students in the Specialist stream. Students engage in a specific research project during their last two years within the program. This course is a continuation of UNI350Y and will further develop the skills addressed in that course. Student will prepare an “undergraduate thesis” by the end of this academic year. Prerequisite: UNI200H, STA221H1, UNI350Y This is a Social Science course.
UNI464H1 A course intended to widen the horizons and learning opportunities of future health system managers through international and intercultural learning, and to provide a learning environment for understanding different ways of approaching issues and problems related to health sciences management. This is a Social Science course
UNI451Y1 This two-semester course designation will permit students to gain academic credit for health studies pursued independently under the supervision of a University of Toronto faculty member; or to participate in an ongoing health research project under the joint supervision of the project’s Principal Investigator and the Director of the Health Studies Program. Prerequisite: UNI 200H1, 210H1 This is a Social Science course. UNI470H1
This course provides students with an overview of contemporary topics in health psychology: psychological theory, research and skills relevant to the promotion and maintenance of optimal health and the prevention and treatment of illness and physical injury. The first half of the course will cover theoretical frameworks for understanding health behaviour, motivation, and psycho-social factors that influence health attitudes and behaviour. In the second half, topics germane to clinical health psychology and multi-disciplinary settings will be explored. Emphasis on the role of health psychology and exercise wellness behaviour, and on professional issues and ethical practices for physical and health education students. This is a Social Science course
UNI471H1 This course draws upon communications theory, political economy, semiology and sociology to examine the ways in which meanings about physical activity are produced, distributed, and consumed through the media. Topics include: the social marketing of health, advertising and the “body politic”, media advocacy, sports and fitness marketing, and the production of sport as a media event.
Prerequisite: PHE 301H1/UNI 371H1
UNI472H1 This course examines the body as a terrain of complex cultural politics. Drawing upon a variety of sources, especially post-modern theory, cultural anthropology, and philosophy, it will consider the ways in which the “body” has been conceptualized and the ways in which discourses on bodies have led to important political struggles, particularly in the social construction of health and sickness. Exclusion: PHE 403H1 This is a Social Science course
UNI473H1 The ancient Greeks and Romans were intensely interested in sport, physical education, and the maintenance of physical strength and health. The Renaissance revived this interest and transformed physical pursuits from marginal activities into structured components of the social system. Our contemporary concepts of sport, health, and physical culture were first formulated at that time. The readings (in English translation) will be taken from original ancient and early-modern documents.
Exclusion: PHE 423H1
UNI476H1 The specific content of this course will vary from one year to another, depending on the availability of particular historians to offer the course. In a given year, the course may focus on the Black Death epidemic in Europe, problems of sanitation in ancient Rome, nutritional issues in pre-industrial China, and so on. This is a Humanities or Social Science course.
UNI480H1 This one-semester course will permit students to gain academic credit for health studies pursued independently under the supervision of a University of Toronto faculty member; or to participate in an ongoing health research project under the joint supervision of the project’s Principal Investigator and the Director of the Health Studies Program
Prerequisite: UNI
200H1, 210H1
Peace and Conflict Studies Courses
UNI260Y1 A review of the full range of theories explaining the nature and causes of conflict and possibilities for its resolution; provides students with a set of theoretical tools for effective analysis of interpersonal, civil, and international conflict.
Exclusion: UNI110Y1
UNI360Y1 An in-depth exploration of selected issues introduced in UNI260Y1. Topics may include: negotiation theory; ethnic and group-identity conflict; feminist perspectives on peace and war; mathematical modeling of arms races and war; decision-making theory and conflict; environmental change and conflict; and traditional perspectives on statecraft.
Prerequisite: or
permission of the instructor
UNI361H1 UNI361Y1 Special Topics in Peace and Conflict Studies [52S] An exploration of selected issues in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies involving an overseas and/or practicum component
Prerequisite: permission from the Instructor. JUP460H1 Contemporary Issues in Peace and Conflict [26S] JUP460Y1 Contemporary Issues in Peace and Conflict [52S] A colloquium (fall term) and research seminar (spring term, JUP460Y only) on security ontology and various meanings of security. Topics to be considered include planetary, ecospheric, state, societal, and human security. (Offered by the Department of Political Science and University College)
Exclusion: Students are not allowed to take both H and Y courses Sexual Diversity Studies Courses
UNI237H1 A critical examination of the HIV/AIDS global pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective and with an emphasis on sexuality. The course examines the basic biology of HIV/AIDS and then covers social, historical, political, cultural, gender, and public health aspects of HIV/AIDS. Attention is given to the distinct features of vulnerable and marginalized populations, prevention, treatment, drug development, and access to medicines. UNI237H1 is particularly intended for students in the Health Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies Programs.
This is a Humanities and Social Science course
UNI255H1 An interdisciplinary examination of sexuality across cultures and periods. How are sexualities represented? How are they suppressed or celebrated? How and why are they labeled as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or perverse? How do sexualities change with ethnicity, class, and gender? This is a Humanities or Social Science course
UNI 256H1 A social sciences approach to sexual diversity across societies, and of the increased visibility of that diversity in such settings as the family, the workplace, and the law, as well as the role that such contexts play in shaping sexual identity. This is a Social Science course.
UNI325H1 This course focuses on Canadian literary and artistic productions that challenge prevailing notions of nationality and sexuality, exploring not only how artists struggle with that ongoing Canadian thematic of being and belonging, but also celebrate pleasure and desire as a way of imagining and articulating an alternative national politics.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1/UNI256H1 or UNI220Y1 or
permission of instructor
UNI354H1 A survey of classic western theories of sexuality; each theory is examined in terms of the practices it allows and prohibits. Under consideration are not only the descriptive and/or prescriptive aspects of a particular framework but its epistemic grounds, and implications for understanding identity, body, community, and state.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1
UNI355H1 An integrated survey of some ways in which sexuality has been theorized recently. How have desire and its identities been conceptualized and deployed? What are the implications for psychoanalysis, feminism, and cultural production? What interconnections are yet to be made between sexuality and the markers of gender, race, and class?
Prerequisite: UNI255H1 or
permission of instructor
UNI365H1 An overview of the points where sexuality and law intersect, through surveying ways of thinking about how law interprets, regulates and defines sexuality, and how communities and groups oppressed on the basis of sexuality fare under the law in Canada and elsewhere.
Prerequisite: POL315H1/UNI255H1/UNI256H1 or
permission of instructor
UNI375H1 Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. This seminar is intended to expose students in the Sexual Diversity Studies program to topics that may not be covered by permanent university courses. See www.utoronto.ca/sexualdiversity/special.html for descriptions of current topics. Prerequisite: UNI255H1/UNI256H1 or permission of instructor
UNI377H1 This multidisciplinary course will examine multiple lesbian identities that have varied in time and place. The course will pose such questions as: What does “lesbian” mean? Why have changes occurred in meaning? How has the identity of lesbian been culturally represented and politically expressed in various social and political contexts? It will also take up contemporary theoretical, cultural, and political understandings of lesbianism.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1 or UNI256H1
UNI455H1 Topics vary from year to year depending on instructor. This seminar is intended to expose students in the Sexual Diversity Studies program to topics that may not be covered by permanent university courses. See www.utoronto.ca/sexualdiversity/special.html for descriptions of current topics.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1/UNI256H1 UNI458H1 Research Essay in Sexual Diversity [26S] A research essay under the supervision of a faculty member with knowledge of sexual diversity, the proposal and supervisor subject to the approval of the SDS Program Director.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1, UNI256H1 UNI459Y1 Honours Essay in Sexual Diversity [52S] A major research essay prepared over the course of two academic terms (one year), under the supervision of a faculty member with knowledge of sexual diversity, the proposal and supervisor subject to the approval of the SDS Program Director.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1, UNI256H1 UNI475H1 The New Queer Visibility [26S] This interdisciplinary course critically examines the socio-political cultural context that has produced a new queer visibility. The course assesses many of the post-Stonewall changes in the North American public sphere and the interrelationship between the new queer visibility and the North American public sphere.
Prerequisite: UNI255H1 and
UNI355H1 or permission of the instructor UNI477H1 Transgender Studies [26S] This course introduces students to Trans Studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field of scholarship from various angles: academic, activist, socio-historical, and clinical. Students will develop their abilities to assess representations of trans and intersexed people and social issues, taking into account how race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, culture and dis/ability are materially and socially constructed together to give meaning to the category “trans.”
Prerequisite: UNI255H1 or UNI256H1 Other University College Courses
JUM202H1 A study of the interaction of mathematics with other fields of inquiry: how mathematics influences, and is influenced by, the evolution of science and culture. Art, music, and literature, as well as the more traditionally related areas of the natural and social sciences may be considered. (Offered every three years)
Exclusion: JUM102H1
JUM203H1 A study of games, puzzles and problems focusing on the deeper principles they illustrate. Concentration is on problems arising out of number theory and geometry, with emphasis on the process of mathematical reasoning. Technical requirements are kept to a minimum. A foundation is provided for a continuing lay interest in mathematics. (Offered every three years)
Exclusion: JUM103H1
JUM204H1 An interdisciplinary exploration of creativity and imagination as they arise in the study of mathematics and poetry. (Offered every three years)
Exclusion: JEM204H1
JUM205H1 An in-depth study of the life, times and work of several mathematicians who have been particularly influential. Examples may include Newton, Euler, Gauss, Kowalewski, Hilbert, Hardy, Ramanujan, Gödel, Erdös, Coxeter, Grothendieck. (Offered every three years)
Exclusion: JUM105H1
UNI299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 48 for details.
UNI393Y1
UNI394H1 An opportunity to pursue at the 300-level an independent course of study not otherwise available within the Faculty. A written proposal, co-signed by the instructor, must be submitted on the appropriate proposal form for approval by the Vice-Principal of University College prior to registration. Prerequisite: Permission of University College Vice-Principal
UNI495Y1
UNI496H1 An opportunity to pursue at the 400-level an independent course of study not otherwise available within the Faculty. A written proposal, co-signed by the instructor, must be submitted on the appropriate proposal form for approval by the Vice-Principal of University College prior to registration. Prerequisite: Permission of University College Vice-Principal |
This is a Humanities course.