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Victoria College (Vic) is committed to providing students with a personal and inclusive University experience inside and outside the classroom. This is an environment where students and teachers are committed to building a community that welcomes diversity, embraces creativity and is energized by challenge.

At Vic, we nurture a close-knit learning community from the very beginning of your academic career. Whether it is through our Vic One program, Vic First Pathways or the 199Y courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Science, every first-year Victoria College student is required to enroll in a seminar course. You will experience here the academic advantages of being a student of one of Canada’s leading universities and the intimacy of a small liberal arts college.

Vic One

Victoria College offers first-year Arts and Science students an opportunity for a unique educational experience that draws upon the college’s history and identity. Five streams with differing emphasis are available in this foundation year program, known as Vic One. They are named in honour of five respected Canadian leaders, all Victoria College alumni.  The Frye stream, named after former Victoria College professor and distinguished literary critic Northrop Frye, focuses on the humanities.  The Norman Jewison stream, named after former Victoria University Chancellor and celebrated film director is oriented towards the imagination and the arts.   The Pearson stream, named after former Canadian Prime  Minister Lester Pearson is concerned with the social sciences. The Egerton Ryerson stream, named after the first Principal of the College who was a pioneer in Canadian education, is an opportunity to introduce first year students to issues in education and teaching. The Augusta Stowe-Gullen stream, named after the first woman to graduate from a Canadian medical school, is of interest to students wishing to pursue studies in the sciences.  The five streams feature seminars, lectures, small tutorials and informal conversation, and are enriched by weekly plenary sessions with guest professors, visiting artists, writers, ambassadors and other public figures.

Each Vic One stream comprises up to 3 FCEs of the five FCEs taken by most first year students. Two required courses in each stream are seminar courses given by faculty of Victoria College. They have a limited enrolment of 25 students in each class. The third co-requisite course is listed with each course description.  Students who wish to discuss other options for their Vic One co-requisite course must contact the coordinator of their stream or the Vic One Liaison Officer vic.one@utoronto.ca for approval.

Vic One enrolment is limited to a total of 200 students over 5 streams of study. It requires an application that is found on the Vic One web site (www.vic.utoronto.ca/academics/vicone). All first-year students in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George campus), regardless of college membership, are eligible for admission to Vic One (excluding Commerce and Computer Science). Admission decisions are made based on extra-curricular activities, a short original essay and the student’s entering grades.

PLEASE NOTE: Vic One students are not eligible to enrol in Pathway Seminar courses, FLCs or 199Y first-year seminars.


Vic  Pathways: Studies for First Year

Vic Pathways is a Victoria College initiative that offers first-year Arts and Science students  the opportunity to experience a small class environment. These small enrolment Vic-sponsored courses facilitate close contact with  distinguished teaching faculty and fellow students, while providing an excellent gateway to, and foundation for, subsequent studies.

Vic Pathways also offers students a chance to share a common avenue of academic learning by adding extra value through a number of specially programmed out-of-class activities.  Vic Pathways is open to all first-year students in the Faculty of Arts and Science.

PLEASE NOTE: Pathway Seminar courses are NOT open to students enrolled in the Vic One program or 199Y first-year seminars.

Enrolment in a first-year seminar course (199s and Pathways) is limited to 1.0 FCE. Students may take a combination of Pathway  and 199H seminars as long as enrolment does not exceed 1.0 FCE.

Concurrent Teacher Education Program

(Joint BA/BSc/BEd) prepares students for a career in primary/junior teaching as well as encourages students to follow an Arts and Science program of study focused on the urban environment.  The Program began  in 2008 with entry in second year. Students in first year should consider the Ryerson Stream of Vic One as preparation. Enrolment in the Concurrent Teacher Education Program is limited to 30 students.

Concurrent Education offers students the opportunity to complete the BA/BSc degree and the BEd simultaneously.  The program is offered in partnership with OISE.  Complete description of the program may be found on www.utoronto.ca/ctep. Admission into the Program  is by application starting in early April and ending mid-May.

The Literary Studies Program

(Specialist, Major and Minor) will be attractive to students who wish to read works drawn from a variety of languages and cultural contexts. The program combines close attention to literary texts with theoretical reflection on relations between literary and non-literary works (for example, philosophy, art, film, history). Contemporary debates in literary and cultural theory will play a key role.

Students may enroll in one of two streams, Comparative Literature (Specialist and Major) or Cultural Theory (Specialist and Major). Students may also enroll in the Minor program.

Students who enrolled in one of the Literary Studies programs prior to July 2007 may, if they wish, follow the requirements in place in 2006. (VIC 309H1 and VIC310H1 will be considered equivalent to VIC310Y1.)

Material Culture

The program engages students in the study of material culture (tangible things, broadly defined); supports research projects which originate with studies of artefacts; and fosters trans-disciplinary and inter-institutional dialogues amongst students, scholars, stewards and purveyors of material culture – within the university and at a range of cultural agencies. Students will work with curators and other professionals to analyze the social and cultural relevance of objects as part of understanding of a culture or society.  For example, by examining various trends in fashion this may give an insight into how a culture expresses itself as well as how individuals gain their identity. The Minor is designed to complement programs in such disciplines as Asian Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Geography, History, Art, History of Science and Technology, Semiotics, Renaissance Studies and Anthropology. The Major or Specialist programs will form the base from which the study of material culture will draw to allow the student to work with objects that may form part of the curriculum of their subject concentrations.

The Renaissance Studies Program

(Specialist, Major and Minor) studies one of the critical periods in European and world history. The Renaissance witnessed changes in art and literature, in social and political development, and in technology and science that were to transform our concept of the world. This interdisciplinary program is particularly attractive to students of history, politics, literature, fine art, history of science, music and theatre, because it assembles aspects of all these studies to focus on one seminal period in Western civilization.

The Semiotics and Communication Theory Program

(Minor) investigates the science of communication and sign systems, the ways people understand phenomena and organize them mentally, the ways in which they devise means for transmitting that understanding and for sharing it with others. It covers all non-verbal signalling and extends to domains whose communicative dimension is perceived only unconsciously or subliminally. Knowledge, meaning, intention and action are thus fundamental concepts in the semiotic investigation of phenomena.

Victoria College Programs

Program Coordinator:  Professor Sheila Cook

CTEP is an integrated curriculum sponsored jointly by Victoria College in the Faculty of Arts & Science and by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, leading to two degrees over a five-year program: the Honours Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Education. (See CTEP details on p. 30).  The Victoria College CTEP program is designed for students wishing to teach at the primary/junior level (K-6), particularly in urban schools.  Teacher candidates will be provided with teacher training and knowledge of the urban environment.  As part of their academic requirements students will complete various placements in Toronto schools.

Admission to the Victoria College CTEP program means admission to the Minor in Education and Society and to the set of courses leading to the BEd.   This is a limited enrolment program that can only accommodate a specific number of students.

Application and Eligibility

To apply to this program students must:

• have completed at least 4.0 FCEs, including PSY100H1;
• have completed at least 0.5 FCE from the courses listed in #2 below; 
• have a minimum CGPA of 2.50;
• completed the applicant profile.

Please note that having the minimum to apply does not guarantee acceptance into the program in any given year.  All Arts & Science students are eligible to apply regardless of college.  The application process occurs each year from early April to mid-May.

Requirement of Concurrent Teacher Education Program for BA/BSc/BEd Students

All students admitted to the Victoria College CTEP are required to enroll in the Education and Society minor program. It is also recommended, in addition to the BEd courses and associated requirements. CTEP students may fulfill the remaining major or minor for the BA/BEd degree as they wish.  It is not recommended for Concurrent Education students to enrol in specialist programs as they must leave sufficient space in their upper years to complete the concurrent BEd requirements.

NOTE: The academic status of students in CTEP may be reviewed at the end of each fall-winter session to determine progress to the next year.

The minor in Education and Society is open only to students registered in the Victoria College Concurrent Teacher Education Program.

(4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one 300+ series course)

1. PSY100H1
2. An additional half-year or full-year first year course selected from ANT100Y1, SOC101Y1, SOC102H1, SOC103H1 or GGR124H1. Vic One Ryerson students may satisfy this requirement with either VIC150Y1 or VIC151Y1.
3. VIC260H1 Equity and Diversity in Education;
   VIC261H1 Child and Adolescent Development in Education;
   JSV200H1 Communication and Conflict Resolution
4. VIC360H1 Concurrent Teacher Education Program Internship
5. One full credit related to Education and Society at the 300 level or higher selected from the offerings in Sociology, Anthropology or Geography (Arts). Courses in other departments, including those in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at OISE require approval of the Vic Concurrent Education Coordinator.

Program Coordinators:  Professor E. Cazdyn and Professor R. Comay

Enrolment in the Literary Studies program is open to students upon completion of 4.0 courses.

The Literary Studies programs are based on a pair of ideas. The first is that many of the most important and interesting issues that engage our attention call for a multi-disciplinary approach. Second, that the kind of critical analysis demanded by the study of literary texts offers powerful tools for investigating cultural and social forms of the past and present. Central to the program is the comparative study of forms of representation—texts, media, institutions, and theories, in diverse cultures and historical periods.  This requires thinking about what it means to compare and what it means to translate.

Both the Specialist and the Major programs have two streams: the Comparative Literature Stream and the Cultural Theory Stream.   The Comparative Literature stream emphasizes literary analysis and the problem of comparison, and it involves intensive language training.  The Cultural Theory stream emphasizes a critical approach to literary and non-literary forms. Students in this stream combine core courses with a selection of relevant courses in another discipline.  The Minor program in Literary Studies offers students an introduction to the ideas and methodologies of the field.

One of the unique strengths of the LS Specialist and the Major programs is that students in both streams work in at least one foreign language of their choosing and design the elective component of their program from a wide range of humanities courses in close consultation with the program coordinators.  For example, a student in the Cultural Theory stream might choose to supplement the LS requirements with courses in cinema studies, history, or drama.  This is what produces the unique combination of interdisciplinary breadth, conceptual focus, and independent initiative that distinguishes the program.  Extensive counseling is for this reason an integral part of the programs.

Note: Since the new version of LS starting in 2011-12 is substantially different than the preceding program, students enrolled in the program prior to 2011-12 should be advised of the following equivalencies:

• Old VIC201Y1 = new VIC202Y1
• Old VIC210Y1 = new VIC203Y1
• Old VIC311H1 = new VIC402H1
• Old VIC300H/VIC301H1/VIC309H1/VIC310H1/VIC411H1 = any 300-series course in the new program
• Old VIC410Y1/VIC410H1 = any 400-level course in the new program except VIC402H1

Students enrolled as of 2011-12 must satisfy the new program requirements.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(12.5 FCEs, including at least 4.0 at the 300-level, 1.0 of which must be at the 400-level course)

First year in program: VIC202Y1

First or second year in program: VIC203Y1

Second or higher years in program

1. 3.5 FCEs from VIC204H1, VIC302H1, VIC303H1, VIC304H1, VIC305H1, VIC306H1, VIC307H1, VIC401H1/VIC401Y1, VIC403H1, VIC490Y1, JNV300H1.
2. 0.5 FCE from Breadth Category 5:  The Physical and Mathematical Universes or other courses approved by the program coordinator to fulfil the Quantitative Reasoning requirement
3. VIC402H1
4. 6.0 FCEs in languages or literatures drawn from other departments, approved by the program coordinator.  At least 4.0 of these involve reading texts in a language other than English, including at least 2.0 at the 300+ level.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(7.5 FCEs, including at least 2.0 at the 300-level, 0.5 of which must be at the 400-level course)

First year in program: VIC202Y1

First or second year in program: VIC203Y1

Second or higher years in program

1. 2.5 FCEs from VIC204H1, VIC302H1, VIC303H1, VIC304H1, VIC305H1, VIC306H1, VIC307H1, VIC401H1/VIC401Y1, VIC403H1, VIC490Y1, JNV300H1.
2. 0.5 FCE from Breadth Category 5:  The Physical and Mathematical Universes or other courses approved by the program coordinator to fulfil the Quantitative Reasoning requirement
3. VIC402H1
4. 2.0 FCEs in a language or literature drawn from other departments, approved by the program coordinator, where texts are read in a language other than English.  At least 1.0 FCE must be at the 300+ level.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(12.5 FCEs, including at least 4.0 at the 300-level, 1.0 of which must be at the 400-level course)

First year in program: VIC202Y1

First or second year in program: VIC203Y1

Second or higher years in program

1. 3.5 FCEs from VIC204H1, VIC302H1, VIC303H1, VIC304H1, VIC305H1, VIC306H1, VIC307H1, VIC401H1/VIC401Y1, VIC403H1, VIC490Y1, JNV300H1.
2. 0.5 FCE from Breadth Category 5:  The Physical and Mathematical Universes or other courses approved by the program coordinator to fulfil the Quantitative Reasoning requirement
3. VIC402H1
4. 4.0 FCEs in another discipline approved by the program coordinator.
5. 2.0 FCEs in a language other than English, approved by the program coordinator, including at least 1.0 at the 300+ level.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(7.5 FCEs, including at least 2.0 at the 300-level, 0.5 of which must be at the 400-level course)

First year in program: VIC202Y1

First or second year in program: VIC203Y1

Second or higher years in program

1. 2.5 FCEs from VIC204H1, VIC302H1, VIC303H1, VIC304H1, VIC305H1, VIC306H1, VIC307H1, VIC401H1/VIC401Y1, VIC403H1, VIC490Y1, JNV300H1.
2. 0.5 FCE from Breadth Category 5:  The Physical and Mathematical Universes or other courses approved by the program coordinator to fulfil the Quantitative Reasoning requirement
3. VIC402H1
4. 1.0 FCE in a language other than English at the 200+ level, approved by the program coordinator.
5. 1.0 FCE in another discipline approved by the program coordinator.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(4 FCEs or their equivalent, including at least 1.0 at the 300+ level)

1. VIC202Y1
2. 3.0 FCEs from:  VIC203Y1, VIC302H1, VIC303H1, VIC304H1, VIC305H1, VIC306H1, VIC307H1, VIC401H1/VIC401Y1, VIC402H1, VIC403H1, JNV300H1.

What does it mean to live in a “material world”? What might we learn from studying the things that surround us?  In an increasingly consumer-oriented, globalized and digital age, how do objects express the longstanding beliefs and values of different societies?  Material culture is the study of objects – clothing, household goods, machinery, built forms – that show signs of human influence. The program engages students in the study of material culture (tangible things, broadly defined); supports research projects which originate with studies of artefacts; and fosters trans-disciplinary and inter-institutional dialogues amongst students, scholars, stewards and purveyors of material culture – within the university and at a range of cultural agencies. We examine the meanings people invest in their things, across cultures and time periods, and consider processes of production and consumption, including moments of invention, exchange, use, re-use, divestment, disposal, and collection.  Students will work with curators and other professionals to analyze the social and cultural relevance of objects as part of understanding of a culture or society. The Minor is designed to complement Major programs in such disciplines as Asian Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Geography, History, Art, History of Science and Technology, Semiotics, Renaissance Studies, and Anthropology.

This is a limited enrolment program by permission of the program coordinator, please contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca

Minor in Material Culture (4 full courses or their equivalent including at least 1 FCE at the 300+-level)

1. 1.0 FCE from: ANT100Y1, FAH101H1, VIS120H1, a first-year HIS, Vic One, or other relevant courses approved by the program coordinator.
2. VIC224Y1
3. 1.5 FCE from the list of approved cognate courses or by permission of program coordinator with at least 0.5 FCE at the third- or fourth-year level
4. VIC444H1

Cognate courses:
ANT200Y1, ANT204H1, ANT311Y1, ANT314H1, ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT322H1, ANT324H1, ANT346H1, ANT347Y1, ANT359H1, ARH305H1, ARH309H1, FAH101H1, FAH206H1, FAH207H1, FAH215H1, FAH216H1, FAH230H1, FAH231H1, FAH246H1, FAH260H1, FAH262H1, FAH270H1, FAH272H1, FAH300H1, FAH303H1, FAH304H1, FAH304H1, FAH309H1, FAH310H1, FAH316H1, FAH318H1, FAH325H1, FAH327H1, FAH328H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH331H1, FAH341H1, FAH348H1, FAH362H1, FAH364H1, FAH365H1, FAH371H1, FAH372H1, FAH373H1, FAH374H1, FAH375H1, FAH376H1, FAH381H1, FAH463H1, FAH480H1, FAH481H1, FAH483H1, FAH484H1, FAH485H1, FAH486H1, EAS406Y1, EAS251H1, EAS272H1, EAS297H1, EAS272H1, EAS297H1, EAS318H1, EAS378H1, EAS411H1, EAS412H1,  GGR107H1, GGR124H1, GGR216H1, JGI216H1, GGR220H1, GGR221H1, GGR240H1, GGR241H1, GGR246H1, GGR252H1,GGR254H1, GGR320H1, GGR329H1, GGR332H1, GGR333H1, GGR336H1, GGR339H1, GGR341H1, GGR342H1, GGR343H1,  GGR352H1, GGR356H1, GGR360H1, GGR361H1, GGR363H1, GGR366H1, HIS302H1,  HIS305H1, HIS315H1, HIS319H1, HIS363H1, HIS387H1, HIS316H1, HIS329H1, HIS374H1, HIS484H1, HPS201H1, HPS202H1, HPS201H1, HPS211H1, HPS307H1, HPS313H1, NMC260Y1, NMC360H1, NMC362Y1, NMC363H1, NMC364H1, NMC365Y1, VIC349H1, VIC348Y1

Program Coordinator: Professor M. Scarci, Victoria College

The Renaissance Studies Program lets you study one of the most critical periods in European and world history. Changes in art and literature, in social and political development, and in technology and science transformed European concepts of the individual, society, and the world.

Many aspects of our modern world had their origin in this period: our emphasis on the study of human affairs; our irrepressible interest in the exploration of the universe, in science, and in medicine; the institutions of church and state as we know them today. The Renaissance is also a period of unparalleled European contacts with non-European civilizations – from the powerful Islamic world of the Near East and North Africa to the great pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas, from the uncharted forests of equatorial Africa to the exotic lands of the Indian subcontinent and the Far East, nothing seemed too distant or too inaccessible for the European mind or merchant.

It is an interdisciplinary program is particularly attractive to students of history, politics, literature, fine art, history of science, music and theatre, because it assembles aspects of all these studies to focus on one seminal period in Western civilization.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(10 full courses or their equivalent, including at least three 300+ series courses and one 400-level course):

1. VIC440Y1
2. 3.0 FCEs from: VIC240Y1, VIC341H1, VIC342H1, VIC343Y1, VIC344H1, VIC345H1, VIC347H1, VIC348Y1, VIC349H1/Y1.
3. 1.0 FCE in Literature from: ENG220Y1, ENG301H1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG304Y1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, ENG336H1; FRE319H1, FRE320H1; ITA249H1, ITA312H1, ITA325H1, ITA332H1, 356H1/Y1, 357Y1, ITA370H1, ITA409H1, ITA420H1, ITA470H1, ITA494H1; PRT351H1; SPA352H1, SPA452H1, SPA454H1.
4. 1.0 FCE in History or Economics from : ECO301Y1; HIS243H1, HIS309H1, HIS319H1, HIS357Y1, HIS362H1, HIS403H1, HIS438H1, HIS441H1, HIS443H1/HIS443Y1.
5. 1.0 FCE in Art or Music from: FAH230H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH333H1, FAH335H1, FAH339H1, FAH340H1, FAH341H1, FAH342H1, FAH344H1, FAH370H1, FAH371H1, FAH393Y1, FAH430H1, FAH432H1, FAH438H1, FAH439H1, FAH440H1, FAH493H1; MUS208H1.
6. One Research Course (a 299Y1, 399Y1, or Independent Studies course on a topic in Renaissance studies approved by Program Coordinator)
7. 2.0 FCEs in a language relevant to Renaissance Studies (only one may be at the introductory level).

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(6 full courses or their equivalent, including at least two 300+ series courses)

1. VIC440Y1
2. 2.0 FCEs from: VIC240Y1, VIC341H1, VIC342H1, VIC343Y1, VIC344H1, VIC345H1, VIC347H1/Y1, VIC348Y1, VIC349H1/Y1, VIC449H1/Y1.
3. 1.0 FCE in Literature from: ENG220Y1, ENG301H1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG304Y1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, ENG336H1; FRE319H1, FRE320H1; ITA249H1, ITA312H1, ITA325H1, ITA332H1, 356H1/Y1, 357Y1, ITA370H1, ITA409H1, ITA420H1, ITA470H1, ITA494H1; PRT351H1; SPA352H1, SPA452H1, SPA454H1
4. 1.0 FCE in History or Economics from : ECO301Y1; HIS243H1, HIS309H1, HIS319H1, HIS357Y1, HIS362H1, 403H1, HIS438H1, HIS441H1, HIS443H1/HIS443Y1.
5. 1.0 FCE in Art or Music from: FAH230H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH333H1, FAH335H1, FAH339H1, FAH340H1, FAH341H1, FAH342H1, FAH344H1, FAH370H1, FAH371H1, FAH393Y1, FAH430H1, FAH432H1, FAH438H1, FAH439H1, FAH440H1, FAH493H1; MUS208H1.

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one 300+ series course)

1. 2.0 FCEs from: VIC240Y1, VIC341H1, VIC342H1, VIC343Y1, VIC344H1, VIC345H1, VIC347H1/Y1, VIC348Y1, VIC349H1/Y1, VIC440Y1, VIC449H1/Y1
2. 2.0 FCEs in Literature, History or Economics, Art or Music, from:

Literature: ENG220Y1, ENG301H1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG304Y1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, ENG336H1; FRE319H1, FRE320H1; ITA249H1, ITA312H1, ITA325H1, ITA332H1, 356H1/Y1, 357Y1, ITA370H1, ITA409H1, ITA420H1, ITA470H1, ITA494H1; PRT351H1; SPA352H1, SPA452H1, SPA454H1.

History or Economics: ECO301Y1; HIS243H1, HIS309H1, HIS319H1, HIS357Y1, HIS362H1, HIS403H1, HIS438H1, HIS441H1, HIS443H1/HIS443Y1

Art or Music: FAH230H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH333H1, FAH335H1, FAH339H1, FAH340H1, FAH341H1, FAH342H1, FAH344H1, FAH370H1, FAH371H1, FAH393Y1, FAH430H1, FAH432H1, FAH438H1, FAH439H1, FAH440H1, FAH493H1; MUS208H1.

Program Director, Principal D. Cook, Victoria College.
Program Coordinator, Professor M. Danesi, Victoria College.

NOTE:  This is a limited enrolment program that can only accommodate a limited number of students.  Admission will be determined by a student’s mark in ANT100Y1/LIN100Y1/PHL100Y1/PHL102Y1/SOC101Y1/(SOC102H1+SOC103H1)/ one FCE in Vic One.  A final mark of 73% will be required for admission. Achieving that mark does not necessarily guarantee admission to the program in any given year.

(4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one 300+series course)

1. 1.0 FCE from: ANT100Y1, LIN100Y1, PHL100Y1, PHL102Y1, SOC101Y1, (SOC102H1+SOC103H1), one FCE in Vic One.
2. 2.0 FCEs from: VIC220Y1, VIC223Y1, VIC224Y1, VIC320Y1 and VIC323Y1.
3. 1.0 FCE from Groups A-E.

Note: JFV323H1 is a recommended Group E course.

Group A: Anthropology
ANT204Y1, ANT253H1, ANT322H1, ANT323H1/ANT323Y, ANT328H1, ANT329Y1, ANT334Y1, ANT351H1, ANT356H1, ANT366Y1, ANT425H1, ANT426H1, ANT427H1, ANT450H1, ANT461H1; JAL253H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL356H1

Group B: Linguistics
LIN200H1, LIN229H1, LIN231H1, LIN232H1, LIN315H1, LIN341H1, LIN372H1, LIN415H1, LIN417H1, LIN480H1; JAL254H1, JAL328H1; JLP306H1, JLP315H1, JLP374H1

Group C: Philosophy
PHL200H1, PHL201H1, PHL220H1, PHL235H1, PHL236Y1, PHL240H1, PHL243H1, PHL244H1, PHL245H1, PHL250H1, PHL255H1, PHL267H1, PHL285H1, PHL288H1, PHL304H1, PHL305H1, PHL306H1, PHL307H1, PHL310H1, PHL311H1, PHL312H1, PHL315H1, PHL316H1, PHL318H1, PHL320H1, PHL321H1, PHL322H1, PHL325H1, PHL326H1, PHL340H1, PHL342H1, PHL346H1, PHL351H1, PHL385H1; JUP250Y1

Group D: Psychology
PSY210H1, PSY220H1, PSY260H1, PSY270H1, PSY280H1, PSY300H1, PSY301H1, PSY311H1, PSY312H1, PSY316H1, PSY320H1, PSY323H1, PSY325H1, PSY334H1, PSY362H1, PSY370H1, PSY371H1, PSY372H1; JLP315H1

Group E: Other Related Area Courses
CLA202H1, CLA203H1, CLA204H1, CLA219H1, CLA305H1, DRM200Y1, DRM230Y1, DRM260H1, DRM262H1, DRM264H1, DRM266H1, ENG290Y1, ENG366Y1, FAH212H1, FAH214H1, FAH287H1, FAH288H1, FAH367H1, FAH378H1, FAH385H1, HIS316H1, HIS367H1, HIS374H1, HIS375H1, HIS419H1, HPS201H1, HPS202H1, HPS250H1, HPS323H1, HPS324H1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1, INI225Y1, INI301Y1, INI322H1, INI323Y1, INI327Y1, INI329Y1, INI330Y1, INI423H1, INI426H1, INI428H1, JFV323H1, JUM200Y1, MUS200H1, MUS211H1, MUS303H1, NEW240Y1, NEW261Y1, NEW271Y1, NEW302Y1, NEW303H1, NEW360Y1, NEW368H1, NEW371H1, NEW372H1, POL213Y RLG200Y1, RLG210Y1, RLG211Y1, RLG230Y1, RLG232H1, RLG233H1, RLG237Y1, RLG301H1, RLG302H1, RLG304H1, RLG315H1, RLG380H1, SLA495H1, SMC210Y1, SMC402H1, SOC365Y1, SOC367H1, SOC381Y1, SOC388H1, UNI221H1, UNI250Y1, UNI255H1, UNI355H1, VIC210Y1, VIC211Y1, VIC300Y1, VIC310Y1, VIC322H1, VIC343Y1, VIC345Y1, VIC410Y1, VIC411Y1, VIS201H1, VIS202H1, VIS203H1, VIS204H1, VIS205H1, VIS206H1, VIS207H1, VIS208H1, VIS209H1, VIS212H1, VIS213H1, VIS307H1, VIS312H1, VIS313H1, VIS315H1, VIS316H1.

Victoria College Courses

Vic One Liaison Officer, Victoria College, vic.one@utoronto.ca

Admission to the Vic One Program is open to first year students and by application only. Applications are accepted in the Spring prior to the commencement of the academic year, no exceptions will be made.  

Each Vic One stream comprises up to 3 FCEs of the five FCEs taken by most first year students. Two required courses in each stream are seminar courses with a limited enrolment of 25 students in each class. The third co-requisite course is listed with the course description.   Students who wish to discuss other options for their Vic One co-requisite course must contact the Vic One Liaison Officer vic.one@utoronto.ca.

The following courses are available to students already admitted to Vic One:

This course will be about the social and historical role of the school. The course will examine schools and learning as social, political, intellectual, and economic phenomena.

This course focuses on connecting theories and practice of teaching with a view to having students develop their personal understanding of teaching. Students will be involved in a practicum.

A study of culture with a view to developing basic concepts with examples drawn from the visual arts, music, film, literature, architecture, and/or local urban artifacts.

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.

A study of the ideas and concerns of creative thinkers and their impact upon cultures. The course includes literary, scientific and/or religious intellectuals from the major traditions. Attention to modes of reasoning, cultural definition and expression. Emphasis on philosophical and artistic concepts.

A study of art, with a focus on poetry, as an essential mode of experience and knowledge, in the context of contemporary and modern society. Along with literary artists, the course includes writers on history and sociology and presents the interplay between artistic vision and socio-political situations.

The artist, filmmaker, poet or dramatist has changed society and how we imagine our future.  The course explores a number of paradigm cases of how the arts have interacted with social problems.  Both historical and current examples of the role of the imaginative arts will be explored.

This is a project course addressing social issues by creative activity such as writing a play, a novel, a short film or an art installation.  Topics might be considered either in a group or individually.  Mentors will aid student projects.  An open presentation will conclude the course.

This course will review issues in contemporary world affairs, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present day. The course will examine the politics and practice of foreign policy decision making. Issues to be covered include the collapse of the Soviet Union, intervention in humanitarian crises, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This course explores how public service and citizenship are developed. Topics may include the role of law and government, civil liberties, rights and responsibilities, and the role of protest. Emphasis on individuals and movements that have shaped modern 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 social, philosophical, and cultural contexts. We will examine our evolving role in developing collective, cultural and counter memory.

This course uses events to discuss the nature of society including major revolutions, economic crises, and the impact of significant artistic, cultural and technological developments. Emphasis on our responsibilities towards social justice.

How rhetoric and statistical analysis are used to communicate scientific observations and theories to different audiences will be examined in lectures and seminars. Uncertainty, belief, evidence, risk assessment, random error and bias will be discussed using examples drawn from literature, the arts and the physical, life and social sciences.  Students will prepare a research grant application on a scientific topic of their own choice.

An examination of scientific theories and their logic in life  and physical sciences.  Experimental design, novel device production,  data analysis and modeling will be discussed using examples drawn from primary source material in the natural sciences.  Students will prepare a research paper on a topic designed in consultation with the instructor.

PLEASE NOTE:  Weekly Vic One Plenary sessions on Wednesday 4-6pm will be added to students schedules as a tutorial section associated with the following  courses:  VIC150Y1, VIC163H1, VIC165H1, VIC181H1, VIC184H1, VIC170Y1 and VIC190Y1.

The 199Y1, 199H1, Vic Pathways seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study.

Consult  vic.academics@utoronto.ca for more information.

This 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.

This course 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 case studies of recent social issues.

This course 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 case studies of recent social issues.

This course examines how political ideas are formed and developed through literature, art, plays, essays and philosophical works in the twentieth century.

This course examines how political ideas are formed and developed through literature, art, plays, essays and philosophical works in the twentieth century.

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?

Metaphors and motivations of journeying have long intrigued human beings as they have attempted to understand the meaning of their existence: the setting out, the seeking for a desired object, the pilgrimage of religious observance, and the longing to return home. Through texts, art, music and film, this course will explore some of the shaping journey-myths of our culture from classical, Hebrew, medieval and modern sources.

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.

In this course we examine major episodes in the history of evolution and genetics in the XX century. Topics include Darwinian evolution, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, eugenics, and genetic screening and therapy. We will examine different views about the control of evolution and genetic manipulation in their socio-cultural-economic context and discuss the ethical and social implications of those views.

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, symbols, the arts, sport and public spectacle, and cuisine.

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, symbols, the arts, sport and public spectacle, and cuisine.

A study of the ideas and concerns of innovators who questioned traditional views and values. The course includes creative thinkers who challenged basic concepts on politics, literature, religion, and society.

A study of the ideas and concerns of innovators who questioned traditional views and values. The course includes creative thinkers who challenged basic concepts on politics, literature, religion, and society.

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.

This course will study accounts of world travelers and explorers from the Middle Ages to the present, including representative examples drawn from the Age of Exploration, the Grand Tour, scientific and map-making expeditions, and the contemporary genre of travel writing. Particular attention will be given to the trans-cultural nature of travel, and the interactive aspects of the gulf between the observer and those observed. Students will analyze the diverse motivational factors behind excursions and expeditions, and apply a critique to written accounts in light of such factors as self-discovery, knowledge and imagination, Euro-centrism, orientalism, cultural relativism, colonialism/imperialism, race, gender, and eco-tourism.

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.

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.

In this course we will study a number of literary and cinematic works that take up questions of power, duty, rights, responsibility, and freedom. Our texts will be drawn from a long history, and from many parts of the world. The sequence however will not be chronological.

In this course we will study a number of literary and cinematic works that take up questions of power, duty, rights, responsibility, and freedom. Our texts will be drawn from a long history, and from many parts of the world. The sequence however will not be chronological.

This course examines two key issues about the performing arts that concern both artists and theorists: the nature of interpretation and of expression. What might we mean when we say that a work, a piece of music or a dance for example expresses something? What is it to express? And what is the nature of interpretation? Are there any constraints or boundaries on interpretation? We will draw on both philosophers and non-philosophers to explore these sorts of questions.

This course will examine the phenomenon of individuals and communities who rebel against the general social norms upheld by the majority in societies throughout history. These societal conventions can include generally-accepted moral and religious tenets, as well as the formal legal or political powers employed by those with the levers of social control. The rebels motives can range from the purely criminal, as with many notorious outlaws, to struggles for social justice, in the case of rebellious slaves or proponents of civil disobedience. Students will develop a theoretical framework which they can apply to the lives and motivations of a diverse representation of social rebels and outsiders, among them: pirates and mutineers, bandits and members of street/biker gangs, anarchists, disaffected intellectuals and religious leaders, punks and goths. Besides examining the sociological and philosophical aspects of rebellion, the course will consider the rebel as a prominent element in popular culture.

This course provides an introduction to modern forms of ancient narratives, exploring the ways in which selected ancient literary sources and myths have been adapted to modern Canadian literature. Ancient narratives or ‘old stories’ are often reused, reinterpreted or reconstructed in modern narratives and given new relevance in a contemporary context. Students will encounter sources and contexts of ancient narratives.

This course provides an introduction to modern forms of ancient narratives, exploring the ways in which selected ancient literary sources and myths have been adapted to modern Canadian literature. Ancient narratives or old stories are often reused, reinterpreted or reconstructed in modern narratives and given new relevance in a contemporary context. Students will encounter sources and contexts of ancient narratives.

Through films like American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1990) and Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992), through literature like Arthur Rimbauds A Season in Hell or Raymond Carvers short stories, this course is going to take a look at human beings in the extremes of experience: revenge, desire and an appetite for self-destruction.

Covers the evolution of Germany from a defeated dictatorship in 1945 to a re-unified republic in 1990. Examines major events of the Cold War, from the Marshall Plan to the Berlin Wall; also includes aspects of popular culture in both East and West Germany.

Covers major events from America's emergence as a superpower in 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991, including: commitment to Europe through NATO and the Marshall Plan; Civil Rights; Vietnam. Also explores popular culture of the time: the suburbs; the baby boom; the 1960s; Watergate, etc.

This course covers issues in diplomacy and international crisis management from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present day. The course examines the real world of political decision making. Both Canadian and American policy will be analyzed. Issues to be covered include the collapse of the Soviet Union, military intervention in humanitarian crises, the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the impact of globalization.

This interdisciplinary course explores the contemporary character of globalization. The world is shrinking as money, goods, people, ideas, weapons, and information flow across national boundaries. Some commentators assert that a more tightly interconnected world can exacerbate financial disruptions, worsen the gap between rich and poor nations, undermine democracy, imperil national cultures, harm the environment, and give unconstrained freedom to predatory corporations. Others proclaim that globalization - understood as capitalism and free markets - fosters economic growth, encourages creative collaboration, inspires technological breakthroughs, and enhances human prospects for a better life, in rich and poor countries alike, in unprecedented ways. Our task is to evaluate the evidence and draw our own conclusions.

In The Origin of Species Darwin concluded there was no evidence to suggest that life was designed by a higher power. A corollary of this is that our lives lack any necessary purpose or meaning. Our reading will be directed to the question of what it means to lack ‘Meaning’.

This course examines the emergence of a global modern world in relation to the upheavals of the Renaissance (1350-1700) and its discoveries and innovations in social organization, politics, science, travel, art and architecture, literature and philosophy, religion and music.

Focusing on famous works like Michelangelo’s David, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo, this course explores some of the greatest masterpieces of the European Renaissance and their afterlives, cross-cultural adaptations, and appropriations in later and modern popular culture.

This course focuses on raising awareness and sensitivity to equity and diversity issues facing teachers and students in diverse schools and cultural communities. It builds knowledge of how oppression works and how cultural resources and educational practices may be brought to bear on reducing oppression and improving equity. This courses field experience entails observation of and participation in equity and diversity efforts in a culturally-rooted school and/or community organization.

This course examines how children and adolescents develop and explores how best to facilitate their growth and learning in the area of education. Major topics include cognitive, emotional, social, moral, physical and language development. Themes addressed include interpersonal relationships such as pro-social and aggressive behaviour, as well as the influence of schooling, family life and culture. This course includes a 20-hour field experience located in a school and entails observation of development across various age groups.This may be satisfied by participation in Vic Reach or in another organization with the approval of the Vic Concurrent Education Coordinator.

This course aims to develop an understanding of social conflict and cultural diversity. How does conflict act as a catalyst for change? What do socio-cultural, cognitive, and motivational approaches teach us about conflict? Topics include: effects of conflict, human rights principles, cross-cultural understanding.

Students are required to complete an internship in an educational environment.This may be satisfied by participation in Vic Reach or in another organization with the approval of the Vic Concurrent Education Coordinator. Written assessment of the internship will be required.

This course will compare selected works of Chinese and Canadian authors with a view to the presentation of such writing in an educational setting.

This course explores representation as a cultural and political problem.  Representation is both a means of depicting or constructing reality and a means of constituting individual and collective subjectivities.  We will consider literary and other modes of representation in their historical contexts.

An introduction to the history and ideologies of empire (east and west,old and new), with special attention to the establishment and transformation of the modern nation and its cultural forms.  Our comparative approach will examine how cultural forms are established, interpreted, and reinvented at local, national, transnational and global levels.

This course will consider the problem of canons in a variety of contexts : the aesthetic (including the literary, visual arts and music), but also the religious, the political, the philosophical and other discursive forms.  Special focus will be on the problem of the relations across these boundaries.

An introduction to representations of history, in which we will consider concepts that turn on the problem of time such as tradition, periodization, genealogy, memory, crisis, revolution, eschatology, and utopia.

This course will explore the problem of memory in relation to both collective and individual trauma.  What pressure does trauma place on language, and agency, and how does it figure in commemoration, narrative, monumentalization, and other modes of representing the past?

This course will explore what it means to “act” in cultural, political, religious, and psychological realms.  We focus on the historically shifting relations between theory and practice, between artifice and agency, and between theatricality and spectatorship.

This course will consider some of the ideologies and practices of various institutions at work in the production and transmission of cultural objects and social power.  These may include the family, museum, hospital, prison, university, library, and theatre, as well as fields such as publishing and religion.

This course will consider relations between various cultural media – such as film literature, photography, visual art, architecture – with specific attention to the historical demands and  possibilities posed by technological change.

This course explores the phenomenon of historical periodization in its various modes, including as a stylistic concept, a set of discursive norms for cataloguing and grouping cultural forms, and a means of organizing and contesting historical narratives.

This course offers senior students in Literary Studies the opportunity to take part in a graduate seminar in Comparative Literature. Topics change annually.

This course offers senior students in Literary Studies the opportunity to take part in a graduate seminar in Comparative Literature. Topics change annually.

This course will consider questions of adaptation, appropriation, imitation, hybridity and incommensurability across languages, geographical regions, epochs, media, and academic disciplines.  Course topics may include the role of translation in the historical projects of nation-building and empire.

Content varies depending on instructor.  In-depth examination of selected issues.

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.

This course is about things - the everyday objects of past and present cultures. It examines the meanings people have invested in objects and how those meanings have changed over time. Using interdisciplinary approaches, students investigate objects found in homes, retail spaces, cities, art galleries and museums in order to develop new understandings of the objects that structure daily lives and their material world.

This course is about things - the everyday objects of past and present cultures. It examines the meanings people have invested in objects and how those meanings have changed over time. Using interdisciplinary approaches, students investigate objects found in homes, retail spaces, cities, art galleries and museums in order to develop new understandings of the objects that structure daily lives and their material world.

This fourth year seminar, required for students pursuing a minor in material culture will have opportunities to explore themes in material culture studies, museum exhibitions and collections as well as processes of object analysis in greater depth and at an advanced level.  Specific topics and research projects will vary according to the interests and specialties of course instructors and students.

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.

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.

Focusing on writers from various geographical areas, the course examines a variety of texts by early modern women (for example, treatises, letters, and poetry) so as to explore the female experience in a literate society, with particular attention to how women constructed a gendered identity for themselves against the backdrop of the cultural debates of the time.

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.

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 Nashe's Unfortunate Traveler.

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.

Studies in the development of new forms in music, drama and dance in the Renaissance. The course will consist of seminars and lectures, and may incorporate live performances taking place in Toronto in addition to recordings.

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.

Studies in an aspect of the Renaissance based around lectures, seminars, and readings. See annual course listing for the years theme.

Studies in an aspect of the Renaissance based around lectures, seminars, and readings. See annual course listing for the years theme.

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.

An in-depth study in an aspect of the Renaissance based around lectures, seminars, and readings. Content in any given year depends on the instructor. See annual course listing for the years theme.

An in-depth study in an aspect of the Renaissance based around lectures, seminars, and readings. Content in any given year depends on the instructor. See annual course listing for the years theme.

Studies the international culture emerging in media and literature and examines recent communication theory as it applies to literary, social and cultural issues.

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.

Theories and models of applied semiotics: analysis of sign systems as articulated in various forms of artistic and cultural production.

An in-depth examination of some aspect of Semiotic theory or practice. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Not offered every year.

Theories of signification studied with a focus on major works in the semiotics of modern and contemporary culture.

The study of readings from major French literary semioticians are combined with the practical application of theory to the analysis of selected literary texts. This course is taught in English. (Not offered in 2012-13).

A second year course. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.

A second year course. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.

Prerequisite: Students must have completed a minimum of 5 FCEs.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science or Science course

VIC271H1    Reading the Wild[24S]

The environmental crisis has generated a profound re-examination of our relationship with the natural world. The seminar will survey oral and written literature, classic poetry and philosophy from across the world.

This seminar analyses various aspects of identity in the world’s largest and most diverse democracy, including caste, class, language, religion, and gender within the context of the country’s federal political structure.

This course will sketch the vital rôle or the drama of the human body, aspects of its performance, comedy, tragedy and death, through selected parts of history, in life and as reflected in “art.”

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here.

A workshop course (with a literature component) in writing fiction and poetry. Designed for those with a serious ambition to be writers as evinced in work they are already doing. Does not offer instruction for beginning writers. Presupposes perfect and sophisticated written language skills. The Literature component emphasizes multicultural dimensions of contemporary writing in English. For application procedures see the Victoria College web site. Applications due by May 15th.

This course examines the evolution of higher education in Canada. Using Victoria University and Victoria's 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 course will examine how a variety of international authors, both nineteenth century and modern, handle the themes of mortality, sexual passion and love in their short fiction. Particular emphasis will be placed on the artistry of the writers' presentation, the role of dialogue, the economy of narrative, etc. Students will read Chekhov,  The Kiss, Lady with a Dog and Tolstoy, Master and Man but will also be exposed to such contemporary popular authors as Elmore Leonard,When the Women Come Out to Dance; Truman Capote, Mojave; Richard Ford The Occidentals; Philip Roth The Dying Animal; Ian McEwen, The Cement Garden; and David Bezmosghis, Natasha.

An upper level course. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.

An upper level course. Topics vary from year to year depending on the instructor.

VIC390H1    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 Council’s Academic Advisory Committee at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.   Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.

Prerequisite: A minimum CGPA of 3.0 and have completed 10 FCEs and permission of College Program Director.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

VIC390Y1    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 Council’s Academic Advisory Committee at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.   Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.

Prerequisite: A minimum CGPA of 3.0 and have completed 10 FCEs and permission of College Program Director.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

VIC391H1    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 at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.  Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.

Prerequisite: A minimum CGPA of 3.0 and have completed 10 FCEs and permission of College Program Director.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

VIC391Y1 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 Council’s Academic Advisory Committee at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.   Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.

Course content, travel destination, etc., will depend on the instructor. Topics will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: Students must have completed a minimum of 10 FCEs.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

VIC490H1 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 Council’s Academic Advisory Committee at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.   Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.

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 at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.  Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.

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 at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term.  Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.

Prerequisite: A minimum CGPA of 3.0 and have a completed 15 FCEs and permission of College Program Director.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

VIC491Y1 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 Council's Academic Advisory Committee at least one month prior to the start of the relevant term. Students should contact vic.academics@utoronto.ca.
Prerequisite: A minimum CGPA of 3.0 and have completed 15 FCEs and permission of College Program Director.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None