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INI Innis College CoursesINI115Y1
Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation INI202Y1
Combines an introduction to Canadian culture and society with intensive practice in the writing of academic essays for students for whom English is a second language or who speak English in another dialect. Traces Canada's evolution from colony to nation emphasizing regionalism and multiculturalism. This is not a remedial English course. INI203Y1
A course to improve skill in writing and revision, particularly the ability to use words, sentences and paragraphs in the strategies required by clear, precise, and well-reasoned academic discourse. Students whose native language is other than English should be fluent in English before they attempt this course. (Offered in alternate years) INI204Y1
The strategy necessary to write complete pieces of non-fictional prose, especially exposition and argument. Concepts of planning and organization include: focusing, research, outlining, patterns of logical development, introduction, paragraph development, conclusion, argumentation and persuasion, documentation, and revision. Students for whom English is a second language should have an advanced level of fluency in English before enroling. INI212Y1
An introduction to major phases of international film history from its origins to the present, including screenings and discussion of narrative films representative of film movements, technological innovations, and influential directors. Problems in the writing and reading of film history are examined. INI214Y1
A variety of film theories are critically examined in relation to cinema issues such as montage, narrative, realism, spectatorship, and technology. Readings in film theory and film screenings. INI220Y1
Introduces students to environmental studies, using a single theme such as the urban ecosystem. Explores how social, economic, political, and scientific information can be integrated to analyze environmental issues, evaluate existing policies affecting the environment, and develop alternative policy options. Students are given the opportunity to apply course material to actual environmental problems and to develop their skills in writing, presentations, group work, and field research. INI224Y1
An intensive study concentrating on the work of selected major filmmakers. (Offered in alternate years) INI225Y1
The examination of the art of contemporary popular American film in its social, political, and commercial contexts, through study and analysis of selected popular films from 1970 to the present. Directors may include: Kubrick, Coppola, Eastwood, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Cameron, and Tarantino. (Offered in alternate years) INI235Y1
Explores the culture, thoughts, institutions, policies, and processes shaping our urban areas. Emphasis is placed on understanding the problems and prospects associated with growth and change in the city. Disciplines used to provide various interpretations include Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Design and Planning. INI299Y1
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 42 for details. INI300Y1
This course aims to teach students to recognize the rhetoric of the professional workplace and to communicate strategically using written and oral discourse appropriate to business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. INI306Y1
A method of studying city politics that combines readings, seminar discussions, and lectures with an internship in the office of a municipal politician. Readings focus on government structure, political strategies, and theories of community power. Students must speak with their instructor preferably before the beginning of July to arrange their internship placements. INI311Y1
A workshop course that requires directed reading and assigned work in addition to creative projects, and that gives student writers and literary translators an opportunity to learn from one another's concerns and methods and from occasional guest lecturers. INI313Y1
Students explore topics of their own choice and design their own projects. The grading in this course is "Credit/Fail." Written applications should be made to the Independent Studies Monitor during the Spring for the following Winter Session. Each project requires approval by the College's Independent Studies Committee before enrolment. INI320Y1
An interdisciplinary study of the linkages between health and environment. The fall term addresses basic principles and scientific knowledge relating to health and the environment. The winter term explores the social links between health and the ecosystem, including an examination of culture, ethics, politics, public policy, and economics. Both terms articulate the same analytical framework: a holistic concept of health and an interdisciplinary perspective that sees the environment as both natural and social. INI322H1
A study of films from France, Canada, USA, Britain, and other countries, which develop new approaches to cinema through experiment and innovation. Readings in advanced film theory. (Offered in alternate years) INI323Y1
Feminist film criticism from mid-sixties critiques of media stereotypes of women to current issues in feminist film theory. Films to be studied include mainstream narrative fiction and films by women directors: Von Sternberg, Godard, Sirk, Arzner, Dulac, Lupino, Von Trotta, Rainer, Akerman, Duras. (Offered in alternate years) INI324Y1
The first quarter century of talking pictures. Directorial alternatives within a relatively rigid industry: the mimetic, emotional, aesthetic, and didactic functions of film. Films by Capra, Ford, Hawks, Lang, Milestone, Welles, etc. (Offered in alternate years) INI325Y1
A critical survey of documentary films including newsreels, cin ma v rit , agit-prop, docudrama. Filmmakers to be studied include Flaherty, Grierson, Pennebaker, King. Readings in the history and theory of documentary. INI327Y1
Theories of cinematic representation emphasizing race, identity, nation, and culture. Films include works from Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean as well as from the aboriginal and diasporic communities. Films by Julien, Trinh, Dash, Cisse, Sembene, Obomsawin, etc. INI329Y1
Intensive study of representative films from selected cinematic genres. Readings in theories of film genres and film narration; analysis of genre conventions, their history and evolution. (Offered in alternate years) INI330Y1
Developing notions in film theory since the early 1970s. Topics include the critique of realism, suture, spectatorship, genre, the cinematic apparatus, race and queer cinema. Films are screened as illustrations of the theoretical texts: Welles, Sirk, Godard, Duras, Potter, Ottinger, Julien. INI331H1
A course that surveys ideas about the relationship of humans and the environment and examines their relevance for current policy debates. Students are expected to reflect upon selected readings drawn from a wide-variety of sources, including History, Philosophy, Social Science, and Anthropology. INI340H1
This course offers an examination of the professional environmental field. Seminar topics include: Different Models of Administration, Organizational Analysis, the Changing Nature of the Workplace, Professional Bodies and Codes of Conduct, and Social Issues in the Workplace. INI380Y1/381H1
In-depth treatment of a national cinema in a seminar format. INI382H1
A survey of European cinemas, contrasting European production systems and film culture with Hollywood, and offering comparative study of themes such as urbanization, immigration, the Holocaust and historical memory, gender roles, and continental unification movements. INI384H1
The practice of film criticism with concentration on film reviews and scholarly articles. The study of examples of such work is the focus of the seminars supplemented by practical sessions involving process writing and collaborative editing. (Offered in alternate years) INI385H1
English-Canadian filmmaking; commercial constraints and promptings; institutional domains (NFB, CFDC, Telefilm, etc.); cultural nationalism and critical contexts. The range of films includes documentaries, experimental works, and art-film and commercial feature narratives. (Offered in alternate years) INI386H1
The range of French-language filmmaking in Quebec within the context of efforts to establish a distinct national identity from the 1940s to the present day. (Offered in alternate years) INI413Y1
This course provides a further opportunity for the pursuit of independent study under the same conditions concerning application, eligibility, and approval as noted in INI313Y. The grading in this course is "Credit/Fail." INI420Y1
Advanced environmental research on environmental topics of current relevance, involving information sources and resources outside the University. Students work in teams to investigate and report on a specific environmental issue for an off-campus environmental agency. INI421H1
Introduces students to public policy and institutional foundations of public policy in Canada, with an emphasis on environmental policy in Ontario. Combines a review of ideas about institutions, politics, and policy, including the role of economic policy, with a practical assessment of the way policy is shaped in specific areas of environmental interest (e.g. energy policy). INI422H1
An introduction to environmental law for students in Environmental Studies; legal methods available to resolve environmental problems and the scope and limits of those methods; common law and statutory "tools" as well as environmental assessment legislation; the problem of "standing to sue" and the limits of litigation. INI423H1
Intensive study of theoretical issues raised by melodrama, including gender, class and spectatorship; emotion and the non-representational. Psychoanalytical and historical factors shaping the "melodramatic imagination" are emphasized. INI426H1
A study of international film comedy, including its historical development, and the difficulties that comedy poses for genre and auteur approaches. INI428H1
Film's emergence from urban culture of the nineteenth century: the modern industrial city and the cinematic imagination between the world wars; the critical alignment of urbanism and the cinema. INI430Y1
Examines contemporary urban problems using the action research method. Emphasis is placed upon developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban problem-solving. INI431Y1/432H1/433H1
For senior students in the Urban Studies Program, opportunities to investigate in depth urban issues under the direct supervision of specialists in these areas. Several work placements are available in government offices for students wishing to combine independent studies with work experience. INI440Y1
Regular academic seminars complement off-campus work on an environmental project. The course enables students to gain practical experience of the needs and demands of professional environmental agencies. Students are given a choice of placements in a variety of sectors (e.g., government, NGO's, industry). INI460H1
Consideration of film noir's roots, its status as a genre, and its enduring appeal, the latter evidenced by continued critical interest and neo-noir offshoots. INI461H1
Advanced survey of a variety of approaches to the filmic text, including structuralist variants, textual analysis, and neo-formalism. INI462H1
Historiographic and theoretical issues raised by the New German Cinema. Includes works by Kluge, Wenders, Fassbinder, Treut, von Trotta, von Praunheim. INI463H1
Investigation of film from the beginnings of the medium until the advent of the feature film in the mid-teens: early cinema's technological, formal, economic, and cultural dimensions; questions of audience composition, spectatorial address, and intermediality. INI464H1
Examination of the application of the label of classicism to the studio era's films and operations; critiques and amendments of the major statements regarding classicism as a system; investigation of the concept of a post-classical cinema. INI476Y1/477H/478H1
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Cinema Studies staff. Open to advanced Specialist and Major students in the Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1, 1999 for a Fall course or by December 1, 1999 for a Spring course. INI482Y1/483H1/484H1
Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in Cinema Studies. INI485H1
The emergence and development of film design in Hollywood. Close study of individual films from the USA and elsewhere. Illusion, distortion and fragmentation. INI486H1
INI487H1
Films and types of endings examined using narrative theory and interpretive typologies; emphasis on genre forms and modern international cinema. (Offered in alternate years.) INI491Y1/492H1/493H1
A course to develop skills in independent study of interdisciplinary topics within Environmental Studies. Available only to students enroled in the Innis College Specialist or Major Environmental Studies programs. Students should apply to the Program Counsellor three months before the beginning of the academic term during which they wish to do the course, and submit an initial proposal, examples of their written work, and a proposed supervisor(s) at the time of application. INI494H1
Provides students with increased understanding of (1) the political conflicts which surround the development and implementation of environmental policy in Canada; and (2) the ways environmentalism is transforming Canadian and global politics. Examination is made, through secondary readings and case-studies, of the values, perspectives and strategies of the various actors, and the context of ideas and institutions within which they operate. INI495H1
An overview of the insights and tools that economics provides for dealing with environmental concerns. The first part of the course discusses such topics as wealth measurement, "sustainability," "externalities," and trade. In the second half, students are asked to prepare and present short papers on contemporary Ontario issues. INI496H1
Designed to develop theoretical and applied concepts of environmental accounting. Covers topics on corporate and national accounts, such as environmental issues and corporate accounts, total cost accounting, full-cost accounting, activity-based costing, life-cycle costing, environmental accounting as a business management tool, system of national accounts, environmental dis-aggregation of national accounts, depreciation of natural resources, integrated environmental and economic accounting. INI497Y1
Special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Environmental Studies. INI498H1/499H1
Special topics designed for advanced Specialist and Major students in Environmental Studies. |
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