The following are all the new undergraduate courses being added in the next academic year. Start perusing the courses you could take (or have to take). Get excited. Oh, and definitely review the changes in the calendar that affect your program, because they could be important.
ANTC53H3
Anthropology of Media and Publics
Learn about how anthropologists have studied new
and old media over time.
Same as
MDSC53H3; Prerequisites: [ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [MDSA01H3 and any 5.0
credits]; Exclusions: MDSC53H3; Enrolment Limits: 60; Breadth Requirement:
Arts, Literature & Language
VPHB77H3
Asia in Display
Basically study modern Asian art.
Same as
GASB77H3; Exclusion: GASB77H3; Recommended Preparation: [VPAA05H3 and VPHA46H3]
or GASA01H3; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
VPHD47H3
Politics and East Asian Art
A seminar course that centres around a collective
digital research project. The content, apparently, varies from year to year.
Writing- and research-intensive.
Same as
GASD47H3; Prerequisite: 11.0 credits, including at least one of [GASB31H3, GASB33H3,
GASB35H3 GASB58H3/HISB58H3,VPHB39H3 or VPHB73H3] & a further 1.5 full
credits at the B- or C-level in Art History, Asian History, and/or Global Asia
Studies; Exclusion: GASD47H3, VPHD46H3; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature
& Language
CHMB43Y
Organic Chemistry I and II
A condensed version of the two half-credit courses
on organic chemistry already offered (CHMB41H and CHMB42H). Much the same
material as those two courses, but, at a faster pace and higher level. Includes an augmented lab portion, incorporating the new instruments in the TRACES
facility. Fair warning: only the best and brightest Chemistry students should
undertake this challenge, seeing as the two original courses are already notoriously
difficult.
Prerequisite:
Completion of at least 4.0 credits, including CHMA10H3 and CHMA11H3, minimum cumulative
GPA of 2.7, permission of instructor; Exclusion: CHMB41H3, CHMB42H3, CHM138H,
CHM151Y, CHM247H, CHM249H,CHM242H, CHM245H; Enrolment Limits: 44; Breadth
Requirement: Natural Sciences
CHMC25H3
Quantum Chemistry
Get introduced to computational quantum chemistry
with hands-on experience, using computers to figure out chemistry stuff. Again,
for advanced students only.
Prerequisite:
CHMB21H3 and PHYB56H3, minimum cumulative GPA of 2.7, permission of
instructor;
Enrolment Limits: 40; Breadth Requirement: Natural Sciences
IDSC18H3
New Paradigms in Development: The Role of Emerging Powers
Examine the growing role of the emerging powers—namely
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—in international development.
Prerequisite:
IDSA01H3 and one other B-level course in IDS; Breadth Requirement: Social &
Behavioural Sciences
IDSC19H3
The Role of Researcher-Practitioner Engagement in Development
Learn about recent theories and approaches to
researcher-practitioner engagement in development. I don’t even know.
Prerequisite:
IDSA01H3 and IDSB01H3; Recommended Preparation: IDSC04H3; Breadth Requirement:
Social & Behavioural Sciences
A brand-new Creative Writing minor, with five new
courses along with it:
ENGC04H3
Creative Writing: Screenwriting
Write friggin’ screenplays! Your craft will be
honed through in-class discussions, readings, and workshops. Admission by portfolio;
see the Calendar for details.
Pre-Requisite:
ENGB61H3; Recommended Preparation: Students should have developed a small body
of creative works before enrolling in this course; Enrolment Limits: 20; Breadth
Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
ENGC05H3
Creative Writing: Poetry and New Media
Embark on “a creative investigation into the
intersections between poetry and new media (from wikis to cell phones to social
media)”—again, with discussions, readings, and workshops. Admission by portfolio;
see the Calendar for details.
Pre-Requisite:
ENGB60H3; Recommended Preparation: Students should have developed a small body
of creative works before enrolling in this course; Enrolment Limits: 20; Breadth
Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
ENGC06H3
Creative Writing: Writing for Comics
Why are you reading this when you should be
writing comics? Admission by portfolio.
Recommended
Preparation: Students should have developed a small body of creative works
before
enrolling in
this course; Enrolment Limits: 20; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature &
Language
ENGC08H3
Special Topics in Creative Writing I
Practice multi-genre creative writing designed around
a specific theme or topic, with a class that involves readings, exercises,
field trips, projects, etc. Admission by portfolio.
Pre-Requisite:
ENGB60H3 or ENGB61H3; Recommended Preparation: Students should have developed a
small body of creative works before enrolling in this course; Enrolment Limits:
20; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
ENGD22H3
Special Topics in Creative Writing II
The sequel.
Pre-Requisite:
ENGC08H3; Recommended Preparation: Students should have developed a small body
of creative works before enrolling in this course; Enrolment Limits: 20; Breadth
Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
Other new English courses:
ENGB27H3
& ENGB28H3 Charting Literary History I & II
Consider yourself introduced to the history and
culture behind English literature before 1700, and from 1700 to the modern day
in Part II of the class.
Exclusion:
ENG202Y; Enrolment Limits: 175; Part I recommended before enrolling in Part II;
Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
ENGC90H3
Topics in Classical Myth and Literature
Study a few myths in-depth.
Prerequisite:
ENGB03H3 & ENGB04H3 & [one of ENGB05H3 or (ENGB01H3) or (ENGB02H3)]
&
ENGB30H3; Exclusion: CLAC01H3, (ENGC58H3), (ENGC60H3), (ENGC61H3); Enrolment
Limits: 50; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
ENGC91H3
American Realisms
Explore American Realism and naturalism in
literature, movies, visual art, etc., including the study of works by Henry
James, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton et al.
Prerequisites:
ENGB03H3 & ENGB04H3 & [one of ENGB05H3 or (ENGB01H3) or (ENGB02H3)];
Enrolment Limits: 50; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
CITB08H3
Economy of Cities
Analyze the economics of cities, including topics
like land use, urban structure and zoning, and transportation; Sim City for the real world.
Prerequisite:
Any 4.0 credits; Enrolment Limits: 150; Breadth Requirement: Social &
Behavioural Sciences
GGRA35H3
The Great Scarborough Mashup
Study the great cultural mosaic of Scarborough
through field trips, interviews, and guest lectures.
Enrolment
Limits: 30; open to first year undergraduate students only; Breadth
Requirement: Social and Behavioural Sciences
GGRC50H3
Geographies of Education
Explore the geography of education; topics include
geographical educational inequalities, class and race, the family and
intergenerational class mobility, and the movement of children to attend school.
Prerequisite:
[GGRA02H3 or GGRA03H3] and GGRB02H3; Enrolment Limits: 60; Breadth Requirement:
Social & Behavioural Sciences
GGRC54H3
Human Geography Field Trip
Get out of the dungeons of UTSC and into the real
world, with field research (including interviews, archives, and observation) on
a topic shared by the class.
Prerequisite:
GGRB02H3 and 1.0 additional credit at the B-level in GGR; Enrolment Limits: 30;
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
A major new expansion of the Health Studies
majors, with 11 new associated courses. See also, Management.
AFSB50H3 Africa in the Era
of the Slave Trade
Learn about the history of Sub-Saharan Africa,
from the era of the slave trade to the colonial conquests. “The capacity of
Africans to overcome major problems will be stressed.”
Same as
HISB50H3; Prerequisite: Any modern history course or AFSA01H3; Exclusion:
HISB50H3, (HISC50H3), HIS295H, HIS396H, (HIS396Y); Breadth Requirement:
History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
AFSB51H3 Twentieth Century
Africa
Continue where AFSB50H3 left off, studying the
history of Africa from the colonial conquests to the post-colonial era
Same as
HISB51H3; Recommended Preparation: AFSA01H3 or AFSB50H3 or HISB50H3 strongly
recommended; Exclusion: HISB51H3, (HISC51H3), HIS396H1, (HIS396Y1); Breadth
Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
GASB77H3 Asia in Display
and GASD47H3 Politics and East Asian Art
Sound familiar to the Art History courses above?
They’re the same.
HCSD05H3 Intellectual
Property in the Arts and Humanities
Learn about Canada’s intellectual property (IP)
systems, copyright, patent, trademark and confidential information. If you want
to be a lawyer, this course will give you a leg up.
Prerequisite:
Any 2.0 credits and 2.0 credits at the C-level in ACM, CFL, HCS, ENG and PHL; Breadth
Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies; Enrolment Limits: 30
HISB12H3 The Classical
World in Film
Remember Troy?
You’ll be studying historical films involving the Greek and Roman empires, like
their props, archeology, and adherence to historical accuracy or source
material.
Same as
CLAB20H3; Exclusion: CLA388H and CLAB20H3; Recommended Preparation: CLAA05H3 or
CLAA06H3 or (CLAA02H3) or (CLAA03H3); Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy
& Cultural Studies
WSTC23H3 Community Engagement
Practicum
For students in Women’s and Gender Studies
programs to apply their knowledge in a practical environment: namely an unpaid
placement in a not-for-profit organization helping the community.
Prerequisite:
WSTA01H3, [WSTA03H3 or (WSTA02H3)], WSTB05H3, WSTB11H3, WSTC02H3; Enrolment
Limits: 8; Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
WSTD07H3 Themes in the
History of Childhood and Culture
Study cultural and gendered ideologies of children
and childhood throughout the world, studying such disparate topics as factory
children in England and mixed-race children in India.
Same as
HISD07H3; Exclusion: HISD07H3; Prerequisite: At least 2 C-level courses in
History and/or Women's and Gender Studies.; Enrolment Limits: 15; Breadth
Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
JOUC25H3
Field Placement
Get placed in the field and create editorial
content on various platforms individually and as a team. Taught at Centennial College.
The field placement before the change was optional and non-credit, but now is
required for a journalism degree.
Prerequisite:
Successful completion of semesters 1 and 2 of the college phase of the Joint
Journalism Program; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
LINC60H3 Special
Topics: Structure of a Language
Learn to analyze the structure (including
phonetics, phonology, word-formation rules, syntax, and script) of “a featured
language” that’s not English or French: no prior knowledge of this language is
necessary.
Prerequisite:
[LINA01H3 or [FREB44H3 and FREB45H3]] and [LINB06H3 or LINB09H3]; Breadth
Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
PLIC54H3
Speech Physiology and Speech Disorders in Children and Adults
Learn about the physiology of speech perception
and the physics of sound, as they relate to treating speech disorders.
Prerequisite: LINB09H3; Breadth
Requirement: Natural Sciences
PLID56H3
Special Topics in Language Disorders in Children
Do like really in-depth learning about a specific
type of language and communication disorder, e.g. hearing impairment, Down
syndrome, or autism.
Prerequisite:
PLIC24H3 or PLID55H3; Exclusion: JLS472H; Breadth Requirement: Natural Sciences
Aside from myriad other program changes, the
Department of Management has added a new Specialist BBA program in Management,
and a Health Management stream w/ four new associated courses. There are four
new courses as well for regular Management students. I’m not even going to try
to touch this, because all the shuffling around is very complex. My advice is
that if this is relevant to you, check it out immediately.
STAC51H3
Categorical Data Analysis
Statistical models for categorical data or
whatever. Contingency tables, generalized linear models, logistic regression,
multinomial responses, logit models for nominal responses, log-linear models
for twoway tables, three-way tables and higher dimensions, models for matched
pairs, repeated categorical response data, correlated and clustered responses.
Statistical analyses using SAS or R. If you know what all of this means, God
help you.
Prerequisite:
STAB27H3 or STAB57H3 or equivalent; Breadth Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning
MDSC53H3
Anthropology of Media and Publics
The same as the ANTC53H3 that I mentioned before.
Prerequisites:
[ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [MDSA01H3 and any 5.0 credits]; Exclusions:
ANTC53H3; Enrolment Limits: 60; Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature &
Language
PHLD05H3 Advanced Seminar in Ethics
The Calendar is pretty vague on this course, but
it’s probably safe to assume that you’ll participate in an advanced seminar
about ethics.
Prerequisites:
3.5 credits in Philosophy, including 2 courses (1.0 credit) at the C-level, at
least one of which must be PHLC05H3 or PHLC06H3; Exclusion: PHL407, PHL475
POLB50Y Canadian Government
and Politics
Merges and replaces two H courses: POLB50H3
(“Canada’s Political Institutions”) and POLB52H3 (“Canadian Politics:
Connecting Citizens and Governments”). Students will now also participate in a
Model Parliament (at the actual Provincial Legislature!), which wasn’t possible
before with two short courses.
Prerequisite:
Any 4.0 credits; Exclusion: (POLB50H3), (POLB52H3), POL214Y, POL224Y; Breadth
Category: Social & Behavioural Sciences
POLC80H3 International
Relations of Africa
Surrender yourself and let your professor
introduce you to International Relations of Africa.
Prerequisite:
POLB80H3. Students who have completed IDSA02H3 may enrol with the permission
of the
instructor; Recommended Preparation: POLB81H3; Breadth Requirement: Social
& Behavioural Sciences
POLD92H3 Survival and
Demise of Dictatorships
Learn why some dictatorships survive while other
do not. Especially relevant in the days of a sort of whiny, tantrum-throwing,
and nuclear-armed North Korea.
Recommended
Preparation: POLB92H3 and POLB93H3; Enrolment Limits: 25; Breadth Requirement:
Social & Behavioural Sciences
PSYC05H3
Human Movement Laboratory
Study human movement, like eye-movements, balance,
and walking, and collect and analyze data involving human movement.
Prerequisite:
PSYB01H3 and PSYB07H3; Enrolment Limits: 35; Restricted to students in the
Specialist/Specialist Co-op programs in Psychology; Students in any Mental
Health Studies program and the Major in Psychology will be admitted if space permits;
Breadth Requirement: Natural Sciences
PSYC51H3
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision
As promised, study the neuroscience of vision,
including the visual perception of object features, perception of high-level
categories, visual attention. Also, compare human and monkey visual systems.
Probably no meeting actual monkeys, though, which is lame.
Prerequisite:
PSYB51H3 or PSYB57H3 or PSYB65H3; Exclusion: PSY380H; Enrolment Limits: 75;
Restricted to students in the Specialist/Specialist Co-op, and Major programs in
Psychology, Mental Health Studies and Neuroscience; Students in the Minor in Psychology will be
admitted if space permits; Breadth Requirement: Natural Sciences
PSYC68H3
Diseases of the Brain and Mind
Super-cool advanced course. Learn the methods of
diagnosing and treating neurological diseases from a clinical perspective. Taught
by the faculty of brain sciences at Sunnybrook Research Institute.
Prerequisite:
PSYB65H3 & PSYC62H3 & [one additional C-level half credit in PSY or
NRO] &[cumulative GPA of at least 3.0]; Enrollment Limits: 50; Restricted
to students in the Specialist/Specialist Co-op, and Major programs in
Psychology, Mental Health Studies and Neuroscience; Breadth Requirement:
Natural Sciences
SOCC54H3 Special Topics in
Sociology of Culture
Analyze, sociologically, the role of culture in
societies. See http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/
for the course topic of current and upcoming semesters.
Pre-requisite:
SOCA01H3 and SOCA02H3 and SOCB05H3 and SOCB42H3 and SOCB43H3; Enrolment Limits:
60; Breadth Requirement: Social and Behavioural Sciences
SOCC55H3 Special Topics in
Race and Ethnicity
Study the key concepts of research on race and
ethnicity or something. See http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/
for current and future topics.
Prerequisite:
SOCA01H3 and SOCA02H3 and SOCB05H3 and SOCB42H3 and SOCB43H3; Enrolment Limits:
60; Breadth Requirement: Social and Behavioural Sciences
SOCD20H3 Senior Seminar:
Social Change and Gender Relations in Chinese Societies
A seminar course with room for very few people;
examines gender relations in modern China.
Same as
GASD20H3; Prerequisite: [SOCA01H3, SOCA02H3, SOCB05H3 & one C-level course
in SOC] or
[GASA01H3 &
GASA02H3 & one C-level course from the options in requirement #2 of the Specialist
or Major program in Global Asia Studies]; Exclusion: GASD20H3; Enrolment
Limits: 14
SOCD21H3 Immigrant
Scarborough
Conduct qualitative research on the social,
political, cultural and economic lives of immigrants in Scarborough, and tie
your practical research to theoretical debates about transnationalism and
immigration.
Prerequisite:
SOCA01H3 and SOCA02H3 and SOCB05H3 and [SOCC23H3 or SOCC31H3]; Enrolment
Limits: 30; Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
Sounds exciting!
ReplyDeleteWow, thank you for telling us about these! Very useful and informative article. Some of these courses I will try to take next year!
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