Arts

Students explore the practices of reading and writing in scholarly contexts by investigating a chosen topic or issue.

This course is the culmination of the theatre major.

In this Capstone course for the English Major program, students will have an opportunity to hear invited speakers, for example Indigenous and non- Indigenous creative non-fiction writers.

Through this lecture and discussion-oriented course, students explore the various aspects of theatrical processes such as acting, playwrighting, directing and designing.

Students explore the field of creative writing by composing original creative works in three of the four following literary genres: poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction.

In this experiential learning course, students with previous experience in acting focus on the analysis and development of character portrayal for performance.

In this intermediate performance course, committed acting students will further develop and polish the skills associated with the onstage presentation of fully drawn characters.

In this hands-on practical course, students learn and practice elementary principles of scenery and properties construction, stagecraft, lighting, electrical and audio operations, and costume construction.

In this intermediate performance course, a continuation from THTR 2110, committed acting students further develop and polish the skills associated with the onstage presentation of completely drawn characters.

In this continuation of THTR 2120, students learn and practice intermediate aspects of scenery and properties construction, stagecraft, lighting, electrical and audio operations, and costume construction.

Students explore the genre of literary fiction by composing original works of short fiction.

Students explore the genre of drama writing by composing original short stage plays.

Students explore the genre of poetry writing by composing original poems.

An advanced, practical course exploring direction and coordination of technical theatre elements such as lighting, sound, costumes, props and set that were introduced in THTR 2120 and THTR 2220.

An advanced, practical course building on Advanced Theatre Production 1.

A performance oriented course designed to develop awareness of physical approaches to stage performance.

This practical course explores the basic principles and techniques of design for the theatre including set, props, lighting and costume.

This practical course explores the basic principles and techniques of design for the theatre including set, props, lighting and costume and includes practicum work associated with all Actors Workshop Theatre Productions.

This upper division performance course emphasizes students externalizing the inner character in conjunction with work in textual analysis, and internal techniques with characters from full-length contemporary plays.

In this upper division performance course, students create characters and work as actors in a formal rehearsal setting.

In this performance oriented course, students will develop an approach for the establishment of a personal vocal production technique designed for the demands of stage performance.

This is a variable content course that changes from semester to semester.

Senior theatre students study the process of stage direction and the development of a method for transferring the script to the stage.

This course examines 2 classic scripts and the eras in which they were written, through performance and dramaturgy, in order to comprehensively study select styles of acting from significant periods in history.

Building on THTR 4600, this course examines 2 classic scripts and the eras in which they are written through performance and dramaturgy in order to comprehensively study select styles of acting from significant periods in history.

This course is designed for theatre majors in their final year of studies.

Students perform close critical and creative readings of science fiction, post-apocalyptic, and prehistoric fiction, demonstrating fluent comprehension and depth of understanding.

Students perform close critical and creative readings of novels, demonstrating fluent comprehension and depth of understanding of course texts.

Students perform close critical and creative readings of poetry, demonstrating fluent comprehension and depth of understanding.

Students perform close critical and creative readings of stage plays, demonstrating fluent comprehension and depth of understanding of course texts.

Students perform close critical and creative readings of screenplays, demonstrating fluent comprehension and depth of understanding.

Students examine plays by Indigenous peoples with a focus on understanding the connections between traditional storytelling and staged works.

This course consists of lectures on various aspects of Shakespeare's art, and includes a detailed study of twelve plays.

Students demonstrate critical understanding of a chosen topic of focus in Shakespeare studies through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation.

This Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of British drama from the 1950s through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the themes in Canadian drama from 1967 to the present through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students examine the interactions between individuals and firms in various types of markets.

Students examine economic behavour at the aggregate level, and the measurement and determination of national income.

This course is intended for Business and Economics students.

Students study differential calculus for functions of one variable, with applications emphasizing the physical sciences.

Students continue to study intermediate topics in partial and general equilibrium analysis.

Students are introduced to money, banking, and the Canadian financial system.

Students learn about Cultural Anthropology as the branch of Anthropology concerned with the holistic study of human societies and of how humans use culture to organize themselves, make sense of things, and meet their basic survival needs.

Students study a variety of technical communications used to document professional activity, including proposals, technical and formal reports, policies and procedures, technical descriptions and definitions, and instructions.

This course applies the core concepts of geography to interpret both the variety and distinctiveness of places and regions and to their relationships, connections, and integration.

Students examine the political, social, military, and cultural history of Canada since 1867.

Students access the basic blocks of knowledge building through an exploration of logical analysis.

Students explore how psychology has informed our understanding of human thought and behavior from historical to contemporary times.

This is a performance-oriented course designed to present students with a study of the oral communication process, and the presentational skills required in the preparation of effective oral communications.

This course covers integral calculus for functions of one variable, with applications emphasizing the physical sciences.

This course is an introduction to the foundation of modern mathematics including basic set theory; solution to recurrence relations; logic and quantifiers; properties of integers; mathematical induction; introduction to graphs and trees; Boolean algebra and finite state machines.

Students are introduced to mathematics at the university level by learning some fundamental concepts of mathematics in a rigorous manner, using theorems and proofs.

The concepts of single-variable calculus are extended to higher dimensions by using vectors as variables.

Students are introduced to linear algebra.

This course examines ordinary differential equations and related initial-value problems, and emphasizes their many applications in science and engineering.

Student will further develop concepts in discrete mathematics building on ideas introduced in first year.

Students are introduced to statistics with an emphasis on its applications in business and economics.

This course is intended for math or science students.

Students examine at a more advanced level how individuals and firms interact in various types of markets.

Students complete an advanced, in-depth examination of economic behaviour at the aggregate level.

Students examine the mathematical methods and tools most commonly used in analyzing economic problems.

Students continue to study short-run macroeconomic theory and its applications to contemporary policy issues.

Students are introduced to econometric models and the application of classical regression techniques to estimate socio-economic relationships.

Students apply a variety of forecasting methods to solve problems in business and economics.

Students are exposed to the concepts of regression analysis with an emphasis on application.

This course begins with an introduction to Fourier series and Fourier transforms.

This course introduces the theory and applications of linear programming.

Real-world optimization problems are formulated in order to be resolved by standard techniques involving linear programming, integer programming, network flows, dynamic programming and goal programming.

This course provides a theoretical foundation for the study of statistics.

Students examine simple random processes, including discrete and continuous Markov chains, Poisson processes and Brownian motion.

This course examines the theory behind statistical inference.

Students examine the major systems of political ideas, institutions, and structures that have shaped the modern world.

Students examine a variety of economic issues facing the Canadian and world economies.

The subject matter in this course varies from semester to semester depending upon the interests of faculty and students.

Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through investigation and evaluation of the development of the English language, key genres, influential authors, and important literary movements that emerged from approximately 700 C.E. to the late 1600s.

Students from all disciplines, and especially those entering or currently enrolled in an English Major or English Minor degree, continue to develop fluency in close critical reading comprehension and written communication and gain practical tools for success in upper-level writing and literature courses.

The subject of this course includes reading and writing, with a focus on the literacy narratives genre.

Students examine themes that are common to literature and philosophy in order to explore philosophical questions and problems.

This course provides a topical introduction to literary journalism and additional forms of creative nonfiction through a survey of the best works in the genre.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the genre of personal expression, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

This course deals with aspects of the European literary tradition from its beginnings to the twentieth century, focusing on major representative texts in translation and their relevance to English literature.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a chosen thematic, genre-based, or formal approach to fiction, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the development and theory of a chosen non-fiction genre, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the ways in which writers and artists in other media deal with common themes and probe problems in formal and stylistic relationships between literature and the other arts, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the main trends in science fiction since 1960 through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Through exploration of children's literature of the last three centuries representing a range of experiential perspectives, students demonstrate critical understanding of changing perceptions of childhood, an advanced ability to critically and creatively evaluate and articulate the complexities of rhetorical strategies and assumptions used by writers, and mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a chosen topic in the history of ideas through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate critical understanding of the history of several fairy tales through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate critical understanding of memoirs as a unique sub-genre included under the umbrella term “Life Writing" through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation.

This course provides an opportunity for extended practice in literary criticism -- that is, in reading works closely and responding to them through interpretation and evaluation.

This course surveys major modern theories, and provides students with an opportunity to apply them to literary texts.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of no more than two chosen authors through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of Chaucer’s major works through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the metaphysical and neo-classical traditions of English verse in this "golden age of poetry" through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the chosen special themes, forms, and authors (excluding Milton) of seventeenth- century literature through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of Milton's Paradise Lost (1640-1667), one of the most influential poems in the English language, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a selection of Milton’s works through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of poetry from the Restoration to the middle of the eighteenth century through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of poetry from the time of Johnson to the beginnings of Romanticism through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of Restoration and early eighteenth- century English literature and its backgrounds through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of literature from the middle to the end of the eighteenth century through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a chosen system of thought or other cultural element through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of some of the most important writers of the Romantic period (roughly 1780-1830) through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the development of British literature, including the genres of novel, poetry, drama, and biography, from 1880 to the 1920s, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a chosen topic in women’s literature or theory through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

This course examines topics in Irish literature (in English) since the Irish Literary Renaissance.

A study of the literature in English with some attention to major French-Canadian works in translation. **This course is going to be semesterized.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of literary works that depict various aspects of British Columbia life through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of some of the major authors and trends in Canadian literature written before 1900 through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of English-Canadian poetry written from 1950 to the present through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate critical understanding of chosen special topics and approaches to Canadian literature through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation.

This course focuses on the writings of Irving, Poe, Hawthorne and Melville.

Students demonstrate critical understanding of major works and movements in American fiction between 1900 and 1950, including naturalism, realism, and modernism, through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of chosen special topics and approaches to American literature through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

This course examines major works and movements since 1950, including realism, neorealism, and postmodernism.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the relationships between humans and the natural (or the “more-than-human”) environment as it is represented in a variety of literary sources, such as poems, plays, short stories, novels and creative non-fiction, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

This course studies literature, written in English, by women from African nations, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and India.

This course surveys 'colonial' and 'postcolonial' literature from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on modern fiction.

Students examine major themes in postcolonial literature or theory.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of writing by Indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, especially those of Canada and the United States, through close critical reading and writing.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a chosen literary movement (for example, Naturalism, Realism, Imagism, Impressionism, Vorticism, and Modernism) through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students examine major poets, themes, and movements between 1900 and 1950.

Students examine major poets, themes, and movements from 1950 to the present.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the sister arts of literature and film through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of a specific genre, such as romance, comedy, travel narrative, or detective fiction, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation.

Students are introduced to human geography concepts, issues, and processes that influence the dynamic connections among people, places, and environments at different spatial scales.

This introductory geographic theory course provides students with a critical perspective on the nature and development of geographic knowledge and its application in the key subdisciplines of human geography, physical geography, and environmental studies.

This computer-based laboratory course introduces students to quantitative methods used for geographic analysis.

Students explore the natural and human-modified environment from a geographical viewpoint.

A geographic view of economic activity is offered in this course.

An introduction to themes and problems in the field of Urban and Regional Planning, recognizing the increasing interdisciplinary nature of this area of study.

Students complete an independent or group project that integrates knowledge acquired in their Geography and Environmental Studies Major Program and present the project in a professional written document and oral presentation.

Students explore the natural and human-modified environment from a geographical viewpoint.

This course examines consumption as a cultural and economic practice, how it has formed landscapes, and its impact on our growing understanding of ecosystems and social systems.

Students examine the cultural attitudes that have influenced land use and environmental change in the past and present.

This course marries the subject areas of rural geography and sustainability in case study analyses of a country - for example, Japan, Canada, China, or Mexico - or a global region - for example, the Asia- Pacific or Africa - depending upon instructor expertise.

Using a geographical analysis of environmental issues and policies, this course relates land use, hazards and resource allocation to changing demand, technology, institutions, policies, and social values.

Students explore the history and methods of cultural geography.

Students explore geographic perspectives on the growth of urban regions; pre-industrial cities, urban growth during industrialization, and anti-urban reaction.

Students will explore their situated role in this place- based, socially-constructed, and intersectional world through the lens of feminist geography and geographies of gender.

This course is a study of Canada from the beginning of European contact to the mid-19th century, with an emphasis on the changing geographical patterns of settlement, economy, and culture.

This course is a study of the spread of settlement, the growth of towns, and the development of economic and cultural regions in Canada - a Nation increasingly influenced by industrialization.

Students explore theories of inter and intra urban locations and structures in the context of demographic, economic, social, cultural, technological, environmental and political processes of change, which shape the nature of urbanism and urbanization in Canada and around the world.

This course focuses on themes in rural geography, such as land use issues, small settlements and society, agriculture, tourism and other industries, rural administration, service provision, and the effects of socio-economic processes including urbanization and globalization.

This human-geography course examines landscape change and management at the edge of cities.

Using a variety of methods, including field work, students collaboratively explore how urban planning practices, when led by sound urban theory, can create neighborhoods and communities that are sustainable, inclusive, equitable, eco-friendly, livable and better designed for all.

Students will learn the history and methods of economic geography, and study the location of resource industries, manufacturing, and service activities with an emphasis on British Columbia in its North American world setting.

This course offers a geographical analysis of selected regions not regularly included in the Department's offerings in regional geography (such as Western Europe, Oceania and East Asia).

Students examine the geographical topics in tourism, including: tourism as a global and local phenomenon; historical changes in leisure and development of tourism in western, industrializing economies; tourism in the Canadian economy, past and present; current relationships between tourism; and cultural values and economic systems.

This course offers a geographical analysis of selected problems caused by the internal structure of cities and urban systems.

This course examines the economic, social, cultural, and environmental qualities of small cities and the issues and forces that affect them.

Students analyze the role of geographical ideas and practices in the establishment, maintenance, overthrow, and persistence of colonial relationships.

This course offers an examination of the issues involved in the creation of new relationships that are evolving and inclusive of Indigenous peoples concerns in British Columbia.

This physical geography course examines the physical, biological and chemical processes and constraints that determine contemporary spatial and temporal patterns in life on Earth.

This seminar course explores key advances in hydrological science with an emphasis on forest hydrology.

Cities represent areas where biophysical processes are often markedly distinct from their rural counterparts.

Students integrate and apply their theoretical understanding of geography and/or environmental studies to develop skills in the planning of geographic and/or environmental studies field work and the collection, analysis, interpretation, and communication of field-based geographic information.

A central theme in geography is the study of spatial and temporal variations of the phenomena which make up natural and human-dominated environments.

As a technology-based discipline, the field of geomatics is rapidly changing in response to technological advancements in remote sensing, computing hardware, wireless communication, programmatic abstractions, and spatiotemporal models.

Students hone advanced skills in historical writing, critical research, and relevant theoretical approaches.

This course studies the major philosophical theories of history, from Kant to the present day.

Students build a strong mathematical foundation for engineering by learning ideas, methods and applications of single-variable differential calculus.

Students learn the ideas and techniques of single- variable integral calculus from an engineering perspective.

CriticalThinking/Investigation Students are introduced to the use of structured problem solving methods, algorithms, structured programming, and object-oriented programming concepts.

Students develop skills in close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation through the exploration and evaluation of a variety of creative narrative texts.

Students develop skills in close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation through the exploration and evaluation of a variety of poetic and dramatic forms that take up a particular theme, topic, or issue chosen by the professor.

This course introduces further mathematical concepts used in Computing Science.

Students learn some basic concepts of analysis in a mathematically rigorous manner, using theorems and proofs.

Students are encountered with an examination of the axiomatic development of geometry, and some possible variations in axioms, and then move to a study of classical Euclidean geometry, including geometric transformations and their relevance for computer graphics.

Fundamental ideas about vector spaces and subspaces, bases and dimension, linear transformations and matrices are studied in more depth than in MATH 2120.

Students in this course study some abstract algebraic structures.

Students are introduced to the classical complex function theory, a cornerstone of mathematics.

The core of this course is a careful study of continuity and limits of real functions and convergence of real sequences and series, in addition to basic topology of the real line.

CriticalThinking/Investigation ***Please note: MATH 4950 is a full year course.

This course is a general introduction to philosophy using a historical approach.

This course is a general introduction to philosophy which spans the Enlightenment to present day time period.

This course is a general introduction to philosophy.

Ethics is the philosophical examination of 'the good life', or the kind of life that is most worth living.

Students examine contemporary moral issues, such as abortion; euthanasia; capital punishment; environmental ethics; business ethics; pornography and censorship; treatment of the mentally ill; patients' rights; and the ethics of warfare.

Students explore the nature, source and limits of human knowledge.

Students consider intriguing questions about what makes up reality and how reality works.

Students engage in an introductory examination of contemporary symbolic or formal logic.

Continuing from PHIL 2010 and PHIL 2210, this course is the advanced study of moral theory.

Students examine many of the significant and formative ideas in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy.

This course provides an in-depth study of a major philosopher, school, or work within the Continental tradition, and serves to complement PHIL 3160: Modern European Philosophy.

Continuing from PHIL 2150, this course is the study of the nature of physical reality, substance, primary and secondary qualities, identity over time, change, causation, free will, and time.

This course provides an in-depth philosophical study of knowledge.

Students synthesize, interrogate, consolidate, knowledge and skills acquired in their study of philosophy in a Capstone Project.

Students complete an in-depth and active investigation into the intersections of early science, religious doctrine and practice, and popular beliefs, in Europe, during the period from 1000 A.D. to 1750.

This course offers a detailed examination of an acknowledged masterpiece of modern political theory.

Students examine major concepts in political philosophy such as justice, equality, rights, obligation, and liberty in the context of both classical and contemporary political thought.

This course is an examination of both classical and contemporary theories of democracy including representative democratic theory, participatory democratic theory and their relationship to 20th century concepts of democracy.

Students integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired during their degree by completing a capstone project focused on a specific area of interest within the field of psychology.

Students explore selected topics in contemporary psychology, including intelligence, development, personality, social psychology, emotion, motivation, and psychopathology.

CriticalThinking/Investigation Students use critical thinking to evaluate a variety of psychological research methodologies, including non- experimental, experimental, and quasi-experimental research designs.

Students examine the major theories of personality formation, including psychodynamic, cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral approaches.

Students explore key research theories, methods, and historical/contemporary findings in the field of lifespan developmental psychology.

Participants examine psychopathology from historical, contemporary and cross cultural perspectives.

This course is a detailed introduction to empirical and theoretical aspects in the following core areas of psychology: human memory, perception, attention, language, and thinking.

Students examine the effects of social environment on human behavior, attitudes, and personality.

This course surveys topics related to drugs and behaviour.

Students learn about psychological research by conducting research with a faculty supervisor.

Students gain a detailed scientific overview of psychopathology such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, substance abuse, and personality disorders.

Students gain a detailed scientific overview of psychopathology such as child and adolescent psychopathology, dementia and neurocognitive disorders, sexual disorders, eating disorders, and stress-related disorders.

Students examine biological, social, and cognitive development from conception to the third year of life.

Students will review basic research findings and theory on the relation between psychological factors (including behaviour, emotion, cognitive, personality, and interpersonal relationships) and health.

Students examine biological, social, and cognitive development from the third year of life through to adolescence.

Students examine psychoanalytic and dispositional theories on the development of personality.

Students are provided an overview of the psychological changes that people experience as they grow older.

Students will learn about various topics in community psychology.

Students explore selected topics in social cognition, which refers to the psychological processes involved in how individuals process, evaluate, and react to stimuli within their social environment.

Students explore social influence and interpersonal relationships.

Students discuss the theories and research on emotion from cognitive, behavioral, physiological, social, and evolutionary perspectives in the discipline of psychology.

In this intermediate-level special topics course, students study a topic related to either social psychology, personality, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, or applied psychology.

Students examine the procedures and processes involved in Classical (Pavlovian) and Operant (instrumental) conditioning.

Students explore the psychological processes underlying language acquisition, comprehension, production, and use.

Students learn about clinical and experimental approaches to human neuropsychology as a basis for understanding brain-behavior relationships in both typical and impaired functioning.

Students learn about the basic research findings and models for visual sensation and perception.

Students examine basic research findings and models for auditory, somatosensory, olfactory, and gustatory sensation and perception.

Students learn about research findings and models concerning attention and memory, both past and present.

Students learn about research findings and models for various aspects of language and thought.

Students investigate the neurobiological basis of addiction and the neural, psychological, and pharmacological effects of a variety of addictive substances.

Students learn about the different types of learning and memory, emphasizing neural mechanisms.

Students explore selected pharmacological therapies used to treat anxiety, depression, and various psychotic disorders.

In this intermediate-level special topics course, students study a topic related to either cognition, sensation and perception, or neuroscience.

Students learn about the theory and practice of mental measurement, including test reliability and validity, its uses, administration, scoring, and interpretation.

Students learn about the major theoretical models that guide counselling and psychotherapy, including Psychodynamic, Existential and Humanistic, Cognitive and Behavioral, Social Justice, Postmodern, and Integrative approaches.

Students examine the application of basic behavioral principles to the analysis and modification of human behavior.

Students examine psychological theories and research to the legal system.

Students learn about the professional foundations of counselling psychology, including the history, current trends, ethical issues, and cultural considerations.

Students learn about design considerations and statistical methods in an integrated way.

In this advanced special topics course, students study a topic related to fundamental research in psychology (for example, in neuroscience, cognition, social psychology, or developmental psychology).

In this advanced special topics course, students study a topic related to applied psychology (for example, clinical psychology, forensic psychology, or environmental psychology).

Students apply research methods and statistics to an advanced research project supervised by a faculty member.

Students will explore the theory and practice of interpersonal communication and basic counselling skills.

Students are provided an opportunity to engage in a directed investigation of a problem, and are required to complete a written report of their findings.

Students integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired during their psychology honours degree by completing a capstone project related to their professional development goals.

Students think critically about a range of communication theories tied to examples from popular culture and address how we transmit information, how we create meaning, and how we persuade others, with a focus on many communication contexts, including interpersonal communication, group and organizational communication, public space, mass media, and culture and diversity.

Students explore the interface of technology and communication, from the telegraph to the Web, by examining historical and present cases.

Students are provided a perspective based on professional practices within the total media environment in which our society operates.

This course explores the recent proliferation of communication tools known as social media.

Students think critically about the challenges and opportunities of community in the digital era.

Students explore the practices and responsibilities of the citizen and the consumer in the context of networked culture, considering ways in which these roles are defined and distinguished in digital space.

Students explore a selection of contemporary topics in communication theory and practice as they relate to film studies and digital production.