16 undergraduate courses in the 2026–27 Undergraduate Calendar, and 1 graduate course in the Fall 2026 Graduate Calendar.
Undergraduate
ARTS 111Career Development and Decision-Making0.50 units
This course is designed to assist students in understanding themselves, the career development process, and occupational information in order to make informed and appropriate occupational and educational decisions. Students will study key career development theories and learn how to integrate self-knowledge into occupational/life decisions, set goals, and devise strategies to attain these goals.
Antirequisites
Not open to Arts and Business students in level 1A or 1B
ARTS 122Quest for Meaning in the Modern World0.50 units
This course invites students on a quest for meaning in the context of a time in which traditional meanings and definitions have been challenged by rapidly-shifting cultural and religious values.
This course provides an introduction to diverse intellectual modes of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities with an emphasis on the development of communication skills. In a small seminar setting, students will explore a variety of topics based on instructor expertise in order to build social awareness, ethical engagement, and communication competencies in comprehension, contextualization, and conceptualization. Students will be expected to engage with the work of others, articulate positions, situate writing and speaking within contexts, practice writing and speaking for situations beyond the classroom, engage in basic forms of research, and workshop, revise, and edit writing.
This course introduces students to diverse ways of finding, examining, and using data and information in the social sciences and humanities. In a small seminar setting, students will explore a variety of topics based on instructor expertise in order to understand quantitative and qualitative methods of data gathering and build competencies in conceptualizing, contextualizing, and comprehending methods of information analysis. Students will be expected to investigate, use, and assess the presentation of information in their own work and the work of others so that they can better understand the range of social, ethical, and political challenges of our world.
This course introduces students to the process of knowledge creation in disciplines represented in Arts. In small seminar settings, students will explore a topic determined by instructor expertise to build competencies in communication and information analysis. Students will learn how to access, examine, and communicate information, broadly conceived, in a variety of contexts. Their work will require students to meaningfully engage with the ideas of others while developing their own contributions to a community of knowledge.
Designed for students in Arts whose dominant language is not English, this course introduces students to the process of knowledge creation in the disciplines represented in Arts. In small seminar settings, students will explore a topic determined by instructor expertise to build competencies in communication and information analysis. Students will learn how to access, examine, and communicate information, broadly conceived, in a variety of contexts. Their work will require students to meaningfully engage with the ideas of others while developing their own contributions to a community of knowledge.
A basic course in social statistics for Faculty of Arts students. Introduces descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency, dispersion, cross-tabular analysis) and inferential statistics (sampling, statistical significance, hypothesis testing, test assumptions). Covers a range of statistical techniques including t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Chi square, and bivariate correlation/regression.
Prerequisites
Students must be in level 2A or higher
Antirequisites
Complete all of the following
Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
A course consisting of a series of lectures and tutorials on specific topics dealing with important ideas in the humanities, social sciences, fine and performing arts, and languages and cultures.
Study abroad in the fall term under exchange agreements supported by the Faculty of Arts. Discussion and approval of options with your advisor is required. Credit for specific courses will be evaluated following receipt of a transcript of academic results and supporting course outline documentation. The approved study agreement will be recorded on the student's record.
Study abroad in the winter term under exchange agreements supported by the Faculty of Arts. Discussion and approval of options with your advisor is required. Credit for specific courses will be evaluated following receipt of a transcript of academic results and supporting course outline documentation. The approved study agreement will be recorded on the student's record.
Study abroad in the spring term under exchange agreements supported by the Faculty of Arts. Discussion and approval of options with your advisor is required. Credit for specific courses will be evaluated following receipt of a transcript of academic results and supporting course outline documentation. The approved study agreement will be recorded on the student's record.
In this interdisciplinary topics course, students collaborate with each other and with instructors and outside experts to develop imaginative but possible solutions to vexatious contemporary global problems. Each year, instructors from different disciplines, joined by Jarislowsky Fellows with diverse expertise and lived experience in the topic area, lead the class. Past topics include global populism and democratic futures, artificial intelligence, the future of nature, and pandemic.
ARTS 690Graduate Topics in Arts Disciplines0.50 units
This topics course will be offered from time to time by particular disciplines in Arts to cover areas of emerging research and teaching interest, and for courses with interdisciplinary content offered to graduate students across the Faculty and wider university, regardless of specific discipline, and for which no other suitable course subject code is available.