14 courses in the 1972–73 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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Arts
Faculty listed in 1972–73
D. R. Gordon, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. (Toronto) P. H. Smith, Jr., B.4. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
Undergraduate Courses
Courses designated “Arts”, such as those listed below, usually cover some topics and themes of general interest to several disciplines and their presentation is often made with this inter-disciplinary perspective in view. Arts courses are elective courses in General and Honours programmes and do not satisfy either the Group A or Group B requirements. Arts courses are administered through the Office of the Dean of Arts.
An examination of the origins, evolution and future dimensions of communications media designed to facilitate an understanding of the adequacies and inadequacies of media, to relate them to the purposes of human awareness and to explore needs and means of maintaining accountable controls over the media. The course seeks to assist students in discovering the range of informational, research and exploratory resources open to them; in gaining some preliminary experience in utilizing such sources; and in applying a critical judgment of material secured.
The course is intended to introduce the engineering, mathematics and science undergraduates to two of the sciences of man (anthropology and sociology). The course will be conducted on the basis of both lecture and tutorial hours. Lectures will be under the supervision of a single person responsible for the conduct of the course. He will have charge of inviting participants from among faculty members in the interested disciplines.
This course will not substitute for Anthropology 101*/102*: Sociology 101*.
A course designed to impart 4 knowledge of the basic structure and grammar of modern Chinese. Emphasis will be placed upon a reading knowledge of (modified) historic and philosophical sources, and the student will be expected to master a minimum of 500 characters. Some conversational work may be included. 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
A course in modern conversational Japanese. Though the emphasis will be upon the spoken language, students will be introduced to Airagana, katakana, and some kanji. 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
ARTS 211Computing Techniques in Language and Literature
An introduction to computer programming, with special emphasis on the manipulation of language data. The programming language used will be PL/1. Applications will include word indexes, text concordances, methods of computer-aided text comparison. No prerequisite: No previous knowledge of computing is assumed. 212* presupposes 211* or permission of the instructor.
The study of representative European prose, drama, and poetry, from the writings of Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Zamiatin, Hesse, Kafka, Brecht, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Camus, Malraux, Sartre, and others. An attempt will be made to critically analyse the creative writer’s artistic presentation of the ever-widening rift between environment and “inner man”, the will of the collective and non-conformity of the individual; nihilism — the result of extreme rationalization —; the mystic longing for the transcendental, and other related themes. Prerequisite: Open to all students. Taught in English.
ARTS 200G Issues in Mass Communication 1*G Love in the Western World
The course is centred upon the twentieth century revolution in the language and literature of China, but will survey also the earlier forms of prose and prose fiction, and the later polemics and philosophical writings of the Nationalists and Communists. 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
The course is designed to trace the evolution of peculiarly Japanese forms of poetry and prose, with emphasis upon the aesthetic and world-view therein reflected. Some of the literature will be studied in translation, and some wider questions, such as those of foreign influence and cultural transmission, discussed. 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
The following courses are administered by Conrad Grebel College.
An attempt to bring together and condense what are believed to be essential elements of the several social science disciplines. The core of the study of a group of selected contemporary issues with implications that cut across all the various disciplines. An effort will be made to discuss values appropriate for our age. Integrating concepts are personality and culture.
A broad approach to the mass communication field including communication systems, media, content, audiences, processes, and effects; seen in historical, philosophical, national, international, sociological, and/or psychological perspectives. Emphasis on mass media role in national and international life. 3 lectures, Winter term.
Historical, psychological and sociological study of romantic love in contemporary culture rooted in the Tristan myth with its emphasis on love as passion, death and irrationality. Earlier conceptions by Plato and Christian thinkers and later views of Freud and N.O. Brown will be considered. Sociological analysis will include love in the market-place, the tension between love and justice and the several quests for communities of love and brotherhood. A basic work will be Denis de Rougemont’s Love in the Western World. 3 lectures, Fall term.
A study of individuals who emerge in every society to challenge the prevailing consensus as advance agents of a new cultural outlook. Consideration will be given to Socrates, Jeremiah, Jesus, Galileo, Conrad Grebel, Marx, Wilberforce, Woodsworth, Riel, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Through these studies the course will formulate a conception of innovation and social change. 3 lectures. Winter term.
The purpose of this course is to help members of the University struggle with current value questions that have arisen because of the development of technology. The precise topics may vary from year to year. Examples might be the role of computers, genetic engineering, and “law and order”. Resouce persons from within and outside the University will provide expertise. Open to third and fourth year students. 3 lectures. Fall and Winter terms.
The following courses are administered by Renison College.