4 courses in the 1973–74 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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“Courses offered by the Inter-Faculty Programme Board are intended to enrich existing University offerings, to provide a multi-disciplinary context within which students may deal with fundamental issues and problems confronting today’s world and to foster co-operation and awareness of others’ interests and goals among the various members (students and professors alike) of the University community.
\ How may the University student himself contribute to solutions to urgent social problems? What tools are available to enable one to cope with the mass of information and pseudo-information encountered in the communications media? What are the dominant issues facing man today? How does one determine values appropriate for man in today’s world? How can human conflict be resolved in a non-violent way? How is social justice to be achieved through social planning? In what ways can leisure contribute to the future of mankind? What, after all, is the nature of man? These questions and issues provide the basis of the Inter-Faculty Studies courses.
IFS 201Student-Initiated The Student-Initiated Workshops on Technological and Social Problems
Workshops on Technological and have been established in response to the needs felt by faculty and Social Problems (WOTASP) students at the University of Waterloo for increasing the involvement of the University, as an institution with a unique concentration of knowledge, resources and expertise, in seeking solutions to urgent technological and social problems, and developing in students the ability, to work with fellow students from a variety of disciplines in formulating and defining complex problems, demonstrating initiative and \ resourcefulness in obtaining relevant information from documents, interviews, and field work, and evaluating and weighing the relative _- Merits of alternative ‘solutions with a view toward constructive utilization of the findings. . , Workshops are to be student-initiated, student-planned, and student directed. .
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It is assumed that the idea for a Workshop will originate with a group of interested undergraduate students, who will then submit to the WOTASP Co-ordinator, preferably before the start of the term, a one-page statement presenting the problem that is to be the subject of investigation. The statement should outline
a) the problem, b) some possible approaches that might be used within the Workshop, ¢) Suggestions as to how the findings might contribute to a constructive ; solution to the problem, d) references to relevant information sources, research reports, and publications, - e) a statement from each faculty resource person (if possible, more than one) who has agreed to consult with the students as necessary, f) a list of resources needed (technical apparatus, paper materials and other items), , g) proposed grading criteria, and h) names of students interested in enrolling in the Workshop.
The Inter-Faculty Programme Board will provide, as necessary, consultation and advice to the students on all aspects of the proposal, including assistance in locating resource persons to evaluate student perforniance and assign grades, in consultation with the Co-ordinator. Further details may be obtained from the WOTASP Co-ordinator or the Inter-Faculty Programme Board office.
This course provides partly an introduction to, and partly an overview and synthesis of, social philosophy and the social sciences. The unifying themes are the continued emphasis on normative questions and foundational and methodological questions about social philosophy and social science. Although all the social sciences are touched upon, somewhat more emphasis is given to politics, economics, sociology and anthropology than to psychology as such. In general, questions are raised via normative issues, especially the issues of social justice, and through interaction the idea of social planning becomes prominent. Winter term 4 hours (2 2-hour sessions per week)
This course will concentrate on the question of the possibility of a nonviolent approach to resolving human conflict with special emphasis on-the nature and uses of power, the nature of the nation state and the problem of relating a personal ideal to the realities of communal life. (First year students admitted with permission of the instructor.) Winter term 3 hours
Leisure from both historical and contemporary perspective; leisure as viewed by the Utopians — the dream versus the reality; as a class phenomenon; as non-work; as culture-pop and otherwise; and as a problem. Leisure and social institutions; the family, the school, the church, the polity, the economy. Leisure and the future of man. Winter term 3 hours
Professor and Chairman of the Department Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs for the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies Associate Professor and Undergraduate Officer Visiting Associate Professor