25 courses in the 1975–76 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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Faculty listed in 1975–76
Visiting Professor A. Newcombe, B.A. (McMaster), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) G
Professor.
W. Klaassen, B.A. (McMaster), B.D. (McMaster Divinity School), D.Phil(Oxford) G
D.E. Smucker, B.A. (Bluffton), B.D. (Princeton
Faculty listed in 1975–76
Theological Seminary, M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago) G
Associate Professors
Faculty listed in 1975–76
F.H. Epp, B.A. (Bethel), M.A., Ph.D. (Minnesota) G D.R. Gordon, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. (Toronto)
C.C, Wang, B.S.(Taiwan Provincial Chung-Hsing University), B.A., M.A.(Taiwan National University)
Course Descriptions 223 Arts
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Several courses formerly offered under the designation “Arts” are now offered under “Interdisciplinary Social Science”. See course descriptions in the
Social Development Studies section of the Calendar. 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 interdisciplinary 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
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 awartnéss 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*.
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 is 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. Not offered 1975-76
Against the background of rapidly shifting values in western culture, this course asks the student to examine his or her perspective and then face the resources of others in answering the question of Who am I? What is my obligation to society? What is my relationship to the natural world? Is there an ultimate meaning to life? Teaching methods include personal statements, thematic and biographical books and films. 3 hours per week
A course designed to impart a knowledge of the basic structure and grammar of modern Chinese. Emphasis will be divided equally between reading and conversation. The student will be expected to master a minimum of 500 characters. Limited to students with no prior knowledge of Chinese.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; in addition, Arts 190* is a prerequisite for Arts 191*.
Similar course to Arts 190*/191* but for speakers of any Chinese dialect except Mandarin.
The course emphasizes standard pronunciation practice and analysis of Chinese literary forms. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; in addition, Arts 192* is a prerequisite for Arts 193.
Note « Students may not receive credit for both Arts 190*/ 191* and Arts 192*/193.
The emphasis of the course is on the role of mass media in national and international communications and covers such topics as truth and deception, propaganda, legal controls, economic and political factors, government information systems, language and stereotypes, and mass media systems.
An introduction to non-mathematical 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. Arts 212* will stress data management, JCL, SORTing, and the use of programme utilities. 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 everwidening rift between environmental and “iner man”, the wilf 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
A historical, psychological and sociological study of love in western culture from early Christianity and subsequent waves of Romanticism to the passionless malfunctions delineated by Rollo May; and, current developments symbolized by Manson and contemporary films. Communities of love and the tensions between love and justice.
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.
An examination of traditional] culture, institutions and the modern development of China as the context for the examination of contemporary Chinese society. Prerequisite: none
An investigation of the dynamics of the new China: education, medicine, the arts, the position of women, foreign policy, the Cultural Revolution, rural and urban organization, the role of the army, the role of the Chinese Communist Party, and the philosophy of Mao Tse Tung.
Prerequisite: Arts 220R* or consent of instructor Winter term
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.
An examination of man and society through the arts. Art as “need”; personal expression, display, celebration, communication. Themes of love and relatedness, death and illness, anxiety and despair, politics and ideology, festivity and fantasy. Art and therapy. This course will emphasize a combination of lectures and studio work.
This course will focus on the current basic issues including personality and aggression, international tension, causes of war and the predicability of war, United Nations voting patterns, disarmament studies, and case studies in non-violence and peace activism. 3 lectures. Fall and Winter terms
This course is designed to extend the knowledge of the structure and grammar of Mandarin Chinese beyond the base provided by Arts 190*/191*. Prerequisite: Aris 190*/191*; in addition Arts 290* is a prerequisite for Arts 291*
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”, Resource persons from within and outside the University will provide expertise. Open to third and fourth year students. 3 lectures. Fall and Winter terms
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 te 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. (Arts 100
is a multi-media course offered in part on Channel 19 TV.)
General Engineering 062A-B Introduction to Human Communication Systems
Describing and analyzing the range of human communication behaviours. The course will focus upon a variety of communication systems including manman, man-machine, and machine-machine communication systems. Various models of communication systems will be examined. Using a systems approach, such concepts as redundancy, entropy, feedback, openness-closedness, equifinality, nonsummativity, relationsbip, determinism, homeostasis, stability, uncertainty and process will be examined.
Various art forms such as films and computer graphics will be considered.
This course undertakes an analysis of the role of language and other symbol systems in social interaction; the interplay between communication and the social system; the formulation of attitudes through language; social and individual disorders as caused by, and reflected in, the breakdown of the communication process.
Prerequisite: Soc. 101*
2 lectures, Fall term
Philosophy 341* Decision and Value Theory
A systematic study of the basic concepts in decisionmaking theories and their associated value theories. Special emphasis will be devoted to the definition and measurement of utility functions and to the various criteria employed in models of decisionmaking under uncertainty and under risk. Extensive use will be made of literature from Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Mathematical Statistics.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
3 hours
The student is required to elect three of the core courses, two of which must be taken in the first year.
Communication Theme Areas
In addition to the introductory core courses, students will continue their communication studies in one or more of three theme areas, representing a more specific area of study.
A) Mass Media Systems
1) Arts 200G* Issues in Mass Communication
The emphasis of the course is on the role of the mass media in national and international communications and covers such topics as truth and deception, propaganda, legal controls, economic and political factors, government information systems, language and stereotypes, and mass media systems.
An examination of the terms and forms of expression characteristic of non-fiction presentations in the media of print, radio and television. Lectures, seminars and workshops will be combined to seek to establish basic criteria for media expositions, to assess them and apply them to individual student projects.
3 hours
3) Mass Communication and the Rule of Law Beginning with the proposition than any mass medium is by its nature essentially incompatible with any system of rule of law, the course will explore selected areas of mass media responsibility, for both publicly and privately owned systems, and the ways in which such responsibilities conflict with the law. The “right” of publics to know and the legal basis for the control of information will be examined.
4) Communication Systems Administration
The course will examine the organizational and financial structure of media systems, ownership, and control patterns, the organization and operation of information, acquisition, internal processing, and dissemination. The course will examine mass media operations in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
3B) Communication Systems Design
1) SD 371 Introduction to Human Communication Systems
The course focuses upon a variety of communication systems including man-man man-machine and machine-machine systems. Various models of com- , munication systems will be examined paying particular attention to the assumptions and situational factors upon which the models are based. Using a systems approach such concepts as redundancy, entropy, feedback, openness-closedness, equi-finality, nonsummiativity, homeostasis and stability, etc., will be examined.
2) SD 471 Communication Media
The course encompasses the tools of communication and the nature and use of communication media. There will be a particular emphasis on those media containing a large technological component; machinemediated human communication systems, e.g., computer graphics, film, T.V., etc.
3) SD 473 Inter-Cultural Communication
The problems of designing a human communication system where more than one culture is involved. Anthropological, sociological, psychological, political, economic and technological aspects of such design. Environmental perception, value systems, social forms, etc.
4) SD 475 Man-Machine Communication Systems The nature and design of machine-oriented human communication systems. Consideration will be given to displays, computer graphics, computer-aided instruction and mass communication media (film, T.V., radio, print). The design of a new media innovation. A systems approach will be adopted with special
attention to the socio-economic effects of such systems.
1) M-Envy 240* Small Groups and the Environment This course will focus on the ways small groups of people function. The emphasis will be on analyzing and understanding how the various groups concerned with environmental issues operate and how they might be made more effective.
No prerequisite
3 hours, Fall term
2) M-Eny. 260(Y) Visual Perception and Communication
An exploration of images, symbols and ideas which constitute the basis of evolution in the perceptual and communication processes. Special emphasis will be placed on films and some of the major movements
in art and architecture.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
5 hours
3) M-Env. 262* Environment of the Future
An imaginary look at the Future, both in terms of extrapolating from the present and postulating new, unforeseen and unforeseeable forces that may be at work in the future.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
5 hour, Winter term
4) M-Env. 360 Science, Technology.
Art and Environment
An interdisciplinary exploration of concepts and themes which unify many aspects of nature and human artifacts. Such themes as Nature of Time as expressed in films, poetry, art, science fiction, psychology and nature are discussed. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
5 hours
5) M-Env. 361* Contemporary Media of Communication and Human Environment
A study of “heroes” and “anti-heroes” of the “counter-culture”, with special emphasis on the “new wave” movements in cinema, theatre, art and literature.
Prerequisite: Serious pupils only, with the consent of the instructor
5 hours, Winter term
6) M-Env. 440 Honours seminar: Environmentals Communication and Education
A study of communication, innovation and educational processes in the context of environmental issues. Approaches to environmental education and communication for primary and secondary school programmes and adult education.
An examination of the origins, evolution, and future dimensions of communications media designed to. facilitate an understanding of 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 to material secured. (Arts 100 is a multimedia course offered in part on Channel 19 T.V.)
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 is a group of selected contemporary issues with implications that cut across the various disciplines. An effort will be made to discuss values appropriate for our age. Integrating concepts are personality and culture. (Among specific issues discussed are race, class, violence, pollution, youth culture, family, the new consumerism and democracy. Regular lectures and discussions will be supplemented by films, visiting lecturers, studentdirected research and role-playing.)