23 courses in the 1976–77 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Faculty listed in 1976–77
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
Faculty listed in 1976–77
D. E. Smucker, 8.A. (Bluffton), B.D. (Princeton Theological Seminary, M.A., Ph.D (Chicago) G
Associate Professors
Faculty listed in 1976–77
F. H. Epp, B.A. (Bethel), M.A., Ph.D. (Minnesota) G D. R. Gordon, B.A. (Queen's), M.A. (Toronto)
P. H. Smith, Jr., B.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
Lecturers
C. M. Lim, B.A. (Taiwan Provincial Chung-Hsing University)
Faculty listed in 1976–77
C. C. Wang, B.S. (Taiwan Provincial Chung-Hsing University), B.A., M.A. (Taiwan National University)
Course Descriptions 201 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 of Arts.
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*.
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.
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 @ prerequisite for Arts 193.
Note Students may not receive credit for both Arts 190*/191* and Arts 192*{193*.
An introductory and interdisciplinary approach to those factors in mass media behavior that contribute to good communication or to distortion, including the historical, psychological, legal, sociological, semantic, etc. Emphasis will be on the domestic scene.
The emphasis of this course will be on the mass media role in National and international affairs and a study of those factors in mass media performance, which contribute to better international understanding and conflict resolution. Topics will include propaganda, economic and political factors, government information systems, press freedom. language and stereotypes.
An examination of the phenomenon of human conflict. Special attention is given to influential theories of the roots of conflict (e.g. Marx and Freud), the question of the inevitability of conflict, the diverse forms of conflict and the moral implications of various types of conflict.
This course explores various means of conflict resolution on both global and domestic levels. Included are critical assessments of coercion, law, behavior control and nonviolence as models of resolution.
(Prerequisite: Arts 205G encouraged but not required.) 3 hours per week Winter term
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 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 ‘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.
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 Jove and the tensions between love and justice.
A study of individuals who emerge in every society to challenge the prevailing consensus as advanced agents ofa 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. Fall term
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. Prereq: Arts 200R* or consent of instructor. Winter
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. Artas ‘*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, cause of war and the predictability of war. United Nations voting patterns, disarmament studies, and case studies in non-violence and peace activism.