32 courses in the 1978–79 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Professors
Faculty listed in 1978–79
W. Klaassen, BA (McMaster), BD (McMaster Divinity School), DPhil (Oxford) G
D. E. Smucker, BA (Bluffton), BD (Princeton Theological Seminary), MA, PhD (Chicago) G
Research Professor G.T. Barrett-Lennard, BSc, BA (Western Australia), PhD (Chicago)
Associate Professors F.H. Epp, BA (Bethel), MA, PhD (Minnesota) G P.H. Smith, Jr., BA (Harvard), PhD (Pennsylvania)
Courses designated “Arts”, 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. With the exception of Chinese language and literature courses, Arts courses are elective courses in General and Honours programmes and do not satisfy either the Group A or Group B requirements. Chinese language courses with the Arts designation satisfy the Aii requirement. Arts courses are administered through the Office of the Dean of Arts..
ARTS 122GQuest for Meaning in the 20th CenturyFLW 2C,1D 0.5
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 1? 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.
Prereq: Permission of instructor; in addition, Arts 190 isa prereq for Arts 197
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..
Prereq: Permission of instructor; in addition, Arts 192isa prereq for Arts 193.
0.5/0.5
Note Students may not receive credit for both Arts 190/191 and Arts 192/193
ARTS 201GIssues in Mass Communication 2W 2C,1D 0.5
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.
ARTS 211Gomputing Techniques in Language and Literature0.5/0.5
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 willstress 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.
A critical study of such themes as freedom vs. happiness, nihilism, collectivism vs. individualism, old tablets vs. utopias, alienation, earthbound fragmentation vs. the transcendental in the artistic writings of Kafka, Brecht, Hesse, Nietzsche, Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, Zamiatin, Camus, and others. Taught in English.
A study of individuals who emerge in every society to challenge the prevailing consensus as advanced 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.
Anexamination of traditional culture, institutions and the modern development of China as the context for the examination of contemporary Chinese society.
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 220R or consent of instructor. .
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.
ARTS 249JCurrent Problems in Family Life EducationJY 1.0
The course will examine human sexuality from a biological, psychological, and social perspective. The significant principles of sex education and some of the most relevant methods and programmes will be discussed as well.
ARTS 250JBasic Issues in Family Life EducationA 1.0
This course will study marriage and the family from psychological, sociological, philosephica! and theological perspectives. Methods for incorporating significant knowledge about marriage and the family into family life programmes will also be given attention.
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.
ARTS 271GIntroduction to Peace Research 1 and 2F,W = 3 0.5/0.5
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.
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 will vary from year to year.
Astudy of the grammatical structure of classical Chinese literature, based on a critical analysis of selected readings from seminal works in the pre-modern literary, historical and philosophical traditions of China. Prereq: Arts 190/191 or permission of the instructor.
Astudy of the TAO TE CHING and the CHUANG TZU that involves a search for an understanding of their profound insights on the nature of life, an appreciation of their literary forms, and consideration of their influence on. Chinese culture.
Prereq: Arts 192/193 or Arts 391/392 or permission of the instructor
This course involves a careful literary analysis of the basic source materials upon which Confucianism was built-The Analects, The Mencius, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of Mean.