29 courses in the 1979–80 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 1979–80
W. Klaassen, BA (McMaster), BD (McMaster Divinity School), DPhil (Oxford) G
P.H. Smith, Jr., BA (Harvard), PhD (Pennsylvania)
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)
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 Jiterature courses, Arts courses are elective courses in General and Honours programmes and do not satisfy either the Group A or Group B requirements. Chinese tanguage 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 Century 1 and 2F,W 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 |? 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.
Arts 190/191 introductory Chinese 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 is a prereq for Arts 191
ARTS 211Computing Techniques in Language and LiteratureF/F,W 0.5/0.5
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 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.
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.
Acritical study of Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor, Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, Tolstoy’s What Men Live By, and works by Aldous Huxley, Zamiatin, Turgenev, and Andres. The two major themes are Utopia, the yearning for and the shape of perfectibility, and Nihilism, the denial and/or destruction of “Old Tablets” or ‘‘God is dead.”
A critical study of Brecht'’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and works by Ibsen, Hesse, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Sotzhenitsyn. The two major themes are Nihilism (see above) and Alienation, the divided self in exile, or the inability to give and to accept love.
A study of individuals who emerge in every society to chalienge the prevailing consensus as advanced agents of anew 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.
An investigation of the dynamics of the new China: education, medicine, the arts, the position of women, foreign policy, the Cultural Revolution and subsequent developments, rural and urban organization, the role of the army, the role of the Chinese Communist Party, and the philosophy of Mao Tse Tung.
This course will concentrate on the question of the possibility of anonviolent approach to resolving human conflict with special emphasis on the nature and uses of power, the nature of the nation state, and the probiem 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, philosophical 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 2JA 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.
A study 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.
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 Man.
A study 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.
ARTS 319BSpecial Topics in 20th Century Art: 1940-1970W 3C 0.5
Asurvey of the major movements during the thirty year " period following the beginning of World War Il, including Op Art, Action Painting, the Beat Consciousness, Happenings, Pop Art, Assemblage, Post-Painterly Abstration and Field Painting, and Kinetic and Light Sculpture.