14 courses in the 1985–86 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Professor P.H. Smith, Jr., BA (Harvard), PhD (Pennsylvania) _
Course Descriptions
Courses not offered in the current academic year are listed at the end of this section.
Introductory Notes
1. 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. '
2. Arts courses are elective courses in General and Honours programs and do not satisfy either the Group A or Group 8 requirements.
8B
An interdisciplinary introduction to the arts, literatures, philosophies and religions of Western Civilization, enabling the student to experience and discuss important representative works and ideas from selected periods, and to become acquainted with the humanistic disciplines. 100A focuses on selected periods from Classical Antiquity to toughly 1750. 100B focuses on selected periods from roughly 1750 to the present.
This course invites students to a quest for personal and corporate meaning in the context of a century in which traditional meaning definitions have been challenged by world wars, nuclear threat and rapidly shifting sexual, social, economic and religious values. Offered by Conrad Grebel College.
A general introduction to the fundamental ideas of computers. Topics treated will include the use of an interactive computing system, word processing, and the beginnings of program writing. The course will examine the history of computing, and will consider the social and economic impact of the use of computers. No previous knowledge of computing is assumed.
A study of the Psychology of Religion in its historical perspective from the nineteenth century to the present day. Methods, techniques and practices of research that are applicable to the examination of religious experience will also be introduced.
An introduction to non-mathematical computer programming, with special emphasis on the manipulation of language data. The programming language used will be PL/1. ARTS 211 will concentrate on gaining skill in computer programming. ARTS 212 will stress file management, advanced text formatting and the use of system program utilities. Applications will include word indexes, text concordances, methods of computer-aided text comparison..
Prereq: ARTS 211 presupposes ARTS 198 or equivalent; 212 presupposes 211 or permission of the instructor
ARTS 2154/8
Man in Crisis (Literary Views)
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
16.13
A critical 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 2 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, Katka's The Metamor- Phosis, and’ works by Ibsen, Hesse, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Sdizhenitsyn. The 2 major themes are Nihilism (see above) and Alienation, the divided self in exile, or the inability to give and to accept love.
An examination of Mennonite cultural expression in literature (fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature) and the. visual arts (especially painting and film) during the past century.
Offered by Conrad Grebel College.
ARTS 250) J 1.0 Introductory Topics in Family Life Education: Marriage and the Family 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 programs will also be given attention.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
An in-depth analysis of selected topics in marriage and family life, especially their emotional aspects, including an evaluation of family life education in school and community.
Prereq: ARTS 250J
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.