Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences (700.A0)

PROGRAM PLANNER FOR FALL 2012 OR LATER The following planner indicates all the courses needed and the usual path to complete your DEC in this program.

** Courses taken by some students may need to be adjusted due to recent changes brought to the “Charte de la langue française” by Bill 96. **

First Semester (7 courses)

The Program’s first semester involves four-historically oriented courses that reinforce one another in multiple ways: Art History and Western Civilization from ancient times to the modern world, as well as an English and a Humanities “Knowledge” course that are both ancient to modern surveys of literature and humanities. These four courses make the first term a reading-heavy semester and provide a multi-faceted historical context for material studied in subsequent courses and semesters.The first semester also includes a science and a math course, Mechanics and Differential Calculus, that are both difficult in their own right and important building blocks for subsequent courses in math and physics.

Students also take a Physical Education course of their choosing.

  • Students who require a mise à niveau English or French course will be required to pass it before they can take their introductory course in English or French.
  • Students have the option of doing French as an eighth course in their first semester rather than in their third.
  • Of the three science option courses, students take Electricity and Magnetism in the third semester, with exceptions to be approved by the program coordinator.
  • Students developing portfolios for application to university architecture or design programs may, with permission of the program coordinator, take an art option in the third semester.
  • Students will be required to pass a ministerial Exam of the English or French Language. Which exam a student writes will depend on if they are a holder of a certificate of eligibility for English education.
  • Students will also be required to pass a Comprehensive Assessment in the integrating project.
ENGLISH: LITERATURE, KNOWLEDGE, ETHICS | 603-101-MQ

The course surveys a representative selection of literary works from ancient to modern times. We will attempt to understand and enjoy the works studied as works of genius in their own right. In addition, the course emphasizes the ethical dimensions of each work, how each work reveals crucial aspects of its own culture and period’s world-view, how each can be related to other fields of knowledge and human endeavour and other expressions of human self-awareness, and finally how each remains pertinent today. Click here to view courses list.

HUMANITIES: THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE | 345-101-MQ

What are some of the landmarks of the Western quest for knowledge? We will examine the struggles of several philosophers and scientists in their attempts to provide a reliable way of understanding our world and finding answers to our questions. Click here to view courses list.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION | 109-101-MQ

Students are required to successfully complete three (3) Physical Education courses to complete their DEC. Courses 109-101-MQ and 109-102-MQ may be taken in either order, but both must be successfully completed before registering in 109-103-MQ. Click here to view courses list.

Physics: Mechanics | 203-NYA-05

This basic chemistry course will introduce the student to chemical concepts applicable to the work of a technologist. Topics covered include atomic structure, states of matter, solubility, ionic and non-ionic compounds, acids, bases and buffers. Practical application of purification techniques and use of basic instruments such as spectrophotometers and chromatography will prepare the student for the manufacturing courses.

Differential Calculus | 201-AS1-AB

This course includes a review of algebra and functions; limits; continuity; differentiation of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions; related rates; curve sketching; optimization problems; antiderivatives; definite integrals and areas.

History of Western Civilization | 330-910-AB

The course will show the importance of historical heritage in the development of Western Civilization. It will describe the enduring economic, political, social, cultural and ideological components while situating these characteristic features of Western Civilization in time and space. There will be an emphasis on structures and ideological characteristics which will illustrate the continuity and ruptures in Western Civilization.

Art History 1 : From Pyramids to Post-modernism | 520-ASA-AB

This course is designed to introduce students to outstanding achievements in the visual arts from antiquity to the end of the 20th century with an emphasis on key masters and their works in each period. The course will look at the connection between art and other disciplines and fields of human activity such as the sciences, philosophy, literature, and religion.


Second Semester (7 courses)

The second semester is a marked contrast to the first. As in a typical Science Program semester, students take three math and science courses: General Biology 1, Chemistry 1, and Integral Calculus. This is a heavy workload.  Students need to start working from the first week of the semester because assignments quickly accumulate and success is not guaranteed. Those students who found the first Calculus course difficult are advised that the second course is more difficult and they will need to work diligently through the whole semester. All students should make use of College resources like the math and science help centres.The English course examines literary responses to science and technology and helps students situate the pursuit of science and technological development in social, historical, and imaginative contexts.

Students also take Art 1, a studio art course. Students need to make use of available studio time since completing student projects can take some extra time.

The studio work along with the Chemistry and Biology labs give this semester a hands-on, practical aspect that distinguishes it from other semesters.

Students take French and Physical Education courses of their choosing.

  • Students who require a mise à niveau English or French course will be required to pass it before they can take their introductory course in English or French.
  • Students have the option of doing French as an eighth course in their first semester rather than in their third.
  • Of the three science option courses, students take Electricity and Magnetism in the third semester, with exceptions to be approved by the program coordinator.
  • Students developing portfolios for application to university architecture or design programs may, with permission of the program coordinator, take an art option in the third semester.
  • Students will be required to pass a ministerial Exam of the English or French Language. Which exam a student writes will depend on if they are a holder of a certificate of eligibility for English education.
  • Students will also be required to pass a Comprehensive Assessment in the integrating project.
ENGLISH: LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE WORLD | 603-102-MQ

This course continues the study of representative literary works. The course focuses on literature’s engagements with scientific ideas and on literary responses to developments in science and technology and the relationship of those developments to the world. Click here for course list.

FRENCH | 602-1XX-MQ

Every student needs one of each of the Block “A” and Block “B” courses in order to complete their DEC. For each block, there are four levels of courses: Level 1 , Level 2 , Level 3 and Level 4.
Placement in the appropriate level of French is determined by the students’ high school marks. The French Department reserves the right to change the placement of a student upon written notice. Students take the Block “B” course at the same level as the Block “A” course.
If placement determines that students do not have a college level of proficiency in French, students may be required to take remedial courses to upgrade their knowledge of the language. Click here for courses list.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION | 109-101-MQ

Students are required to successfully complete three (3) Physical Education courses to complete their DEC. Courses 109-101-MQ and 109-102-MQ may be taken in either order, but both must be successfully completed before registering in 109-103-MQ. Click here for courses list.

Integral Calculus | 201-AS2-AB

Prerequisite: 201-AS1
This course covers inverse trigonometric functions: graphs, differentiation, integrals involving inverse trigonometric functions; integration techniques: substitutions, trigonometric integrals, integration by parts, partial fractions; l’Hôpital’s Rule and indeterminate forms; improper integrals; applications of integration: areas between curves, volumes; sequences, series and convergence tests; power series; Taylor and Maclaurin series.

Chemistry 1 | 202-AS1-AB

Oriented towards the achievement of scientific and chemical literacy, this course examines physical reality through the eyes of a chemist, both at the particle and the macroscopic levels. Students will be trained in the analysis of a wide variety of chemical situations involving irreversible and equilibrium processes, touching on topics such as kinetics, equilibrium, properties of solutions, and atomic and molecular structure. The final stage of the course will introduce organic chemistry.

General Biology 1 | 101-NYA-05

This is a compulsory Science Course for students in the Arts & Sciences Program (700.A0) and is a prerequisite for all other Biology Courses in the Program. This course offers students an introduction to the life sciences focusing on the organization, functioning and diversity of life. Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Recognize the relationship between structure and function at different levels of organization.
  • Understand cell division and the genetic mechanisms important in inheritance.
  • Appreciate the mechanisms of evolution and understand how life forms adapt to their environment.
  • Develop a basic understanding of the principles of ecology and some of the environmental issues facing man.
Art 1 | 510-ASA-AB

NO DESCRIPTION


Third Semester (8 courses)

In contrast to the historically-oriented first and hands-on science-heavy second, the third semester has a marked emphasis on the Human or Social Sciences. The semester’s Statistics course is particularly relevant to methods of the Social Sciences. The semester’s Psychology and Sociology courses, with their focus on the human individual and human groups, are complemented by the semester’s World Views Humanities course in comparative cosmology. Through those four courses students develop an interlocking set of perspectives on many human phenomena.The semester features as well a fairly difficult Science course, Electricity & Magnetism, which builds on the previous year’s Mechanics and Calculus courses.

Students take French and Physical Education courses of their choosing.

Students who are planning to apply for university Architecture, Art, or Design programs may want to opt to take a Visual Arts or Creative Arts course in the third semester and to postpone French or Physical Education to their fourth semester. An arts course in the third semester can be used in the development of a portfolio for university application purposes. Such students have to be certain that they want to opt for the 5-sciences version of the Program and are encouraged to discuss their portfolios with their art teachers as early as possible.

  • Students who require a mise à niveau English or French course will be required to pass it before they can take their introductory course in English or French.
  • Students have the option of doing French as an eighth course in their first semester rather than in their third.
  • Of the three science option courses, students take Electricity and Magnetism in the third semester, with exceptions to be approved by the program coordinator.
  • Students developing portfolios for application to university architecture or design programs may, with permission of the program coordinator, take an art option in the third semester.
  • Students will be required to pass a ministerial Exam of the English or French Language. Which exam a student writes will depend on if they are a holder of a certificate of eligibility for English education.
  • Students will also be required to pass a Comprehensive Assessment in the integrating project.
ENGLISH: LITERATURE AND OTHER ARTS | 603-103-MQ

This course continues the study of representative literary works. The course will seek to explore literature’s engagement with other arts and illuminate the connections between literature and other forms of human expression, such as the fine arts, music, architecture, film, and other media. Click here for courses list.

FRENCH | 602-2XX-AB

Every student needs one of each of the Block “A” and Block “B” courses in order to complete their DEC. For each block, there are four levels of courses: Level 1 , Level 2 , Level 3 and Level 4.
Placement in the appropriate level of French is determined by the students’ high school marks. The French Department reserves the right to change the placement of a student upon written notice. Students take the Block “B” course at the same level as the Block “A” course.
If placement determines that students do not have a college level of proficiency in French, students may be required to take remedial courses to upgrade their knowledge of the language. Click here for courses list.

HUMANITIES: LET US COMPARE COSMOLOGIES | 345-102-MQ

Meaning does not exist independent of the one who searches for it. In this course we will explore the concept of Cosmology, the study of the nature and order of the Universe, and then study different cosmologies with the goal of understanding how a society’s cosmology informs and guides other aspects of their culture. We will examine ways of understanding the universe that have traditionally been associated with the East, with the West, as well as those that originate from within Indigenous cultures. Finally, we will look at some examples of what happens when scientific ways of understanding the origin and nature of the universe are introduced to these societies. Click here for courses list.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION | 109-101-MQ

Students are required to successfully complete three (3) Physical Education courses to complete their DEC. Courses 109-101-MQ and 109-102-MQ may be taken in either order, but both must be successfully completed before registering in 109-103-MQ. Click here for courses list.

Statistics | 201-AS3-AB

Prerequisite: 201-AS1
Topics covered in this course include frequency distributions, probability distributions of a discrete random variable, probability distributions of a continuous random variable using calculus, expected values including moment generating functions, sampling and sampling distributions, linear models, point and interval estimation, and hypothesis testing of one and two parameters.

Introduction to Psychology | 350-ASA-AB

The course introduces students to the scientific study of aspects of human behaviour and mental processes including 1) the evolution of psychological thought and the identification of major psychological perspectives; 2) research methods in the study of Psychology; 3) the biological basis of behaviour, including the structure and function of the brain and nervous systems; 4) cognitive and emotional processes, and 5) learning and human adaptation. Students acquire the basic concepts and processes associated with the study of human behaviour. Further emphasis is placed on the understanding of how this knowledge and these abilities may relate to our lives and how they may apply in varying conditions.

Introduction to Sociology | 387-100-AB

Sociology is the study of how individuals connect to groups and institutions, and how these connections help us understand the causes and consequences of human behaviour. In this course you will look at everything from globalization in the developing world to the self-esteem of individuals; from the changing Canadian family to the divisions of race, gender, and class; from corporate wealth and power to homelessness and street kids. Sociology is the broadest of all the social science disciplines, We will learn using lectures and discussions, multi-media presentations.


ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
General Biology 2 | 101-DCN-05

Prerequisite: 101-NYA-05
General Biology 2 is the second level course in College Biology for students in the Science Program. This course is required for individuals planning to enter the Biological or Health Sciences at university. This course builds upon the concepts introduced in General Biology 1 by analyzing how the structure and functioning of organisms at the chemical and cellular levels work to maintain homeostasis.

Organic Chemistry 1 | 202-DCP-05 | 101-DCN-05

Prerequisite: 202-NYA OR 202-AS1
An introduction to the chemistry of organic molecules including alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic systems and their derivatives, this course employs a mechanistic approach to the understanding of typical organic reactions. Laboratory work is an important part of the course.

Electricity and Magnetism | 203-NYB-05 | 101-DCN-05

Prerequisite: 203-NYA-05
This course emphasises the basic physical principles of electricity and magnetism, with calculus being introduced where necessary. Topics include Coulomb’s Law, electric field, electric potential, motion of charged particles in electric fields, capacitors, DC circuits, Kirchhoff’s Laws, RC circuits, Biot-Savart Law, magnetic fields, torque on a current loop, and Faraday’s Law.


Fourth Semester (7 courses)

In their last semester, students take the Program’s Integrating Activity course, in which the principal task involves a self-directed project integrating knowledge acquired from the Program’s different disciplines. Through the Integrating Activity students also fulfill the Program’s Comprehensive Assessment.Students take as well Political Economy, Humanities (Ethics), and English. The Humanities and English course are designed both to support the theme of the Integrating Activity and to intersect in relevant ways with the Political Economy course. Students also take Linear Algebra.

There are also two Option courses.  Students in the 6-sciences version of the Program take two Science courses while  students in 5-sciences take one Science course and either an art production course or a Social Science course.

  • Students who require a mise à niveau English or French course will be required to pass it before they can take their introductory course in English or French.
  • Students have the option of doing French as an eighth course in their first semester rather than in their third.
  • Of the three science option courses, students take Electricity and Magnetism in the third semester, with exceptions to be approved by the program coordinator.
  • Students developing portfolios for application to university architecture or design programs may, with permission of the program coordinator, take an art option in the third semester.
  • Students will be required to pass a ministerial Exam of the English or French Language. Which exam a student writes will depend on if they are a holder of a certificate of eligibility for English education.
  • Students will also be required to pass a Comprehensive Assessment in the integrating project.
ENGLISH INTEGRATING B-BLOCK: LITERATURE, EVOLUTION, AND OTHER ESTRANGEMENTS | 603-200-AB

This course continues the study of representative literary works, including non-fiction discursive prose. In addition to its literary explorations, the course encompasses s components that reach back retrospectively to material studied in earlier semesters in the program, and other components that are  coordinated with program courses in the fourth semester and that will enhance the cross-disciplinary objectives of the Integrating Activity course. Click here for courses list.

HUMANITIES: ETHICS & THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE | 345-214-AB

This course reviews key traditions of ethical thought in the West, using them as a foundation to analyze current moral issues. Varying emphases on duty, utility, and virtue find common ground in the ultimate pursuit of happiness. Applied to the contemporary context, ethics is increasingly construed as an expanded circle of moral consideration – from an elite form of anthropocentrism to, ultimately perhaps, a non-anthropocentric ethic. Selected case studies will investigate the treatment of groups at the margins of society, such as the unborn, the poor, serious offenders, and animals. Click here for courses list. 

Linear Algebra | 201-AS4-AB

Prerequisite: 201-AS1
Topics covered include the solution of systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vectors in two and three dimensions, dot and cross products, lines and planes, linear combinations, spans, subspaces, linear dependence and independence, basis, dimension, row space, column space, null space, and applications.

Political Economy | 385-AS1-AB

On a daily basis there is something in the news regarding international relations. Whether it be arms control treaties, economic summits, riots, militia-related deaths, war, or reports on man-made famine, there is never a shortage of exciting and troublesome topics to review and analyze. Through readings, in-class discussions, and simulations, this course will take you through some of the major topics and event-filled crises facing our world today. Important aspects of the course work with other courses in the fourth semester to support and extend work done in the Integrating Activity.


ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
Integrating Project for 6-Sciences profile | 300-ASA-AB

The Integrating Activity is a cross-disciplinary problem-solving and project oriented lab course in which students will collaborate to demonstrate their ability to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines covered in the course of their studies in the program. The course works in close coordination with other fourth semester program courses. Depending on whether they opt to take five or six science courses, students will have either 45-hour or 75-hour versions of the Integrating Activity. All students take a 45-hour Integrating Activity together, but those in the 75-hour version will pursue further integrating activities which could include field trips, seminars, guest speakers, and lab activities and research.

Integrating Project for 5-Sciences profile | 300-CA5-AB

The Integrating Activity is a cross-disciplinary problem-solving and project oriented lab course in which students will collaborate to demonstrate their ability to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines covered in the course of their studies in the program. The course works in close coordination with other fourth semester program courses. Depending on whether they opt to take five or six science courses, students will have either 45-hour or 75-hour versions of the Integrating Activity. All students take a 45-hour Integrating Activity together, but those in the 75-hour version will pursue further integrating activities which could include field trips, seminars, guest speakers, and lab activities and research.


TWO OF THE FOLLOWING
General Biology 2 | 101-DCN-05

Prerequisite: 101-NYA-05
General Biology 2 is the second level course in College Biology for students in the Science Program. This course is required for individuals planning to enter the Biological or Health Sciences at university. This course builds upon the concepts introduced in General Biology 1 by analyzing how the structure and functioning of organisms at the chemical and cellular levels work to maintain homeostasis.

Organic Chemistry 1 | 202-DCP-05 | 101-DCN-05

Prerequisite: 202-NYA OR 202-AS1
An introduction to the chemistry of organic molecules including alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic systems and their derivatives, this course employs a mechanistic approach to the understanding of typical organic reactions. Laboratory work is an important part of the course.

Electricity and Magnetism | 203-NYB-05 | 101-DCN-05

Prerequisite: 203-NYA-05
This course emphasises the basic physical principles of electricity and magnetism, with calculus being introduced where necessary. Topics include Coulomb’s Law, electric field, electric potential, motion of charged particles in electric fields, capacitors, DC circuits, Kirchhoff’s Laws, RC circuits, Biot-Savart Law, magnetic fields, torque on a current loop, and Faraday’s Law.

Waves, Optics, and Modern Physics | 203-NYC-05

Wave behaviour is fundamental to an astonishing list of physical phenomena. The student in this course will learn how to analyze waves in both a qualitative and quantitative manner, and will come face-to-face with some of the bizarre and counterintuitive implications of modern physics. Topics include simple harmonic motion, waves and sound, interference and diffraction of light, quantum mechanics, and special relativity. Students entering the course will be expected to have solid physics, math and laboratory skills.


And Optional

Social Science, Visual Arts or Creative Arts course


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