Interdisciplinary Studies 0015 - Success in the University Environment

This course is designed to provide students who are registered in the Brescia University College Preliminary Year with opportunities to learn new abilities and upgrade skills needed to achieve success in the university environment. Successful completion of Interdisciplinary Studies 0015 is required to pass Preliminary Year at Brescia.
(Brescia)

Interdisciplinary Studies 1000F/G - Introduction to Global Challenges

An introduction to key world-wide challenges in the areas of politics, economics, culture, and society. Topics may include human rights, international trade, globalization of disease, and environmental issues.
(Brescia)

Interdisciplinary Studies 1010A/B - Exploring Disability

A contemporary overview of the study of disability and neurodiversity from a social science and humanities perspective. The course explores the concept of disability as it is socially, historically, and culturally constructed. It combines first-person, discursive and structural approaches to understanding disability in modern culture and social institutions.
(King's)

Interdisciplinary Studies 1015F/G - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on a current-issue or specialized topic, as selected by the instructor. Through focused class discussions and exercises, students will explore the topic from multiple perspectives while developing a core set of skills including information literacy, written and oral communication, and critical thinking.
(Brescia)

Interdisciplinary Studies 1021E - Inquiry, Interpretation, Rhetoric

An interdisciplinary course for students in the humanities and social sciences. Through intellectually challenging projects focused on texts from multiple fields of inquiry, students will reflect critically on the production of knowledge and will gain substantial exercise and mentorship in interpretation, reading, research, writing, and oral expression.
(Huron)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2200E - Origins of Ideas

An interdisciplinary course for students in the humanities and social sciences. This course will deal with the origins of ideas (such as democracy, rationality, utilitarianism, ethics, altruism, evolution, civil society) their evolution over time, and their influence on contemporary debates.
(Huron)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2210F/G - Studies in Community-Based Learning

An interdisciplinary exploration of learning and knowledge in relation to social experience and action. Through theoretical and case studies, the course consists of a critical exploration of the mutual interrelationships between the community and the academy.
(Huron)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2220F/G - Perspectives on Reading

This course explores various accounts of the historical and biological development of reading and writing, introduces students to basic principles of semiotics (the study of signs), and examines ways in which manuscript and printed texts are shaped by their contexts.
(Huron)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2230F/G - Perspectives on Communication

This course is a study, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, of sender-receiver relationships as they develop through the 19th and 20th centuries from the telegraph, phonograph, and photograph through cinema, radio, television, and the internet.
(Huron)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2240F/G - Experiential Learning: Power and Reflexivity

This course will prepare students to be aware of power relations and ethical complexities in experiential learning or practicum settings, and to be reflexive and humble about their own positions, motives and potential influence.
(King's)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2246 - Rethinking Disability

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies challenges the historical, medical and mainstream views of disability or mental illness as personal tragedy and a problem to be fixed. We explore disability as a socio-cultural construct akin to race with symbolic, ethical and material consequences. Dynamic emic and etic examples of resistance and change are discussed.
(King's)

Interdisciplinary Studies 2252F/G - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research Methods

This is an introductory lecture course in Qualitative Research Methods drawing on the Social Sciences but also the Humanities. Three approaches (Unobtrusive Research, Interviews, and Participant Observation) to research are examined in terms of the usefulness of each approach depending on the question being researched.
(King’s)

Interdisciplinary Studies 3316F/G - Imagined Monsters: Representations of Disability and Madness

This course examines shifting cultural contexts that produce diverse, evolving representations of disability, madness, otherness and normalcy in private reflections and public media (news, policies, memoirs, arts) by medical and caring professionals, law, state, church and family; and explores how changing public attitudes impact the meaning and experience of disability.
(King's)

Interdisciplinary Studies 3320F/G - Narratives of Disability, Kinship and Care

This course explores the socio-cultural, political meanings, and relational, ethical and material significance of disability and mental health on relationships over the life course. It combines a disability studies lens with narrative and kinship theories to analyze mutuality, discontinuity and creativity in relationships through compelling literary and film portrayals.
(King's)

Interdisciplinary Studies 4410F/G - Responding to the Experiences of Community-Based Learning

Responding to the Experiences of Community-Based Learning This seminar course provides students with an opportunity to synthesize prior community-based learning experiences within a theoretical framework. Students will explore the philosophical, political and social theories/ideas underlying the practice of community-based learning and the interrelationships between the academic and off-campus community. Students will also organize a public forum on the subject of community engagement.
(Huron)