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Interdisciplinary Studies
0015 -
Success in the University Environment
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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.
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Enrolment in Preliminary Year at Brescia University College.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1000F/G -
Introduction to Global Challenges
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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.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1001E -
First Year Seminar: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Brescia’s interdisciplinary first-year seminar explores a selected topic from multiple disciplinary perspectives to provide a foundation in the liberal arts. Through readings, discussions, group work, and inquiry-based learning, students will explore the topic from multiple perspectives while developing a core set of academic skills including information literacy, communication, problem solving, and critical thinking.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1015F/G -
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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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.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1021E -
Inquiry, Interpretation, Rhetoric
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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.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1101F/G -
Developing Research Questions
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A seminar exploring alternative research approaches to a series of topics, issues, or phenomena that have been identified by the students enrolled in the course as part of their application to the Huron Scholar’s Electives Program.
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Enrolment in Scholar’s Electives Program at Huron.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1102F/G -
Building a Research Project
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A seminar that explores how principles of qualitative and quantitative research, and of information literacy, may be applied to a series of research questions identified by the members of the class. Principles and practices of research ethics will be explored as appropriate.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2115F/G -
Interdisciplinary Perspectives II
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An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on a specialized topic selected by the instructor. The topic will be considered from multiple disciplinary perspectives and will provide the theme to be explored while core academic skills are developed.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2200E -
Origins of Ideas
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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.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2201F/G -
Research Internship
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Students will work for a term with a faculty member on a research project, writing frequent reflections on the experience.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2210F/G -
Studies in Community-Based Learning
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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.
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Completion of first year requirements.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2220F/G -
Perspectives on Reading
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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.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2230F/G -
Perspectives on Communication
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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.
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Completion of first-year requirements.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2252F/G -
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research Methods
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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.
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The former Interdisciplinary Studies 3310F/G.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
3301F/G/Z -
Summer Research Fellowship
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Students complete, during intersession and summer sessions, an approved independent research project of their own design under supervision of a member of faculty.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
3330 -
Community and Society in Contemporary Cuba
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Introduction to contemporary Cuba through an intensive intersession experiential course; weeks 1+4 at Brescia; weeks 2+3 at the University of Havana. Topics include: Cuban history and politics; education system; medical/health system; women/gender; family/childhood; social/community development; food security; sustainable agriculture. Of interest to students in the social sciences generally and particularly to those in community development, family studies, foods and nutrition.
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Completion of at least two years of undergraduate study. Students may participate during the May intersession at the end of their second year.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
4900E -
Research Communication
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A major project designed by the student with supervision and assessment by a committee of three members of faculty, with a final public presentation.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
4410F/G -
Responding to the Experiences of Community-Based Learning
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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.
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