Curriculum for 2011-2012
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Course Day and Time: Tuesday 16:00pm -19:00pm Room: Catalogue #: General Description:
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Course Day and Time: Tuesday 8:30-11:30am Room: R S156 Catalogue #: F53S01 Detailed Course Information and Syllabus- 2011-12 (Subject to Change) General Description: |
Course Day and Time: Monday 16:00-19:00pm Room: R S536 Cataloque #:
W00D01 General Description: |
Course Day and Time: Thursday 10:00-13:00 Room: VH 2043 Catalogue #:
J96X01 General Description: The disciplinary focus of anthropology, and more specifically the anthropology of the body, offers students a critical theoretical perspective and point of departure for the study of the contingency of, and relationship between, bodies and biotechnologies. |
Course Day and Time: Tuesday 8:30-11:30 Room: BC 228 Catalogue #: D22B01 Detailed Course Information & Syllabus 2011-12 (Subject to Change) General Description: Sociological perspectives on issues regarding disease, health and illness. Topics may include the development and structure of health care systems, race, gender, ethics, policy, life-cycle, mental health, the sick role, or the professions. |
Course Day and Time: Thursday 11:30-14:30 *New Date* Room: FC 201 Catalogue #: D22B01 Course Syllabus 2011-12 (subject to change) General Description: This course explores associations between “women” and “nature” that have informed intellectual and cultural traditions. It unpacks implications of these associations for the practices and experiences of women and men in relation to science and knowledge in earlier times and now, and offers opportunities for gender studies of nature and science. The course is organized around these themes the following themes: Representing Nature; Embodying Difference; Doing Science; and Women Writing Nature. Historical Perspectives on Women and Nature highlights a range of humanistic approaches that open up this inquiry, notably cultural history, feminist science studies, textual interpretation, and visual studies. As a seminar cross-listed among a number of different graduate programs, it welcomes the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that students will bring to course readings and discussions.
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Course Day and Time: Thursday 14:30-17:30pm Room: FC 103 Catalogue #: F70J01 STS 6309 M. Pettit Objectivity 2011 - Detailed Syllabus (subject to change) General Description: |
| winter term |
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Course Day and Time: Monday 11:30-14:30 Room: SC 203 Catalogue #: P47M01 General Description: This course examines ways in which organisms have acted as instruments of investigation in science. It looks at historical examples of model organisms and how animals and humans have been utilized as instruments for detecting, generating and modeling physical effects. |
Course Day and Time: Thurs 16:00-19:00 Room: CC 335 Catalogue #: X94V01 General Description: This course explores SETI, or the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, as an example of the eternal human concern with The Other. Embedded within the technical world of astronomy, adjoining the emerging interdisciplinary science of astrobiology, and animated by enduring human questions about our place in the cosmos, SETI also captures the public imagination, and poses fascinating dilemmas in global governance (e.g. What should be done if an alien signal is detected? Should we reply? Who speaks for Earth?) Course participants will explore topics such as: humanity’s Others; the crosscultural history of speculation about intelligent life in the cosmos; the relationship of that speculation to the development of technology available for searching; the public image of SETI; how scientists imagine alien life; the material culture of SETI, including the Voyager Record and the Pioneer Plaque; debates about the Drake Equation and the 'Fermi Paradox'; and the ongoing search for life (of any sort) in our solar system, and the search for planets in our galaxy.
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Course Day and Time: Tuesday 14:30-17:30 Room: VH 3005 Catalogue #: W17R01
General Description: This course addresses the collection, classification, display, and reception of objects representing aspects of scientific knowledge within the Western tradition through a variety of themes and case studies. |
Course Day and Time: Wednesday 11:30-14:30 Room: R N836A Catalogue #: W36Q01
Course Syllabus 2011-12 (subject to change) General Description: Dreaming is one of the most personal and idiosyncratic forms of experience. Yet we frequently take for granted that dreaming is also, in some sense, universal. How have these two sides of dreaming been reconciled in western culture? How has dreaming been construed as an object of inquiry? How can there be expert knowledge concerning such a resolutely private experience? This course will examine the variety of epistemological configurations that have generated knowledge about dreaming since Antiquity. In every instance, we will suspend our judgment about whether or not dreams “really are” as our sources claim. Rather, we will attempt to use dreaming as a window—small though it may be—through which we can watch cultures create and destroy knowledge about the nature of reason, the mind, the imagination, the divine, political unrest, health, the brain, and many other things besides. The majority of the course will be devoted to the modern period and the evolution of dreaming and sleep as objects of scientific research. Readings will be drawn from many historical periods, and will include visual materials, as well as scientific, philosophical, medical, literary, and religious sources.
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Course Day and Time: Wednesday 16:00-19:00 Room: SC 220 Catalogue #: P64D01 General Description: Analysis of Canadian economic, social and intellectual development relating to science and technology, including state involvement in education, application of technology and science to agriculture, industry, science policy and the support of large-scale technoscience such as nuclear energy and space.
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