This course considers a wide range of written expression including fiction, nonfiction, poetry and other genres, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of writing. Note: This is an approved LA&PS General Education Course: Humanities. Course credit exclusion: AP/WRIT 1980 9.00 (prior to Fall 2012), AP/WRIT 1701 9.00, AP/WRIT 1702 6.00, AP/WRIT 1703 6.00
An introduction to the study of Korean culture through a historical survey of literary, social, religious and political trends from ancient times to the present. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 2420 9.00 (prior to Fall 2014).
This course has two main objectives. First, it aims at fostering those language skills which students using English as a second language need to succeed academically in the multicultural, English-medium context at York. The course accomplishes this goal primarily through content, rather than explicit language exercises, as is appropriate to learners at the university level. […]
Germany might exemplify the problems, conflicts, and possibilities of the modern world better than any other single state. It has careened from an open democracy to brutal dictatorship, been united, divided, and united again in a little over 100 years, embraced the rational optimism of the Enlightenment and the racism of Nazi Germany culminating in […]
This course examines modern adaptations and transformations of ancient Greek ad Latin literature. Particular attention is paid to religious, political, and social context. Note: This course has been approved in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies for General Education Course credit.This is an approved LA&PS General Education Course PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course […]
The stories, symbols The stories, symbols and myths of Greek and Biblical literature have provided the basic images for Western society's interpretation of itself and its experience. An examination of Greek and Biblical traditions which inform personal and community life today.Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 1710 6.00.
This course uses the Chinese body as an entry point into the richness and complexity of daily life as it was lived and experienced in Chinese history. It focuses on two preeminent concerns in Chinese civilizationhealth and foodand on one of the most mysterious, widely condemned, and little understood Chinese bodily practicesfootbinding.
This course is designed to teach students how to build their vocabulary systematically through the study of Latin and Greek elements in essential English words in a variety of fields and to learn how to use this knowledge in a practical way in their academic courses and later for the advancement of their chosen careers. […]
This course introduces students to the field of Children, Childhood & Youth (CCY) studies. It reviews many of the methodological approaches that have governed and continue to govern the study of children, childhood and youth. This course focuses on issues around discourses of the rights and power of children and youth and the “new childhood […]
An examination of the historical relationship among human rights, economic equity, and the idea of development in the global south; attempts of selected countries to alleviate poverty through various development strategies. This will entail a survey of socio-economic structures, and legal-political institutions in the global south, and an analysis of the relationship between the global […]