Vic One Courses

VIC186H1F
The Art and Literature of Leadership 1
TBA
T 6-8

What is a leader? Are leaders born or are they made, and if they are made is there a craft to being able to lead others? Through works of art, film, and literature, this course examines the various types of men and women who become leaders from natural-born talents to statesmen and state-crafters and individual entrepreneurs with the purpose of defining those qualities that make for the leaders of tomorrow. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC187H1, VIC188H1, VIC189H1, and ECO101H1 and ECO102H1
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIC187H1F
Prosperity, Justice and Sustainability: Introduction to Public Policy
Professor Kathleen Wynne
M 3-5

This course is an introduction to the key issues in provincial and national public policy in Canada. It is an exploration of how public policy development at its best strives to advance prosperity, justice, and sustainability and for whom. It introduces economic policy concepts and the values underpinning them by analysing current issues such as the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada, public spending and debt, health care, social security, climate change, and education. The course material draws on recent history, current policy and political debates and the instructor’s personal experience as an MPP and the 25th Premier of Ontario.

Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC186H1, VIC188H1, VIC189H1, ECO101H1 and ECO102H1
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC188H1S
Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability, and Ethics
Professor Wendy Cecil
M 5-7

Drawing together philosophical background readings with contemporary applications, this course addresses issues of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, human rights, diversity, and equity, and considers how these topics intersect with a wide range of global practices. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC186Y, VIC187H1, VIC189H1, ECO101H1 and ECO102H1
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC189H1S
The Art and Literature of Leadership 2
Professor Sandford Borins
F 11-1

What is a leader? Are leaders born or are they made, and if they are made is there a craft to being able to lead others? Through works of art, film, and literature, this course examines the various types of men and women who become leaders from natural-born talents to statesmen and state-crafters and individual entrepreneurs with the purpose of defining those qualities that make for the leaders of tomorrow. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC187H1, VIC188H1, VIC189H1, and ECO101H1 and ECO102H1
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIC150Y1Y
School and Society
Professor Emily Greenleaf / Professor Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo
M 11-1

This course will be about the social and historical role of the school. The course will examine schools and learning as social, political, intellectual, and economic phenomena.Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC151Y1 and PSY100H1
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC151Y1Y
Theories and Practices of Teaching
Professor Julia Forgie
R 1-3

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC150Y1 and PSY100H1
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC162H1F/S
Cultural Forms and Their Meanings
Professor Ira Wells
R 1-3

A study of culture with a view to developing basic concepts with examples drawn from the visual arts, music, film, literature, architecture, and/or local urban artefacts.Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC163H1, VIC164H1, VIC165H1, and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level course in ENG or FAH or PHL
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIC163H1F/S
Cultural Forms and Their Meanings: People and Ideas
Professor Anne Urbancic
M 12-1, W 12-1

A study of culture with a view to developing basic concepts of how we interact with the spaces we encounter with examples drawn from the visual arts, music, film, architecture, and/or local urban artifacts. Students will be able to choose other topics of interest to them. We will emphasize how contemporary thought has affected the practice of everyday life. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

The English language is made up of lots of phrases that metaphorically indicate spaces and assign boundaries or limits to meaning. For example, you can use the verb drink for all liquid beverages, but can you apply drink up equally to all drinks? Are the foods we eat the same as those we eat up? What's the difference? And what’s the difference between Hey, wait! and Hey, wait up? What do we mean when we say things like “give me some space?” Where exactly is headspace? And what is the space envisaged by Northrop Frye as the castle of words that he mentions in The Educated Imagination?

In VIC163H we will study the ideas of some of the theorists who have considered the spaces of our language and our life, including Derrida, McLuhan, de Certeau and Virilio. We will examine how they posited our understanding of the concept of space: physical, metaphorical, emotional, psychological, linguistic. We will consider how space works in prose and poetry, and how our highly technological and mediated world has affected the concept of space, and, with it, also the concept of time. We will work as a class, and in smaller groups, to show how these theories apply to our everyday lives, from the soap we use, the coffee shop we choose, the stores we frequent, to the way we view literature and creativity.

There will be ample opportunity for consultation and discussion as we:

➵examine theoretical perspectives,

➵consider how we practice the spaces of everyday life, including in the visual arts, music, film, literature, architecture, and/or local urban artifacts,

➵critically reflect and report on our own roles in today’s ‘global village’ (yet another metaphorical space), and our responsibilities to it.

At the end of the course, you’ll be able to consider your personal and global environment from several new perspectives. Be warned: former students tell me that they can no longer enter a shop, a theatre, a church, a hospital etc. etc. without being reminded of what they learned this course!!!

NOTE:

The E.J. Pratt Library is pleased to offer this course dedicated library support. Your class librarian will be introduced in our first session

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC162H1, VIC164H1, VIC165H1 and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level ENG or FAH or PHL 
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses. 
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC164H1F/S
Ideas and Their Consequences: Literary and Artistic Realms of the Imagination
Professor Maria Cichosz
R 1-3

A study of the ideas and concerns of creative thinkers and their impact upon cultures. The course includes literary, scientific and/or religious intellectuals from the major traditions. Attention to modes of reasoning, cultural definition and expression. Emphasis on philosophical and artistic concepts. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Artists are both markers and makers of their times. As careful observers of cultural conditions and their effects on daily life, artists notice and document major societal shifts as they occur. But artists are also visionaries who have ideas about the potential of a given historical moment—what is, and what could be. How individual artists and the movements they are a part of navigate the world they live in can tell us a great deal about their historical context and its social, cultural, political, and technological implications. It can also teach us about the changing social norms surrounding artists, the work they do, and the institutions that support them.

This course will engage these questions and themes through the lens of the most dramatic cultural shift of the past 100 years: the transition from modernity and its artistic response, modernism, to postmodernity and postmodernism, their aftermath. As ideas about the role of art in social life and the potentials and pitfalls of representing reality began to shift through the advent of modern warfare, globalization, late capitalism, and the explosion of mass media, artists produced works that responded to and challenged these conditions. By critically examining writers, filmmakers, poets, and artists working in various media, we will discover how situating creative activity in its context is a way of understanding the relationship between art, imagination, and society. Students will have the opportunity to choose and research an object or text from a local archive and explore its connections to course themes.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC162H1, VIC163H1, VIC165H1 and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level ENG or FAH or PHL 
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC165H1F/S
Ideas and Their Consequences: Isolation and Communion in Modern Culture
Professor Adam Sol
W 12-2

A study of art, with a focus on poetry, as an essential mode of experience and knowledge, in the context of contemporary and modern society. Along with literary artists, the course includes writers on history and sociology and presents the interplay between artistic vision and socio-political situations. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC162H1,VIC163H1, VIC164H1 and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level ENG or FAH or PHL 
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC166H1F
Common Vices and Neglected Virtues: Intro to Ethics of Character
Professor Paul Gooch
R 2-4

Vice is popular: a prestigious university press has brought out a series of seven books on the Seven Deadly Sins. This course examines such questions as the following. Are greed, lust and gluttony just bad names for necessary and otherwise acceptable instincts? What is the place, in a good human life, of such qualities as honesty, trust, civility and the like? Are vices and virtues culturally determined or a matter of individual preference? Can character be taught, or is it rather a matter of genes and luck?  Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC167H1, VIC168H1, VIC169H1, and and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level course in ANT or PHL or RLG
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC167H1S
Ideas and Fine Thoughts
Professor David Cook
M 2-4

This course examines political and ethical ideas through literature, art, plays, essays and philosophical works. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC166H1, VIC168H1, VIC169H1, and and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level course in ANT or PHL or RLG
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities or Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIC168H1F
Identity and Equality in the Public Sphere
Professor Andrew Lawless
W 11-1

Identity and equality are two important, but surprisingly elusive, concepts that are intimately connected to a cluster of other equally important ones, such as freedom, sovereignty, and the politics of recognition. Thus, in liberal democracies such as ours, the demands that emanate from considerations of identity and equality often have to be weighed against competing claims. How do we balance claims made in the name of equality against ones made in the name of freedom? How do we balance claims to collective rights and freedoms – ones based on assertions of identity and therefore demands for recognition – against claims to individual ones? Further, how do we evaluate and accommodate claims to sovereignty, a community’s assertion of the right to exercise, within Canada, control over matters that are central to its existence? We will proceed first by reading and discussing some classic philosophical treatments of the central concepts and then by applying what we have learned to some currently important issues. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC166H1, VIC167H1, VIC169H1, and and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level course in ANT or PHL or RLG
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC169H1S
Ethical Living in a Pluralistic World
Professor Matthew Dougherty
R 2-4

In this time of climatological crisis, it is ever clearer that our ethical obligations include our relationships to nature. This course explores different values, ethics, and traditions around nature to understand both their limitations and the resources they present for grappling with contemporary issues. Along the way, we will explore questions such as what it means to consider nature to be sacred or super-human, whether environmental degradation has religious or spiritual roots, and how our choices about the environment should contend with the legacies of colonialism.   

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC166H1, VIC167H1, VIC168H1, and and 1.0 FCE in any 100-level course in ANT or PHL or RLG
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC190Y1Y
The Arts and Society
Professor Adam Sol
F 10-12

The artist, filmmaker, poet or dramatist has changed society and how we imagine our future.  The course explores a number of paradigm cases of how the arts have interacted with social problems.  Both historical and current examples of the role of the imaginative arts will be explored. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC191Y1 and 1 FCE in any 100-level course in ARC or CIN or DRM or ENG or MUS or VIS
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC191Y1Y
Artistic Creation and Public Issues
Professors Claire Battershill, Eric Friesen, and Ray Robertson
T 3-5

This course addresses social issues through the exploration of creative activity and the imaginative arts. Topics will be discussed from historical, ethical and philosophical perspectives, and might be considered either in a group or individually.Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC190Y1 and 1 FCE in any 100-level course in ARC or CIN or DRM or VIS or MUS or ENG
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIC181H1F/S
Events in the Public Sphere: World Affairs
Professor David Wright
M 2-4

Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC183H1, VIC184H1, VIC185H1, and a first-year course in ECO, HIS or POL 
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC183H1F/S
Individuals and the Public Sphere: Shaping Memory
Professor Sunil Johal
R 10-12

This course explores how public service and citizenship are developed. Topics may include the role of law and government, civil liberties, rights and responsibilities, and the creation of policy, as well as how these factors shape collective memory. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC181H1, VIC184H1, VIC185H1 and a first-year course in ECO, HIS or POL 
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIC184H1F/S
Individuals and the Public Sphere: History, Historiography and Making Cultural Memory
Professor Anne Urbancic
M 2-3, W 2-3

A seminar course that examines the contribution of an individual or individuals to the public sphere. The course will explore how public service and citizenship are developed in social, philosophical, and cultural and historical contexts. We will examine our evolving role in collective, cultural and counter memory. Students will have the opportunity to learn practical research techniques for primary source materials. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

In VIC 184H we ask essential and thought-provoking questions about how History is written. What is History anyway? We consider your perspective as a historian of your own story, of that of your family, your community, your responsibility to citizenship. What will you include in your history? What will you omit? What will you change? How will you deal with your biases? What is the truth of history in an era of post-truth?

In order to begin answering these questions,

➙we look at historiography (the writing of history) from a theoretical perspective, with a focus on contemporary theorists including Halbwachs, Foucault, Marin, Said, Eco and others,

➙we discuss cultural memory, or how any group of people share a history, or how they refuse to share it

➙we examine the ramifications of today’s highly mass mediated historiography

Then, as do scientists in a lab, we participate in two experiments:

➙First, we examine the past by working in archives to produce a brief history of a forgotten person or event, basing ourselves on primary source documents like diaries and letters

➙Secondly, we choose events or persons from our own contemporary environment and study them, showing why they should become part of history yet to be written.

Both of the exercises are guided, with ample opportunity for consultation. More importantly, your reports will become part of a permanent record of research and knowledge building that will be of interest to historians in their work.

At first the experiments seem challenging. However, students tell me that the two assignments turn out to be of great personal satisfaction, and that they return to the methodologies learned throughout their undergrad years and beyond.

This course will make you feel confident about doing research in places where first year students don't venture traditionally: archives, rare book libraries, the wider community. You’ll learn how to work with and document primary sources (and perhaps you’ll solve a mystery or even be able to correct an error that previous historical reports have repeated– both of these have happened in VIC184H).

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC181H1, VIC183H1, VIC185H1 and a first-year course in ECO, HIS or POL
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science 
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC185H1F/S
Events in the Public Sphere: Social Justice
Professor Vic Falkenheim
R 10-12

Among the more remarkable developments of the late 20th century was the explosive growth in the number of democracies in the world. Dubbed the “3rd wave” by political scientist Samuel Huntington, this massive shift was acclaimed by theorist Frances Fukuyama as the ‘end of history. But the disappointing performance of many new democracies and the dysfunctions of many mature democracies has led to renewed debate over the competing advantages of democracy versus authoritarian developmental regime, The dramatic success of  China’s ‘market-authoritarian’ experiment  is a case in point. This course will explore the dynamics of democratic transformation over the past four decades, focusing on the transformation of East Asian states undergoing the complex processes of modernization. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC181H1, VIC183H1, VIC184H1 and a first-year course in ECO, HIS or POL
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC172Y1Y
Physical Sciences Today
Professor Cynthia Goh
F 2-4

What does science do for our society, and what does society do for science? Who are today’s scientists? Why, where and how are they doing their work? In this course we discuss the way science works, taking a multi-disciplinary look at the physical sciences, the factors that enable scientific progress and the environment in which we advance science today.  We will look at the norms guiding the work of scientists, the way scientists communicate and share findings, the value of scientific results and the ways in which scientists and others make use of these results to improve our lives. At the same time, we discuss our social and ethical responsibilities as scientists. The course complements the content of the science courses taught at the university, discussing issues that today's scientists should consider. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC173Y1 and 1.0 FCE selected from first-year course offerings in the sciences (0.5 FCE must be a CHM, MAT, or PHY course)
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science or Science
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

VIC173Y1Y
Philosophy of Science for Physical Scientists
Professor Hakob Barseghyan
W 2-4

This course introduces students to some of the issues in the philosophy of science, in general, and in the philosophy of physics, in particular. Topics include the scientific method and its controversies, the meaning of time and its properties, realism versus competing approaches, thought experiments, and quantum mechanics. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC172Y1 and 1.0 FCE selected from first-year course offerings in the sciences (0.5 FCE must be a CHM, MAT, or PHY course)
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Social Science or Science
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC170Y1Y
The Impact of Science on Our Society
Professor Angus McQuibban
T 10-12

The interplay between science and society will be explored over the course of the year through discussion and several group projects.  Topics covered will include research funding strategies, ethics in science, drug resistance, and vaccination amongst other scientific issues in our society.  The transition from basic science to translation will be discussed in the context of company creation and research proposals. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC171Y1 and 1.0 FCE selected from first-year course offerings in the sciences (0.5 FCE must be a BIO course)
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities or Social Science 
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

VIC171Y1Y
Methodology, Theory and Practice in the Natural Sciences
Professor Cory Lewis
F 10-12

An examination of scientific theories and their logic in life and physical sciences.  Experimental design, novel device production, data analysis and modeling will be discussed using examples drawn from primary source material in the natural sciences.  Students will prepare a research paper on a topic designed in consultation with the instructor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Admission to Vic One
Corequisite: VIC170Y1 and 1.0 FCE selected from first-year course offerings in the sciences (0.5 FCE must be a BIO course)
Exclusion: Innis One, Munk One, New One, SMC One, Trinity One, UC One, Woodsworth One, 199 seminars, Vic One Hundred courses.
Distribution Requirement Status: Humanities
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)