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Course Description

HMRT-1003-A Intro to Human Rights

TBD

This course will introduce students to the study of human rights by investigating the question "What are human rights?" The course will proceed primarily through a number of examples and case studies. Students will also be given an overview of the basic instruments, institutions, and ideas relevant to human rights.

HMRT-1003-B Intro to Human Rights

M

5:30-8:20 PM

This course will introduce students to the study of human rights by investigating the question "What are human rights?" The course will proceed primarily through a number of examples and case studies. Students will also be given an overview of the basic instruments, institutions, and ideas relevant to human rights.

HMRT-1003-C Intro to Human Rights

T/TH

10:00-11:20 AM

This course will introduce students to the study of human rights by investigating the question "What are human rights?" The course will proceed primarily through a number of examples and case studies. Students will also be given an overview of the basic instruments, institutions, and ideas relevant to human rights.

GERO-1013-A Intro to Gerontology

T/TH

10:00-11:20 AM

This course introduces students to the field of Gerontology. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the course examines the study of aging from a social, psychological, and physical perspective. Topics to be studied include ageism, population aging, physical and psychological aspects of aging and gerontological theory.

GERO-1013-B Intro to Gerontology

T/TH

4:00-5:20 PM

This course introduces students to the field of Gerontology. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the course examines the study of aging from a social, psychological, and physical perspective. Topics to be studied include ageism, population aging, physical and psychological aspects of aging and gerontological theory.

HMRT 2013-A Research Methods in Human Rights

T/TH

5:30-6:50 PM

The purpose of this course is to give students an introduction to research methods used in the field of human rights. The course will include methods of data collection as well as analysis of data. The course will begin with a general introduction to the aims and methods of research projects. Students in this course will do a research project in human rights under the supervision of the instructor. Students will be expected to present periodic reports on the status of their work.

HMRT 2113-A Exploring Disability 

T/TH 

11:30-12:50

PM

This course is an introduction to disability studies using a human rights framework, but also examining the issues from a multidisciplinary approach. The course starts by examining the history of disability and societal constructions of disability, including in media, workplaces, family, and environmental barriers. We will examine ableism and ageism in society and how visible and invisible disabilities, including mental health and neurodiversity, intersect with our culture and institutions. Ultimately, this course will challenge cultural representations of disability in society by reframing disability as an issue of oppression, access, inclusion, and equality. Prerequisite: HMRT 1003. Introduction to Human Rights

ENGL 2051-A Growing Up Neurodivergent: Child Lit 

M/W/F

12:30-1:20 PM

This course focuses on how different forms of neurodivergence (such as autism, ADHD, OCD, etc.) are portrayed narratively and visually in children's picture books, novels, and resource texts. It examines different understandings of neurodivergence, such as the medical model and the neurodiversity paradigm, in relation to disability studies. It asks central questions about agency, power, and knowledge. Who gets to shape epistemological discourse about neurodivergence within children's literature? Equally importantly, it contemplates the narrative and rhetorical strategies neurodivergent writers and characters employ both to exert their own agency and to challenge literary form itself.

HMRT 3803-A Human Rights of the Child And Seniors

M/W

5:30-6:50 PM

This course examines the legal human rights structures in Canada and internationally, as they apply to children, adolescents, and seniors in unique and rapidly evolving ways. The primary focus is domestic human rights legislation under provincial and federal human rights Acts. Various legal regimes, both local and international, related to immigration/refugee law, privacy law, health law, criminal law, education law, Aboriginal law, welfare law, and other areas are surveyed.

GERO-2113-A Sociology of Aging 

T/TH

5:30-6:50 PM

This course explores cultural and social-structural determinants of aging through sociological theory. Students critically examine the social construction of "old age" as a social status through perceptions, descriptions, discussions and interactions with others, and how these relations are 'negotiated' by the older people themselves. Other topics include ageism and how various social institutions influence the experience of aging. Prerequisite: GERO 1013 OR GERO 1023, OR permission from the instructor.

GERO 3153-A Health Promotion for an Aging Population

T/TH

1:00-2:20 PM

This course explores ways to promote health and well-being for people as they age. This includes examining current research and public policy as it relates to supporting older adults to take control of and improve their overall health. In addition, evidence-based health promotion programs will be evaluated. Pre-Requisites: GERO 1013 or 1023; 3023 recommended.

GERO-4013-A Seminar in Gerontology

W

2:30-5:20 PM

This seminar course consists of an in-depth analysis of a specific problem or issue in the field of aging. Students have their chosen topic area approved and supervised by the course instructor. The purpose of this course is to integrate a student's theoretical and practical understanding of a specific area by way of a combination of a major paper, presentations, and/or other research. Prerequisites: GERO 1013 + 1023.

PSYC-3223-A Health Psychology

T/TH

10:00 - 11:20 AM

This course will review a variety of topics within health psychology, including stress, coping and health, pain, chronic illness, the physician-patient relationship and health care, as well as the impact of various health behaviours such as smoking, drinking, and exercise on health status.

PSYC-4453-B Seminar in Stress and Health

T/TH

1:00 - 2:20 PM

This seminar focuses on an advanced understanding of stress and health. Students will be exposed to the theories, research methods, and findings related to stress, as well as the relationship of stress to health and health behaviour, and coping. Topics may include the measurement of stress and health, as well as academic, workplace and relationship stress. Other topics may be explored. This course will focus on the biopsychosocial aspects of stress and health. Prerequisites: Psychology 2013, 2023, or permission of the instructor.

SOCI-2653-A Sociology of Health

W

2:30-5:20 PM

This course explores health from a sociological perspective. The course focuses on the social determinants of health, inequalities in health and illness, health care provision, and the social construction of health and health practices.

NATI 3843-A Suicide and Indigenous Peoples
 

T/TH

1:00-2:20 PM

Suicide is, and has been for nobody knows how long, rampant in indigenous populations in Canada. Despite well-publicized projects targeting specific communities, none of the interventions have been able to demonstrate any positive effect; if anything, the problem continues to worsen. We examine critically the field of Suicidology as it applies to the Native Peoples of Canada and suggest reasons why efforts to prevent suicide have not paid off. We also explore different kinds of interventions that may be more successful.

Course

Time & Day

Course Description

HMRT-1003-D Intro to Human Rights

M/W

2:30-3:50 PM

This course will introduce students to the study of human rights by investigating the question "What are human rights?" The course will proceed primarily through a number of examples and case studies. Students will also be given an overview of the basic instruments, institutions, and ideas relevant to human rights.

HMRT-1003-E Intro to Human Rights

T/TH

2:30-3:50 PM

This course will introduce students to the study of human rights by investigating the question "What are human rights?" The course will proceed primarily through a number of examples and case studies. Students will also be given an overview of the basic instruments, institutions, and ideas relevant to human rights.

GERO-1023-A Aging in Canada

TBD

This course examines the experiences of growing older in Canada. This includes a review of Canada's healthcare, pension systems and other social structures and policies which directly impact older adults in Canadian society.

GERO-3023-A Aging and Health

M/W

2:30 - 3:50 PM

Various aspects of aging and health are addressed in this course. Topics considered include: theories of biological aging; normal vs. pathological physical changes that accompany the aging process; various chronic conditions that affect quality of life in later life; the implications of physical aging for medication use and nutritional status among older adults; and the impact of an aging population on the provision of acute care, long-term care, and home care for older adults. Prerequisite: GERO 1013 and GERO 1023.

GERO-3053-A Qualitative Research Methods in Gero

T/TH

2:30 - 3:50 PM

This course will introduce students to qualitative research methods used in social science, with an emphasis on gerontology. It will address theoretical foundations of qualitative analysis, ethical considerations involving older adults, and provide hands-on experience in developing a research question, and collecting and analyzing data using basic qualitative techniques in gerontology. It will also prepare students in writing a qualitative research proposal. Prerequisite: GERO 1013 OR GERO 1023, OR permission from the instructor.

GERO-4003 A. Mental Health and Aging

T/TH

10:00-11:20 AM

This course explores the range of factors affecting mental health in the elderly, from age-related organic brain disease, depression, and the other functional psychiatric disorders, to failure of adjustment induced by psychological, social, and environmental factors. Issues covered include the recognition of mental-health problems, their prevalence and dynamics; the cost to individual older people, their families, the health and community-care systems, and society; and the adequacy of current provisions and interventions. Prerequisites: GERO 1013, GERO 1023 and GERO 2673.

SOCI 3913-A Sociology of Disease  

M/W

2:30-3:50 PM

This course explores the social construction of disease in modern medicine. We will examine the process of medicalization, focusing on the classification of human experience into disease categories; medical authority to diagnose and treat disease; the ways in which disease categories validate or invalidate experiences of illness; and the effects of being labeled as diseased. These topics are explored through sociological analyses of specific diseases, including diseases that are contested and stigmatized.

NATI 3853-A Alcohol, Drugs, and Indigenous Peoples

T/TH

11:30-12:50 PM

This course provides an introduction to issues of alcohol and drug use/abuse in indigenous communities (concentrating on Canada for the most part, but including reference to such issues in other indigenous communities worldwide). Traditional uses of substances which alter consciousness are reviewed, as well as the role that the introduction of unfamiliar psychoactive substances played in European expansionism and colonialism. Modern models of addiction and programs for recovery are critically examined and placed within the context of creating a continuing marginalization of indigenous cultures by dominating ones.