Breadth Outcomes

The breadth benchmark in our degree programs is fulfilled by requiring students to take courses in more than one non-core/breadth area and the depth requirements are fulfilled by requiring students to take at minimum two non-core/breadth courses at the upper year (3000 or 4000) level. During their degree studies, students must complete the following breadth course requirements: At least 20% of their course load consists of non-core courses

AND, their course load must include courses in the following specified areas at the designated levels:

• At least 1 humanities at the lower levels (1000 or 2000)

• At least 1 social science at the lower levels (1000 or 2000)

• At least 1 natural science

• At least 2 non-core/breadth courses at the 3000 or 4000 level.

In keeping with these requirements, the Academic Calendar makes the following statement for all degree programs (which will also appear on our website):

Liberal Arts and Science Electives

Liberal Arts and Science courses ensure students receive a breadth of educational experience beyond their discipline. Courses are offered in the streams of Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Students are required to take one course in each of Humanities, Social Science and Natural Sciences. A course in Interdisciplinary Studies qualifies as EITHER a Humanities OR a Social Science.

In addition, students are required to take AT LEAST TWO Liberal Arts and Science courses at the upper level (Year 3 and/or Year 4).

Students in the third and fourth years of degree studies must register for 3rd and 4th year breadth electives (lower level electives are not available to them at the time of registration), ensuring that these students take at least two courses at the upper level. Upper level courses are designed to develop critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, written, and oral communication skills, and include evaluations to assess these aspects of scholarly activity.

Benchmarks:

6. All bachelor programs have a breadth requirement that includes coherent and substantive non-core9 offerings. This requirement informs the design of non-core courses and provides the basis of at least some of the assessment of student outcomes. The non-core curriculum contributes to the achievement of:

a) the development of critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, written and oral communication skills; b) more than introductory knowledge in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, global cultures and/or mathematics;

c) knowledge of society and culture, and skills relevant to civic engagement; and

d) more than introductory knowledge of the distinctive assumptions and modes of analysis of a discipline outside the core field(s) of study.

Attach a table that indicates only the breadth outcomes and the corresponding non-core courses, course segments or workplace requirements that contribute to the program outcomes.

Map of Breadth Outcomes onto Non-core courses

Breadth Outcome Non-core Course, Course Segment or Workplace Requirement

The non-core curriculum contributes to the achievement of:

(Benchmark 6a)

the development of critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, written and oral communication skills*

*All degree level courses involve the development of these skills. The courses listed here make at least one of these aspects of learning a particular focus.

ENGL1001 Literary Genres-Fiction and Poetry ENGL1002 Literary Genres-Drama and Film PSYC1000 & 1002 Introduction to Psychology INTS1000 & 1001 Introduction to Women’s Studies INTS1002 Multidisciplinary Research

HUMA1000 Gender and Ethics HUMA1001 Children’s Literature

HUMA2006 Introduction to the Humanities INTS2000 Modes of Reasoning

PHIL2000 Philosophy SOSC2003 Political Science PSYC2000 Social Psychology PSYC2001 Perception

SCEN2002 Environmental Science SCEN2001 Integrated Science

SOSC3002 Survey Methods and Statistics INTS4000 Interdisciplinary Critical Theory SOSC4000 Advanced Research Skills (Benchmark 6b)

more than introductory knowledge in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, global cultures and/or mathematics

HUMA3002 Social Media

HUMA3003 Fantasy and the Modern World

ARTL3002 Western Literature: Medieval to Renaissance ARTL3003 Western Literature: Restoration to Post-Modernity HUMA3000 Contemporary History through Film and Popular Culture

HUMA3001 Studies in Popular Culture SOSC3003 Media and Society

PSYC3001 Abnormal Psychology SOSC3000 Greed and Globalization SOSC3001 History of Education in Canada SCEN3001 Holistic Sciences and Healing SCEN3000 Global Environmental Politics SCEN3004 Social Determinants of Health SCEN2003 Science of Pollution

ARTL4000 Special Topics in Art History ARTL4001 Literature

SOSC3002 Survey Methods and Statistics HUMA4000 One World

INTS4000 Interdisciplinary Critical Theory SOSC4000 Advanced Research Skills

SOSC4001 Corporations, New Technology and Social Change INTS4001 Sexual Politics

SOSC4002 Diversity and Politics in Canada SOSC4003 Labour Relations

SCEN4001 Environmental History SCEN4000 Artificial Intelligence

(Benchmark 6c)

knowledge of society and culture, and skills relevant to civic engagement

SOCI1000 Introduction to Sociology HUMA1005 Race and Reality HUMA1004 Philosophies of Evil HUMA1003 Philosophies of Intimacy HUMA1000 Gender and Ethics HUMA1002 Philosophy of Food ARTL1000 Introduction to Spanish HUMA2000 Film Theory

HUMA2002 Music History

HUMA2001 Major Religions of the World ARTL2000 Understanding Art

HUMA2004 Worldview, Language and Culture HUMA2007 Anthropology

HUMA2008 Human Rights SOSC2003 Political Science SOSC2004 Power and Knowledge PSYC2000 Social Psychology PSYC2001 Perception

SOSC2005 World Cultures and Customs SOSC2002 Crime and Punishment SOSC2001 Canadian Political Parties SOSC2009 Organizational Behaviour SCEN2002 Environmental Science HUMA3002 Social Media

HUMA3000 Contemporary History through Film and Popular Culture

HUMA3001 Studies in Popular Culture SOSC3003 Media and Society

SOSC3001 History of Education in Canada SCEN3000 Global Environmental Politics SCEN3004 Social Determinants of Health SCEN2003 Science of Pollution

HUMA4000 One World

SOSC4001 Corporations, New Technology and Social Change INTS4001 Sexual Politics

SOSC4002 Diversity and Politics in Canada SOSC4003 Labour Relations

SCEN4001 Environmental History (Benchmark 6d)

more than introductory knowledge of the distinctive assumptions and modes of analysis of a discipline outside the core field(s) of study.

SOSC3002 Survey Methods and Statistics SOSC4000 Advanced Research Skills INTS4000 Interdisciplinary Critical Theory INTS4001 Sexual Politics

SCEN3004 Social Determinants of Health SCEN3000 Global Environmental Politics SCEN4000 Artificial Intelligence

HUMA3001 Studies in Popular Culture HUMA3002 Social Media

ARTL3002 Western Literature: Medieval to Renaissance ARTL3003 Western Literature: Restoration to Post-Modernity ARTL4000 Special Topics in Art History