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Humanities Humanities is offered by the Faculties of Glendon and Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Glendon College
Note: Glendon courses whose numbers have 1 or 2 as the first digit are open to first-year students./Les cours dont le numéro commence par le chiffre 1 ou 2 sont ouverts aux étudiants de première année.
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
The Department of Humanities offers a broadly-based program of interdisciplinary study emphasizing the different ways in which human cultures and their multiple forms of expression have developed historically and continue to develop today. Humanities courses devote particular attention to the cultural practices of peoples in various times and places and the ways they have expressed cultural values and ideas of a philosophical, religious, moral, political and aesthetic nature. They foster a critical approach to reading and research that, in helping students learn to identify and question preconceived assumptions and values, allows them to engage and appreciate the interrelationship between diverse value systems and thereby to develop an analysis of the human and of human community. Courses offered in the Department of Humanities stress careful scrutiny of texts and cultural artifacts, critical thinking, reading, writing, seminar discussion and close contact between teacher and student. The Department of Humanities offers Honours BA, Honours iBA and BA degrees in humanities which allow students to take advantage of a wide range of courses addressing important themes in the liberal arts. The department also offers Honours BA, Honours iBA and BA degrees in Canadian studies, children's studies, classics, classical and Hellenic studies, culture and expression, East Asian studies, European studies, individualized studies, Jewish studies and religious studies. The department also participates in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Science and Technology Studies programs. Many humanities courses reflect these areas of concentration, thereby ensuring that humanities students have a wide range of course options to select from. For details, please consult the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Programs of Study section. Most first-year and second-year courses offered through the Department of Humanities count towards the general education requirements of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (see General Education Requirements). Foundations courses have a nine-credit value and place additional emphasis on developing critical thinking, reading and writing skills at the university level. Modes of reasoning courses are also offered as part of the general education program. For purposes of meeting program requirements, all nine-credit foundations courses count as six credits towards the major or minor. Six-credit first year courses do not count toward the major or minor. Courses in Humanities 3000-Level Courses Note for Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies students: enrolment in 3000-level humanities courses may require the fulfillment of one of the following requirements: a previous humanities course or permission of the instructor. 3000-level humanities courses with either of these prerequisite requirements will be clearly identified in the divisional supplemental calendar. Failure to satisfy the listed prerequisite requirement will result in de-enrolment from the course. 4000-Level Courses Note for Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies students: enrolment in 4000-level humanities courses may require the fulfillment of one of the following requirements: a previous humanities course or permission of the instructor. 4000-level humanities courses with either of these prerequisite requirements will be clearly identified in the divisional supplemental calendar. Failure to satisfy the listed prerequisite requirement will result in de-enrolment from the course.
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