1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs | 1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs |
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| 1999 - 2000 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR | ||
| Carleton University |
(Arts and Social Sciences)
300 Paterson Hall
Telephone: 520-2809
Fax: 520-3988
Web site: www.carleton.ca/chum
Director, Peter C. Emberley Academic Adviser, B. Garner
Professors
R.C. Blockley, B.A. (Leicester), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Nottingham) • Peter C. Emberley, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (London School of Economics) • F.J. Hernandez, Lic. Fa. Letras (Barcelona), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) • Waller R. Newell, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)
Barbara Carman Garner, B.A. (New Brunswick), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (London) • W.R. Laird, B.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
D. Gregory MacIsaac, B.A. (King's College/Dalhousie), M.A. (Notre Dame) • Noel A. Salmond, B.F.A. (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), M.A. (Concordia) • Vasanthi Srinivasan, B.A., M.A. (Hyderabad), M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru, Delhi), Ph.D. (Carleton) • Micheline White, B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Loyola University of Chicago)
Michel Gaulin • D.R. Gardner
This program offers a challenging inter-disciplinary study of the humanities. At the heart of the Bachelor of Humanities is a core curriculum whose purpose is to provide students with a comprehensive, challenging, and common educational experience that is focused on humanity's record of outstanding achievement. The program's unique features include core seminars in which all members of the College participate, a number of designated courses across a range of disciplines, the choice of four concentrations (Liberal Arts, History, Philosophy, and English Literature), as well as a collegial atmosphere to supplement formal course work. Graduates of the program will receive the degree of Bachelor of Humanities (Honours). They will have acquired a rigorous education in the liberal arts and an understanding of important cultural and political accomplishments of the past. They will have developed well-honed skills of thoughtful reflection, conversation, written composition, and informed criticism, as well as significant proficiency in another language.
The College offers a four-year (Honours) program, consisting of 20.0 credits. Students will participate in a common academic enterprise by being members of a core seminar in each of their four years. These core seminars are central to the coherence of the curriculum and to the purposes of the program. In addition, the curriculum is based on a number of designated courses permitting an introduction to key events, texts, works, and commentaries in philosophy, literature, history, art and music, science, classical civilization, anthropology, religion, politics, and economics.
The College of the Humanities offers a carefully coordinated four-year program in the liberal arts, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Humanities (Honours). The degree program comprises four Humanities Seminars and courses in Philosophy, Literature, History, Languages, and related disciplines.
Program Requirements
The Bachelor of Humanities degree requires presentation of 20.0 credits and satisfactory performance in the Fourth-year oral examination.
Courses are taken in one of four concentrations: Liberal Arts, Philosophy, English Literature, and History. Four Humanities Seminars (Humanities 02.100, Humanities 02.200, Humanities 02.300, and Humanities 02.400) are common to all four concentrations. In addition, students must successfully complete an intermediate language credit specified by the College in consultation with the appropriate department
An oral examination, required of candidates for the Bachelor of Humanities, is taken in the Fourth or final year. Candidates will choose 12 primary and 12 important secondary texts on which to be examined, from a list provided to them in their first year. The examination is offered once a year at the end of the Winter term.
The Humanities Seminars
The Humanities Seminars constitute a four-stage program of study that leads
students from a consideration of fundamental elements of human consciousness
Myth and Symbol (Humanities 02.100) into a sequential examination of important
themes in the major epochs in western civilization: Antiquity to the Middle
Ages (Humanities 02.200), Renaissance to Romanticism (Humanities 02.300), Napoleonic
Empire to the Present (Humanities 02.400). The seminars are defined under the
categories "Myth and Symbol," "Reason and Revelation," "Culture
and Imagination," "Science, Language, and Power." Disciplinary
perspective and thematic emphasis shift from one seminar to another. Humanities
02.100 concentrates primarily on religion and mythology, Humanities 02.200 on
philosophy, Humanities 02.300 on literature and the fine arts, and Humanities
02.400 on historical consciousness. Each seminar consists of three hours of
lectures and two hours of tutorials each week and entails study of a select
number of primary texts and works (for example, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,
Plato's Republic, St. Augus
tine's City of God, the Koran, Dante's Divine Comedy, Titian's
Bacchus and Ariadne, Shakespeare's King Lear, Mozart's The
Magic Flute, Rousseau's Emile, Beethoven's Eroica Symphony,
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Marx's Communist
Manifesto, Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus, Margaret Laurence's The
Diviners) and an examination of important secondary works (such as George
Grant's Lament for a Nation, Harold Innis's Empire and Communications).
Program Concentrations
Upon entering the program, candidates for the Bachelor of Humanities degree choose one of four concentrations of courses as their program of study.
The Liberal Arts Concentration (Option One) is designed for students who wish to receive a comprehensive education in the humanities. The remaining three concentrations are designed for students who wish to receive a balanced background in the humanities with a higher degree of specialization in one discipline. These three concentrations, in most cases constituting the equivalent of a combined Honours degree in the chosen discipline, will prepare students for admission to graduate studies in that discipline. Each Concentration comprises the Humanities Seminars and 16.0 additional prescribed credits. In the Second, Third, and Fourth years, students will have the choice of one elective credit (except that in the fourth year of the History Concentration, the elective will be replaced by an additional fourth-year History seminar. Under certain circumstances, and with the permission of the College Academic Advisor, students may offer a maximum of 2.0 credits in performance as their elective credits. Please note that these credits may not be transferred if students transfer to other programs.
In consultation with the College Academic Advisor, students may elect to pursue a concentration in one or more languages. The number of credits obtained in a language concentration is the same as that which is normally attained in a combined honours program. The College Academic Advisor has several templates for such a course of study.
Admission to the program is by demonstrated scholarly achievement and potential. In addition to applying to Carleton University through the Ontario Universities Application Centre, prospective students must submit a portfolio consisting of a) a one-page statement of why they wish to enter the program, b) a 750-word essay based on reflections on the theme or book chosen each year by the College, and c) if desired, two or three samples of additional creative work. The portfolio should be submitted to the College of Humanities, Carleton University by February 1. Students wishing to enter the program normally must have the OSSD, or the equivalent, including six OACs (or their equivalent), with an overall average of 80 percent or better. Since program enrolment is limited, satisfying the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee admission to the program. At the discretion of the College's Committee on Admissions, students who do not meet the 80 percent average may nonetheless be admitted to the program if their portfolio is deemed outstanding.
Advanced Standing and Transfer of Credits
Applications for admission with advanced standing to the program leading to the Bachelor of Humanities degree will be evaluated individually. Advanced standing will be granted only for those courses that are determined to be appropriate for the Bachelor of Humanities program. On admission to the Bachelor of Humanities program, students will not receive credit for courses graded below C-.
Students are considered to be in good standing if they meet the following criteria:
1. A CI of 6.00;
2. a cumulative GPA of 8.0;
3. a grade of B- or better in each of the Humanities Seminars;
4. no grade of D, F, or Abs in more than 1.0 credit per calendar year.
5. a minimum of 4.0 credits must be completed by the end of the academic year, i.e. at the end of the summer session.
Calculation of the GPA is based on all successfully completed courses from all academic years in which the student has been registered in the Bachelor of Humanities program. In the case of repeated courses, the most recent grade will be used to compute the GPA.
In order to fulfill the minimum graduation requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Humanities, a candidate must have met all the program requirements for the First to Fourth years, inclusive, with a cumulative GPA of 8.0 or better. In addition, the candidate must have achieved a grade of Sat in the Fourth-year oral examination.
In order to graduate, students must fulfill all University graduation regulations (see p. 48) in addition to all program regulations.
There are four concentrations available within the Humanities program.
First Year: Myth and Symbol
• Humanities 02.100 Myth and Symbol
• Classical Civilization 13.200 Classical Mythology
• Language Requirement: Normally Greek 15.220* and 15.221*, or Latin 16.220* and 16.221*, or French 20.160, or German 22.205, or Italian 26.200, or Religion 34.292, or Russian 36.202, or Spanish 38.203, chosen in consultation with the College Academic Adviser. Students may need to fulfill a prerequisite before taking these courses.
• Religion 34.126 Interpretations of Religion
• Anthropology 54.100 Introduction to Anthropology
Second Year: Reason and Revelation
• Humanities 02.200 Philosophy: Antiquity to the Middle Ages
• Classics 13.209 Greek and Roman Literary Genres
or
History 24.221 History of Science or Art History 11.222* Medieval Art and 11.311* Studies in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
• History 24.210 Introduction to the History of Ideas
or
Philosophy 32.206* Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle and Philosophy 32.207* Hellenistic and Early Medieval Philosophy
or
Political Science 47.230 History of Political Thought
• Religion 34.228 From Christ to ConstantineAnd 1.0 credit to be determined in consultation with the College Advisor
Third Year: Culture and Imagination
• Humanities 02.300 Literature and the Arts: Renaissance to
Enlightenment
• Humanities 02.310 Art, Music, Architecture: Renaissance to
Romanticism
• Humanities 02.320 The Literature of Continental Europe
• English 18.330 British Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantics
• And 1.0 credit to be determined in consultation with the College Advisor.
Fourth Year: Science, Language and Power
• Humanities 02.400 History: Napoleonic Empire to the Present
• Humanities 02.410 Principles of Modern Science
• History 24.310 or 24.388 Historical Theory and Methods or 24.320 Freedom and Power in the Western World 1840-1880 or Political Science 47.436* Concepts of Political Community I and 47.437* Concepts of Political Community II
• Philosophy 32.254* Language and Communication and 32.315*Analytic Philosophy
or
Philosophy 32.306* German Idealism
and
Philosophy 32.307* Reaction to German Idealism
or
Philosophy 32.314* The Roots of Analytic Philosophy
and
Philosophy 32.458* Special Topic in Philosophy of Social
Science or 32.459* Special Topic in Philosophy of Social Science
• And 1.0 credit to be determined in consultation with the College Advisor
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Option One: Liberal Arts Concentration |
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First Year |
Second Year |
Third Year |
Fourth Year |
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Humanities 02.100 |
Humanities 02.200 |
Humanities 02.300 |
Humanities 02.400 |
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Classics 13.200 |
Classical Civilization 13.209 or History 24.221 |
Humanities 02.310 |
Humanities 02.410 |
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Language Requirement** |
History 24.210 or Philosophy 32.206* and 32.207* or Political Science 47.230 |
Humanities 02.320 |
History 24.310 |
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Religion 34.126 |
Religion 34.257* and 34.258* or 34.259* |
English 18.230 |
Philosophy 32.255* and 32.315* or Philosophy 32.306* and 32.307* or Philosophy 32.314* and 32.402* |
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Anthropology 54.100 |
1.0 credit* |
1.0 credit* |
1.0 credit* |
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First Year: Myth and Symbol
• Humanities 02.100
• Classics 13.200 or Religion 34.126
• Language requirement: Normally Greek 15.220* and 15.221*,
or Latin 16.220* and 16.221*, or French 20.160, or German 22.205,
or Italian 26.200, or Religion 34. 292, or Russian 36.202, or Spanish 38.203,
chosen in consultation with the College
Academic Adviser. Students may need to fulfill a prerequisite before taking
these courses.
• Philosophy 32.160
• Anthropology 54.100
Second Year: Reason and Revelation
• Humanities 02.200
• Classical Civilization 13.209 or History 24. 221 or Art History 11.222* and 11.311* or History 24.210 or Philosophy 32.206* and 32.207* or Political Science 47.230
• 1.0 Credit from: Philosophy 32.201*, Philosophy 32.286*,
Philosophy 32.206*, 32.207*, Philosophy 32.208*, 32.301*,
Philosophy 32.261*
• Religion 34. 228*
• 1.0 Credit Elective
Third Year: Culture and Imagination
• Humanities 02.300
• Humanities 02.310
• Humanities 02.320
• Philosophy 32.209* and 32.304*
• 1.0 Credit Elective
Fourth Year: Science, Language and Power
• Humanities 02.400
• Humanities 02.410
• History 24.310 or Philosophy 32.254* and 32.315* or History 24.388 or 24.320 or Political Science 47.435 or 47.436* and 47.437* or two of: Philosophy 32.413*, 32.414*, 32.415*, 32.416*, 32.405* and 32.406*.
• Philosophy 32.306* and 32.307*; or Philosophy 32.314* and Philosophy 32.458* or 32.459*
• 1.0 Credit Elective
First Year: Myth and Symbol
• Humanities 02.100
• Classical Civilization 13.200
• English 18.208
• Language Requirement: Normally Greek 15.220* and 15.221*,
or Latin 16.220* and 16.221*, or French 20.160, or German 22.205,
or Italian 26.200, or Religion 34.292, or Russian 36.202, or Spanish 38.203,
chosen in consultation with the College
Academic Adviser. Students may need to fulfill a prerequisite before taking
these courses.
• Religion 34.126 or Anthropology 54.100
Second Year: Reason and Revelation
• Humanities 02.200
• English 18.209 or English 18.322* and 18.428*
• History 24.210 or 24.221 or Art History 11.222* and 11.311* or Philosophy 32.206* and 32.207* or Political Science 47.230
• Religion 34.228
• 1.0 Credit Elective
Third Year: Culture and Imagination
• Humanities 02.300
• Humanities 02.310 or Humanities 02.320
• English 18.330
• English 18.332* and 18.342* or English 18.334
• 1.0 Credit Elective
Fourth Year: Science, Language and Power
• Humanities 02.400
• Humanities 02.410
• 1.0 credit from: English 18.264, English 18.352, English 18.353*, English 18.361*, English 18.363*
• 1.0 credit from: English 18.482*, English 18.483, English 18.486*, English 18.488*
• 1.0 Credit Elective
First Year: Myth and Symbol
• Humanities 02.100
• Classical Civilization 13.200 or Religion 34.126
• Language Requirement: Normally Greek 15.220* and 15.221*,
or Latin 16.220* and 16.221*, or French 20.160, or German 22.205,
or Italian 26.200, or Religion 34.292, or Russian 36.202, or Spanish 38.203,
chosen in consultation with the College
Academic Adviser. Students may need to fulfill a prerequisite before taking
these courses.
• History 24.101
• Anthropology 54.100
Second Year: Reason and Revelation
• Humanities 02.200
• 2.0 Credits from: Classical Civilization 13.209 ,History 24.221,
Classics 13.290, Classics 13.291, History 24.306*, History 24.307*,
History 24.210, Philosophy 32.206*, 32.207*, Political Science 47.230,
History 24.205
• Religion 34.228
• 1.0 Credit Elective
Third Year: Culture and Imagination
• Humanities 02.300
• Humanities 02.310 or Humanities 02.320
• English 18.330
• History 24.315* and History 24.378* or History 24.223 or
History 24.388
• 1.0 Credit Elective
Fourth Year: Science, Language and Power
• Humanities 02.400
• Humanities 02.410
• History 24.310 or 24.388 or 24.320
• 2.0 History credits at the 400-level
Not of all the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 1999-2000, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.
Recurring symbols in myth, epic and ritual representing the relation between the sacred and the profane, the origin of the cosmos, the basis of community, and formative human experiences. Primary sources drawn from ancient India and China, Greek epic, Hebrew Scripture, and aboriginal practices.
Lectures three hours a week and tutorials two hours a week.
Philosophical and theological speculation in the Western world. Themes include knowledge and faith, justice and charity, the origin of the university, and the rise and fall of empires. Primary sources are drawn from Greek and Roman works, patristic theology, Muslim Scripture, medieval philosophy and literature.
Prerequisites: Humanities 02.100 and good standing in the Bachelor of Humanities program.
Lectures three hours a week and tutorials two hours a week.
Major forms of literary, artistic, and philosophical expression from 1500-1800. Sources drawn from renaissance humanism, reformation theology, enlightenment and romantic philosophy.
Prerequisites: Humanities 02.200 and good standing in the Bachelor of Humanities program.
Lectures three hours a week and tutorials two hours a week.
An examination of the major artistic, musical, and architectural movements since the fifteenth century. Students will gain familiarity with the significant cultural works and monuments, as well as the theoretical understanding which guided their composition and construction.
Lectures three hours a week.
Major movements and works from Dante's Divine Comedy through Voltaire's Candide. Themes include the New Humanism vs. old Chivalry in the Renaissance and Baroque periods; the rise of the modern novel and drama; reason, nature, and the Enlightenment project.
Prerequisites: Humanities 02.200 and Third-year standing in the B.Humanities program.
Lectures three hours a week
Politics, ideology, science, and technology of Western modernity. New forms of social authority, politics of revolution, philosophy of language, evolution of the nation-state, the rise of psychoanalysis. Sources drawn from German philosophy, economics, sociology, and psychoanalysis, and from the works of modernism and post-modernism.
Prerequisites: Humanities 02.300 and good standing in the Bachelor of Humanities program.
Lectures three hours a week and tutorials two hours a week.
A course for independent study and writing, under the supervision of a College designated faculty member. This course involves supervised readings and written essays.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year standing in the Bachelor of Humanities program and good standing in the program.
A course for independent study and writing, under the supervision of a College designated faculty member. This course involves supervised readings and written essays.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year standing in the Bachelor of Humanities program and good standing in the program.
A detailed investigation through laboratory experimentation and theoretical inquiry of the major principles of modern science. Students will acquire an understanding of the significant issues confronted in modern biology, physics, and chemistry.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratories two hours a week, and discussion groups one hour a week.