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2016-2017 Undergraduate Academic Calendar [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]
Course descriptions
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Not all courses are offered in any one term or academic year.
Note: If searching by Code or Number be sure to include the U at the end of the number.
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BUSI 4430U – Mergers and Acquisitions
This course studies the mergers and acquisitions process of corporations. The choice of targets, valuation and financing of the deal, as well as bidding tactics is examined.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 1450U , BUSI 2402U
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BUSI 4440U – Financial Econometrics
The course covers econometric methods as applied to finance. It teaches students econometric theories, empirical methods, and gives students experience in estimating econometric models with financial data. Students will use Datastream/IBES/SDS/Capital IQ to obtain financial data and STATA as the programming software for empirical research. The course is in line with the CFA curriculum requirements on Quantitative methods in Finance. The major topics in empirical finance include estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation analysis and regression.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 1450U , BUSI 3405U and BUSI 3480U , ECON 2010U
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BUSI 4490U – Special Topics in Finance
This course will be composed of selected topics of current interest in finance.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 2402U , permission of instructor, fourth-year standing
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BUSI 4499U – Directed Independent Studies in Finance
This course is an independent study in selected finance topics supervised by a finance faculty member. This course is normally intended for students who plan to pursue graduate study.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 2402U and permission of instructor
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BUSI 4590U – Special Project in E-Business and E-Commerce
This course is an exploration of current issues and topics in e-business and e-commerce. Specific topics and any additional prerequisites will be announced in the schedule each time this course is offered. This course may be retaken with a change in topic to a maximum of 9 credits.
Credit hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): 9 credits in e-commerce related courses
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BUSI 4599U – Directed Independent Studies in E-Business and E-Commerce
This is a project-based course as supervised by one or more faculty members on an approved topic related to current trends and issues in e-business and e-commerce.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3501U , BUSI 3502U , one 3000-level e-commerce related course and permission of instructor
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BUSI 4610U – Business Simulation Modelling
This course introduces business modelling, decision analysis techniques to students using advanced spreadsheets and other forms of simulation modelling. The topics include Monte Carlo simulation, linear and non-linear optimization, sensitivity analysis and regression. Students will be introduced to specialized simulation software to model business processes. Business applications will be drawn from operations and supply chain management, logistics, finance, and marketing. Using interactive techniques and case studies, students will be able to apply business simulation techniques to theory and practice.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3601U or BUSI 3440U or permission of the instructor
Credit restriction(s): CSCI 3010U
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BUSI 4630U – Advanced Logistical Topics in the Supply Chain
As an outcome of the increasing trend towards globalization, logistics is increasingly seen as the critical source of competitive advantage for organizations. Additionally, the Internet offers an alternative route to market and, hence, organizations need to understand its role and how to execute in an online environment. This course moves beyond the basic issues and challenges of logistics to cover more advanced issues which are critical to supply chain performance as perceived by the customer. The issues include: order fulfilment in the last mile, coloration, technology applications, e.g. RFID, outsourcing, and advanced planning and optimization. Coloration in the supply chain; business to business processes: outsourcing - current and future issues; virtual enterprises; global supply chain design; international issues in logistics order fulfilment in the last mile of the supply chain; advanced planning in the supply chain logistics: new information technology applications; advanced transportation.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3630U
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BUSI 4650U – Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
This course covers strategic role of the supply chain, key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the tools and techniques for supply chain analysis. The course presents ways that managers can use in practice for the forefront of supply chain management and information technology in the supply chain. Distribution networks, sourcing and different sourcing activities including supplier assessment, supplier contracts, design coloration, and procurement; price and revenue management will be discussed.
Formerly: Advanced Supply Chain Management
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 2603U and Year 4 standing in BCom (Hons) program
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BUSI 4652U – Supplier Management for Competitive Advantage
The selection, development, and execution of appropriate buyer supplier relationships make up the theme of this course. Special emphasis is placed on negotiation, alliance development, and contracting issues in conjunction with ethics and cross-cultural issues. Topics discussed are: sourcing strategies as they relate to market, industry, and supplier dynamics; contract issues and philosophies including execution of competitive bidding (RFQ, RFP, RFI, and SOW); execution of complex alliances and developmental relationships; components of a negotiation plan; use of cost and price data in the negotiation plan negotiation execution; cross-cultural issues in negotiation planning and execution.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3601U , with a C grade or better
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BUSI 4680U – Applied Project Management: Tools and Applications
Application of supply chain management methods to a business problem or opportunity. Students work in teams and apply project selection and planning methods to plan a new SCM process, quality improvement, or process re-engineering. This work includes written and oral presentations to business sponsors and use of simulation tools, spreadsheets and project planning software. Topics discussed are: developing alternatives; specifying performance metrics; trade-off analysis; sensitivity analysis; process mapping; data collection, including interviewing; specifying a project work breakdown structure; developing an implementation schedule; resource assignment and levelling, risk analysis and management, simulation software, modelling/verification/analysis of simulation studies; spreadsheet analysis and project planning software; presentation methods.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3601U , with a C grade or better
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BUSI 4690U – Special Topics in Supplier Management
This is a last year, final term course that is expected to address the latest trends and developments of emerging technologies and strategies in the field of supplier and supply chain management. Course content may include advanced simulation modelling, strategic decision making, advanced optimization, network flow theory, or strategic vendor management.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3601U , with a C grade or better, and two 3000-level or 4000-level supplier management courses
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BUSI 4699U – Directed Independent Studies in Supplier Management
A student or a group of students work on real or fictitious cases from industry and research to solve a supply chain problem. The project comprises a research component, a case/situation analysis, proposal of a solution. Results are presented through a written report and presentations. It is expected that students make use of the IT tools that they were introduced to in other courses of the specialization.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3601U , with a C grade or better, and two 3000-level or 4000-level supplier management courses and permission from the instructor
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BUSI 4701U – Strategic Management
This course examines strategy and related concepts. The focus throughout is on strategic management: choosing and defining purposes and objectives, formulating and implementing a viable strategy, and monitoring strategic performance. The thrust of the course is to view the organization in its totality: the external environment in which it operates its strategy, and its internal administrative activities. The emphasis is on assessing the kinds of problems and issues that affect the success of the entire organization. Topics include the strategic process, the role of the general manager, the external environment, internal analysis, competitive advantage, strategy and structure, diversification, integrations and alliances, organizational structure, strategy and control, and an introduction to corporate strategy.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3705U , BUSI 3040U , Year 4 standing in BCom (Hons) program
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BUSI 4702U – Advanced Strategic Management
This second level course continues to examine strategy and related concepts. The focus throughout is on strategic management: choosing and defining purposes and objectives, formulating and implementing a viable strategy, and monitoring strategic performance. The thrust of the course is to view the organization in its totality: the external environment in which it operates its strategy, and its internal administrative activities. The emphasis is on assessing the kinds of problems and issues that affect the success of the entire organization. Topics include the strategic process, the role of the general manager, the external environment, internal analysis, competitive advantage, strategy and structure, diversification, integrations and alliances, organizational structure, strategy and control and an introduction to corporate strategy.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 4701U or BUSI 3700U , fourth/fifth-year standing, registered in FBIT or engineering program
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BUSI 4799U – Incubator
The course will support students both academically and practically to move their business ideas through various stages with a final result of launching a functioning, viable business. A faculty mentor will provide guidance, mentoring and assistance to participants in all phases of their venture’s development. This course differentiates itself from traditional business incubators by its dual “practical doing” and “formal learning” streams. Although many traits and talents that contribute to entrepreneurial success are often inherent within an individual, the course reflects the philosophy that skills and knowledge can be learned and acquired as a result of a formal program of study, especially when linked with a “practical doing” component.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 3750U or instructor’s permission
Credit restriction(s): BUSI 4990U , BUSI 4995U
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BUSI 4990U – Capstone Study Project I
In this course students will prepare their proposals and project outlines for completion in BUSI 4995U Capstone Study Project II . Groups will be formed for consulting work with clients under supervision of a faculty advisor. Students will complete workshops on topics such as team management, ethics and professionalism, and project management. If required, REB approval for their consulting projects will be pursued and obtained by the end of this workshop.
Formerly: Pre-Capstone Workshop
Credit hours: 0
Prerequisite(s): (BUSI 3040U and BUSI 3705U ) or (INFR 3110U and INFR 3330U ) or (INFR 3850U and INFR 3610U )
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BUSI 4995U – Capstone Study Project II
Students will work in teams with an outside client organization, completing a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the organization and developing appropriate recommendations for improved performance and problem resolution. The student team will make a formal presentation of their findings and recommendations to faculty advisors and to the management of the client organization. Through Capstone, students will develop a thorough understanding of the technology, environment, markets, and operations of a real organization by applying the theory and knowledge that they have learned.
Formerly: UOIT Edge Capstone Study Project
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 4990U , Year 4 standing in BCom (Hons) program or Year 4 standing in BIT (Hons) program
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CHEM 1010U – Chemistry I
The concepts of chemistry including simple reactions and stoichiometry; acids, bases, salts; titration; gases; atomic and molecular structure and chemical bonding; introduction to nuclear chemistry and the law of radioactive decay.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
Tutorial hours: 1.5 (biweekly)
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 1800U
Recommended: Grade 12 Chemistry (SCH4U)
Note(s): Students without the chemistry prerequisite will be responsible for making up background material.
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CHEM 1020U – Chemistry II
Introduction to the fundamental principles governing chemical transformations. Thermochemistry and thermodynamics (energy, heat, enthalpy, entropy and free energy); the rates of reaction and reaction mechanisms; chemical and ionic equilibria; buffers; introduction to organic chemistry and the reactions of organic compounds; polymer chemistry; redox reactions and electrochemistry.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
Tutorial hours: 1.5 (biweekly)
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1010U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 1800U
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CHEM 1800U – Chemistry for Engineers
Introduction to the four sub-disciplines of modern chemistry: analytical, inorganic, organic and physical. Atoms, molecules, stoichiometry and gas laws; reactions, chemical kinetics, thermochemistry, entropy and free energy; electronic structure of atoms, bonding and molecular structure with emphasis on organic molecules; intermolecular forces, liquids and solids; electrochemistry, fuel cells and electrolytic cells.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
Tutorial hours: 1.5 (biweekly)
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12 Chemistry (SCH4U)
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 1010U , CHEM 1020U
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CHEM 2010U – Structure and Bonding
An introduction to modern physical inorganic chemistry which provides a systematic overview of bonding theories designed to explain molecular arrangements, with emphasis on structure and energy. An introduction to Quantum theory (origins, Bohrs theory, uncertainty principle, wave function, Shrodinger equation, particle in the box) and to electronic structure of atoms and molecules.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1020U , MATH 1020U , PHY 1020U or PHY 1040U
Credit restriction(s): PHY 3020U
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CHEM 2020U – Introduction to Organic Chemistry
An introduction to the principles and techniques of organic chemistry, including a study of the correlation of reactions and physical properties of organic compounds with structure and energetic concepts; structure, bonding, properties, reactions and synthesis of mono-functional aliphatic and aromatic compounds; stereochemistry and reaction mechanism theory; study of infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
Tutorial hours: 1.5
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1020U
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CHEM 2030U – Analytical Chemistry
A study of the principles of analytical chemistry through demonstrations of applications in chemistry, biology, medicine and the study of the environment. Includes: standard analytical chemistry techniques based on chemical equilibrium, volumetric analysis, analytical electrochemistry; use of buffers for pH control; statistical treatment of analytical data.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1020U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 2130U
Note(s): This course is intended for students registered in the Chemistry, Energy and the Environment (chemistry specialization) and Forensic Science programs.
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CHEM 2040U – Thermodynamics and Kinetics
Classical thermodynamics: first and second laws, Gibbs and Helmholtz functions, chemical potential; phase diagrams, applications to phase equilibrium in one, two, and many component systems, Gibbs phase rule; phase diagrams for steels and other alloys; behaviour of real gases; steam tables. Chemical kinetics: gas phase kinetics; Arrhenius rates; enzyme kinetics.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: six 3-hr labs
Tutorial hours: six 1.5-hr tutorials
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2030U or CHEM 2130U , MATH 1020U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 3140U , ENGR 2640U, MECE 2640U , PHY 2050U
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CHEM 2120U – Organic Chemistry
Mechanistic analysis of chemical reactivity of common functional groups with a focus on nucleophilic substitutions at carbonyl centres, functional group transformations in organic synthesis; aromatic chemistry, alkanes, alkyl halides, alkynes, alkenes, and alcohols; carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, heterocycles; applications of spectroscopic techniques.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2020U
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CHEM 2130U – Analytical Chemistry for Biosciences
A study of the principles of analytical chemistry through demonstrations of applications in chemistry, biology, medicine and the study of the environment. Includes: standard analytical chemistry techniques based on chemical equilibrium, volumetric analysis, analytical electrochemistry; use of buffers for pH control; statistical treatment of analytical data.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
Tutorial hours: 1.5 (biweekly)
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1020U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 2030U
Note(s): This course is intended for students in Biological Science programs.
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CHEM 2220U – Molecular Structure Determination from Spectroscopic Data
Theoretical basis and applications of mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), UV-visible and infrared spectroscopies to the determination of molecular structures of organic (and inorganic) compounds. Particular emphasis on NMR spectroscopy including CW and pulsed techniques, Larmor equation, quantum model, chemical shift effects, n+1 rule couplings, multinuclear couplings, long-range couplings, Karplus relation, chirality effects, and magnetic inequivalence.
Formerly: CHEM 3220U
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5
Corequisite(s): CHEM 2120U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 3220U
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CHEM 3040U – Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry
Thermodynamics concepts including solution thermodynamics, phase equilibria, and electrochemistry; transport phenomena, the random walk problem and diffusion; introduction to statistical mechanics including probability distributions and entropy, fluctuations, the Boltzmann distribution, and partition functions and their relation to thermodynamic functions.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2040U
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CHEM 3090U – Materials Science
This class emphasizes the principles involved in understanding physical properties of materials, such as thermal and mechanical stability, electrical, and optical properties. All phases of matter are examined: gases, liquids, films, liquid crystals, defective solids, and glasses.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): PHY 2050U or CHEM 2040U or ENGR 2320U or ENGR 2640U or ENGR 2010U
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CHEM 3120U – Advanced Organic Chemistry
Application of advanced synthetic methodologies used in modern organic synthesis. Emphasis will be placed on the use of retrosynthetic analysis, stereochemical control, and protection/ deprotection schemes.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2120U and CHEM 2220U or CHEM 3220U
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CHEM 3140U – Physical Chemistry for Biosciences
This course provides a study of the principles of physical chemistry, with an orientation to the biological sciences. Topics include: classical thermodynamics, solution thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, acids and bases, phase equilibria, chemical kinetics, pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics, spectroscopy, photobiology, macromolecules.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1020U , MATH 1020U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 2040U
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CHEM 3250U – Introductory Medicinal Chemistry
This course focuses on the drug discovery process and drug design. Students will be introduced to a brief history of medicinal chemistry and modern drug development approaches with an emphasis on the role of organic chemistry. In addition, synthetic methodologies for the preparation of selected active pharmaceutical ingredients will be discussed.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2120U
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CHEM 3410U – Chemistry Laboratory Techniques
This course involves carrying out research work in a chemistry research laboratory under the supervision of a faculty member. The course will provide hands-on laboratory research experience and exposure to a particular chemistry discipline (organic, bio-organic, materials, organometallic, physical, and analytical chemistry). The student will participate in the formulation of the hypothesis and the experimental design used to corroborate the hypothesis. Students must have written approval of the prospective supervisor to enroll in the course. Enrollment in this course is generally restricted to student in the Chemistry Comprehensive, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Biological Chemistry specializations, but students from other Faculty of Science programs can also apply. The expected learning outcome will be defined by the supervisor and included in the acceptance letter. If the student is working in the capacity of a work-study student or a thesis student in the supervisor’s laboratory, the research project of the laboratory course cannot be on the same topic.
Credit hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 6
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2010U , CHEM 2020U , and CHEM 2030U
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CHEM 3510U – Inorganic Chemistry I: Transition Metals
This is a course in the coordination chemistry of the classical (Werner) transition metal ions. Description of the solid state including lattice structures, radius rule, lattice energies, and MO diagrams. Description of the solution state including Lewis acid-base theory, HSAB theory, aquo ion Bronsted acidity, ligand exchange kinetics, formation constants, thermodynamics, and chelate effect. Ligand field theory including crystal field splittings, MO diagrams and use of group theory, theoretical principles of UV-visible spectroscopy, Orgel and Tanabe-Sugano diagrams, magnetism and redox. Descriptive chemistry of the first row transition metal ions including oxidation states, complexation behaviour, and bio-inorganic examples.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2010U , CHEM 2120U
Note(s): Students are expected to take CHEM 3520U in the following semester.
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CHEM 3520U – Inorganic Chemistry II: Organometallics
Organometallic chemistry and metal catalysis of the transition metals. Survey of organometallic complexes including, but not limited to, metal carbonyls and carbonyl clusters, metal alkyls, alkenes, alkynes, allyls, and metallocenes. Structure, bonding and MO diagrams, use of group theory. IR and group theory predictions, fluxional molecular motions and VT-NMR. Synthesis and reactions of carbonyl, alkene, and aryl complexes. Detailed coverage of homogeneous and heterogeneous metal catalysis and applications in industrial processes.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3510U
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CHEM 3530U – Instrumental Analytical Chemistry I
Instrumental methods of trace chemical analysis. This course deals with the scope and use of instruments in chemical analysis, and the theory and applications of separation methods involving chromatography, and atomic and molecular spectroscopy. A range of analytical techniques is examined including gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, atomic absorption and emission, mass spectrometry, and ultraviolet/visible spectroscopy.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2030U , CHEM 2040U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 3830U
Note(s): Students are expected to take CHEM 3540U in the following semester.
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CHEM 3540U – Instrumental Analytical Chemistry II
A continuation of Instrumental Analytical Chemistry I. This course deals with the theory and applications of electroanalytical chemistry, thermal analysis, radiochemical methods, and X-ray, infrared and Raman spectroscopies. A range of analytical techniques is examined including potentiometry, coulometry, voltammetry, X-ray fluorescence, electron microscopy, infrared, Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3530U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 3830U
Note(s): Students are expected to take this course immediately after CHEM 3530U
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CHEM 3830U – Instrumental Analytical Chemistry
A one semester course dealing with instrumental methods of trace chemical analysis. The theory and applications of ultraviolet/visible, infrared and atomic absorption spectroscopy are described. Other common techniques are examined, including X-ray fluorescence, mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, nuclear activation analysis and high performance liquid chromatography.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2030U or CHEM 2130U
Credit restriction(s): CHEM 3530U , CHEM 3540U
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CHEM 4010U – Industrial Chemistry
An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial chemistry with a survey of the chemical industry, pollution control, plant design, corrosion and similar topics. Selected industrial processes will be discussed, such as production of primary petrochemicals; plastics and synthetic fibres; pharmaceutical agents; insecticides, herbicides and insect pheromones, dyes, detergents, perfumes and flavours.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2120U , CHEM 3520U
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CHEM 4040U – Physical Chemistry
An introduction to phenomena at surfaces and interfaces: colloids, adsorption, thermodynamic treatments and examples of technological applications. The course describes modern methods to characterize surfaces in materials science and chemical dynamics at electrode interfaces.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3040U , CHEM 3540U
Recommended: MATH 2050U , MATH 2060U
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CHEM 4041U – Advanced Topics in Chemistry I
This course covers various advanced topics that will enable the students to broaden their chemical background and allow them to explore areas in which they have a particular interest. Advanced Topics in Chemistry I will be chosen according to the needs and demands of students and the availability of the instructors.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3120U , CHEM 3040U
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CHEM 4042U – Advanced Topics in Chemistry II
This course covers various advanced topics that will enable the students to broaden their chemical background and allow them to explore areas in which they have a particular interest. Advanced Topics in Chemistry II will be chosen according to the needs and demands of students and the availability of the instructors.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3120U , CHEM 3040U
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CHEM 4050U – Environmental Chemistry
Major chemical pollutants: their sources, the environmental reactions they undergo, and how they become distributed throughout the environment. Topics will be chosen from the major environmental toxicants: pesticides, natural products, inorganics, and industrial chemicals. The course explores the principal means of chemical and biological degradation of toxicants, and the processes by which chemicals move, concentrate, and dissipate. The details of the chemistry occurring in the earth’s atmosphere are examined.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2020U , CHEM 3830U or CHEM 3540U
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CHEM 4060U – Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy
This course offers a modern review of Quantum Theory in application to Chemistry. Starting from basic principles of quantum mechanics, their use is illustrated for such exactly solvable problems as harmonic oscillator, rigid rotator, and hydrogen atom. Approximate methods are then introduced for more complex systems including those with many electrons. Relevant aspects of spectroscopy associated with each degree of freedom (vibrational, rotational, electronic) are discussed as well. Computational examples are employed throughout.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2010U or PHY 3020U
Credit restriction(s): PHY 4020U
Recommended: MATH 2050U and MATH 2060U
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CHEM 4070U – Fossil Fuels and Biomass
This course will address future world energy needs and sources and focus on the continued use of fossil fuels and the use of biomass, especially in developing countries. Students will study origins and compositions and conventional processing of these sources of energy. Topics will also include the production of ethanol and methane from biomass; origins, effects and methods of reducing acid rain; CO2 and enhanced greenhouse gas effect; and the concept of total cost analysis, with some simple examples.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 2
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2020U ; CHEM 2040U ; or PHY 2050U ; ENVS 2010U , ENVS 3020U
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CHEM 4080U – Hydrogen-Based Energy Systems and Fuel Cells
This course explores hydrogen as an energy carrier and its conversion in hydrogen fuel cells. The focus is on polymer electrolyte fuel cells, but the course includes a brief discussion of phosphoric acid, alkaline, and solid oxide fuel cells, as well as other types of fuel sources such as methanol and natural gas. The thermodynamic aspects of a hydrogen economy are discussed, encompassing production (reforming, electrolysis), storage (compression, solid matrix), transportation, and usage in fuel cells. With regards to fuel cells, the main focus will be on general operating principles, electrochemistry, thermodynamics (efficiency, losses), and mass and heat transport phenomena, including two-phase flow. A general picture of i) current scientific challenges and ii) device modelling of fuel cells will emerge.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1020U , CHEM 2040U
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CHEM 4110U – Bio-Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
This course will explore the structure, function and chemical synthesis of biological molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and alkaloids. The application of these molecules to chemical biology will also be discussed.
Formerly: Bio-Organic Chemistry
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2120U
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CHEM 4120U – Advanced Topics in Chemical Biology
This course will explore a range of current research topics at the intersection of chemistry and biology that are recently reported in the scientific literature. The course covers the following topics: generation of novel enzymes through incorporation of unnatural amino acids, nucleic acid chemistry, small molecules probes to regulate biological functions, and biomolecule labelling.
Formerly: Advanced Topics in Biological Chemistry
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 4110U
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CHEM 4410U – Chemistry Thesis Project I
The thesis project provides students with the opportunity, under the supervision of a faculty member, to integrate and synthesize knowledge gained throughout their program of study and to satisfy specific objectives and requirements. The project will be selected to include research that has been approved by the supervising faculty member. Students will submit a progress report at the end the first semester. Once all work is completed, each student must submit a thesis and make a presentation based on their research in the following semester.
Credit hours: 3
Other hours: 9
Prerequisite(s): Students will have completed 90 credit hours in their area of specialization and be in clear standing. Students must obtain prior consent of a faculty member.
Note(s): Students are expected to take CHEM 4420U in the following semester.
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CHEM 4420U – Chemistry Thesis Project II
A continuation of the project started in CHEM 4410U . Students will make presentations based on their research and submit a written thesis.
Credit hours: 3
Other hours: 9
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 4410U
Note(s): Students are expected to take this course immediately after CHEM 4410U .
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CHEM 4430U – Directed Studies in Chemistry
This course requires independent research of a current topic in a specialized area of chemistry, including, but not restricted to, organic, inorganic, physical, analytical and computational chemistry. The topic will be selected from recent research literature and involve a review and critical appraisal of underlying experimental principles. The course comprises independent library research, participation in weekly meetings, and written and oral presentations.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 1
Other hours: 2
Prerequisite(s): Students will have completed 90 credits in their Chemistry program and be in clear standing. Students must also obtain prior consent of a faculty member.
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CHEM 4510U – Pharmaceutical Discovery
This course explores topics in the drug discovery process from the discovery of lead molecular candidates to their optimization as drug candidates. Topics include natural products drug discovery; combinatorial chemistry; medicinal synthetic organic chemistry.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3120U
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CHEM 4520U – Advanced Topics in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
This course covers current research topics in pharmaceutical chemistry with a focus on techniques that facilitate a drug candidate’s entry into the marketplace. Topics include molecular modelling, pharmacokinetics, and pharmaceutics.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 4510U
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COMM 1050U – Technical Communications
This course will assist students in developing professional writing and presentation skills required for university assignments and for their professional work in the future. It will start with basic writing and speaking skills and will emphasize their application in the preparation of reports and other technical writing. Topics for the course include using correct grammar and punctuation, organizing ideas, formulating persuasive arguments, and preparing narrative and written technical reports. Part of the process will involve students in the critical analysis of the writing and speaking of others as a means of developing one’s own skills.
Formerly: EDUC 1050U
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1
Credit restriction(s): COMM 1310U, EDUC 1050U, SSCI 1910U , WRIT 1001T
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COMM 1100U – Introduction to Communication Studies
This course introduces students to communication studies with an overview of key topics in the field as defined by the various courses included in this degree. It will examine how knowledge of communication theory, communication processes, and communication skills can be applied to successful communication practices.
Formerly: Introduction to Communication
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 1311U – Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of professional writing, editing, distributing and exhibiting content through the Web using digital publishing software.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 1320U – Public Speaking
This course covers the fundamentals of public speaking and teaches students how to present their ideas effectively and professionally. The lecture component of the course focuses on the principles of public speaking while the tutorials allow students to practice public speaking.
Formerly: Oral Communication and Public Speaking
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 1420U – Living Digitally
This course introduces the study of digital media and society. It explores how the shift from analog to digital is changing the way we live, learn, work, shop, play, and vote and surveys debates about the present and future impacts of digital media technologies in society.
Formerly: Digital Humanities
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 1610U – Interpersonal Communication
This course considers the nature and function of interpersonal and small group communication. It is designed to foster an understanding of language, culture, and human behaviour that will contribute to improved communication skills in the students’ personal and professional lives. Workshop exercises are designed to improve the interpersonal skills necessary for effective communication, management, listening, conflict resolution, negotiation, selling, and persuading.
Formerly: COMM 2610U
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Credit restriction(s): COMM 2610U
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COMM 2110U – Communication Theory: Keyworks
How do some of the world’s most important philosophers and big thinkers conceptualize communication technology and digital media? This course helps students to learn to stand on the shoulders of the giants of North American, European and non-Western communication and media theory. Keyworks in the field will be introduced and applied through case studies of 21st century communications, cultural and digital media practices.
Formerly: Foundations of Communication Theory
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 2210U – Researching Communication and Digital Culture
This course introduces students to the major research approaches in communication, cultural and digital media studies, and acquaints them with a variety of field-specific qualitative and quantitative methods. Students learn to formulate research questions, evaluate and select appropriate methods, design a research project and interpret and report research findings to peers.
Formerly: Communication and Culture
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100U
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COMM 2220U – The Media in Canada
This course examines the history, economics, and policies of the media in Canada. What is “Canadian” about the media? How do media goods represent Canada? What policies protect and promote the “Canadian” media industry, how and why? These questions are addressed through a survey of Canadian publishing, film, radio, television, games and digital media.
Formerly: The Media and Communications in Canada
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100U
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COMM 2230U – Screen Studies
This course will utilize core critical concepts from film theory (psychoanalysis and feminism to contemporary Continental philosophy) and cultural criticism to analyze films, videos, mobile communication devices, and gaming cultures, with reference to key thinkers, movements, and contexts.
Formerly: Film and Video
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Second-year standing in Communication
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COMM 2240U – Television
In this course, students learn to think critically about television’s history, business, politics, genres, viewers and effects in society.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Second-year standing
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COMM 2270U – Entertainment Goes Global
This course examines the globalization of entertainment media. Students learn about the entertainment industry, the policies governments use to support it, the production of entertainment by workers around the world, globally popular blockbuster films and TV formats and the ways entertainment may influence viewers and cultures while moving across borders.
Formerly: Global Media Industries
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 2310U – Advanced Professional Writing and Editing
This course will build upon the first professional writing course to develop skills in efficient research, organization, composition and the development of persuasive, logical arguments. A series of writing projects will help students to develop a rhetorically grounded approach for analyzing communication situations and then designing and writing for various professional situations and media platforms, from print to new media technologies. A portion of course time will be given to developing and practicing editing skills.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 2410U – History of Communication Technology
This course focuses on the history of communication technologies. Students learn about the development and impact of tablets, the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the radio, the TV, satellites, cybernetics, personal computers, A.I. and smartphones.
Formerly: Communication and Technology
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100U
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COMM 2411U – Media and Information Policy
This course introduces students to media and information policy, focusing on key topics and debates in the field. How do law, policy and regulation encourage and discourage the creation, storage, flow, access and use of media and information? What are the contexts, normative foundations, history, structure, principles, standards, technological challenges, politics and economic pressures of media and information policy? By exploring how leading scholars, industry practitioners and policy-makers answer these questions, students become critical thinkers and informed professionals with the ability to understand and analyze media and information policy.
Formerly: Information and Society
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 2530U – Advertising and Society
Why are ads so effective at persuading people to buy things? What makes the brands of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Coca-Cola so pervasive and popular? How does advertising drive developments in communications, entertainment and digital media? What theories, debates and controversies surround advertising? Students address these and related questions by exploring the economic, political, cultural, semiotic, ecological and ethical dimensions of advertising in a global consumer society.
Formerly: COMM 3530U
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Credit restriction(s): COMM 3530U
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COMM 3110U – Communication Ethics
This course examines ethical issues as they arise in interpersonal communication, mass communication media (TV, newspapers, Internet, etc.), and in the formation of public policy and law. The dominant moral theories and approaches to moral decision making will be analyzed and put to use to help students understand and evaluate concrete examples and case studies. The course will include topics such as objectivity, freedom of expression, representations of sex, violence and other human behaviour, privacy, confidentiality and obligations to the public.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2110U and third-year standing in Communication
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COMM 3250U – Pop Culture
This course surveys and applies competing theories of popular culture in society through case studies of ads, films, TV shows, video games, comic books, music, celebrities and more. The course helps students to understand, contextualize and critically analyze pop culture.
Formerly: Communication and Popular Culture
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Credit restriction(s): COMM 2250U
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COMM 3310U – Communication, Communities and Social Change
This course explores the theory, method and practice of “communication for social change.” It presents a global survey of the ways that communications media (traditional, electronic and digital) is used to bring about equitable and sustainable social changes within marginalized communities. The course will cover topics such as: the history of communication for social change in development studies; tensions between “top down” models of development communication as modernization and “bottom up” models of participatory communication; communications media as support for the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); political, economic and institutional barriers to social change.
Formerly: Writing for Communities
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100U and third year standing in Communication or Political Science
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COMM 3410U – Digital Media Storytelling
This course explores the theory, aesthetics and practice of digital storytelling. In the age of media convergence, one story’s plot, tropes and set of characters increasingly spread across many novels, comic books, films, TV shows, websites, social media platforms and video games. Students examine how writing, structuring, telling, reading, selling and experiencing stories is changing to hone their knowledge and understanding of the economic drivers, design and cultural resonance of trans-media digital storytelling.
Formerly: New Media Theory and Practice
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100U and third-year standing
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COMM 3510U – Work in the Information Age
What is work? What is it like to work in the 21st century information age? In this course, students learn about and self-reflexively research the conditions and experiences of work in the North American and global information technology, creative and cultural industries. Topics explored include: capitalism 2.0; the creative industries; global 24/7 networked production; the creation, valuation and exchange of informational goods; immaterial labour; precarious, freelance and “flexible” work; telework and virtual work; crowdsourcing; entrepreneurialism; outsourcing; automation; internships; and e-waste.
Formerly: Organizational Communication
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
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COMM 3610U – Persuasion
The concept of rhetoric-as-persuasion is associated with the power of language to liberate, emancipate, control, and deceive the public. In this advanced course, students explore topics in the areas of the production of public knowledge, public argument, public action, public response, and public critique. To better understand the relationship between rhetoric, policy and ethics, learners will examine the consequences of particular rhetorical strategies in complex situations of everyday life, the workplace, and as part of the global public sphere.
Formerly: Persuasion, Argumentation and Negotiation
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing in Communication or Legal Studies
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COMM 3710U – Intercultural Communication
This course examines communication in an intercultural context, where it is affected by divergent value systems, differing levels of technological adaptation, and unequal power configurations. The course will focus on relationships between people of diverse racial, ethnic, national, linguistic and religious backgrounds. Topics will include language and perception; emotions across cultures; culture and advertising; body language; and cultural stereotyping.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing in Communication, Legal Studies or Political Science
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COMM 3720U – Communicating Diversity
This course addresses practical and theoretical issues of race, ethnicity, and gender that have become focal points for current debates in public cultural expression. Themes to be discussed are the implications of cultural, racial, and sexual differences; the (mis)representation of multicultural, multiracial, and sexual minorities in the media; and the implications of employment equity, human rights, and other legislation. Theoretical readings which frame issues of cultural, racial, and gender representation will be followed by projects that develop successful strategies for communicating diversity.
Formerly: Communicating Diversity: Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3710U and third-year standing in Communication, Legal Studies or Political Science
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COMM 3740U – Game Studies
Video games are an increasingly prominent part of everyday experience. Games and gaming are becoming a core component of how we communicate, learn, relax, socialize, and engage with the world around us. In this course, students will explore the cultural impact, meanings, and uses of video games and become immersed in the emerging field of game studies. Core issues in game studies, such as play and pleasure, storytelling and genre, and representation and production will be introduced as part of a broader emphasis on games’ cultural and critical contexts. By the end of the course, students will have a critical understanding of how video games shape and are shaped by the cultures in which they exist.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing in Communication or Computer Science
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COMM 4120U – Contemporary Issues in Communication
This course’s topics will change regularly to follow current development and problems related to communication. By focusing on timely, relevant and important issues in Communication studies, the students will gain an understanding of new areas of research.
Formerly: Senior Seminar
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Communication
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COMM 4130U – Capstone Project
The Capstone research project is geared for students who are not planning to immediately go on to graduate school and who are not enrolled in Honours Thesis II. The finished product can be an individually authored research paper or a practical team project that addresses community needs (such as a communication report, a strategic management plan, or a communication artifact). The Capstone experience will integrate students’ knowledge and skills in the field of applied communications. The projects will allow for a final recapitulation and application of the theories and practices that have been introduced in the various courses.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 4120U and fourth-year standing in Communication
Credit restriction(s): SSCI 4101U and SSCI 4102U
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COMM 4140U – Visual Rhetoric
This course introduces students to the theoretical foundations of the field of visual rhetoric. By learning a vocabulary of visual meaning-making based on gestalt theory, visual semiotics, discourse analysis, and visual culture, students explore how visual texts can be rhetorical or persuasive across a multitude of visual genres. Analysis will range across print-based texts, moving images, and digital content.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Communication
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COMM 4210U – Special Topics
In this course students will undertake in-depth explorations of selected topics in communication, culture, and information technology. Topics will vary from year to year based on faculty interests and availability of visiting scholars.
Formerly: Interpretive Practices
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2210U and fourth-year standing in Communication
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COMM 4261U – Tweet, Friend and Follow Me: Understanding Social Media
This course is an advanced examination of the theory, practice and effects of social media technologies including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. It examines how different individuals, groups and organizations interact with different publics via social media to achieve their goals and highlights ethical issues surrounding the economics, politics and cultures of social media.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing in Communication and Digital Media Studies
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COMM 4310U – Non-Violent Communication
This course incorporates Gandhi’s method of “ahimsa,” or nonviolence, to the communicative context. In this course, students will consider the meaning of violence, and how communication can be both violent or compassionate (and everything in between). Students will learn nonviolent communicative strategies that can be applied to their own personal and professional experiences, as well as how nonviolent communication can be incorporated into national and international challenges. Media contexts such as music, film, blogging, microblogging and social media are examined in the context of respect, power, and safety. The course intends to provide students with meaningful scholarly analysis of nonviolent communication case studies and theories such that students become more self-empowered, build a better understanding of others, are able to bridge differences, and can build harmonious relationships on a variety of levels.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Communication, Criminology, Community Development and Policy Studies or Legal Studies
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COMM 4420U – Digital Media, Politics and Democracy
Digital media technologies weigh heavily on the quality of our lives as citizens and on the quality of our political environment. Do social media promote political expression? Do mobile devices contribute to civic engagement? Are virtual gaming environments arenas for political discourse? Can big data contribute to digital activism? Students who take this course will address these and similar questions about the relationship between digital media technologies and the future of our political system.
Formerly: The Social and Political Impact of New Media
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing in Communication and Digital Media Studies or Political Science
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COMM 4510U – Public Relations
This course examines the theory, strategies and ethics of public relations in society with reference to historical and current examples. This course explores ways of conceptualizing the public such as, for instance: the public sphere, media publics and counter-publics, public relations, public opinion and publicity. It also attends to: the historical development of the PR industry; critical debates concerning PR and democracy; the relationship between PR firms and the news media; organizational PR (crisis communications and reputation/brand management); the PR strategies employed by states, businesses and front groups (i.e. think-tanks and lobbies); old and new PR media (print, radio, TV, the Internet).
Formerly: Strategic Management Communication
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Communication
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COMM 4530U – Research within Communities: Alternative Methods for Social Sciences
This course will provide an understanding of participatory modes of research for social change by drawing upon traditions such as action research, co-research, participatory theatre, militant ethnography, and institutional analysis. This course is designed for students interested in social activism.
Formerly: Communication Consulting
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Communication, Criminology, Legal Studies, Forensic Psychology or Political Science
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COMM 4610U – Communication and Conflict Resolution
This course allows for students to explore communication and conflict resolution at a variety of levels including intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational and global conflict. Students are exposed to issues such as personal conflict relating to beliefs, attitudes, values, and worldviews; how communication can help (or hinder) interpersonal relationships; communication and conflict in groups such as tribes, gangs, or social collectives; and how communication strategies are meaningful in conflict amongst organizational systems such as business/economic institutions including schools, healthcare and governments. The course also considers communication and conflict on a broader level by examining political relationships between nations, and peoples’ relationships with the natural world. Students are exposed to practical strategies for using communication to resolve conflict and build understanding at both the personal and global levels.
Formerly: Mediation and Conflict Management
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100U and a fourth-year standing in Communication, Legal Studies or Political Science
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COMM 4710U – International Communication
This course examines communications and media in the context of international relations. What roles do communications technologies and old and new media play in global politics? How do they intersect with and shape international relations between states, economies, and cultures? To answer these and related questions, students examine theories, topics and problems in the study and practice of international communication.
Formerly: Globalization and International Communication
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Communication and Digital Media Studies or Political Science
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CSCI 1030U – Introduction to Computer Science
This course introduces a broad range of concepts from the different areas of computer science. Topics covered include program solving, data structures and algorithms from areas such as artificial intelligence, computer architecture, networking and the Internet.
Formerly: Introduction to Computer Science with C++
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5 (lab or online lab)
Credit restriction(s): BUSI 1830U , CSCI 1020U, CSCI 1040U , CSCI 1600U, ENGR 1200U , INFR 1100U
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CSCI 1040U – Introduction to Programming for Scientists
This course serves as an introduction to programming and computational science. Topics covered include solving problems with computers, storing and retrieving data, common algorithms, data structures, procedures, functions, object-oriented programming, and applications of programming from different domains.
Formerly: Introduction to Computer Science with Python
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5
Credit restriction(s): BUSI 1830U , CSCI 1020U, CSCI 1030U , CSCI 1600U, ENGR 1200U , INFR 1100U
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CSCI 1060U – Programming Workshop I
This is a first intensive course on computer programming that covers both theory and practice. The lectures introduce modern concepts in program design and construction along with features of modern object-oriented programming languages. The laboratories provide an opportunity to apply these concepts to practical programming problems. Topics that are covered in this course include program design, problem solving strategies, program documentation, memory management and object-oriented program design.
Formerly: Programming Workshop
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Credit restriction(s): CSCI 2030U
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CSCI 1061U – Programming Workshop II
This is a second intensive course on computer programming that continues from CSCI 1060U and covers more advanced theory and practice. The lectures introduce modern concepts in program design and construction for larger scale programs. The laboratories provide an opportunity to apply these concepts. Topics that are covered in this course include advanced program design, design patterns, program refactoring, templates and standard template libraries, data structures, debugging and version control.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): CSCI 1060U
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CSCI 1200U – Computers and Media
This course investigates the influence that computers have had on modern media, including the production process and industry structure. The media forms that will be discussed include film, video, music, animation and games. Topics to be covered include the digital delivery of media, the changing role of the viewer, the difference between interactive and non-interactive media and the democratization of media production.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1.5
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CSCI 1800U – Computing Tools for Health Science
This course covers the use of various software tools for use in the UOIT web centric and laptop environment in certain programs within the Faculty of Health Science. It may be taken in place of CSCI 1000U Scientific Computing Tools by students in the Health Science program who are not planning on taking physics or mathematics courses. Modules will be included on: scientific graphing, document processing and basic graphics tools, data management (spreadsheets and databases), web authoring tools, and scientific presentations. Most of the software items are pre-installed on the laptops, but some will be accessed remotely via the web. Practical use and application of the tools will include health related situations.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 1.5
Tutorial hours: 1.5
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the Health Science program, or background and interest in science
Credit restriction(s): CSCI 1000U
Note(s): This course is offered in a hybrid format, involving lectures, tutorials, as well as online self-learning material.
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CSCI 2000U – Scientific Data Analysis
The principal goal of this course is to build computational skills required for analyzing scientific data in a variety of data formats (e.g. CSV, text, binary, sound, image, etc.). Topics include: automation of data analysis tasks using command-line user interfaces (e.g., the Unix shell); managing code and data using a version control system; modular programming for scientific data analysis; debugging and testing scientific software; plotting data (i.e., two- and three-dimensional graphics).
Formerly: Practical Computing for Scientists
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1
Prerequisite(s): CSCI 1030U or CSCI 1040U ; MATH 1020U
Note(s): This course may be offered in a hybrid format with 1.5 hours of lectures and 1.5 hours online lectures and learning materials. Students will benefit from taking MATH 2015U and MATH 2050U along with this course.
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CSCI 2010U – Principles of Computer Science
This course introduces students to the analysis of algorithms and data structures in an object-oriented programming language. Topics include problem analysis, design of algorithms and programs, selection of data types, decision-making, program correctness and programming style.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5
Prerequisite(s): CSCI 1060U
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CSCI 2020U – Software Systems Development and Integration
This course is an introduction to the tools and techniques used in modern software development. Topics covered include configuration management, software design, coding standards, software testing and maintenance, basic software tools, software libraries, graphical user interfaces and network programming.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5
Prerequisite(s): CSCI 2010U
Note(s): This course is offered in a hybrid format, involving live and online lectures, as well as self-learning material.
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CSCI 2040U – Software Design and Analysis
This course introduces students to the development of software systems including systems that consist of multiple programs with long life cycles. Topics covered in this course include software process, software requirements, software architecture, design patterns, notations, and techniques for software design and analysis.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 1.5
Corequisite(s): CSCI 2020U
Credit restriction(s): CSCI 3040U
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