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Global Citizenship Cohort | Courses (2023/2024)

Theme 1: Global Communications

Co-ordinator: Dr. Kim Mair, Department of Sociology

Tentative schedule of first-year courses (the usual course load is 5 courses per semester).

Fall 2023
  1. The Individual and Society - SOCI 2600A: Kim Mair
    why? In Individual and Society, you will learn about the role of symbols and rituals to understand the relationship between the self and society and the ways that we work together to arrive at, and change, shared understandings.
     
  2. World History – HIST 1200B: Sheila McManus
    why? Liberal Education 1000 will help you develop skills such as critical thinking, numeracy, oral and written communication, and research. It’s more than just skills, though; this course will integrate ideas from all areas and help you see the connections and questions that influence these ideas.
     
  3. Global Citizenship Cohort Seminar - LBED 1150A: Kim Mair
    why? This half-course, for GCC students only, will meet once a week to plan cohort activities, discuss connections across cohort courses, and hear guest speakers of interest to our theme.
     
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Spring 2024
  1. Knowledge and Liberal Education – LBED 1000A: Brendan Cummins
    why? Liberal Education 1000 will help you develop skills such as critical thinking, numeracy, oral and written communication, and research. It’s more than just skills, though; this course will integrate ideas from all areas and help you see the connections and questions that influence these ideas.
     
  2. Introduction to Human Geography - GEOG 1200A: Julie Young
    why? GEOG 1200 will introduce you to ways of understanding the relationships between people and place, including how geographers read landscapes as texts as well as how mapping can both reveal and conceal stories.
     
  3. Global Citizenship Cohort Seminar - LBED 2150A: Kim Mair
    why? This half-course, for GCC students only, will meet once a week to plan cohort activities, discuss connections across cohort courses, and hear guest speakers of interest to our theme.  You will also work on your cohort project in your second semester, giving you the chance to put your learning and connections to work.
     
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Theme 2: Environment & Society

Co-ordinator: Dr. Ken Vos, Department of Physics & Astronomy

Tentative schedule of first-year courses (the usual course load is 5 courses per semester). Please note: We recommend you take LBED 1000, too. Like the other cohort, completion of LBED 1150/2150 and LBED 1000 will count as three GLERS. Once you have completed the GCC in Environment & Culture, you will already have done half of the Environmental Science minor.

Fall 2023
  1. Introduction to Human Geography - GEOG 1200: Ivan Townshend
    why? Survey of human geography as a discipline, focusing on interrelationships among people, places and their environments. Topics include the changing geographies of population, economy, settlement patterns, resource use and environment, politics, gender, and culture.
     
  2. Knowledge and Liberal Education – LBED 1000: Brendan Cummins
    why? Liberal Education 1000 will help you develop skills such as critical thinking, numeracy, oral and written communication, and research. It’s more than just skills, though; this course will integrate ideas from all areas and help you see the connections and questions that influence these ideas.
     
  3. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Global Citizenship I - LBED 1150: Ken Vos
    why? This half-course, for GCC students only, will meet once a week to plan cohort activities, discuss connections across cohort courses, and hear guest speakers of interest to our theme.
     
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Spring 2024
  1. Fundamentals of Environmental Science - ENVS 2000: Cam Goater
    why? An overview of the fundamentals of environmental science, with a focus on physical and living systems, processes and the ways in which humans depend on, interact with and affect these systems. Topics may include but are not limited to, current environmental concerns, such as human population growth; human changes to biogeochemical cycles; and institutional responses to resource use and pollution.
     
  2. The Physics of Everyday Life - PHYS 2020: Ken Vos
    why? The course investigates the connection between science and the world in which we live.  Science, the environment and society all impact and influence the other two.  Often in unforeseen ways.  The connection and interplay between the three will be explored.  A part of this study involves an exploration of the science behind objects, devices, and technologies upon which we all depend upon in our everyday lives.
     
  3. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Global Citizenship II - LBED 2150: Ken Vos
    why? This half-course, for GCC students only, will meet once a week to plan cohort activities, discuss connections across cohort courses, and hear guest speakers of interest to our theme.  You will also work on your cohort project in your second semester, giving you the chance to put your learning and connections to work.
     
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