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2017-18 Academic Calendar Mount Royal University [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SPCH 3001 - Persuasive Speaking
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course is designed for the advanced speaker who wants to develop the art of persuasion further. Students will learn techniques for developing subject matter for different types of persuasive speeches, reasoning, ethics, and the necessary delivery techniques needed to convince, motivate, market, and sell ideas and products with greater success.
Prerequisite(s): SPCH 2001 .
GNED Cluster 4 - Tier 3
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SPCH 3009 - Great Speakers, Great Speeches (formerly SPCH 2009)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
Students will discover how, from the inception of democracy to modern times, society has been shaped and influenced by oratory and rhetoric. Drawing on the components of the art of rhetoric, and using classical, literary, and political examples, the course will investigate and analyse the speaking styles of great speakers and their speeches, and their effects on the values, beliefs, and identities of cultures and societies.
Prerequisite(s): GNED 1401 , GNED 1403 , or GNED 1404 .
GNED Cluster 4 - Tier 3
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UGST 1001 - Effective Learning in the Undergraduate Context
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
Effective Learning in the Undergraduate Context provides students with opportunities to increase their knowledge of effective learning, enhance their use of strategies, and reflect on their learning. Activities and assignments in a collaborative classroom setting will facilitate the application of concepts from research to the students’ own learning.
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UGST 1002 - Change, Challenge and Choice: The University Context and Beyond
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course presents current research and strategies related to effective coping in a rapidly-changing world. Topics such as stress, effective coping, relating and working well with others, and putting change in perspective are included. Lectures, discussions, and assignments are intended to emphasize the applicability of what students are learning to experiences they are likely to encounter during their lives, and particularly as students in the university setting.
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UGST 1003 - Introductory University Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course provides an introduction to mathematical reasoning, focusing on effective thinking and problem solving. The topics covered, such as Number Contemplation, Infinity, Geometry, Probability and Risk, will cultivate students capacities for mathematical thinking.
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UGST 1004 - Financial Literacy and the Law in Student Life
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of personal finance, risk management, and the Canadian legal system. Topics covered will be principles for managing personal finance, including tuition, tax strategies, student loans, credit, insurance, and property ownership; and legal concepts, including contracts, bankruptcy, and basic rights and responsibilities of, and entitlements flowing from, citizenship. This course aims to develop and enhance a student’s knowledge, discipline, and capacity for effective decision-making in financial and legal matters during and beyond the university experience, regardless of the student’s field of study and future career.
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WGST 1172 - Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies (formerly WMST 1172)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
An interdisciplinary study of major gender issues confronting Canadians. Topics may include: Canadian feminist movements in historical perspective, health, sexuality, work issues (such as equal pay, unemployment, pensions and the impact of technology), family issues and the gendered dynamics of Canadian politics.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 2
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WGST 2205 - Global Gender Issues (formerly WMST 2205)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
An interdisciplinary study of gender issues in a global context. Themes may include the impact of economic globalization; citizenship, migration and refugee issues; the global sex industry; women and HIV; militarization and nationalism; and, transnational feminist alliances for social change.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 2
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WGST 2207 - Contemporary Issues in Women’s & Gender Studies (formerly WMST 2207)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
A survey and analysis of gender issues in their contemporary social context. Topic(s) and theme(s) will vary by term and instructor.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 2
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WGST 2221 - Women and Health (formerly WMST 2221)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course will examine women’s experiences of physical and psychological health, of perceptions and treatment of women in health care systems, and of the role of women as health care providers in families and society. Examples will come primarily, but not exclusively, from the Canadian context.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 2239 - Gender and Popular Culture (formerly WMST 2239)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course will introduce students to feminist and postmodern theoretical perspectives on gender and popular culture. Selected themes may include gender and spectatorship; representing difference; advertising as ideological practice; cyberbodies and technoculture; and subculture and cultural resistance.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 2283 - Women and Aging (formerly WMST 2283)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course will examine the reality and variation in women’s lives as they age. The focus will be on Canadian society in social and historical context, but comparisons and examples will be taken from other societies.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 3301 - Feminist Theories (formerly WMST 3301)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course provides an introduction to Western European and North American feminist writings and their relationship to women’s movements from the 17th to the early 21st centuries. The effects of historical ideas about gender, race, class and sexuality on early feminist analyses and visions of social change will be considered.
Prerequisite(s): One of WGST 1172 , WGST 2205 , WGST 2221 , WGST 2239 , WGST 2283 or WGST 3302 .
Note: Students will receive credit for only one of Women’s & Gender Studies 2207 and 3301.
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WGST 3302 - Feminist Research and Methods (formerly WMST 3302)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course is a feminist examination of the connections between epistemology, method and methodology. This course explores a range of approaches taken by feminist researchers when rethinking traditional analytic paradigms in order to create distinctly feminist models to guide their work.
Prerequisite(s): WGST 1172 .
Recommended Preparation: WGST 3301 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
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WGST 3309 - Contemporary Feminist Debates (formerly WMST 3309)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course examines contemporary debates among feminists in Canada and around the world. We will compare concerns about the global situation of women, as articulated by international bodies such as the United Nations, with concerns articulated by feminists in different parts of the world. Course topics will shift to reflect the continuous and dynamic evolution of feminist thought and activism in contemporary social and political contexts.
Prerequisite(s): One of WGST 1172 , WGST 2205 , WGST 2221 , WGST 2239 , WGST 2283 .
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 3310 - Colonization/Decolonization (formerly WMST 3310)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course uses gender-based analysis and a mixture of feminist, postcolonial, Marxist and psychoanalytic theory to examine nineteenth and twentieth century colonialism and decolonization efforts. Among the key themes explored in the course are the gendered characteristics of imperial conquest, racial fetishism, technologies of violence, and gender and nationalism.
Prerequisite(s): WGST 1172 .
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 3311 - Gender, Race & Representation (formerly WMST 3311)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
Using a combination of feminist critical race and post-colonial theoretical approaches, this course will examine how racialized gender identities are constructed, contested and negotiated in and through Canadian popular culture. Various strategies aimed at challenging dominant codes of intercultural representation will be considered in terms of their potential to foster more empowering identities for people of colour.
Prerequisite(s): One of WGST 1172 , WGST 2205 , WGST 2239 or consent of the department.
GNED Cluster 2 - Tier 3
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WGST 3345 - Sex, Gender and the Body (formerly WMST 3345)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course will examine the diverse and historically varying relationships forged between biological sex, culturally formulated discourses of masculinity and femininity, and the sexed body. Topic areas will include: scientific discourse and medical research, health care, popular culture, body image, religious practices, and violent conflict.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 3346 - Gender, Culture and Technology (formerly WMST 3346)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course will examine the power relations structuring the development and use of technology. This course explores the interplay between gender, race, class and various technologies on the everyday lives of women, both locally and globally. The problems and possibilities associated with technological development will be considered.
Recommended Preparation: WGST 1172 or any 2000 level Women’s & Gender Studies course.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 3850 - Advanced Special Topics in Women’s & Gender Studies (formerly WMST 3850)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
The specific content of the course will vary by term and instructor. Possible topics include but are not limited to: feminist perspectives on war and militarism, celebrity feminists, ecofeminisms, feminist approaches to development and globalisation, psychoanalytic feminisms, the intersections of feminist and queer theories, and feminist debates regarding prostitution and sex work.
Prerequisite(s): One of WGST 1172 , WGST 2205 , WGST 2221 , WGST 2239 , WGST 2283 .
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3
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WGST 4401 - Advanced Studies in Feminist Theories (formerly WMST 4401)
(3 credits) 3 hours lecture Lecture
This course offers advanced students an opportunity to explore in breadth and depth the intellectually dynamic evolution of one particular feminist theorist and/or body of thought within the broad range of available feminist theories. Potential topics could include: post-colonial and transnational perspectives, ecofeminisms, indigenous feminisms, queer theories, and feminist approaches to world politics.
Prerequisite(s): WGST 3301 or WGST 1172 and one of WGST 2205 , WGST 2221 , WGST 2239 , WGST 2283 or consent of the instructor.
GNED Cluster 2 - Tier 3
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