Courses

International policy processes associated with themes of environmental security: disaster prevention; resource curse; institution building and conflict minerals and global expropriation. Issues to be considered include human rights advocacy and peacekeeping, food security and food sovereignty.

Key issues, institutions and debates in global economic policymaking. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Climate science and impacts including: carbon management options; mitigation and energy system changes; efficiency options; 'end-of-pipe' solutions; vulnerability and adaptation to climate change; carbon economics and organization-level strategies in a carbon-constrained world.

Faculty and students from different disciplines act as an interdisciplinary team studying specific resource problems with ecological, economic, demographic and social dimensions. Techniques and methods are emphasized to show their value in integrating knowledge, defining policy and facilitating communication. Several sections with different emphasis offered each year. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor is required.

Critical analysis of harms and benefits, and anticipation of global technological innovations, as they interact with social behaviour.

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Interdisciplinary science of climate change and its impacts; options for mitigation and adaptation.

Inequality, institutions, social structure and social change. Credit will be granted for only one of SOCI 102 or SOCI 100.

Major theories of consumer society, evaluating impacts of shopping on human and non-human environments and popular solutions to these impacts.

An introduction to health and illness through a sociological lens. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Processes of social change in the Third World and other developing countries. Major themes stress the relationship between urbanization and industrialization; modernization and ethnic conflict; imperialism, neo-colonialism, and foreign aid; and intra-national modernization problems such as regional underdevelopment in industrial societies.

The nature of gender relations, their social and cultural expression, and theories of gender inequality.

The meaning of work and leisure, properties of work organization, the division of labour, and the relation of work and social inequality. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Tendencies toward equality and inequality; manifestations of inequality (occupation, education, gender, ethnicity, income, power) and their consequences; caste and class features of major stratification systems; theories of social class; stratification profile of contemporary industrial societies.

Classic and contemporary sociological perspectives on health, illness, and health care. Prerequisite: One of SOCI 100, SOCI 101, SOCI 102.

Sociological approaches to the study of environmental conflicts, issues, movements, impact of changing technology, economic development on the environment.

A study of the sources, stages, and effects of social movements in developing and modernized societies.

Current social topics in Chinese society; perspectives on gender, inequality, culture, and social relations.

Course content focuses on both the population causes of climate change and related disasters, and on the population consequences of disasters.

Watershed evaluation, key aspects of hydrology, water quality, land use impacts on water resources and integration of multiple land use activities and their cumulative impacts. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Equivalency: LWS 515

Topics in land and water system evaluations and assessing resource development options; monitoring and modelling environmental systems. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Equivalency: LWS 517.

Covers the statutory bases and practices associated with the continuum of child welfare services from prevention through permanency planning.

This Interprofessional Health and Human Service (IHHS) course considers how health and human service professionals can effectively practice with people with disabilities from a social justice perspective. Social and personal context and practice responses are examined. Offered as IHHS 407 prior to September 2015. Credit will be granted for only one of SOWK 453 or IHHS 407.

Properties and characterization of macromolecules including rheology. Polymer processing and application to green products development including from lignocellulosic sources. Circular economy driven processing. Biomimetics engineering.